skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are a few things to think about:

- some "plain" colors are actually quite beautiful now - they have some pretty interesting metallic or multicoat (or even flat-look) paints.

- wraps. These have appeared and I think become really mainstream in the last 10 years. I don't know what the numbers are but I've seen more and more of them. They probably show up as plain-jane colors on the stats, and minimize the number of purple and yellow cars. I've seen chrome pink cars, lots of gold cars, matte purple and black and more.
Oh yeh no doubt. Bianca is probably the worst. They out their brand name on every single part of their bikes.
In Italian "saltare al collo" (literally "jump to the neck") can be used to mean a form of physical aggression (but normally used metaphorically) in English it would be more like "grab by the throat", I believe.

Viceversa to "grab by the throat" translates literally to "prendere per la gola" that actually means to "Tempt through food".
There's Ripcord[1], if you want something that is actually lightweight and webtech-free.

It can also function as a client for Discord. A shame that it is closed-source though.

[1] https://cancel.fm/ripcord/
Do you actually live in 2020?
Scope Gates in Ruby: Flat Scope ️ ️
I think historically at least, red paint is the quickest to fade and deteriorate in the sun.
Biden or?
For Joe Biden or?
> We should change them to be sensible.

You’re not asking to change it - you’re asking to completely misappropriate it to undermine local labour prices, when its intention as created by the people is to bring in specialists that can’t be found in the US.
What's the magic about meat that lets it create consciousness, then?
The sensor is pretty much the same size and density as a smartphone camera (~1/2.5", 12 MP).
That may have to do with dead man safety.
They do, even if it was outsourced. Which it isn't, at least in Europe last time I talked tpo people. Liquidators, companies buying returns graded as unsellable, are used a lot so. Whatever they do with the stuff buy wholesale from Aamzon, and others, isn#t necessarily Amazon's or anyone else problem, if you ask me.

Amazon does have all the data, downto the individual returns, about the processing, decission, reason codes and final fate (sodl as new, warehouse deal, sold as used or liquidated, donated,...). They also have every reason to not share that data publicly.
I agree. I have a Pixel 2 XL and was considering OnePlus Nord, but I think I'm fed up with Android and will buy some model of iPhone 12 as soon as it's released. People might say that iPhone is a "luxury item" but for me and surely for many users, not having their phone randomly disconnect with Bluetooth devices/restart/take literally 5 seconds to launch the camera does not count as "luxury", but instead is a bare minimum for something you use heavily day-to-day. Therefore spending e.g. 600 euros more is a no brainier especially given the payment can be made over 2 years. I won't upgrade my phone every year but 36 months sound about right.

By the way the similar logic applied to my laptop and I felt much more at ease and productive after returning to Mac after three years with X1 Carbon + Arch Linux. The cost was easily worth it (the one thing I missed is a proper window manager like Xmonad but I can get by with Amethyst just fine).
Does it make sense to buy premium gas?
It is very likely that whatever you are driving today, if it was manufactured in the past two decades in Europe, North America, Brazil, Korea, or Japan, will not let you shift into Drive (automatic) without depressing the brake pedal.
The most important characteristics are:

- Components have clear separation of concerns and well encapsulated state. (Should be easy to explain what a component does to a non-technical person).

- Names of components are clear and rooted in the business domain; not made up abstract technical concepts. This relates to the first point.

- Simple interfaces between components (components interact with each other through a simple, plain language; avoid passing complex instances to each other). Simple function arguments like strings, numbers and other simple pass-by-value structures are ideal. Components should be able to invoke actions on other components but the responsibility of how this is achieved lies entirely with the component who is responsible for that concern; this is also why state encapsulation is important.

- Clear unidirectional data flows throughout the system. State changes for a particular kind of state should originate from a single place in the code.

If you notice, all of these characteristics work together and build on top of each other. It's all or nothing. You either get all of these right or none of these right.
I once had a stopover on a flight and was told that I was not allowed to use my phone in the plane as they where currently refueling. I am still skeptical if my phone would really be able to cause some hazard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity#Mechanics

I would like to avoid devolving into an argument about semantics.
My original point is that nothing about the original throwaway line is wrong per se or indicates that they do not know what they are talking about. I find these sorts of nit-picks odd.
The crop factor of this camera is about 5.6, so 18 mm behaves like a 105 mm telephoto. For a portrait shot the camera needs to be about 3-4 meters away from you.
I have had friends who have worked at CDNs.

but just look at wikipedia:

> CDN providers profit either from direct fees paid by content providers using their network, or profit from the user analytics and tracking data collected as their scripts are being loaded onto customer's websites inside their browser origin. As such these services are being pointed out as potential privacy intrusion for the purpose of behavioral targeting and solutions are being created to restore single-origin serving and caching of resources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network#Secur...
Truly. Illegibility as a programmer sport is a horrible and costly thing to pick up after.
Plus people in there at pretty self-aware and it can be very funny.
I saw the video and it was funny and intelligent.

It’s disappointing to see the apathy in this thread. I agree with the blogger that we should expect more from mods and commenters.
You can get reactive load attenuators to get the driven amp sound without the volume
That's why I participate on r/spacex. I am free to post my KSP understanding of spaceflight and be corrected by real rocket scientists. Makes me feel smart _and_ learn, while spreading a minimum of disinformation. And most of the time, I learn things that I would not have even known to ask about.
Yes, but the EFF’s main focus is the US. What could people in the remaining five countries do?
I think it's hard to get funding for that business model.

Really, the chances of getting funded go way up when you have patents, exclusivity, a monopoly, etc.
I can see your point, but the problem remains. Suppose to have a closed system that contains a random number generator and an observer. The observer can measure and extract (not store) an infinite amount of entropy. Where does that comes from? It seems to me to be unphysical.

Possible way outs of this:

- The randomness source has a state which is huge but finite. The finiteness should clash with the QM assumption that this kind of randomness is absolutely unpredictable

- You can't even take an upper-bound of the Kolmogorov complexity of that bitstream without storing the bits. It's like saying: the universe can cheat because your are not looking (hypothesis that has a strong QM flavor)

- The universe conspires to incrementally build one additional state for every measurement taken (non-sense)

- The randomness source is not immanent in our physical universe (Occam's razor says no)

Regarding your point, there are two options: discontinuous functions can be approximated with truncated series, for instance.
Plus: the photoelectric effect doesn't logically need (for what I know) randomness to happen, there are already discontinuities without postulating non-determinism, discreteness suffices.
It a stage for really horrible people to influence a lot of people.
I don't want to work with someone who acts antisocially, but I don't care at all what they do in their private sphere. I couldnt care less if they are racist homophobic pigs posting on 4chan at nights if they dont bring that trash to work. I couldnt care less if they have a conviction and they already pay their dues. But, thats me
I might misremember it slightly, I got told this by a professor (he was one of his examiners) and people that knew him at Bonn in ~2010. He could also have been awarded the majority of the credit points towards the Bachelor at entrance.
Generating and Animating porn using AI
Though beautiful in places, and certainly fascinating, I'd like to mention the oft-overlooked fact that this documents quite a lot of people's bloody hard lives. I think it's important to recognise and appreciate our own good fortune in comparison to others'.
It seems like in the US, 89, 91 are reasonable octane numbers (from reactions to this post). Around here, I've never seen stuff that low - here, it's Euro95 and Euro98. I've been told a real long time ago that the 95 and 98 in there were octane numbers.

Anyone any idea if octane numbers are calculated differently in US vs EU? Or if someone lied to me? Or if the US is really using much lower-grade petrol than is Conon in the EU?
The novelty is not the scroll-to-zoom interaction -
it's the creation of a declarative grammar for several visualization types (see Figure 2 for examples), and a system that implements this in a way that is scalable to datasets containing billions of observations.

The contributions claimed in the paper are [1]:

> To summarize, we make the following contributions:

> •An integrated system called Kyrix-S for declarative authoring and rendering of SSVs at scale.

> •A concise and expressive declarative grammar for describing SSVs (Section 4).

> •A framework for offline database indexing and online serving that enables interactive browsing of large SSVs (Sections 5 and 6).

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.15904.pdf
USA, they have all that weird stuff there...
It doesn’t matter if the average quality of the grants goes down (it would actually be a good thing if it reflected less time being spent on grant writing), what matters if the average quality of the science goes up. Grants are a means to an end, not an end in themselves (administrators feel different about this I will admit).

It has been proven that grant reviewers can’t agree amongst themselves what are the top 5% verses the top 10%. Having personally gone through the process as a reviewer I can identify the difference between a good and a bad grant, but I can’t with any reliability determine the difference between a top 5% and a top 10% grant. Once you get into the top 25% of grants the ranking gets very arbitrary. I might like one grant more than another purely because I like the area more, but my taste should not be the criteria on which grants are chosen.

The crazy thing is all of this is known by everyone involved in the grant process yet everyone continues on as though the system is working.
Interesting question, but the answer has to be less. I don’t have to lookup certain Sql queries, or code syntax because I know it by heart. Pretty sure I can whip out a prototype without leaving the IDE. If he’s looking something up, even if just for a quick refresher, that means it stems from some sort of doubt / insecurity.
The precedent would rather mean that, if we are lucky, some of us will be tamed by the silicon.
Any law that applies to WhatsApp will apply to Signal too. There will never be mass adoption of secure messaging if it's illegal.
As a joke, it will also make films, such as the pilot of Black Mirror, pretty undramatic: "Was it really the British prime minister who had intercourse with a pig, or was it just a deep fake?" :)))
It's a bit like Amazon with it's branded meatspace products or AWS properties which can be directly sourced/inspired by by their own down-stream / customer data. They don't even need to look into traffic, just look at your best/top paying customers, and copy them

Sigh!

At least Twilio buys Segment, not just copies it I guess..
Ripcord is great, if you're willing to take the functionality tradeoff in exchange for not using 800MB of RAM. I'm quite willing to do that.

In particular if your slack channels are heavy users of actions then you'll have problems - the buttons often don't work and the layouts are messed up.

On the plus side it doesn't animate anything, which is a huge win.
Hands-On Review: GemPro Enclosure for Raspberry Pi
Gas pumps where I live have a piece of metal you can touch to ground yourself
It’s complicated, as that number measures different things in different countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating#Measurement_meth...
> As pointed out previously, IGDA doesn't like that

Yes, but as a fellow dev on game industry I'm choosing to believe the actual dev's word over dev-mixer's (IGDA) word. Here's what the lead designer of CDPR says regarding this "phenomenon" https://m.facebook.com/adrian.chmielarz/posts/43940758439677...

I mean, I wouldn't want people to trash talk the company I work on, because of one bad day in between the mostly good years, with inaccurate accusations. That might hurt my company's value and my equity too.

> And most studios do not pay from overtime, so you only get back "flexible" hours that you cannot even use when you want to use those.

Let's not stray from the context. Fortunately CDPR is not a member of the "most studios" set you mentioned. Here's a summary of Polish overtime policy. https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/j2uadv/about...

So this one is a "shine of light" too, I guess.
Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit Seeks $1B Valuation in Fundraising
It's just a fun story, bro. Lighten up.

Here's the link: https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/VbJAr/i-nord-korea-maa-fo...
> Let's take a moment to look at how disingenuous this article is

Uhmmm do you have a vested interest you're not disclosing? I honestly do not have another explanation for your comment. You must be getting well paid for your defence of Amazon?

I just hope others here can also see through the smoke and mirrors of your arguments

The important part of the article that you seem to have 'missed' is the critique of this powerful monopolistic corporate player, Amazon:

"[Amazon] did write the playbook on free returns, says Jason Goldberg, chief commerce strategy officer at Publicis Groupe, a global marketing and advertising agency.

The tactic of enticing customers to buy more than they need and return what they don't want "has had tragic repercussions for the environment and business," he says."
Not that sure to be honest. Maybe that was just my interpretation.
Photoshop and 'morphing' did not lead to deluge of claims and counter-claims around fake pictures. Why?

Do society and human behavior adopts to new reality?
Very interesting discussion thread re how much knowledge you need or can aquire on complex technology platforms. The goal is key here, I presume.

I read Charles Perzhold's Code, worked through parts of SICP, developed a bit of high level code software, have a very good knowledge of chemistry, lithographic processes (and QM, half forgotten by now). And yet it is not enough to get a good understanding of the modern computer - EE, compilers, OS de, networks, ... wiring the while thing together, et cetera.

I see the point in historical approaches, but it is quite time consuming. At the end, you will most likely attack problems at one to three levels in the "stack".

What would you consider to be an above average conceptual tool and skill set for the modern hacker?
It's not captive. It's quite replicable (and impossible to monopolise), it's just expensive.
I tried to use a smartphone (moto g2)as a camera IP. Heat would shut down some components at some points, the camera or the app would crash, the wifi would shut down and not reconnect.

All those problems went away when I switched to pi zero. Other problems invited themselves though.
As a non-investor, and from no analysis other than eyeballing this, it looks to me like the main takeaways here are a) that market movements are a reasonable predictor of WSB sentiment, and b) that WSB sentiment gradually increases over time whilst the market is flat, and resets on a crash. Is there more signal in here that I'm not seeing?

(Also, thanks for posting this. I love these kinds of dashboards.)
Ask HN: Is there a website which has currated truths, but not Wikipedia
I'm looking for a resource which I could consult for various things throughout life - something akin to, but not limited to -

1) how much vitamin d should I take and are there useful combinations, i.e. D3+K2?

2) which limb streches should I do to get most benefit as a beginner; what about as an intermediate?

3) which screws should I use when drilling a specific wall type?

4) recommended daily dosages of protein, carb, fat based on activity level?

5) common active ingredients one should look for when treating common ailments?

and so on. These and similar questions are not rocket science. Guidelines, while may be shifting with advancements, have been established for decades, yet anything outside of a simple query usually directs me to some content farm, ad farm or similar. Even most books published within this decade are guilty of this, inflating the word count for seemingly no reason.

Wikipedia is often the wrong resource for the job, because it's aims are academic, not practical - yes you may find bits of useful pieces, but they're in a sea of noise, for this purpose.

Does such a resource exist? If not, should it be so hard to find factual information on everyday things? I'm finding myself doing things half-assed because I couldn't be bothered to read a 500p book on a subject that I only have a passing interest on, which also becomes unsustainable if I have 20 of such passing interests.
Perhaps this is the reason why pure FP is just as obscure as it is? Sure, it's technically more beautiful and pure and stuff, like a piece of art -- but a bunch of Java is easier to figure out, because it's plain as a cloth sack.
Great guy. He played himself in That's My Boy (2012) together with Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg. One of the funniest movies I've seen. Vanilla Ice was working at a fast food counter. Here's a scene where he's introduced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ea8diZ5M8
It is interesting how some things are treated like an authoritarian imposition whilst others are just ignored. My guess is that the political opposition that does occur is often in response to minor inconvenience rather than the actual morality of the issue. That is why opposition to mask wearing can get so much traction. Or why people get angry about cyclists. The political justification comes after the fact.

So if a plan doesn't inconvenience anyone and doesn't trigger identity politics it will probably be ignored by most people.
> Seriously though, I have a light yellow car, because it’s always easy to find in the parking lots.

A couple of years ago, someone took me to a shop and didn't want to come inside with me and waited in the car. When I came out, I had to peak into each car because I couldn't tell one car from another on the car park. 100% of them were metal grey! (and since they more or less have the same shape nowadays...)

That was when I remembered how, in the 80s, people would mock eastern countries for having almost only a single type of car. "Imagine how sad that would be, you wouldn't want to live under such a regime." That would be the typical ultimate anti-communist argument in bar conversations...

Well, fast-forward 15 years and into the West, in the first decade of the XXIst century, basically all cars sold here (in France) were metal grey. Big change for the second decade: all cars sold were this time either black or white, yay... Can't wait for the fad of the present decade, 50 shades of grey perhaps?

To increase the depression rate, public transport was also often made grey; the rebirth of tramways: metal grey + black mirror windows in many places, trains as well. In the city in which I lived, they even replaced the much acclaimed blue/yellow/red livery of a few buses with white or grey. (This depended on cities, some kept colourful paints.) And then you'd get into your work building (for the external appearance, if it is new enough, no more brick cover, probably grey walls + mirror grey windows), and inside the floor carpet was grey, the partition walls were grey, the false ceiling was grey, the windows were grey (aluminium), most furniture was grey. Inside and outside, people wearing grey and black. Thanks you, joyful economic liberalism, for saving me from the boredom of planned state socialism :-)
I live in California and I didn’t know that :( Actually, the only ZIP code I can remember is 95014, and that’s because I live in it…
Not to mention Widevine, which every new browser or Chromium fork effectively needs to license from Google. If the regulators forget about that one that would be a big omission.
You're gonna need all the help you can get.
It's not so much the 'leader' title. It's that somebody sensible needs to have power and be in charge. That doesn't seem to be the case here.
KGB is the direct successor to MGB, which was spun off from punitive branch of NKVD, which itself was a reorganized CheKa.

Huge swathes of KGB operatives worked through all of its organizational incarnations. They did (and Russian FSB still does) refer themselves as 'chekists' informally. Their professional holiday is the CheKa foundation day.
Solar gain is a huge problem in a hot climate.

You can usually get into a white or silver car and drive it away. With a black car, you may have to leave the doors open for a few minutes to allow the broiling-hot air to escape. Interior temperatures can easily reach the far side of 120F.
Fair enough. But it sounds like you're arguing that it's ok to waste because it's not in all the segments mentioned?

I'm missing the larger critique. Are you ok with this waste?

I guess sometimes it seems to me like the HN community nitpicks over tiny details and fails to take part in the larger systemic critiques.
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Sorry, I haven't tried the direct setup so I can't compare. That software wasn't available yet when I started so I just got the Cam Link.

Thanks for sharing the software setup! It'd be nice to not have to carry the Cam Link if I want to use this on the go, so I might try setting it up when I get some time. Right now the Cam Link is working very well; it's totally plug-n-play and the quality is top notch.

Will try to remember to come back and share here if I do try the software setup.
Uh, Kinesis has several split designs already (Freestyle 1/2/Pro/Edge). Not shaped like the Advantage, but I’m pretty sure shaping is not popular enough to sustain the kind of volume they aim for.

To be honest, I just wish they had an ortho version of the FS Pro.
Here is a polished version of my argument: https://marcinciura.wordpress.com/2020/10/11/bad-medicine-th...
Because direct death at the accident is not what makes it big deal but the numbers are used to argue just that.
Is that not he same as wood gas that people used during fuel rationing to power their cars? Essentially you put wood in a reactor and pipe the output gas directly into your petrol burning engine, runs fine that way.
Either way it can cost $600 just to replace the tubes with hand picked vintage NOS, which usually does mean better sound and response.
Once it told a Customer that I'm not a DevOp but a Cloud-Orchestrator...but in reality is see myself as a Systems-Administrator.