skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of our dogs disappeared for two days. Then on my way home I got a frantic call from my wife that he had come home but his leg was in a bear trap.

Turned out to be a coyote trap and there was a plastic link on the chain that attached it to the tree or whatever, that he had chewed through then limped home on three legs. If not for that link, he'd probably have died out there since the person who set it was clearly not checking it every 24 hours as required by law.

Luckily he was big enough that the trap couldn't close tightly enough to damage his leg and he was running around fine by the next day.
But, I do understand that it is otherwise difficult to reach Iranians and not hand their government a list of urls to block. But I think my reach is useless. If your reach is not, then maybe you'll also reach the Iranian government easily.

Moreover, should I run this from my personal server? Could it become a target for nefarious stuff? I feel the same as I do when I think about running a TOR exit node. I want to be like my hero Edward Snowden but... I'm afraid of the stuff that gets associated with my IP address.

Also, a https://www.linuxserver.io/ Docker image would be cool ;)
What is a problem you're currently dealing with?
*going to resubmit, please ignore*
I would keep in mind that the US has weird antiterror laws about assisting enemies and also laws which construe bypassing system designs as hacking.

For instance, Virgil Griffith is being held and charged for giving a high level description of bitcoin transactions at an academic conference in North Korea.

This is incredibly more specific and more technical of an act.

https://www.coindesk.com/usa-v-virgil-griffith-what-we-know-...
True but not everyone is keen to experience the civil war that often accompanies such a change.
> you're just screwing over some random person

Their employers is screwing them over, not me. I am not.

You want to force me to tip you? Make it mandatory then.
Firefox, for a couple of years now. I've tried switching to Brave and Vivaldi at times but it never lasted more than a week or two. I've just gotten too used to FF, especially it's Dev tools, which though similar to chrome, has subtle differences that I prefer.
This is so important... can't believe this almost flew under the news radar.

Orig (DE): https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/urheberrecht-gesetz-bundesr...

Translate (EN): https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
When I needed the same thing, I took well-known implementation
https://github.com/memononen/fontstash/blob/203fec2eb6a8905a...
And ported from C to C++: https://github.com/Const-me/nanovg/blob/master/src/FontStash...

Font atlas is required to be dynamic because Unicode has too many different codepoints. Statically allocated bitmap fonts no longer work in practice. Based on the pictures in the article, it works better than what WebRender is doing.

The performance is good even on Raspberry Pi. This library https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac uses 3 of them for 2D graphics: RGBA for sprites, another RGBA for ClearType fonts, and grayscale one for non-ClearType fonts. Here's the only pixel shader that implements all 2D rendering, including text: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/blob/master/Vrmac/Draw/Sha...

> a batch can only reference a fixed set of resources (such as GPU buffers and textures)

Technically that’s true, but not practically. There’s GPU resource type called “texture array”. It’s possible to append new layers into an array without moving data across PCIe and back.
Not a sustainable solution, but you might wanna download a session manager and periodically just save the current session and start with a fresh one. No loss of data, no perpetual accumulation of tabs.

Also use a service such as Firefox Pocket or Pinboard to boomark tabs which then can be instantly closed.
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They could literally have a hidden function in WhatsApp that scoops up all your chat history and sends it to Facebook if the government ask them to. It’s closed source. No one has a clue what it’s doing.

To be clear I’m not suggesting this is absolutely happening. I’m merely pointing out it’s entirely possible from a technological perspective given it’s closed source software owned by Facebook. That’s not a recipe for privacy.
Cancel culture means only once view point is allowed.

Anyone that disagrees is automatically attacked and given many horrible labels.

Want to move the tax rate up or down? Your a racist if you pick wrong.
For the most part, America abolished debtors prisons in 1833, and they were found unconstitutional in 1983 (Bearden v. Georgia). I say for the most part because that offer doesn't apply to things like fines and court fees [1].

Assuming you're truthful in your application for the loan, it's not theft. It may be a poor decision on the part of the lender, but of course, that's why interest rates exist and scale with your likelihood of nonrepayment.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2019/08/30/federal-...
Stables and Volatiles
You can be critical, sure. But applying your sense of right and wrong doesn’t make much sense.
About Bitcoin: What Altcoins and Shitcoins Don't Seem to GE
That sounds awesome. I would love to see lower latencies.

Do you know if anyone's considering these for consumer Internet?
I think that would be even more likely to snag on something.

edit -- but of course danging by something other than a neck might be preferable...
For what it's worth, I think you're reading way too much into what the poster said.

For me, "the locals" means nothing more than "the people who are habitually in that area". In my neighborhood, I am one of "the locals", other places I go, I'm perhaps not.

I took "aggression" to mean something like "proclivity to force a social engagement regardless of my desire to be part of it".

In New York City, that's sometimes panhandling, sometimes people with mental health issues, sometimes the guys with the CDs or the people who want to tell the whole car about their personal religious conversion while you're riding on the subway.

If my only role is "being there" then my only element of control is "not being there", which is sort of the poster's entire point.
It's a nitpick but to me the title on the page reads like shoporam, "g" looks more like "o".
What do you think an appropriate penalty is? When I first read this headline I was worried the fine would be just a slap on the wrist. I was glad to see it was more substantial.

Personally, I think a fine like this is just if it causes consulting firms to think about the consequences of their actions and do the right thing in the future. Making firms responsible for damages they cause would be best. Making it it clearly unprofitable is a good step.
Ant death spiral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0HoqjxfvJ4
Ah, so glad that only one side lies. So nice of the other side to keep telling us constantly. Wonderful how we can trust big brother on everything.
I tried Brave but frankly, i hated it. It has very cumbersome and excessive resource consumption problems. Although I posted this problem on the Brave community forum, I could not get any proper help.

https://community.brave.com/t/high-cpu-and-ram-usage
You can literally spin this up on a $5 a month VPS as well, not like you need to break the bank. And with so many TLDs there’s plenty of dirt cheap domains too. I just spun one up in 15 mins and if it gets blocked I’ll happily spin up more.
Yes, absolutely. The voices against neoliberalism have grown in number and volume since 2019. Do you not?
Apple Watch can help track Parkinson's disease symptoms: study
> customer service

Until you want to cancel your service, I suppose?
It's very possible for everyone to be guilty. We don't live in a world where if something isn't "useful" it isn't true.

Your statement ends up reading sort of like "Is every Nazi guilty of the holocaust?" Technically maybe not, doesn't change the fact that of the matter that overall all Nazis are guilty.

You can't run away from this with some garbage statement of "Not a very useful perspective." This incident literally killed an amount of people that is equivalent to a genocide.

Imagine if you were a Nazi and you said that. If you were just a mere guard at one of these concentration camps could you say what you just said to me to a victim who lived through the atrocity? Think about what you should say to the parents of a man/woman who died from an opioid overdose. Literally, I think you're unaware of the magnitude of the crime that was committed here.

Watch these videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGcKURD_osM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXL3F5HvCr8
Are there any resources you could recommend on the root cause(s) of these semiconductor shortages?
This type of scenario is probably the primary reason for the existence of management consulting firms: to have someone to point the finger to when risky decisions go tits up.
Async Intelligence Gathering with Python [video]
Extending GitOps to reliability-as-code with GitHub and StackPulse
Actually, you win, swap was set to 0 by default! :D

Also I only have 2GB (in 32-bit though)! Xo

High karma HN users are toxic downers.
Where is the 'deploy to heroku' button when you need it
(From your now deleted first high-brow reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26029344)

> If you find this insulting, you may want to reconsider why.

I don’t consider it insulting. I consider it an attempt at an insult. If it’s not that, it’s just a lame attempt to construe a discussion participant’s level of cognition for no particular purpose.

> The reason some communities vote to entirely ban panhandling goes to the root of why people resort to panhandling. It's because there is no support structure to counteract the decades of systemic destruction of human dignity.

This ignores entire countries where it is not allowed despite having stronger social safety systems.

> There is a strong bias in the types of people who fall into this situation. If you do not consider that racism, you have missed approximately the last decade of discussion around the matter.

Well it’s not racism because many communities dominated by one race have a homeless population dominated by the same race and still choose to ban it.

Clutching at the crutch of racism accusations is just a method of dehumanizing people attempting to improve their community after countless failed attempts to solve homelessness.
Off Topic:

>yahoo pipes

So many "Low Code" or "No Code" project but nothing even comes close to Yahoo Pipes.
Hypothetically, Development funds would be ... salaries. Misleading presentation seems to me as a different issue than "but they spend X% on salaries", so where did you want to go with that.
‘Google Drive for desktop’ replacing Backup and Sync, add Google Photos upload
Two tools with overlapping functionality are being merged into one.
You might be able to monitor chokepoints with a low RF pollution, like the small square opening at the main entrance/exit of the house.

This way you can tell when your Cat has left the building without getting cancer.
I think my problem is less, that there are no alternatives you can setup yourself, but more, that there is no useful standard ;-)

But having a list of good alternatives if probably good too.
I've worked with all of the big five and I can assure you there is little to no value that they bring to the table.
It's all smoke and mirrors dressed up in suits and sprinkled with corpo-talk that makes no sense if you're a domain expert.

Also, deploying clueless but well dressed junior people and only sending the seasoned specialists to extinguish fires is not a reasonable model. I mean it is if your sole goal is to rip off your client with delivering minimum value.
...and create a supervolcano.
it doesn't matter, I seem to recall :)
More context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Light_Power

Also known as _hydrino energy_, an unproven theory that the electrons in hydrogen atoms can drop to an energy state below the ground level.
I have a proxy up at https://signal.tube/#s.bpj.net

If you can help share more proxies to people who need them, please send me an email (in my HN profile).
> When company management wants to make a big change they hire consultants to provide cover and justification for it. [..] Companies like McKinsey will say whatever you want them to say, and there is no shortage of conflicting case studies to 'prove' their points.

Not really, there are plenty of cheaper companies you can hire to do this when you know the solution and just need to bring in someone to do something unpopular - McKinsey is expensive!

In my experience there are 4 key types of job. I've put my own percentages for what I have experienced, but different people in different companies will obviously vary dramatically.

* Problems where the client genuinely doesn't know the right solution, and wants you to help (30%-40%)

* Problems where the client knows a kind of half-baked solution, or has a load of ideas, and wants you to make a fully-baked solution (30%-40%)

* Problems where the client knows the solution, and you are assisting in implementation/further work because the client doesn't have resource or time to do it, or wants someone with specific skills that they don't have internally, for example procurement support, negotiating a merger/acquisition, time sensitive projects e.t.c. (20%)

* Problems where the client knows the solution, and just wants you to tell it to them in a report because that gives it authority or the consultants can take the blame (less than 10%)
I know a couple guys that went over to Rivian I hope they do well, but I’m just not at all excited about the company or it’s products. They may show up to the ball too late.
What do people think of this? Does anyone know of an analysis against it? (And for it?) Seems like it would be inflationary, to have millions of 18 year olds suddenly have an order of magnitude more wealth than they do today. Could help level the playing field a bit. I would be upset to be born the year before this was introduced though....
Yes work is down. Total economic output is down. Many people are working from home, which means less driving. This isn't controversial.
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I worked at another startup called Tint - doing social media walls (www.tintup.com).

Mildly curious -- how did you pick the name?

Cool concept & best of luck
If you're looking for more detailed ping data this is his source: https://wondernetwork.com/pings

(which didn't seem to be worth linking to)
On the other hand, we now live in a time where, if you know what you are doing, you can have better sound playback than 98% of the systems ever sold for under $200.

(Say, a Fiio X3duoo player ($75), a 128GB microSD card ($25), and one of N different Chinese IEMs depending on preference, all under $100 and most under $50. TRN V90 is about $40 and does a respectable job.)
That would definitely have a lot to do with the death rate, anyway. I wonder if India's obesity rate is significantly lower than Europe and America's, also.
Both manufacturers and legislators are going to be thinking about their future prospects as well as present prospects.

In the counterfactual case of pure market driven vaccine pricing, a couple of election cycles from now there would likely be some politician rising on angry rhetoric against the approach. "Big Pharma made billions in windfall profits on human suffering -- let's claw back the money and vote out their government cronies who enabled it."

I'd like to say that the electorate wouldn't fall for shallow bombast like that, but I can't. People got mad at Gilead for the pricing of their hepatitis C cure even though it had lower lifetime cost than the previous, far less effective state-of-the-art treatment.
Why is either of these a case for a humanoid robot, and not a specialized robot? Humanoid is a pretty awful design for any specific task; it's just that we've evolved and learn to be good at many tasks.

In the warehouse, you can adjust the design of the warehouse a relatively small amount to ensure that the robots can easily store and retrieve the packages—which come in a finite number of standard sizes and shapes, which in turn can be adjusted to ensure they pack well while still leaving room for the robot's grasping arm/claw/whatever to grab it. Depending on the specific designs, it may be worthwhile to combine the store-and-retrieve robot with the carry-cart. It's certainly not going to be more effective to have a humanoid robot that has to climb up ladders, rather than some sort of wheeled or tank-treaded robot that can anchor itself to the floor and extend a telescoping part of it up to get or leave the package.

For picking strawberries, even if we accept that you want "hands with the same dexterity and nuance as a human", why would those hands do best attached to a human body? Strawberry plants are pretty low to the ground, so why not put them on a little rolling bot that can go between the rows right at berry-level?

No; the best case for a humanoid robot is in human-facing positions. We like to interact with people, and a robot (note, not a human-level AI: a robot; human-level AI gets into serious ethical and philosophical quandaries real fast) doesn't care if you yell and scream at it. It'll just keep saying, "Yes, sir. Please give me your account number so I can proceed," for hours on end if need be.
"Evil" is just lazy shorthand. Unfair, unjust, not cool... many words could work here.

Also, just because I am currently talking about the evils of the CCP does not spare other actors and systems from my derision.

People seem to be easily led down the path of A vs B when the truth is always more complex. For example, the antique dichotomy of Capitalism vs Socialism is somehow still the main discussion. From my POV, history has clearly proven both doctrines as faulty in their pure forms. For years we have seen and lived the "third way" but somehow, it's still Capitalism vs Socialism in the conversation.

The reaction to COVID clearly shows how plain dumb US capitalism really is. That doesn't excuse the CCP from anything.
> That harrasment [sic] is hardly uncommon.

I have never experienced significant harassment, and I am a white male-presenting person in a city that is about 30% white. I've lived in various neighborhoods with varying levels of average income and demography. I would walk and bike basically everywhere that wasn't super hilly. I wonder what is different about your experience, the way you carry yourself, etc. that causes these interactions.

> In my experience, the normal, non-exceptional case, of aggressive behaviour between people on the street is unprovoked harassment by troubled individuals.

My experience is that those people usually know each other in some way. Have you ever taken the time to listen, or is it just too shocking to handle?

The situation you describe would seem to be the exception. Compare to violent crimes like sexual assault or shootings, which are overwhelmingly perpetrated by people who already know the victim prior to the assault.
Apple devices are fairly rare in Iran.
SD cards by mail makes sense to me if they are traveling. And I doubt anyone would like the way I do things. I would copy the files to a laptop and let them transfer to my SFTP server in the background. This means I still have a local copy in case something goes wrong in the transfer or the SD card is damaged. Hopefully there is a safe place to lock up the laptop that still gives it some internet. Get a really cheap laptop as they are often stolen from travelers. There are SFTP clients for cell phones but they are all horrible in my opinion. Why SFTP? Trivial to set up a VM at Linode, DigitalOcean, Vultr, OVH, wherever and have storage in seconds. Also means some other company like Facebook isn't scanning / copying my files and claiming ownership of them or holding them hostage in some strange format.
What about Cloudflare?
You say it as a joke but I get sad at seeing all these efforts to circumvent a government policy while another government is allowed to obliterate a same type of service (parcel).

As I have said before. I'm not in the US and I don't care about its politics. But I'm scared and hiw easily they can define Good and Bad and then manipulate the internet
Godot shading language is GLSL with some syntax sugar. The nice thing about the Godot visual shader editor is that you can start from nodes, and then open the generated code panel, copy it and continue from there in a code shader.

I think that although Godot doesn't have as much nodes, I like it over unity's or unreal's editor. It doesn't try to be as smart, so you get separate vertex and fragment stages, and you may find issues like getting local coordinates in vertex stage and normalized device coordinates in the fragment stage, instead of world coordinates (like ue4 does). Which may bite you at first, but it is actually nearer to what happens under the hood.
This is not a retail merchant. This is a big five consultancy. I can assure you their margins are well above 30%.
When government decides a group must be punished then bad things happen.

Genocide, civil war, etc.

http://www.projetaladin.org/holocaust/en/history-of-the-holo...
> By "aggression" I mean panhandling and other interruptions by people undergoing obvious psychosis with no sense of social norms.

I'd like to throw in interruptions by people who are completely sober but have something they want to sell. Going to get your coffee and having someone say "hey, let's have a chat really quick" then reply "wow, ignore me like I didn't just talk to you" when you ignore them is irritating as hell. In the pre-covid days people in my office would go to the Starbucks that was a half block further away just to avoid those people. Note: if a homeless person was this aggressive, the police would definitely get involved.

Also while calling it aggression is a bit of a stretch, I noticed the block that surrounds a couple of the busiest transit stations are noticeably less polite. Things like smaller personal space, more tolerance for cutting people off, less "excuse me" or "pardon me". It makes sense in the context, but if you are passing by it could be a hassle that you'll put a bit of effort into avoiding.
Looks like my ANTLR 4 reference book is available, if anybody is interested.
Welcome, Facebook and Twitter. Seriously
Only if you believe that market economies are always efficient.

Plenty of things have a huge impact on your life and yet nobody wants to pay for them. They're important, but they're not important. If you have an endowment, you don't have to keep wrestling with keeping the two in sync.
For point 1, is the depth of the ocean significant compared to the distances traversed? My back-of-the-envelope math suggests it’s less than half a percent for a cable from New York to England. (6 miles down + 6 miles up, divided by rough great circle distance of 2600 nautical miles.)

I would think a bigger factor would be that the cables (IIRC) don't go in straight lines (which you did allude to).