skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, (home) automation is not (only) about saving a total amount of time. It's about saving time at the right moment. When I have lots of free time, I will happily spend it refining my home automations. It's a fun hobby and simple programming with things that you can actually see and touch. But when I just got home from a stressful day at work and have to hurry to some other appointment, saving a few seconds here and there can actually be very valuable. As long as all your "smart" stuff can't access the internet it's great.
What would a homeless person do with an office?
Well, even more technically, the point of taxes (and QT) is to remove liquidity from the system when inflation gets overheated (since we can print money / have the FED monetize the deficit to pay for our spending if we need to).
Static Sites: Blog Generator Rewrite
In response to the slowness: I clicked the settings button on the battle screen (top right star-shape) and maxed the text speed, and actions moved very quickly after that.
- The reported SF outdoors homeless numbers vary from 5,000 - 10,000

- But it depends on what data you have and how you slice it:

- 60% of the $300 - $350 million homeless budget goes to welfare rentals (single women and moms are eligible for that, rarely men), so that's 15,000+ adults plus children alone

- there's probably more than 10,000 on the street, and growing daily as average rents are over $3,500/month now.

As you can see, with a population of only 500,000 and almost 5% of thoe homeless, SF has a major problem.

What the EU learned from African economic migration is that once somebody is in their regionn, authoriities have to process them one by one, which can take years per case. So once a city gets behind, there's no good story.
It is both harder to spell and pronounce than freenode, and objectively worse, by those measures.
It’s the post author’s job to describe them, or else the rant can be easily misinterpreted as PEBCAK and disregarded by others, or spawn unnecessary threads such as this one I started. It is of course their right not to do so, but I assume with screeds like this that the goal is to convince others to be outraged, and it doesn’t do a good job of that.
Every crank is a visionary, but not every visionary is a crank.

Some visionaries prove to be prophets and seers. Some have ideas that are bogus. Due to the nature of visionary ideas, this is most of the time unknown -- e.g. Julian Jaynes's bicameral mind.

A crank is a visionary whose ideas are knowably bogus: e.g. Rupert Sheldrake. (A charlatan is unlike a crank because he has no idee fixe, no vision -- he moves opportunistically. A conspiracist is similarly unlike a crank because it bites at anything that moves.)

Whether Ted Nelson is a crank is left as an exercise for the reader.
This was one of the saddest movies I've ever seen.
This is one of my pet peeves. Browsers used to be called User Agents. But they've become increasingly user hostile. I want to be able to tell my browser what to remember. Not some random manager/developer who thinks it's insecure for me to have a form field remember my username.

This is one of the areas where browsers could really add some value. Make it easier to decide what to (not) remember. Make it easier to view and edit what's remembered. This is all a tedious pain at the moment, for no good reason I can see.
Toyota certify and guarantee their tanks for 15 years, in production cars that you can go out and buy today.
That's not really surprising. A lot of people like California and, if you don't need to worry about a daily commute, that opens up a lot of options that, if not exactly cheap, aren't as eye watering as the Bay Area.
SF didn't have a lot of tech until very recently, when they were forced out of the valley by the real gentrifying force, homeowners that won't let anyone build more homes in case it causes traffic.

These are also the people making SF expensive. It's not just artists, it's their own children who can't live there, one reason SF has fewer families with children than any other city IIRC.

As for quirky businesses, that's DRs and licensing.

https://sf.eater.com/2021/4/22/22397615/matcha-n-more-ice-cr...
Image cropping algorithms are hard. When we made our first one for reddit, it used this algorithm:

Find the larger dimension of the image. Remove either the first or last row/column of pixels, based on which had less entropy. Keep repeating until the image was a square.

The most notable "bias" of this algorithm was the male gaze problem identified in the article. Women's breasts tended to have more entropy than their face, so the algorithm focused on that since it was optimized for entropy. To solve the problem, we added software that allowed the user to choose their thumbnail, but not a lot of users used it or even realized they could.

I assume they've since upgraded it to use more AI with actual face detection and so on, but at the time, doing face detection on every image was computational infeasible.
> balanced basket of crypto investments

That's fair, but I doubt it would deviate very much from the top 5-10, and that each of them would have significant differences from each other (ie not carbon copy clones). I would argue that most of the value in those top 5-10 was net-new and not a dilution of Bitcoin.

The notion I'm arguing against is that me creating MyCoolCoinX on the fourth page of coinmarketcap is somehow diluting BTC, any more than some new pink sheet penny stock is diluting AMZN.

Doge is an interesting case, in that it is the same tech as BTC with just some parameter tweaks. My guess is that most Doge investors are newer to the market, and wouldn't have otherwise invested but I could be wrong.
> Unlike IE6's reign of incompetent terror, Chrome is actually a competent browser. Techies are embracing the takeover instead of fighting it. It's guaranteed to succeed.

IE6 was also a good browser. It didn't stay a good browser over the 5-10-15 year lifespan it had (depending on who you ask) but at the time of release it was easily the best.
does it work on ubuntu?
I could also fork the blockchain, now you have two blockchains. It's the same thing.
I was working on exactly this (though not to Lisp, per se) before I got distracted and COVID came. I was calling it "Retro-V". In Verilog, I had a RISC-V core hooked up to my own home-built video logic, and was working on the SD card controller before I shelved it.

In the meantime various RISC-V SoCs have come to market which could probably do the job well.
> - Andrew Lee didn't recognise tomaw as christel's successor (and maybe tried to appoint his own choice of successor)

Is this really correct? As far as I understand tomaw tried to claw back freenode assets from rasengan which initiated this whole mess.
Pat Helland has a great quip he's used in his talks over the years, along the lines of "it doesn't matter how consistent your database is if a forklift drives over the box in the warehouse."
With DSL, it is trivial to see which speed is assigned to you and which speed is the maximum possible on your line. If your measured speed is lower than your "Actual bitrate" as shown by the modem, something must've gone terribly wrong. If however your plan speed ("on paper") is much higher than what is attainable by the modem, that is a fact of physics and you have to downgrade the plan. You cannot oversell DSL, if it says attainable rate is 10240/1024 Kbps, you cannot sell 15360/1536. The modem will literally be unable to connect at that speed.
As someone who contributed to the post we're discussing, let me please respond.

> There’s SFSafariExtensionHandler API which you can use with blockers as another extension with higher privileges to track who blocked what.

I am not sure what you mean here. This API (available only on macOS) does allow injecting scripts and stylesheets, it does not provide any feasible debugging tools. Granted, you may inject a script that will get some information about what's blocked, but it's far from what's required.

Just compare what Safari provides with AdGuard's filtering log on any other platform or with uBlock Origin's log. The lack of such tool is the main reason filters maintainers avoid dealing with Safari.

> Compiling speed, for the process that happens once the blocker rules json is changed, is irrelevant for the users

Compiling speed is the reason for the rules limitation.

> There's also some rules that don’t match 1 to 1, but it isn’t something that can’t be solved.

Unfortunately, there is something that cannot be solved, and YT is a great example of that something.

> The number of rules limit is a non-issue

I have to disagree here.

We're not dealing with EasyList alone, there're many other lists (regional lists for instance). You may say - okay, let's split them all to different content blockers. There's a serious problem with that, though. Different content blockers are completely independent. However, that's not how those lists are being developed - there're lists that are supposed to influence each other.

Let's take the simple example - unblocking something. For instance, here is the most obvious example that happens all the time. There may be a regional list that unblocks something blocked by EasyList (or EasyPrivacy) because this "something" breaks an important website in that region. Putting EasyList into one content blocker and the regional list into another breaks the regional list.

> And the most important thing. It seems that AdGuard guys don’t get why content blockers in Safari don’t run scripts. It’s privacy. But Safari itself doesn’t prevent you from doing that, only not as a part of content blocker extension that is privacy-safe.

We accept that argument despite me being literally sick of hearing it (so there's privacy on iOS, but no privacy on macOS since scripts are allowed to extensions there, okaay).

What's important is that we do not propose allowing running arbitrary scripts. We propose extending the declarative API in a controlled manner and it does not conflict with Safari vision.

Also, that's just one of the feature requests (and bug reports) reported over the years.

edit: typos
Skittish is what you’d get if you crossed Animal Crossing with Clubhouse
Thinking often about how your mode of living is superior to others' is a sad pathology.
Paper likening human sperm to “playful otters” retracted
One of the things I really appreciate about IRC is the raw simplicity of the protocol. I hope that does not get lost in an effort to modernize.
Some loans are backed by certain rent levels. So commercial real estate owners don't have as much freedom to reduce their prices as you might think.
If something is effectively "magic" to someone, even in the base case, an improvement is just another sort of magic.

This is why I don't have a lot of confidence in big-picture types that don't know anything about computer science but hold some parallel business analogies in their head and think they can make decisions on that basis.

On the other side, sometimes interesting and valuable things can happen when you don't have reality as a constraint. I read (but have not verified) that William Gibson's world of cyberspace and internet etc. in the Sprawl books ended up being so attractive largely because he understood almost nothing about computers.
I think that’s specific to your setup. I run Debian SID with i3 as tiling window manager and FF is the primary browser I use. As a web dev, I have quite a few instances of FF open all the time.

I can’t recall an issue with FF behaving badly when tiled. So, it’s unlikely that FF generally doesn’t work with a tiling WM.
Who owns it then?
You missed out on the "dot bomb" in 2000.

There were tunbleweed-like plants blowing around the streets of SOMA, and you could park on the sidewalk and nobody would notice or care.

The vacancy rate was probably over 50%, and in some blocks 100%.
Wait... is ycombinator actually a real estate company? /s
Taleb's insights are wonderful and I've learned a lot from his writing, but his writing style is so obnoxious that I always have trouble finishing his books. It is very clear that he thinks he is one of the smartest people on the planet and he wants everyone to know it.
If it's an option at all I would take a break from it while recovering.
Why so many corporations get abnormally rich?

Because other people pay taxes for them. Classic example - company builds a factory and pays minimum wage to the workers. Workers are unable to live off of it so they apply for benefits.
The company meanwhile transfers all the profits using IP licensing and other tricks out of the country.
Higher earners working for different companies pay progressive tax to cover for benefits of low paid workers.

Politicians claim if they clamp down on tax avoidance and evasion then companies will leave the country and at least the workers pay income tax.

The problem is that people on higher income de-facto are subsidising those big corporations. They cannot save money to start their own businesses and even if they somehow manage to do it, they cannot compete with big companies that don't pay taxes.

If companies like Uber were banned from my country, there would be no economic cost - quite the opposite. We will have many local equivalents competing for customers (not shareholders) and paying the right tax.
It's somewhat interesting that some numbers are based on the bay area (drop in bay area tech workers inflow/outflow, what percentage of bay area workforce will remain remote), while other numbers based on San Francisco alone (drop in SF residents, SF GDP, business tax revenue, etc.).

I know that outside of California, the world views "SF" and "the bay area" mostly as one and the same. Based on anecdotes I feel like this doesn't tell the full story, though maybe it does give you a high level overview (like this site does).

Among both personal friends and coworkers, ex-coworkers (from a decade+ of working in the bay area) -- surely there are people who move out of state (to Denver, Austin, Miami, etc.); but the more common trend is -- people who used to live in SF are moving out to the east bay / surrounding areas; and people who were already in the east bay before move even further away (Sacramento area, etc.). Another interesting bit -- Sacramento doesn't get talked about in tech circles and sites like this and related articles, because it's not supposed to be the "next sexy tech town", but in reality is a lot of people have moved here since the pandemic, both tech and not. I moved here before the pandemic, and witnessed the housing market rise more than the east bay (where there's already an influx of SF people moving to) this past year.

All I'm saying is there's a lot of nuances in this general exodus!
I haven't decided which field I want to go to, but someone here mentioned law. That sounds fascinating to me, and a complete different thing. I am hoping my analytical skills can be used at a firm.
Ha, how did you come up with that nonsense solution? You've obviously never actually dealt with this if you think that would work.
Google’s stuff isn’t bad, but it’s simply not exceptional.

google's chat ux disaster would say otherwise...
There's also some aspect of how close they get to the "up to" speed during the peak times.

One friend that was on Frontier's DSL out in the boonies had a 5Mbps plan. At peak times, he'd be lucky to see 0.2Mbps. (And he'd be lucky to get it up to 1Mbps the rest of the time...)

It's really hard to justify providing 5% of the "up to" speed at peak times as reasonable in any circumstance.

In his case, Frontier's answer was to tell him to upgrade to their ~10Mbps plan if his speed wasn't enough. Never mind that they already weren't delivering what he paid for. After several complaints to the AG's office and other regulators, he eventually was in touch with an engineer that just told him flat out that the node he was on was already oversold by many hundreds of percent and there was just no way he'd ever see any promised speed.

So it wasn't even a case of Frontier thinking they had a realistic chance of ever delivering the speed they had sold and dealing with fluctuations in demand. They very clearly sold a product that they never expected to deliver.
Could you link a few of these? Genuinely interested in reading. Thanks in advance.
More to the point, .chat is one of those latecomer TLDs that is thoroughly abused by spammers. If they send email and they want it delivered, they're going to have a great time with that, unless they have a .net or something they can use.
Why aren't scooters more popular in the US? Does it have to do only with the weather?
The meaning of words will always depend on the context they are used in. Even outside of a court of law, there are still people here who disagree that a person with an occupied hand is still disabled.

That seems like something that will shift towards one or the other as society talks more openly about disabilities.
Maybe, but it might block the common case of "well intentioned developer breaks the built-in functionality without realizing it".
Is it just "mix build" that you run, or something more special?
I didn't start experimenting for about the first decade after I started cooking. I followed recipes, and learned the basics. After you're feeling good about the outcome of a certain recipe, then comes time to tweak some parameters. Or, reframe what you consider "experimenting" to look like. Pick a dish you want to master, and find 10 recipes. Do each one (depending how much variety you want in life, this can take 10 days or 10 weeks). Take notes about what went right, what went wrong, what directions were unclear. Try and draw conclusions. That's an experiment! After that, maybe try and wing it, or mix&match parts of different recipes, to find what works for you.
A lot of people forget that many now "elite" cities weren't that popular until relatively recently. Boston was losing population until well into the 90s and there was basically no tech left there by then.

When I graduated from grad school in the mid-80s, I don't think a single one of my classmates who got a job in Massachusetts lived in the city proper.
Will they also police who else uses it given it's accessible to anybody on the free tier of AWS by the looks of this: https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/pricing/

That and given the police are more curtailed into accepting this, the whole criminal world will be less so inclined to follow those rules. After all, it maybe that some criminal organisation may be using this to identify police operatives from a database of cadet photo's. Maybe unlikely but equally, can't say for sure that such things don't already happen already or in the future.

From a PRolitical(sic) aspect, bit of a no-brainier move for Amazon as the negative PR and down-the line blamed for any mistakes and potential ramifications, it's a liability PR nightmare.

That said, if the police are going to do something and can, if not using Amazon, they will just use whoever is open to it or may even develop their own and with something more closed off and accessible for scrutiny - I dare say as proven in the past, certain identification biases may well play out and that is always a worry with facial recognition uses in such delicate area's.
The output also includes security/decentralization.

I can handle a lot of transactions on my personal laptop, but how safe would they be?
NYC is just about as bad at housing as the Bay Area is, but the problem hasn't gone on for as many decades so you haven't noticed yet. NYC population is actually shrinking for this reason, and there are several silly rules (not by modern progressives) like high IZ for "affordability" that prevent all construction, and I think they're about to essentially ban new hotels.

Btw, the reason progressives didn't take over before is that Cuomo was actually conspiring to make his own party the minority in the legislature, because he thought if he was forced to ever actually do anything it'd hurt a future presidential run.
Google 'lessons from' and you'll see that one usage is synonymous with 'learnings from'. The suggested completions are perfectly idiomatic.
Incidentally, I find the various copy/read protection schemes of yesteryear absolutely fascinating. It seems like it always comes down to some brand of cleverness, and gives credence to the idea that there is always someone smarter than you.

Also “Never underestimate a time-rich, money poor kid”
Having a successful career with depression, anxiety and imposter syndrome
Unquestionably the best at the time.
>Does this mean v1 hasn't even shipped yet?

yes
How is entropy related to "male gaze". This approach seems to be unsupervised, I don't see the problem.
Is that really a common case when paste is disabled? I can't recall ever coming across it where it wasn't obvious that it was intentional.
It's essentially a folded Corne keyboard [1]. I like how you can adjust the vertical position of each row, that's definitely new. Over all this is a very cool direction to take ortho linears.

[1] https://github.com/foostan/crkbd
Wasn't Mt. Gox an exchange? (One of the early ones.)
I'd love to see more antifragile ideas but on more precise terms. I also think it's an idea that's starting to blossom in some fields. Hormesis (controversial) is the same idea at the cellular level. I think I also saw the idea in material science (maybe structural batteries, I forgot).
correct, you're storing random bits. there is filecoin that actually stores things, but it has its own problems
How suited is Airbyte for multi-tennant use-cases?

I might have a project coming up to build a semi-analytics solution where you would obviously want to allow the users to easily connect to their data sources, and Airbyte looks like it might be a good fit for that (for now my rough idea was to build some plumbing around Singer taps). Are you aware of any users that use it for such purposes and are there any specific pitfalls too look out for there?
> - If arch upgrades the major version of glibc during some random package install (rather than a system upgrade), and you don't upgrade the whole system at once, every app that didn't get upgraded will fail to start due to soname mismatches... and that can mean that pacman, sudo, etc are all busted (this has actually happened to me)

Okay I just wanna point something out here, partial upgrades in Arch are broken by design because they simply can't work. Don't do it.

That being said...

> - Arch will release a new version of Xorg before the graphics card vendors release new drivers that are compatible with it. Same for kernel versions too.

... kernel ABI is stable and even ancillary interfaces are usually stable, so usually it's quite A-OK to not immediately upgrade the kernel.
there's been a few new "below market rate" apartment and condos being built. Most all condo developments have BMR units but some of the new ones are 100% BMR
It’s possible that the current system is fine as it is, and that Dan is simply explaining how it is. Suppressing comments is an interesting idea, but there are all kinds of second order effects — if it’s a disaster story, people need to communicate. If it’s not, the ranking algorithm would need to be adjusted, since the suppressed comments have an unfair time penalty. And so on.
Yeah, living in cities was unpopular until about 2000 for a good reason - they were full of crime. Surprisingly it turns out giving the entire country lead poisoning was a bad idea.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposur...

Younger people then moved back in (causing superficial gentrification) because they couldn't live in the actual richer areas because those had all blocked new housing (actual gentrification.)
Would you measure a car's efficiency based on how much wiper fluid it uses per mile? The two measures aren't meaningfully linked, so it makes little sense to compute a correlation.
Haha I know somebody who cracked JEE at the age of 14. I met him and found out that he was homeschooled with zero social skills. Warms my heart to know that he is doing well in life.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Youngest-II...