skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Winning what? A totalitarian government where the people are all treated like shit? They may be winning the GDP game but that's not translating to any improvements for their citizens or the world.

The only people winning in China are the people at the top of the communist party.
I was previously a big fan of Maps.me but they recently introduced a "Wallet" feature which is just really wired for a Navigation app to offer. Just looking at the UI of this app it looks like an "OSS" version where all the extra features are tossed out.

Huge thanks to the authors of this.
I had many blasts reading posts in that sub.
Several different systems are all at demonstration phases. EX: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/12/worlds-f...

I suspect the hard part is getting every car manufacturer to agree to the same system not designing something that works.
Not necessarily forbidden, but there's a good reason for not towing with a rope. Especially at 70MPH (which is 112 kph)

Though towing a Tesla with regerative braking is the best case. You definitely wouldn't want to tow anything that can't brake or steer with a rope.
Biogas, obviously !
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> christians believe that one day the world really ends with judgment day/apocalypse, and interpreted Ragnarok similar as the end of the world, which is what many people today think of Ragnarok

There is also the interpretation that we live in a post-Ragnarok world, which conveniently allows the Christian narrative to perfectly mate to the end of the Norse gods’ reign.
Wait, how is that relevant? Nothing says stack canaries have to use the same RNG as the main program, let alone the same seed, and there are cases such as this one where they probably shouldn’t, so it makes sense to separate them.
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Are all the cars going to reach up 13 feet in the air to the charging lines? That would be a very tough sell. Not to mention the increased danger of live power lines coming down in an accident.

Also, how would lane changing work? Do they have to decouple from one set of power lines and connect to another?
The reality is many high ranking officials and professionals have seen things and gone on record. What you are commenting on is how something is protrayed in the media / film. That stereotype isn't accurate but it is accepted truth from late night talk show hosts.
I first thought the name must be a clever pun when I saw that the original JPEG was dated 1992. But sadly my brain was off by a decade, JPEG XL is in fact not JPEG 40.

They could have gone with JPEG XXL or JPEG XXX but the former is a bit too fanciful and the latter might cause some adoption problems outside a certain niche industry.
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Teslas will switch to friction brakes when regeneration limits (peak current or battery SOC) are exceeded. I’ve sustained constant 50kw regen while downhill through Appalachia passes, no issues, with the caveat that regen current is limited if the pack is cold until it approaches operating temperature (yellow dashed lines on the regen current display indicate your reduced regen capability).
> In other words, trying your hand at whatever you want to transition to, without fully abandoning what you already are doing just to see if it really fits you

How do you do this in the face of heavy handed credentialism (many/most careers outside software) and lack of domain knowledge/ experience?
"Way of the road bubs", "piss jugs"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77zYvVTvTcU
I did too! But just like the Gramps idea, I soon abandoned it.
Not true, a rope is fine.
I have often visited Morocco and lived in Malaysia for some time.

Sort of, yes. During noon and afternoon most shops, restaurants, and other places were closed. Certain essential things were open. There was also a divide between rural vs urban, with urban have more open stores.

Especially in Morocco this didn't seem too uncommon even outside of Ramadan though as its often simply too hot to really work during the day.
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Emma McGann Livestreaming home studio walkthrough

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClKZR9x-eyARpIDz1mEEzcg
The U.S. defense budget alone is 750 billion.

The defense budget alone is bigger than all but 19 other countries GDP!

And that's only like 1/10th of the total budget.

(I'm using rough estimates so please correct me if I'm off)
> If the only reason you work is because you're paid to do it, find another line of work.

Find another line of work, sure. Quit your job without getting a new one and expect me to pay all of your expenses the rest of your life, not so much.
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Author here, I intersect the view frustum with the light's sphere of influence (and also take into account PVS info) so it still includes lights that are reachable by one bounce. Technically this means I might omit two bounce reflections but in practice this doesn't appear to be a problem.
There are only two human sexes. Genetic diseases that occur at a rate of 0.018% don't constitute additional categories.
I think at this point its clearly unethical to use Amazon, for a multitude of reasons. Just dont use it.
Well said. It would be dishonest to phrase it more politely.
I am working with a client today, in 2021, that still has multiple developers making live changes to a dev server as part of their everyday development process.

Some of them make their changes locally in VS Code (or Notepad), FTP the changed files to their home directory, then sudo cp to replace the existing files. Others SSH into the server and directly edit files using vi.

Due to that workflow, none of those devs ever use a proper debugger (and have committed a lot of random console logging) and there are often conflicts when more than one person is working on a file. To address that, there is a Slack channel dedicated entirely to announcing what file you are working on.
New study asks why spaceflight weakens the immune system
Yeah, absolutely - that's the whole point. If the on call expectations aren't serving that goal specifically, we need to fix/change the on call expectations, so it's a moving target over time.

If there's too much firefighting, that means we owe additional support to the team or need to rebalance other work appropriately in the interim.

The opposite is also true. If we don't have too much firefighting or valuable de-risking to do, we can take on more product work.
>again where are the politicians

I suspect many of their campaigns were partially funded by Amazon.

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/amazon-com/totals?id=D00002...

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/amazon-com/lobbying?id=D000...

$12M in 2020. Politicians aren't very expensive and the ROI is incredible.

I see the Amazon shills work fast. Do they make you use piss jugs in the office too?
Having kids has become expensive and uncool. Pets make a sufficient substitute for many people.

See: the huge and growing market for kids-items-disguised-as-pet-items.
Wow, that’s a hell of a website.

I love that amongst various gadgets and toys, there is not just one but _two_ Spanish holiday home rentals.

(But given the amount of CCTV equipment they carry, I might think twice before renting a villa from them…)
Yes, this is what I'm doing.
Yes, but some languages (like my personal favorite Rust) make it practically impossible to happen with their equivalent of printf().
That’s the false dichotomy that lures people into these over-complicated setups. You don’t need a professional podcasting microphone to be understood. Plenty of us do just fine without.

I have pro audio gear at my disposal, but I’ll still reach for the MacBook Pro built-in Mic when it’s convenient. It just works and I don’t have to worry about placement, reflections, setting gain and clipping, keeping noise sources away and so on. There’s a lot going on with the directional microphone setups in modern laptops that happens behind the scenes.

An improperly setup podcast style cardioid mic will actually catch more echos and stray noise than the finely tuned directional setup built in to a MacBook Pro.

Pro gear doesn’t automatically solve problems, but it does introduce a lot more opportunities for incorrect setup.
Ask HN: Most Useful Cloud Certifications ( Azure, AWS, GCE, ... )
Have you studied for a cloud certification? If so, i'd like to ask the following:

- Which one?

- Why?

- How many times did you try before succeeding?

- Was it useful?

- How did you prepare ( resources, ... )

I'm planning to certify for "Azure Solutions Architect Expert" and some feedback on usefullness ( in general or specific) would be nice.
Me either, save seems not to work on Chrome for me either.
> Apply to DARPA or some other "skunkworks."

Any guide on how to go about this as an individual nobody?

Everytime I’ve attempted to look into getting involved with the government (I.e. bidding for contracts, working on DARPA projects, etc.) the information they provide just leaves me more confused.
Money is a just a row in an SQL table. We can update it for less than a cent. Everything else is a social problem, Bitcoin does nothing to help here. Exchanges over Bitcoin are no better or worse in principle than existing financial infrastructure.

The reason for high fees are the risk in sending the money across borders. Due to fraud there are risks. Bitcoin does nothing to fix this and seems to even enable more scams.
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Dont think that has happened in awhile for MAME. But yeah the emu community has its share of people like that. Grouchy guys who if you do not play by their rules they just ban you. There are other emu guys that are great to work with. There are also some reformed grouchy guys. But you can still tick them off. I think the guys who are holding onto the old hw are starting to realize that the stuff just is not worth much and yes that stuff is rotting. It was just not designed to last 40+ years. There was a point in the early 2000s where it seemed like every other week someone was mad someone else had dumped/emulated something that made someone else mad. Not so much anymore.

MAME itself has some of this too despite basically being a GPL2/BSD codebase.
why not build a consulting practice around what your passionate about. start with a blog article and then maybe a webinar etc. Also, it will connect you with like minded people.
Obviously a fast tow will generate a faster charge, but does the total amount of energy imparted depend only on distance? Or maybe it actually falls slightly at higher speeds? (The latter is my intuition.)
Amazon is displacing Walmart which displaced all the Main St. mom and pop shops that kept the country running. Main St. shut down, out of business long ago, so the only alternative is Walmart, which is just as bad.
Hubble Space Telescope sails serenely on in safe mode
Supports thrift framed binary protocol, but much faster.
You need some sort of subsequent acceleration to raise the perigree out of the atmosphere so the orbit doesn't continue to decay. This could happen due to a slingshot effect, but atmospheric braking alone is not enough to allow you to establish a stable orbit.
That is awesome but the article's date is April 1st 2014.
A lot of phones don't have video over the USB C port (eg Google Pixels).
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Sounds like the maintainer is optimizing for job security and/or work-life balance.

And from all the comments on this post, it sounds like that’s a pretty rational course of action.
For glasses glare you can use soft lights (large, non directional lights, like lamps with large shades or harder lights bounced off of a white wall) on each side of your face, much more to the left and right than normal - almost perpendicular to your nose, just slightly in front of your face. It's a nontraditional setup.
Like all primates, we humans organize ourselves in social status hierarchies.

Your hierarchy position is very important, and though we may not talk or even think much about it, we crave being on top very much.

Of course this is a true Zero Sum Game. Half the people are by definition always in the bottom half.

I think part of the attraction of dogs is that they happily will join your social hierarchy below you. Get a dog, and you get to fulfill that primal craving of having someone admire, obey and worship you.
How do you feel about the transmen who occupy half of those spaces already (some unwillingly, female sports leagues) without any pushback?
> One of their websites was a “website builder”, like Geocities, except worse. The value for the customers was that was in Dutch, with Dutch support (it didn’t even support English.[2] Shortly before I joined they decided to rewrite it from scratch (which in this case was probably the right decision by the way).

Or people just want to do the work in their mother tongue instead of a foreign language. Personally, it's quite disappointing to the see Englishification of The Netherlands. Even been to restaurants were I couldn't even speak in Dutch in Amsterdam and had to order in English. Bloody ridiculous. I don't think you will see that happen in London.

Depending on the kind of work I prefer to do things in Dutch, English or German. Anything mathematics is something I prefer to read about in Dutch, while some social science or anthropology related subjects I prefer to read in German.
https://open-smartwatch.github.io/ is working on a GPS edition right now.
My mistake was talking about other job opportunities with my colleagues. Ended up my boss learned about it and talked with me saying that I was being ungrateful and thinking too highly of myself or something on that line. Well, I do not resent my boss or anybody. What I got out of it is to simply "shut up" and do the job or quit the job - which has been serving me well ever since.
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I hear you saying: "Intersex people don't exist. Intersex people do exist."

You might want to reflect on that self-contradiction.
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> The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
My intuition would say you'd never have longer range driving up and down a hill compared to driving flat in a straight line (and never braking).

I would imagine that at best, you could maybe match the range. If there's any scenario where going up and down a hill would yield more range than driving flat, I'd be very interested in how/why.
It’s also awesome for finding abandoned mines, cool industrial sites, and interesting rock features if you like urban/rural exploration.
I think YouTube maybe helpful for someone who has decided what to learn but not for someone who's looking to explore learning random things without spending more than few hours.
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Have we always needed this? Does it require more than the trivial rationality of a neural net?

At some point in our evolutionary history, we had the same capacity for rationality as many other species. What made that change, the non-(proto-) human part of environment, or the society created by the proto-humans? When it did emerge, did it emerge as an automatic behaviour, or as the capacity to learn that skill? And here I’m assuming it’s one skill rather than many — we do have many apparently irrational cognitive biases.

I suspect (but don’t know how to test the idea) that all our cognitive biases are necessary irrationalities to allow us to reach generally useful conclusions on far too little data.
It is a bad idea with lossy compression. Every convertation will make quality worse.
What reality do you think the existence of intersex people proves?

There are different conditions classed as "intersex", but they all represent real biological phenomenon, very often disorders, such as unusual genetics - so what does that have to do with the vast majority trans-men/women who aren't intersex, and have no physical or genetic disorder?

Also, many intersex conditions still have an effective "sex", further decreasing the population of intersex people whose sex is ambiguous.

> you rarely see "biological realists" advocating for intersex rights

The intersex population is very small, and consists of many different distinct conditions. What rights do you believe they all collectively need?
I think that a big part of it is that these executives are often living a lifestyle that involves consuming lots of expensive goods and services but pay less in taxes than someone with the same lifestyle who paid for that lifestyle via income from labor word.
It's completely their fault either way. They are responsible for the technology they use.

This nasty printf()-like way of formatting is a giant footgun though. Apple are not the first ones to fall into this trap.
> also rely on tips to earn a living, it creates a power dynamic between the employee and customer that may increase the likelihood of sexual harassment on the job

In case of service employees, the fix seems simple: raise minimum wages so people can earn a proper living, abolish tips.

In other fields with such power dynamics, it's much harder to fix, e.g. winner-takes-it-all fields like Hollywood, high-profile academia etc.
Kapos were not always prisoners, sometimes the term was applied to POW camp guards. There were also "men of confidence", who were always POWs. Their role was to basically act as ambassador for the guards to the prisoners. There were cases where the MoC had to pick between outing folks attempting to escape, or allow their entire unit to be killed in retaliation.

This podcast episode is an interesting story about an escape in WWII from an illegal labor camp (Geneva Convention prohibits slave labor for PoWs) by several American POWs. Covers a lot about the way the camps worked too: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3MnBvZGNhc3QubGl...
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In theory they would be identical, but in practice a flat road would be better. There are more real world inefficiencies with going up and down a hill.
Anecdotally fasting is tough at the start, but the payoff is well worth it not just for the weight loss but in general overall feeling.

When not in a fasted state the ketogenic diet helps with the transition back and forth into a fasted state.
An engineer's value has a direct, exponential relation to the size and complexity of the problems they can solve.

Wanna work on the most interesting things?
With the most interesting people?
wanna make sure you're compensated accordingly?

make sure you are involved in analysing and solving the hardest problems, in the hardest of conditions.

Sometimes the term 'hard' can be deceiving.
When thinking about hard technological tasks, many engineers think about scale, or cracking product/market fit or whatever - all true.

But consolidating a legacy permission systems into a single system in a 30+ years old big corporate is very hard, and bringing a windows, asp.net based legacy (20 years old) to the cloud and integrating all the modern tools is very hard - both are not sexy and might not involve scale and amazing start-up-like mentality. They are both very interesting, very hard to achieve, and are very well compensated.
But why? Do we not want to encourage charitable deductions?

Removing the deduction doesn't even penalize the rich, it would just hurt charities
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I do what I can to avoid Amazon where possible, by either ordering directly from the company or by using a competing online retailer. But sadly my employer uses AWS and we even have to train/certify X% of our employees to use it. Even worse, I suspect just about every step in the process of getting my product depends on AWS in some way.
Check out sarahcoponat for a cinema-quality stream. She improvises flowing cinematic piano, sometimes two hours of two pianos at the same time. She's streaming today, but it's an experimental day with guests so you'll want to check out her VODs, recent YouTubes, or Wednesdays stream.
Yes it's amazing how much of the automotive industry runs on word of mouth, ancient web forums, and "call this number" type deals. I've got some old Subaru transmissions that I use in rally and there's basically one guy in Japan who speaks just enough English to help you source OEM gear replacements for it. It's always cool beneath all the corporate conglomerate 1-800 hustle-and-bustle that there's so many small businesses and underground connections that drive the economy.
The documentation is a little light - is this similar to Freenet?
Right. Specific regulations can be bad and implemented poorly. That is a far jump from no regulations.
Since it's coarse as the BSP, you won't lose objects behind you. The BSP data structure doesn't take into account the camera's looking direction, just the camera's position. Thus, it includes every object visible from all possible looking directions visible at a given point, so it will always include objects behind you.
This is not at all what it is for. Being an intermediary isn't even what png is for. Exr is made for it and can zip compress individual lines while having 16 or 32 bit floats per channel.
it seems you're saying that since this wont stop all harassment, its not worth the try? since we'll "have to accept grumpy service workers."

>> So does this mean expecting service with a smile is a bad thing?

no, it means "requiring" or asking for someone to smile is a bad thing when you are holding the power of their income (tip) in your hands. Remove tipping, less power for the customer to tell the server what to do/how to actq
Is that any real difference from today where less then 30% actually works in direct production?

Remember that 50% is an majority and would be entitled to basically run the economy as they saw fit, and yet we have never had a case(outside of apartheid/slave states) where an majority did that.

What UBI represent is more of an re-balancing on the employer/employee power balance as it grant's the employee the power to say NO without facing complete ruin.

For UBI to work the presumption that people wont just retire to cheap housing in the countryside living on bread, beer and love, but for the most part seek some kind of meaningful occupation, which real data based economical models seems to suggest they will.

The problem here is of cause that everything about UBI invalidates any economic theory compatible with an moral philosophy derived from Luther and Calvin's (protestant) Punitive Christianity, which unfortunately is the base for a lot of modern economic theory.
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According to his anecdotes his patients believed him. I think that it not just "hey, take this pill", but a long hard work of becoming a trusted doctor for the patient.
> "Is this software trustworthy?" becomes almost identical to "Is the set of people who wrote and reviewed this software trustworthy?"

Yes! Simply being able to trace an artifact back to the set of people who wrote and reviewed it would be a major win over where we are today.

Disclosure: I'm a lead on this and a bunch of other supply chain security projects at Google.
My take away is no because the same outlets that cover Amazon’s indiscretions also usually turn around and deliver Amazon Prime deal offerings that provide affiliate income. The negative reporting is balanced out by affiliate needs and the consumer’s want for a convenience they don’t really need (2-day shipping). Why do most people claim they need 2-day shopping? Because they didn’t have it before and they can have it. It has nothing to actually do with physical need.

Look at US electronics related news sites today for a plastering of these affiliate ads. Then instead of clicking the deal link, do a search for negative news about Amazon to seeing the ironic morals.