skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>By comparison, Viasat, 630 ms, and HughesNet, 724 ms, are almost unusable for these purposes.

They're saying it's close compared to starlink's competitors which aren't even the same order of magnitude. In context I think it's a fair assessment.
Another example of climatist spam from Guardian.

> Conservative estimates put U.S. direct subsidies to the fossil fuel industry at roughly $20 billion per year; with 20 percent currently allocated to coal and 80 percent to natural gas and crude oil. European Union subsidies are estimated to total 55 billion euros annually.

Source: https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-fossil-fuel-subs...

In the US coal is gone, so let's say that's $70 bn/year or $420 bn since 2015 for these two very big markets.

Are we to believe that China, India and other places subsidized fossil fuels with $2.58 tn since 2015? If yes, please tell us how what's being done about 85% of fossil fuel subsidies?

Nothing is done and nothing will be done, but also in all likelihood that "report" is fake news.
do you really mean rap for black people or rap from black people?
until you need to forward X, which I sometimes find very useful (on a LAN it's not too bad)
Interesting idea. I don't think I've ever seen this many dead comments on any HN post. For those not wanting to miss on the action I highly recommend turning on your showdead setting.
Fission energy all the way.
It's somewhat easier to measure if you ignore brands and look at commodity prices instead. Whole chicken (price per kg) instead of Big Mac, 100% cocoa instead of some random chocolate bar, etc. Of course, for many (most?) people, that will be even less relevant than the current consumer basket.
With how many insects there are of any species, there are bound to be many that have the genes to evade your genetic modification.
See the other comment. Direct subsidy seems to be 20 billion a year.
I guess it's time to ban HN and force everyone onto reddit then, because HN is a bubble.

I disagree with your implicit assumption that all bubbles are inherently negative.
> Not to say a dedicated remote isn't useful, but phones are really convenient.

True, but phones present a much higher security risk than remote controls.
Thanks!

The parameter saliency approach can be naturally generalized to any architecture, not just vision. The changes that need to be made:
1. Aggregation. Currently, our code aggregates saliency of the model parameters by averaging on the conv filter level. We used that because in the literature filters have been shown to be interpretable. However, no aggregation can be used and the saliency profile can be computed on individual parameter level allowing for any architecture.
2. Loss. The loss is also not limited to classification losses, any other loss function can be used, e.g. metric learning or regression.

These should be fairly simple modifications of the code. Happy to help if needed!
... "which allowed me to have my code peer-reviewed by some of the best engineers."

The "I'm not an expert" mindset probably comes from working with many other people who, collectively, are certainly 'more expert' than the single author.
Medical marijuana legalized on Cherokee Western NC lands
> Syntactic sugar is usually bad.

When I read this, ES6 classes came to my mind :)

Great post btw!
Likely so, though I like the idea that the FTC chose to act in the name of 'public interest' - presumably most scraping is of use only to the scraper and/or their customers?
Since my comment was flagged for whatever reason I’ll just repost it:

So what’s the story here? Countries grant citizenships for these large investments. It’s got it’s own Wikipedia page.
Black Entertainment Television[0] exists, I don't know about US TV, but UK TV has lots of other Black-oriented channels.

How do they fail to meet the standards you've set for yourself?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BET
> They have to deal with very dangerous and aggressive criminals on a daily basis and put their lives on the line. Its a tough job and its a grind, but we need them to protect us from criminal psychopaths in the community.

That is nonsense.

I love cops in general. I am a cop supporter. I have known excellent cops.

But cops enjoy a great license in the performance of their duties. Because of that it’s very important that we 1) hire cops of outstanding character, not just bullies who want a civil service pension, and 2) hold them to very high standards, a standard of behavior higher than you would an average citizen.

If dealing with aggressive criminals turns you into one you simply don’t have the strength of character to be a cop. And good cops who tolerate bad behavior in their peers are not good cops.
A library to do this that integrated well with typical inference and and training systems would be a great contribution!
A one-character MLflow pull request
I feel like that's a bit harsh and you may be missing the point if all you see in this is another clone.

There's obviously been a lot of effort put into this, and there's so much to be learned from what's being presented both from the perspective of a seasoned developer and those who aren't. The discussion above and below your comment is proof of that.
That is an interesting point I hadn't considered.

It seems to me that, unless this new service will be in the business of directly funding or creating their own content, it would be morally wrong for them to engage in exclusive content agreements.
X for women is controversial on HN too.
This feels like a rebuttal, but it's not clear to me what you're trying to say.

That a subsidy isn't a subsidy if it is given to more than one defined group?

That tax breaks aren't subsidies?

That cutting subsidies on something has a similar impact as raising taxes?

That raising taxes on things you want to discourage is bad? Or ineffective?
Wise moves on the part of the project proponent, had they presented their project with a 17 year construction and 11 billion euro budget it never would have been started.

Humans are optimistic. If we knew in the beginning how long something will actually take we never would start many things.
It's kind of a PITA to setup and maintain, but for technically inclined folks, I've found HomeAssistant to be a great tool for gluing together a lot of local-only devices into a semi-coherent interface.
The problem is, FreeBSD graphic stack is essentially the same as with Linux - same DRM drivers, same Xorg, same toolkits etc - and Wayland is still missing some functionality.
This is great for people who really want to hone their bird ID skills. Just plugging this for beginners to the hobby: Merlin by Cornell is great for easy bird ID, audio now included. https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
Another datapoint is dead-bugs-on-windshield. It's so many fewer than there used to be.
I don't have a sense of depth at all. I do have some concept of linearity of the control flow. But, it is a shallow knowledge that I couldn't visualize or even describe using visual terms.

I also confess that I think my best understanding from code is not at all linear in the textual representation, either. Sure, small code fragments are easy to reason about in a top down, left right fashion. But most of my understanding is a lot more disconnected than that.

Frustrating, as I do like pure functions, when I can get them. But... I also like knowing what the "metaphor" for a program is such that I can also reason about what it is doing.

This is best termed for me, ironically, in a graphical sense. Seeing a cube that is rotated 45 degrees is easier to understand in a Logo like language where the directions are the same, except for the initial condition. (I may just have a soft spot for Turtle Graphics. :D)
Absolutely true. Not even 6 months needed.

When I do stuff for myself I apply the same principles I apply at work. It's insane how easy it is to change stuff later on. Didn't think about this use case before but now you do? Because I have properly maintainable code that is readable its very easy to change and changes are only needed in one place instead of all over the place. Knowledge of the right thing is kept in the right place instead of implicit knowledge all over the code etc.

It also helps to have 'one team be responsible for each service' instead of 'everyone can work on everything'. It's insane how fast you can move if you know the code well and it's maintainable.
After 30k/40k/??? hours of programming, I wish I had spent a chunk of the time learning how to play the piano well or something.
I'm curious why you think file systems written in C would somehow be better than any other type of program written in C. We have plenty of data suggesting C programs have more bugs and vulnerabilities than programs written in safer languages.
I have blood drawn quarterly to keep tabs on a potential issue that runs in my family, and it’s just an added test I asked to have performed. I don’t know how much it costs off the top of my head, but I get it done through Quest Diagnostics.

The typical report is binary - you either have antibodies or you don’t. I had to specifically request additional detail, but it was available.
why are most content-based community websites (or most websites really) single language?
Hahaha this is cracking me up. Seriously. Wow. You are missing literally everything. The reason there’s no value in discussing this is that you have demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about, but you think you do and are now attacking me. You made it crystal clear you don’t understand corporate subsidiaries. You have no idea what studio I’m referring to or what it’s relationship to the parent corp was, or more importantly what it’s relationship to the named defendants in the suit was, and you don’t seem to care about these details or any actual facts at all. You could have asked nicely, but instead you’re doubling down on incorrect assumptions and trying to insult me. Why should I provide more facts to you when you’re willfully ignoring all the facts I’ve given so far? What is really bothering you? I get the feeling it has nothing to do with boards or execs or subsidiaries.

You aren’t entitled to any proof of anything here, and you’ve misunderstood and misrepresented at least some of what I wrote above. I shared my experience and feeling about Cartoon Brew’s articles versus my perspective of what happened as a member of the class. What is your experience in the matter? Were you involved? I hope you keep your healthy skepticism turned on while you read their articles. My position is based on personal experience in the matter, your stated position so far based on pure speculation. You don’t know what my salary was, nor whether it was repressed. Saying you’re entrenched only proves to me you’ve jumped to a conclusion and aren’t interested in the truth. I’m really curious why you’re still responding, but I could not care less what your bystander opinion is, unless you have something relevant to say that is based on reality.
Every few months there is a comment complaining about DRY, and a counter comment complaining about misunderstanding of DRY. So allow me:

DRY originated from The Pragmatic Programmer, and is not about avoiding duplicated code. In fact, quite a bit of duplicated code doesn't break the DRY rule as originally defined.

If I make my own list, I'll be sure to put "Understand what DRY is before complaining about it." :-)
The value of money decreases as a designed function of our current economic system. This means companies must increase profits to maintain or stay ahead. This means companies have two options. It does not matter if this is during an increased period of inflation or during more "stable" economic times, profits must always increase because inflation is always there, the difference is the rate at which money inflates.

Option 1: They keep the amount and increase price. This makes consumers mad and prices consumers out of the market.

Option 2: Shrink the amount of product for sale. Consumers are less aware and won't get upset as easily. Consumers get less, but this also ensures that consumers still can get anything at all and not be priced out.

This system is flawed to its core. No form of money has survived it. Thankfully, Bitcoin exists now and is the most sound form of hard money the world has ever seen. This is the system I participate in.
The author is right the, most current home automation products suck.

The stuff from big brand names is poorly supported, pricey and designed to suck your money away from you.

The cheaper Chinese stuff requires the use of a cloud server located somewhere I don't know and it comes with god knows how many security holes. Plus, the build quality is ropey at best, I clearly remember that time a desk lamp controller in my children's room literally melted.

There are a few devices on the market that don't rely on cloud servers. I have a few plug controllers that you can control via WebSockets or a REST API. I've been dabbling with them for a while and they seem pretty decent. It's just a pity there isn't any off the shelf home automation software that I could use to control them.
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i think Kingdom Rush on Switch used love2d. might be wrong.
> I don’t think making a black tv channel and black churches and black university help it actually make the problem worse because it increases divide.

You seem to not be informed that black people were expressly banned from many American universities as recently as the 1960s. Even after racial bans were made illegal racial discrimination was heavy, things don't change instantly just because a law is passed.

The only reason black universities exist is because black people didn't have other options. Creating black univerisites couldn't possibly make the problem worse.

The media is dominated by white writers and actors and as a result the large majority of content is based on white culture with storylines that appeal to white people. Black actors audition and black stories are pitched, but most don't get hired or funded. BlackOakTV is making a space for those who are rejected and can't get funding for stories appealing more to a black audience.
If I were to play devil's advocate: Barring alchemy, I don't believe we've ever had a period of exceptional technological supremacy in the history of mankind that subsequently reverted so completely. In the span of 50 years, we abdicated the position as explorers of space to a civilization trapped within LEO, content with sending probes and taking pictures, and the prevailing explanation for it is "not cost efficient", which in itself is quite depressing.
American black sorta kinda is, and I think Americanized thought leaders on all this stuff are muddying the waters immensely.
it's bad if you think local single user.

if you actually use remote X capabilities, wayland is no replacement.

also it deals better if you consider apps hostile and want to still run them with some integration with the desktop but still safely isolated. X complements chroot et al much better. which I guess fits this project since this is pretty much Wine but for bsd/osx instead of linux/win
BLaTTiX: Diary of a Game
In my climate (great lakes region) mowing only twice a year results in waste high plants full of ticks and sumacs growing up where I don't want them.

So I mow the front area and common areas about once every week and a half during peak growing season, and bush hog the back field about once every month and a half making an attempt to mow around things like milkweed and beneficial flowering plants.
I always price-compare on $/oz or whatever other unit makes sense. Often this is even included on the shelf tag, but it's easily calculated if not.

There's often quite a difference depending on which container size you buy, and it's not always the case that the largest container is the best value.

But would I notice that last week I was getting a 20oz package and this week it is a 19oz package? Not sure. I do remember this happening with candy bars as a kid. The price would be the same, but the bars would get smaller and smaller. Then suddenly the price would go up, the bar would be bigger, and the cycle would repeat.
almost everything that was and still is marketed as "DeFi" is "decentralised" in name only - this is otherwise typical of VC-backed defi.
This is cool! I'm not sure why the pandemic increased people's interest in birdwatching, but it certainly did with me. But then I moved to a new state and lost all my new bird knowledge. I'll definitely be using this to learn about my new surroundings.
> Then CA happened and data sharing should be prohibited, now this from the FTC with more flip flopping

Here is a direct quote from the FTC's letter:

"The FTC is committed to protecting the privacy of people, and efforts to shield targeted advertising practices from scrutiny run counter to that mission."

How is this "flip-flopping" by the FTC? The FTC wants to protect the privacy of individuals but has no interest in protecting the privacy of large corporations. That is and has been the stance of the FTC.

The Cambridge Analytica event involved an advertising company exfiltrating data from individuals and their friends (under the guise of a "game") in order to use the data to target new ads.

NYU was explicitly asking individuals to share some information about advertisers (corporations) and was entirely up front about everything.

These two events should not be confused (which is what the FTC is explaining in this letter).

Can you show me the FTC in the past defending the privacy of advertisers?
I used to use it over the internet in 1995. It worked nicely then.
I've never encountered anyone who never questions authority and always supports the government, as far as I know. People tend to compartmentalize and rationalize, they'll accept authority about one thing but not another, they'll believe this but doubt that.
For a larger scale one-man project, you can also use mnemonics to keep track of what code's doing what, but that is unlikely to work out smoothly in a team-work setting.
I don't own, but when I do I will go out of my way to try and buy unconnected devices. There is no physical device in my home that I want "as a service" in any way.
Convertkit review; the Features, pros and cons
> We appear to have gone backwards in the past 5-10 years in my view - no longer can you just be "you", but now it feels like we have to be labelled, categorised, and segregated into different groups.

I’ve been alive for almost half a century, and I notice no such change.

I have noticed lots of people feeling like there is a recent change when they realize the identities that arr important to many people outside their immediate bubble (or even inside, though those are often just silently assumed within in-group dialogue or by dominant groups), often in the late teens or 20s.

> We now have to make a big deal and a big song-and-dance to highlight our differences and define what our ethnic backgrounds ar

No, we don’t. Some aspects of identity are important to some people. Why some people who notice that then suddenly also feel the fact that certain dimensions of identity are important to other people implies a general obligation, I don't know.

People for whom Black is an important aspect of their identity don’t, as a rule, think it is important for being White to be central to White people's identity. (And the same is true, mutatis mutandis, with other dimensions of identity.)

> What if I don't fit into some neat pigeon hole on some spreadsheet?

Then...you are just like everyone else, in that regard.

> This idea that people are 100% Ethnic-Category-A/Ethnic-Category-B/Ethnic-Category-C and fit neatly in those slots without any kind of overlap seems willfully ignorant at best, and subversive at worst.

Sure. But many of the people to whom minority identities are most critically important and worthy of attention would be the first people to tell you that; in fact, they have a whole analytical framework around it (intersectionality.)
Musk Feb 2021 "Speed will double to ~300Mb/s & latency will drop to ~20ms later this year"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1363763858121256963?lang...

Again on Jun 2021
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1272363466288820224?lang...
Have you tried the /.compact mode? It's not the same as the redesign, it's essentially old.reddit.com resized for a mobile interfact
Careful with this, the increased resistance can damage systems that aren't designed for it.
I tried a lot of alternatives to thunderbird on linux for mail/calendar/contacts. Every single one had a severe issue at some point with something (timeline problems, losing events, can’t sync contacts, privacy issue for one paid app). Thunderbird is just wonderful though and deserves support
The problem isn’t the acronym, it’s the dogma that grows around it. WET will be wrong in certain circumstances too.

Our industry is full of dogma and false prophets. It’s unbelievably frustrating.
Modernizing Familiar Approach to REST APIs,with PostgreSQL AndcloudFlare Workers
Problem with a lot of deadlines is that you aren’t told if this is a hard requirement because of a contract or some other external factor or just an ego trip or wishful thinking of upper management.

I have seen it plenty of times that management pushed for an arbitrary deadline. The deadline passed, project was not done and nothing bad happened other than another new deadline.
This is why I prefer standalone smart furniture and gadgets. All stuff that doesn’t need to be built in the house, but can be updated and swapped at need. Also, every time I ask myself really hard if I need this thing or just want it.

What a house should have in any case, is a good network and Ethernet plugs in every room. This makes the addition of new gadgets much easier I found. I must admit I’ve not gone the WiFi mesh route, but it looks interesting as well. Guess I’m just old school on that.
Such articles are so annoying. Here are the actual report[0] and the press release from Bloomberg.[1]

[0]: https://assets.bbhub.io/professional/sites/24/BNEF-Climate-P...

[1]: https://about.bnef.com/blog/new-report-finds-g-20-member-cou...
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I ran hundreds of rolls through a SRT101 before retiring it in favor of a Nikon FE2. The SRT is dinged and scratched; it has a patch on the cloth shutter; but I suspect it would work just was well as ever.
Are you suggesting white people won’t be interested in your content or that black people disproportionately subscribe to Netflix? Just curious. What if you inadvertently end up with a bunch of white subscribers? Would you continue to make mission driven decisions even if the best business route might be to diversify content?

Do you have data supporting the assertion that black content languished after the 90s? I feel like I anecdotally agree with your experience but I’m also curious if the data reflects as much.
Link should be fixed. It's https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.h...
You should buy a roll for it. Black and white is probably the best choice for the lens it has. Try a roll of HP5 or TX400. If there are no local photo labs there are plenty that you can mail film to for processing. You might discover something you enjoy about the process.
> I think should just never be watered at all ever

Depends on the situation. My town wants us to water less frequently, but keep our grass from drying out to prevent a fire hazard and soil erosion.

I do wish my front lawn was smaller to be sure. I'd be happier with more garden beds or garage/shed/workshop space.