skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YCbCr was designed for the needs of analog color TV transmission and recording, not for image processing and editing.
I never factored them into my plans before. I have eliminated them now :)

I drive a tiny little french thing with a chainsaw engine so probably not my market anyway.
He refers to the initial issue text without anything there. I know that it‘s best to create an issue with context and description. The approach of doing that somewhere in the thread is new to me.
Makes sense seeing more and more companies taking china’s market more seriously given opportunity. In 10 years or less China will be the next global hegemony, especially if USD looses its reserve status.

Tangentially related to the comment, but seeing more evidence of companies positioning themselves for such a transition.
I think it's understandable if you enjoy something to be feel a bit apprehensive about the idea of never getting to enjoy new parts of it. Lots of people would be very dissatisfied if GRR martin or rothfuss died before finishing their series.
Computers, the Internet, 3D Computer Graphics - all exceeded their hype.
The best online resource is https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/wcolor.html

Or you can buy an introductory color science book or two. Let me recommend Mark Fairchild's Color Appearance Models, https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119967031/ but here are a few others https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119367220 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0470024259 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118173848/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/0470049049
This is all very abstract; I am unable to identify one specific recommendation here as to how to reduce acquired diabetes and obesity in young people.

This discussion has drifted a long way from your original claim, "IMHO caring is giving what people want, not trying to do what you declare good for them." In the case of diabetes and obesity, patterns of consumption are formed in childhood. My wife knows a mother who took the position you are advocating here literally, and now that her children are in their late teens, it is resulting in all sorts of problems for both them and her.

For you, me, and everyone else, no matter what ideological position one holds, there are a lot of problems having no easy solutions.
That sounds like a weasel word version of "we can detect vehicle warranty status without using PII."
Honestly this isn’t bad. I can see it being particularly useful for code examples or situations where you want code to appear playful or otherwise less stodgy to the user. API documentation and blog posts come to mind.

Definitely deserves a run in the editor at the very least.
Djit.su is now fully Open-Source
My point, which I think I made clearly in the very first post of this thread, is that highly opaque pricing structures are bad for consumers. You justify this with “consumers don’t give a shit”. I think consumers clearly do give a shit about trading costs, and my evidence for this is that zero-fee brokerages like RH are taking over the industry.

What consumers don’t have the time or resources to do is try to reverse-engineer the costs that they are actually paying when using RH’s platform. I’m not even sure they possibly could do so given the information asymmetry between firm and customer, and your “maybe there’s a Google search but I have low confidence” counterargument isn’t moving me. The SEC report shows that for some customers RH’s costs were inordinately high compared even to competitors that charged fees and had PFOF revenue, but others weren’t. How do I, as a customer, actually figure out how much a trade is going to cost me at different brokerages? Under the current regime (even without RH actively lying about PFOF revenue) it seems like customers cannot figure this out in any reasonable way.

The question then is: what should regulators do about it? Your position seems to be some kind of binary “we must either disallow PFOF entirely or allow any PFOF arrangement without reservation as long as brokerages disclose that PFOF revenue exists somewhere in their TOS.” My point is that different PFOF arrangements have very different impact on customer prices. For example, it's easy to envision a large class of PFOF arrangements that are undeniably harmful to customers, and yes, absolutely regulators should find some reasonable grounds to police those. Because at the highest level, a situation in which those deals are allowed is going to be terrible for consumers. With brokerages hunting for new revenue sources, those situations are going to become increasingly the norm.

ETA: Even ignoring the “bury it somewhere in the TOS” problem, it’s not obvious to me that simply disclosing “we have PFOF arrangements” is sufficient. It seems problematic that a single disclosure should apply equally to everyone from Vanguard to Schwab to RH (or even some hypothetical future scam brokerage that massively overcharges its customers via PFOF) when all of these companies have wildly different arrangements that affect customer trading prices differently. The nature of the arrangements matter too, and at minimum customers deserve sufficient disclosure of the arrangements that they can make determinations about which company is going to cost more to trade with. I hope we can agree that current disclosures and your random low-confidence Google searches do not achieve this goal.
I saw contrarian opinions, but I believe Avengers: End Game pretty much delivered the insane hype cultivated for 10 years.
I suspect they will argue that it doesn't violate laws simply because: the licence plate on your car is public knowledge, they are allowed to scan it with a camera, and since they provide warranty on BMW cars, they own the database that says if that specific car is covered or not. They don't even need to access any of your private information to do this, the two pieces needed are either public(the licence plate) or they own it(knowledge whether that car is covered or not).
It doesn't require background reading at all.

But like many great works of art context can add even more to their enjoyment and impact.
iPhone (2007)

Ok, maybe not so much the original 2007 model, arguably it wasn't until the iPhone 4 (2010) until it really came into its own. But few products released in my lifetime changed modern life as the iPhone did. And unlike most other seismic tech products (world-wide-web, linux) that took years to build momentum, it had lots of pre-release hype.
Although I learned (and forgot) playing guitar <20, I got interested again in playing these days/months. From what I see, https://www.justinguitar.com/ is a great resource if you got the self discipline.

I believe guitar is a very accessible instrument and an electric guitar is easy to practice silently late at night, relatively cheap (Squier Stratocaster Pack etc.) and easy on the fingers compared to, for example, an acoustic guitar.

With learning 4-5 chords, you can perfectly cover lots of great songs. Learning pentatonic scale is not that hard for improvising soloing over those chords with a cheap loop pedal. All under 200-250$ and half an hour a day for, let's say, a year.
Norns Shield
I just fantasize and hope we discover a way to make people immortal and by that time I will have enough funds to buy in.
Having a warranty is boolean, so can't be personally identifying (though it is personal private information). The license plate is unique to your car, so is personally identifying. Edit: the key term is that it's indirectly identifying: https://gdpr.eu/eu-gdpr-personal-data/
Giuliani farting in court made it all worth it.
Same for the typography.
Opened and closed it immediately.
In this case, they are mapping the ANPR derived plate to an in-house database, so that doesn't help.
Sleep is the worst for me. All the ugly, bad dreams that terrify me. If death was anything like that, I am going to hell.
I didn't have the courage to share this 2 years ago. I was a new mom. I was going through other struggles that took priority.

(...)

Well, this has been weighing me down for 4 years. I am glad to finally get this off my chest.

Far from me to defend the big G - they're big and old enough to stand for themselves - but it's interesting how Veni tought was convenient to share her story right now while the Timni Gebru affair is simmering.

Let's just be forward here, Veni, you were too greedy, obnoxious and extremist and they didn't want to work with someone like you. And you got angry because your demands were not met.

I wasn't too fond of the idea of just getting credit. I either wanted to work on it or I wanted them to use what I had built already.

Anyway, I responded with my hourly rate. I never heard back. Then I forgot about it.

And not even mentioning the fact that you thought it was a good idea to ask for compensation just for having a simple conversation.

I'm sorry but I can't feel any shred of sympathy for anyone who behaves like this.
Does it have like random chords for reading practice? I'd enjoy just getting a single chord or a chord sequence and going through it as quick as possible.
I'm not sure, but I think the times and locations are PII. Maybe the plate is too, though, good question.
As I just said in another comment - they can figure it out without any private information. Licence plates are public and they are allowed to scan one with a camera, and they provide warranty on all BMW cars, so they know(and have the right to know) if a specific car is covered by them or not. They have all the iformation they need.
The Mandalorian has restored the faith in the future of the franchise in millions of fans. Most of us thought Star Wars was over considering how mediocre the last six movies have been but along comes this well-written, fun adventure that manages to tie together the previous movies, animated series and books. Imagine a new trilogy made by Filoni and Favreau - they would absolutely kill it.
I remembered a product mentioned in the Fetish section of Wired, many years ago, that cited a use-case tailor-made for this. Just found it online [1]; it's the second item in the article. It reads:

__ Action Painting __

Paintball is war, pal, and it demands decisive action, like firing 62-mm paint bombs that turn a 75-foot area into a Jackson Pollock death zone. This bipod-mounted mortar can shoot up to four rounds per minute from its 4-foot aluminum barrel, with consistent aim controlled by traverse and elevation-adjustment screws. The M1A's cardboard-jacket shells contain 20 ounces of nonlethal, water-soluble ordnance in a thin urethane casing that explodes harmlessly on impact. Back in the urban jungle, the 46-pound, CO2-powered cannon doubles as an effective billboard-liberation device.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2000/03/fetish-127/

Edited to add the words "that cited a use-case tailor-made for this".
They're not the same of course but it's common to regard them both as left-wing ideologies. They are both descendants of the ideologies of those who sat to the left in the French National Assembly, as opposed to the conservatives who sat on the right. (Confusingly, the people who call themselves conservatives in the US are really mostly free-market liberals.)
What would happen if we abolished time zones altogether? (2019)
I’m tired of trashy Chinese tastes gaining so much influence in the world.
Safety is a commons; we have a tragedy of the commons. Capitalism willfully ignores safety when not punished.
OP says "it takes 16 seconds to refresh the screen".

At 0.0625 FPS, SPI bandwidth [0] is plenty fast with some to spare.

[0] https://www.microchip.com/forums/m770156.aspx
Fascinating. When will they do it? I would prefer it generate direct machine code instead.
This bug log was painful to read. People are mixing together TERM settings, LANG (I have no idea why UTF-8 keeps popping up, that's obviously not going to work on a vt220), customizations and options, the actual terminal attached, running within virtual terminals ('script' is one, not just tmux)... It's almost impossible to root cause a bug efficiently like this. You need to be much more methodical and first reduce the bug to the simplest reproducer, then document the exact setup. Instead of running under `script` to try to get logs, using `strace` would've been much more transparent and informative (showing you also the tty related syscalls while not interfering with the actual tty).

From the 'no output on a vt220' part I was already thinking 'I bet it's the serial port, not the TERM'. And indeed, misconfigured terminal size is something anyone who has ever connected to an embedded system over serial has experienced, though I didn't know the default setting was 0,0 (other shells interpret that as 80x25 or something like that by default).

It's good that they figured it out, but bugs like these show why solid troubleshooting skills are rare and very valuable. This could've been solved in 30 minutes with a strace log and some digging through the code.
I've listened to about half of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast [0], as well as read and heard about it a few other places. I'm not an expert in anything related to this. My comments here are related to what I feel I've learned from this; I'm leaving aside legal/punishment questions.

One thing I wish this article called out: Grenfell was not unique. About 400 other high-rise buildings have been or are being remediated for having some combination of the cladding and insulation used at Grenfell.

Some of the testimony is absolutely sickening and despicable - the insulation manufacturers coming up with a 'clever' way to lie about the fire rating of their material, and a few other things.

But mostly the testimony reminded me of how complicated the world is, and how little we know about our own jobs. (Perhaps this is more unique to me, but I suspect not).

The architects felt like they were only specifying a design and the 'look and feel' of materials.

The fire safety specialists concentrated their comments on egress and smoke extraction systems.

The inspectors concentrated on external appearance.

And so on, and so on. Everybody felt like they were just doing their job. Work and real life are complicated, and there are always time and budget pressures, so people just don't have the time and attention to pick up on all the things that we notice after the fact.

---

A few brief reflections: Beware of a culture of 'pencil-whipping' tests. If you raise a safety/security concern with your manager and they don't want to know about it, it's a very bad sign. If you have a safety/security concern raise it explicitly in email. Beware of rare events: it was clear from testimony that very few people involved in the project even imagined a large systemic fire risk, it wasn't on their radar.

0: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p066rd9t
Maybe your country is moving up the food chain. In my eastern-European country it seems like every third car is an old BMW.
In US they are experimenting with locking almost all features of the car behind a subscription model, so the car leaves the factory in nearly "full" spec, but then you need to pay a subscription to unlock features. For instance if you like heated seats, you can pay a fee and have them unlocked for a year. Or a radar-based cruise control, or satellite radio, or sport driving modes - everything will have its own price.

Their argument is that in US, something like 90% of all new BMWs are leased - so it's "great" for customers and for businesses, since you can now lease a BMW for your employee very cheaply in the most "basic" spec, and if they want some extra features they can pay for them themselves.

Obviously, it's horseshit. But that's the argument they are using.
> Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Man... there is way too much deus ex machina at every plot point of that book to give it any credit. If you have the end of the 6th book as a starting point and the end of series that Rowling had in mind as an end, then Deathly Hallows is just connecting those two points using plot conveniences at every single opportunity. Too many fortunate coincidences in a very short period of time. (Half-Blood Prince is still peak Harry Potter IMO).
I think there’s a vt220 on eBay right now, I debated snatching it up, but it will probably be gone when I go back to look.
Failure Is Part of Success
Being successful is often led by failure. But failure can teach us things we can leverage to reach success in the future. I found failure is not spoken about or we shy away from it. But I strongly believe failure is part of the learning process we each must experience in order to propel forward. Here are some things I found helpful when I experienced failure.

1. Write the reasons you failed

2. Acknowledge Mistakes

3. Learn from your mistakes

4. Be Consistent

5. Don't lose confidence

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill

What ways have you failed, and what lessons did you learn from the experience?

Is there anything else you would add to the points above?
Hello, World I Started My Blog in Plain HTML
> It should be PII, otherwise I can put cameras all over the city, log license plates, and sell service for you to query.

This exists and it’s a very profitable business:

https://www.engadget.com/2019-09-17-repo-drivers-scan-licens...

I think it’s about $20 per query to track a known plate.
Building a Time-Traveling Contacts App with SirixDB
Eugh. I dread the day my 2010 car needs replacement. It's deliciously dumb: I put petrol in it, and in return, it gets me places.
You are correct, but there are several companies involved and some Arconis employees are claiming that they would be jeopardized under French law if they testified.

> "It's unclear whether all the Arconic witnesses will give evidence. Some are arguing that a French law prevents them from disclosing commercial information in foreign judicial proceedings."
One of the first books I read about BASIC had a checkers game in it. The whole point of the game was to show how recursive algorithms worked (that was the AI, I don't remember any more details on it).

One of the exercises at the end of the chapter was, "Improve the checkers program to play chess"

Not sure if the author was kidding or not.

I don't remember any strong BASIC chess engines, but there were quite a few 8-bit engines that were fairly decent in those days.
The KFConsole – Power Your Hunger
Tether is my biggest concern with crypto
Some more Gatsby i18n tips and tricks I learned recently
But BMW provides the warranty - so they know whether they, as in - BMW UK - cover a car with this licence plate or not. They don't need any information about you at all, they have the information they need on their side - so they definitely don't need to ask anyone for permission to access it.
Being Ambitious Is a Myth
Philip K Dick may end up being seen as a prophet the way things are going.
TSLA stock forged many new millionaires this year. Unbelievable price action.
With this announcement, I hope that, by by helpfully bringing to people's attention that information such as the warranty status of your car is publicly available [1], BMW will annoy a broader group of people than just BMW owners.

[1] Assuming that they are not outright lying here when they say "only publically available information is used."
It sure is if an IP address (with on average probably a shorter lease than a BMW) is considered PII too
what kind of cheap keyboard would you recommend?
I used to really like BMWs but they have lost their way in my opinion. Front wheel drive models, charging a subscription for Apple CarPlay, that 4-series grill, increasingly horrific customer service at dealers and foregoing their position as the market leader in handling and dynamics really rub me up the wrong way.
I’m having trouble putting a term to similar situations:

Where people (whether government, corporate, nonprofit) get in over their head and create these sorts of problems while trying to solve something they don’t appropriately understand.

There’s a lot of poor decision making in our institutions ranging from HOA’s, multinational nonprofits, and federal governments, notably in domain specific situations that require nuanced understanding.

Maybe we need to start introducing the concepts of circuit breakers in our rules, regulations & laws to eject when something goes wrong or doesn’t go right based on basic KPI’s.

Have we solved the “basics” (despite not getting those right) and are running into compounding edge cases? Do we just need people better equipped to handle these decisions? I think these sorts of problems (more broadly than the specific topic in the article) are going to be a plague on our society.
Ocarina of Time

The Chronic 2001

Daniel Day Lewis

Halo 2

Richie Hawtin

Aliens

Barack Obama

Freedom (J. Franzen)
I came here to say that too! Exactly what I was thinking while watching The Expanse (which is a great series), and so many other shows that pander to the cliché of pointlessly transparent phones. Goodbye privacy! Why would you ever want your phone display to be harder for YOU to see, and easier for EVERYONE ELSE to see?
Now you understand the objection to American influence.

Oddly, the same adjective is frequently used.
Show HN: inlets – The Cloud Native Tunnel
I wonder if they've found some targeted way of cracking mysql passwords. Perhaps some large hosting services use a predictable way to hand out passwords? 85,000 sounds like perhaps a lot of wordpress database instances.
Just because you're crossing public data with data you own does not mean you are not breaking the law.
I don't understand why you think that's relevant to whether it's personal data or not.

Here's what the UK DVL say: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/286454/response/69598...

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/286454/response/69598...
Because there’s a very small defined set of actions a person can take in such games: backwards, forwards, left, right, etc.

By comparison pages have dozens of links, form fields, menus, etc. It’s not that they can’t be navigated with the keyboard alone, it’s that it’s rarely the most efficient way of doing it. Clicking a link will always be quicker than pressing tab X number of times to select it.
The internet, computers, iPhone, The Mandalorian, SSDs, GTA3, bitcoin (so far), mRNA, SpaceX, graphene, cars

Still hoping nuclear fusion and carbon removal pulls through.
> 95. Some types of sophistication won’t make you enjoy the object more, they’ll make you enjoy it less. For example, wine snobs don’t enjoy wine twice as much as you, they’re more keenly aware of how most wine isn’t good enough. Avoid sophistication that diminishes your enjoyment.

I disagree with this one. Even though sophistication means that one cannot enjoy bad wine/music/art/food as much, it also is the condition for having a full appreciation of the work of art you are enjoying.
I know it’s bad form to ask, but I’m curious why this is being downvoted. It’s factually correct so far as I can tell.
windows.
Exactly - BMW is the has-been German brand, that you can buy as a 10-20 year old import. It holds no cachet and is harder to maintain and less fuel efficient than other brands with similar features.

Tesla is the brand that people aspire to own, that people snap their eyes towards on the street. In small towns, all of the owners of Teslas are known and prestigious individuals.

Functionally though - Teslas are too big and too fast for old European cities. The Renault Zoe seems to sell well but is still very expensive for mass adoption.