skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't catch anything unsafe. They have laser trip wires anywhere things might be dangerous. This is becomming common industry practice anyway because even people who can see can miss seeing something - a common problem when doing repetitive tasks is to make it faster and faster without realizing that you are getting closer and closer to something unsafe until you loose your arm.

It isn't clear how inefficient they really are. Sure it takes longer to explain to a blind person who to clean the chips off, but in the end it is just a broom (vacuum?) and the only need to do ensure they get everything. Once you train them they have it. Likewise it takes a little longer to explain where the hold downs are then to explain it, but not that much and there are good reasons for hold down placement so once the blind person learns the location there isn't much more training.

I assume they have a few sighted people around for the unique setups that are not enough like something else that it be put into brial. (deaf but not blind can be good at this)

Again back to my first point: everything they pioneer and make work is something that other industry will be interested in as well. Maybe someone with sight can do it easily today, but often once they perfect a method it is better than what the sighted person can do.

Overall I'd prefer to not be doing manual labor myself, but if you can't handle enough school to get a good degree... I'm glad places like this exist for those who need it.
What about actual open (to an extent granted) platforms as opposed to those proto publishers / platforms like FB / TW / ... ?
HiRISE captured this image of Perseverance during landing from over 700 km away
The writer has already judged the users of this platform as 'Hindu nationalists'. If someone likes Modi he is classified as a 'Hindu Nationalist' and if someone dislikes Modi he is classified as 'Anti National'.

In reality there is no difference between right wing or left wing ideologists these days. Both are highly biased and see every event through their coloured glasses instead of being capable of discussing it dispassionately. Any intelligent person is better off ignoring both sides.
Obscure user IDs could be a defense in depth measure but really you need to be authorizing the data you release against the authenticated session cookie. A view meant for the user's own consumption shouldn't take a user ID at all, just pull it from the session.
Go MindsDB!! We've enjoyed working with the MindsDB team at Altinity. The integration with ClickHouse makes clever use of the MySQL protocol to implement models as queryable tables. For anybody interested in the specifics check out the following article: https://altinity.com/blog/machine-learning-models-as-tables.

We will watch your career with great interest.
You're experiencing the 'criticising the CCP is forbidden' backlash with these downvotes, it's one of the HN voting system failures.

But you've hit on a problem: can we maintain global cooperative institutions in the face of an expansionist hegemonic power like China? I don't think we can, because anything controversial and it gets ripped apart.

The US and allied countries have their own national organizations, but even the EU is compromised on a number of issues, such as creeping fascism (Poland and Hungary) and the inability to take action against member states, or even coordinate in a pandemic. Even NATO is compromised by expansion to include such countries, and Turkey as well. So I'm questioning how useful large group multi-lateralism is for an organization like the WHO.
Here is a site that makes it easy to download the GIF: https://www.deviantart.com/minecraftrulz2017/art/Nyan-Cat-HD.... Please let me know when the crash is expected, now that your condition has been met :)
I have never enjoyed python’s official documentation. It isn’t easy to find answers. Sometimes the value of an SO answer is that you are sent to exactly the right part of the python docs.
Would you please stop using HN for ideological battle and please stop creating accounts to break the site guidelines?

Some of your comments are fine but the unsubstantive and flamewar ones are not fine.

Also, taking threads on generic ideological tangents is explicitly not what we want here. The discussions it leads to are all the same, and we're trying to avoid mind-numbing repetition here. Also, they almost always turn nasty, and we're trying to have a community where people are kind to each other.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Not just that, it allows to ship with much more api's available to the user.

That's why is not always the best approach to appeal to whats people are saying.

Here on HN this was the #1 thing that people used to ask or complain for when the topic was electron.

"They should just integrate with the system browser" was the common saying. But the the burden would be on the developer,who would not only be back to the hellish scenario of multiple browsers implementations but also having to deal with a very skinny SDK to work with.

In the end of the day, the applications deployed on Electron will win, because they will allow developers to do much more and without the application breaking here and there because of the gimmicks of each platform.

When hearing what people say, you must have in mind the kind of the crowd you are listening to. Here on HN for instance is mostly Apple users, mostly developer types, and that's the reason why they ask for the platform browser, after asking for the platform UI, because that's how apple platform users will tend to think.. and the memory thing is the fact that most here are developers.

But that's far from being representative of the whole world of users. So, you might appeal to the particular crowd here on HN, but once you are out there "in the world" you will have a hard time facing contenders that are more resourceful than you, and the worse of all, is that it is by design. You cornered yourself into it because you forgot you are in a bubble..
Laser fencing is the worst, pressure mats are approximately 1000x better. Our machine with the laser fence is always stopping for no reason because there was some dust. I just cut 50 sheets of MDF yea there is going to be some dust.

In woodworking the new trend is to put pads on the gantry with pressure sensors so if the machine smacks you it stops.

That is really great when you are testing new programs you can see what is happening without binoculars. The only downside is that they limit the max rapid speed on the machines so when it hits someone they are much less likely to get knocked over.
This resonated with me:

>What we are seeing is that India wants to be more self-reliant. India includes everybody. Our app doesn’t understand “left” or “right.” I don’t understand “left” or “right.” I’m an entrepreneur; I’m extremely apolitical. And I’m all for the development of the country. If Koo as a statement can make us self-reliant on our own social networks and technology, then we should be cheering for it. We shouldn’t unnecessarily politicize it.
I think users would stop benefiting as soon as some critical service they use like Gmail or Instagram moves to one of these third party app stores to avoid Apple's increasingly aggressive privacy requirements.
In my experience... a characteristic of this type of condition is a tendency for the brain to make connections too eagerly, and to jump to conclusions. His computer did something weird, therefore it must have been hacked. He heard about the Solarwinds breach in the news, therefore it must be related. He opened some files and saw Daniel's name, therefore he must be responsible. And so on.
The fees were quite expensive before they started using Matic.
The comments in this thread so far, imo, resemble comments at the beginning of dismissing BTC (just an observation, and I was one of those making similar observations in 2011/2012).
Would it be much different from inheritance?

Right from birth, one person is destined to be poor while the other destined to be a millionaire.
I believe the aviation saying is "8 hours from toke to yoke"
This article makes zero sense to me.

It's arguing that corporations are contributing data to OSM, but that this somehow... changes the proportion of what kinds of things OSM covers? That traditional users have added "hyperlocal features, such as a neighborhood bench or informal walking path" while coporations are adding "roads, buildings, and all other points of interest" and "a particular emphasis on improving road data".

How is this anything but good? As long as data is correct, the more data the better -- proportions are meaningless. Buildings and roads aren't taking away from benches and paths. And I'm pretty sure buildings and roads are benefiting all users anyways, no matter who contributes them.

I'm utterly baffled by what logic the author imagines this is a bad thing. The data is open, so it's not like corporations are winding up with exclusive ownership of anything.

So what's the problem...?
Ask the guy who painted the Mona Lisa https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/06/how-i-became-leonardo-da-vi...
Wonderful. We now have research to prove what has been well-known and obvious for many decades.

After all this exact form of misleading graph was one of the topics in the famous book How to Lie With Statistics written in 1954. And I don't think that the observation was new then.
Wow. Is Pagan universally reviled? Perhaps because I was never an Ultima fan (didn't play the series) I actually liked Pagan: the graphics, the huge world, and the plot in which there was some sort of conspiracy of fake elemental "gods". I wasn't emotionally involved with Britannia, so I didn't care that the game wasn't set there.

It's news to me that this game was a disappointment to fans.

Unsurprisingly given what I wrote above, I absolutely loved Worlds of Ultima: Savage Empire. Also not set in Britannia but in a pretty cool pseudo Aztec world.
Yeah, I'm not a physicist sort, so I wouldn't know, but I was under the impression that while we have a good model for the "what" of gravity in most "classical" scenarios, and we can even model some weird gravity effects in weird situations, not all of the "whys" are answered and people don't know how to model gravity together with other phenomena.
Redfin Agrees to Buy RentPath for $608M
The creation of integers doesn't scale for large data volumes. Plus you need a place to create these integers, and a failover location, which adds complexity. Multiple machines can each be creating their own guids in a very simple manner.

And the odds of a guid collision is extremely low, and for most applications is acceptable. Having worked with petabytes of data guid performance isn't really an issue as there are more important factors to worry about.
There are 2 separate issues that you're conflating. The first is whether UberCheats infringes on Ubers trademark. I agree with you, this strikes me as infringement.

The second issue is who decides whether it's infringing or not. I don't think Google should be calling that, the takedown should come from a court with the authority to make such orders.

Basically Google is turning into Team America: World Police, and I don't like that route. It's not that I think they should keep the name, it's just scary that once again, Google has completely fucked up someone's life without any kind of legal order.
I wonder if it would make sense for Tauri to support shipping a bundled webview engine for platforms where the native webview is outdated or otherwise problematic for your application? With the idea that you could eventually migrate to system webviews.

That way, you're building with cross-platform in mind but still have the option to pick a stable target if you need it, compared to solutions like Electron where you don't have that choice.
Haha, in my case I literally worked at CCP making EVE rather than the second job it can become playing it. Still some of the best community moments were with that job and the awesome people that play EVE. I had several great Fanfests.
The same images were posted to the official Twitter account: https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere

It's pretty normal for NASA/JPL to release the coolest-looking pictures as quickly as possible for PR, and then follow up with the comprehensive releases of raw data later, especially in the early stages of a mission. I don't see anything to indicate that BBC was given any kind of special treatment.
Hi, Paul! :) I was sent here by Greg Bowers. -David
Gamers Killed Ultima Online's Virtual Ecology (2017)
I know EA is the evil empire and whatever else but it doesn't seem obvious to me that Garriott threatening to resign means he would just get replaced. I'd say more likely they would give them more time.

The Ultima fanbase has always had a cultish love of RG for many good reasons, sure. Firing the guy would not be a smart business decision.

We're also only hearing his side of it. I tend to think EA was in the wrong, but also know that it's almost always the case one side of a story is biased, even if unintentionally.
Corky Lee ‘Was Chinatown to Me’
but this is trivially true of all contributing accounts to OSM, right?
Given the amount of attention that has been paid to just this sort of scenario for more than two decades (along with prodigious spending on detection capability at ports) I would bet large sums that the answer to that is 0 or possibly 1. The danger of what you suggest is in getting caught, and the terribly unpleasant consequences of same; if I were in charge when some country tried that my first question would be if we knew where every family member of the leadership of that country slept...
> This is akin to the idea that Bitcoin's energy use is fine because of the fact there's no military to defend it

I don't see the connection here.
Nationalism is always negative to me because I define it as blind allegiance to a tribe who you don't hold accountable.
Shadowbanning seems a bit fraudulent as well: advertisers are led to believe there's a particular level and type of engagement on the platform, but it's at least partly false.
When you think about how files are stored on the filesystem it becomes clear why this functionality doesn't exist. Each file is basically a list of blocks and some metadata like the total length of the file. What it doesn't have is a length for each block--they are assumed to be full length except for the last, which is stored as the total length of the file.

So if you wanted to add bytes to the front of the file you would have to allocate new blocks to store it, but since there is no map of length for each block you would have to only move it by exact block lengths. Same for shrinking the file by cutting off the head, you can't handle values other than full blocks.

It's certainly possible to build a filesystem where this would work, but when you wrote programs using the feature they wouldn't be portable to any other commonly used filesystem. People also don't change filesystems very often, so even if you got the change into Ext and waited a decade many people would still be incompatible.

Finally, it's a feature that is helpful only rarely. So there isn't enough demand to push through such a massive change given the headwinds it has.
The actions of Twitter regarding the last election have almost certainly guaranteed the rise of foreign social media sites. If they have no qualms restricting the speech of the president of America, clearly they’ll have no issue manipulating other governments. American social media sites really have no one to blame but themselves.

I say this from a realpolitik perspective. This was clearly the obvious outcome.
> But one of the systems does have an advantage because it stays in base 10, whereas the other doesn't.

That's a benefit to humans, not to hardware, which was the context in which I was speaking.

> But you can't if you just use the `intuitive unit', and that's the whole problem. How would you measure the amount of liquid fuel in, say, the small tank for an attitude control thruster of some probe? How does that add to the overall mass of the whole probe? Or to the force you then need to accelerate it by a certain amount? And now compared to the whole launcher?

Honestly? I'd probably measure it in volts. That's what the hardware is doing after all. That's my point, it doesn't help the computer to convert to base 10 and do calculations that way. Fuel level is measured in volts using binary. For a human something like grams probably makes more sense so sure, display it in those units. But that's a conversion.

> In which units do you measure everything going on in a small wind tunnel model, and how do you compare that with the real thing?

Again, volts on strain sensors. Maybe analog or maybe binary, in newtons. Again, the hardware doesn't think in units humans prefer. There has to be a conversion that doesn't use simple in-your-head math.

> Under which conditions do you go from fluid ounces to ounces to cups to pints to quarts to gallons (also note that, again, you not only switch units but bases)?

Cups, pints, quarts and gallons are all based on the ounce and powers of two. A gallon is 128oz, a half gallon is 64oz, a quart is 1/2 of a half gallon (or a quarter gallon) or 32oz (also, approximately a liter). A pint is half a quart or 1/8th of a gallon or 16oz, a cup is half a pint or 1/16th of a gallon or 8 oz. These fractional scales are really handy for converting between units in some situations. The unit fits the task at hand or you can trivially double or halve the size of the unit if needed. It's the same fractional scale and math used with the inch.
They would need a counter party to be able to place the bet though, and those people have an equal incentive to keep the person safe. If no counter party exists then there’s no incentive.

Plus this ignores risks outside the market, like the risk the would be assassin gets caught and sent to prison.
"whatever it is Mozilla is trying to do" is called Tor Uplift. They're trying to implement as much privacy protection as possible from Tor Browser into mainline Firefox. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Tor_Uplift
> firing them is sometimes not an option because their abilities may not be easily replaced

This is the answer to your question.
Why not optimistically copy the file until EOF and report number of bytes copied? Why is stat() consulted at all? That seems broken.
Show HN: A page to visualize and Browse JSON Data
I made this today while I was bored at work. I‘m not trying to make anything huge with it, I‘m just happy that I made something in a while that works and I can be proud of. Maybe my tool will come handy when you need it or so. First project I am comfortable with sharing with a huge crowd

Known Bugs: POST requests are currently buggy and non-functional

What do you think about it?
Perhaps, but what will all those survivors eat? Glow in the dark bread?

The fact that the land is sparsely inhabited doesn't mean the densely inhabited parts of the country don't depend on it.
It's also possible that more of the signatures were fake for the recall election.

I'm not saying that's true, but it's one possibility.
https://archive.is/88J9w
I doubt it. Everyone driving to the local retailer uses a lot of fuel. The truck uses more fuel than any two cars (this varies, but we can assume one is a SUV so close enough) for any distance, but the distance is overall much less because each car is going to the store, while the truck only needs to get from one house to the next, something shipping companies optimize. thus the amount of fuel assigned to any one package is less for the truck.
Agreed, consider lucrative in air-quotes. The ineptitude of the current leadership has meant they've been less than lucrative!

Destabilising the current fiasco would certainly be an improvement in my view.
Apple cracks down on apps with ‘irrationally high prices’ in response to scams
I was a programmer in the 1980s and 90s, then went into a System Administration in 1997. As time went on, there was less and less work, but I still was there to put out fires. I tried multiple times to do upgrades to their database system, etc... but was stopped by production wanting to avoid any possible outage or change of habit. Eventually the job was outsourced.

I took a job making gears, because I was interested in becoming a machinist, and our income situation was secure. I figured I'd spend 5 years in the industry, then exit and get back into Programming, with the added knowledge of machining as a combination skill.

I learned a ton about gears, and small job shop machining environments. What I failed to do was keep up with programming in the intervening 20 years.

I'm trying to figure out how to dive back in, and get work, especially now that I can't do physical labor anymore due to long covid.

I did the Advent of Code last year in Pascal, which was challenging, but fun. I'm up for almost any language or task. The tools are a lot better, GIT is amazing, but the GUI builders aren't any better than VB6 / Delphi for Windows was 20 years ago.
"On first log in" means you've never been in the room before with any device.
Nope. HiRISE is designed for very high resolution still images, not video.
It depends on whether you're measuring in the linear or logarithmic domain; eg 2 options * 2 options = 4 options, but 1 bit + 1 bit = 2 bits.
> IT contractors aren't allowed to decline jobs after they announce availability

I don't get this - I've done a bit of consulting and it didn't work like you describe. A client reaches out to you (either directly or through an agency), they describe the mission, you say yes or no, negotiate the rate and bingo. Exactly like a plumber.

What system are you describing?

> who is a contractor in your world?

Plumbers, independent building contractors, software contractors, corporate trainers - there are lots of contractors out there. The general rule is that they accept no job security in exchange for higher rates than the equivalent salaried position (e.g. an independent plumber makes 2x what a salaried plumber does, however if they get ill or break a leg they are in trouble..). This for me is the main test that shows Uber isn't contracting - Uber drivers make the same or less than salaried taxi drivers!
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I read an explanation earlier this week (which I can't find at the moment) that preparing for the 2011 event would not have mitigated most of the issues we're running into in 2021 -- this is much, much worse than 2011.
"Saying it would be racist to address race-specific factors is tacitly implying that the current status quo is either equal or acceptable."

This is an absolutely counter productive use of language that implies if I'm not 100% onboard with your ideology then I'm some sort of closeted racist, which is insulting and ridiculous. Such wordplay is part of why we are in such a polarized political environment.

As to the rest of your comment, other than direct and actual racism, I personally don't think there are race-specific drivers of poverty that aren't explained by socioeconomic factors.
Social media is not destabilizing. The increasing income/wealth/opportunity gap is destabilizing. Social media is just how it can be seen.
"Adiposity is the Crucial Enhancer of COVID-19" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7430889/

It has been disappointing to see how our public health officials have taken a defeatist approach by focusing almost entirely on infection control. While minimizing infections is an important aspect of pandemic management, many people are still going to get infected no matter what. So we should also take steps to reduce their risk of a bad outcome, including reducing excess body fat.