skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You absolutely cannot have a perfect copy of a Picasso. Sorry, that's a meme that's not real.

Yes, the point I am making though is that if you cannot see the differences with the naked eye, or if in fact you prefer the copy if given a test, then why do you value all that stuff? Enjoy the much cheaper copy.

It is true there are unique properties that a physical original features - it is just that the value assigned to them is arbitrary, and there does not seem to be an obviously good reason to pay a lot of money for it. People do it because of what is essentially a collective hallucination centered around the idea of scarcity.

Now if there were a way to copy a Picasso perfectly, I posit that people would still assign an arbitrarily high value to the original. I mean, you can see that being the case with diamonds.

Obviously, there is something about a physical object that a digital image will never be able to reproduce. That's why people still enjoy real books, right? So I wouldn't be surprised if a real painting would carry a certain premium over an NFT. But the idea that people pay for an NFT, signed by Damien Hirst's own private wallet? I see no fundamental difference between valuing that and valuing the entirely imaginary benefit of Damien Hirst having once stood in the presence of that physical object you bought.
> They cannot be monetized via anything but ads.

What if ads were banned?
Every skill has benefits. Just find a place for useful implementation. Thats all.
The millions of existing mailboxes installed at regulation height certainly play a big part of it.
In cities in the US, it's similar. They have full size vans that aren't particularly custom for routes where the delivery person gets out and walks to the mailboxes. These new vehicles, and the ones they replace, are largely for suburban/rural deliveries where they drive right up to the mailbox, and so need a right hand drive vehicle.
It’s OK. The skies haven’t fallen. (And I was able to accomplish something today.)
Things take time in the real world. Unfortunately there are whole supply chains to deal with.
10% is a solid start and shows intention beyond just a proof of concept.
If you ever used any of their services you agreed on a bunch of ToS.
That's rapidly changing.

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/amazons-cust...

"Just one year after announcing the purchase of 100,000 custom electric delivery vehicles as part of The Climate Pledge, Amazon has begun testing the new vans on delivery routes."
Let's talk AVIF – and why we're not adding support just yet (2020)
Electric delivery vehicles could easily be charged overnight from regular 'residential' outlet.

Since average mail route is 45miles [1]. At 1000Wh/mile - that's only 45kWh of charge needed per vehicle.

[1]https://www.grit.com/community/usps-rural-delivery-factoids
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but power failure resilience is a system design property. You shouldn't be trying to solve it at the orchestration/provisioning level. Add some caps, have durable memory, change FS, avoid writes to OS partitions, do atomic updates, etc.

However, you might find QBee relevant for the other stuff.
>The previous models were injury/death traps

Particularly since they routinely swing in and out of the roadway without looking or even using their directional signals.

It's best to treat a mail truck on a roadway as a being of pure chaos, utterly unpredictable and capricious, if not always actively malicious.
Sounds like you have the wrong motivations for a career in software engineering. No offence but I wouldn’t want to work with someone who is purely in it for the money and people can easily suss out that kind of attitude. If you don’t have passion for the job it’s going to be hard to succeed in your goals
Yes, I agree with your elaboration. Also, of the 100 bugs, they didn't get 99 of them, because there are surely some left. Maybe they got 90, and there are 9 still hiding out.
Ah, right, I didn't notice that in the article I linked, the black hole was an artificially created sonic black hole, not a real one.
Maybe I'm jaded from stories I've heard of academics behaving badly. Scientists have been sniping at each other inside and across their disciplines longer than there's been science. I didn't assume he was any different and I don't know why anyone would.

Maybe he capitalized on the brand a bit more than others, but I can't find a standard to hold him to. How can I say how I'd act in his shoes when I would fight to my last breath just to not be in his shoes?

Maybe we do need "to judge" as the reviewer says, but I don't have the stomach for it. I guess it's "thanks and good job" to the people who do?

The editor dropped the ball by not titling the review "Hawking Hawking Hawking". I also got a pop-over to subscribe, which puts us at "Hawking Hawking Hawking Hawking".
RHD is pretty common. That's how all vehicles sold in the UK, Japan, and Australia (and some other places) are sold.

There there are conversion kits for common rural postal vehicles (jeeps)
Real-Time Rendering in Curved Spaces
The United States is a vast, sprawling area with nearly every conceivable type of geography. The road conditions and residential density covers all possible ranges. The truck is designed for the worst case scenario allowable while minimizing drivers danger.

Also, the USPS uses panel vans in denser areas. My neighborhood in Seattle has the mail delivered in a Sprinter/ProMaster/Transit thing, but weird trucks are ubiquitous elsewhere.
Apparently there is a wrong way of tying a figure 8, that leads to a version that is much harder to untie. Personally I've never had issues untying a figure 8, so it might just be that my default way of tying it happened to be the correct way.

It's described in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAr-uHd8h8o Skip to 13:20 for the interesting part.
If your behind a router with QoS features, learn how to use QoS.
Neovim is not a rewrite.
TBH I'd entirely support the NHTSA making the new mail truck's low hood height mandatory on all new vehicles. It would make being hit by an SUV have a far, far safer outcome.
I've been working on a network of small communities and I'd tend to agree that these are the path forward. Even so, all 3 points you make are valid. I have no idea how I'd ever monetize the thing, and the only way I've been able to find interesting people is via direct recruiting (on average, the organic users have less to say).

I've been trying to open the network up to the public more, but I'm starting to realize that making the communities more insular and invite-only had been more successful - but that's very hard to scale.

The site is https://podaero.com - always appreciate new users.
I find this unlikely. If I had a random sampling of ads shown to me, 50% would be for women, and the majority wouldn't even be in English. I definitely exist in some relatively small demographic, where the majority of any non targeted scatter shot would be annoying noise.
When the pandemic hit, I was involved in an improv musical-comedy team that was easily the best thing I'd done for my brain and mental wellbeing in a long time. The ability to be right in that moment right then was really difficult and yet so easy, and it was wonderful. I really miss it, and I'm so hopeful that with the vaccine in place we'll be able to find a way to make it work again safely.
That paragraph struck me as poorly thought out/written as well. I think finding chiplets that will run two cores at the higher 3.5ghz clock is the tricky part, not that it's harder to pick the 2 fastest cores than pick 3.
Two things:

1) Despite Snowden, most Americans are not aware of the extent of the surveillance to which they are subjected.

2) Your first quoted paragraph mentions "suspected of committing a crime". This suggests to me that they were asked about targeted surveillance, that is, of criminal suspects. The issue is one of mass surveillance: the surveillance conducted of those who are not suspected of criminal activity.

Most people aren't okay with that, when informed of the full scope of that to which they are subjected.
People turning it down would happen anyway once the reports started coming out. By withdrawing it pending more data, when (if) it comes back to market there will be increased confidence that it's been properly vetted. At least, more confidence than if it was left on the market as clotting reports continued to roll in.

I don't think there's really a good answer here though. It's balancing human lives in the basis of imperfect data and predictions of human behavior.
For 165,000 vehicles that will be used for a long time, it probably doesn't matter a great deal.

I don't mean that it doesn't matter at all, the procurement process needs to make sense and not be a path for graft, but there's reasonable volume there to spread fixed costs across.
The whole 2 factor thing really falls down if sms is a part and you aren’t getting the messages.

I had a miserable time trying to get into Backblaze recently, with even the ability it offered to switch sms providers failing.

The list of valid keys they give you on setup bailed me out eventually, but it took me a while to remember them.
This isn't my field, and i cant talk to the specifics, but i think that's the wrong question.

The important thing is did it move the field forward? Did it get us closer to the "Truth" of the universe.

There's a certain sense that newtonian mechanics isn't "true" (with relativity and what not), but its still obviously an important contribution.

P.s. this is physics not math. You don't prove things of the natural world, you check if they are the best explanation of emperical observation. This is very different from proving sonething in the math sense.
I think reactions can be text, but they shouldn't be shared with everybody by default.

E.g. you post a picture, and I comment on it. Doesn't mean your mother should see the comment too.
git-osx-installer is still at 2.27 :( Seems unusual such a popular project doesn't have up to date binaries for a popular OS.
AWS also used "off-the-shelf" CPUs for a long time. That's changing as well. The USPS definitely has the scale and need for customization.
A friend of mine delivered for Canada Post.

A few years ago, exiting the vehicle on the left side to come around to the curb, he was struck by a car in a hit and run (they never caught the driver). Spent 6 months in hospital learning to walk again, and while he’s since somewhat recovered, he’s going to spend the rest of his life living in significant pain.

Not having to exit into the road, when the job involves people exiting the vehicles hundreds of thousands of times per year, matters a lot for the long-term safety of the delivery force.
I had never seen a USPS vehicle until I was a legal adult and moved to college. I grew up in a very rural part of New England, America - on a dirt road. Winter had plenty of snow and plowing wasn't a guarantee at all. Considering the USPS Creed "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" -- Snow is the first one! Our "mail lady"** drove a Jeep Wrangler with the steering on the right instead of the left, and the passenger seat removed to make room for mail.

**She was known as "the mail lady" because our town only had 1 mail carrier. I realize that term wouldn't fly today, but this was rural America 30 years ago and I wanted to give context. Same mail carrier for 20+ years. Worked 6 days a week. Her name was Linda - Bless her for her hard work.
Then VCs wouldn’t invest as much into social networks.
These three are nothing like each other. Stephen Hawking was a first rate genius on the order of Einstein. Neil deGrasse Tyson is a decent scientist who's a good communicator. And Bill Nye is a funny TV host with an engineering degree.
HN is my homepage and when it wouldn't load, I told my coworkers the internet was down and took a 3 hour lunch.
Shouldn't the correct fix be to remove the infinite loop?
Having been a very-atheist person in the past, I'd argue that the cult of personality of the new-atheist horsemen like Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, etc, was more of a draw than science itself. Because at the end of the day, science doesn't make claims that are relevant to any educated or experienced theist's worldview. I would have wanted science to be on my side because it'd justify hatred of people's religions, which is a really immature worldview in retrospect but definitely an outcome from immersing myself in new-atheist drivel. Whereas these days I fully accept the contention that science and religions really do coexist.

Where the bourgeois and proletariat come into play, is when I look at the stark differences between someone like MLK and Kenneth Copeland. I'd not expect any MLK type to emerge from a theology like Kenneth Copeland's. And we know that the billionaire class does attempt to distort information on all kinds of things if those things are giving them immense power.

I'm reminded of how they did that with climate change for 50 years and various nutritional debates over the years. And many other things. The intention being to poison the public discourse long enough that they can exploit more.

Does this mean there was a concentrated effort to poison atheist v religion discussion as well? I've never been privy to conversations at that echelon of wealth so I can only point out that the results speak for themselves even if the results were never the goal. But personally if I hated humanity and wanted to keep my power to exploit, I'd do whatever it takes to make sure there's other interpretations of Christianity besides MLK's for example.
Yes, some people regard science with dogmatic devotion, but there's very obviously a qualitative difference between the "sermon" of a celebrity scientist and that of a religious leader.
> in your words, that "the quality is not good"

Oh, you were asking why I said so? Because I have clicked the “notes document” link in the article, the OP used the same tiger test image as me, and that document has a couple of screenshots. And these were the only screenshots I have found. Compare them to screenshots of the same vector image rendered by my library, and you’ll see why I noted about the quality.

> Vrmacs draws paths by decomposing them into triangles, rendering them with the GPU rasterizer, and antialiasing edges using screen-space derivatives in the fragment shader.

More or less, but (a) not always, thin lines are different. (b) that’s a high-level overview but there’re many important details on the lower levels. For instance, “screen-space derivatives of what?” is an interesting question, critically important for correct and uniform stroke widths. The meshes I’m building are rotation-agnostic, and to some extent (but not completely) they are resolution-agnostic too.

> and it is perfectly capable of rendering high-quality small text on the GPU

It is, but the performance overhead is massive, compared to GPU rasterizer rendering these triangles. For real-world vector graphics that doesn’t have too much stuff per pixel that complexity is not needed because triangle meshes are good enough already.

> it looks like it occupies a sweet spot similar to NanoVG

They’re similarities, I have copy-pasted a few text-related things from my fork of NanoVG: https://github.com/Const-me/nanovg/ However, Vrmac delivers much higher quality of 2D vector graphics (VAA, circular arcs, thin strokes, etc), is much faster (meshes are typically reused across frames, I use more than 1 CPU core, and the performance-critical pieces are in C++ manually vectorized with NEON or SSE), and is more compatible (GL support on Windows or OSX is not good, you want D3D or Metal respectively).
Engineers are aware and raised that people (and apparently the engineer in question) don't like the change

The unnamed product manager has decided to go ahead anyway

A stark and infuriating contrast from all the democratic-sounding marketing "you can help build the browser of the future/etc." doublespeak that Mozilla loves to evangelise in a lot of places to recruit developers, but then...

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Contribute

"Thanks for your interest in contributing to Mozilla! The Mozilla Project welcomes contributions from everyone who shares our goals"

In other words: "do what we say, or fuck off."
I feel that the best cure to these various forms of procrastination(paralysis by analysis, choice overload, writer's block) is simply to leave your feelings and emotions aside for now and power through it even though it doesn't feel like it. All other treatments which I see mostly as mind games(e.g. psyching yourself up, trying to rationalise or explain away your feelings) have very little effect if any.
Ever since a co-worker was caught out messaging a snarky remark to his boss (who happened to be sharing his whole screen at the time, thus broadcasting the snark to the whole call), I've been absolutely paranoid about never messaging the presenter. The idea of having that happen is really terrifying, which helps keep me polite. :)
Here in Germany DHL and the like use ebikes for the letter / small packet post daily, and the bigger stuff just gets dropped off by a van... seems to work...
I don't think that the $450 classes designed for people outside of the comedy/improv world are taking away opportunities for those who moved to NY to enhance their career in comedy (performing in main stage of improv troupe, writing for television, etc.)

I wouldn't really know though unless UCB is really only sourcing its main-stage talent from their classes, which I highly doubt. because if they were, that'd sound like a pay-to-play type of thing, which happens/happened a lot in places like L.A. for musicians trying to break in a long time ago, and that would be super lame, and likely not lead to their main stage being very funny.

Besides, they probably have massive rent to pay , why not offer classes to the dilettantes/hobbiests who want to try and experience different things and work on their social skills and confidence? Also, I have to assume that they offer classes in rooms that aren't the main stage, and all that. They're just utilizing space and time for revenue.
> assuming the vaccine is causing the deaths, which likely isn't the case anyways

The number of people who got sick equals the base rate, so I really don't see how this could be the case.
What's the pay range of the jobs "THROWING job offers" vs the 400k Big Tech.?
Half? I live in the Midwestern US. Have been dabbling in software for most of my life, have some decent working examples and am finishing my BS:CS this year.

I can't even get close to my current salary in my current unrelated field ($85k) to even consider a career switch. Are the jumps from junior to mid-level/pm that high? I am a PM in construction so that may end up being my path.
The problem with emoticons/reactions is that there's no way to indicate whether you are reacting to the linked item or your friend's commentary on it. For example, imagine your friend posts a link to a news story about RBG's death, commenting "so sad that RBG died, and now Trump gets to replace her". What would it mean to have a reaction of an angry face or +1 or thumbs-up? Does angry face mean you're angry at the news, or angry at your friend's reaction? Does +1 mean you agree with the news, or agree with your friend's reaction?

Among close friends, it would be obvious most of the time. But most of our social media contacts are not close friends, and it's not clear what these reactions would mean.
The OP "Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, Awk, Forth, Rust" does not allow external libraries BUT then makes an exception for C, and then makes a further exception -- In the optimized version we’ll roll our own hash table.

Wikipedia is your friend -- "A hash table uses a hash function to compute an index, also called a hash code …"

Which languages shown on the benchmarks game website 'don't allow to specify custom hash functions …" ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function
Yeah honestly if I saw something like that I would have saved an offline copy on a USB stick and handed it to police for investigation. The problem that it even happens is much greater than the problem of online distribution, and deleting it and pretending it didn't happen isn't a satisfactory response.
Good job on the person who found they could reduce GTA Online's abysmal loading times; it shows how greatly they could improve the game.
Keep in mind Rockstar has almost 0 interactivity with its fanbase and doesn't listen to any feedback. So the possibility of negative attention forced them to do something about it.
Very nice idea, as the site says, it’s “tinder for movies”. Can’t really test it atm due to the fact it’s only android for now but would def give it a shot when its out for web or ios.

Just a note, website on chrome ios is a bit weird. While scrolling things appear and disappear in the middle of the page and is really hard to follow what is happening.
Hey there. I did a second 10 minute code review on Portmaster. First I want to say, well done on your modular source tree. It made it very easy for me to go through your open source project. Second, Portmaster is more vulnerable than EBPFSnitch. There's a firewall bypass like EBPFSnitch and a possible auth bypass in the API. I need to verify if the auth bypass is exploitable. A blog post sounds interesting but I'd need to coordinate disclosure with you so your end users aren't affected. I'll circle back in an email thread, expect it in ~1mo.
I'd argue that if we eliminate all features that not everyone will use, we'd have a bare bone tool that's barely useful, except to those who just like it so much that they'll implement all the features they need via scripts.

Since it's not something that turns itself on, eating your RAM behind your back, or slowing the computer silently, I'd say let the feature creep in as long as the maintainers are happy to maintain it.
I'm reminded of the quote: "A camel is a horse designed by committee."
Yeah, it's a provincial backwater; even as an expat - it's pleasant for awhile, but notice how people never want to go these top 10 cities... LA, NY, SF, London, Paris, Tokyo etc are not in these lists.
My rural carrier had no problem putting mail in my mailbox from a modified jeep. They would stop and get out for packages of any size (putting them by the house).

In town here, it's all walking routes. I wonder what the numbers are on curbside vs walking?
> Why does everyone think "something needs to be done" about social media?

Facebook offers shitty controls, and reads and influences our conversations. Unlike cellphone carriers.
And yet.....everyone manages. Houses in rural areas have mailboxes outside of the property, sure they are not the iconic american half-pipe shape, but properties all over the world have mailboxes too.
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I agree with you but you have given the solution as well. Add VAT on all digital advertising and keep raising it until ads aren't the least friction way for people. As long as the social media is encouraged to leverage for profit, they will. We have to force them into a model that has different incentives.
IRC isn’t accessible by most people. It discriminates based on technical knowledge, which isn’t necessarily bad because it leads to mostly people with some level of education or intelligence (on average) finding it.
Watch out not to condemn them no matter what they do. Sure, they messed up in the past, but given the situation they found themselves in when they saw this report, this response is still good.

You risk making discourse difficult when you continue punishing people who are attempting to do the right after doing wrong for a while.
Firefox has a kiosk mode; I wonder if they didn't consider the effect of updates on kiosk mode.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-enterprise-kios...