jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is already being done by companies and police forces using their own vehicles. It's more efficient than outsourcing it through an app because cameras mounted on the roof of a vehicle can scan license plates in 360 degrees.
I understood the article, thanks. I'm just not convinced.

The debate hinges on this: is UX a special basis of competition that can't be disrupted? Will consumers pay a premium for better UX forever? Will the cheaper alternative never be "good enough"? Won't people put up with a few minor annoyances? What if it saves them money?

I think UX is a hygiene factor: when it's bad it annoys you to the point where you do something about it, but when UX is good enough, most people start worrying about other things.

That's different from design: I think some people will continue to pay a premium because they love Jony Ive designs and they can afford it. And some will pay for a status symbol. And some will need the performance. But none of that is the mass market.
So you're saying "It's different this time"?
Brazil is years behind the US in terms of startup culture. There are very few promising startups, even fewer experienced investors, and to top it all the bureaucracy is terrible. Just consider that you would need to wait between 30 to 60 days just to get your business license.

Not coincidentally my goal is to move to the US as soon as possible.

That all being said, there are also some opportunities here. The country is huge (200+ million), so the internal market is big enough to fuel a startup growth. Second, quite often it's possible to merely clone something that is working in the US here. Some people did that with Groupon, for instance, and they made a lot of money.

Feel free to send me an email if you decide to come here. I'll be glad to show you around (contact details on my profile).
Why nobody else tried offering an existing solution to a new market? Is that a serious question? That exact thing happens all the time and has made many companies very successful. Hell, the site you're on right now isn't exactly revolutionary (user-content link aggregator with commenting system), but it found a target market in technically minded people and it has brought value to those people. Would you ask why people use Hacker News instead of Reddit or Digg?

And I don't know if they did develop their own system or are wrapping an existing VOIP solution, I didn't see it mentioned specifically.
As far as I know burial plots are not reused in the US. You generally buy the plot in perpetuity.
Wikipedia's page on Adenoviridae lists these human adenovirus types that cause obesity or adipogenesis: HAdV-A type 31; HAdV-C type 5; HAdV-D types 9, 36, 37

One of the references:

Voss JD, Atkinson RL, Dhurandhar NV (November 2015). "Role of adenoviruses in obesity". Reviews in Medical Virology. 25 (6): https://zenodo.org/record/1229348

So yes, obesity can be caused by contagious disease.
How do you think the "fake news" push back on Climate change started? Some climate activists started taking this above approach to their propaganda and succeeded in generating so much opposition the whole effort has been pushed back by a few years from where it was when the Paris agreement was signed. Credibility is very important.
I wonder how much of it is due to more people being home/bored and seeing the coyotes?
I’m doing absolutely fine, business-wise the industry I’m in doesn’t seem too affected (I’m still getting clients reaching out to me) and the virus situation actually caused some very bad tax changes to be postponed.

My biggest problem at the moment is my flatmate. She’s been very anxious about this whole thing and is guzzling the social-media misinformation, FUD and conspiracy theories 24/24.
Today is my off day. On my off days, when I catch myself feeling guilty for not getting stuff done, I remind myself it’s my off day, and my job is to rest. This, I think, makes the other days a little easier.
Lol! This will keep me away from social media distractions.
Generally, every time I pickup my phone for a call, I end up spending 2 hours scrolling social media ️ ️.
Haha! Very nice.
That's a rather optimistic take on it.
My biggest issue with all this is that when you give them the power to take away rights to prevent terrorism or protect children, the government will use their powers wherever convenient. For example, the patriot act has been used in 1,618 drug cases and only 15 terrorism cases[1]. It has also been used for everything from copyright violations to Las Vegas money issues[2].

1. (2011) http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/post/patriot-...

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_invocations_of_th...
Something similar has been done on wavs e.g. when Aphex Twin hid his own face iniside the windowlicker track: http://www.bastwood.com/?page_id=10
I don't know if I'm one of the great engineers PG and others are talking about but I have no interest in living in the Bay area, whether as it currently exists or with even more people.

You can solve the "transportation" issue by avoiding having to transport anyone in the first place, which is exactly what the author is speaking to when they suggest remote working arrangements.
The company I work for used to hire a marketing/design agency on the same system (and about the same price, too).

The problem was that the results reflected a total apathy and poor quality, plus they took several days to deliver simple requests.

I'm not sure if "unlimited" is the right offer, it does catch the eye, but it might attract the wrong sort of customer, and you might find yourselves unable to deliver.
To paraphrase Knuth, "programming is explaining to another human being what you want a computer to do."

Should you take it to the extreme Knuth did with Literate Programming? I personally don't. But, once I've successfully explained to the computer what it should do (my program works) I look for ways to better communicate what it's doing (my program is readable). In many cases that's harder than solving the technical problem at hand.

Concision and simplicity seem to be the key to that. I agree with the author that "like good prose, good code is concise," although for prose that's more a matter of taste. Otherwise we'd all be reading a lot more Hemingway.
That's fantastic, congrats! As someone who has been interested in both consuming newsletters and aspiring to start one maybe soon, I'd love to see more information about how much time you spend putting it all together. Is it 1-2 hours per week? 4-6? Do you have a backlog of things to include for short weeks, or do you mostly just let it happen as it happens?

Again, nice work sticking with it!
After my original RaspberryPi which was used for a media centre running OpenELEC died, I've gotten a new Pi and installed Raspbmc on it. Although it did what it said on the box, and I am appreciative for the work done by that team, going back to OpenELEC today was particularly nice. Usually I like to customize my linux machines, but with media centres, I'm more than happy to take something pretty much stock, and just use it.

I downloaded the 5.0 image (which I didn't realise was only just released), dd'ed it to my SD card, booted the pi, and then ran the first run wizard (pretty much clicking next on everything except the dhcp config).

Quick, easy, and enjoyable. Thanks to everyone for all your hard work making this distro.
I would not be typing this were it not for wearing a seatbelt.

People, wear your seatbelts. Especially when you normally might not (like in a cab).
That kind of "rationale" for not having democracy in Taiwan used to be convincing, until finally enough people there were fed up with not having freedom and protested in unison to gain freedom. For that matter, that kind of "rationale" used to be convincing in east Germany, until people there realized that if they acted in unison they could improve their lives still more by gaining freedom. I'm not sure when enough of the masses in China will act in unison at the same time to change the system, and for sure the current ruling Communist Party of China tries to prevent any such united action, but I wouldn't characterize people dissatisfied with the current system as a "small minority," as they probably already make up a majority of the rural population, which in turn is a majority of the population of the whole country.
So, should I understand that essentially centralising email within gmail is bad? How have we not seen this coming? /sarcasm
Doesn't that make updating rather expensive - for each new post it needs to go into a lot of different search indexes?

Off-topic: Wasn't there a start-up a while back that was allowing people to build their own personal search index for their social media content?
Almost across the state Jersey municipalities have no discharge laws preventing from shooting on your property so this is more about discharging a firearm than drones. Now if you had some type of EMP device that wasn't covered under firearm laws...
I used to do that only once or twice (as far as I remember), and that was when first really learning Scheme and wrapping my head around functional programming.

But I am guilty of coming into office barefooted just to outgeek.
"DuckDuckGo does not include referrer information in their links. This means that when you click on a link at DuckDuckGo, the site you are going to does not know where you come from."

Assuming they're refering to an ad, and not a search result, why not just link to http://www.mysite.com/?ref=ddg ?
Which is pathetic, since it's possible to do a lossless (I mean not incrementally lossy) rotation of JPG's.
I find myself categorizing people into 10 types.

And I have to actively not slouch in front of computers.
I assume because 'black people are harder to spot at night time.'

{update} Confirmed:

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=spook

> The derogatory racial sense of "black person" is
> attested from 1940s, perhaps from notion of dark
> skin being difficult to see at night.

Interestingly enough:

> Black pilots trained at Tuskegee Institute during
> World War II called themselves the Spookwaffe.
It would probably be near impossible to view an email for a specific account or any random account. The mid value can be removed entirely (it seems) and I'm guessing u is a userid(?), but you would have to figure out the value for k that matches the id.
Gasp! I thought it would be easy to just transfer the compare flag to a general purpose register. I suppose x86 doesn't have such an instruction?
This is an odd decision. The Shopify story seems to be consistent with both the letter and spirit of the P&P series.

It's consistent with the literal interpretation of the rules because they state "didn't take VC" and not "didn't take funding".

*See my earlier post in this thread to see why I think it's also consistent with the spirit of the P&P series.
Well, I imagine this view is unpopular in a community devoted to hacking, but winning has very little to do with the value of sports. As a referee, I would yellow-card a youth who deliberately scored an own-goal to attempt to circumvent a rule designed to encourage fair play. It isn't, well, sporting.

Of course, I prefer Ultimate, where "SOTG" is part of the basic ethos and the game is played without referees. I don't play organized hockey and I'm in no hurry to introduce my kids to it. I've heard too many horror stories about parents and coaches who believe that winning is the only reason to play.
Not sure about iOS, but on Android it's in settings > chats > chat backup and it creates a backup periodically if enabled. When reinstalling signal one can point it at the backup and enter the code to restore messages.
I removed most of it. I guess email dang if you feel that what’s left is too sensitive.
Yep, I almost wanted to add that as well. TA doesn't work and I think this has been (kind of) proven. Though if you look into it just superficially, you'll see that it's a total sham/self deception.

However, it does not mean that the system we're talking about would create a positive feedback loop. (And, if it would, that would probably also be bad and just waiting to be exploited by some other players.) Because even if TA is fake, IF their system works they somehow have an algorithm that works that may to some extent be based on some indicators. (BTW, looking at the comment it's not clear that they simply use TA. The guy just said "spent a month researching technical indicators and quantitative analysis,".)

The thing is that, based on what they said is that it's some tunable algorithm that tries to extract some information. And even if TA worked (which I don't think it does) acting on those formations would still erase the signal or the usefullness of the signal, because when someone uses TA looking for these random shapes, they still try to predict the future and act ahead of the others.
I imagine the danger of faster airships is like falling out of successively higher windows. After you reach the 3rd storey it'll kill you, so it quits having any meaning.
Agreed. Do you know if lectures will be posted?
This is a point made by the education historian William Reese. It is also suggested as a partial reason for our lack of 'professional' respect for educators because teaching was considered a 'female', caregiving job (that men wouldn't really begin entering until the 1970's).
OpenBSD is really good for firewalls. It's one of its most popular kinds of install. And very easy to configure.
> Since overflow cannot cause crashes or data races (outside of unsafe code), we can skip these checks without endangering Rust's core value proposition of safe systems programming. Whenever checks are disabled, overflow will yield an undefined value (this is distinct from--and much more limited than--the "undefined behavior" you get in C).

This is too dismissive of the seriousness of problems that might occur due to unchecked overflow [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8690206
For small meetings within established teams, strangely I kind of need to plug for gather.town.
Part of the problem is that the F-35 was pitched as saving money by doing everything for everyone. It was going to be a lightweight fighter with carrier-landing durability (contradictory) that had options for both single-engine, multi-engine, and VTOL engine (all contradictory), with a big-wing and small-wing version, that could be a quasi-air-superiority, quasi-guided-missile, quasi-bomb-truck, or even wild-weasel/SEAD (all contradictory roles), and replace about 75% of the aircraft in the arsenal.

The SR-71 was designed to do one thing. Go fast and take pictures. It didn't carry bombs. They eventually tried to put a drone on it and it didn't work and was abandoned.

You don't even have to look back as far as the SR-71 though, the F-22 was a reasonably successful program - bumpy, expensive, but it produced what is the world's preeminent air-superiority fighter. It is not a bomb truck, it does not land on carriers. It does one thing well.

Others are not wrong about the fact that the F-35's merit to Congress was as a jobs program, either. This is in fact what a lot of military spending really is. We build tanks only to drive them into the desert and store them, all to keep those production lines running and keep people employed. They could be building trains or something else equally well.

The underlying problem there is that the US political system has become byzantine and cumbersome. When "played" adversarially with all "players" using the maximum extent of their political powers, it takes supermajority control of all three branches of government to govern. This has promoted a byzantine system on top of that to try and come up with mechanisms to fix a broken, unfair, and non-representative process. Massive over-spending on military as opposed to other types of government-sponsored research, production, etc are only one side effect of that.
It's understandable, I got GTA Online from Epic for free a few months ago and already I've stolen 134% more cars
Thanks for the example, always good to hear about some real-world experience with this stuff. I'm curious if you think that the rewriting of the system itself also helped improve the situation, as I've found that oftentimes if I rewrite something, I'm able to use what I learned from working on the original iteration to design things a bit more effectively. Not saying that if the initial implementation had been in Python it wouldn't have been better than the Scala one, just curious how much of a difference you think that made.
It's certainly not just America, but it does seem to be disproportionately America.

Source: Am Korean who has lived in the US and UK
I tried explaining this to some Azure product teams, and they gave me a blank stare in return.

Sure, you can have zone-redundant Azure SQL Databases, but not Azure App Service!

You can have zonal Azure App Service, but with a different network model than the default, so it's a breaking change for some apps.

It's as if nobody has actually sat down at Microsoft to build something similar to what their customers are building. It's all just tech demos, "get your blog hosted in 5 easy steps", and crap like that. Nobody at Microsoft has ever built anything of substance with the majority of their own platform.

It was the same story with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). It was hot garbage when it was first released, but Microsoft kept telling all their partners to prefer it over the legacy GDI+. People tried and failed to write GUIs in it. When after many years Microsoft finally tried to convert Visual Studio to WPF -- the first time they had used their own framework for one of their own apps -- magically the core issues were fixed and WPF become viable for real apps.
Oh, I thought you meant like a charge back. Didn't realize you meant the depositors
Of course, optics are only half the battle. The other half is with the hardware all around them: plastic tripod leg clamps that slide, plastic baseplates that crack behind collimation screws, alt-az mounts that shake like a branch when you try to slew, and everything in-between.

I think you have the right mentality about making sure you enjoy the hobby and what to understand how to use a scope, but maybe the better advice (modulo COVID precautions) is to seek out star parties or observatory public outreach events. These are free, aren't fraught with the pitfalls of cheesy equipment, and will show you as much as you can expect to see with a scope given several years of experience and several thousand dollars of investment. Was it inspiring or disappointing? Would you drive an hour out of your way to stuff your hands in your pockets and do it again?
Paying extra for in-person employment and geographically determined pay-scales are only similar issues, not the same one. As long as you are doing your job with no issues the only two locations your employers should care about are Here and Not Here.

(Obviously things can get trickier across national borders, but that falls under the "with no issues" clause.)
I haven't looked, so the number after the dollar sign might be going up or down.
But if it is not going down by more than inflation then the cost is basically going up.
I'd tend to agree. Every time I do any functional programming (which is rare), it leaves me with a 'better way to do this' feeling and a different view on things when I go back to writing a regular OOP language.

On the other hand, I've worked with a lot of C++ programmers, that tend to be a bit smarter than the Java/C# programmers I've worked with. But, and it's a big but, some C++ programmers I've worked with really do have the Dunning Kruger effect. They write what they think is "smart code", but it's really horrifically complex code, that others have mentioned here as too complex for the next guy to easily debug. "If I had more time I'd have written less".

(disclaimer, I clearly suffer from DK based on what I've just written...)
"We'll gladly agree to take care of grandma as long as you understand we only guarantee a 99% uptime. Good? Good. Sign here."
I mean, we already went over this, i.e. there isn't such a quarter on record, if that's the only metric you're looking at.

At least from what I've seen, many analysts are bullish right now (mostly due to a combo of low stock price, growth momentum in hedged verticals and scale of operations). Another data point is Doordash; some have pointed out that Uber eats' volume is bigger than DD, yet that isn't reflecting in the stock price (i.e. they think uber is undervalued considering the trajectory of profit in uber's delivery segment)

Disclaimer: I've been keeping a pretty close eye on uber because I have a fairly sizable stock position. My intention here isn't to shill or cheerlead or whatever. Obviously, take whatever I say with a grain of salt, do your own research, etc.
> I'm not at all convinced by the concept of "gender identity"

Gender identity is a readily observable fact. It’s sources and influences may be a subject of factual debate, and how society ought to respond to it might be a subject of normative debate, but the fact that people have an internal concept about where they belong relative to the social construct of gender (including beliefs that align fully with ascribe gender, views that diverge from ascribed gender but align with another popularly ascribed gender, and views that go beyond the categories typically ascribed in their social context) is, I mean, the whole reason any of those other things are hotly debated.

> My issue with it is this: is the concept of "gender identity" separable from gender stereotypes?

That's a question of sources and influences, not existence. Also, not relevant to any real current society, since gender stereotypes are omnipresent.

> Doesn't it privilege some kind of essentialist view

No, it doesn't (the popular conception that whether something is innate has very strong relevance to whether it is Constitutionally and/or should be protected legally from discrimination overly centers debate around essentialist concepts of the sources and influences of gender identity, but the concept of gender identity itself is orthogonal to essentialism.)
The documentation is an absolute pleasure to read. I think I'm beginning to understand the use case for it more. I would definitely choose it if I had a large source text that I wanted to publish. I have to write the docs for a project I'm working on right now, maybe I'll get a chance to play with Pollen then.
I first programmed a calculator (well, copy-keyed a hangman game program into a calculator) back in 1980. Passed my 'O' level computing exam in 1983. Started building websites in the last years of the 20th century. Looking back, none of that feels like "programming" to me. I finally started programming when I had a mind-blowing "A-HA!" moment about what Object Oriented programming was all about in 2009 - which made a change from the many, many "wtf" moments I had with non-Basic-like languages before then.
Do you have anywhere I can follow the progress of your game? That sounds really cool, and I'd love to read more about it, and try it when you release it.
Ha, you beat me to it. Though you quote it wrong. That was the whole sentence in the G.E.B.. Without the quotes.
Sometimes businesses need to borrow money, a stock buyback signals to banks "we are confident in our future that our stock will be worth more in... the future"
The Hunting reaction is, at least in my experience living in a cold climate the better part of my life, a real thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_reaction
Depends on when they joined Facebook. Early employees had no idea what it would become.
If the people that make the OS whose APIs you are reliant on, are also the ones trying to make your code crash, I'd bet most of us would end up with crashing code.
In Windows 7 it's called the Favorites toolbar. You add it to the taskbar and create a section you can put folder links in, with or without labels. Windows 10's version is called Links and it's utterly crippled in comparison. You can't put it on the left side of your other taskbar shortcuts and you can't remove the massive "Links" label that wastes space and does nothing.