skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Case-insensitivity is language-dependent, people know about this, right?

Whether the lowercase version of "I" is "i", that depends on your language. Often it is, but for example in Turkish, lowercase "I" is "ı", and lowercase "İ" is "i".

How will the language be specified on the case-sensitive filesystem? Per file, per directory, per device?

Can I have English "I.txt" and Turkish "i.txt" in the same directory? Are they compared using the English rules or the Turkish rules?

What happens if I copy a file to a directory or device using a different language? To a device using a different filesystem that doesn't support languages? If I copy 10 files from a Turkish computer to a memory stick, then copy them to an English computer, will I get only 9 files at the end, because "I.txt" and "i.txt" got overwritten?
> Another pilot chimed in: "Only in LA."

The SR71 radio speed check was in LA too.

I heard a Cessna ask for a readout of its ground speed.
'90 knots Center replied.
Moments later,a Twin Beech required the same.
'120 knots' Center answered.

We weren’t the only ones proud of our ground speed that day
as almost instantly an F-18 smugly transmitted:
'Ah, Center, Dusty 52 requests ground speed readout.'
There was a slight pause, then the response,
'620 knots on the ground, Dusty.'

As I was thinking to myself how ripe a situation this was,
I heard a familiar click of a radio transmission coming from my
back-seater. It was at that precise moment I realized Walt and I
had become a real crew, for we were both thinking in unison.

'Center, Aspen 20, you got a ground speed readout for us?'
There was a longer than normal pause
'Aspen, I show 1,942 knots.'

No further inquiries were heard on that frequency.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/sr-71-blackbird-pilot...
This is super interesting - I didn't know the machines that produced the sounds for many numbers stations is well known and actually pretty impressive for its time. Very cool!
If you think boarding a plane in the US is disorganized, try boarding a plane in pretty much any non-Western country. Boarding groups don't exist, lines have no width limitations, and it's a mad rush to squeeze on board. In many places, carry-on baggage restrictions aren't even remotely enforced or checked.

The most organized boarding experiences I've had in the West
have been in the UK, interestingly enough. It seems the British are innately aware of how to queue correctly and in an orderly fashion. Japan and Singapore were also incredibly orderly.

I've been to a lot of places around the world, and I'd say the US is on the upper side of the middle of the pack in boarding efficiency and order, and it's better than boarding the plane in some European countries even. Considering the US market alone accounts for a significant chunk of all air travel globally, efficient boarding isn't exactly something people ignored. There's actually a lot of research that's gone into it.

I'd say the US is capable of doing things organized with large groups of people, but only if there is a social standard set for that situation and environment. Right now we have no such standard for an evacuation situation.
Yes, but it’s like the difference between the chicken and the pig at breakfast.
Managing multiple themes in flutter application
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Is it available online? Sounds interesting.
The Dogecoin Dog Is Recovering from Vestibular Disease
And Java.

As I understand it, Go and Java are both trying to avoid FFI and calling out to system libs for name resolution.

I tend to always offer a local caching resolver available over a socket.
wouldn't this affect reproducible builds ?
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I urge fellow readers to try and plan out your entire app arch on Amplify before committing to it.

I have found it to be a pain in the ass because it tends to want to do everything for you leaving assets/buckets/things like `aws-amplify-23094139-85-3981759387593745983475-us-east-experiment-project` all over your account. I have been using AWS for over 10 years, so I tend to like to keep a clean house and name most of my things, or at least have them follow a sane convention. I also like to know what is being created.

Oh and the dev/stage/prod branching strategy is a nightmare.
> It absolutely is not a baby step. In fact it is a really big deal to jump from your own experience to assuming the intent of other people. That is actually a really fast way to anger people in my experience, because it requires that you pretend that you understand what is going on in another person's head.

That is not correct. If you are blocking a freeway causing hours of traffic delays then I am not making assumptions about what's in somebody else's head. I don't care what their intentions are. They have made me disgruntled and digusted with their protest message completely alienating me from their cause. From that moment forward I would vote against and fund in opposition to everything they advocate.

As the audience all that matters is what's in my head, which I don't have to guess at. The inability for people to accept that reality tells me the things they are protesting about aren't important to them.
>More police mean more crimes, even for slight infractions //

That's not a given, unless you send the police in to arrest people for 'slight infractions'. It's not a necessary outcome.
How reliable is the security vetting in the Ubuntu store?
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Add some SSD for the OS, and a budget GPU, you don’t have to go crazy and 10 will be very usable.

Even a 2006 Mac Pro, with 3ghz processors, SSD and a GTX 1030 is still great for day to day.
Maybe. My neighbor sold his house in under a week last month FSBO. He's a handy contractor that put in a lot to make the home look nice though.
Hitting the desk with a fist of moderate force is harmless and rattles lightweight modern computer equipment very satisfactorily.
I'm building a video editor: any need for a random glitch effects generator?
Hi Hackers!

I'm building a video editor for beginner youtubers, focused on insane speed of editing, and insane simplicity.

A recent user asked me to add glitch effects. I've had this idea for a while, but I know it's kinda' hard to implement.

So, without further ado: would you be interested in a random glitch generator?

My idea is this: I'll have a wizard, and guide you on each step, towards the glitch effect you want (which will be random).

Step 1: generate several glitch effects, with different rectangles where the glitch happens. You will select the ones that best match your scenario

Step 2: generate different types of glitches - blur, directional blur, chromatic aberration, etc.

Step 3: generate glitch effects in different locations of the screen (top-left/top-right/../center/etc)

Step 4: generate different numbers of glitch rectangles (small number to large number).

You, at each step, could select one effect, and click "Give me more" - which would generate more similar glitch effects, and move to the next step.

This is work in progress (more like, an idea in progress :)), so your input is appreciated!
There are few things more satisfying programming than firing up htop on a high core count machine and watching cpu usage light up.
Covid-19 Can Wreck Your Heart, Even If You Haven’t Had Any Symptoms
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In Italy eggs and truffle is a standard combination, very often found in restaurant near truffle production regions.
What's to stop the companies from claiming they just happen to want to remove the speech of their own volition? If the CEO of TikTok says he doesn't want "free Tibet" on his platform because he wants to be on good terms with China, not because China specifically told him to censor it, is that his freedom?
Your organization has chosen a poor workflow.

Developers should never be required to produce and merge "feature branches" but only properly rebased sequences of commits which keep the history linear.

With a rebase workflow, you can juggle multiple changes in the same branch (your local main branch that tracks the remote master).

I sometimes have as many as five or six separate work items going on. This is much more productive than switching among five or six branches which don't know about each other, not only due to the convenience, but also due to the integration: all six things build together and are being tested in the same image.

Git has a great "interactive rebase" feature (git rebase -i) for rearranging the order of your local commits, and combining them together. Thanks to interactive rebase, I submit properly rebased versions off all six of those items to the review system.

It's also worth learning how to use "git commit --fixup" and its variant "--squash", together with "git rebase -i --autosquash". You can make commits which are amendments to commits that are not the current HEAD. The auto-squash rebase will automatically put these commits in the right order, and configure them to be combined with their target commits. I have the --autosquash option set up implicitly in the global config.

Code review is an excellent process. I've been saved from silly mistakes more times than I can remember, and have saved others. When I'm working on my solo side projects, I'm keenly aware of the lack of review now. I've screwed up many times in ways that a second pair of eyes could have prevented.
I mean if you have large sums of money it would be worth it to hire someone to watch cameras, right? Isn't that what security guards do?
now all that's missing is multisystem support
This is one of those cases where I try not to let the facts get in the way of a good story...
An Engineering Exploration in Building a Coffee Machine, Part II
Debugging memory corruption in prod using Mozilla rr
If your employment was entirely piece-work driven by "the algorithm", which is completely opaque and subject to change at any time, what other recourse do you have? They're basically trying to reverse engineer the weights of various inputs in Amazon's scheduling algorithm to try and have some control over their lives.
I remember this article about GS-441524[1] cropping up a few months ago:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/remdesiv...

There was some weird cynicism about Remdesivir being some baroque equivalent to GS-441524 (which was supposedly buried) which, if I recall correctly, supposedly enabled extra patent shenanigans.

I'm curious how these (GC373, GC376) relate.

[1] A Remdesivir-related drug sold through shady channels used to treat FIP / Feline infectious peritonitis
Courts are supposed to interpret laws, not legislate from the bench.
Probably true, but this is just an obstacle most people don't have anyway to get around. Moving out to a new home or apartment waiting for home to sale can easily be unaffordable to a lot of Americans.
FBI worried that Ring doorbells are spying on police
First, you have no idea what I think. Second, "not all sex is in person" is a statement that I am unsure most people I know would actually agree with.

This has nothing to do with sex negativity.
Government will just follow what the public wants, gov is not one person, it doesn't have a free will to plot against humanity like that. It's not of any individual (corrupted) politician's interest to make people stupid. They're interested in power and money for ther short term of their service.
One reason Flex contractors do this is to get around the requirements for being a driver, such as having a valid license or being authorized to work in the U.S., according to a person familiar with the matter. In such cases, someone who meets the requirements downloads the Flex app and is offered a route earning $18 an hour. He or she accepts the route and then pays someone else $10 an hour to do it, said the person, who requested anonymity to discuss a private matter.

https://fourhourworkweek.com/
For anyone interested in number stations I can only recommend checking out https://priyom.org/number-stations as far as I know it's one of the most complete online resources about them.
Hubble maps giant halo around Andromeda Galaxy
iRobot Announces Major Software Update Shift to Human-Robot Collaboration
We really are living in a William Gibson novel, aren't we?
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downvoted to oblivion for stating the obvious
Yes, pilots say left/right, although it is more common to use clock positions for that.

For example "traffic 3 o'clock" means there is someone on you right.

Port/starboard is not used in aviation and I don't know of any equivalent besides left/right.
I am a DL researcher at a top industry lab.

I'm completely unsurprised by this. Regularly, at lunch, I'll ask my coworkers if they know of any DL applications that are making O($billions), and no one knows any outside of FAANG.

FAANG is making an insane amount of money due to DL. Outside of them though, I don't know who's making money here. When I was interviewing for jobs, there were a ton of startups that were trying to do things with DL that would have been better done with a few if statements and a random forest, and that had a total market size in the millions.

I think that, eventually, there'll be a market for this stuff, but I'm not convinced that it's anywhere near being widespread.

I was also a consultant before my current role. The vast majority of non-tech firms don't have their data in well organized + cleaned databases. Just moving from a mess of Excel sheets to Python scripts + SQL databases would have made a HUGE difference to the vast majority of clients I worked with, but even that was too big of a transformation.

Basically, everyone with the sophistication to take advantage of DL/ML already has the in-house expertise to do it. There's almost no one in the intersection of "Could make $$$ doing DL" && "Has the technical infrastructure to integrate DL".
Maybe they were used for sending automated radio from lighthouses etc? Radio beacons.
And even if he personally is turned off the issue at hand because he experiences some personal convenience, so what? He's not the target audience of the protests, just collateral "damage" (if you can even call it that). Government officials and all the millions of people reached by news media coverage of the protests are the real target audience. And you can't deny that it's working; year-on-year nationwide opinion polls show an astounding reversal from majority disapproval of the Black Lives Matter movement to majority approval. It's been the most successful modern protest movement going possibly all the way back to the 70s.

So who fucking cares if some people got stuck in traffic. The protests are working, and the people who weren't even stuck in traffic but are complaining anyway because they hypothetically could have been (like this guy) should just be roundly ignored. Listening to their opinions is a terrible idea if your actual intent is to further the movement.
Neat way to handle array and individual inputs in same function
On Android, I don't see any ads with Firefox, but I do with Chrome.

Edit: No, actually that is because I have uBlock Origin enabled on Firefox.
Reminds me of lawn chair Larry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawnchair_Larry_flight
Couldn't edit, so replying to my comment:

The newbie section comes with a limited number of posts per day - so for example, I sign up today, I can post a maximum of 5 posts per day, and this limit goes up as I accumulate "likes".

I'm not sure if this will help if there are no community moderators trying to share a bit of the workload though.
Alternatives to AWS/Azure/Google Cloud, Hetzner and Canonical?
We are a big data analytic firm, eBrandValue YCW15 dealing with terrabytes of data using cloud. We are contemplating moving away from AWS to Hetzner (https://www.hetzner.com/cloud) and use a third party managed Kubernetes service. We think the AWS's prices are too high. We appreciate any experiences and recommendations. Is there anyone who tried Hetzner and a managed Kubernetes service, i.e, Ubuntu's Canonical (https://ubuntu.com/kubernetes) ? Reliability recommendations and experiences, customer support are some of the areas where you may be able to provide feedback. Thanks.
First I want to point out, what is obvious, the point of MasterClass is those famous people taking to YOU. I don't think this in any way takes away from experience of MasterClass.

Did you see how fast site loads? With all slow-poke sites, this is refreshing to see and you don't see it every day.
Dem group Hawkfish warns of apparent Trump Election Day landslide
Who is able to get access to my browser history? I thought it was just my ISP/VPN, which can obviously track me better in other ways.
Flash back, four years.

"But @bjt2n3904, misinformation is bring spread, that is causing 'real harm' (TM)!" Some justification. Real harm is being done now, and it isn't doesn't need social media to survive.

You know, I spoke out against online platforms taking responsibility for what it's users wrote back then. But I wish I had the forethought to say this:

How do you think conspiracy theorists, who believe their messages are being suppressed to hide the truth, will react when Facebook steps in and fulfills their prophecy?

How do you think people who don't live in the tech bubble will react when they share an opinion on politics, and it gets marked as "Actually this is untrue" by Facebook, and buried?

How do you think people, who already believe everything they read on the internet, will react when they see Facebook flag something as "untrue"? Certainly, it won't reinforce their biases about how <political opponent's supporters> are all misinformed people with the wool pulled over their eyes, and can be dismissed off hand.

Surprising to no one, these attempts at correcting "misinformation" are having the opposite effect. Who would have thought that using technology to solve an obviously human problem wouldn't have worked?

Edit: "Ackshually, @bjt2n3904, Facebook isn't under any obligation to follow the 1st Amendment, there's this great XKCD comic that explains this, hold on..."

This is what we mean when we say "freedom of speech". It isn't just a good thing for the government, it's good for society, too.
What up, Craig!
Janet seems to be a bit more optimistic as the last update is recent but NewLisp hasn't been touched for 2 years.
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Gadget.
I've decided to pursue a Bootstrap MBA
One would think that there would be higher fines for this sort of misbehavior.
> There is a reason it’s part of every docker image I create.

You really shouldn't put troubleshooting tools in your container images. You can join a "toolbox" container to a running container's namespace to get your tools there when you need them. That avoids unnecessarily large images, extra build time, and extra dependencies in your image.
the report discusses multiple different types of predictive analysis, including the type you refer to (location and time based) but also personal: predicting which people might commit crimes, based on social media surveillance. that's a long ways from what police have always done.
>when it can more effectively be conveyed in the low-rent wikihow style for free

Don't mind the few hundred dollar illstrations
The article points this out.