jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How is it inferior? We can't see in for e.g. the IR spectrum. But we can turn an IR image into a false-colour image that our eye and brain can make great use of. Using your eyes to directly see in IR will inherently be inferior to processing the results from a sensor into a form that we can see.

You seem really hung up on some pedantry about "see" and "seeing". Why? This may seem like some kind of strong criticism to you, but it just seems as though you are unaware of these technologies and haven't really thought through what constitutes a measurement or observation.
With all due respect, I don't think your comment adds much informarion or discussion value, just a bitter aftertaste. You might want to consider deleting it.
This perfect. I don't have all the storess following me around and where I came from, what my tendencies are etc. They also forget about me, generally when I leave the store. This tracking is not okay and nobody, absolutely nobody, gets to decide for me. Google doesn't own the internet
Sorry, just now saw this.

I've only used Python on appengine, so I can't really comment on your particular experience. It supports Java, and it's super-important to realize that you won't be working with a database, you'll be working with a dataSTORE (which is comprised of hash tables, sorta).

give it a shot. if you hate it, quit!
That's definitely not Ikonos imagery, the imagery is aerial.

It's also not the sensor distance that contributes to the halo effect for some satellites, it's the capture time. Often, each band is captured one after the other. Some satellites, like Rapideye's, have several seconds between certain bands. For instance their B/R bands are (I believe) first/last bands captured (of 5 total), so all moving clouds in their imagery get a red/blue halo.
To summarize, the reviewer likes Ayn Rand and her work but thinks the author's life showed a huge capacity for self-deception because:
a) as a kid in Russia, she was really into novels
b) she had a higher opinion of the man she loved than others did
c) she moved from a ranch in California to NYC, and was convinced this was best for her actor-husband
d) she took amphetamines (under doctor's prescription)
e) was publicly bitter about a perceived betrayal by another lover
f) claimed no philosophical debt except to Aristotle (she has received no scholarly attention by the students/disciples of subsequent philosophy anyway)

Frankly this is phenomenally small beer compared to the sins of other philosophers or influential intellectuals. And I find the obsession with Rand gossip amongst her detractors pretty stupid.

The reviewer also dismisses 'Objectivism' and says the novels are the important thing. But actually the novels contain most of the philosophical meat of Objectivism - the subsequent non-fiction is more like footnotes/endnotes, collections of essays that relate ideas from AS to real-world history and economic theory. An Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology does contain many new ideas though, but it's only 50 pages or so and is fairly a-political. I suppose the start of The Virtue of Selfishness contains a couple of essential ideas one might not pick up from the novels (ie. why you can get ought from is), although that could be seen as overly intellectual 'who cares' territory (as most people perceive the whole field of philosophy)
People do it all the time.

I had a friend who never made more than $20k her whole life and yet was able to own her own house (a tiny cottage here in the Minneapolis metro area), have a running car (bought used and maintained properly) and eat well (cooked her own meals, rarely ate out). I haven't talked to her in about 7 years, but as far as I know, she's doing fine.

I lived alone with no roommates in Fairfield County, CT (a pretty expensive area) for more than 5 years while making less than $30k and was perfectly happy. It just requires managing your finances well.
The Beatles most transformative drug experience (one that goes hand-in-hand with "working hard") was arguably speed. [1]

1: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2014/08/the_drug_that_he...
I want to know if anyone has tried eating the honey in the egyptian tombs, and what it tasted like.
Your first "yes" is incorrect. Yeoman installs through npm and I imagine it runs on Node.js, but it can be used for many different projects: http://yeoman.io/community-generators.html
"Many irrational numbers are easy to identify unambiguously."

Absolutely. Cantor proved that an infinite number of others can't be identified at all, because they outnumber all possible descriptions. Some numbers can only be described by an infinitely long list of digits, one that can't be produced by a Turing machine and contains an infinite amount of irreducible information. The Kolmogorov complexity is infinite.

Newton's equations describe a mathematical model of the universe that agrees well with measurements taken under familiar conditions. Einstein's equations describe a different mathematical model, one that has good agreement with experiment over a much wider range of conditions than Newton's. But general relativity has well-known problems. Its equations give nonsense solutions under some circumstances, e.g. singularities. Physical theories are models that predict the outcomes of experiments. They're reductionist out of necessity. It's unknown and probably unknowable as to whether a perfect model is possible, but there are likely things that can't be reduced.
-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; is worse. If it's not limited to Mobile Safari, it disables font zooming on Chrome and Safari on the desktop.
How else do you expect me to download pictures from my Sony Mavica /s
> Buying essential shit isn't fun, it's a burden that needs to be done. I can't understand why removing the hassle of purchasing stuff like toilet paper and detergent is "dystopian consumer hell". Dystopian consumer hell is what we have here in Norway, where we need to physically go to the store and buy the same stuff over and over and over again.

Sure, maybe if that's your mindset. Personally I love going and doing the grocery shopping with my kids, and they love noodling around the supermarket, helping select things from the shelves, and it's generally a good time.

The drive to crush every interaction beyond a screen flow that sticks money into Bezos' pocket, glorified by misanthropes under the banner of "efficiency" seems more like a vision of hell to me.
I'm Kenneth Ballenegger -- mentioned in the article. I have some personal experience with secondary transactions. Happy to answer any questions on the topic, here or via email (address is on my profile).
It reminds me of our response to the 2008 crisis.

We all learned the dangers of having banks that are too big to fail. But now we have fewer banks than at any time since the great depression, in part because Dodd-Frank is more difficult for small banks to follow than the large banks.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023045794045792323...
You can indeed be prosecuted for tampering with the mails of your legally-separated spouse. Title 18, Part I, Ch.83 § 1708.
If a buggy is going 5m/s (18km/h) then pitch difference between approaching and receding buggy is about a half of a semitone. So I'm pretty sure you can hear it.
For those who are concerned about privacy/security I would advocate with OpenNIC Project resolvers[1].

[1] http://www.opennicproject.org/ I had a configuration some time ago using unbound + DNSSEC + DNSCrypt with OpenNIC servers.
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You can't. WhatsApp is proprietary software that you aren't allowed to audit. Use free software chat programs instead.
Indian bureaucracy at its whimsical best and ridiculous as always - do not expect anything sane from them. Internet freedom in India is nonexistent.

They don't even remotely know what is the effect on business if services like github are blocked!!
I haven't noticed this, Nim is the new name for Nimrod.
In the world of enterprise software it's also easy to overlook the cost of implementation/setup of features on the services teams and customers. Is helpful to define nonfunctional requirements that deal with these ancillary concerns.

Also all of these issues highlight why product management needs to have a working knowledge of technology and the related costs of various trade offs.
My big prediction is Docker hits the trough of disillusionment this year. It's just moving too fast, with too many immaturities for the enterprise. Everyone will kick off pilots, figure out everything is a mess, run back to VMware until things settle down.
iPad was also developed and controlled by one organization, and yet it's a smashing success.

Argument by correlations are weak. In your case, the argument is "standards controlled by a single organization are worse than those created by multiple organizations hence WebM is worse than h264". It's a weak argument because you can compare WebM and h264 directly on any quality you want, you don't have to use a proxy of how it was developed.

Not to mention that the premise ("standards controlled by a single organization are worse than those created by multiple organizations") is easily shown to be false: there are plenty of bad standards developed by multiple parties and plenty of good standards developed by small groups. That's the origin of the "design by committee " pejorative. h264 is good not because it was developed by many companies but rather despite it.
No wonder the location lookups are so slow.
Both true points, but not sure what you mean by "actually".
You're limited to 5 devices total... I'm not sure if you can stream on two at once.
we have a variety of easy-to-use sharing mechanisms (public links, shared folders, etc.) that people have been using for a long time for legitimate uses.

to be clear, we _never issued_ any DMCA takedowns to anyone -- the OP incorrectly received a bizarrely-worded email from us saying we had received a takedown notice from ourselves (no such notice ever existed) for which we've apologized.
How do you break up with a girlfriend? Speak plainly and clearly. Keep it short, no need to go to much into the reasons apart from 'it's not working out'. Then sit through the 'buts' and 'whys'.

I'm not sure how it works with the vested shares, if you owe him any compensation. Perhaps you can/should offer him some cash, since he did put in 5 months?
How much would this thing cost? Can it run an RTX GPU?
For whatever reason, I've never used a laptop that wasn't a MacBook that has had a trackpad anywhere as amazing as what Apple has done. I don't know if the problem is hardware, software, or both, but as a consumer I don't care. I'll never buy a non-Apple laptop until I can find one that has a trackpad as good or better. That's my personal requirement. On a personal laptop I always use the trackpad so I want it to be the best.
htmx is great, it's come up a few times on HN and has good commentary. There's a small set of web folks that look at all the ridiculous complexities of react, virtual DOM, etc. and nope right out back to good old server side rendering. htmx is perfect for primarily server rendered stuff. And ironically, now we see react going full circle back to investigate a server side approach with their recent react server component experiments.
Thanks! Looking forward to getting you on the product.
I sure hope not. Are you thinking of HTTP/2 server push?
We might try to meet them someday. Oh, you mean a disadvantage for us.

Half the people will want to meet them, the other half will prepare for an invasion, and we'll end up killing each other over it.
The headline should be "YOU SHOULDN'T KNOW THIS SECRET ABOUT BITCOIN!". We should upvote this according to the would-be headline, i guess. /s
One thing only lightly hinted on is how sccs was designed to tightly couple the source files to the output object files. Imagine super fine grain symbol versioning + loads of metadata for large project management tools. There was also stuff related to version constraints, security, and dynamic dispatching. They had a very different definition of "source control". I still see some odd artifacts of it pop up every so often in AIX object files.
The goverment SHOULD tax Bitcoin as a property, then it would be an incentive for Goverments to keep its value high and everybody wins.

States can create their own digital currencies, but as long as they can create an unlimmited ammount of it, then your savings in that currency will loose purchasing power, and it would be no different to the system we currently have.

Bitcoin is a savings technology, you can also have other assets as real state, gold. I don't see the Goverment excessively taxing those other assets. Bitcoin should be and will be taxed similarly to those.
> Who knew that a factory design doesn't have to be "big design up front" and can instead be more software style iterative design?

Anyone who's ever done manufacturing? Anyone who's ever built something with their hands? Anyone who realizes that when assembling anything from 30,000 parts, it's going to take a lot of time and iteration to get your build quality to an acceptable level?

Now, this may all come as a shock to software people, but anyone who has actually built stuff out of real, physical objects, would be aware of this... And why you should never buy a version 1.0 of anything.

I legitimately don't understand why software engineers think that other professionals can't understand the concept of iteration. When GM builds a car factory, they aren't doing it from zero. They are building it on top of a hundred years of manufacturing experience and iteration. When Tesla was building its first car factory, it had nearly-zero years of institutional manufacturing experience and iteration. Of course a big up-front build was going to be a disaster. It's why they still can't figure out how to align the interior panels in their cars.
"Digging" by Seamus Heaney. One of my favorites.

Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.

Under my window, a clean rasping sound
When the spade sinks into gravelly ground:
My father, digging. I look down

Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds
Bends low, comes up twenty years away
Stooping in rhythm through potato drills
Where he was digging.

The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft
Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep
To scatter new potatoes that we picked,
Loving their cool hardness in our hands.

By God, the old man could handle a spade.
Just like his old man.

My grandfather cut more turf in a day
Than any other man on Toner’s bog.
Once I carried him milk in a bottle
Corked sloppily with paper. He straightened up
To drink it, then fell to right away
Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods
Over his shoulder, going down and down
For the good turf. Digging.

The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
Through living roots awaken in my head.
But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.

Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I’ll dig with it.
For something simple and very lightweight for Windows development, check out BareTail: http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/
Andrew Marvell and John Donne. Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and Donne's "The Ecstasy" are both classic love poems.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173355
I think the value is when the local police pay for the query as well.
that certainly appears to have been a barrier to their launch.
(I work at AWS)

> I still, frankly, trust Google's Security more than Amazon's

If you have the time, could you expand on this? While I'm not directly involved in security at AWS, I'd be down to forward your thoughts to people who do.
They have been relocating Uighurs to different parts of China. I've talked to a number of different friends who live in China about this. So it seems that at the end of the re-education, they reintroduced them at other locations so it likely limits their ability to organize.

because I've been studying Chinese and speaking with Chinese people online for the last few years, I've also met quite a few Uighurs who were studying English. They are fluent in Chinese plus a couple of other languages, and as best as I can tell, I have been reintroduced as they say. This is not a topic I was able to discuss with them, but they seems like nice people that were living a decent life.

Now what happened in the past and maybe what still continues to happen in these camps is surely something that will be discussed for years, and China will have a better reputation. I just study what's happening and I'm hoping that there will be some good that comes out of it too.
I don't think so. Microcenter seems to be doing decent at least in my area. There was a fry's within 10 minutes of that microcenter and even years ago I went that place was just terrible. Empty shelfs, dust on everything, boxes that were faded, price tags faded, boxes on the floor, just looked like ran down store.

Every time I go to microcenter they are busy and they have many things you cannot buy elsewhere except online. Some things like CPUs are in store only, especially new ones. They price match all the big retailers including amazon. Overall it is always nice experience there, plus the employees in the PC section actually seem to know a thing or two about building computers.

Additionally, Fry's website was also trash. Honestly, I am kind of surprised it took this long for them to die.
>At Google there were interviews exactly like what Manara prepared us for: data structures & algorithms problem-solving.

I'm surprised this hasn't become the main point of discussion here yet.

Edit: I mean Google's interview technique, and how people prepare for it
First of all - big props to Dalia. She clearly worked her behind off to earn those offers.

Second - this definitely, to me, proves that Manara has a good business model. I actually don't think the fact that the Manara students are from MENA is all that important though. However, I do think that their extremely hands-on, and intensive "bootcamp for FAANG interviewing" model is clearly an advantage for early career technical candidates.

Thinking back to my college days (in the US, mid 2010s) - we were not given any sort of class that focused on professional interviewing. The college career center was also very general, and not knowledgeable about the specifics of passing the coding interviews. The best advice I got was a recommendation from a guest lecturer to read "cracking the coding interview" (which to be fair, was better than nothing).

As a result, the people from my school who did the best right out of the gate, were largely people who already knew people already in a FAANG roles and who could rely on that person for a referral, interview advice and practice feedback. Our school was not in SV (or anywhere close), so realistically, that was not an option for most of us. Additionally, I always applied for internships at FAANG companies while I was still a student - but never even got called in to interview - so it wasn't like I could practice that way either. I ended up doing fine for myself by accumulating a good base of practical experience from local non-FAANG companies before graduating, but I really believe my peers, and aspirational novice engineers of all backgrounds would have benefited greatly from having a hands-on course like Dalia described. I especially would love to see efforts like that extending out to under-served communities here in the US as well (native american reservations, appalachians, rust belt cities).
Thiel and his ilk are the reason we can't build cool shit anymore. Look at PayPal, horrible outdated interface that is still a kluge with old functionality glued to new functionality because it's just too big to be too concerned, and horrible customer service too. There is so much corruption and profiteering due to monopolization of various industries that this sort of behavior happens, Thiel is the guy who walks away with all his money before shit from his philosophy hits the fan; society being the bag man. Look at Trump who Thiel supported or his general idea of a monopoly. Monopolies are bad, competition and distribution is good. Thiel does not know what he's talking about. The rich can capture all the value, but what happens after that, they continue to capture all the value and don't have to improve or innovate to continue to exist, you can't hold them up to anything because what are you going to do you are locked in.

Do things 10x better he says, and then you will have so much network effect that you can do things 10x worse and people still have a hard time getting rid of you.
Definitely agree about “juicing” your game, especially from a visual perspective. There’s so many graphics concepts that I didn’t know about and didn’t have the eye to recognize.

Things like ambient occlusion, bloom, reflection probes, and physically based rendering/materials were totally unknown to me but were really essential to making a game look “AAA”.

Adrian Courreges has a great list of graphics studies that expose you to the space:
https://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2020/12/29/graphics-stu...

Following technical artists on Twitter is also a great way to get exposure on more one-off techniques (how to make a fire effect etc.)

I’m a big fan of @minionsart and @adrianmendezzg but there’s tons of other indie devs and technical
artists sharing their work.
The difference is that the legalization only affects the people in that region, whereas exclusionary housing policies affect other people who would like to move to the region, but cannot (because they did not get into the region fast enough, for example, because they are young) and therefore cannot vote on this issue.

That is literally "Democracy for me but not for thee." - people who made it there early ("me") can vote, and do (effectively) vote to keep newcomers ("thee") out and therefore not voting on those "local" policies. Yet somehow you turn it on its head.

I think policies should be decided at the level at which they affect people. As an example that I think we can both agree on: Foreign policy -> federal. Noise ordinances -> county. Would you consider this "Democracy for me not thee" as well?

I don't care whether I convince you, but I would really like to understand how your viewpoint interacts with my argument. If I understand it right, the core of our disagreement seems to be that I consider everyone who wants to move somewhere a stakeholder who should be able to vote, and you only consider people who already are somewhere. The rest follows from that.
Like the smartphone phenomenon. They need to sell you something, so they sell you on useless features. And it works!

My flip phone is in the mail. They got me regressing too.