skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even when I'm in group 2 and don't want to read every update, I'm reassured by the fact that users in group 1 can find relevant information. I also sometimes move from group 2 to group 1 when I need to track down what version introduced something that's just now causing me problems. :)
My work PC with Office on it.
There are a number of comments in the thread with links. Here are a few:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25611235

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25614840

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25611045
wtf I never knew there is a Chrome extension like this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/diversity-plug-ext...
I love this, and it's eerily appropriate in a year of pandemic.

What are some sources of inspiration for you for "midwestern architecture?"

P.S. For everyone else, here's the description link with more screenshots, changelog, comments: https://q-andrew.itch.io/anemoiapolis
I run https://www.gnod.com
Openstreetmap’s product fails to compete with Google Maps
> If Zuckerberg really had a problem with what Facebook was doing, but didn’t feel he could ethically risk the company’s growth and financial performance by changing its direction, he could quit and sell all his shares. He might take a financial hit, but he would still be one of the world’s richest people.

He is one of the world's richest people. He seems to have concern (or at least feigns it) for the problems Facebook is causing. If he resigns and allows someone else, who is more hungry and motivated by money to take over, you believe Facebook's behavior would improve?
TINA: There is no alternative

When markets are the only place to put money that beats inflation, that's where people with money will put it. As more money gets dumped into equities their price goes up. Since those "investors" are just looking to hold the equity until someone else comes along and pays more for it they don't care about fundamentals or dividends.

Some companies have good fundamentals and have done well despite the pandemic. Many more have only gotten by with government handouts. A lot of exuberance today comes from big traders picking up stocks at a huge discount last March. The huge market drops were basically an interest free loan to anyone with enough money to pick up more stocks.

It's a great environment if you've already got money or retired recently with stocks as a large component of your investment portfolio. For everyone else the markets haven't done anything useful, if anything they've convinced low information voters that the economy is doing better than it is.
Building a Tree Stand in the Arctic
Hi, I skimmed the bill and some explanations after finding out about it last night.

I feel like this bill doesn't actually change anything. Look at your example: "Someone from Russia could create a BVI company that opens a Delaware LLC and gain near-total transactional anonymity."

Your bill exempts every nominee or person paid to form the business. That is completely common practice, and also benefits the exact people you made this bill for?

Let me be absolutely clear, when I think about MY user experience, nothing has changed? If my registered agent formed the business with one of their employees names, or if my lawyer did that, in both circumstances there would never be a report to the Treasury for them, and there would never be a report for me.

I don't actually want a burdensome regulation, but I also don't feel Congress actually cares about this since this was just a rider into an actually politically charged bill, so I don't mind talking to you about it:

How does this bill accomplish anything if it exempts everything that real people actually do, let alone anyone trying to mask ownership and control.
Germany seems to run an entirely independent and parallel cards and payments system to the rest of the world. Really frustrating.
What about this? https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gastro-ex/id1202398609

(Full disclosure: I work at a sister company of Level Ex.)
I feel like the 'shimmering' when scrolling on 27@4k would drive me nuts. But to each their own.
In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium [pdf]
Looking ahead to the future of computing and data infrastructure
Are you referring to the ballot initiative process in CA? If so, what do you think doesn’t work?
Ask HN: Good books/resources on meta-ethics?
Getting a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Berkeley is a third-rate credential?
Hi everyone, OP here.

I used a Seek RevealPro which outputs TIFF files that contain 32-bit floating point values. I created a script that takes in a Seek TIFF and outputs an 8-bit greyscale integer TIFF:

https://github.com/dheera/iceland-thermal/blob/master/script...

I then panoramically stitched those 8-bit TIFFs together (some with the help of hugin, and some manually with GIMP) and distortion-corrected them as best as I could to a black-and-white visible light image. I also created an artistically-chosen color map for each image. For the final output image, hue and saturation are fully based on thermal data, and lightness is a combination of thermal and visible data. Scripts to generate the final output images, along with the panoramically pre-stitched data, and the color maps I used:

https://github.com/dheera/iceland-thermal

Also, my Instagram, which is mostly astrophotography of late, but I did post thermal images there before and I may do so in the future again if I can find another good set of interesting thermal subjects to do this in!

https://instagram.com/dheeranet/
I guess typically you would pick one language and use that throughout the Pulumi project.
I think this further prove that iOS apps development is not stable at all.
Pirate IPTV Won't Be Stopped in 2021 but User Fatigue Could Be Crucial
OP here. Seek RevealPro. I added a top-level comment with some more details and links :)
But think of the massive infrastructure that is required to facilitate that interaction. You have to own a phone. The phone has to connect to a network. You have to have a payment plan, presumably with a credit card/bank involved. Your car has to communicate with the charge point. The charge point has to have internet. There are just so many little things that need to be installed and maintained just to deliver a few pennies worth of electricity. An alternative is to install very small/free outlets on literally every spot (something common in cold climates already). That would cover much of daily commuting. The faster charging points could be relegated to highway stations outside of town centres. Then all that complexity, those points of failure, can be abandoned in favour of the simple century-old delivery of electricity over wires.

I do wonder how much electricity is used by these complex charging systems when they are not in use. How much does that charging point draw from the grid just to keep all its wifi/cell/internet systems running 24/7?
A great many people [including myself] have a successful online business flipping which is buying and selling of goods (more used than new). Buying is from local thrift shops, auctions, garage sales, Craiglist, Facebook Marketplace, etc and selling is at Amazon, eBay, Facebook Marketplace, etc. If interested follow the Reddit sub-reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Flipping/
No matter what Snowden uncovered, people who believe the CIA is controlling their thoughts with orbital lasers are wrong, even when they cite Snowden or MKULTRA as "proof." Adopting a worldview that accepts every claim, however absurd, as equally valid to all others is foolish. The world isn't flat, nor hollow. COVID isn't part of a New World Order plot to harvest your adrenochrome, we did on the moon, Hillary Clinton doesn't bathe in the blood of child sex slaves to maintain her human form, Sandy Hook was not a false flag, there are no FEMA death camps, no aliens at Area 51, HAARP doesn't control the weather, CERN didn't hack the Matrix, "cultural marxism" doesn't really exist, and neither does the "Deep State."

You can accept that the world is more complex than you understand, and that conspiracies exist, while still having a standard for obvious bullshit. Or at the very least, while being dubious of extraordinary claims presented without extraordinary proof.
The issue is of course that the salaries/wages don't get raised as much as the other costs mentioned by the OP (housing, among others, I'd add education), they haven't done so for quite a long time now.

In order to be able to have "real cost of payments" going down because of inflation you'll still need some down-payment or some basic proof that you'll be able to pay back the loan you're about to get, and those stagnating wages often times are not enough for that.
What version of Windows doesn’t have WSL2?
What's the minimum workload that can be transferred to another processor for a speed gain?

For instance can you do little things like floating point xy + uv by bumping the subexpressions to separate units and have the parallelism outweigh the communication cost for a net gain.
> but so much fun in small groups.

In my 40+ years playing IF, I never considered this. What an interesting idea. I did play an email correspondence campaign in the early 90's but that was a ton of work for the DM since he was writing pages and pages of story. But it was a fun in-between.
OP here -- I added a top-level comment with some more links. In particular you can find the separate thermal and visible images on the repo: https://github.com/dheera/iceland-thermal
PyPI XMLRPC Search endpoint remains disabled due to ongoing request volume
What I mean is, if one does:

const obj1 = { a: 32, b: 42 };
function foo(ref) { ref.a = 0; }

foo(obj1);
console.log(obj1);

in JavaScript, one is just using the variable name as a "holder" of some value. One doesn't have to designate that that variable is being passed by reference. If one wanted to actually copy that object, they'd have to devise a mechanism to do so. In Rust, if someone doesn't specify, using the & symbol, that something is a reference, it'll end up moving the value.

Basically all I was saying is one can not approach writing Rust with a Java/JavaScript mindset. (That a variable is just a bucket holding a value). Care needs to be taken when referencing a variable as it may need to be moved, copied/cloned or referenced. In the case of copying, another memory allocation is done. So if someone approaches Rust from the standpoint of "this word represents a value, and I'm going to use it all over the place", they can find themselves blindly allocating memory.
> a can live up to the end of the application. &a can live up to the end of the application.

Nope, a reference to a stack frame can't live up to the end of the application. The stack frame gets deallocated and the referent ceases to exist; therefore the reference you're creating in your linked example doesn't outlive 'static. `main` is not an exception to this in Rust.
I know Jira has always had scaling issues. I used to work for a very large company in the early 2010s that had, I think 5 separate Jira instances. But they were I think dealing with on the order of ten thousand daily active users per instance.
What subjects do you write about? Any place we can look at your books?
Consumer price inflation is a different thing than asset price inflation. The point you seem to be missing is that when you only say "inflation", it's by very widely dominant convention assumed to be consumer price inflation.
The point is that VBA macros are portable across Excel but not between Excel and Calc. Calc does not support VBA macros. As many businesses need to consume spreadsheets with VBA macros, and since porting VBA to Python isn’t sustainable, Calc is simply not a good enough replacement for enterprise.

I am not sure that one anecdotal blogpost supports the idea that industries are moving from Excel to Python. It is more likely that people are productionizing Excel spreadsheets with Python these days, instead of C++ or Java.
Some GPS receivers claim to get a reading in 2ms, then power down. Even doing that once a second would only have it powered 0.2% of the time.

Still quite impressive though. It defies belief getting 2 weeks out of a GPS watch charge.
You’re apologizing for a company that makes hand over fist money. Has a single competitor in its space (online advertising), and that’s Google.

There is no “getting fucked” when it’s a monopoly controlling its market. Right now, legislation is helping Facebook by increasing the barrier to entry to compete with them.

So what you’re saying is Facebook created this entire situation but would not have if you know it didn’t have to. The only thing is we are only as shitty as we let ourselves be. Stop accepting shitty behavior from people and trying to justify for no reason.
Comments like this are to far in-between on the internet, kudos!
There are multiple types of inflation. Asset inflation is what your parent is talking about, which is not well reflected in the CPI.

Any product/service with domestic labor as a primary input (healthcare, education, childcare, construction, professional services) has seen much higher inflation.
This might be a meta question that’s unrelated to the topic, but is there a breakdown of the demographics and location of HN readers?
> As you can see, you can't see anything.

Thank you.

I wanted to get one to (a) find creatures outside at night while camping, and (b) fix my house energy leaks. But that rez seems awfully low. So amazed at the OP for doing such an amazing job stitching images!
Exactly. It's basically inflation, just not in day to day commodities (food, groceries, etc.). I think it's the same reason bitcoin price is jumping.
There are plenty who would accuse him of being part of the conspiracy theory to take away their guns, but the reason he wasn't accused broadly of being a conspiracy advocate then is that he advocated something that the media broadly wanted, whereas an expose of the failures of handling COVID will be attacking in part the media and in a great part the FDA which is not something the media is interested in, hence it would be labeled a conspiracy theory.
I run https://www.checkbot.io/. :)

> Checkbot is a Chrome extension that tests 100s of pages at a time to find critical SEO, speed and security problems before your users do. Test unlimited sites as often as you want including local development sites to find and eliminate broken links, duplicate content, invalid HTML/CSS/JavaScript, insecure pages, redirect chains and 50+ other common website problems.

I created it to scratch my own itch while working freelance on other websites. There was one website in particular where minor changes on one page was breaking unrelated pages so a localhost web crawler that checked for issues was invaluable when doing small and large refactors.

The guide I wrote that explains all the page factors Checkbot tests for (https://www.checkbot.io/guide/) also helped me brush up on current web best practices. People treat SEO like a scammy word but the general recommendations are good for humans too!
Sure, but there's 4-6 of them on the street and probably 40-50 cars. That will work in short term, but not in 10+ years.
The device we had was 1.3MP--rough the same resolution as the composite image discussed in this article. The camera core was expensive, but the lens actually cost more than the sensor. Yes it was ITAR regulated.

As an example of what I would have expected, this product brief (not the device we were using, but similar) has a picture of the white house https://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed-martin/m...
I think solution for tough to verify info would be for journalists to include something like a methodology section in their reporting.

Due to the vagaries of journalism compared to e.g. chemistry or physics I'm not sure what this would look like in every situation.

Here is an article I came across recently that is a good example of the concept I am trying to explain. I don't think there's any information presented that you have to take the writer's word for: https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2017/05/17/hendricks-not-paying-p...
I’ve read about this form of government in Snow Crash. High speed pizza delivery seems to be a good investment.
No, the vehicle auths with the EV charging station and my credit card is charged when the charge is complete. No phone, rfid tag, or app required.

Yes, 20amp 120V outlets are great for long term parking, like airports. Those can be unmetered. Anything else would be a level 3 fast charger like a supercharger, where you have to pay to cover the demand charges of 120kw-250kw current delivery in a short period of time (15-30 minutes). Remember, most people will charge overnight at home.

The electricity is the cheapest component, as you mention. You’re really just paying for the delivery infra. Regarding the idle electrical costs of signaling systems for charging stations, it’s minimal.
More details here:

https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5216#issuecomment-7446054...

"PyPI is shutting down the API that pip search used, because the design of that API was such that it made it easy for people to overwhelm and take down PyPI as a whole using that API. The pip search command doesn't work without that API, and we don't have a way to restore 1:1 functionality without it."
> If you know the Chinese language, go to Weibo and find announcements of rulings on high profile murder cases, rape cases, etc. Most likely you’ll see that people overwhelmingly call for tougher punishment; comments expressing dissatisfaction with non-capital punishment are often voted to the top.

You can see this on reddit too for american crimes.
That's probably not going to happen; we have satellites broadcasting the bitcoin blockchain: https://blockstream.com/satellite/
Absolutely, I would too. They are fantastic products.

I did some Googling yesterday and the last word on the matter is that Photo would cost $500k alone, which they couldn't see recuperating.[1]

[1]: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/626-affini...
When a subset of goods are rising in price at a faster rate than other goods you aren't really talking about inflation anymore. You're talking about something else. It's pretty important to recognize the distinction.
We've established Jira/Confluence/etc. are crap.

Now, let's talk alternatives.
The fact that the BSL4 lab had a grant for "characterization of SARSr-CoV spillover risk" using "in vivo infection experiments" at around the time of the breakout is also a bit of a coincidence.
People still think they’re getting a good deal which is mostly laughable. I’ve been in industries while wanting more regulation in them - it’s always shocking for me to imagine the amount of unreturned loyalty businesses will get from their employees.
I don't think it's a justifiable for risk mitigation reasons to act as the oil industry has. What they can do more of is invest in more R&D for moonshot energy products. Or invest into existing green energy areas. I believe there are just better short term returns on PR (deceiving the public as much as possible), buying help & protection from regulators, and the status quo generally. I also believe the powers that be in that industry, like many others, are old, uninspired, and unreasonably resistant to change. Like Zuckerberg, they're more afraid of lost profit than destroying the world, whether by a lot or a little.
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> and certainly better than hoary old cygwin.

Say what you want about cygwin, but it never did this.
“A write should either happen entirely or not at all.”

I think many modern file systems try really hard to make that true, but I don’t think you can count on it. “man write” (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/write.2.html) still says:

“Note that a successful write() may transfer fewer than count bytes”

It also says

“A successful return from write() does not make any guarantee that data has been committed to disk. On some filesystems, including NFS, it does not even guarantee that space has successfully been reserved for the data”

That should be handled by calling fsync, but of course, if that fails, there’s not a lot you can do (even if you exactly know what happened) (https://research.cs.wisc.edu/adsl/Publications/atc20-cuttlef...)

I also don’t think calling data loss due to writes that do not make it to disk “file system corruption” is correct. For file system corruption, the file system data structures have to be overwritten (e.g. the boot record or directory data structures)
Lunch Money (https://lunchmoney.app/) is run by one person. It is a personal budgeting app that is very well-designed and easy to use. The founder's journey is also quite interesting as she has been traveling as a digital nomad while building Lunch Money.
> It is known that plaque in teeth is indicative of heart plaque.

Would you please link to some information about this?
A lot of the supposed successes existed in more or less their current form at the time the so-called "prediction" was made.
> Is this also on Cloud products?

On my company's cloud instance of Jira, it's a minimum of a 2-3 second delay to do anything. Edit, wait a few seconds, save, wait a few seconds, change a field, wait a few seconds... and God help you if you need to reload the page because something got stuck.
Is exercise a senolytic medicine? A systematic review
Not my area but I seem to remember bitches that Linux lies about fsync. As in it'll swear up and down that it flushed everything to disk, but it's lying.

Also over the years it seems like everyone I've seen that habitually edits files remotely ends up with this sort of pain and butthurt.
Corruption is when you write data and you read back different data of the same size. Data loss is when you write data and you read back correct data of the smaller size or nothing.

Not sure what you mean by entire fs transaction. But Linux doesn't have transactional fs interface, so open, write, close can be interrupted at any point with result of just having a new empty file after open, being one of the valid outcomes after crash.
Conspiracy is the rule, not the exception.
To think otherwise is being ignorant of history, reality, and good reasoning.
(See: every government ever run in the history of the world)
If we can agree to that, that will be fine. The problem with that is when one side will not agree to no first use of force - then game theory says you HAVE to hit back with force.
Assuming there are good rollout and incident review processes in place, this isn't much of a problem in practice.
I think the usual way of handling stuff like that in the embedded world is with an RTOS. Something like FreeRTOS or RTEMS (both have ARM Cortex ports). Also, depending on complexity of the system (more actuators) you might have the individual steppers/servo motors etc run by their own microcontroller and being fed commands centrally.
There's more space between generations these days. Gen X mostly doesn't have grandkids yet.
You should still get an unemployment extension if its really about feeling like you specifically got something too.
They get old and crusty when you have to choose not to patch, or de prioritize those not so serious bugs because the operational cost is too high.

Developers shouldn't have to make this call, the cost should be zero.
This is brilliant, I'll use this when I buy my next phone, thank you
Logic Pro doesn't have server-side feature flags.
That's just a more inconvenient version of valet parking.
That's not how religion operates at all. It is how New Age adherence works, see for example this recent article on how Covid exposed narcissism amongst its members:

https://www.elephantjournal.com/2020/12/how-covid-exposed-th...