skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I state "we" because I think it could be argued to be a generic human practice overall, to one degree or another (wearing a wolfskin as described could be as easily attributed to any culture present where wolfs have existed, whether in regards to American or European history.)

In regards to Vikings and Spartans, etc, I would say there is appropriation here nonetheless, the appropriation of legacy. The whole notion of "Western thought" is an appropriated amalgam: we are not Greek (and many Anglo European cultures have reject the notion of Grecians being "white" to varying degrees, but we still use "deep time" to anchor ourselves, justify ourselves. In this way, we don't have to justify that we are "creating something new." Christianity may be the best case in point: it anchors itself to the ancientness of the Torah, yet contradicts its history at will, but this doesn't matter, the anchor remains.

The two can coexist. We can claim others' past glories as our own, and celebrate "our" own. (And in the cultural sense the conquering of the Americas is something that is celebrated, the overcoming of the "Indian as Other to the American self," as I once heard it put.
> nimble and innovative company

Given slack has barely changed at all in the past... 6 years, I would hardly call it "nimble and innovative" any more.
I’ve seen this happen on HN quite often.

Guy 1: I wish I could do X

Guy 2: You can do it with a little trouble by doing Y

Guy 3: Why should we have to do Y?

Sometimes Guy 3 is also Guy 1. It’s an interesting phenomenon, for sure.
The problem with privacy laws is that it's too hard to detect violations. It took Snowden to reveal what he did because privacy violations can themselves be kept secret.

If a black box AI learns that you got a raise and uses that to suggest to every landlord that they raise your rent, you don't know why that's happening. Neither do the landlords. All they know is that the black box told them to and when they listen to the black box they make more money at your expense.

The only way it works is for the information to be unavailable to the perpetrators of the surveillance. It has to be end to end encrypted and not stored unencrypted on any third party servers. Encryption works. And then you have a guarantee from the math instead of a promise from a liar that you have no way to verify.

Which isn't to say that laws are irrelevant. But the laws we need are the ones that promote rather than impair the technological measures that protect against surveillance.
Some math: Lets say you can get pennies 1000kg at a time. That's 400,000 pennies (@2.5g/ea), or $4000 raw material and a theoretical maximum profit of $800.

This is assuming that someone is willing to buy your refined metal at full market value (so it needs to be relatively pure, not backyard crucible grade).

I'm guessing to turn a profit on the needed equipment, labor, and other costs of running the operation, you'd probably need to be doing at least 10,000kg/day or something. Seems implausible - you'd never get the supply.
It's also the IETF Internet standard and does not collect venture capital.
Create a self-hosted chat service with your own Matrix server
>Is it not better for the police to wrongfully turn up to a potentially dangerous situation then to not and people get hurt or killed?

Not so long as they tend to leave a trail of citations for petty BS infractions nobody cares about and everyone resents wherever they go.
I don’t use Python much, but what’s the difference between a NamedTuple and a regular class?
> I popped a monocle

This is why I don't bother with estimates any more - not because I think it's impossible, or even necessarily too hard, but because I've observed (consistently over a 30 year career) that it's pointless. Even if you could estimate with perfect precision exactly how long a software task was going to take, they would just push back, say, "that's too long" and argue with you until you told them what they wanted to hear.
Somewhat related: In his recent book "This is Your Mind on Plants", Michael Pollan also discusses caffeine addiction. Transcript of an interview with him on Tim Ferriss' blog:

https://tim.blog/2021/06/30/michael-pollan-this-is-your-mind...

I've been off caffeine and yerba mate (of which the yerba I consumed daily for the past 9 or so years) for two weeks. Feels really great, I admit being somewhat less sharp mentally (for now), but I still get everything relevant done. And -- maybe yet I feel kind of more... mentally balanced? Imagine having less thoughts throughout the day, but the ones you have, you'll like more. :)

It's like my energy levels are much more consistent, no sudden drops throughout the day -- and that's even when I'm doing heavy physical work. (I'm a full-time forestry worker, tree planter, brush cutter these days -- now not even thinking about the usual midday yerba mate kick I used to rely on.)

The tiredness that sets in at night also feels much more calming. So IMO it's a highly recommended shift overall -- I guess just the first 4-5-6-7 days without coffee/strong tea may be really hard.
NEA Scout and Solar Sailing
So more than half of gang were informants? Sounds like it was the FBI that was plotting to kidnap the governor.
Five Ways Humans Evolved to Be Athletes
Does anyone else suffer from GI issues like epigastric pain (acidity) brought on by tea/coffee consumption? How do you deal with it?
> Anybody who's ever been to a computer science class knows why- more men are interested.

It's also true that men are vastly more likely to be autistic, and the social challenges with autism can make someone a fantastic engineer, but not a fantastic manager.

That's not true of all autistic people, but there's certainly a correlation.

Again, GitLab is talking about senior leadership -- not people who are writing code or ever needed to have done it well. Most tech execs don't even have CS degrees, because most senior leadership positions are in organizational things (operations, management, HR, sales, etc.)

> I don't agree. The tech industry is predominantly male and everybody knows it. Anybody who's ever been to a computer science class knows why- more men are interested.

If this were true, and gender were the only variable, then we'd see stable ratios of men to women in computer science. We haven't seen that. There used to be far more women up until the 1980s.

> If you assume that male and female employees have a similar distribution in merit, than you'd expect the top of the company to have a similar percentage to that of women interested in technology in general

You're assuming many things here:

A. "interest in tech" is a stable personality trait and not influenced by opportunity

B. "senior leadership" at a tech company like GitLab is mostly technical roles

C. merit at tech companies is primarily a function of interest in technology

All of those are debatable at best, although I'd say they tend more toward the side of being obviously false once you actually write them out.
Its a very understandable viewpoint. We believe that you not only can - you should.
It may sound a bit utopian today, but look at what these managed cloud services really are: the new hardware. You had to manage every piece of hardware yourself in a mainframe system, because how else? Until you didn't have to.
It's just so wasteful to require people do all this semi-manual work. It doesn't make any sense frankly. It has very little to do with the actual products people are building. Sooner or later in such arrangements higher-level concepts emerge and establish themselves. Just like web frameworks most recently, or hardware abstractions (drivers) in operating systems much earlier.
This is a great breakdown of your process. I've seen many quite like it and have also been asked to make these kinds of estimates myself on projects for many of the same reasons: someone made a promise to another person, signed a contract, planned a release date for something they just made up, etc.

What I find frustrating about the whole situation is that no matter what process you use for making these estimates you have a roughly 30-some-odd percent chance of being right. It almost never has anything to do with the process you used when it does go well. If it did estimating software projects would be trivial, wouldn't it? Everyone would use this process and we wouldn't have 60-some-odd-percent of large enterprise software projects going over time and budget.

In reality people have used this very process, I'm sure, and have been in the 60-some-odd-precent. People have been studying this phenomenon since before I was a nerdy kid hacking on my Amiga.

Having a roadmap or a plan to get from A to B is good. It will need to be readjusted as you explore the problem space and navigate the waters so to speak. But the only real guarantee we can make as engineers is that we'll make progress in my experience. I'm only giving really rough estimates in the beginning and those estimates improve as we get closer to our end goal. I only start talking about actual release dates when we get close to being finished and are mostly polishing out the rough corners and have already done a few iterations internally.

If someone makes a promise they can't keep or have no business making -- in my books -- that's their mistake and they've made it a problem for everyone else.
> - ArtStation, artist portfolios + marketplace (usually 2D renders)

> - Sketchfab, artist portfolios + marketplace (usually 3D models)

That is how Microsoft bought GitHub, usually developer portfolios + donation platform.

TL;DR: LinkedIn
Why? I have friends who can’t charge at home, and just charge at superchargers. Not ideal, but they seem fine with it. It’s not like the cars take that long to charge, and their range is such that you only need to do that maybe once a week with a normal commute.
Show HN: Protecting My Garden from Rabbits with Computer Vision
Similar, but different: IRC is decentralized (you connect to a certain server, and you can interact with users/rooms on this server). Matrix is federated (you connect to a certain server, but you can interact with users/rooms on every other server – much like you can write E-Mails to anyone who has an E-Mail address, no matter if its Gmail or Yahoo).

So when you want to compare it to anything else: it's much rather like XMPP than it is like IRC.
Agreed. There are plenty of cases where an asymptotically "worse" algorithm performs better than a "better" one for all practical sizes.

Like it is very very much possible that the asymptotically "better" algorithms have coeffcients so high that the break even point takes like week or more of computation. There are not many programs where users will tolerate using it with so much data that operations take that long.
This isn't necessarily an endorsement of one protocol/ecosystem over the other, nor do I have direct experience with integrating Matrix or XMPP (though I run the latter on my home-server for family), but XMPP has seen a few large deployments, including in healthcare (in the UK)[0][1] and in Germany[2].

The consumer-facing client ecosystem for XMPP has indeed seen less rapid development than Matrix (the latter probably benefits from a more cohesive approach), but the server ecosystem for XMPP is very mature, and servers such as Ejabberd are known to scale to hundreds of thousands of connections on a single, modest host[3]. Obviously, that's only one part of the puzzle, hence why Matrix was chosen here.

Still, it'd be interesting to see how the two evolve and compare down the line.

[0]: https://www.erlang-solutions.com/case-studies/pando-health-c...
[1]: https://medium.com/miquido/successful-migration-to-a-custom-...
[2]: https://twitter.com/iNPUTmice/status/1203611711967813633
[3]: https://www.process-one.net/blog/ejabberd-nintendo-switch-np...
Ah, I see. A different namespace.
Sure, extensions identify the format of a given file but the point is that you can even access the documents as individual files at all, as opposed to having some sqllite db or other combined, binary format that isn't at all portable from the application which owns it.
I don't drink soft drinks generally, and certainly not in those quantities, but I vaguely recall feeling anxious after drinking cola before.

> Therefore something seems wrong about giving caffeine all the blame.

Possibly, but in this case, my primary comparison is between coffee and coffee with l-theanine and that one difference by itself produces a very noticeable difference in effect. I do not know what else in coffee could be producing jitters other than the caffeine. Or what in the cola could perhaps be inhibiting the effects of caffeine.
You don't even need to do that.

Either add an DNS SRV record to example.com pointing matrix to matrix.example.com, or server a single JSON under .well-known pointing matrix to matrix.example.com.

https://matrix.org/docs/spec/server_server/latest#resolving-...
>they don’t owe anyone anything

unrestricted access to the software.

One could make an argument that preventing a user from forking violates the GPL under which the software is licensed.
A lot of state departments of highway/transport already do this. You can even access the video streams online, intentionally. Just check your state, there's probably a lot of traffic cameras you can access. These are often used for traffic analysis like identifying and fixing congestion, accidents, etc. It's not too different than you setting up a higher res camera from your home or yard and doing the same.

Some states have protection laws on cameras setup for these purposes that the data cannot be used as evidence for criminal acts IIRC. For example, many traffic lights have cameras to adjust patterns as needed. It's not a huge step to then turn all of them into red light cameras the record running violations. It's a bit more complex for other violations but you get the idea.

I'm surprised private entities haven't already tried using this public data to associate license plates with cars, perhaps attempt to detect dangerous driving behaviors, and sell that to insurance companies to adjust the rates. There's so much surveillance data that could be mined in largely harmful ways to the general population at large and I think it's only a matter of time before businesses start doing more of this type of work as soon as they see value and a population complacent enough to take yet another attack on them. Car insurance companies seem like they'd be interested in traffic video they can associate with license plates and improve risk assessment on their customers. Not sure what, if any, consumer protections exist to prevent this right now. It's probably just cost prohibitive currently.
I have this only for concepts on radically different topics.

If it's something about history, I probably learned it from Revolutions, because I don't read a lot of history otherwise.

If it's about cryptography, I probably learned it from The Code Book, because I don't read a lot about cryptography otherwise.

If it's about language features in Python, heck if I know where I got it from, I watch, read, hear about, and find new stuff about python all the time, it's my job.
Yes all products and services.

Whether people actually follow it I don’t know, but if they don’t they are at risk of a felony.

Businesses do follow it.
Being reactionary to a competitor’s approach is absolutely part of NIH. Also, many carmakers were actually involved in the CCS standard. If you want to use a different phrase than "NIH" to more precisely describe this reactionary refusal to use a better technology because your competitor thought it up and you don’t want to look bad by adopting it, that’s okay by me.
Thanks Ben! For sure :)
Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Legal Complexity
curious about the process to get this accepted behind the scenes. Some IT team convincing higher ups, trendy open source, coupled with standard/growing German disdain for anything US/foreign, and weird obsession with privacy ideals
Honestly would use the bathtub interface. Convert it to a hot tub and that is an excellent outdoor office.
Using Haas Core unfortunately.
It's never said explicitly, but I believe the McGuffin in the movie Sneakers implies its inventor has either found a proof of P=NP or has implemented an algorithm that would imply a proof of P=NP.
https://matrix.org/blog/2017/03/11/how-do-i-bridge-thee-let-... :P
I don't suffer GI issues because of coffee consumption, but I do have GI issues that I'm currently resolving with Visbiome.

It's expensive, but it's really the only probiotic that has ever made a difference for me.

My acid reflux is almost completely gone because of it.
Wildfires in CA are a political issue that will only be solved via a political solution, but at present, there is absolutely no appetite to do so among the residents or politicians. Its like asking why Elon hasn’t fixed healthcare or higher ed in the US.
Async is another problem detailed that still plagues building wasm programs.

If your program has to read a file using fetch the operation is asynchronous. C and wasm doesn't understand this. You cannot await a response inside wasm the same as in JS.

The caveat of asyncify is detailed in the docs:
"It is not safe to start an async operation while another is already running. The first must complete before the second begins."[1]

It's a hack, which does work in some instances, but I'm not comfortable putting stack winding hacks into code that's meant to be debuggable. Spooky things could happen.

I'm still looking for alternatives, maybe rust can do it since rust has native async/await support. Haven't quite yet understood what !?!!!?!().?()! Means in rust yet. :)

1 https://emscripten.org/docs/porting/asyncify.html
> Cities with well thought out public transportation sometimes feel like magic.

That reminds that one time where I borrowed a car after not using one for quite some time (moving on foot or by public transportation) and I remember a feeling of freedom, being able to go just about anywhere, not depending on unregular lines or taxis (which would have taken me where I went anyway, especially as I arrived late in the night). For going in the countryside, cars are unmatched, but I also appreciate efficient public transportation in cities
I started keeping a list. Each time I discover a game changing concept I add it to my resource list on my personal website. After doing this I found having such a list invaluable to both myself and others.
You might be interested in cview (which is my fork of tview).

https://code.rocketnine.space/tslocum/cview
Implementing Attack Surface Monitoring with open source tools
Rarity is a matter of perception — at the time of the Teaching, the population of the world was a hundred times smaller. Oddity can be attested to, but what was once a rarity is now a minority statistic. As much as the population has multiplied, the number of pratyekabuddhas must have risen in tandem: to suggest otherwise would be to assign pratyekabuddhahood to external entities or mechanisms as something bestowed upon someone, but as it is, pratyekabuddhas arise independently — were that not the case, would they still be pratyekabuddhas?
Best practices are explainable, a senior programmer can surely explain what exactly makes a best practice as such.

They're not used as an hand wavy answer - "oh it's a best practice and that's that."
How's the taste? Notice any huge changes?
The final act itself is either rational, or irrational. I think most people commit suicide as an irrational sudden decision. They may have thought about it, they may have planned about it, but I think there’s a clear delineation between someone who says screw it, and kills themselves, versus someone who plans and commits the act with thoughtful deliberation. To make it easier to understand, perhaps you might look at this between a person who sees a train coming and decides in that moment tk step in front of the train, and someone who takes a Final Exit approach at home.

The mystery is what is going through the persons mind at the moment of self execution.

edit: I used the wrong word to describe a final act.
Or just use Firefox, where the button is there by default. Not that I like it, but it's a builtin.
Holy cow, this the same BBEdit I used as a teenager with System 7.

Incredible. Makes me nostalgic for resource forks & resedit.
> … waiting for someone else to make and publish all the other program measurements.

https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/
I am very much in favor of human rights. They are among the last, public vestiges of the “old wives tales” you denigrate, and could be problematized at any time. This could come from the political left, the political right, or some as-yet unrevealed historical force. Without recourse to the kind of transcendent, essential reality that positivism negates, we will have a very hard time defending them as anything other than a mutable, socially contingent prejudice.
I think part of their goal is try to lower the cost to Game Development which is getting insanely expensive. It was also how they started the whole middleware / Game engine. Currently the vast majority of cost are Graphics Asset and ArtStation / Sketchfab are keys to this goal.

Although in reality the cost reduction will likely be spend elsewhere to makes things a little better. So it is either cheaper or higher quality games.
Extremely excited for this launch! We have amazing companies doing some really cool stuff in the space sector! Cannot wait to support all the amazing missions with Epsilon3!
Dumbest thing ever. Free speech and expression. Erotica is also art like romance novels, country music, drawing Muhammed, or blockbuster movies. How much artistic beauty and/or titillation is in the eye of the beholder.

As long as photos, audio, and video aren't of actual beastiality, child porn, rape, revenge porn, snuff films... whose business is it what other people create?
In England, everybody remembers it as a success.

I was actually living in London at the time, and I remember it being pretty shambolic (the buildings weren't ever finished, for example), but if you have your national media on side, I think Olympics can work for you. Hardly anybody actually goes to the event itself, so public perception is basically dependent just on how critical the media is.

It also worked out well for China.
You comment misses the point of the parent... They are saying that cars at the size they are are a bad design for our world and cities. We'd still have clean streets, but we don't need something with two easy chairs and a couch built into it and weighing 3000 pounds.
The performance effects of too much lazy-loading
Zoom still has the best UX from what I can tell though, and they already have wide adoption.

I've also started to hear Zoom as a noun in place of meeting, "let's do a Zoom", etc., even with people who don't work in tech.

They took over due to being the best offering. They seem entrenched to me now, but who knows...
This was our (high school) intern, Samrat Sahoo's, summer project at Roboflow.

He collected and labeled a dataset of rabbits in his backyard, then trained a computer vision model to identify them and wired up a Raspberry Pi to the model, a camera and a bluetooth speaker to spot and spook any unwanted visitors to his vegetable garden.

The best part: he decided to open source the whole thing!

His dataset: https://public.roboflow.com/object-detection/eastern-cottont...
Github repo: https://github.com/roboflow-ai/rabbit-deterrence
I don't have a comprehensive suite of numbers at the moment (which is why I qualified it with "I believe"). My tentative conclusion is based on experience by a flux maintainer benchmarking forwards and backwards passes compared to pytorch, along with reports like this: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/flux-came-a-long-way/62288
> all the numbers are made up

Well... have you actually applied this process successfully? If so, wouldn't you have some actual numbers to point to from a past project? Names and details changed a bit to protect the innocent, of course.