skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cat mate's rotating feeder works well for this. You dish out 5 portions, pop some ice packs underneath it and it will rotate at the given time to reveal the food. Not perfect but it lasts ok overnight, especially if you put in the next morning's food frozen.

I did start building an arduino powered copy of it using a peltier plate and some fly prevention mechanisms. The prototype worked well but since I'm at home 24/7 these days the project fell off my priority list. Maybe this will inspire me to finish it.
Which is not reassuring considering their past abuse of phone numbers provided for allegedly only security reasons. [0]

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/twitter-uninentionally...
If you fall into that demographic, how do you avoid doing business with Apple?

Fairly easily, I have an X1 running Linux as my dev machine (I'm backend/ML) and don't have a phone. No need to worry about my career, I'm doing OK thanks.
Frenemies part 2: What a difference a (Perl) module makes
Cypherpunks write code.

This is part of a larger trend of non-state actors with a huge variety of sometimes very pro-social missions (IMF, anti-child exploitation non-profits) advancing their respective missions through leveraging or targeting other non-state actors' platform control (tech companies, adtech infra) of platforms we totally rely on for day-to-day life (browsers, smart phones, OSs).

The connective tissue is the selective analysis, or less generously: magical thinking, of tech's beneficial features for a specific mission while ignoring (or not understanding) what their views for tech-use cause in aggregate.

The only counteraction that seems capable of effective reaction to this trend is forcing that "aggregate view." Developers on GitHub re: showing hash collisions for Apple's CSAM tech have recently lead the way in this space. Tools which passively search the web to generate browser histories which have beneficial credit score impact are another option.

It's time to return to the mindset cypherpunks created, but expand it from their hyper-focus on privacy: write and socialize tools which politely but directly force tech-lite researchers and non-state actors with powerful missions and influence to acknowledge their blindspots (hopefully), or screw up their products (more likely).
Almost like the people claiming “bias” actually have their own biases.
Bitcoin's value partially derives from permissionless transactions on an immutable ledger, if you'd actually been following it from 2009 you'd know that (but you don't).

> Bitcoin would have today 0 value because it is boosted only by FOMO (fear of missing out)

An incredibly tired take (but it's cute that you spelled out "FOMO" and abbreviated it). Compared to 2009, 2021 is the future, where the value of BTC is not 0. We don't have to speculate incorrectly as you do when you say "Bitcoin would have today 0 value," we know what value it is.

You completely failed to predict the effect of BTC and cryptocurrency on the global financial market, which supports your idea that "we cannot predict future trends." We can make educated guesses though.
Ah yes, the classic. This was the earliest mention I could find: https://twitter.com/tveastman/status/1069674780826071040?lan....

"I'm old enough to remember when the Internet wasn't a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four."
It's public information and I don't see any doxing done.

You sound kind of reminiscent of these judge's use of the 13th amendment - slavery isn't illegal for prisoners, so let's enslave em!

Here's one for you: We don't make absolute decrees.
At Network to Code, we are trying to solve for this exact problem.

https://docs.dolthub.com/use-cases/application-databse/nauto...
I think the Instagram experience is better on mobile web than it is on the app with regards to consuming less. The "timeline" on mobile web is only people I follow with no inserted ads. Same with stories, there are no ads.

The best thing is that the "Explore" tab is just a bit too slow in terms of responsiveness on mobile web. I spend a less time on there because it's not as pleasant to use as the app.
I was told the chainstay of a Specialized Enduro was not covered under their 5 year frame warranty, as they class it as a suspension component, despite even their technical description listing it as part of the frame.
The intention of the statement was to show that it is low-end hardware at a high-end price point. Performance of eMMC flash memory isn't magically going to be "hugely" faster because it's ran on a different OS. That 720p screen will perform the same too.
Android performance overhead is not relevant to this.
As an old slashdot user, I've almost never done anything else :)
Reddit has had 5 second page loads for over a decade. Extremely embarrassing of them to be honest. I can understand them not fixing their search because that increases engagement, but you always want your site to be fast. I guess they don't because they know they have no competitors.
If you are lucky, for every technical subject discussed on Hacker News, you will find at least one expert commenting in the discussion. Here the issue with the pristine weather is directly linked to the difficulty of making LIDAR works under the rain something I remember someone knowledgeable with LIDAR posting very early here.

Sadly my feeling is that during the past few years these posts have been becoming rarer and are less upvoted that they used to be. Controversial or very assertive comments seem to have more success. I fear that Hacker News is slowly turning into Reddit.
They always add that incorrect “y”.
Maybe what Americans have built is exactly what people who aren't HN users want. The numbers would seem to say that.
So maybe don’t require an account to view tweets, or don’t let me tweet until I provide phone number but still let me view… lots of options
Hah, ok. I'll go find some videos and brush up!
Agreed. I would be very interested in reading an example of Pacaso's LLC incorporation documents.

I would expect some sort of ongoing property management contract between Pacaso and the LLC, which I wouldn't expect to be indefinite or impossible to change via vote.
I thought it is one of these “don’t end sentences with prepositions” weird rules no one really follows.
I've thought about it for an hour now, but I don't understand how the given algorithm works.

I understand Step 1, growing and shrinking the cells such that the area of the cell on the window is proportional to the brightness of the corresponding cell on the image plane. Intuitively this feels like the cells on the window represent the total light budget, and growing a cell means taking a larger proportion of the incoming light to aim towards a given point.

But I'm stuck at Step 2. If a window cell has a single normal, i.e. if it's a flat plane, I don't see how it would increase the brightness. Like the author previously describes, the brightness is dependent on the second derivative of the height, not the first. A larger flat window cell will not make for a brighter image cell, it'll simply make the image cell larger. Brightness could be increased by having more window cells aimed at the same point, not larger cells.

The way I understand this could work is if the second step of converting the window cells into normals is done at a much higher resolution than the given map, and the target point is fixed for each cell. That way, the normal could vary over the course of a window cell, and every cell would function as a tiny lens, where now bigger lenses would in fact lead to brighter spots.

I assume I'm missing something, can anyone tell me where I go wrong?
> when you think of a word in English, even if you don't vocalize, some of your vocal cords become tense or move

Oddly enough, I haven’t ever perceived this, but I can consciously trigger it, and I do think I understand what you mean.
>Honda does not give me an SDK and API to run arbitrary software on the computers in my Civic either.

If something goes haywire in my phone, it can't possibly turn into a 2 ton death machine, which is something that can happen with a car. Cars have stringent safety regulations that cell phones do not. So... bad example.
The clear food bin in the video looked like a “normal” bit of plastic—almost like a large licorice container. The only other part that is in long contact with the food is the actual bowl where kitty eats from. Design it so it fits a dishwasher safe bowl of some kind and you are good to go. The “guts” where the food falls through has minimal contact and for a dog or cat I wouldn’t loose too much sleep over. For humans I might do something more…

That being said… cleaning the “guts” might be a challenge and I can see it getting kinda skanky over time. Either reprint the parts periodically or find a way to clean them.
For super quick notes that are password managed, and markdown supported, I've been using https://nnote.io. Simple, no-ads, and might be OSS sometime soon.

However with nnote, I do end up with a lot of links, and since those notes live everywhere and are hard to manage, I end up making a task in Amna (https://getamna.com) [disclaimer I built it], and use nnote as a tab inside of the browser it provides.
The amount of planning you already need to do to fly a plane makes shared ownership of a plane makes sense.

And to be fair, a lot of the clubs will do shared ownership of a fleet of planes. Not just one.
I was curious about this as well and gave modeling the Impossible a try... the foot drag seemed to be best mimicked by a half-kickflip, followed by a 360 shuvit, then a half-heelflip.
Everything you've mentioned is addressed in Torba's rebuttal: https://tv.gab.com/channel/a/view/breaking-down-the-latest-h...
You can get away with that on a residential IP sometimes, but don’t count on it. Log in from the wrong location or a VPN or do certain patterns of behavior and it drops you.
Thank you, this is very useful info.
...because it's true? Only recently have we been able to wean ourselves off of them for some use-cases. If fossil fuels disappear tomorrow, so does timely international shipping, timely intranational shipping, air travel, a lot of the grid power we take for granted, and probably a thousand other things I'm not even thinking of right now. How the hell is civilization not dependant on fossil fuels in your mind?
I use lineage, and the signal apk from the website, and signal nags me to upgrade -- that doesn't happen automatically as far as I can tell. I've disabled the "install unknown apps" permission, but I don't know precisely what "unknown" means in this context.
Ask HN: Unsure how to appeal an untrue Airbnb review – considering legal action
My last review on airbnb was a complete fabrication and completely ruined an otherwise excellent profile with a large number of positive reviews.

I appealed and support turned me down.

The reason I "have a case" is that the host was new and and compared to me only had 1 neutral review. compared to my 10+)

It is obviously a fabrication from a new host who I think got into trouble with her housing association.

My questions is please can someone on HN recommend a route / email or path I can take to re-appeal the removal of her feedback?

Do I really have no option other than to delete the profile after years of use? has anyone successfully resolved an issue like this?

This is a shame because I am was considering putting my own valuable property onto the site in Oxford.

EDIT> Please before recommending I ignore her false review - understand she really did her best to make me look very bad and I think it will affect all my future stays.
To be fair, the fixed interest rate mortgage is uniquely American, and is not seen in most other countries of the world. It's a great deal if you can get it! But obviously someone has to backstop the other end of this deal, and in the US it's basically the government.
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yeah, this will only become part of a forest management plan. i bet that everybody will do it eventually, and the market will have too many credits for sale. and the polluters will continue to pollute, and use their carbon credits as a marketing gimmick.
This is exactly the kind of advice I was hoping to find in this thread. Do government contractors, large orgs like IBM, etc often offer remote jobs? Frankly I've always been content to just coast, and my current job is an environment a little more high-pressure and competitive than most, which has just confirmed that I don't care about anything beyond the paycheck. I could see myself at some same org coding happily and adding value for quite some time, as long as permanent wfh is part of the job and the expectations of 'ambition' aren't too high.
Will give this a shot, thanks!
Sounds too simple but you could just create a personal wordpress install + strong search plugin. Seems to do everything you asked for since you are ok with public.
Same here. The dang things literally convert scorching sunlight into shade.
Two devices. One set of dot files.
Varial kickflip = 180 backside shuvit + kickflip

Hardflip = 180 frontside shuvit + kickflip

The hardflip is unique in that it has two main variations. One is the end-over-end style that I think they're describing, where the board only does half a kickflip. The other is "flatter," and explicitly a 180 shuvit with a complete kickflip. In practice the end-over-end style is much more common, easier to perform, and nicer looking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNlKad9vzng
South Africa is even a bright spot when compared with the rest of Sub Sahara African nations.
"Documents often require tons of copy paste from previous docs."

Sounds like an opportunity to automate. And maybe use some GPL-3. Have a lazy dev like me set the system up to do all the BS work for me and automatically apply for a promotion when the minimum time in job is met.
You are very welcome :-)
AFAIAA there are lawful reasons for development of such an app both in the UK and USA under accessibility laws.

That of course doesn't mean companies won't sue, or pay off a developer, or make threats, etc..

I'm quite interested about where it sits wrt 'time shifting' which is allowed in the UK. I'm allowed to record "tv" to watch later, AFAIK; so I can watch on the train, or when I'm away from the "tv" receiving equipment (eg aerial) as long as I only watch it once and don't show other people (!). So, can I still download a YouTube video to watch in the car where I _personally_ don't have the ability to watch? YouTube is TV. Or would it only count for a live broadcast show on YouTube?

This is my personal opinion and is not legal advice.
(I'm non-technical) What is the best back end framework to use for my web app?
Hello!

So I am non technical founder. I am searching for dev shops to help me build a web app. I want to make sure I choose a dev shop that uses that right backend frame work, that is in line with my vision for the product.

1.) The Product (Generally) - An online discovery network. User profiles, ability to chat with users. Ability to live stream. Ability to create community groups where many people can interact and chat. Payment integration etc. Filter and search for different users by category. Very feature rich...

2.) I want to make sure it's a backend framework that is very common and lots of programmers are familiar with. When I am recruiting I want to make sure this the right backend tech stack that is current and relevant and lots of people work with.

3.) Want to make sure it is right for scale and for lots of users.

Thanks in advance! Been tricky navigating developers since I am non technical, trying to make the right decisions before I go with someone :)
Is the bad guy here GitHub or YouTube?
HN has predicted 281 of the past three major tech breakthroughs!
You're reaching. I suppose you got your information about Jesus from the Neckbeard Nexus?
I barely get away with 16gigs and only because i'm on linux laptop. I see 32 becoming the new barely-get-away pretty soon.
I don't think Europe has a problem with brains. But European governments seem to want to crush companies that begin to dominate the market, regardless of whether this dominance is based on a better product or anticompetitive practices.
Yes, crystal balls are in short supply.

That said, unless you were a True Believer, if you bought bitcoin at $5 you probably wouldn't have any left by now. You likely would have sold at $100. Or $1,000.

I know a lot of people that got in early. But only one made millions because he thought it would be the next big thing. Everyone else jumped ship at some point because they weren't True Believers.
Now do the other study - where on the Internet were these things first talked about.
Why is having more unicorns a thing to brag about? Maybe China has fewer unicorns because there's a healthier startup ecosystem with more places for VC dollars to go.
It's a lot like predicting earthquakes right? You can measure strain and know that you're due, but you still don't know precisely what the trigger will be or when it will happen.

We don't make such jokes about seismologists though. Why not?
Possible case of 'Havana syndrome' in Vietnam delays Vice President Harris visit
Would you make that argument for the US treatment of minorities historically? No? Why?
Ugh, this activates visceral dislike in me. I dislike the corporation ignoring local laws and ordinances, I dislike the extremely wealthy neighbors throwing up tons of signs around the now poorer peoples' domicile in their perfect community, and I dislike the potential for 8 people to get screwed by a bubble.

Lastly, is it wasteful that people pay 600k for a month and a half of luxury housing per year? To me, That's so exorbitant. I worry that humans are constantly chasing a bigger better lifestyle, neglecting sitting down and noticing how great their actual life already is.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-21/you-ca...

"The other reason to love this story is that it is about getting paid not to do things. That is always complicated. If you are paid to do things, it is relatively easy to measure how much you did and how much you should get paid. If I want you to cut down trees for my sawmill, we might agree on a price of $5 per tree. You will cut down the trees and deliver them to me, and I will count them. If you deliver 100 trees then I’ll pay you $500.

"But if I want you not to cut down trees for my carbon capture program, it is harder to measure how many trees you didn’t cut down. Just sitting here right now, typing this column on my computer, I have cut down zero trees,[1] which means in theory that there are absolutely billions of trees that I have not cut down. Where is my check? A landowner might have planned to cut down only a few trees this year, but she will have incentives to say “I was planning to cut down all my trees,” in order to get paid for not cutting down all of them. She might have trees that are impossibly un-economic to cut down, but it’s easy enough for her not to cut them down.

"Similarly, if I agree to buy 100 trees from you, and you sell me the trees, you can’t sell them to anyone else: I have the trees. If I agree to pay you not to cut down 100 trees, though, what’s to stop you from getting paid by someone else not to cut down the same trees? The trees stay there; you can sell the concept of them staying there as many times as you like."
You're forgetting that in the current market theres a likelihood of a very good RoI for that share.

Various investment vehicles are buying up houses all over the world.
Reuters photographer was killed after being left behind in retreat
In many countries the market is regulated, but the regulations are pretty slim (requiring commercial insurance and the driver to be completely sober).
Somewhere out there Rodney Mullen smiles quietly :)
Yeah this whole credit score conversation going on in this thread is very weird. Has nobody here bought a car or applied for a loan ever?

And how is Bitcoin going to tell whether you default on loans or not?
My life is perfectly fine without tweets, likes and stickers. One less thing to waste time on.
Rapid "spread" != hospitalization and death. This should also be an indicator that the negative economics of lockdowns long-term, especially during the transition into "endemic" phases of a disease don't really pan out. To be clear, I got my vaccine, I'm planning on getting any necessary boosters and I wear a mask. However, managing negative health outcomes is far more important than just reporting on cases at this point.
The difference is that the US has the money to attack the root causes of much of crime: poverty, and (mental) health care.

But instead, it spends even more money punishing those who commit crimes. This has zero effect on reducing crimes, but makes people feel good about punishing the bad guys, because again: it's morally superior in American culture to punish 'The Bad People', and it's difficult to be elected on a platform that can be seen as helping 'The Bad People'.

The cost of putting 100 at-risk kids into after-school programs to help steer them away from crime isn't small. But if it keeps 1 person out of prison, it pays for itself many times over. And Americans, generally, don't want to fund this sort of thing.
Well, maybe. In my dad's case he started treatment in 2003, so I don't think it was that long after the first approval in the US.
I can't tell whether you're being serious, but sadly there's indeed quite a lot of this us-vs-them and people behaving like arseholes to each other.

Not to mention that, in my jurisdiction, if this sort of behaviour led to injury or damage to property, the cyclist would almost certainly be found to be at fault, at least partially.
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Reddit is unusable without which app, the official one? Because I've been on reddit for a decade and never once used their app. It's either reddit is fun on android or the browser. Never had a problem. Even if you don't have an account, old.reddit.com and i.reddit.com (for mobile) bypass all the atrocious new UI changes
Yeah you don't want to react blindly ..
Thanks for posting this.

This is the last thing I need so that I can have one set of dot files for both personal and work machines without any horrible hacks.
SM2 Decryption Buffer Overflow
Here's a fun one to debate with your skate friends, nollie and fakie tricks are "swapped".

For example:

- nollie fs 180 and fakie fs 180 (fs half cab) are two different directions: nollie fs 180 is in front of you and fakie fs 180 is behind you going blind

- nollie 5-0 and fakie 5-0 (fakie switch nosegrind) lean differently on the grind: nollie 5-0 you pop off your nose and land on your back truck, fakie 5-0 you pop off your tail and land on your front truck

- nollie noseslide and fakie noseslide are different motions to get into the slide: nollie nose you pop off nose and land on the nose in the ledge, fakie nose you pop off tail and land on the nose but you do a sort of half cab

The key distinction in the argument is that in fakie, your tail is always considered your "tail". Therefore you treat any derived tricks as being "backwards". In the 5-0 and noseslide examples, you're still popping off the front of your board, but you classify it as nose or tail based on if it's nollie or fakie.

There are caveats though such as "fakie crook" where if you kept the rule it should be "fakie suski", which no one says.

There's a million arbitrary and nonsensical rules in skateboarding which is part of the reason to love it, especially for something that "has no rules".

And remember, never carry your board by your truck :)
Actual punks or just punks?