skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why can’t you just test the algorithm? It’s not conclusive, but it’s also not worthless.
You might be underestimating the percentage of the population for whom the internet is Facebook. Just like AOL a few decades ago, there are still plenty of uneducated people who genuinely don't know how to navigate the internet on their own. Those people then go on to effectively get their news from Facebook or similar.
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I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I think you're overselling it a bit.

I've often found myself arguing that C++ has a simpler type system than the likes of C# and Java due to the latter's pragmatic bifurcation of their types. The C++ type system is certainly a lot more consistent. I know that MyType is passed by value, &MyType is passed by reference, and &&MyType can be reseated. Boom, you're done. It works the same whether it's an integer, a struct, a union, or a class.

Whereas int and Int are not the same thing in Java, autoboxing is a thing, and updating the value in a function may or may not update what the caller see's.

Same thing in C# only they were a bit smarter about it (they had hindsight). Instead generalizing it to value types vs reference types, but now you have a whole slew of rules to keep in mind, especially around nullability and default values. Just the other day I had to remind myself that in C# KeyValuePair is a value type and therefore cannot be null so the linq method 'FirstOrDefault' will return a tuple with all of it's elements default initialized.

You don't have any of these types of questions in C++. I've argued for years that the type system in C++ is simpler. Most think I'm a kook, and I understand why, but having worked with C# from the .net 1.0 days and C++ from the mid 90's, I firmly believe it.

OTOH, there __IS__ a lot of accidental complexity in C++. This generally comes from three places.

1. source compatibility with C. Sometimes this interacts in weird ways with C++, and sometimes it's just C. This is absolutely worth it. Until zig no one had interop with C as good as C++.

2. C++'s mantra of not paying for what you don't use (exceptions being the ... exception), and an extreme focus on performance. This can cause ergonomics or some of the downsides of approaches to be extreme.

3. simple lack of hindsight. auto_ptr and its interactions with containers such as vector are a perfect example of this.

There are a lot of gotcha's and surpising behavior and things you just need to know (such as when you need a virtual destructor). C++ is absolutely a complex language.

Do I think it's significantly more complex than rust? No I don't actually, but it can't be denied that C++ is complex (Rust is complex). People way oversell it, as if it's next to impossible to write good, stable code in C++ without being an absolute guru. Nothing could be further from the truth, and imo good C++ code __LOOKS GOOD__.

There flat isn't a language out there that can shift from high level code to low level code and I would argue the abstraction abilities of C++ is also stronger than Java or C#.

I absolutely love C++, but it's definitely complex. But that complex IS typically there for a reason.
Shameless plug for the Bunch app, this has been the most useful for me so far on soft skills.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bunch-daily-leadership-coach/i...
> On the other end of the risk scale I buy a couple Powerball tickets each time it goes over 500M$

Buying cheap OTM calls every once in a while would probably have a higher chance of profit.
I'm not fluent in this logic lingo, but I don't think there's a point in pointing out that someone might believe in the absurd if its, well, absurd. Yes, surely there are crazy people who will jump down every slippery slope to misinterpret the very simple proposition that something, all things considered and along the line I have stated before, makes the world better, by taking it to the absurd, but I don't think arguing on this person's behalf like you are doing is particularly worthwhile if you even acknowledge that the slippery slope is absurd.
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This is an incredible visualization! Thanks for detailing how you tiled their huge dataset too. Packing the data into RGB channels as you did is really powerful - I've only seen this done for elevation tiles. Do you have a code link to how you're performing the cursor-brush aggregations?

This seems like it could be an awesome application of an cloud-optimized geotiff (COGs) for serverless tiling. I'm curious if you ran across this tech in your research?

I'm not sure where your project will take you, but I'd encourage you to continue! I got a lot of exposure to the vis.gl community when I worked at Uber, and still contribute - Here are some relevant links you may get ideas from.

COG demo: landsat8.earth

GPU tile processing: https://kylebarron.dev/deck.gl-raster/overview/

Elevation tile decoding (also uses workers): https://loaders.gl/modules/terrain/docs/api-reference/terrai...
Woah, is that the US? I'm not an accountant, but I'm pretty sure that's not how it works here is Australia.
I’m not insinuating a falsehood.

TenCent owns 40% of Epic’s stock, has a seat in the board, and controls access to much more of epic’s revenue than Apple does.

TenCent can absolutely dictate a policy in relation to Apple to Epic if they so choose.

China absolutely has interests in seeing a less powerful Apple, for numerous reasons.

Does this mean the Chinese government is driving this policy? Of course we don’t know.

But, we do know that they were ok with their share of the iOS revenue being lost.

It’s also completely unreasonable to discount to 0 the idea that this is at least in part driven by Chinese government priorities.

It’s not reasonable to say that the only incentives involved here are money.
Actually I rely more and more on email(newsletters) after all these years. I subscribed to quite a few newsletters and each morning I just check the inbox, no need to visit 10+ different sites, it's all in my inbox and mostly I just need browser them and click on a few subjects I'm truly interested, thus less time spending on ads from different sites. I installed a RSS extension on the browser and still ended up back to the inbox, I disabled the RSS reader a while ago.
I agree with all of that, but I think it augments my point. It's still the case that indies have more incentive to bash mainstream media than to praise it. An Alex Jones can't easily compete with a major news outlet to report, say, the Burmese coup, but he can shout 'The MSM is lying to you! Myanmar is a Globalist plot!' and amass a viewership of millions. Once you have enough indies riffing off one another, reinforcing the narrative, you wind up where we are today.
These links and snippets are mutually beneficial. The argument is if the “natural” allocation of benefits is fair and the best possible for society.
Maybe they fixed it, the github social link works fine.

Repo is here...

https://github.com/sgolovine/sunnygolovine.com

Deploying of lambda functions from the repo through netlify is pretty neat have a look in the functions folder.
I don't really see that in this case though.

The whole point I'm making is that no advertiser or restaurant is going to use color eInk because the contrast and saturation are so terrible.

This isn't like working around the limitations of a medium to develop pixel art, or black-and-white drawings, etc.

Color e-ink is just a worse medium in every way. It's worse contrast at black-and-white (B&W e-ink is far better), and it's terrible contrast and saturation at color.

I don't see it working for signs, ads, or menus at all.

Color e-ink feels like a cool prototype, a proof-of-concept, but that basically demonstrates its limitations don't make it commercially viable for any general purpose.
> Yet many women wear provocative clothing at work to gain favors.

Where are earth are you working? I've never seen anything like it in 30-odd years.
Well you observe transmission within a controlled environment - ie you keep people in the lab and don’t let them go home.

You could take 50 people, vaccinate half and give half a placebo, infect them with Covid, then put them in 50 rooms with 50 other unvaccinated people (so each has two people) for 2 weeks and see what happens.

The reason you can’t do it without a challenge trial is exactly because of what you said - you can’t track infections in the community.
The law is being made under the auspices of anti-monopoly legislation, so adding a company to the list requires they hold a monopolistic position.
This is why I don't understand the massive cultural obsession over KPOP. It's one of the grossest abusive industries, and anyone who wants to know is able to do a simple google to find out. Those fans? They could use their collective economic impact to help those folks they "love". Instead they just let them get used and abused for their fantasy.
Why do you repeat market share? It is completely irrelevant and unless you understand this it is no wonder you are confused. Abuse of market position has nothing to do with monopoly. You can abuse your position without having a monopoly. Even if Apple had 1% they could still abuse their position. You can disagree that it is a problem but talking about market share is missing the point.

>Just let us do our own thing over here for fuck's sake.

No one is forcing you to do anything. There can be 10 app stores and you could still use one the one. Just like many PC gamers have done for decades. I own hundreds of games and I only use GOG and Steam. Pretending you are forced to do anything is disingenuous. People have more right to use their bought hardware than you and Apple have to deny it. It's not a matter of if but when Apple will be forced to allow people to own their owned hardware.
I'm going to respond to this comment, but this is to the above poster as well and in general to the thread.

Rereading your comments, i think i've responded a bit reactionary and not really addressed some of the things you've said.

Yes, i believe people have a responsibility to keep themselves safe and out of harm. Yes, women and everyone, should be aware there's nasty people out there that will hurt them. You're correct many people are unaware of this.

This doesn't change the fact that the victim of an assault is not guilty of it. Saying women are responsible because they dress a certain way is the same as saying

'Well that guy that got beaten and robbed, it's his fault, doesn't he know that street's full of crime? Everybody knows that.'

It's laying the blame on the victim, saying they are somehow responsible for their attacker's actions. It's their fault because if they'd just dressed differently, maybe they wouldn't have been attacked.
It's not about the hands off approach or letting them do their own thing. It's about their long term goals. Microsoft wants GitHub to be successful while Google wanted Google Maps to succeed.
Used to have the same problem, my mind wandering off into (anxiety raising) fantasies. Now I read the same book over and over again as a form of meditation, it's a way to switch off. Same book because else I will be too engaged and will want to keep reading. I have the brightness way down on my amoled screen so that I can only just read the letters.
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It only displays 4096 colors, I don't think that's enough to render art properly.
So “cancel culture” == “deplatforming”?
Can you imagine the comment threads if google was secretly sharing inbox engagement data with marketers?

Anyway, it's been like this for years and the overwhelming majority of email clients load images by default so everyone mostly works around it. I don't think it's changing any time soon.
I use Gsuite daily through work and images are off there by default. Maybe it's a company default?
Our universe modelled as a giant computer: The quantum game of life
"[...] 'I’m a theoretical physicist.'

'Really! But what do you do, exactly?'.

Experience has taught you that the most effective answer to this question is one that involves travelling to conferences in exotic countries. But on this occasion, your subconscious rebels. You find your brain filling with concepts such as quantum cellular automata, quantum lambda-calculus and different models of computation. These things are the core of your work. They are what get you out of bed in the morning. So instead, you blurt out something like 'Models of quantum computation and the consequences for theoretical physics.' From the look on your companion’s face, you know that you messed up again."
Or geothermal heat pumps for very cold and hot environments.
Why not cash? It doesn't matter where they flee to. Once everyone distrusts the market, a positive feedback loop begins and prices crater.
delegating the war against spam rather then being picked up by the user doesn't seem right. To give Big Tech such power to relieve ourselves of a mild annoyance is destructive. This is understood in other aspects of life Hence we have local governments which are inefficient and inconvenience people greatly. Yet it is found that selling all our problems is counterproductive. It ends with monopolies. The answer to this isn't to charge tech companies for the privilege of dictating our lives, rather, it's greater accountability on behalf of big tech and more responsibility on the part of consumers. The only cure for google domination is for the transfer of information online to become more democratised.
> Companies like Google and Apple end up employing cheap, low quality labor to review apps and extensions instead of high quality technical personnel.

I will need to see evidence Google employs people to review third-party software.
Awesome article author!

I just forwarded it to a student of the space. Such a long and well thought through article with great hilarious images along the way.

Thanks for writing, I've signed up for more spam from you.
Well that's reminiscent of old amiga hold-and-modify, but good point.
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Apologies, I thought you were stating general facts about DNA evidence in general, not about this specific case.
1. Central banks (at least, the US Fed) doesn't have the authority to declare crypto tokens illegal unilaterally.

2. EO 6102 made sense with the gold standard. It wasn't just an "FU" to gold hoarders, but a way to raise revenue to counter the depression. It's not clear to me that it would make sense for such a confiscation of crypto, especially if the legislature were to try option #1.
And this is an example of worsening the user experience, where the previous comment is claiming that tracking improves it. There is absolutely no benefit to the user experience with the tracking here, only downsides; it is a punishment for disabling tracking. The only actual reason to track mail opens is pay-per-view advertising, everything to do with monetization and nothing to do with improving the UX.
A lot of times, the trouble is that it's challenging to say no or delegate in the first place. We found that this works for us internally for helping to drive delegation: https://darja-bunch.medium.com/an-engineers-guide-to-saying-...
But not even in the top 15.

Lots of people moving around the area but only a net 61K people, less than 1%, moved out of the Bay Area. Basically below the noise floor unless you are someplace receiving the immigrants.
I agree. I'd like to try a color 10" Kindle with a screen like that so I can properly read graphic novels for example, not sure that big a screen would be very useful for that.
As i said, you can also put a gun to someone's head (law is based on the state's monopoly on violence).

However if you're the guy who writes the laws in australia, you have less (but still some) power over american corporations.
Then consider it a spectrum with Really Care on one end and Just A Job on the other. I don't think it takes away from the original point.
It seems unreasonably charitable to assume that it’ll be used exclusively as a personal slush fund “eventually” and not “immediately”.
Calling the place were they grow trees for paper a forest is an exercise in grammatical pedantry at least. The flora and fauna in those places is not similar to a real forest at all.

I some cases they don't even provide the same amount of carbon capture because of all the energy spent on irrigation that wouldn't be necessary without the groundwork they do to make harvesting the trees easier.

Yeah more paper doesn't equal less trees, but it does equal less forests because you can't grow a real forest if you are constantly irrigating and harvesting trees.
Sadly credentials are not as transferable.
It's stupid that the program doesn't show a preview of all transactions that will be executed before it does them.

My online banking has that, I don't get why software for managing 900m dollar loans doesn't have that.

What good is it if you require three people to sign off on the transaction when noone actually looks at the transactions!!
Git submodule is the right tool. Git submodule works well for externally-developed "read-only" parts of your project that you need to update infrequently.

Git submodules a few years ago used to be a pain in the ass, partly because the CLI was missing a lot of important functionality. Pretty much all of those concerns are in the past, and now it's just people complaining about having to pass a couple extra command line flags (which you can/should just add to your README).
You're clearly not very intelligent if you can't conceive of people having a different attitude towards life than yours. Basically every big shot entrepreneur ever had opportunity to work at their equivalent of Google, and yet they didn't.
> But if a woman acts like she lives in a world where that never happens, she is not being very wise.

How many woman do you think are pressured into sex who "were not being very wise" What wisdom did they lack?

What does acting "like she lives in a world where that never happens" mean exactly? Cute clothes? Friendly attitudes? Having curves and not trying to disguise it? Un
I'm guessing we won't see 2% for at least 6 to 8 years. Look how long it took for rates to get to 2% after the Great Recession.
It makes sense that the towers are installed where people are, but note that this only holds true for first world nations. Africa has plenty of underserved areas. Or go and see if you can find the border between North and South Korea. You can also see the border between India and China quite clearly.
I am somehow both sure you are joking and also wondering if you are a co-worker of mine who legitimately is doing this.
If linking to Australian news content is not in the financial interests of the company, why would they continue to do it? It shouldn’t be surprising that they choose not to.
I wish I could recommend "For All Mankind", but I can't. And while I feel the first three episodes were strong and well produced, I just really really didn't agree with where it ended up going. I'll still watch the second season because it's scifi on TV and it's a genuinely interesting show, but I can't shake the "late seasons of Battlestar Galactica" feeling the later 2/3rds or the season left me with.
Facebook will block Australian users and publishers from sharing news links
No need to imagine. There was a historic precedent of a convict writing super popular book about their personal struggle.
We used to have an entertainment industry. Now we just have Disney, Time-Warner, Comcast NBC/Universal, Sony, etc. There's nothing wrong with this that can't be fixed by coming down on these corporations the way we used to come down on monopolies like Standard Oil and AT&T.
If curious see also

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19997008
Emmanuel Cafferty is one (extreme) example that springs to mind:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firin...

Also any number of academics, who wouldn't normally be considered celebrities or politicians:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/08/professor-sus...
Other reply covered it nicely. I am not aware of any conventional high efficiency wood stove that requires electricity to run. I do have blowers on mine to circulate air over the convection deck, which also reduces clearance requirements to the rear of the stove.

I opted for a blaze king catalyst stove. It’s probably the nicest stove utilitarian stove you can buy if you want to heat a large space and want to control temp outputs. Downside is cat replacements every 5 or so years, but that’s not a big deal and worth the benefits.

Lots of good options out there!
Well McD uses Samsung's OHF series screens and I have yet to see sunlight diminish them. I expect other restaurants to adopt them or similar. Pretty much eating 200+ watts an hour in typical use for a 55 inch screen

https://displaysolutions.samsung.com/digital-signage/detail/...
The flesh-eating disease spreading in Australia
Much of that info is also in the hidden field test menu on phones. On iOS, if you dial *3001#12345#* and hit call, you'll jump into a menu with a bunch of stats on the network. It's not the friendliest UI though, the one you found is probably better. Other phones likely have other numbers to call, but the field test menu is pretty ubiquitous (it's equivalent to the cable modem 192.168.100.1 page).

EDIT: escaping asterisks
Hypothetical house in New Hampshire, north of Boston:

$600k purchase price

10% ($60k) down

$540k interest-only mortgage @ 2.25% = $1,012/month payment

$12k in property taxes and $3k in insurance (annual) = $1,250/month payment

Even if you pay off the loan balance, that other $1,250/month lasts forever.

As loan rates fall and property tax rates increase, you're seeing parts of the US (TX, NH, NJ, IL) where the majority of the monthly payment is for taxes, insurance, maintenance, and other expenses that continue perpetually. Which can lead one to re-examine what it really means to "own" a house in the first place.
I think the original source of that formula in relation to Pixar storytelling is from here: https://twitter.com/lawnrocket/status/201018115604230146

(The twitter account of a then-Pixar story artist).
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If you're considering E-Ink for environmental/ethical reasons, keep in mind that electricity may eventually come from renewable resources, while materials that go into electronics like E-Ink devices and tablets are definitely finite (and people die every day in Africa because of that). If you need to reduce eye strain and headaches because you read a lot, that's another story (blue light filtering glasses help, BTW). But if you already have a decent tablet, you're not doing the planet or anyone else a favor when you also buy an E-Ink device.

Edit: subaquamille raises great points about battery life and obsolescence which strengthen the argument for E-Ink.
SVG should be able to be embedded anywhere the regular images can be, at least in browser contexts. The advantages: vector graphics, so infinitely scalable, editable and smaller file size.
What's the lifespan of an e-ink display?
FreeBSD (and OpenBSD) are very refreshing systems. It is what Linux was once upon a time, what SunOS was way back when, if you were around and feel what that means. Cohesively put together but beautifully simple. Wherever security or reliability or maintainability matters, nothing beats simple & elegant.

I've been a Linux full time user since nearly the beginning (started in '92) and been slowly migrating to BSDs for server use. Unfortunately the baroque complexity of systemd is making Linux distros more into OSX-like opaqueness. And nothing wrong with OSX, I have a Mac too and like it for what it is. But I'd never run servers on OSX, and Linux is starting to become something I'd rather not run servers on. FreeBSD is a breath of fresh air.