skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the same experience (especially in populous metro areas like NY). It's not just with USPS, but also with FedEx.

I called FedEx support and they explained me why this happens. Turns out, people who deliver packages/mail have strict deadline to deliver their packages and on days when there are just too many for them to finish delivering everything, they mark it as delivered and actually deliver the package on the day after.
Not at all. You can look at the map of view cones and see that there's a handful centered around the downtown.

Meanwhile south of there there's about 50+ blocks of untouched single family homes.

The view cones has been no real barrier to development and unlike SF Vancouver is building constantly.
I guess something similar not possible/very hard for onyx boox as they not publish kernel sources.
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Unless you prevent them from being successful in the first place.

As a side note, I wonder if there's also a bias that human minds are more easily controlled than forces of nature. That may also come into play here.
I checked that link but can't find a single one concerning non-accredited investors. Can you post one? I want to get familiar with this matter.
Since, I know a friend in this industry, let me explain what's going on here. Yes, OnlyFans uses Stripe, but that's not the entire story.

In the adult/porn world, there's a high amount of chargebacks and fraud relative to low-risk industries like SaaS software. If you pass a certain chargeback threshold in the adult industry, your account is terminated, and no payment processor will do business with you.

To reduce the likelihood of passing that chargeback threshold and being banned, OnlyFans uses "cascading payments", which essentially load balances the payments across multiple payment processors in order to reduce their chargeback ratios across their merchant accounts.

The payment is either processed by Stripe, Securion, CCBill(the leading payment processor for adult), or another company.

Last time I checked the network requests, I noticed it was storing the card on Stripe, CCBill, and Securion, but using CCBill or Securion to process the payment.

I think Stripe is there for models on the site who don't sell adult content. OnlyFans probably does a check to see if the page is adult-related and if it is, then routes it to the correct payment processor.
This is exactly what Facebook is already doing, in a far larger scale!
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24293862
One of the problems is that quantum theory is obscure (to say the least) regarding what it claims about the nature of the world when no one is looking. Is the involvement of a consciousness required for the theory to make sense, and if so, does that include a mouse’s or a fly’s? In particular, the specification of what constitutes a measurement is irreparably vague. Perhaps all that’s needed is a large enough apparatus. But what’s large enough? And what happens at the boundary? These issues are referred to as the measurement problem.

In my utterly uninformed imagination I've reconciled this by defining observation as the point where the observer (whether it be a simple apparatus like the sensor on a photon counter, or a complex and squishy one like my consciousness) becomes "intertwined" with the observation. i.e. Once the information has reached some particle, that particle's view of the waveform/event has collapsed.

It's easy to forget the actual conveyance of the information has some physical manifestation (photons hitting my retina, electrons bumping against transistors in an IC and eventually manifesting as dots on a screen which send out those photons) and I picture those causal steps as propogating constraints through the universe. Light speed sets a maximal boundary on how much of the universe may be "intertwined" with the observable, but even if the data is sitting on the computer next to me, until I take a peek (or otherwise subject myself to any consequences stemming from them) those constraints haven't yet permeated any of the bits of the universe that make up me.

Akin to how relativity permits two different observers to hold differing views of some phenomena (eg. silmultanaety) this worldview allows me to imagine the cat is both dead and alive even though my computer or the Geiger counter may know the correct answer.

I'd love to hear from real quantum physicists whether this interpretation is bunk or has some validity (and if so, whether someone else arrived at it before me and gave the theory a name).
From the sounds of it CHS1 is probably a Russian national. I'm honestly surprised s/he hasn't asked for compensation or a visa; although we don't know who they are the ransomware group certainly does and I would be scared they are plotting revenge (especially if they end up having to leave the US).

If I were the FBI I would be putting this dude in witness protection and building them a new identity.
On-device permissions should include a way to provide randomized GPS and other data to sideloaded apps.
They just banned Fortnite
And the next version supposedly is getting its own offline abilities now.
"All reMarkable hardware works except for the Wi-Fi radio because it requires proprietary firmware"

So you need to use USB to xfer documents onboard?
I own a LG smart TV. Wary of those and other problems I never connected it to the net

I own an LG TV and stopped installing updates for the same reason - each update seemed to make it slower.

But the nags get increasingly urgent and my wife eventually installed it.

So now I disconnected it entirely from the network and use a Roku for smart features.
So, I am missing something, how does it work with the double slit experiment ? the result should never act as a wave without observation if we have spontaneous collapse all the time ? Or is this spontaneous collapse quite rare in practice ?
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Microsoft isn’t doing that, end users did that. Developers seem to overwhelmingly treat their git host as a centralized thing, even for closed source work.

These proprietary extensions for git are wildly popular, and are commonly cloned for open and closed source alternatives to github; I think blaming github or Microsoft here is incorrect.
Hurricanes don’t impact much of the US. Nebraska for example has zero hurricane risks, and while low it’s has some terrorism risks. Also, in terms of preparation that can have positive returns it’s not clear FEMA actually needs to spend that much on Hurricanes per year. 10 year old flood maps still work just fine etc.

So, this may actually be completely reasonable behavior based on FEMA’s mandates.
And a friendly reminder that if you're on iOS you can go into Settings, search for "advert" and limit ad tracking if you managed to miss that setting before.
Here's what I think is going on -

- In raytracing, you're evaluating some complicated equation at each pixel location. In this case, there are some cosine components that have a really high spatial frequency, so you get that aliased TV-static-looking effect in some parts of the image

- One way to avoid that would be take many samples in a small region around each pixel location (at sub-pixel distances) which the author refers to as 'supersampling'. This would work except you'd need to raytrace a lot more points, which would slow down rendering

- What you could do instead would be (and this is what the post is mostly about) would be to replace the cosine(x) function with a function that is "the average value of cosine(x) from x-w/2 to x+w/2" - that's the big integral in the post. This function would effectively just be cosine(x) when x is much greater than w, but would average out the high-frequency cosine components of the image when x ~=< w

- The neat effect is that you can get the same smooth, alias-free image as you would with the expensive super-sampling operation just by using a modified version of cosine instead!
If they're BSD-licensed, that means they're Free Software.
> All you need is a round of testing for cross-browser compatibility. It's a pretty much solved problem by now, doesn't take that much time and can be automated.

Please show me a solved automated test for the issue in the post.
This is awesome! Remarkable 2 is coming out soon. Hoping this might work with it as well. I think the WiFi is a hard trade off, since internet connectivity lets us pull new information. I saw Ethernet as supported in the guide, but there’s no Ethernet port right? What’s the way to transfer new information
This is a terrible use of money for expanding your skills. Rent the machine time for peanuts, learning even more relevant skills simultaneously.
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Partially but it could also serve as a "learn by teaching" theory concept, forcing them to clarify their understandings to pass it on.
That monoculture means you can't change anything because it breaks the learned idioms.
And there is no best possible UX.
UX is mostly subjective measured.
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Katrina helped take the shine off the GW Bush administration.
Well, why don't you automate this? https://twitter.com/ChrisGSeaton/status/1234924701513900032 You're annoyed about "[using] up precious minutes of [your] life" when you're in the middle of typing a command and have to context-switch to skimming some barely-related information to accomplish something that should be simple. That's how many of us here feel when we're trying to get a familiar task done, but the UI is frequently reorganizing itself, so we have to stop and look around for something that should be simple.

(Let it be a sign of how bothered I was by your cavalier attitude, that I dug through tweets.)
I was attempting to reframe your question to apply to a rough guess of who you are, and what tools you spend most of your life using, based on the fact that you are (a) commenting on HN, and (b) display no sympathy with the plight of a user who's had the UI they stopped having to think about ages ago suddenly change out from under them. Probably with deadlines looming that have no room for "everything takes twice as long for a while while we get used to the new setup and the fact that one key we regularly hit as part of the process now deletes half our work".

Is that mocking you?
A lot of FEMA’s work is generalizable—set up emergency shelters, evacuate people from disaster areas, provide supplies to disaster areas. Most of that stuff is pretty similar for earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires, or terrorist attacks. Having more terrorism-specific funding doesn’t mean terrorism is a higher priority or greater threat than hurricanes, just that it’s more expensive to deal with.
No, you'll have to pry my fountain pen from my cold dead fingers. I have tried a lot of digital note taking solutions and I always find that they distract from the task of actually taking notes, including typing. Or, perhaps it is that taking notes with pen and paper doesn't distract from what you are actually taking notes about.
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yes I think that's key, I imagine a typical 2 axis analysis for this, where one axis is hard/long and the other is passionate or not passionate about it.

But I think there are more dimensions to it, as the article points out sometimes we shy away from hard work, because it's uncertain and your identity is on stake, you can fail, and I agree it takes that leap.

I'd say it is a leap of faith, because sometimes you don't know if it is hard work that is relevant, and worth, or not, I've never been an academic, but I guess many PhD feel that way ?
Incredible stuff!

I'll need to check out some of the no-code tools again, the world has come a long way from WYSIWYG html tools.
Well Facebook make their money from advertising, marketing is advertising so it seems like Apple are taking cues from some laws and customer demand. https://www.gov.uk/marketing-advertising-law/direct-marketin...
> You can't just `git push origin main` - you have to do that, then go to the web browser, create a fork, and open a pull request.

Not if you're using GitHub, because they have APIs for that:

hub fork --remote-name origin
git push origin feature
hub ci-status --verbose
hub pull-request

https://hub.github.com/
It’s an abomination on PS4 too for what it’s worth.
This sounds awful and she obviously does not deserve this. No one does or could. These people attacking her are being absolutely horrible and disgustingly wrong. It's sickening.

I hope that one day their employers (and really, their friends and family) end up finding out the kinds of things they have been saying. It's a lot harder to be a horrible racist bigot in real life than it is to be a semi-anonymous one on the internet.

That said, I would have liked to see more in the "so why me?" section. There are other Asian women in tech, and her "radical" profile honestly seems pretty mundane to me. It's definitely possible that she was just targeted at random like she suggests, but it would be nice if she linked the threads (in addition to screenshotting them) or otherwise provided some more context.
Author here. I started this project last december in an attempt to ease the development of web apps with C++. It's almost feature complete, I fixed quite some bugs and all the performances issues I could find. It is now ranked #1 on the Techempower benchmark.
Seems to be an incredibly common problem. TV writers don't seem able to make good stories, perhaps the skills needed are quite different. It's notable that nearly all high budget TV serials in recent years are adaptations of books. Knowing the books were successful surely reduces the risk, but then having found a winning formula the TV firm wants the series to last forever. They run out of book material and then the story goes off the rails as the TV writers can't match it. GoT being a classic example.

I suspect the issue is timelines. TV projects are managed with tight deadlines because they expect a new series within a year. A book can be released more or less whenever the writer wants, as they answer to nobody unless they signed some sort of multi-book deal which is rare. Writers take more of the financial risk on themselves, whereas in TV it's the TV firm taking all the financial risk. So you get whatever plot they could come up with in 6 weeks or however long they have, and it can't match the quality of a story where perhaps the writer spent a year on it.
Hi, I'm the author of this hack---the card works at 50 MHz with no errors.
My new Lenovo laptop touchpad works perfectly well (much better than my old XPS13). Running Pop_OS 20.04.
When I git push main it's instantly available and deployed to the live server(s) - but you're right I wouldn't push direct to main, I'd click the link that the push process output (Self hosted GitLab for context) and create a merge request

I've got a feeling I'll never properly see your point of view on this, as these tools exist and I'm not planning on dropping them for an unfriendly email version of the same, but I will give the video a proper as open minded as I can watch after work
"Put another way: Most of us enjoy the mental stimulation of programming, and we enjoy the mental challenges (in general). C makes us feel clever. Witness the "obfuscated C programming contest" etc."

Yep, only C makes me feel stupid (but I enjoy that experience too!).
> Imagine you mount a letter wrong while crafting a typewriter, and it causes a country (Burma) to change that letter to accommodate your mistake.

Does anyone know the details behind this?
As public infrastructure, government funded? Lots of problems...
Based on nothing more than my memory, I believe it was in 2015, around the time Seveneves was published.
These "15 steps" are 90% unrelated to the email workflow, and would not be solved by GitHub. Did you read this document? It's telling you how to be a good contributor and the mechanics of how to contribute. That being said, this documentation is sorely in need of a git-oriented overhaul, assuming the programmer isn't using git is not doing any favors for the 99% who are.
Does it though? Can you point me to a free, western style Liberal Democracy where a bad handling of COVID has resulted in an appreciable drop in popularity?

Even Donald Trump, though people polled think he handled the pandemic poorly, his 538 approval on Jan 1st was 42.6% and his approval now is 42.2%.
What is the reason for this developer monoculture?
Wow, that is seriously terrible. Very good example, thanks!
> you can grab the scroll bar to scroll at hyper speed

I think it's called using a scrollbar. :) That's typically how they work.

To spare readers the content marketing piece: tap and hold to grab it.
FEMA is also not responsible for the civil engineering of Houston (or New Orleans, for that matter). They’re in charge of managing emergencies, not preventing them.
For anyone (cough, elderly parents) who aren't adept at discovering hidden features

You don't even have to be elderly.

The 20-somethings in the office (pre-pandemic) had no idea that on an inconsistent smattering of Apple apps, if you pull down, a hidden search bar magically appears.

How did that conversation go?

Dev: Where do you want the search bar to go?

Designer: Put it somewhere that no one will ever see it, or ever think to look for it.

Who thought that was a good idea?

I think people in the SV/HN bubble play the "what about the elderly?" card too often, because we're afraid to admit that we, too, don't know how stuff works anymore.
Install and learn how to use more third-party software to use a propreitary API on a centralized, proprietary, unreliable service... or just use the built-in git tooling?
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This seems a little misleading. It's the game's UI built in Webflow, but the actual game is 100% missing from this.
Ah! It's only on that post, not the rest of the site. Clever.
You are a liar, yes you
> Those two things can't be true at the same time. So either of you must be wrong

Stakkur is wrong :)

> Building exactly as much housing as needed would still result in lower prices

Yeah don't get me wrong here. Cities still need to allow developers to build.

Not building is not the solution and only limits supply and results in price pressure on the poor as we've seen in SF, as when a rental turns over a landlord jacks up the price.

My point is simply that private developer is not a panacea since eventually the profit motive stops them from building.

For prices to really fall you need a developer to build an over supply of housing, which means continuing to build in an environment where rental prices are falling and building more housing is worsening as an investment idea. You need developers without a profit motive.

This means that you need to have a government agency that is constantly building housing to meet a set vacancy target, regardless of whether or not it would be profitable to do so.
That's exactly how emacs works actually[1]. Getting the documentation on a function or variable contains a link to the file that defines it, which you can then edit. If you eval the expression then all later uses of the function will have the new behavior, otherwise it'll take effect on next startup. I've done exactly this to backport some changes from future versions.

[1] http://prntscr.com/u6yfnp
> Email archives are even harder to transfer, and to make sense of in general.

Email archives are very easy to transfer, you simply download the mbox file from the old system and import them to the new one [0].

> For example if you want to find the review comment thread for linux commits there is no reliable way to do it, your best bet is to google the title.

In my experience, projects that use a ml-based workflow have higher standards for commit messages and so the information about a commit is usually in the commit.

[0] https://wiki.list.org/DOC/How%20do%20I%20import%20an%20archi...
A few references I could find:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/11/typewri...

http://languagehat.com/polyglot-typewriting/
"We think of open source as just a tool in a toolbox"

That's all folks: your aspirations of sharing and building a better world is a tool for MS's greater plan.

Also, the picture could have gone with the caption, "Microsoft: don't be evil. Contract it!"
If one does both, almost certainly learning zig will make for a better C programmer, as zig often forces you into patterns that would be best practices for a C programmer.
Re false dilemma: You mean I got downvoted for not providing an option "E: other, please describe"? And just by lacking such an option, it comes over as bad faith?

That seems rather excessive and cynical. Why is it so hard for people to just post a comment describing their opinion, rather than hitting downvote?
That's correct. The device is exposed over USB as a composite device, consisting of a virtual Ethernet port and a virtual serial port. Network communications may happen over that link, as well as SSH/SCP'ing files.

It also supports USB OTG, so one could plug in a libre-compatible Wi-Fi card and use that.
I haven't seen this, but I do run a PiHole along with uBlock Origin and rarely visit Facebook's site directly.

Can I assume you aren't using either of these tools?
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If we extend the term to mean nearly any type of business, is it really useful at that point?
There are several online cross-platform browser testing services. You don't even need a non-mac yourself. If the company is large enough to alwayus test locally, most modern testers will use VMs or some sort of containerization for repeatable determinism. This is absolutely a solved problem.
This is a classic problem with power; it’s not uncommon for people in power to confuse what’s good for the country with their own self interest.

It really shouldn’t be the FEMAs job to weigh disasters based on political impact; that’s not their mandate. Their job is to help with disasters, and with hurricanes being so common they should focus their efforts there.
We wouldn't get planet-scale internet
I don't have anything insightful to add, just wanted to say that's a pretty cool dashboard. I wonder if OpenWRT has any plugins that achieve the same result.
I represent sourcehut, a GitHub competitor

Maybe lead with that?
My industrial-robotics perspective TLDR on ROS2: the biggest thing it changes is the transport layer, and the transport layer wasn't the reason industry didn't adopt ROS1.
Atlantic hurricanes have cost $400 billion of damage in the last 5 years alone.

The total damage caused by all terrorist attacks, worldwide, in the 21st century probably amounts to the damage caused by an average year of Atlantic hurricanes. Add in the Pacific hurricane season, which is generally worse, and it's clear that hurricanes cause far more damage than terrorism does.
I just mentioned this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24294868

The device is exposed over USB as a composite device, consisting of a virtual Ethernet port and a virtual serial port. Network communications may happen over that link, as well as SSH/SCP'ing files.

It also supports USB OTG, so one could plug in a libre-compatible Wi-Fi card and use that. Or, if one doesn't mind throwing their freedom under a bus, one could use the proprietary driver.
Is the problem of the oscillators not sounding very good a fundamental problem of these programming environments?

I'm mostly ignorant of their specifics, but my assumption is that someone who understands the fundamentals of synth programming could patch oscs and filters into combinations that do sound nice just as well as they could in commercial synth software.

Is there something preventing that from being the case? Or are you just referring to available presets?
Yeah, I agree. There are open-source Github clones like Gitlab and Gitea that still follow Github's web UI model, so I think it's weird to pose this as a conflict between Github and plain-text email when it's two separate conflicts: one between proprietary Github software and other open-source hosted git systems, and the other between the plain-text email model and the more popular web UI model.