skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nikes and playing on iphones.

This is the kind of statement you hear from conservatives that blame poor people for their poverty.

There’s a number of reasons. Because when you churn through a dozen pairs of cheap no-name shoes, it ends up being more than just buying a better set of shoes. Maybe a relative gave you some Christmas money. Or maybe you got overtime for working an extra 20 hours.

Being poor, you are constantly judged on your appearance, and it has a huge effect on how you are treated by retailers, government (police, social services, etc), teachers/school admins, and friends.

When you’re poor, everything you own is half broken, purchased used, worn thin. You most likely live in an area that has a high crime rate, is loud, has a long commute to your job, is dirty. You have access to terrible, low quality food. You skip doctors appointments (can’t afford the time off or co-pays) and dental work. (American) society constantly blames you for your situation.

Whatever the reason, poverty is a daily assault on your human dignity. It’s incredibly difficult to escape. Sometimes, you have to say, “Screw it” and buy your kid the expensive shoes. That money won’t get you out of poverty, but it may make you and your child happy for a bit.
We're all in on Github actions these days but there was a time when we used to maintain our own Jenkins instance. I have spent less time waiting for the occasional Github problem to be resolved than I did trying to keep that thing working.
Yeah but it says there are some worse algorithms, is it because of the cost of taking an action or reset?
From my perspective I am always surprised when I see such article on the HP. When I check articles in the newest section - https://news.ycombinator.com/newest - most of them do not get upvotes and dies. So there is for sure some skill involved in getting here. :)
Not quite as capable as Falcon 9 (16.kT to LEO, 5.2m fairing diameter) but it will certainly cut into SpaceX's cake once it is online.

While they are currently spending a lot of effort on recovering the 1st stage of the Electron via parachute the Neutron is going to land on a drone ship just like SpaceX does it. Clearly due to the different size of these two first stages.

Looking forward to their design, particularly the engines they will be using. Is there any info out there yet?

Finally a video by Rocket Lab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agqxJw5ISdk&feature=youtu.be
Debatable and depends on length of time shortcut has been in use. I can type :wq like a madman. My finger can slide straight from w to q, whereas with double-z, I have to pick my finger up and put it back down. So much movement! What next, you want me to run a marathon?
This almost reminds me of Edison's effort to speak to the dead: https://www.grunge.com/328547/this-is-how-thomas-edison-trie...
Ask HN: Does video processing usually work frame by frame?
I just watched this excellent video about how to use deepfakelab.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=deepfacelab+tutorial&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DI0p2jLri2h8

I learned it does the deepfake frame by frame as individual images. I thought it was more aware that it was working on a video than that.

Does video processing always work frame by frame like that or does it ever take into consideration that there are prev/next frames.
If the domain thief has access to the network solutions account, they can just remove the domain lock. They have the keys to everything.

There are more secure registrars than network solutions that require much more to transfer, like others have executive lock. You can specify certain terms that must be done before a change. Like the registrar must call you on a certain phone number and get a password verbally.

At DnProtect, we are aware of at least 20 domains that have been stolen since the beginning of the year. Most from network solutions.
Addendum: The C library on Tru64 Unix didn't work that way either, reportedly.

* https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c/c/SPOnRZ3nEHk/m/dAoB...
>imperative languages are based on the idea of a turing machine

In what way? I wouldn't count executing sequential instructions as a "the idea of a turing machine", and no major imperative language has programs which have only finitely many states along with an infinite memory space that is both code and data.
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If I'm understanding this right, this version of Maxwell's Demon has the demon wait for random fluctuations between the chambers, and then close the gate when there's a gradient.

So dumb question then, doesn't this have the same problem with the original, that you have to spend negentropy to measure one side and know if it's higher potential than the other?
Author here. In Wasm3, we have implemented some workarounds for that.
We can easily run on Nordic nRF51 with just 16 KB of RAM!
There were a couple of years where I saw my wife for approximately 3 minutes a day. She worked nights and I worked days (plus school) and we saw each other as we handed off the kid as I walked in the door and she walked out. I was asleep when she got home and she was asleep when I left in tue morning.
The hardest part for me was convincing my partner that price is not equal to value. It took me a decade of arguments and constant proofs to even begin to convince my partner that you can almost always find much better value for much less money.

Marketing does such an incredible job at convincing people that price and value are the same thing that it takes tremendous mental effort for people to acknowledge that it's not like that at all. People refuse to acknowledge how powerful advertising is at distorting our own perceptions. People think things like "I'm not that kind of person to use product x or drive car y or live in country z, I'm better than that" - These people are misguided.

Usually you have to move to a different country to get better value. You don't want to buy a house in a neighborhood next to money launderers who get easy money (you don't want your hard-earned money competing on the same playing field as their big easy-earned money). You want to buy a house somewhere where people work hard for their money. Sometimes these places don't have a very good reputation but the reality often has nothing to do with the marketing.

People also get caught up in group think. I was saying for years that the best value real estate was outside of big cities including in the surrounding areas. Nobody agreed with me, I often heard arguments like "We don't want to live next to the kinds of people who live there." The great irony is that "these people" are probably the best kinds when you judge them based on their character and personal values. Again, this is due to people confusing price with value. They think that people who earn a lot of money are better people, smarter people but there is no correlation - They are just lucky people with huge egos; in many ways they are more primitive. Since the pandemic now all the rich suckers suddenly decided all at once that they want to live outside the cities... I'm thinking to move even further out.
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> ...I don't know what that even means. Or do you just mean, "we already have too many people, the population needs to go down"?

Hey there. Sorry for the poor choice of words. That's pretty much what I mean. I see comments where people mention a replacement rate for a country, and that maybe a country might be just at or slightly below the replacement rate. I believe that even at current levels we're far and away in excess of where we should be. So... when someone says "but Country N is now at the replacement rate" - I just think that the population at that level is beyond where it should be.

> You get the picture. From a practical perspective, America would easily make strong progress on reduced energy consumption, but the political will there is weak.

Completely agree, and include myself as one who is guilty here (to some extent). I try to minimize a lot of things, but ultimately it's hard when the environment we live in itself is very geared toward doing the opposite.
Interesting concept, I can imagine you're right about the amount of mis-pricing.

The temptation would seem to be to run with your system for 12-18 months and then turn it off once the numbers seem optimized. Do you expect that and how do you intend to combat it?
Users do not understand that E2EE means no easy device syncing and no serverside search, they just want to feel 'safe', but are not ready to perform such necessary things as fingerprint verification. And without verifying the identity of the remote party, E2EE is totally meaningless.

Telegram's far better UX than Whatsapp is possible because they do not have e2ee on anything but Secret Chats (and I've never seen anyone on Telegram using them). See, for most users the promise of security is better than actual security and all attached UX problems.
> One thing is for certain: with 99.99% of people, their friendliness (or meanness) is proportional to the size of your bank account.

This is worth repeating. Sadly we’re talking 99.99% of all people world wide, not just in country X.
This is interesting political analysis, but the fact remains that the global population is topping out at several billion with almost all arable land already being farmed and ecological impacts accumulating. All these related problems may have solutions, but reframing the situation doesn't really address potential for improvement.
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Based on iFixit's iPhone 12 teardown and thus the most recent version of the module, I think they might be able to get it into the screen without much compromise. An important consideration here is that it's not just about the Face ID bit, it's about the better camera bit. While it was important even earlier, this past year has made videoconferencing and other remote work rocket up in priorities, and Macs suck pretty badly by modern standards in terms of camera quality. It's a big, by definition both very visible and very social feature (because everyone else in the conference can see how good/bad you look). I think that might be a motivation for Apple that Face ID by itself wouldn't have.

However that aside, thickness concerns don't apply a single bit to the iMac or to a standalone (Mac only) module (or even integration in Apple's ultra fancy display), so that objection doesn't cover the spectrum of Macs.
I think a lot of it has to do with higher education as well. Most courses focus solely on theory rather than teaching the best industry paradigms for writing clean code.
Sorry, I accidentally pushed it to live before I was finished revising it, then hurriedly (but not hurriedly enough, clearly) pulled it down again. Blame me, not the site.
Author here. For Apple M1, I'd suggest building a native build of wasm3, to get full speed of "the fastest interpreter".
NextDNS.io (sort of pihole as a service) unwraps those too. From the linked PDF:

“Other tracking countermeasures operate as a DNS resolver, and return a bogus IP address, e.g. 127.0.0.1 when the domain name matches an entry from the blocklist. As this defense works at the DNS level, these can also consider all the intermediary resolutions to CNAME records, and return a bogus IP address if any of them resolve to a domain on the blocklist. Examples of DNS-based anti-tracking measures that adopted defenses against CNAME cloaking include NextDNS [42], AdGuard [4], and Pi-hole [50].”

It’s worth reading NextDNS’s discussion on how this is implemented, and the differences between their approach, AdGuard’s, and pihole’s:

https://medium.com/nextdns/nextdns-added-cname-uncloaking-su...

If you have NextDNS configured with the AdGuard base filter set, www.cultofmac.com is blocked for being CNAMED to www-cultofmac-com.ezoic.net which in turn is blocked by the AdGuard base filter. In this case, ezoic is an ad-optimizing content management system (CMS).

Here’s a wiki for setup for most routers, see Supported Platforms at the bottom:

Wiki: https://github.com/nextdns/nextdns/wiki

Splash page: https://nextdns.io/

Setup: https://my.nextdns.io/start

For iOS families, NextDNS now supports Apple Configuration Profiles to enforce Encrypted DNS at the policy level, no software to install or manual settings: https://apple.nextdns.io/
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Gnome terminal and all its derivatives support ctrl-c and ctrl-v natively for copy/paste if you just set those as the keybindings in its preferences.

It then uses smart detection for when to send SIGINT vs copy/paste.

if there's no running process, it copies on ctrl-c

If there's a running process and no selected text, it sends sigint on ctrl-c

If there's a running process and selected text, it copies

It will always send sigint on ctrl-shift-c

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Frankly I wish they would just default to that setting. It's much more pleasant to use than having to remember a different copy/paste shortcut for working in the terminal.

One of the first things I change on any new machine I setup for desktop use.
I love academics. They can post shitty code full of single letter variables etc and still get the applause for it, not to mention the paycheck :D
Annoyingly enough, archiv.is itself will present you with a buttflare CAPTCHA if you don't feed it enough tracking information.
It's mentioned in the Zenit-E review[0]:

"Most Soviet camera designs were perfectly sound – it was more often that the construction itself was lacking. TOE engineers learned on the assembly line, then went back to the UK and stripped and reassembled every single camera that came into the UK."

I grew up in Poland and my dad said the exact same thing - that when he was young, if you managed to somehow buy yourself a brand new Soviet motocrycle, fresh from the factory, the very first thing you did was disassemble the whole thing to bits, lubricate, and reassemble everything at correct torques and in correct places. Then you could go and safely use it.

[0]https://kosmofoto.com/2018/12/zenit-e-russian-camera-review/
Don't use passwords in SSH login at all and add your private passphrases to the keychain to unlock the key. The keychain can be unlocked with touch id
Tough subject, also because customers hate price testing.

There's a fascinating presentation by Jeremy Howard discussing dynamic insurance premium pricing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYrWTDxoeGg
http://archive.is/MtS5O
Yup, similar experience here w/the higher membership levels -- just wasn't as much value as expected. But the basic elements of 1) really good customer service w/typically zero hold times, 2) solid support for disputes vs the typical dismissive approach elsewhere, 3) long-term data availability (which is also a key Amazon feature), 4) points program that is really low-hassle and high usability, all make it worthwhile to prioritize AmEx, even with the basic level.

I'm also surprised that AmEx is going downmarket, but I suspect that has more to do with being able to keep merchants on board vs really wanting those customers.
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I know in my home town some of the homeless weren't actually homeless, just scammers begging for money at pub closing time.
How does SSH knows my password is **** ??!
It's to do with the ability to formally reason about the code using formal methods/verification etc...
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I remember reading it initially some time ago - and visiting it anew I'm surprised how high the multiple is. In my head it was "10% - 25% higher".

My personal hunch is too many of us "shoot just too high" in terms of what we can afford, be it housing, cars, whatever.

Granted there are plenty of disciplined individuals and families out there and it's certainly not impossible to live within one's means.

But human nature is what it is - why "settle" for a $400,000 home when the bank will give you a mortgage for $500,000? Why settle for a Ford, VW or Toyota when the car finance payment for a BMW or Merc are just a little bit higher each month?

There's definitely a status thing goes on too...
Have you thought about the various Architect roles? Some companies, particularly Financial Services and organisations in the UK/Europe employ people in these roles. They're a good blend of technical/people/project leadership with an accompanying level of responsibility. Could be right up your street?
This is a good-but-old post from Dan Luu. There's no date on the article, but an entry in his Atom feed from 2017 references this post. I doubt much as changed since then, so his findings are likely still relevant.
> I fear the day that Google ends their search funding to the project

I look forward to that day - until then, all decisions Mozilla makes are impacted by that fear.
> if one does go the route of encapsulating the more efficient array logic one can have the best of both options.

Do you see a way to do this that doesn't involve rolling your own array-like or list-like data type and replacing all uses of ordinary types with the new one? (This is actually already the implementation of standard Python types, but if you're encountering the problem, it isn't the implementation of your types.)
If you use your little finger RHS print as a reference, perhaps that won't be too bad? On the keyboard it seems fairly reachable.

I haven't tried it myself ...
The thing that most people, including those in this thread, don't understand about poverty, is that the side-effects don't magically go away after you are an adult.

Reading the replies here, I do get the typical sense of "well, they are people who made poor choices, sort of feel sorry for them, can't relate."

In reality, many poor adults were poor children. The funny thing, is that in the glorious US of A, the main distinction is worse than in other countries - if you are poor, you go to a school district where 95% don't go to college and you get stabbed and hooked on something.

That aside - no one tells you to study for the SATs, no one tells you to brush your teeth with an electric toothbrush and floss, while not drinking pop which destroys your enamel. No one tells you to do your cardio and no one evaluates your postural imbalances. No one has you studying Deutsch and Fancaise. No one takes you swimming, and you probably don't do a martial art unless you get lucky enough to get into a ghetto boxing gym.

So, by the time you are 18, you have ruined health and an under-developed mind, and then everyone looks at you and thinks - what a careless, lazy, adult. He/she isn't even going to college - what an embarrassment. And while there is the military, the poor don't even get properly told about that and what's available.
The deal was "one country, two systems" until 2047.
You can't trust China, just like almost everyone else, btw.
I’ve read that the power to actually back process transactions is much greater than that.
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Original source / credit for this is probably: https://twitter.com/cabel/status/931292107372838912
Neither of the registrars “acquired” or “offered” anything. They simply accepted transfers from some fraudulent registrant, and there’s absolutely no reason they shouldn’t allow transfers of domains “in active use”, popular or not. It’s just business as usual for them. The domain was eventually listed by the registrant on Afternic, a domain marketplace. Again, neither of the bounced-through registrars got anything to do with the listing and reselling.
we don't, but even for our public repos, our first action is to only allow maintainers to run checks
AIM shutdown on Dec 15, 2017. This doesn't seem all that short sighted to me. More like legally blind.
You can't even get a lease with bad credit. And with poor credit you're not getting these "$200/month" offers for leases. Those assume pretty good credit scores, which you almost certainly won't have if you're poor enough you have to let utilities get shut off.
Maybe in the old days not paying your last month's rent would be an option but not today.

Nobody who is truly poor would skip out on the last month rent unless they were desperate, because the landlord will find things wrong with the apartment and will charge you the most or all of the security deposit. Then they will file an unpaid dept claim, turn it over to a debt collection agency and it will hit your credit score. Which means in the future you have to rent in the really scary parts of the city, and if you don't want to rent in the really scary part of the city you'll pay your last month's rent. Also a lot of jobs check credit scores, a bad report could keep the author from getting hired.

In regard to the car, the author doesn't have the credit score or income level to even qualify for the lease let alone, "the cheapest lease deals", not to mention the author certainly doesn't have the $3K down payment. If you are thinking that they can just roll the down payment into the lease, well they only let you do that if you have the best credit score.
Yes, I work in a high traffic (Alexa rank above 400) ecommerce site specializing in stock photography, music and digital assets. We see a 10-15x spike around Black Friday, around Christmas to New Years, both in direct consumer sales, inventory upload, new sign ups (customers and sellers) and in ad inventory sales.

We don’t do code freezes except in very special, isolated cases of known failure risk. When we do need an isolated code freeze for one system, that is a “all hands on deck, this had better get fixed” kind of moment. If the larger system of most of our core services needed an extended code freeze to be safe, that would result in probably (justifiably) firing senior engineering leaders.

If you have a CI/CD system and you can’t trust normal automated deploys at any time, that is a huge problem. If this happened one year and you needed the code freeze, so be it - that’s just responsible risk assessment. If you intentionally plan the system to work this way every year that is egregiously bad engineering leadership.
One thing to remember when buying such a camera is to avoid those which were built in haste so as to fulfil the production plan for a given period - usually a month.

The serial number often indicates the date of production as well.
All problems are engineering problems. In this case we haven't engineered a culture with enough people of engineering mindset at the top.

To say that something is a political problem is an empty statement, it attempts to pass the buck. Politics is decision making, as is coding. If we had decision makers who understood things like how the natural world works, we would have fewer problems with it.

I am even allowing a very broad definition of what engineering is: understand some dynamic well enough to intervene in it.
Not sure how "fooling" comes into play. Only trusted applications can request to use Touch ID/Face ID in the first place. It's not like there's a way for a random application to just say "Scan your face and let me take over your machine"
Maybe that’s better, if you’re using sudo you should probably think a second before you do what you were going to do. I used to enforce the disclaimer coming up every time after I broke a package one too many times.
I’ve got Debian on an X1 carbon and everything is flawless. I wouldn’t doubt that mac’s trackpad is still slightly better by some measure but any difference is in the noise for me.
I think the definition still holds up fine. The main difference between being a broke adult vs a broke college student is that being broke as an adult is almost always because you're poor.
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While I'm not suggesting your method isn't more economically efficient, it also requires time and money investment. When I was "poor", my parents would often both work late and it wasn't uncommon to not see them until later in the night if at all before bed. Many nights my brother and I would make our own dinners. Dealing with large cuts of frozen meat takes planning and skill that microwaveable dinners do not.