skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep it simple, stick it in postgres/rds until you outgrow that...
A 1 bedroom place where I live costs $1400-1600 (it’s an unusually expensive tourist town) and things are closing down once in a while because of worker shortages (Eg, lifeguard shortage was the most recent I saw). Where are these workers supposed to live? I know other places aren’t nearly this bad. I just can’t believe anyone is able to work in retail or food here
I take it you have no idea how sensor fusion works?

Sensor fusion weighs inputs from multiple sensors, determining (roughly) which ones are ‘more wrong’ and ignoring them, to various degrees.

LiDAR also doesn’t just ‘not work’ at all in rain, it degrades as it gets heavier until it doesn’t work. Like vision, etc. Radar also can pick up non metallic objects, and does all the time - including geese, humans, clouds, etc, depending on frequency, and there are variable frequency radars out there that can do all sorts of cool stuff, including frequency sweeping, so it’s not just going to ‘miss’ something. There are of course issues like multipathing. But that is why sensor fusion, and similar techniques.

All of this adds up to something much more accurate and less prone to failure than basic vision, which is what Tesla is running now. It also costs more.
Thanks. I have no promises to make beyond telling him he will develop relevant job skills. If he doesnt like it after a month or so, he can happily walk away without loosing any money.
Related Q: The coverage I've seen talks about the worker shortage mostly in the minimum wage / lower income jobs. How is the tech sector doing? Are companies perceiving a shortage in tech workers due to changing attitudes around remote work and moving out to suburban or rural areas?
> You get 3 guesses on what happened and probably need just one.

You.. quickly found the issue and patched it, and then balloons and streamers fell from the ceiling as the CEO strode over to shake your hand and pat you on the back and crack open a bottle of champagne to celebrate your promotion and give you a hefty performance bonus for saving the company and Dave Matthews played on the company’s sound system while everyone cheered for you and then when you finally left the celebration and went home you were tired and happy and newly wealthy and had become best friends with literally everyone at the company.

…right?
Derivative-free optimization to the rescue!
>To a J programmer, that's not just clear, it's obvious.

Is the argument that J just has really weird syntax? It feels trivial to me to make a mess of syntax that makes learning a language obtuse, unless there's something more fundamentally different about J, this is the first I'm hearing of it.
This seems suspect.

Almost anywhere you look throughout all of history, in countries with rural areas and urban areas, poor people flock from rural areas to urban areas for the opportunities and wealth that urban environments offer. This is even an entire trope in literature: the hero from a small village makes a name for themselves in the big city.

This study purports to show that "inequality" is worse in cities, but of course it is. The richest person in the small village is not going to have many multiples of wealth than the poorest, because they simply can't due to limited opportunities to build wealth overall. But that doesn't mean the poorest person isn't worse off in the village than the poorest person in the city.

People voting with their feet make it plain that this is not so.
This was my first thought, too. I wonder if the author considered this?
I've had to support an app that:

1) only ran in MSIE

2) required the domain policy to permit VBScript

3) required permission to launch + invoke local COM/applications

4) served over http://

All just so they could direct MSWord to directly print the server-side generated Sales Order template.

I audibly gasped and asked if they knew this put our systems at extreme risk, and the tech talking me through it basically shrugged "it's how it works"

Thankfully that webapp 'upgraded' years ago so that's no longer how it's done, but when it's the only way to get orders into your business from one of your top 10 customers, you just setup a workstation to do it :(
Some white-collar workers are balancing 2 full-time jobs, earning $600k
With explosive new result, laser-powered fusion effort nears ‘ignition’
I'm glad someone brought this up. Vlad Tepes was remembered by his people as a just ruler.

One story about him (paraphrased): A wealthy merchant lost a purse holding a large sum of money. He announced to everyone that whoever found it and brought it to him would receive a tenth of what it held. Eventually, a poor villager found it and brought it to him. The merchant looked inside and saw all of the money in there, but, not wanting to pay the promised reward, said "Oh thank you! And it seems you have already taken your share of the reward. Then all is well." But the villager protested that he took nothing from the purse, and that he deserved the promised reward. They took it up to Vlad Tepes. The prince heard the story, checked the bag, and decided "Since this did not have the money that was you say it was lost with, then it is not your purse." And he ruled that the purse and all of its contents go to the villager.
Maybe they should do that stuff instead. If we are going to have corporate paternalism, it should at least teach you effective life behaviors.
Personally, I would happily pay more for someone to come and take away my maybe-garbage and maybe-recycling, and sort through it. If the issue is purely economic - that there's a very real cost that's not accounted for - let's just make it explicit.

FWIW I think the reason why it's not that way already for recycling is to encourage people to recycle when they can. But it's clear that, at this point, the processing issue is more important than that. Then those who recycle because they want to feel good about it, can pay for the privilege. And same for donations.
You’re assuming you’ll still have the employee if you refuse.

The point is that once you have no leverage over employees (because their livelihood doesn’t depend on the job), you cannot establish what is not or not okay on your own.
Oh, yuck, I didn't know this was a thing but it looks like it has since been removed:

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115000538083-Atten...

> As of April 2, 2020, we have removed the attendee attention tracker feature as part of our commitment to the security and privacy of our customers. For more background on this change and how we are pivoting during these unprecedented times, please see a note from our CEO, Eric S. Yuan.
Intel Winds Down RealSense Camera Biz
I don't own any INTC, just index funds right now, but I tip my hat to you on Intel. Buying Intel today is essentially like gobbling up American apple pie. If you love China, buy paper design firms AMD or Apple. If you like the USA, buy Intel or maybe a paperweight in Nvidia, as they're diversified at Samsung and in talks to produce at Intel.

I'm expecting China-Taiwan-US tensions to increase, and all these outsourcing profit seeking traitors will finally eat crow. As if "just getting rich" wasn't enough for them.

My stock bets and opinions don't have to necessarily be pro-American (certainly wouldn't buy anything outright anti-American). But I love it when they align like today.

Looking forward to picking up an Intel Arc.
As a city grows it accretes those looking for opportunity. Businessfolk look for opportunity in a large market where they have more buyers. Laborers look for work opportunities. People from the hinterlands who may contribute at the margins are the main contributor to population increase (vs newborns or arriving wealthy). This dynamic will put pressures on resources (in far flung Beijing satellite cities you have “ant houses” to house these folk who given their meager earnings cannot afford better dwellings in more convenient locales.

Even centralized government systems cannot provide an idealistic solution to the pressures growing populations put on cities; however, given that people never the less pursue those opportunities even at a local disadvantage will take it because it’s better than their home opportunities.
The poor know this, in return they get called NIMBYs. My neighbors would rather live next door to an empty lot filled with trash than have the lot developed, and they've fought against every attempted variance to get ultra-dense housing there.

I didn't understand it at first, but I've lived here long enough now to see it first hand. The rich move in, their dogs shit all over the sidewalk, they complain about everything, they are not social, they call the police for every little thing, their kids go to private schools... and everyone else's rent and property taxes go up. These poor neighborhoods have been under-served by the city for decades, and suddenly when the land is valuable the city wants to "have a dialog with the neighborhood about development."
Except the lockdowns in china were, according to GP, true lockdowns. Thus, there are true lockdowns. The no true Scotsman fallacy isn't just any time you clarify yourself.
Tell HN: MS Teams is censoring screenshots from MS Mail
How to reproduce:

1. open the Mail app that comes pre-installed in Windows 10.

2. Take a screenshot of an email message where the subject, sender and receiver are visible.

3. Try to attach the screenshot to a MS Teams message.

4. You will see an error stating that the image could not be uploaded.

5. Now take any other screenshot, e.g. a screenshot from Mozilla Thunderbird.

6. Attach the Thunderbird screenshot to a MS Teams message

7. This time, the screenshot will be attached without errors.

So, it seems the best email client to use in conjunction with MS Teams is Thunderbird :-p
If interested, a link to the 19-page study paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.13150
> You get 3 guesses on what happened and probably need just one.

They had no validation on file type and you could upload & access a script that executed commands server-side?
It is a sign of how well Vitalik understands these complex issues that he can explain them so well, with just the right amount of charts, screenshots, and Star Wars memes.

I particularly like that he called out BrightID as a potential implementation of "proof of personhood", as it seems that something like this will end up being very useful as a base layer in tackling identity / reputation / democracy / governance challenges in the coming years.

https://www.brightid.org/
Why would you implement such a overly complex and unreliable thing when:

1. The windows manager can provide you with a list of open windows.

2. Screensharing including only sharing specific windows is a feature provided by the windows manager over standardized protocols.

3. Even knowing the processes which do have a GUI doesn't allow you to share that GUI, at least not without going through roughly the same mechanisms as mentioned in 2nd.
I thought this thread was full of sarcasm and then I see the links.

I should have known better.

I am glad this is getting posted because we need reminders of the reality we live in
Boston Dynamics Robots Can Now Parkour
I'm convinced that I'll eventually need a name for this inevitability. Rachel's Law of Root Exploits?
I hope this doesn’t sound trite, and I suspect you’ve already done/tried this, but just in case it can benefit you or anyone reading…

At a certain point in my life I was strapped, and I really related to your statement: I was trying hard to make a living freelancing / gigging etc and had accumulated a lot of skill and knowledge that I was offering far and wide. I found lots of takers for free or super cheap labor, but I was having a hard time paying my bills and really needed to get paid.

Somewhere along the line I realized I had to just stop doing anything for free. I started telling people up front something like “I could definitely solve X for you. I bill $50/hour.” Some things that I had previously worked on went away, but others surprisingly started paying. Over time I was able to raise my rate.

I eventually realized that, before, I hasn’t valued my own time enough, and I had been much too generous in doing things pro-bono just because they interested me, or I hoped that they would open doors down the line. And I realized that other people would never value my time for a penny more than I valued it. And again, part of it was that I was chasing some work I really wanted but was _never_ going to pay, and when I started having pay as a requirement, it stripped some of that stuff out of my life but ultimately replaced it with more productive and satisfying work.

I know that’s easier said than done, but it was a true ephiphany and major life breakthrough for me. So, again just in case that’s helpful or encouraging to you or anyone else reading, thought I’d share.
Basecamp kind does this, but it has a single $99/month unlimited plan. I also wanted this, because not all users need the entire product anyway (i.e. bug reporters, guests).
I compare my time living in New York City in 1994 to now living in Bangkok, Thailand, 2021.

Both very large cities with about 8 million people each.

New York City (5 boroughs) has become almost unaffordable for someone on the mean wage and salary USA personal income, which is $66K USD in 2019. You more or less have to share your apartment.

If I'm renting an apartment in any of the 5 boroughs that is anywhere near decent, I'm probably going to pay over $2,000 p/m.

Even in Bangkok, although rents are lower, salaries are also lower for the people at the bottom, so in the end, it comes down to the same problem. Most office workers making under USD$1,000 per month will be living in substandard accommodation or with family.

I would say, that in cities, food and transportation are still relatively cheap. But rents are driving out a lot of people now. We will see the soft white underbelly of all of this when the rent moratoriums finally end. (Winter is coming!)
You might be interested in learning about J. J. Pastoriza, Houston's first Hispanic mayor, and proponent of an ambitious and short-lived land reform movement for the city back in the 1910's

https://twitter.com/larsiusprime/status/1427107150053183505
It actually sucks when your house goes up in value, if you don't plan on moving, because everything else nearby has also gone up in value, so you'd be force to leave if you ever sold, and because your property taxes go up (in some places).
let's say the council comes to your house and ask you to hang a sock of different color everyday at your front door, and say "good morning" to the light pole, you know, random shit that means nothing to no one. Would you comply because there is no harm?

Now imagine it's not some random shit, maybe they ask you to go to the front door every morning and shout "Black lives matter", you know, something that sounds good but actually is still meaningless, for show only. In enforcing this they allocate the time of social workers who would otherwise do real work, into corresponding emails, knocking doors, doing inspecting work. I mean what's the harm? to you personally?

Let's go further, what if the council and their workers realize they can get good publicity and funding by keep adding for more slogans, for-show kind of "initiatives", and do no real work. Why not then just stop real work and bank on this pretend work stream?

But ultimately, what is the harm to YOU, personally?
LOL, to me, it reads like "Yes, yes, I know, we all would rather be writing code than debating pronouns. But since the debate will happen, whether you like it or not, here are some tips: (1) Just avoid pronouns altogether, then you don't have to debate anything. (2) In case it's not feasible ..."

Can't argue with that.
How should it have been done. Tensors are pretty complicated. It's like advanced calc plus advanced linear algebra. Maybe watch dome youtube videos on general relativity. Those are sometimes better than texts because clarity is essential.
The risk is that we'll all be dead long before this magic tech is invented.
I worked at Plaid from when it was less than 50 people to when it was a little over 100. There was no selling of data going on when I was there in any form (anonymized, aggregated, or otherwise). More generally, it doesn't make sense for Plaid to sell data. They already make a huge amount of money on the API. Why jeopardize that? In terms of the settlement size, it actually seems like peanuts to me in comparison to the size of Plaid and the number of affected people. I mean it basically translates into 60 cents a person. This seems more like a payoff to the class action lawyers, enough to make it worth their while but basically nothing for their "clients."
Reminds me a bit of how platforms like Citrix will publish single applications. Considering you can give control to another user with Zoom I suppose it's a lot like that, although I know the underlying tech is very different.
A lot of orgs have various regulatory constraints. For much of public sector, you're either going to need to be able to have it hosted on AWS GovCloud or allow the organization to self host it on their own servers.
I would stick with it. Few days in is like just touching the tip of your toe in the sea… see what you can learn. You have lots of years ahead of you- take each day as an opportunity to learn something new. Giving up this soon is IMO selling yourself short
This is hitting the nail dead center: the mock surprise at worker shortages is missing the fact that every metric pointed to this happening pre-COVID as well - the US a whole was in a march towards pricing all it's workers out of their homes at their current wages. COVID has just accelerated the trend.
They have more than enough resources to support anything. Such as lower level API (Vulkan) for those who need it and higher level one built on top of it for those who need something simpler but more limited.

Do you believe Apple are somehow resource strained in not being able to do that many times over?
> Nothing employers do today comes close to that.

Today's employers do similar things in subtler ways. After all, it's been 100+ years, things have changed. Lots of things have changed including the average quality of life, and the Sociological Department has kept up and changed with the times too.

You pointed some of this out yourself. Ford gets championed a lot today for his support of his workers and helping to build the middle class. I bet upwards of 90% of corporate workers today would agree with a statement that Ford was such a champion. This convincing by way of constant Ford-praising literate is a first step in itself.

Sociological Departmentalism now manifests itself in subtler ways, like superiors throwing out casual questions about your personal lives, "team dinners" where people bring their spouses, and the ever so lightly dropped "see you early in the office tomorrow!" at the end (never "you must be tired – don't come to the office tomorrow, take some time off!").

I would invite you to consider the possibility that the intents of such practices have not changed since Ford's time, the methods have.
Having your profession be your identity, yes. That's not the same as having a particular employer be your identity.
A fantastic film indeed, and personally quite important to me as it well and truly inspired my deep interest in networks and computing when I first saw it as an early teen years after it came out. No film that I’ve seen since managed to capture that sense of exploration and freedom in computers that Hackers did, and for that it will forever be one of my favourites.

Not to mention, it too had a pretty amazing soundtrack..
And in a lot of cases extra heat can be put to use beyond electricity production. Steam heat and cooling is a thing for large metropolitan areas, and it can also be used for desalination water. A few Soviet nuclear plants were designed to provide both electricity and water, actually.
Forcing people to use the term “terminological inexactitude” in lieu of “bullshit” just results in the term being used as a new synonym for “bullshit”. Don’t underestimate people’s creativity in evolving their language around whatever restrictions you place, e.g. people bypassing censors by using $ instead of s, or spamming the crouch button on a player’s corpse in an FPS game without saying a word, or spamming “What a save” as an insult in Rocket League, etc.
Minor wording nit: rather than the circle, I would say “consider the disc”. Usually in math “circle” means just the boundary whereas “disc” means the circle together with its interior.
I attempted giving win 98 UI to Obsidian recently https://github.com/SMUsamaShah/Obsidian-Win98-Edition
This is literally the path towards fascism. There was a reason Ford was such a big fan of Hitler. Society can be a lot more efficient when everyone is forced to comply with what our leader thinks is best for us. In comparison to that I would take today's corporate paternalism that basically amounts to "don't be an asshole" any day of the week.
What is the rate of reforestation?
> How many people are not working because they suddenly no longer have a reliable place for child care?

This was the first potential explanation TFA examined. It said that this effect was "negligible":

> It is commonly believed that school closures have made it impossible for parents, particularly mothers, to take a job. The evidence for this is mixed, though. Analysis by Jason Furman, Melissa Kearney and Wilson Powell III concludes that extra joblessness among mothers of young children accounts for a “negligible” share of America’s employment deficit. Despite talk of a “shecession” early in the pandemic, in most rich countries the worker deficit for men remains larger.
OpenGL on M1 devices is just a pass through for Metal at this point - and doesn't support newer OpenGL features - so it's not really worth counting IMO. Just feels like it's there for backwards compatibility and nothing more.
I've said it before here on HN I think but I always find it interesting/hilarious to what lengths people go to avoid a little bit of manual work. Like something that literally takes 2 minutes of manually doing the same sequence of click/type combo for 40 items total. Instead they must spend 2 days trying to automate it. And very likely still fail to do so.

Then on the other end I once automated a process ('running a report') that took one of the senior Devs at that place an entire day to compile in: exactly one day. Suddenly that report could be run when people actually needed it (once a month) but they only ran it every half year because of cost and blocking a resource for an entire day.

Your case feels like it might be somewhere in between (given I have zero context/actual knowledge of what these updates are/why they can't be centralized somehow. Has anyone tried?