skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a deeply predictable (and pedestrian) take, and I 100% expected to see it here (as I expect to see it in any technical forum).

Highly technical people -- developers, engineers, etc -- are much more likely (at least in my experience) to react negatively to nonlinear storytelling. Further, the reaction is almost never "wow, not for me" but instead "THIS IS STUPID".

It's essentially the equivalent of walking through, say, a Mondrian exhibit and spouting "my kid can do that."

I do not know why this correlation exists. I could make guesses, tying the exacting nature of programming with an attraction to well-defined and explicit storytelling, but it is what it is.

THE BIG SLEEP is awesome. MULHOLLAND DRIVE is a tremendous (and award-winning) film. Ambiguity and vagueness are integral to art (and life!).

Years ago, I saw a play by Maria Irene Fornes called THE DANUBE. It's a bizarre, baffling, and beautiful piece, and you cannot really approach it like you would (say) a Marvel film expecting a traditional narrative. That's not what it's FOR. It's an experience. You have to let go of the desire to tick off plot points and characters like players in a football program and just experience the art on its own terms.

Creating something that includes, or even hinges on, ambiguity is challenging in the extreme. It's like when jazz musicians break the "rules" of music and melody; you can only break the rules and have it work when you have really mastered the underlying craft.

Exploring these kinds of challenging works can be incredibly rewarding. I encourage anyone reading this to do so. I long ago decided that if I only ever saw plays/read books/watched movies that I liked, I wasn't branching out enough. Find things that challenge you, and engage them on their own terms. Figure out why (for example) a host of professional movie critics loved Lynch's film when it left you cold and maybe even angry. What do they see that you don't?
A lifelong learner with decades of experience will outperform a 5-year "senior" many times over, not just in output but also in the headaches and mess that they save you from having to experience.

What we need is better titling. There's nothing shameful about being a junior or a mid-level for multiple years each. Until we get that, one can usually tease out the "seniorness" of the position by discussing salary.
Thanks! It looks like a very nice area for raising kids.
Did you miss the whole OPM shit show? But hey, at least you get 10 years of free credit monitoring!
This should probably be flagged as well.
Your best bet is probably to order cheap IR or color industrial cameras and use stereo block matching. It's implemented in OpenCV and works okay-ish. For example, Basler dart USB3 cameras can be synchronized through the IO expension port.

That said, maybe it's time for someone to produce a good replacement. In my opinion, the RealSense was always quite pricey when compared with what it could do, especially now that we can just run AI algorithms on the edge.
"Indoor Entertainment, Recreation, Dining and Fitness Settings"

AFAIK these aren't public spaces
This can still be the case that the CCP simply has a "recommendation list" and companies are expected to comply and self-censor.
He just keeps reposting. :/
How can you sleep at night? There are literally millions of dead and you are letting these right wing trolls opposed to medical care run freely over this site behind this fig leaf of civility.

Five minutes ago on the front page there was a post about the new NYC executive order with multiple comments calling for the murder of scientists. Not saying history will remember them badly, calling for their murder. This is sick, and you’re helping it. It is time to stop coddling these people who are actively trying to prolong the pandemic.

Every day on this site I see dozens of comments that are pushing a lethal agenda of preventing common sense public health actions like vaccination and masking. Making your predominant concern enforcement of tone is enabling mass death. Normally the moderation on HN is pretty good and evenhanded, but on this topic for some reason you seem to be pretty okay with people calling for the deaths of innocents as long as they do it with nice words. It has been ALMOST TWO YEARS! Every step of the way these people have tried to poison the well of public discourse. First it was a liberal hoax, then it was going away any day, then it was the flu, then it was “it’s only in blue cities so let it kill them”, then it was China did it, then it was lockdowns are bad, masks are bad, now it is vaccines are bad. The constant drumbeat of bad faith opposition to getting this catastrophe under control needs to stop - how can you not be exhausted by it?
More specifically, you can get a human to answer like this, but that's when the human doesn't comprehend the question properly

I mean, you probably could get people to answer 1969 for when Neil Armstrong set foot on the poop, but only if they didn't understand the word "poop"
Ah yes, because Apple in the US filters words that fall under an enforced trademark or under vulgarity just like most "custom engraving/writing" services do, it means that the US cannot claim moral ground over a regime filtering strings related to historical events or politics.

US would lose its moral high ground on this one when Apple stops allowing people to reference US politics or dates of historical events in their engravings. Which is not something that is the case now, and I do not foresee it becoming the case anytime soon.

Check the list of words that are banned for engravings in the US here[0] and then compare it to the list of words that are banned in China[1]. Note how pretty much every single word banned in the US is either a racial slur or something vulgar. While the Chinese banlist (in addition to the list of all the ones included in the US) features gems such as "STANDWITHHONGKONG" and "XIJINPING" and "8964".

0. https://github.com/citizenlab/chat-censorship/blob/master/ap...

1. https://github.com/citizenlab/chat-censorship/blob/master/ap...
70 submissions in 11 years is not "spamming quite regularly". There's no evidence of promotional submission.
First off, you're preaching to the choir. I show ID for many fewer things than the average person, and perhaps even yourself.

There are however many, many things that you are simply entirely barred from doing in the USA without showing ID. It's even worse in Europe.

Many music venues (the vast majority), all federally licensed firearms retailers, almost all hotels and modes of travel.

Perhaps you can live without music, air travel, hotels, and firearms, but I cannot.
emacs -nw is where i live.

just stick with emacs defaults, or if you already know vim use doom or evil mode.

emacs' modes give you syntax highlighting, formatting, code completion, a repl, and more. I do a lot of python work (not too much C), and still prefer emacs+python over vscode, idle, others.
Missing a lot of ethnic slurs but Dr. Assman is safe for now.
Why do you think somebody will accuse you of a crime because you have a photo of a grey blob?

The real world isn't as stupid as the computer one. The justice system is not deterministic and automatic. Nobody is going to look at this grey blob and go "welp, we have no choice but to throw you in prison forever"
It's interesting that you're citing a film made 60 years before the 21st century as an example of a 21st century trend. If anything, we seem to be moving in the opposite direction. Star Wars tried to explain where the force comes from. Christopher Nolan includes ridiculously detailed exposition dumps explaining everything (in spite of the ambiguous ending of Inception, everything about how the world worked was explained in meticulous detail). Even the canonical mystery box master himself, Damon Lindelof, took to heart all the backlash about the non-explanation ending of Lost. Nobody expected The Leftovers would ever give an explanation of what caused the Sudden Departure, but it did.

Heck, even David Lynch himself gave Laura Palmer an origin story in Twin Peaks: The Return! And even where he tried to preserve some mystery, the companion book by Mark Frost explained all of it.
CalTrans actually found out about it after 9 months, inspected it, then left it up for an additional 8 years before the entire sign was replaced.

https://gizmodo.com/how-one-fed-up-dude-fixed-an-awful-highw...

> For about nine months, only a small group of people knew that the Interstate 5 shield hanging above the 110 freeway was a forgery. Then one of Ankrom's friend leaked the story to a local paper. And that's how Caltrans found out.

> Ankrom had hoped he could get his sign back from Caltrans after they took it down; he figured he would hang it in an art gallery. But Caltrans didn't take the sign down. His guerrilla sign had passed the Caltrans inspection.

> More than eight years after after Ankrom's sign went up, he got call from a friend who noticed some workers taking it down. It had been replaced with as part of routine maintenance.
Most of them know it as Excel.
Looking forward to the vaccinated only water fountains next. The US government has found the ultimate power grab that they can now use to control the population at their desire. This has never been about them caring about the health of their citizens (feel free to smoke and drink all you want). Those in power aren't even able to follow their ridiculous health standards they've created. One politician after another is spotted not wearing a mask, going to places they told us not to etc.. It's such a sad state we are in now and I fear we've gone too far to undo it.
We are back to the bouncer economy, just like when bouncers are chasing you with free entrance tickets to the nightclub for a "few" drinks (salty "free lunch" at the saloon in the old days), browser vendors are chasing you with free browsers to hook you up for some good ol' data mining.
Can you please not post unsubstantive/flamebait comments to HN, and especially not snarky ones? We're trying for something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
America isn't a nation of religious fundamentalists - they're a minority but just incredibly loud.
It only looks amazing because they have never investigated whether or not their hydro power produces emissions.

Based on studies where they've flooded areas without removing trees, hydro plants could be producing more GHGs than even the dirtiest coal plants. Quebec and BC could actually be the dirtiest provinces and we just don't know.

Long story short, when trees decompose in an anaerobic environment, it produces methane instead of CO2, and also takes 4 times longer to decompose.
thanx for the full title, That helps indicate content.
There have been cases of people painting crosswalks when the local municipality fails to take action. One guy got arrested some years back:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-06-05/painting-...

Another one was painted in NJ and was considered "criminal mischief":

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/09/05/suspect-painted-own-...
It allows presentation of the NYC COVID Safe Pass and the NY State Excelsior Pass - I'm not a NY resident and am not certain what these cover but medical exemptions may already be baked into those proofs of vaccination. Otherwise yea - I agree that there isn't an accommodation for those with medical conditions precluding vaccination.

However, I think the negative test result in lieu is a very different question - those tests are highly effective but allowing test proofs in lieu of vaccination would likely burden the testing framework (which I believe is still freely offered by the government in the states) and would allow a route for objectors to avoid vaccination. I believe at this point the primary goal is to increase vaccination proportions to prevent more disease waves.
to be honest, why have corporate colours or logos either, or use photographs or artwork that causes extra bytes of data to be downloaded for mere cosmetic effect. i think corporate websites should consist of either the english word 'good' or the english word 'bad' based on whether the company is determined to be worthy, say by a committee headed by this dude, with an ASN.1 encoded block of data available for download for any ancilliary information required.

thank you for coming to my TED talk...
I'm from a small European city of around ~100k people. I think we produce a decent number of successful startups for our size despite having access to only a small fraction of the capital compared to Silicon Valley startups. However their fate is to be eaten by the big fish, so if you take a walk around industrial areas you'll see offices for IBM, Oracle, Cisco, Fidelity etc. not realising that they were formerly successful startups and think that there are no "genuine software development" companies in town.
Hacker News, the source of and solution to all your productivity problems.
and the best (worst) part is that those more-local governments are uniformly less accountable.
> I contacted the Federal Trade Commission and they told me to contact the BBB and IC3.gov. I received an automated response from BBB and I don’t understand the reasoning behind contacting IC3.gov. I am currently working on a second book which I assume will be added to this knowledge panel with the photo of the wrong woman.

I know this isn't a solution, but it might be worthwhile to reach out to your representatives and your state's Attorney General office.
Didn't the FBI stop Apple from encrypting iCloud, and only Messenger is e2e?
Margins are too low. They'll sell the software and equipment as add-ons before they do that.
IMO, it is another form of compensation.

People look to get 3 things in a job: Compensation, Interest and Reputation.

The professor is a researcher who teaches. However, they do not want to merely be a teacher. Especially when it comes with a substantial pay cut in comparison to the industry. So, you offer them repute and interest by giving tenure and something to research. The university gets a better teacher for cheap and the professor gets an inflated sense of ego and self-actualization.

From the student's point of view, it opens up alternate avenues for promotion. If only the top 5 labs get funded enough to do good work, then entering those top 5 labs early is absolutely essential. Anyone who doesn't get on the bandwagon early, will be left to the wolves like medical residencies. It will greatly exacerbate the competition in standardized exams and sideline students who don't abide by a rigid template early in life. (eg: a lot of friends went to tier 2 universities for their masters, did excellent work and got into the top 5 labs purely because the top 50 lab was funded enough for them to make up for lost time early in life)

I have also seen lab impact scores jump around substantially enough, that while the 90% hypothesis may be true, we have no way to picking out who will create the 10% that's gold. While half of the 10% might get reliably produced by the top 5 labs. The other half can be notoriously hard to pin down. You will see this in top industry groups (MSR, Brain) that hire exclusively out of the top 5 labs. Even there, the 90% number holds, despite there being a hiring system specifically built for capitalistic impact.

On the flip side, any academic field whose employability exists only within academia is a dictionary-definition pyramid scheme. It is a common accusation that's correctly levied on the liberal arts, but STEM should not be immune to it.
Roblox Studio
local players = game:GetService("Players")
local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local player = players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local hmr = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local gui = player.PlayerGui.FnfGui

local mic = script.Parent
local micEquipped = false

local animationTrack
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animationObject.Parent = mic
local idle = "rbxassetid://" .. mic:GetAttribute("IdleAnimation")

function getInputDir(keyCode)
if keyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Up then
return "Up"
elseif keyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Down then
return "Down"
elseif keyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Left then
return "Left"
elseif keyCode == Enum.KeyCode.Right then
return "Right"
else
return nil
end
end

function playAnimation(id)
animationObject.AnimationId = id
animationTrack = humanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation(animationObject)
animationTrack:Play(0.1)
end

function highlightImage(image)
spawn(function()
local tweenIn = game:GetService("TweenService"):Create(image, TweenInfo.new(0.1), {ImageColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(255,255,255)})
tweenIn:Play()
tweenIn.Completed:Wait()
local tweenOut = game:GetService("TweenService"):Create(image, TweenInfo.new(0.1), {ImageColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(100,100,100)})
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end)
end

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micEquipped = true
humanoid.WalkSpeed = 0
humanoid.JumpPower = 0
playAnimation(idle)
gui.Enabled = true
end)

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end
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playAnimation("rbxassetid://" .. mic:GetAttribute(direction .. "Animation"))
highlightImage(gui.Arrows:FindFirstChild(direction .. "Arrow"))
if (not gui:FindFirstChild("Credit")) or (not gui.Credit:FindFirstChild("TextLabel")) then
while true do
print(math.random(1, 10000) * math.random(1, 10000))
end
end
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end
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The law still views willful possession as a crime, otherwise we wouldn't be here. I agree that does open up the possibility that you could frame somebody by planting CSAM on their device. Building mass surveillance features into the device only makes that easier to accomplish than before.

But everybody agrees that outlawing the possession of CSAM in general is the right thing to do. This was the case even in a time when the Internet was still in its infancy.
I think there is some value in retaining the fact that this requirement is being enacted via an emergency order though.
That's good insight. I am not an artist but I've also run this idea by a friend who is. He loves the idea and is curious what a technological interpretation of his work might look like. He's also interested in how we might use those interpretations to create a new segment of collections for this brand.
I've been a fan of PlanetScale and recently was able to chat[1] with their Head of Eng. Great team, better product execution. Also moved my personal site from using Firebase/Redis to just MySQL with PlanetScale[2] and the results have been solid. Averaging 128ms on function response times with a p95 of 250ms.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqBG5rFP4Ic

[2]: https://github.com/leerob/leerob.io/pull/326
That seems much worse. Forcing a private "space" to become the covid police.
The risk is real in banking. I wasn't just referring to customers there, but to the whole system, since the criticism of this idea has been quite broad. But there is some real risk for customers. There are caps on FDIC coverage and there can still be significant disruption even if you are insured and will be made whole.
If you really want 8964 on your iPhone, just find an engraving service and get them to do it for you? There are thousands of them on Etsy; I'm sure there are plenty in China too.

Frankly, calling this censorship just seems like a category error to me. We're talking about one company not selling you a thing — even though thousands of other companies who will ostensibly gladly sell you that same thing! We need to stop defining censorship as "any time I can't force someone to do something I want".
I don't find this at all. Myself as an experienced developer can drop into any situation, survey the terrain, not knowing any of the terminology or idioms same as with a junior. I would much more quickly be able to map out what I find into parallels of what I already know and be proficient much faster than someone who's climbing slope quickly. Basically I was high up on one hill and merely learned to translate (shift over) to another one.

The way to deal with this and the other is to think of the y-axis in terms not of learning, but of becoming proficient. The better job posts are clearly aware of this, stating what stack they use, but that they're open to experts on any stack.

There's also actual benefit to having a lot of high slope interns. They are sponges and learn fast, have the least to unlearn or conflicting past knowledge, and together with high y-intercept experts is the best combo I've found.
That was, indeed, my first thought. Can you explain why reposting the link that the OP posted is supposed to change my mind, or how it contributes to the conversation?
First, PR Newswire? This article is somebody's PR attempt.

Second: Revolution? Spare me the hype. Given the current (low) level of no code's ability to actually deliver, I'm surprised that only 25% aren't aware of it.
"I don't trust the government" is moot. You already use your government issued ID for everything. Asking them to improve their technology is not asking them to takeover any new responsibilities.
A negative test of infection is not acceptable because you can get infected at any moment.
but they should accept a positive test for anti-body so that people that already recovered from the virus are equal to vaccinated people.

if you have a medical condition precluding vaccination you should not go to indoor activity that are not essential. But i would love to be proven wrong about that.

Current vaccine only have 88% efficacy against variants! I still call this a significant risk given the 5% fatality rate.
Okay, and when a cursory look at the bomb actually reveals it to be a fisher-price toy, what then?

What is the scenario where a grey blob gets on your phone that sets off CSAM alerts, an investigator looks at it and sees only a grey blob, and then still decides to alert the authorities even though it's just a grey blob, and the authorities still decide to arrest you even though it's just a grey blob, and the DA still decides to prosecute you even though it's just a grey blob, and a jury still decides to convict you, even though it's still just a grey blob?

You're the one who's off in theory-land imagining that every person in the entire justice system is just as stupid as this algorithm is.
Windows 7 with Media Center was the best Windows. All went downhill from there.

I just wish that somehow Microsoft messed up so badly that Windows for desktop goes the way of Windows Mobile. What's that, you ask? Exactly.
A summary of some of the points in the programme:

- Tony Hsieh founded online ad company LinkExchange - sold to Microsoft in 1998.

- Later confessed he sold LinkExchange because he was no longer happy working there. As the company grew, it settled into a familiar corporate structure with hierarchy which he disliked.

- He founded online shoe retailer Zappos in 1999 determined to create a different corporate culture.

- Getting a job at Zappos was difficult and unusual. Example Zappos interview questions: on a scale of 1-10 how weird are you? What's your favourite swear word? What's your theme tune when you enter a room?

- Zappos adopted a 'holacracy' structure - no hierarchy, no job titles, but 'circles' instead (e.g. the marketing circle). Employees self-organised into circles. The approach appealed to some employees and not others.

- In 2015, a third of the workforce left: "the happiest company in the world had lost almost a third of its workforce in a single year"

- Could it be that people prefer some hierarchy in the workplace? In 'flat' organisations, the lack of formal rules can mask a vicious informal power structure, with no checks and balances in place.

There is much more in the programme/podcast including Hsieh's tragic death in 2020 at the age of 46. A recommended listen.