skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For random images there is also https://picsum.photos/.

Also AI generators like https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ and https://imgflip.com/ai-meme.

I don't know if the AI generators have an API, or if they like people using their images as random assets. So maybe you can focus on that?
Although the output of GHG in terms of grams is only 7% of US total, for food waste those grams would predominantly be methane and nitrous oxide, which have much higher warming potentials.

Ceasing the burning of fossil fuels would be significant. But stopping organic matter from decomposing in a landfill would also be significant — and it’s currently feasible and scalable.

https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.compostingcouncil.org/resource/res...
Not tech, but in 2018 Nascar/Indycar driver Conor Daly lost a sponsorship because it surfaced that his (at the time) newly immigrated Irish father had used a racial slur in a radio interview in the 80s, years before Conor had even been born [0]. Its going to be hard for anything to beat the absurdity of that situation.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/sports/autoracing/conor-d...
I'm not arguing with that and I totally understand. My comment was about "through the agonies of public schooling", generalizing about public schooling because their experience was not positive.
Theranos isn't really the same thing though, they didn't pretend that they were on the verge of a breakthrough, they said they had already had the breakthrough and the tech was working and deployed. That's less "hype" and more just straight up "fraud".

Boom Supersonic is obviously overly optimistic in their deadlines, but they at least aren't pretending that they're meeting them when they aren't.
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Google no longer forces arbitration [1].

[1] https://www.vox.com/technology/2019/2/22/18236172/mandatory-...
It was a post from 14 years he's apologized for. I'm sure everyone has plenty of beliefs from 14 years ago that no longer fits their current beliefs.
I just realized that more time has elapsed since the iPhone launched (about 14 years: 2007 - 2021) than had between when Jobs returned to Apple and the iPhone launched (about 11 years: 1996-2007). Yikes.

Also, the three month deadline helps explain why the iPhoneOS SDK was such a mess when it first launched.
This admittedly slipped our minds. We'll be sure to fix this for the next release. Thanks for the reminder.
> Just because a business can destroy another huge companies business model it doesn't mean that replicating it is a good idea.

That's the big takeaway here. As far as I can tell, Apple really stands to gain nothing by blocking trackers when it's one of the smallest concerns I have with regards to modern digital privacy. Snowden didn't warn people about ads, he warned people about massive surveillance campaigns operating just out of view of the public.

The largest modern privacy concern is being dependent on any one private party. Relinquishing all control of your data, software and hardware to the largest company in the world is a security concern. Whether it's a sacrifice you're willing to make or not is a different story.
"Commercial air travel is ready for a 10 year slowdown."

You're not really offering any evidence, just speculation. The actions of the major airlines suggest an expansion, not a retraction.
The killer app for AR isn't going to be on phones. It's going to come when (and, I suppose, if) the hardware gets small enough that it can be integrated into glasses that are comparable in weight and bulk to current prescription eyeglasses (and, ideally, can actually incorporate prescription lenses, for those of us who need those to see every day).

At that point, the "killer app" becomes the ability to augment your own senses and memory with, for instance, facial recognition that reminds you of who this person is, useful facts you know about them, etc. Or walking or driving directions that are overlaid directly on your view of the actual paths/streets/etc. Or even virtual tours of places—either places you're physically in, or places you're nowhere near, but have a space of comparable size you can walk around in!

The danger, as we saw with Google Glass, is twofold: on the one hand, allowing an unregulated tech titan like Google or Facebook to have access to cameras attached to people's faces; and on the other hand, the fear of allowing anyone to walk around with an always-on (or potentially always-on) camera, whether its recordings ever left the device or not.
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I'll be your Tony Clifton.
Awesome show; looking forward to the next season. Explores parenting, "religion" vs "science", desolation, and growing up.
It seems like it's always the more "holier than thou" that are the most evil and corrupt.

And, the ones who are always preaching "inclusive" the most tend to be the most bigoted.
People on HN have repeatedly said to me that Apple actually originally intended for web apps to be the only apps for the iPhone, forever.

I never believed it. Glad we have some evidence that that was never the case.

Clearly web apps were a stop-gap until they got their SDK done.
I _deeply_ appreciated a recalcitrant Serland's "Let's do it right this time, rather than rush a half-cooked story" was followed immediately by Jobs' "Sure, as long as its ready in 12 weeks"

Of course, history shows it wasn't _actually_ rolled out till June (modulo direct 3P relationships Apple did earlier), but good to know managers are always managers and FAANG is always FAANG, 90% of the work gets done _in spite_ of the lack of planning
I think it is ok if they undervalue her skills as long as they still let her wear a goat on the back of her uniform during the competition.
Well, if you are so stupid that you basically require people to lie to you, you will be lied to.

It's amazing that there are so many people willing to lie in order to make honestly good ideas viable, instead of everybody just being like Theranos.
> This is a bit of a loony argument. There are so many useful features post py27 that may not have been possible without the breaking changes 2to3 introduced. Especially the horrific bytes/str situation in 2.7.

This situation could easily have been solved without breaking changes in a multitude of ways.

> So your argument is that Py3 shouldn't have happened

Yes, my argument is absolutely that none of the changes warranted breaking backwards compatibility.

> despite all of the people actually contributing to the language wanting it so (I wonder how much does company with your multi-million line project contributes to cPython's development?) and it unlocking future improvements that have driven Python adoption and usage into the stratosphere... because your company didn't want to invest any time or resources for ongoing maintenance? Of which upgrades are an obvious and important part?

That's merely an ad hominem, not an argument as to why you believe that the changes merited breaking backwards compatibility when there were far less intrusive ways to realize solutions that were close to as convenient but did not break backwards compatibility.
Basically kicad is great, until you need huge BGA packages, high speed bus traces, or DDR with its insane number of address/data lines that require some RF like thinking in design.

The only real other option is Altium these days, which is like $10k as others have said. Maybe $7k if you really haggle.
Not quite. It's about ideological alignment and purity. The cancel mob just got Antonio García Martínez fired, for example. And they are constantly trying to cancel Glenn Greenwald, a gay man married to a minority POC, and with minority kids.
There's no trick unless, like, Parler engaged in business lies with its customers?
Very cool, thank you. Do you know what happens to measure theory in the hyperreals? Or integration in general?
Yep, I have!

Homelessness is a profound and society-wide problem, with no easy answers unless you consider "spend way more money, build way more housing" an easy answer (which I do).

Until we do those things, it should be no surprise that a region with skyrocketing rents has a housing crisis, and that will present itself in myriad unpleasant ways.
> The companies working on supersonic jets are in process of lobbying hard to get FAA approval for exemptions from noise regulations. [1]

Note that Boom _isn't_ focusing on noise currently, unlike the other companies (which are much more focused on bizjets), knowing this will limit the routes they can fly on even with any regulatory changes.

They're content to start with just the oceanic routes (and notably they're aiming for longer range than Concorde, and able to fly at least some trans-Pacific routes non-stop); presumably future iterations when it's known whether there will be regulatory changes (and what they'll be) could aim for lower noise and overland flight.
I think it's a mistake to understand this (or most) conflicts in terms of an argument about ideology, or history. Those play a role, but it isn't a philosophical debate. It's a war.

Palestinians and Israelis are not on the Palestinian or Israeli side because they are convinced by the arguments of Edward Said or Ehad Haam. Its because they are Palestinian and Israeli. That's what war is, for the most part. They (we.. I am Israeli) are not going to read the others' literature and adopt their position. Ideologies, philosophies, political takes and such came about to make sense of the reality that exists, not the other way around.

If you talked politics with locals, I assume you encountered a great variety of views.

Honestly, I appreciate your honest bewilderment. It is quite disturbing to me when tourists and foreigners take extreme, unyielding, anti-comromise positions... including (especially) pro Israeli ones. I am quite certain that many Israelis, Palestinians & Jordanians feel the same way. I cannot speak for other arab countries, as I have never been.
Supreme Court narrows scope of sweeping cybercrime law
It's very easy to also not see this as having racial undertones. If all you have is a hammer then everything is a nail, expand your toolbox.
Hmm... I'm a white man who doesn't consider himself half as "woke" as the (I'm certain a bit exaggerated) descriptions of what happens on Twitter and none of that feels particularly offensive to me?

"I dropped my black star into a sea of white and it hurt" -> "I see so many beautiful black stars, why don't more of them get this wonderful opportunity?"

"A natural instinct to want the very best for people that look like them" -> Isn't the author displaying this own natural instinct in the very previous excerpt you chose about the sea of white? I'm hard pressed to say I'd find it inconceivable that humans empathize more strongly with people who are closer in appearance to them.

"a much longer and darker legacy where whites have abused black girls and women with impunity" -> I mean, yea... that's definitely back there for sure.

"Perhaps it's time to focus our inquiry on white people who may have complex emotions regarding their changing position in society" - race is a complex issue and maybe we should examine it from a few more angles? Sure, that seems fine?

"White people kill Black people with impunity" -> Chauvin's conviction was almost certainly the exception in cases of police homicide is my understanding, especially when the victim is Black and the police officer is white (or in many other instances of white on Black violence).

I don't get the sense this person's painting all white people with broad strokes really? Maybe just thinking critically about a system which traditionally has undermined certain segments of our population and may finally be in some position to come to grips with that.

In some sense he appears to be saying "Hey lets take a look at why people may be feeling in some manner" and not "Wow, I can't believe people would feel that way, those <insert name calling here>".

It's also possible that it's hard to offend me and I give people the benefit of the doubt a lot.
NVMe 2.0 Specification Released: Major Reorganization
> I've tried to understand the core issue and frankly, failed

It's quite straight forward. Up until WWI, Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived in Palestine, which it and other areas of Arabia and North Africa were under Ottoman rule. During WWI, Sykes–Picot divided up the Muslim lands into arbitrary borders to make them easier to occupy. Syria was occupied by the French, Libya by the Italians, etc. Palestine was under British rule. Post WWII, the Zionists convinced Britain to give them Palestine, so they moved in and formed an illegal government, which ironically applied similar tactics the Nazis applied to the Jews in WWII (ethnic cleansing, killing discriminately, etc.). The conflict continues to this day until the Palestinians get back their rightful land.n

Edit: changed WWII to WWI.
Im a JS veteran, and not a single word in the article made any sense to me.
Blackadder has crisp enunciation, helping make the humor more accessible.
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I found it worthwhile to develop a better understanding of where my money was coming from and going to. I also caught a few erroneous charges over the years because of the attention I was paying. It also helps with planning and budgeting. I spent maybe 40 hours total over a few years setting up my workflow, and then 20 minutes a week maintaining the ledger files. I accounted for transactions on my phone as they happened (if out of the house), and then at the end of each week went through each account to see which transactions had cleared or not.

I had a much more thorough understanding of how my investments were doing as I integrated them into the same ledger files and my total net worth. Which gave me confidence (at one point) to quit a job because I knew exactly how far I could go without income, even accounting for having to buy my own health insurance.

The time investment isn't really that great, and that 40 hours or so was mostly me nerding out with tmux + fswatch to create my own dashboard and a couple other automations that I built to pull down investment and currency data (I had money in a couple currencies for a while there, back down to one ignoring the handful of cryptocurrencies I've acquired over the years which I treat more as investments and not cash anyways). It took me about an hour to get started initially with one ledger file and just going through my accounts for that month (I started near the beginning so entered all transactions back to the 1st to have a complete picture of that month).

It actually became more important when I got married because my wife's attitudes on spending and saving are very different than my own. Seeing how things were going I was able to discuss it dispassionately with her, pointing out things like "You spent $x,xxx on clothing and housewares this month, my income is only $y,yyy and we still have to pay rent. We have savings to cover this, but we need to plan it." She's still a freer spirit with spending than I am, but it's toned down and I didn't come off as angry when I raised the issue, having something to show her (here's what we have, here's what we're spending, here's what we will have in 2 weeks and why we can't buy a house if this pattern continues.) helped a ton. And being able to see that she had only set back things by a month or two in our plans kept me from freaking out when I saw some of those numbers.
Miriam Webster also seems to agree. [1]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/cancel-culture...
The issue is that other people think in racial terms, and you need the nuance to be able to describe that thinking.
I think it's way less likely someone will upset Biles in the same way. Gymnastics is indirect competition, so there's no rock-paper-scissors aspect like MMA.
The confusion between skin color, race and culture seems to be one of the root cause for many problems in the US. Their history with minorities seems to have unfortunately unconsciously tied skin color and culture, ignoring the fact that it's the definition of racism. Not saying it's all rosy elsewhere, but at least it seems not that deeply ingrained and perpetuated.

So to candidly answer your question, yes there are of course physical differences between people, and correlations between people sharing a set of physical attributes, like skin color. Now if you attach culture and values to skin color, yes it's intrinsically bigoted, no matter the group. The corollary is that people with different skin color can have the same culture, and that criticizing a culture is not racist.
Which is why Brazil is such a beautiful post-racial utopia?
Beyond your handwaving absurdity, is there any empirical evidence at all that lowering the quality bar for X ends up actually raising quality in the end? Because it sounds like a bunch of unicorn fairytale nonsense to me.
there are more issues after fixing all of those: grep -w is not POSIX, the exit status of type is not clearly defined by POSIX, realpath is not POSIX, basename is POSIX but can be replaced with ${path##*/} for most well-formed paths (gives different results for /, but this script doesn't work properly for / anyways?), inodes are not unique across devices, --directory=dir has ugly handling but seems to work but --directory dir doesn't (i think it silently sets the directory to --directory and then passes dir as a separate argument?)
I did a quick search for a doorbell solution for the home automation system of my choice and it seems like people came up with solutions [1]. It doesn't look trivial to set up but definitely possible.

[1] https://kleypot.com/fully-offline-video-doorbell-for-home-as...
This is a question that's so loaded its disingenuous without context. You weren't asking me but here's what I think about it.

Do I think that police involved in bad shootings or another type of unjustified death have a really good chance of getting away with it? Of course.

Do I think that the scenario above of an unjustified police killing happens more to people of color? Probably, I haven't looked up the numbers though and I don't know where to find them.

Do I think the overwhelming majority of police killings are justified? Yes. But that doesn't mean it isn't a big deal when unjustified deaths go unpunished.

Do I think most white people in the US could get away with murdering a black person? No, and keep in mind this is closer to the question you actually asked than the question you wanted an answer to.
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In addition to the other comment, you could also install Chrome Canary to use the latest Lighthouse + Chrome.

If you don't have Canary installed, the CLI will use Chrome Stable. If Canary is present, that is the default. This can be configured with CHROME_PATH.
I think so, because the sheer amount of material many people have written is larger, the hunt for it is more intense, and the ability to form rapid mobs for two-minute hates is much greater. What will institutions do? https://jakeseliger.com/2020/12/03/dissent-insiders-and-outs...
How private is it when you can easily read his thoughts online? If you want a private life then keep it private.
His successor will be his carbon copy minus a few tweets. It is the ideology not the guy.
Do you honestly believe that you could have murdered a black coworker without criminal justice ramifications prior to BLM?
Major companies unite to push climate solutions
Normally I wouldn't expect it either, but if you know it caps out at single-digit numbers of elements, then it's not the worst idea.

I'd still just use a plain array, but my point was that hash maps aren't necessarily big and unwieldy.
I think the point is that the blog post is not really a big issue if you're an average engineer, but as head of DEI it's not a great look, hence the re-assignment.
FLoC as I understand it can be used by anyone who has a large enough user surface area. Facebook can and probably will to some extent capitalize on FLoC.
Delays happen. That is normal. I am more worried about the slip in speeds. "Traveling at Mach 2.2" becomes "could fly at Mach 1.7". That is a radical loss of performance. It is more than just 0.5. It is a switch from traveling at a speed to "could fly", a theoretical top speed for the same aircraft. I think they are facing solid engineering challenges and are having to reduce expectations.

FYI, most airliners already fly at or above 0.85 Mach. 1.7 is faster than 0.85 but operationally it will only be only an incremental decrease in total travel time.
Using docker compose up to deploy a GraphQL API with ECS at Northvolt. Good experience so far, except for having to rely quite a lot on x-aws-cloudformation overlays to work around the tool limitations. In other words, it helps a lot, but you still need to know about AWS in general and CloudFormation in particular.
I really want this to be a shaggy dog spec that ends with a punchline in the FAQ.

Q: Is this a pyramid scheme?

A: No! It's a sarcophagus scheme!
I agree with the general orientation in favor of the monorepo and transforming package definitions from repos that don't know/care about Nix, then aggregating them. I think the vision where we use Nix mostly by way of Nix code that has propagated into the source repos of various projects, and we simply use that code directly, probably gets it backwards.

> callPackage-style "I am a function of my dependencies" is right

What did you think of Eelco's presentation at the most recent NixCon where he considers defining packages as NixOS-like modules instead of bare functions?
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So are you claiming opportunity is equally distributed? I feel if you "hire for competence", you are going to end up with a highly concentrated group of wealthy people who went to the best schools.

Also, what is your metric for "competence"? You can train people to be computer programmers, but there are many other traits that are impossible to train. Like seeing the world from a perspective different than a middle aged white man, for one.
"Let's protect the user, by keeping control of [...] which entities can distribute apps (implies: signing infrastructure, policies, etc...)"

Imagine an alternate universe where this foundational goal of the iOS SDK was interpreted just a little more loosely, with something closer to MacOS notarization, and an App Store that had to compete just like the Mac App Store.
How is "never the case" derived from this email? This email was sent after iPhone shipped and doesn't say anything about shipping Cocoa Touch as a goal before this point.
> if he said "Europeans" instead, it would be ok

Only if he said "Western Europeans + Russia". The rest of us didn't colonize anyone.
I like the idea, but since I’m so used to using make for everything, I would probably just bake in a Makefile with the shell bits I found most useful for each container instead.
As someone that did some contributions to the ERC721 NFT standard, I am completely enamored with the unexpected and robust direction the market took NFTs and their platforms

I would pretty much never pay for one, but I love claiming NFTs! I have a nice little gallery now too.

I also find it weird that people can’t separate that, it’s obviously their uncomfortable relationship with money that both got their attention and their ire. They’re trying to see if they should be doing something else with their time or if every decision they made in their life for money was wrong and irreconcilable.

That has nothing inherently to do with NFTs.
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