skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Im in the southeastern United States, we never really totally shut down. We had a few weeks but then yea it pretty much ramped back up to near normal-ish levels.
If I had to choose between injection, electrocution, and firing squad, the latter sounds the least stressful/scary.
Just noticed they deleted most of the coordinated attack tweets, good thing I archived them: https://github.com/procedural/vkd3d_by_valve/commit/eec812ae...
Shouldn't a gyroscope compensate or at least allow getting flat level? I think maybe they didn't use it because they didn't have accurate gyroscopes we have now.

For clear shot, would tiny drones that go up work? How high do we need to get a clear shot?
" For example, right now, central bank could loan lots of money to retail banks, but there's no guarantee that those retail banks will in turn loan it to average consumer."

That's because banks don't work like that. Money isn't a thing, it is a unit of account.

Banks create money out of nothing by discounting collateral [0]. You turn up with a property, the bank has it valued at $100K. The bank then creates a financial instrument called a 'mortgage' which it holds as an asset on its balance sheet and which is a 'charge' over that property preventing you selling it until you discharge the mortgage. Then they issue $90K of their own liabilities which you call a 'bank deposit' into an account with your name on it. That liability balances the new asset.

And that's about it. Loans create deposits. The central bank doesn't get involved in lending at all. Never has.

[0]: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
I came to this realization in university - I love software, I love writing programs and solving problems, but I really don't love office work or the idea of sitting at a desk all day. I dropped out of a software engineering program to work on a factory floor, a decision I haven't regret once in five years (even if my parents would consider me a failure). The hours are good, the wage is good, benefits are good, I get to come in stress-free and leave 8 hours later in the same cheery mood. I tried stints in "more successful" fields like in-house software or sales teams, but there was just something about it I loathed. To the outside world I'm just some deadbeat small-town factory worker, but I don't think I could make my life any happier or more enjoyable if I tried.
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I have built several services that do dynamic infrastructure provisioning in response to API calls as part of the core functionality. This isn’t unusual.
I (in the US) get drug ads online for drugs I've never heard of, that give no clue whatsoever what it does or what condition it treats.
That's a good point I didn't really consider. Here're the resulting file sizes.

The triangles used a larger image as a starting point though.

75K image-previews-adaptive-blur-output.jpg
13K image-previews-gaussian-blur-output.jpg
9.1K image-previews-plain-blur-output.jpg
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This is a cruelly ironic development against the backdrop of the major DNA news in another capital case today—a potentially innocent man put to death.

There is no do-over or undo, no fixing mistakes, when the death penalty is in play.

The death penalty is barbaric and indefensible. The so-called criminal justice system is criminally unjust, and abolishing the death penalty is a good start towards reform (one among many).
It's absolutely a bubble. No way that there's inherent value to be found. It's missing the #1 reason Bitcoin has done so well, a limited token count. Dogecoin can go inflationary at any point its devs decide to.

That said it still has plenty of head room, IMHO. I'm fairly certain we'll see $2 by 2022.
Well, as I said, it's all "curious". Since the OP of this thread is in fact the owner of that repo (thus the README), possibly he can chime in and clear up the confusion. /g (I am just rubber necking here!)
It really doesn't matter to the person being executed. I think changing it is more about the sensibilities of the observers.
Bits within bytes have a defined order when you do things like pushing the CPU flags register to memory, reading it back into a numerical register, and then bit-shifting/rotating through it. That's something you can do on basically any architecture that supports preemptive scheduling; there's usually either a PUSHF or PUSHALL there to assist.

But, even without the ability to address the memory at the bit level, bits-within-bytes ordering still matters on any architecture where bits are striped between memory channels, RAID-0 wise. (Just like those graphics bitplanes!) The processor being LSB-first vs. MSB-first on how it interprets the data bus, determines which sockets you put the LoROM and HiROM firmware chips into your Apple II :)
I wonder about the two strokes. Him and his sister. Probably genetic or is it a result of the same diet they both share? Is eating an egg a day really bad for you. Science has gone back and forth on this. He would get plenty of exercise what could have caused the strokes?
That was my thinking exactly.
- You are living a certain life and don't know a different world exists

- You are living a certain life and don't have the means nor the inclination to change it

- You are living a certain life, can probably strive for something more, but choose not to

Can people be equally happy/content in all these situations?
Maybe it’s an old Australian thing then :)
IBM created a microchip of just 2 nanometers, the smallest yet
I've seen people have the exact opposite reaction to this same article. ("If this was a foreigner from a poor country, would you still think he was boring and sad?") So much of our lives are just the stories we choose to tell about them.
There are countless other more humane ways to kill people, if we must. No need for a "high tech" solution here.

I'd prefer they keep it difficult/impossible to do though. Making capital punishment easier is the opposite of what they should be doing.
If you're so incompetent that you can't estimate your costs, a fixed price microserver built into a dilapidated wooden shanty with no obvious fire protection system is what you should be buying.
I even have this issue in language learning.

I ask a quæstion about a specific, unusual grammatical form in a language I find hard to understand, and I am met with “You should instead phrase it in this more basic way that you already understand.”.

I am obviously not asking how to translate the specific example sentence I conjured up, I am asking about how to use the specific grammatical form I inquired about.
I really liked the very first run-from-CD distro (Yggdrasil). It provided a full-featured Linux environment back when many systems lacked sufficient hard disk capacity to run one from there. I believe my initial Linux system had a 70MB hard disk, later upgraded to 200MB. The Yggdrasil disc had ~600MB of content and worked well (if you didn't mind the slowness).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X

https://archiveos.org/yggdrasil/
Cool! Did you have fun with Canvas too?
If I could pick a way to go, it'd be getting trashed on some delicious liquor, passing out, and then just having someone drop a large concrete block on me from a notable height.
mini quote from a good article about the Guardian's Experience column works:

> [Our writers] tend to interview the subject and then work with them to tell their story in their own words.

via https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2021/feb/15/experienc...
> Aparently the defaults are poor. The default green is 0xb9ca4a which is actually yellow. I think it would be a good idea to copy the default colors from urxvt.

Sounds a little bit entitled to me..
LLVM recently got a m68k backend. It's still marked experimental, so distros likely aren't enabling it yet. But it's seeing active developments from hobbyists. Main author of the m68k just had a book on LLVM published.
Decided to change this on my copy: http://droid.cafe/starlink
I still have my Linuxcare BBC. And tomsrtbt and QNX media. Fun times.
The US. While many businesses (especially restaurants) shuttered in 2020, most retail businesses reopened rather quickly though usually with a limited capacity (Home Depot, a massive store, was permitting something crazy small like 200 people in at a time here last spring and early summer).

Hiking trails and state parks in CO opened up by late spring or summer 2020. Restaurants and bars were really the places most impacted from what I saw of last year in the US as they went a much longer stretch without allowing indoor dining.
Every year for so many years and this one got some upvotes eh? What gives
Why some tech workers are turning down jobs at TikTok
the deputy mayor of Jerusalem, Arieh King, is recorded addressing a physically disabled Palestinian man.
“Did they take the bullet out of your a*?” he says, standing next to far-right Israeli member of Knesset Itamar Ben Gvir. “It’s a pity it didn’t go in here,” he adds, pointing to his forehead.

Wow.
I believe paste is a general term for any kind of spread made to put on a sandwich.
Ask HN: Any programmers making a living off of GitHub Sponsors and/or Patreon?
Are you or do you know of anyone who is doing this? Is it possible?
"THEY have been abusing that trust" seems weird to me. In my opinion SOME (not "they", meaning "all") policemen have been abusing that trust, and it makes a world of difference.

Is stating that the situation was "chaotic" privileging police's perspective (which is sourced: "Col. Woodrow Jones, the state police secretary").

Dismissing every police statement because some of them were lies may be dangerous if it leads to even more "esprit de corps" (the very cause of many of such lies) among cops, or to less good guys in the police force (they usually don't want to join a despised group).
“Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.“

“No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.”

- Mark Twain
It's written by this woman, who calls herself a "pop philosopher". Her name is at the bottom of the article:

https://storyterrace.com/kiran-sidhu/
I’ve rented a truck so tomorrow I’m making two stops, Goodwill for stuff that’s still useful and the dump for stuff that’s not.

I have noticed people do drop some janky stuff off at Goodwill that should really go to the dump.
This is in the UK where there exists something of a social safety net. For example, I very much doubt he pays for his sister's carers (speaking from experience), and he will have healthcare available for himself if he needs it. So he may not feel the need to consider an exit plan.
That's quite interesting. I wonder if it could be used for the blur step because it did take a long while to run.
"The fact that China and other developing nations know this but are still willing to take the incoming damage just shows how much it sucks to be a undeveloped country"

Ne'er have truer words been spoken. Welcome to the real world outside of the HN bubble.
I have some dear Santa Cruz friends with a toddler that just informed us that they are moving to Atlanta next month. Her mother and her entire family grew up near Santa Cruz, but all her siblings have migrated to Atlanta, because of housing, and her mother finally did too. Without family support, they've decided to leave now too.

They have good jobs, just not good enough to rent more than a two bedroom hovel.

This is the story with pretty much any friend that doesn't either come from a family with enough wealth to manage down payments for all the kids, or a crazy-high income from the right type of job.

If we keep in pricing out everyone except for those with family wealth or high incomes, we will lose most of the people that make California great and interesting.
Busting Myths about Event-Driven Architectures (EDA)
The FAA is planning to have complete coverage of the CONUS with VORs with their Minimum Operational Network (MON):

* https://bruceair.wordpress.com/tag/minimum-operational-netwo...

600 VORs will give complete coverage at 5000' AGL.
> work with them to tell their story

Hmmm... Suspicioun that this is heavily editorialized intensifies.
The best maths book I’ve ever read was Measurement by Paul Lockhart (yes, the one of Lockhart’s Lament [0] fame). It’s been a long time since I read it in primary school, and I can’t remember exactly why I loved it so much, but there is one thing I remember clearly: the problems he poses are just really, really interesting. I can’t say I love problem solving, but I remember struggling with some of those problems with hours, just because I wanted to know what the answer is. Highly recommended as a way of teaching interested children (and adults!) about geometry and calculus.

[0] https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....
I am getting USSR vibes here
Are crypto coins startups?
Lately, I've started seeing Bitcoin as a fintech startup. It's an open startup. Anyone can invest at any stage. The promise was that it will be the next currency, but since then it's pivoted to (trying to) being a store of value. This leaves room for other fintech coin "startups" to deliver on that promise. In that sense, investing in a coin is like startup investing.

Wikipedia used to be shunned as an unreliable source just 10 years ago. Now, everyone relies on it. While we won't cite it in a paper, there's no longer the sense that "anybody can edit it, so it could be fake info". Wikipedia was accessible to everyone from the start.

Now, I know that the similarities end there. Encyclopedias are very different from finance.

What do you think?
I think, from reading around the examples/spec a bit, collections of items use brackets to bound the collection. The examples are collections of a single item though, so it's slightly confusing at first glance. One hint at that is the keys defining those collections seems to be pluralized in all the cases I've seen so far.
My happiest period with relation to work was similar, laborious but satisfying because I got something done every day and didn't have to think about it after work. When you're writing software, it's hard to turn off the switch (I think especially if you find software development itself to be an interesting subject) when you leave the office. It's hard to not think about the design, the thing you'll do tomorrow, continue pondering that failed test case or new bug report into the evening. I only really got past that myself by introducing a significant break between work and the rest of my day with exercise in the 1-3 hours after work. But that's a rather high cost for anyone with a family.
Social isolation is, on a population level, associated with poor health outcomes. The data shows this most strongly in the elderly, but it’s true at all ages.

Of course, certain individuals may enjoy and thrive in isolated environments.

https://www.cdc.gov/aging/publications/features/lonely-older...
I think this has a lot of potential. You should add more oneliner examples.
Original author here

When I originally created this it was so sparse that it was really easy to distinguish, now that would probably be a useful feature.

It's also just not that simple to implement. I threw this together really quickly, and the only data I am using is the orbit tracks, it doesn't include whether or not a satellite is on station yet.
You can be partially in :-)

I highly recommend using the Nix package manager alongside whatever you're comfortable with. That way you can `nix shell -p foobar` when you need a package quickly or fallback to brew/apt/etc if you're not yet comfortable addressing the situation in Nix.
Ugh. Yet I’m totally influenced by Amazon reviews. I’ll choose one item over another based on the number of stars and how good the reviews are.

What can be done to stop it? Maybe ONLY confirmed purchasers can review at all could help?
Genetics and aging? He's 72.
Heh. Hopefully some of the production systems I work with are also well-played trollings.
The beauty of a simple life. Away from noise, stress and all things that make one miserable. Being content with simple things in life is nothing more than a beautiful life for you and your family.
Pardon my ignorance: once one gets to:

https://awslabs.github.io/smithy/quickstart.html#next-steps

well, what is it? What was autogenerated? I know JAVA from previous jobs, but not Gradle and whatever the Smithy generated artifacts are to be composed with is unclear to me.
Ask HN: Platform to stream and record dozens of video calls?
I run an online school and when taking an exam our students stream a live video of their workspace using their smartphone. I want to record these streams to a central server. If I use Zoom for this purpose the cost will be A $21 per month per student. Is there a cheaper alternative?
Or think they enjoy it. People can fool themselves in many ways.

There are however negative health effects, and have been studied quite well.
Having been garnished for an amount (thanks to fraud that went unnoticed for too long) that many would consider to be too small, I have to disagree with you.
I think it does matter to the person being executed. There are numerous stories of lethal injections going wrong, of those being executed writhing around in extreme pain.

If I were on death row I think I’d very strongly prefer a firing squad. If I were the person performing the execution… perhaps not.

But I think you’re right that these changes aren’t being brought about for the benefit for the executed. It’s embarrassing for those executing when one goes wrong and states have had to resort to more and more obscure cocktails of drugs as companies refuse to sell when they know their product is being used to kill. By comparison a firing squad has a very simple supply chain.
Would restricting reviews to only confirmed purchasers help?
Makes sense. Your use-case is definitely more demanding so I understand how this would not be useful.
The US labor market is running hot or not?
It might be instructive to look at how people choose to die when they have a free choice. Ah, what am I saying, why am I trying to think of better ways to execute people? We should just stop doing that.
Smithy today doesn't support any serialization formats that require fixed ordering. We do recommend that any additional members added to structures are added at the end to help with C++ and Rust codegen though.

That said, traits can be used in Smithy to enforce constraints on structures, so if you ever needed explicit indexing like that, it could be done via traits and protocols (Smithy's nomenclature for describing how clients and servers communicate). In fact, protocols are defined by traits, and traits can enforce requirements on the rest of the model using a DSL called selectors... Probably way too much info other than -- it's possible and easy to support this in Smithy if it's ever needed.

As for required vs optional -- today it's treated as server-side validation only and not used in client codegen. This allows service teams to remove the required trait from members if something ends up needing to be optional in future without breaking clients. We're working on some ideas too to see if we can generate even better code for SDKs in languages like Rust where optionality is very explicit, but without sacrificing the ability of being able to remove the required trait.

And, in general, backward compatibility issues are caught with Smithy diff, which also supports custom rules: https://github.com/awslabs/smithy/tree/main/smithy-diff
>I'm sure there are also office-based US companies with good pay and W/L balance.

They are increasingly difficult to find.
Classic physical world example: I was making a wooden frame to go between a light fixture and the ceiling of the overhang on my porch. I made the frame in my workshop, was going to paint it and mount it outside.

So I went to home depot and asked for exterior paint. It was winter, and I instantly got a lecture about how you can't paint outside because it's too cold (before the guy showed me where the paint was).

It's minor obviously, but it stands out because it's just like all these internet discussions where someone would rather tell you you're doing it wrong then try and help you. To me it's a cultural problem along the lines of lots of "we better not give people information because they are not enlightened enough to use it the way we want them too" ways of thinking. Personally I think it's a bad approach everywhere.
I think this is the first HN article that I upvoted. Thank you for a wonderful article.
How do you even go into debt with something like TeamViewer.
Very interesting response. Thanks for sharing!

It would be interesting to hear if this desire for isolation goes away as you start spending more time around people (which, if I’m reading your comment correctly, it seems you will do). Wish you all the best, either way.
Given the polygons are regular shape and size it would be simpler then you might imagine. It just might take a couple of tries to get the size correct.

For the blurred triangles I think it would take a bit more work but I'm fairly sure there are ways to detect which image has more edges based on which you can guess which is the blurred segment.
Where would here be?
I wonder if they could use another satellite to sweep a DOA satellite. They all start in almost identical orbits, so unlike most orbital degree cleanup plans there aren't huge relative velocities to deal with or anything...

It would mean that 1 DOA satellite means bringing down 2, but that might be worth it if the DOA rate is low.
I'd adjust that to hard liquor, then a general anaesthetic on top to be sure, then the brick and a firing squad after the brick.
Goodwill isn't part of a "market", it's a charity. As such prices aren't set rationally but emotionally.

The people giving away their time at the register are doing it to feel good about themselves, to "give back", not because they are interested in or have competence in retail. The product being traded between buyer and seller is smug narcissistic self-satisfaction and moving anything at all is irrelevant.

I've volunteered at a similar outfit as a driver and tried to offer some assistance with realistic valuation for the ikea shit that was wasting 60% of the warehouse, but it wasn't welcomed. $300 for a Billy is "reasonable" and it's for a "good cause".
That's a good point. It would definitely be worth A/B testing the results.
I want to be sympathetic but this is a direct result of how Californians vote and of how they view the role of government.
Why promoted women are more likely to divorce
Totally and you order something and it’s not like the reviews said it would be... because a ton of them are fake.
the star-based navigation was common on ICBM back then and i think still is.
That's great for the 4% who want this. However, it might be a bit more user friendly to default to the no tracking option (due to the overwhelming support for that option,) and allow users who want tracking turned on to manually enable it in the settings.
I live in a small city in Vietnam. There have been about four weeks of lockdown in the past year, besides that my life has been pretty much normal, dinner parties, festivals, hiking, island hopping. I've traveled a lot around Vietnam over the past year, there's so much to see here.

The only thing that's really changed is that there are no foreign tourists, but the local tourists seem to be making up for it.