skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Satellites are relatively easy to destroy if you're willing to ignore the debris it creates.

I agree, but someone here made a good point in the last thread about this: in a couple of years, they plan to have 42,000 StarLink satellites active. That’s a lot of very capable missiles.
America fairly recently actually taxed high income earners and companies, so politically it’s very possible. Increasing the AMT by say 5% while raising the minimum threshold to say 500k would have vast popular support and a huge backlash from rich people. Determine who wins that fight is just another political battle.
It’s worse that it strips what it thinks are accents. Once I needed to search for ñ and it highlighted every n in the page (ñ and n are completely different letters).
If humans were completely different from what we call humans, they would indeed have to be treated completely differently.
That explains the stance but is not sufficient to justify it. It gives Atlassian infinite power to stomp on any benchmark that shows poor performance under a claim that it is flawed. It is also irrelevant that it's been in your ToS since 2012: Precedent or longevity do not make consumer-unfriendly restrictions acceptable.

This is implicitly recognized by allowing internal assessment: That assessment would be just as vulnerable to flawed methodology and therefore flawed decision making on products. If you were that concerned over such issues, you could issue further restrictions on performance assessment that limited such activity to be conducted only under Atlassian's close review or using your own mandated methodology. One reason you probably don't do that is because potential buyers would balk at those restrictions and either pass on your product or responsibly engage in due diligence and perform their own assessments regardless.

Further, the resources to do extensive internal assessment may be lacking in many organizations, which means your provision to allow internal testing is meaningless to many customers. As a result, the prohibition against public disclosure thereby deprives them of any way of obtaining objective external analysis.

You could satisfy your concerns by requiring that public disclosure be reviewed by Atlassian prior to publication. You could require an option for Atlassian to comment on the results with embedded notations without restricting publication itself. That would still be heavy handed but at least allow a reasonable amount of independent review of your performance.
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I am glad to see SubStack allowing this type of content to be published on their platform.

I am still cautious because they are a centralized platform. But glad to see they allow this type of stuff.
"I won't comment on the performance, but let's just say there's a reason their TOS forbids talking about it."

If you ban objective criticism, I guess all you're left with is FUD.
China has done an amazing thing in lifting so many hundreds of millions out of extreme poverty and even poverty.

But then again; with the means of a tyrannical dictatorships I guess it's pretty easy to implement the policies that will do that. It just needs the leadership to overcome the vicious cycle of coup and purge and get their paranoia enough under control so they can stop promoting out of loyalty and start promoting out of competence. That is something that i.e. the USSR never quite achieved.
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I think a lot of coinsceptics don't own much cryptocurrency. Once I began to have more BTC in my wallet than USD in my bank account it suddenly became more convenient to make purchases online with the BTC.

Just like we have the pound, yen, yuan and dollar, I don't think any cryptocurrency will ever become the One World Currency. But when it works, it works. Just my 2 cents ...
> We really need to move past having gender/color/religion/sexual preference matter in how people are accepted and treated in society, and the workplace. These things should not, and truly do not matter.

Absolutely.

Her 'proposal' is very plainly unacceptable and indeed illegal in Europe (not sure in the US)
If only I were so lucky, might've made me more thoughtful when planning experiments
"haven" should be "have". Sorry, cannot edit it now.
I find that advanced Python is quite hard to read. Well, I find that advanced dynamically typed languages tend to be hard to read in general, because you can never be sure what type your inputs and outputs are and what values they can take. Usually my

At least idiomatic Python shuns wildcard imports that obfuscate where symbols are coming from (that drove me insane in Ruby).

On the other hand Rust code tends to be very strict about what your types are (even more so than a language like C++ where metaprogramming is duck-typed by default). It can lead to complicated code, but baring some weird operator overloading decision you should know exactly what calls what from whom when you look at any method or function.

Rust code can be tricky to write at times, but I generally find it a pleasure to read. Sure, ultra-complicated generic code can be overwhelming, but this complexity would be here in one form or the other regardless of the language, Rust just forces you to be explicit about it.
Well that’s an oxymoron if I’ve ever heard one.
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I think csx is probably the best choice amongst the compute-styles-at-runtime CSS-in-JS libraries. The brutal simplicity has a lot to offer. For most projects csx is perfectly fine. However it can’t beat a more complex zero-runtime precompiled styles system on paper — but it’s an optimization tradeoff you could choose if you need it in the future.
Was that incorrect somehow? WSL2 fixed a ton of issues for me.
There are audio versions of his speech on YouTube. I’d post a URL but I am on mobile.

Mary was quite the captivating character and there’s a number of other speeches and interviews on YouTube, as well.
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The area where the Columbia Organic Chemicals Company was located was restored in 2007-2008. "A total of 1,436.40 tons of soil was removed and disposed of."

From the speech:

> There were no government regulators to stifle our fledgling efforts, and it was a golden age, but we didn’t notice it.
I'd imagine demand for thermal imaging has skyrocketed due to covid, so its possible the tech will get better and cheaper.
HiDPI does look really nice. Do you use it for gaming? How does your graphics card hold up?
I’m reading it right now
And I highly recommend it. Many of its insights remain both relevant and thought-provoking.
Sounds like the corporate brainwash really worked here.
Yep Confluence is an amazingly overly complicated thing! I had it on modern windows server that boots up in 60 seconds. From that time, confluence starting up take no less than 10 minutes before it responds to web requests. Fortunately we switched to Teams this year, no more exorbitant confluence renewal fees and clueless support.
iiyama ProLite XUB2792UHSU-B1 on my M1 mini here. 27” 4K IPS.

5k would be better but it’s good enough and pretty damn cheap. And it’s not 1440p which just isn’t good enough now.
> what we need is Democracy 2.0

Or STV, approval, STAR, etc etc literally ANY kind of voting system besides FPTP.
I was wondering this too, the author added this info via a reply in the comments (of his site/article , not HN)-

> Author here. The camera was a Seek RevealPro which has 320x240 resolution. The thermal data in the panoramas are stitched together from raw data exported by the camera and represented as color (hue+saturation, as per scale in upper right, represents temperature data).

The brightness channel is piecewise-linearly combined with a corresponding visual image taken with a regular SLR to provide a visual reference of what you're looking at.
People build their own furniture all the time when they buy things they need to assemble from ikea, target, etc.

People wire up electrical components when they hook up their TVs, computers, surround sound, etc.

People do their own plumbing when they hook up garden hoses or put on a new p-trap.

Mounting a TV bracket into studs or even hanging a picture is some slight carpentry.

These things work because there are standard connections and good design, but in many cases it took a long time to get to the current designs that are simple enough to be intuitive and come with any tools needed.

Standards and design have made these things possible. Even building a computer is similar. Many people's automation needs aren't so complex that they need to venture out of reasonable constraints.
English businesses citing Magna Carta to defy Covid lockdown
"[...] November, when Sinead Quinn, a hairdresser from West Yorkshire, was issued with fines totalling £17,000 for breaching national lockdown rules, put into place in an attempt to slow the rate of Covid-19 infections across England. Quinn’s salon, like others, had not been considered an essential service. But in an act of defiance against the local council and, by extension, the government, she kept it open.

This story made headlines because of the particular form her rebellion took. Quinn cited a specific article from an early version of the Magna Carta to claim that she was well within her rights to keep her store open – and had displayed a copy of a document saying as much in her shop window. In 1215, the clauses gave permission to 25 wealthy barons to dissent and rebel if they believed the crown was acting unjustly. Today, the document is considered by most lawyers to be an 'ornament, not an instrument', and while the document is historically significant, it is legally useless. Still, this hasn’t stopped other English businesses, including a bookshop and a soft-play centre, citing the medieval document in the belief that by doing so they are exempt from government restrictions."
Thanks for this! I serendipitously found a 21 year old SOSP paper with a concept that may have relevance to a problem at work!

Also, why does ACM paywall 21 year old papers?
It's hard for me to think of a serious downside for named vulnerabilities. People who try to name sev:lo bugs get made fun of; it backfires.
The same way any company performs anti-fraud checks.

And how this is done - check the provided information against a known-good database (there are plenty of services that you can pay for here). Perform random spot checks. Make sure that the UBO is filing taxes for this entity’s earnings. Etc.

I’m not claiming it’s perfect; fraud detection is a hard problem, and it’s also pretty obscure if you haven’t had to deal with it at your own company.
I'm finding these two sentences hard to reconcile.

> If Zuckerberg, Sandberg, et al could improve Facebook's behavior without putting the business at risk, they would do it in a heartbeat. But it appears they can't.

> Facebook truly seems to be trying to improve its behavior for the benefit of society at large
Zuckerberg holds 90% of class b shares which have 10x the voting rights of normal shares and gives him 4 billion votes. There are -2.4 billion class A shares. He has stacked the board with loyalist yes men. It is a dictatorship bent on maximizing profit. The business model and how they operate is defined by Zuckerberg. It seems to me that he should hold the majority of the blame.
Minor note,. Graydon created rust and worked on Swift. He didn't create Swift however.

That said...both languages read like close siblings to me to the point I find it annoying switching between the two because I keep trying to use each ones language semantics in the other subconsciously.
For most people this is not as bad as you might expect. Transactions on the losing chain can be replayed on the winning chain as long as they haven't been double-spent.
I know people have different degrees of intelligent judgment, but you should also consider the fact that people who order online have already accepted the absurd fees and taxes imposed by the app (19% fee on Doordash, 16% on Grubhub, + tips + taxes). If you're willing to pay extra money in order to get your desired food while you're busy doing your own work, isn't it reasonable to get mad at the restaurant and the app for handling the food poorly?
I've got an rx580 and a 4K display. For esports games and old titles such as Dirt 3, I get near 60 frames at max settings.
I bought this book when it first came out, and I highly recommend it. It has influenced my implementation of DDD concepts in regular object oriented languages (so not just F# or functional languages).
It depends heavily on what you’re interested in; if you’re looking to freelance, I’d recommend learning mobile rather than web development. Everyone is looking for mobile apps in college; I freelanced in college a few years ago, and don’t remember ever building a website beyond a splash page for an app.
For this, I’d recommend learning Expo/React Native if you want to build as quickly as possible, or iOS/Android if you want to build more intricate and complex applications. The other benefit of learning React Native is that you can easily translate it to the web with React, and only need to focus on one main language (JavaScript).

Best of luck in your journey, and have fun!
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I think the drug and pedophile examples are in poor taste because, unfortunately, people have been purchasing both illicitly long before the introduction of cryptocurrency.

All money is amoral. It changes hands without judgement.
Pure thermal would have been quite smudged. IMHO the B&W adds really nice context - and it sounds like it's not just a straight overlay, but he's recoloring the B&W pixels, which I think provides a crisper result.

I'm curious what resolutions you've worked with, if you don't mind sharing. High frame rate thermal cameras (above 9hz) are ITAR restricted. Hi-res above 640x480 is not common on the consumer market and is restricted to embargoed countries. Cooled thermal cameras are restricted too IIRC.
Wow, you're quite lucky, because everything I use has bugs and edge cases.
What is inadequate about Libre Office ?
You can use a passive displayport switcher. I have the Alienware 3420DW and just got this (https://www.newegg.com/p/183-0075-00026?Item=9SIAEKBBMV2800). The monitor is DP 1.2 so 120Hz @ 3440p with gsync and it all passes through the switcher without issue. My setup now has a USB 2.0 switcher for keyboard/mouse/headphones and the DP switcher for graphics both ziptied to a display post. That way switching machines is two button presses. Much better than a KVM IMHO that will likely go absolute next monitor upgrade.
Netflix Ultra HD at the highest bitrate. The 1080p version on the standard plan appears to be heavily DNR’d.

It’s not really surprising, though. Think of the HBO ident; noise just does not compress well. I’ve encountered (supposedly well-encoded) 40+GB BRs of old b/w movies with obvious, distracting artifacts.

But then, most people can’t tell the difference.

As for the source of the problem, I’m sure it looked a lot like real film grain on the reference monitor, but on my screen it looks a bit embarrassing.
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If I'm not mistaken, in order to get certified to do MDMA-assisted therapy in the US you have to have had the therapy yourself (and I'd be surprised if most therapists interested in doing this kind of therapy hadn't already had multiple psychedelic experiences before and during training).

I'm not sure what the criteria for getting certified to do psilocybin-assisted therapy are or will be, but my guess is they'll probably be pretty similar.

In general, at least for now, it's pretty safe to say that most therapists interested in doing psychedelic therapy are already interested in psychedelics and probably are already "experienced" or will be during training.

For me, much more important than if they've had a psychedelic experience is if they're highly recommended by well-informed people who've gone through therapy with them and who I trust. If they green-light them, I'd feel much more secure.
Where Should I Move To?
Now that I can work from home for the foreseeable future, I've been thinking about moving somewhere else. I'm from the east coast, but have lived in Southern California for the past few years.

California is out because the taxes are insane.

I'm thinking about moving to Denver, Austin, Houston, or Miami beach. I like sports like surfing and kitesurfing which is why Houston and Miami are a bit higher on my list.

My job is not location-dependent, but I do feel like it's worth it to be around other like-minded people.

What do you think? Has anyone else recently made a move due to being able to work from home?
I have an old Dell U2713HM, but text looks terrible on it when connected to my MBP. It looks fine with other computers running Windows or Linux, but not with the MBP for whatever reason. I already tried all the configuration changes suggested in various places around the Internet, but it doesn't make any difference. Is it possible it could be because I'm using a DisplayPort to USB-C adapter?

I'm looking at buying a new monitor to get past the problems with my old one. The ViewSonic VP2771, but I can't find it in stock anywhere close to me. Does anyone have a suggestion a similar product? 1440p, 27", USB-C, specifically for use with a MBP.
That monitor doesn't have a USB-C input, right? How do you connect both a PC and a MacBook, if you don't mind me asking?
The moral of the story is to uncover the problems and not jump to solutions. In other words, what is the job to be done? What are the current state, the desired state, and the gap separating the two?

Most people I see using this quote often will talk more about Steve Jobs, and ignoring customers or the market and solely relying on intuition and creative genius. I don't know how to put it, but most people who think like that are missing the point.

When you develop a product or do consulting, you solve a problem. One must never, ever, forget that. One must also recognize when people are spitting solutions thinking they are giving you problems. Asking "what are you trying to accomplish?" "What's the desired state?" What's hurting you? Why is this a problem? Why is it a problem now or was it there before? If I told you I've solved the problem, what would you look for to check I have actually solved your problem? How do we know we've solved the problem?

These are questions we ask over and over again in different forms working with our clients, because not doing so would lead us to solving the wrong problem or adopting the wrong solution to the underlying problem.

You peel away layers of solutions and get right down to the actual problem, and once you do that, you can start solving that problem.

That is the moral of the quote. The job to be done may be to transport something from point A to point B, work the land, court a lady, etc. A faster horse is a "solution" or an "implementation" of the customer, not the the problem.

XY problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
I think you may be missing a few things. Fiber is important to avoid painful stool compaction. Soluble fiber also slows carb absorbtion and lowers the glycemic index of a meal which is generally a good thing.

As to your macronutrient concern, unless you are trying to eat 4000+ calories which is about when it becomes a chore to eat (I once had a job where I lost weight eating less than that), high fiber food isn’t going to make it hard to get your macro nutrients with most modern diets. And foods high in fiber tend to have more micronutrients. For instance the germ in whole grain is literally the nutrients needed to kickstart a seed into a plant.
It’s sad that fake news and manipulation has extended far beyond Trumps Twitter account into everything we do. The blatant wealth transfer since the GFC from the majority of the population to the ultra rich is despicable but looks like we are in an end game scenario of capitalism.

Average Americans barely get 600$ to survive whilst corporates get such huge bailouts. Same thing happened during the GFC and the years since, when the fed printed money and pushed it back into the markets via QE.

This is not a republican or democrat problem, they are both equally complicit in all of this.

I work in Finance, and to see all those around me try and use sophisticated language and models and avoid admitting the glaringly obvious shows the lack of ethics and a morale compass.

We are all getting played by the rich and ultra rich.

Edit: Whats really got me is the role of pension funds in this. Pension funds worldwide are an aggregation of our savings, yet they are pushing capital more and more into markets and increasing our cost of living (especially property prices by doing so). Fund managers and pension managers all along the way get a cut through performance fees, whilst we get stuck with unbearable rent prices and we don’t get much benefit of the investment gain since inflation will reduce the value of the dollar...
I think the ThermApp cameras had the ability to combine a visual photo, but I haven't used mine for quite some time so I may be wrong.
I'm literally sitting right now next to a senior playing Spider Solitaire on his PC. AFAIK he plays it 30min - 1h every day that he's at home.

Used to be the Windows 7 one (and I guess the WinXP one before that?), now it's a browser-based version…
Don't commercial thermal imaging cameras also do a thermal/visible composite? Would those also not count as thermal images?
Just read their website. It used to say that it's backed 1:1 by USD, period. Now it says a lot of vague things, e.g.:

>Every tether is also 1-to-1 pegged to the dollar, so 1 USD₮ is always valued by Tether at 1 USD.

So it explicitly says that it is not backed by USD, but is "valued by tether at 1 USD"

> Every tether is always 100% backed by our reserves, which include traditional currency and cash equivalents and, from time to time, may include other assets and receivables from loans

That passage probably means that they print fake dollars, then buy bitcoin with it, which rises the price of bitcoin, and allows them to claim that their reserves are "fully backed"
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> vote on individual packages

On that note, Congress has had a rider problem forever. It's unconscionable how legislation get clumped together to a) force a vote on some generally positive thing while b) avoiding accountability and c) sneaking all kinds of evil opposites into the same package.
Need to add O2 sensor and ECG to compete.
Both cloud and on prem user here. Both systems are slow, hardware doesnt scale. Simply browsing issues easily takes 2 to 5 seconds per click. Confluences is okay i guess, just the slowness is annoying. That, and trying to to format text properly.

When youve worked with azure devops or github before, atlassian tooling is really a blast from the past.
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My counterpoint to Democracy 2.0 is dead simple: If we could buy a car that was $2,000 cheaper (but had no seatbelts), many Americans would.

Humans are bad at some things. Understanding complicated situations where they aren't experts is one of them - Statistics, safety, complicated systems, etc.

Also, reddit is in many ways democracy 2.0 and they upvote literal fake news all the time.
Where do you find a 5k monitor these days? They seem to have mostly vanished, other than the old LG one that Apple still sometimes has in stock (I’ve heard bad things about it). I also love my first-gen 5K iMac display, but can’t use it for my work MacBook. I’d love to find a solid 5K display but until then I’m still on a 1440p ultrawide.
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11x pretty low for this year unless it was on 5m+ :P
I'd really be interested to see the volume of forex vs. circulation. My intuition is that many more dollars trade hands every day for speculation than purchases, but I could be wrong.