skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are your thoughts on pedestrian vs. train deaths? Obviously it is always the conductors fault and peak train-brain thinking?

Commuting on a scooter I've seen more than my fair share of pedestrians on phones walking out into traffic and idiots on bikes blowing through red lights. Sometimes everyone involved can be at fault.
I wonder if it's less accurate for specific people, but more accurate generally. In other words speech recognition was more accurate in the beginning on english-speaking men, and maybe now it's better for women, kids, people with accents, other languages, etc...

They train this on examples of speaking and maybe it's more broad now.
I'm wondering if you'd be willing to expand on why you chose this mechanical, spinning metaphor for electronics vs some other metaphor?

Most of the popular electronics books I've seen use a water or fluid metaphor to describe how components work (eg the fantastic Practical Electronics for Inventors).

Not at all intending to be critical with my question, just curious.

As a non-electrical engineer who dabbles in electronics, I'm excited for your work to help others learn and happy I can back it!
> Ideally everyone would be protected from random attacks on the street, not just those able to pay.

Exactly. You are advocating for a paid service, some sort of commercial company to do the enforcement. How do you think they'd generate revenue otherwise? Currently San Francisco is setup that way, you pay private security because the cops are useless. That's not like that everywhere. You should fix your police, not bandaid fix the problem for the people who can afford it while leaving the people who can't to suffer.
I don't understand why a bunch of comments here are showing as downvoted. Is this a controversial topic by any means? Honest question.
So did I! and I'm so happy it wasn't.
You seem to be presuming that you will be the one these mercenaries are working for. When mercenaries I hired beat the crap out of you, how will you fire them?
You could also just get a spray in bedliner, they are pretty darn tough. Shoveling dirty into/out of them will not have any negative effect and you can then sweep or hose it out.
There's a lot more to tires than rubber:

https://www.ustires.org/whats-tire-0

Synthetic fibers include Rayon, Nylon, Polyester, Acrylic, and Spandex among the more widely used ones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_fiber
The point is they go to and stay at Google instead of starting their own company.
A trustworthy computing base (TCB) is critical to building secure operating environments. With the lack of funding for ongoing seL4 developments we have lost a critical component for increasing the security of computing systems.
It seems to me that one problem is the allowance of ligatures. Are there more than 2^32 possible ligature/character combinations?

Not that it matters. We're stuck with it all.
> The biggest by far IMO is its ability to power high voltage high draw tools at the jobsite.

The hybrid F-150 could already do that.
I suppose the latex approach is one way to make some of this easier. The document is plaintext, just some letters snd symbols and all the formatting and fonts etc is specified explicitly through typed codes. So that solves the problem of invisible boldface characters and line breaks. I always thought it bothersome how latex worked but it does make some amount of sense to separate content from presentation.

Doesn’t help with internationalization though.
Are you talking about phrases like "please do the needful"?
> As I'm typing this I wonder what we would use for shock absorbant things like phone cases or water proof seals like cv boots on car suspensions.

Respectfully, CV boots on car suspensions have a lifespan of several years, same with phone cases potentially.

As a first step I'm more interested in replacing the things that hundreds of millions of people discard multiple times a day. Starting off by thinking about CV boots and phone cases strikes me as being precipitously close to the "we can't replace everything so lets replace nothing" path.
Most things in life and programming exist on a trade off curve of goodness vs simplicity. Making the thing better means giving up simplicity. Making it simple means removing features people want.

Geniuses invent new ways to get both. Those ideas permanently move the trade off curve outwards.

In programming, some abstractions which have done this are: Operating systems (Abstracting away the hardware), Grace Hopper’s invention of program libraries, high level languages and compilers, HTTP and JSON, tcp/ip (replacing custom transmission protocols), and there’s lots more. Calculus and the Arabic numeral system are examples in mathematics. (It’s insanely difficult to multiply using Roman numerals!)
Very strange examples, why are incels hot topics for men in tech? I have known one incelish person in tech and i've met many hundreds of people by now. Is this incel stuff actually relevant in america? In europe i think it is not
> I know of at least one megachurch that has a SWAT team.

Really? Which one?
Snap CEO: We’re happy to pay Apple 30% – without Apple we wouldn’t exist
Not every time, or at least the solution doesn't always result in everyone surviving. The Mayan civilization, for instance, is thought to have exhausted their local resources and fallen apart as a result.
here's a tire company admitting that tires are a major source of microplastics in the ocean

https://www.nokiantyres.com/company/sustainability/environme...
That is basically how generators work.
Not only that but it's also great for the English models as well. Many models are trained using the libre speech dataset with 960h of labeled audio.

What if you trained with 960000 hours instead??
I appreciate the semantics angle but I don't think it's actually related; semantics are a separate issue.

The reason the animation appears to work in the example you link to doesn't actually have anything to do with the form elements or semantics – rather, it's cheating by animating the `max-height` of the tab content from `0` to `100vh`.

This can be done just as easily without all the form stuff, but it's a bad solution to the accordion animation problem, because (1) it assumes that accordion content will never exceed the height of the viewport (what about on phones in landscape mode? you're only talking a few hundred pixels there), and (2) CSS will ease between the actual minimum and maximum values without regard for where the element's true height actually stops changing, i.e. it will animate from 0 to 100vh in the duration requested even if the height only ended up being like 20px and thus visually stops changing 5% of the way into the transition – so whatever duration and easing you specified isn't actually being rendered in the way that you wanted. If you specified an `ease-out` for example (starts fast, slows down at the end), you'd just get a super fast linear-looking transition that ends much quicker than you planned and never has the slow easing at the end (because CSS is actually still transitioning the `max-height` property which is no longer having any effect on your element that's much shorter than the max-height).
What the hell does it mean "plastics are toxic?"

PS/ABS? Maybe

Cellophane? That's just heavily processed wood.
It’s not early days for it, I feel it’s been done and done and failed every time so far. I think the fundamental problem is most useful work, which we can define as work that can be used in another context rather than just validating difficulty — eg protein folding, is very difficult to reason about the energy requirements of a “valid solution”, and linearly scaling the difficult to adjust to work magnitude. Useful work tends to be expensive to validate also, whereas verify for SHA256^2 POW is trivial. Ideally you want easy to reason, linearly scaling and highly asymmetric create/validate.
“ Comparing different lifestyles revealed that women preferred divorced mothers to married fathers .”

That is a very interesting bias. I wonder what the thought patterns around this are.
CHAZ folks were explicitly of the mindset of tearing down existing institutions in order to build a glorious future. Those folks seem to only be good at the first part.

Simply wanting to preserve one's life, liberty, and property and live in relative commity with one's neighbors does not generally lead to excessive violence and destruction.
> Most programmers don't just write lines of code for no reason. They generally stop when the problem is solved.

If only. Over-engineering is definitely a thing. And programmers definitely miss something more often than not, even when over-engineering. Or even: especially when over-engineering.
I doubt it … after I buy the home, it’s no longer in my interest to disclose any problems.
I think this is the best option, at least for now. Shove all of these streamers into one category so they are now compete against each other. Previously, you could choose any game or category and scroll down until you inevitably found a streamer in a bikini. Now the entire category is bikinis, so there is a lot less uniqueness to their stream. It's a good solution to a problem that might go away on its own with the new rule.
For whatever it's worth from an anonymous but inside source, the former staff members believe they are at war with Freenode, are colluding on Libera to attack Freenode with bots and spam, and intentionally damaged Freenode's infrastructure when they left. These people are not being forthright about their actions, but I still have no idea why. Originally I supported the breakaway faction of staffers, but now I see there's a lot more to this story than we have all been told.
How about we make it illegal for corporations to lock down other people's devices instead? Much better than constantly moving the goalposts.
As TFA says:

> Plastic recycling was invented by the plastics industry in the 1970s to assuage environmental concerns without substantially reducing plastic consumption, according to Max Liboiron, an expert on plastic waste and a professor at Memorial University.

> It has never worked. Despite decades of effort, only about nine percent of Canada’s plastic waste is currently recycled, according to the 2019 ECCC-commissioned study.
A hacker news favorite, James Hoffmann, got the opportunity to taste this lost coffee about a month ago.

As typical with a James video, it’s high quality and worth a watch.

https://youtu.be/iGL7LtgC_0I
HN can be a bit of a hive for libertarian-minded engineers. Regulation = bad, to hell with the nuance, etc.
Android doesn’t allow first class alternative stores, and is also not the market leader.

It’s obviously not an example for this, otherwise Epic would have just made an Android store and moved on.
Only part of 1 passage was in the context of an apocalypse hypothetical.
Metasurface-based key for computational imaging encryption
Why is ~$500,000,000 a lot of money for the homeless? The CA budget is hundreds of billions of dollars, and there’s a lot of people who live in that state.
AskHN: Pay less than $1 to read a tech article
Micropayments have been attempted and failed in the past, I feel like they're a good idea though. You pay cents to read an article, the author gets the money and you don't have to shell out big bucks for a monthly subscription.

I'm trying to get a feel as to why this model hasn't worked in the past? I would love to have the option to pay per article if it was done properly, do you folks feel the same?
I used to live right near Union Square in SF (the heart of downtown). Police are prevented from enforcing laws because of the constant backlash and outrage from the very vocal, but minority of people. I never understood this ideology of anti-police and laws that seems to permeate the bay area. Eventually after 5+ years I decided I'd had enough and moved out of SF and California for greener pastures and couldn't be happier. "You reap what you sow."
And today you get all that plus a lot of features you'd expect in other languages. Starting with PHP 7 the language has gotten faster and better and it continues into PHP 8. Just checkout of the RFC's https://wiki.php.net/rfc
This past year has been markedly worse for many people than it was just a few short years ago.
Time spent removing complexity is time not spent developing features. And your users/clients care more about features than complexity (which is completely invisible to them) or even speed. They don't even care if your app runs 10 times slower than it needs to, as long as it runs at an acceptable speed.

That is why software engineers are seldom rewarded at their companies for "removing complexity", only for finishing projects.
So the weird thing is: I can’t find a CBC report on this announcement on Wednesday. Nor any other Canadian news source, even in the weeds ones like iPolitics. Maybe I’m just not searching properly, but I don’t see any other reporting.

I mean, they absolutely promised they’d ban single-use plastics, and I was under the impression that was definitely a real thing:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/government-to-ban-single-us...

I just cannot find an actual press release from a government agency as of this week. I’d be appreciative if someone could actually dig that up.
Realtors are a scam.
It's expected/appreciated that applicants should put in the effort to tailor their resumes and cover letters for each job posting they apply. So why are companies taking the lazy route?

A single job posting shouldn't aim for all levels of devs. There should be separate postings for each level with specific requirements/expectations and a salary range to go with it.

Bigger companies do/should know how many devs they need for each level. Smaller companies would benefit from being more organized too.
PIA was sold to a company that is associated with Lumosity and Hola VPN.
If the problem of secure, non-wasteful, convenient, easy to use, programmable and distributed ledger problem is solved once ... how will coin X be different from coin Y? Especially if you can exchange X for Y and Y for X... They will all increase the usable "coin" supply without any singular chain having the means to do anything about it. From there, the scarcity argument goes out the window and becomes an academic exercise (...if we had an isolated single blockchain, this would apply type arguments).
Which will happen pretty instantly since the stores will buy exclusives.
Are the different rates reflected in the prices on the store or does the customer pay the same price irrespective of the cut taken by the platform?
Bazel is for the Google-scale companies of the world who must ship petabytes around the internet. Mortals do not use Bazel - a cluster of 80 core CPUs does, and the user just downloads the cached build results.

It is extremely powerful but also extremely tedious, like programming in MPI.
I think I didn't express myself correctly. I don't own a Smart TV not do I intend to. I have and old normal TV for a long time, and if I decide to replace it there's a lot on offer from second hand market. What I own is a good quality 19' monitor and that's what I use for movies. Not rich at all.
Constrained supply or higher cost of transportation = higher prices = incentive to consume less.

I'd prefer to see this dynamic produced by carbon taxes so the price difference isn't going back to the fossil fuel companies, but I'll take what I can get.

Also installation of new fossil fuel infrastructure like pipelines implies a long term commitment to the status quo or even increased production which I find unacceptable.

If the neccessary changes were underway there would be zero demand for new pipelines.
Manufacturers are not penalised for their technical choices.
Making a thinner system seems like a great innovation but society at large pays for that product being non-repairable.

If you want corporations to have free reign on being able to innovate, there has to be some counter-incentive to force them to find innovative solutions around lengthning the life of of the product and its ability to be repaired and recycled.

As it stands today, bad press is the only incentive and its effect is easily mitigated by marketing and lobbying.

It needs to hurt. Innovation is born out of a need to improve. Making manufacturers responsible for their decisions is a way to balance their incentives.
I hope your sister is never my manager
My car was recently hit while it was parked and the plastic trim under the front bumper started to come off by of course scraping against the road. It's not simple to remove either. I had to jack the car and remove some bolts from under it holding this plastic. I can only imagine how much micro plastics it spread all over the road and then of course washed into the ocean.
>Soldered-on RAM and flash, while almost impossible to upgrade, is way more reliable.

It depends, software bugs or different workflow cam cause your storage or battery to fail faster, then you need to throw away the entire device because things are impossible or expensive to repair.
By create you mean develop, right?

The iPad is already one of the best creation tools out there for artists, musicians, photographers etc.

I’d suggest the iPad is hampered more by the limits of iPadOS’ multitasking UI and it’s roots as a scaled-up phone OS - and the scarcity of truly pro-level software - rather than the App Store and not being able to sideload.

In fact the only real reasons to sideload or jailbreak at the moment are to get around the limitations on running dynamic code - or to use cracked/dodgy versions of paid apps.

Wouldn’t be surprised if we see some big improvements in the dev experience over the next few system releases, but to say this will enable a burst of creativity is ignoring all the highly creative ways it’s already being used.
iPadOS is designed to extract the most revenue from the hardware, and the users. An more-open platform would allow for many things that would likely be really awesome for users, but is disallowed because that would threaten Apple's revenue streams.
There are many, many videos like this: https://youtu.be/arss9V3A1VA?t=44

Warning, there is nothing NSFW, but it's just sickening to watch.
What accessibility bug is that? Adding the other unit is specifically so the issues do not remain.
Co-ops are good for a farm. Or maybe in a rural area without lots of easements. Logistically, everyone will want fiber, and there’s no reason it cannot be dealt with like water/sewer/gas/electric. I do not see a volunteer based co op making progress in an urban area.
Once upon a time I used PHP as a scripting language. Then I got with the times and switched to Perl.
Yes.

One problem in amateur astronomy is that people love spending money on expensive gear (like hifi audio nuts) and they think software is hard. So they sneer at technically complex solutions even if they end up cheaper in long run.

I assume microscopy has the same problem. Why make it cheap when you charge thousands of dollars for selling a top optical quality microscope?

I could be wrong. Haven’t tried it yet. But I haven’t given up on the idea yet.
States Vetting Unemployment Claims with a ‘Risky’ Facial Recognition System
in a few seconds I can think of many many ways an ipad is crippled.

- look at your data directly and back it up

- backup and restore the entire device including apps

- use ethernet through the lightning port instead of wifi

- use general usb devices through the lightning port

- wifi scanner (apple disallowed it in ios early-on)

- tcpdump network traffic

- change the wifi-off shortcut to actually turn it off (matching settings)

- firewall

I'm sure people can think of other examples...
Twitch does see a problem. In the past they have handed out bans for people streaming in low cut blouses. Yet somehow now women in bikinis dry-humping pool toys in a portable hot tub set up in their living rooms is cool.

Like facebook or twitter they just need to have CONSISTENT AND CONSISTENTLY APPLIED rules. I can make a judgement on your platform when those two things are happening.
These are the fibers in the reinforcing bands and rims, right? Those are buried under the rubber and if your tire is shedding material from those bands then your tire must be truly worn to nothing. I think the vast majority of material shed from tires must be the rubber itself.

Illustration of a tire cross section: https://www.michelintruck.com/img/tires/xze-zoomer.jpg
>and the user will get apps that are poorly designed, chew battery

Source?
I have no tolerance for politics at work. As far as woke at work goes, not too long ago someone in my office commented on slack "I don't approve of unnecessarily gendered emoji" - I can't even begin to imagine what sort of mind produces such thoughts. First world problems? No idea.
To the point that Fremont PD had to bust a crime ring operating out of SF, the politics there is ridiculous at this point. Also moved out a few years ago.
There is clearly value in the experience of being able to see the person playing the game. It might even be inherently important to the gameplay in some circumstances. The whole thing is personality based entertainment for the most part and you get a lot more personality across when you can see the streamer.

I generally don’t enjoy Twitch because of the nakedness (no pun intended)of the business side. Twitch has every aspect of adult cam sites except explicit content and streamers obviously react and are incentives to interact when people toss them dollars but it makes for a poor viewing experience to me. But they are certainly continuing to fumble on where they’re choosing to draw lines on what is or isn’t explicit.
> last week Alphabet, Google’s parent, had to deal with another internal petition circulating among employees, this one calling on the firm’s leadership to make a statement “recognising the violence in Palestine and Israel”.

It's a special kind of hubris to believe that despite over a thousand years of conflict in the region, the right people to comprehensively understand and solve the problem are some people who make a search engine from the other side of the planet.
Perhaps the assumption by Unicode that we need emoji modifiers instead of just more emojis. All ~2000 valid combinations are enumerated anyway and many require different images so they're effectively different isolated characters.
I'm interested to see Steam on the iphone rather than anything Epic might do
> Android doesn’t allow first class alternative stores

The only thing that Android doesn't allow is for the third-party stores to auto-update apps installed through those stores.

I'm not going to say that's not a big deal, because it's definitely annoying, but I have F-Droid on my phone and get plenty of value out of it, despite having to go through a confirmation dialog to update the apps I've installed through it.

> ... and is also not the market leader

Which is entirely irrelevant. (And if you consider the world market, not just the US, Android definitely is the market leader.)
These problems fix themselves given enough time. Less productive firms go out of business and take their cultures with them.

Social norms are evolved, not designed.
wow, savage.
'deal' itself seems to have a different meaning depending on the country

In the USA it seems to mean 'cope' or put up with.

In Australia / UK it means do something about it.