skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are we on different websites? I used the search box to search "cat" and the "enter" key doesn't work to perform a search, I have to mouse over and click the magnifying glass to get it to work. It takes about 45 seconds to load about 2 screens of cat pictures. I have to scroll down and then click "Show more" to get some more. There's no indication of how many times I have to click "Show more" to get all the cat pictures. Once I click "Show more" it appears that nothing is happening, but about 30-45 seconds later the screen starts blipping and then another couple of screens of cats start popping into view. Clicking on an image takes another 30 seconds and then it brings you to a slightly bigger view, and then clicking it again shows another slightly bigger view but trapped into some weird-scrolling viewer with 3 layers of vertical scrollbars. The back button is also broken, having to click it multiple times to escape the single-image screen.

I think a simple pager with a fixed number of images on each page would have been a much better experience. It would also let me link to specific pages so I could share the page I'm viewing.

EDIT: I'm leaving the post above but right after submitting it I felt regret because it sounds really harsh and I didn't mean it that way. I love the fact that the images were released and I hope government and private institutions continue to do this. I have very minor gripes about the ui but that shouldn't take away from the accomplishment.
> just ask for the bucket name and get full free access to everything

Jed or jeffbarr, what say ye?
Or give people an option, even. Not everything needs to be all or nothing.
Yep, they're also pretty popular with people who cheat in ESEA/FaceIT third-party ladders. One of the guys, ra1f, eventually outed himself [1]. The software-based anticheat is fairly decent, pushing people to hardware-based cheats built off of PCILeech to avoid detection.

[1]: https://twitter.com/rra1f/status/1067518342595006466
Long before Musk said that, in 2017, I did a back-of-napkin calculations for economics of robotaxis.

Here are the numbers: https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/ac23f6cdd3b543b3b89d9f68...

With very conservative numbers I got yearly profit of $20k. Over 5-10 years it's $100-$200k. This is after paying off the car, insurance and operating costs.

So yeah, a car that potentially makes you $200k is worth at least $100k + $30k price of the car, given that it's money for almost no effort and you also get to use the car for yourself.

You're free to disagree with some of my assumptions but those are the numbers that other people are getting as well, when they bother to actually do an analysis as opposed to argument-less dismissals.
Nice! Do you know the decay function that HN uses? I’m curious how long it makes sense to encourage upvotes.
I wouldn't classify this as misinformation.

Facts:

1) I don't live in UK
2) They threated me at UK resident
3) It's not possible to change the country directly from Google account, you have to go to Play Store (which I don't use it anymore)
4) It was impossible to contact them
I’m sure there are many ways, but I’ve done it by stitching together dozens of photos to create a panorama.
I wish gcp and aws would take some notes (or make some acquisitions) to get close to Azure Devops... It has been a natural - dare I say pleasant - exercise to move some really rancid 15-year old legacy .net sql server/stored procedure nightmare applications to the cloud and get them into modern devops pipelines. That would not even be a project I would contemplate with aws or gcp. It's actually on par cost-wise in a lot of cases with running it on-prem which is a rare thing to say about the cloud.

Azure is growing pretty damn fast. One thing they don't have over AWS however is the scale of cheap resources. If you're using public cloud properly, you should be leveraging spot instances wherever possible - and in that case, azure doesn't really have a solution here. GCP preemptible instances are closer. You can spin up a rediculous amount of machines for pennies on the dollar at 2am in us-east and I see no such solution in Azure.

So all-in-all it seems that a good chunk of Azure's growth is proprietary migrations and thus they don't have to focus too hard on being cost competitive at the hardware level.
A Guide to AdaBoost
Isolated weirdo, but driven by the most aggressive comments Elon has made.. so, isolated weirdo with a lack of skepticism.
> or fork it

Seems like this is where things are going. None of the main browsers respect users enough today to the point that they might not even stay usable without forking.
Personal reliance. Empowering people to take protective steps at their own discretion. If you encouraged your population to, say, keep a small stockpile of rice and beans on hand (not expensive) store overruns wouldn't be such a problem during times of panic.

But this would require a radical cultural shift outside of urban areas. And unfortunately individualism I think has become a bit of a slur in many circles, a manifestation of the two party split among collectivism (leftist) and individualism (rightist).
In the US customers have the option to cancel the order: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/bus...

Is tesla accounting for this liability correctly?
Stack several technologies together instead of relying on just one. Edge cases will be more easily identifiable because one technology will have high confidence about an obstacle that another does not perceive.
Assuming that you actually control the copyright, of course. This used to be (and may still be) a significant issue wrt. the Smithsonian itself; they host all sorts of content on their websites for which the actual copyright-ownership situation was apparently entirely unknown (to the Smithsonian themselves and anyone else).
It could be a really large render of a `dot` graph. That's the only kind of 5GB PNGs I've had to work with.

While on that topic, anyone have any good ideas in situations like that? Rendering a really large SVG from scratch is not feasible, also most SVG renderers actually fail on really large SVGs in my experience. I've always had to export as PS or just direct render into PNG.
Don't be ridiculous. It's more like "see better with different glasses."
Thanks, but no thanks, because:

- parameter and pot position mismatch
- lack of layout
- lack of labels

Basically a 50$ midi controller gives poor UX.
If you're worried about your ISP snooping on you and tampering with DNS records, the tools we have today already offer better privacy and trust than DoH, DoT, DNSCurve or DNSCrypt.

Just use a DNSSEC capable resolver in combination with a VPN. All other options today are effectively theater.
you should be happy someone explained it to you- I feel that notation was overlooked tremendously in my math education- I actually just brought this up in a thread yesterday. It was like "oh, we have this dx now... k."
Nah, really just a command line sql query tool. Though could probably be used as an uber orm.
Many people love to be FAANG unpaid employees, why should it be any different for Microsoft?
Adaptive cruise with stop/go and lane centering is a feature offered in many cars now. So it's not like Tesla/autopilot has a unique value proposition there anymore.

Mentally, I find auditing the system while it drives way more fun and less exhausting than actually driving on an uneventful highway.
It's just 2^24 for probability 1/2, right?
Which is amusing given all the surrounding comments that suggest anti-terrorism as a motive for removing lockers, since it was the notorious terrorist attacks of the 90s that caused Tokyo to famously remove its trash cans.
One of my close friends works at the CDC and volunteered to join the Covid-19 response, which requires her to work 100 hrs/wk.

I know HN is not supposed to be a political place, but you can't talk about Covid-19 without talking about politics. Elected officials in the US have an enormous amount of power over how an outbreak spreads here. They control budgets, budget allocations, and all the preparedness/response bureaucracies that are supposed to be ready for situations like this[1].

Per my friend, the Trump administration has been replacing mid-level appointees with political donors who have absolutely no idea what they're doing -- at best. In some cases, they're actively anti-government, so they're both malicious and incompetent. The CDC's response has been crippled by many of these appointees.

This is most evident at the State Department. Despite CDC employees screaming at them not to let the Japanese cruise ship passengers into the country, they did it anyway[2].

And then you have the usual propaganda and denialism, such as Larry Kudlow claiming today that Covid-19 is contained[3].

There are a thousand ways Trumpism has fueled this crisis, and I can't summarize them all here, but there is a bipartisan outcry[4] over this issue that has had mixed success.

I apologize again for the baldly politics-related post, but I think this issue highlights the limitations of HN's anti-politics moderation. It's very difficult to divorce issues of science, business, or (especially) society when politicians are major forces in all of them.

1. https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/483320-wo...

2. https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-cruise-ship-us-passe...

3. https://seekingalpha.com/news/3545343-kudlow-says-u-s-contai...

4. https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump...
>also offers a glimpse into a potential future where companies of all sorts, not just auto insurers

No, not companies of "all" sorts. Just insurance companies. Other companies are regulated by Congress as part of antitrust regulations which would prevent them from doing this kind of thing. Insurance companies, however, are not regulated by antitrust laws. Insurance is declared to be "not commerce" and therefore not answerable to antitrust laws. They are permitted to break any antitrust law they please. This is why medical insurance companies, for instance, hold national meetings every few years to decide what price they are willing to pay for medical goods and services. This is price-fixing, and it is illegal in absolutely any industry - except insurance. In insurance, they can do it publicly because there literally is no law against it. There's a law PROTECTING it. It was called the McCarran-Ferguson Act. The plan was to repeal it as part of the Affordable Care Act. It was the clause that enabled the ACA to survive the entire revision process... and was then promptly removed from the bill immediately before its passage. This is why the insurers have never really fought very hard against the ACA. If it ever gets repealed, the McCarran-Ferguson act, that is, insurance companies will fall under antitrust regulation and have to change almost every business practice they follow. They will have to compete against one another on price, compete against each other on what prices they pay, etc. It would destroy their profit margins and probably result in the majority of them going out of business quite quickly. Don't hold your breath. It's why the insurance industry spends so much on lobbying and every lobbyist for every single industry will fight its repeal. In other words, it will NEVER happen. The law has been in place since 1945.
Maybe the question I should have asked is what sort of protection does it provide beyond a normal compile and how useful is it?

It seems like there is some kind of cross-module memory protection? Maybe Erlang would be an interesting comparison?
I worked in HMIS for years and the chronic homeless are almost ALWAYS "mentally ill, drug addicts, or most likely an individual suffering from both problems." Additionally, you make a choice to support yourself however you want but "Why the hell shouldn't this be a means to support myself?" is nothing more than entitlement and wishful thinking. There are a bunch of other things that I do that make money, make sense for me, but dont pay the bills, so I adult and find work that does support me.
Translation, both Microsoft and Google have train cars full of money to light on fire in the short term to subsidize long term contracts and integrations. It'll be interesting to see who is number 2 in three and then five years.
(googler, opinions are my own)

Btw, the "finding a new role" is easily within Google. One of the "cloud" teams that was defragged was in my office, and some of those people were people I've worked with over the years. Local management are trying to make sure they have places to land on other teams in the office.

Yes, they can look for new jobs externally, but this is how Google deals with cleaning up teams from time-to-time. Luckily Google is still hiring, and people moving to new teams tends to work out without much fuss.

Outside Google, I've seen the same behavior. A friend that worked at waffle.io got a similar 3-6 month transition window (find a new job internally or externally). They ended up staying at Broadcom, so it's a good way for companies to retain talent in a tight labor market.
While I didn't initially build it for this purpose, remote teams have started using VidHug (https://vidhug.com) for not just celebrating, but also welcoming new team members and wishing old ones farewell. I'm working on some b2b specific features and hope to have an offering out soon. Would love any feedback from remote teams and happy to give interested parties a trial run.
Just watched the CNBC interview (~10 minutes) with the Bobs. Although sooner than expected, BI seems to just want to focus on the creative disciplines at Disney and not deal with all of the day to day ops from all of the businesses. BC plans on following the course Iger set Disney on with their current assets and work from there. Iger will still be leaving at the end of 2021. According to them, none of the recent Disney news/performances have had any impact on the timing of this decision.
The Smithsonian is unique.

If interested in the history of how it came to be, Mike Rowe tells the story well in "The Illegitimate Son-of-a-Smith" podcast: http://thewayiheardit.rsvmedia.com/episode-135-the-illegitim...

The Institution is 62% federally funded (a combination of the congressional appropriation and federal grants and contracts). ... the Smithsonian has trust or non-federal funds, which include contributions from private sources (endowments; donations from individuals, corporations and foundations; and memberships) and revenues from the Smithsonian Enterprises https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/factsheets/smithsonian-instituti...

From
https://www.si.edu/ogc/legalhistory

created by Congress in 1846 to exercise the authority of the United States in carrying out the responsibilities Congress undertook when it accepted the bequest of James Smithson "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men."...

...the Smithsonian is not an agency or authority of the Government...

...the Smithsonian is so "closely connected" to the federal government that it shares the immunity of the United States from state and local regulation...
To clarify: Is your workplace asking you to refrain from attending meetings or events, even in your private life, unless it is directly concerning your job there?
I agree that this was a bit confusing. Higher up in the article, it shows that a linear function is one that doesn't change when scaled:

F(a * x) = a * F(x)

This is showing the relationship between two uses of the same function.

Then, further along, we find:

"So, what types of functions are actually linear? Plain-old scaling by a constant, or functions that look like:
F(x)=ax
In our roof example, a=1/3"

I think in this second situation, F(x)=ax is not a relationship but rather a DEFINITION of the function F(x).

In programming terms:

function F(x: real) : real;

begin

Result := x * (1/3);

end;
So my friend couldn't drive a Tesla and eat a sandwich, with just one hand on the wheel? (As they do now on open motorways in good conditions.)
Somewhere in the past 10 years, Window has devolved to the point the UI is at parity with your favorite Linux desktop environment... mixed with another Linux desktop environment.
At least they only have one kernel running both Windows and the Linux subsystem. Because that is somehow better than just running a Linux VM with a real Linux kernel.
Here's the thing though, if I'm not already an effective political actor (i.e. someone with a lot of money, or a significant network of people who listen to me, or in a position of control over an institution with proxy access to either of those), the opportunity cost of doing nothing is basically zero.

The assertions that "inaction is a choice" or "political disengagement is a privilege" are coming from a place of naive idealism about the reality of affecting change in modern societies. There's an enormous threshold of activation energy one has to cross to be an efficacious actor against existing large scale power structures, and anything short of it is basically not going to make a difference.

The reality of scale in our world as currently configured is that one private individual could do all the conscientious things - boycott the right things, recycle the right things, vote for the right things - and nothing will change. Even a thousand or a million such individuals randomly distributed doing the exact same things, still wouldn't make a significant difference. Only by acting in coordinated networks would change come about, and it would be driven by the powerful individuals or organizations doing the coordinating, having expended enormous energy to do so. Most people aren't suited to or interested in expending that kind of energy to lead such efforts, and we shouldn't be made to feel guilty for just wanting to go about our lives without trying to "make a difference".
Youtube is a growth play - even at that - it's not a slouch, 5bn+ in the last quarter.
It's very impressive that they can do it with existing libraries properly.

Personally, if I had to design a solution for this problem, I would use the io_uring model - which would allow every part to reside in its own process and memory space.
People tend to wake earlier as they age, maybe that helped?

I've noticed it already in my 30s, I can no longer sleep in so easily and have to get up, even if I'm tired.

Unfortunately it is because older people tend to have poorer sleep quality in general (less time in deep sleep cycles) so that's a pretty big downside.
> I would like to have meetings once a week for supporting people interested in trying to make money online.
...
Having a place to be for an hour once a week to get plugged in, charge your devices, get free wifi and a free cup of coffee and talk with people about building a financial future and what your dreams are -- this would be humanizing. This would be a constructive connection to society that most homeless currently lack.
...
It would be a connection to a vision of a future self that is better than what you have today and it would be done in a nice way, not in a punishing way.

Yes, and if I might add to this, a place to shower and clean their clothes, and access to grooming services like haircuts.

I'm sure you've thought about all of this, but these are the things that I notice right away. I can tell a person is homeless (as in actually living on the street), in any context, in a fraction of a second based on subtle visual cues such as hair, their gait, the fit and condition of their clothes, and the extra things they carry. Tiny cues can add up to a striking impression even if the person is trying to hide them, and that's before I get close enough to smell the cigarettes and their clothing.

Clothing is, I believe, a solvable problem, but it takes more effort than simply throwing free clothing at them. Clothes have to fit and be at least visually clean, or else they can immediately identify a person as homeless. The bar here is low. America is swimming in clothing. Goodwill and ARC take in so much clothing that they're kind of picky, and readily throw away anything with even minor wear or damage. It certainly seems that some organization could find success in helping folks into clothing that doesn't showcase their poverty.
New Zealand appears to be doing a reasonable job of youth detention, where the facilities are more like high schools than prisons.

Wandering through New Zealand's Korowai Manaaki youth detention centre, you can't help but notice the basketball court, veggie patch and classrooms — it feels more like a high school than a prison.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-27/nz-youth-detention-ce...
It's the same in the US. Kava isn't a GRAS food despite records of it being a traded commodity on the US mainland decades before the GRAS list was introduced, and despite it being consumed as a food in Hawaii since the day the first Hawaiians arrived there by canoe and brought it with them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generally_recognized_as_safe
In the past when I've told my pharmacy I'm traveling somewhere with less medical facilities than the US, they can get a refill sooner from my insurance provider than I'd otherwise be good for.

That said, it doesn't work for all drugs. One of the medications I'm on now I can't get filled one day early under any circumstance, nor can I get it shipped to me. For extra fun points, if I'm late by more than a week, it's doubtful I can get it refilled ever again.
VS Code is a text editor not an IDE, right? That's what its proponents always boasted in the beginning at least.

I just got work to pay for a GoLand licensed for me. The VSC experience was slower, more RAM hungry and not as full featured, so it didn't really make sense to stick with.
This seems like odd advice to me. Nearly all of what I eat is composed primarily of meat and fresh vegetables. No amount of stocking up one what I already use is going to get me a month's worth of food. Am I really that much of an outlier?
This is the best website i've seen!
Playing a game immediately after learning the rules is my favorite challenge - especially when the other players are all new too.

At this stage, tactics are mostly about keeping all the rules in your head and thinking hard before each move. But strategy is really interesting. Everyone is guessing blindly, and you can often win by guessing slightly less blindly.

I have two meta-strategies:

(1) Game phases

While learning the rules, whenever possible, mentally categorize game mechanics as opening-related or endgame-related. For example, a lot of board games have some engine-building in the opening and some point maximization in the end.

During the game, constantly estimate the distance to the end of the game. On the first playthrough, most people transition to endgame too late.

(2) Mechanics comparison

Whenever a game has different types of mechanics or resources, search for reference points that compare them. For example, in Dominion, you must choose between buying treasure and action cards. So on the first playthrough, you should deduce that 1 silver is similar to an action with (+2 treasure, +1 action).

The article talks about the metagame transition in Splendor, when players realize that a strategy with minimal engine-building is viable. I deduced that on the first playthrough by trying very hard to estimate the value of a 2-cost card vs taking resources.

Of course, you need to continuously re-evaluate as you understand the game better. By I have a very high winrate on first playthroughs relative to my general ability.

Does anyone else have meta-strategies for this situation?
>If I sell food to someone who I know is a nazi, am I tacitly approving of the consequences of their actions?

Yes