skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's just like every other googamabooksoft company with open floor plans, brightly painted walls, demos of all the crap Dan Gilbert is doing all over the rest of Detroit like new football helmets on display to prevent injury, candy machines everywhere, mock buildings, etc...

Not to mention you are in the same building with other properties like Quicken and Bedrock.

Fun for a visitor, obnoxious for an employee.
Beyond the OrangePI boards at the same price point as RPi, I like the UP boards which use x86 compatible chips for that $100-200+ bracket, you get good, fast, processors with decent memory options and don't have to screw about with weird android-orientated hardware.
I would add, Patent protected drug companies, local electric company’s, railroads, water, cable TV, etc and arguably IP including Books, Movies, Games etc are true monopolies. Don’t forget governments as the Social Security, FBI, etc does not compete on an open market. Collectively, government spending is a huge portion of the economy.

OPEC (Oil) and De Beers (Diamonds) are not true monopolies, however they have enough control over supply to have pricing power.

But as I alluded to, Walmart’s 2.3 million employees don’t use markets internally to set prices for services. IT, Legal, HR, etc are not separate companies. Instead executives just allocate and get allocated money for a specific use.

It’s not obvious how you could measure such a wide range of hidden interactions collectively. But, market transactions have real overhead so it should be as not surprise it’s limited. After all your spouse will tell you to take out the trash rather than paying you to take out the trash.
A System Monitoring Application Using GridDB and Grafana
Look: I'm all for working sustainably and creatively. "Hard work = effort" as a sole proxy without targeted, deep practice is suboptimal.

But is DHH trying to get us to believe that he made Rails without working hard? He just fell into auto racing and a lavish lifestyle without hard work in the earlier days of 37Signals/Basecamp and instead relied on his "creativity, insights, breakthroughs, rebellions" without ANY head-bashing and getting stuck trying to make Rails 1.0 a great system for web development in Ruby?

This may be the greatest example of Survivorship Bias I've seen in recent history.
Gear – An iOS Web browser with ad blocker, dark mode, inspector
You'd still want to be able to retrieve "useful" information which can't be tampered with easily which I think is the biggest issue.

You can't curate manually.. That just doesn't scale. You also can't let just anyone add to the index as they wish or any/every business will just flood the index with their products... There wouldn't be any difference between whitehat/blackhat marketing.

You also need to be able to discover new content when you seek it, based on relevancy and quality of content.

At the end of the day, people won't be storing the index of the net locally, and you also can't realistically query the entire net on demand. That would be an absolutely insane amount of wasted resources.

All comes back to some middleman taking on the responsibility (google,duckduckgo,etc).

Maybe the solution is an organization funded by all governments, completely transparent, where people who wish to can vote on decisions/direction. So non profit? Not driven by marketing?

But since when has government led with innovation and done so at a good pace? Money drives everything... And without a "useful" amount of marketing/ads etc, the whole web wouldn't be as it is.

So yes, you can.. But you won't have access to the same amount of data, as easily, will likely have a harder time finding relevant information (especially if its quite new) without having to parse through a lot of crap.
This breaks the site guidelines, which ask you to assume good faith. That's not because everyone is necessarily in good faith—though close observation shows that it is more likely to be true here than many users think. Rather, it's because not making that assumption leads to community-eroding behavior. Please don't post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The approach from the original paper is to remove seams like you are decreasing the size, which provides you with a set of exclusive seams that can be added to the original image (with some mapping logic). This produces an output without repeating the same seam repeatedly.
The author has the right idea, but the wrong target. The problem is not that we have top-down planning; as he notes, that goes back as far as the beginnings of civilization itself. The problem is that, due to technology and the increasing concentration of wealth, top-down can now encompass vast scales that it could not in the past. A human-planted forest isn't a big deal when it's a handful of people planting a few acres. The tree mono-culture in the small patch gets absorbed over time in to the greater, more heterogeneous whole. But now one corporate entity can transform millions of acres in a short time. Corporations can blanket thousands of cities with scooters, release a new food product that instantly appears in millions of stores, or pepper the landscape with identical franchises virtually overnight. It this kind of massive centralization of power that should be drawing the author's criticism, not the mere notion of top-down planning.
Assumptions are NOT dynamic. Once we have chose a "loss" function or whatever fancy name you want to call the objective function by, you've already made a choice. There are never dynamic assumptions (a classic example would be the choice of use L2 loss in the pixel space essentially assumes a Gaussian likelihood, which is in principle kind of goofy but hey it works). Although, as alluded to earlier, it is hard to understand the space induced by the architectural assumptions (and many other moving parts)

I like to think it this way - effectively, deep learning provides learned priors from data for a downstream task whereas the manual way comes from expert knowledge without the learning part.
Poor people are poor. They don't have money to afford things. That's what it means to be poor, and that's who we're talking about when we're talking about poor people.

So it is a matter of definition that poor people cannot afford to decrease their carbon footprint. I've said nothing to compare poor people to affluent, or made any argument dependent upon demographics whatsoever. (In fact, I've been arging that the only thing safe to assume about poor people is that they are poor.) And poor people cannot afford new cars and homes.

Given this, they will not be getting new cars and homes unless someone else pays for them. If you give them a tax credit and then immediately charge them for having inefficient homes/cars, then you haven't changed anything. They still can't afford new cars or homes, because they are still poor. Certainly they will not spend their <$5000 on highly efficient cars and homes.. both because this is not enough money for such things, and because they have more pressing needs to spend that money on.

The only way a tax policy will not be regressive is if you give more money to poor people than to rich people. Giving people discounts for taking specific actions does not achieve this in any way, because rich people always have more options, more easily taken, than poor people.
It's tricking people into waiting for nothing.
You can look at competitive programming sites, they are a lot more serious than leetcode/hackerrank

https://dmoj.ca/problems/?type=5&show_types=1&order=-points

https://codeforces.com/problemset?order=BY_RATING_DESC&tags=...
OP here. I'm based in the UK and I've noticed a mix of 1 and 3 month notice periods here among people I've asked across various experience levels.
What's more, I've been surprised how hard it is to actually find out this info... I've asked some recruiters outright and have had to push the matter before they answered. It's obviously a pretty awkward question to bring up when you're trying to convince someone to hire you so I do wonder if that leads to people agreeing to 3 month notice periods that they wouldn't have done so had they known early in the process.

Was wondering a few things beyond the main question:

(a) how do you feel about your notice period

(b) if you've worked at places with drastically varying ones, were there clear pros to the extended notice period? were these at all mutual for the employee and the employers? (assuming it applies to more than the most senior staff, I've seen obvious gains from having _vital_ people remain for 3 months to pass on knowledge if nothing else that greatly helped everyone else)
Looks like it's been corrected
That's common practice everywhere.
Definitely agree on 1-3. I have found that chilling in the refrigerator also results in a better shape, plus I also like the way it divides the work (make the dough and clean up one day, then bake the next). I'll have to try 4, 5 and 6, those are great ideas.

My own tip to throw in the mix: if you naturally gravitate towards making big cookies (because who doesn't like a really big cookie?), try making small ones!
Dave Bull of Mokuhankan has occasional blog posts about problems sourcing washi paper:
https://mokuhankan.com/conversations/archives/2016/04/how_ar...
https://mokuhankan.com/conversations/archives/2016/07/paper_...

Though I seem to recall one other earlier post, but I can't find it at the moment, it was about debris/bark being mixed into the paper IIRC.
moc is run at compile, and it runs on the host. You shouldn't need to run it on the target.

I'd get a complete toolchain from ARM's developer website, then build the entire Qt project for cross compilation on the host. Then you should be able to build the complete Qt app on x86 and deploy on ARM.
Wasn't that subreddit also quarantined a while ago? No idea what its current status is, but when I tried to click-thru a post there a while back it wouldn't let me in.

Edit: the Chapo one is out of quarantine. Apparently there were a bunch of posts soliciting violence towards slaveholders and once the mods removed them they lifted the quarantine.
Considering that the comments are completely useless for anything except to let the commissioner know what the public opinion is on a topic, it's not like he actually changed any outcomes by not investigating. The comments aren't votes.
"In 1971, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention in St. Louis, Missouri, passed a resolution encouraging “Southern Baptists to work for legislation that will allow the possibility of abortion under such conditions as rape, incest, clear evidence of severe fetal deformity, and carefully ascertained evidence of the likelihood of damage to the emotional, mental, and physical health of the mother.” The convention, hardly a redoubt of liberal values, reaffirmed that position in 1974, one year after Roe, and again in 1976."
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-ri...
Funny, I think you actually pinned that interpretation yourself - the post was meant to discuss use cases of the web today and doesn't mention the past at all! Regardless, I see your points, but I'd rather compare today to an idealized future and discuss how we'd prefer it to be.
The problem with everything related to "fake news" is that it is not in the context of establishment propaganda.

Effectively it is an attempt to co-opt the concept of propaganda but with the supposed idea that there is a certain authoritative group that will tell you what's real and always presents just the facts in an impartial way.

It's quite amazing. What they have done is to create an enthusiasm for censorship. The net effect is actually the opposite of what it is advertised to be. It enforces top-down information control.

In a similar vein, Libra is advertised as a real cryptocurrency that can act as a digital cash. And yet it is actually an attempt to replace real cryptocurrencies with something that can be controlled, easily tracked, and profited from by the companies it was designed to disintermediate.
The problem is that they violated Reddit's rules by posting threats of violence against Oregon police & public officials.
Edited to remove last paragraph. Thank you for the info and link.
> they still aren't deleted

links?
That's actually done in the paper! You basically choose the lowest energy seam, duplicate it, then blacklist it and duplicate the next lowest energy seam (to prevent repeatedly duplicating the same seam). The results are quite good.
Why dont you use docker? It sounds like it would make your life easier.
They didn't replace him in the debate, the mistakenly omitted him from a graphic on screen and later corrected it.

He only barely cracked the top 8 as of two weeks ago, and with a paltry 2% with a net favorable of +8 in Monmouth's latest poll, which is not very good. I don't really know much about the guy, but he's not making much of a showing in the polls so I'm not surprised that networks aren't focusing on him.
What the website calls "nudges" I call "lies".
> No, it doesn't, considering it was documented in Scotland in the 1700s. The Plum Island facility was started in 1954.

Yes, it does. This strain was before unseen in the US so much so it's very name references where it was first seen in the US, regardless of where it may have been elsewhere in the world.
> Remember, for every software-based dark pattern or fraud out there, there was a software developer who implemented it

I think you ended that sentence prematurely.... "..after their boss, marketing team, etc., told them to." I don't think I've ever met a dev who implements these things because they think it's a good idea.
Show HN: A real stock market for collectibles
>The Camry and Corolla

Saw this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Camry#Etymology
> Passive shareholders, well, don't participate on decision making.

That's not true, fund managers vote on behalf of those shareholders, and not always go along with the board's position. See for example Vanguard's voting record: https://about.vanguard.com/investment-stewardship/how-our-fu...
No, you are trying to justify odd builtin functions choice in retrospect. Nobody has ever said that Go "secret generics" are a core part of the Go philosophy but you.

The reason they exist is because Go language designers could not do without them. The same people that have claimed for years that Go didn't need generics.
"Not that big of a political issue" is a pretty interesting take on a massive turning point in both women's rights and the drift of conservative America increasing to the right.
Can You Resist Slack?
To me it is obvious that passwords are insecure. Just think how many people are saving them in a browser without a master password, share them in internal chats, use same password everywhere because it's difficult to remember several passwords etc.
An example from Fabian Sanglard's game engine black book, wolf3d, p222

When the AdLib was released in 1986, developers were instructed to send data "as fast as
possible". At 4.77MHz, a PC was unable to out-pace the AdLib. Yet as CPUs got faster,
issues started to arise and the card was unable to keep up.

So if an old program ran on a new machine, it might mangle the sound or even cause a hardware crash. So the only way to play it was to slow down the new computer to the speed of the old one.
> Is this site so far left there are no conservatives?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect
This is a classic example of a study in the social sciences that confirms my prejudices, but whose actual methodology is almost entirely meaningless.

The participants are not asked to make any consequential decision based on the information, but just to fill out a survey saying whether they believed the claims. A nudge-conomist would say that even though people have stated preferences, their acted-upon preferences can diverge, so this study proves nothing.

Even though I'm disposed to believe that nudges like this do create "nudge fatigue" and that people rapidly become immune to it (like the $*.99 pricing model), this study does nothing to confirm or dispute that notion.
Mercedes-Benz W113 Interactive WebGL Demo
No need for a bed of salt, just use a dessicant packet.
> Reality can just hate a person and that's really what's to blame.

No, that's externalizing. Reality doesn't hate you.

The nature of any dysphoria leads one to deny reality as it is though, and presume a lot about it that is objectively false-- your brain lies to you about the way you understand reality and convinces you that in order to correct it you so can understand it, you need to seek solutions that are unaffordable, harmful or otherwise impossible/out-of-reach.

Because humanity is generally retarded we celebrate or demonize things we don't understand instead of actually working to understand them. What gets lost in the zeitgeist of promoting "LGBTx uber alles" and tarring the skeptics as *phobes is that expensive surgery, a lifetime of HRT and a premature cancer death--getting everything you think you need to feel whole--won't necessarily steer you away from suicide either, because the fundamental problem has more to do with what's between your ears than what's between your legs. Post-ops are still something like 20x more likely to commit suicide than the general population; hardly counts as a success story when it comes to harm reduction or enacting effective medical prognoses.

I hope you find happiness through GRS or otherwise. I also hope it comes sooner rather than later so you don't suffer any longer than you have. But if you ever do find yourself on the edge of that cliff, at least consider for a second that you're so dissatisfied because you've been trying to address the wrong problem this whole time.
It is a huge problem. It's not possible to fix it some other way without putting in the same effort.
Your body is made to make that sound, you just need to let it do it instead of fighting it.
I think Erlang does? I don't really know Erlang, but AFAIK there's no way to share anything mutable between processes. Any data which is shared is (semantically) copied when it's sent to a different process. (Ignoring FFI, and such.)

Same thing applies to the STM "subset" of Haskell -- conformance to which is statically verified by the type checker[1].

[1] There's no particular magic going on wrt. checking -- STM is a monad. It just happens to have "magic" runtime support.
>the elites needed a new form of religion to control society. That new religion is social "science".

Source?

I'd be interested in hearing more about why you think all social science is pseudoscience. However, if it's going to be the illuminati-esque, I'll take a pass.
Biggest East Coast Refinery to Close, Driving Up Fuel Prices
<squinty face>This sound an awful lot like insurance.</squinty face>
Ask HN: Why unikernels are not more popular?
I discovered MirageOS. I find the idea elegant.
It looks to me like a compiler of the whole Operating
System.

I wondering what are the pros and cons? How does they relate to micro kernels?
Lots of people.

One of the selling points of things like smart thermostats is the you can remotely control them; you can set them to your preferred temperature as you are traveling home so it will be nice when you arrive.
Ask HN: Does Product Name / domain name Matter?
Any examples to back your thinking?
I'm a fan of drop caps as a visual element -- they, along with a bolded lede line, very much help draw the eye to section starts, in a way which is very nondistraction (IMO).

A recent example, adding drop caps (and a number of other styling changes) to unv.is:

https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/102329333215634483

Because I'm restyling a page, that's restricted to CSS-only methods, which for that site works marvelously. And on the principle of divorcing content and presentation, it appeals strongly.

But on Wikipedia/Mediawiki, attempting to add drop-caps + bold lede-line results in a very annoying sift of the text offset by the drop cap *merely by defining a selector for ::first-line (Firefox/OSX):

https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/102329661015728246

Somewhat maddenning.
I believe this is the idea behind Qubes OS. Any virtualization system (virtualbox or whatnot) should give you some protection, at the cost of some convenience.

Running with javascript disabled except on a small set of sites will also help protect against many attacks.
That's literally the case that "panic" is there to handle.
The Warrior’s Review, Work or a Scam?
Borders and socialism seem perfectly compatible to me. Or do you mean that he was both a socialist, and against borders?
Agree, there are several places in the US that could've been (or remained more peer to) Silicon Valley. I was not aware of depth of Twin Cities story. http://www.cbi.umn.edu/resources/MHHC/ looks interesting. If there's other reading on that you recommend I'd love a pointer.
It is, but browser implementations vary to an annoying degree.
> Technically ("well, acksually"), Go doesn't "lack generics".

Yes it does, generics are types. You bet all these append(T[A],A)T[A] tricks are hard-coded in the compiler in an adhoc fashion, and not part of Go's type system.
Does Apologizing Work? An Empirical Test of the Conventional Wisdom
S3 Alternative On-Premise: MinIO Benchmarks
My Duolingo ads disagree.
AI Is Destroying Traditional Business Thinking
I don't care about the features in the last 20 years if I'm able to do my job efficiently which Go as a language provides. Never wonder why those great academics languages with a ton of features are not adopted?
Slower CPU than the Rpi4, but the Jetson Nano's GPU makes for a reasonable desktop experience. $99

Also, a refurb Asus Chromebox would be around $150 if you want x86.
This is perhaps the key sentence in this article -- "... European space firms have acknowledged SpaceX's success, previously they have indicated that reuse is not a viable option for a continent that only launches five to 10 rockets a year. It would not be sustainable for a European factory to build just one rocket a year ..."

The thinking at the time was that when you don't have a lot of things to throw into space, having a single rocket that can work all year long doesn't make market sense.

The alternative though is actually quite different, if you do have a rocket you can use and reuse to do all of that traffic the launch provider can make a lot more money because their operational costs get amortized over a number of launches for a small number (as small as 1) rockets.

This is also why I worry about Blue Origin, while Bezos can fund it at $1B/year on his own nickel, with the money being sucked out of the ecosystem by SpaceX it makes the return on that investment less and less assured. (I know Bezos probably doesn't care but for "normal" businesses it is a consideration that has to be met in order to secure working capital)

If they execute well, SpaceX can do to launch providers what TSMC did to chip fabs. Make it unviable to have your own fab if you're not doing billions of chips a year.

The latest launch of the Falcon Heavy was pretty impressive in demonstrating its capabilities (and I appreciated that they let us watch the center core crash[1]), it showed it can do everything a delta 4 heavy can do and more (which can't make ULA happy). Recovering two of the three cores is still a pretty big cost savings as well.

What I see is a company in the lead where their lead is giving them additional advantage which puts them farther ahead and increases the difficulty of catching them harder and harder.

[1] I have always assumed that once they got the recovery working well they would start pushing the envelope to see how far they could push it before the thing couldn't take it. It is in those exercises where you extend the capability by finding the latest weak point in the system.