skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all true. For that to work, there would have to be, yes, eye tracking and a lot of image processing to change where your gaze appeared to be, but also knowledge of the physical size of the screen, the location of that particular person's feed on the screen, and where the screen is in relation to the camera. Now, it's possible that a lot of that could be inferred if it's assumed the screen is not moved in relation to the camera, and a lot of work went into tracking window locations even as you move things around, but that's a LOT of effort to expend for such a minor feature (let alone the uncanny valley effect if you don't get the image processing perfect, including the transitional "eye moved from the document you were looking at, to looking at them" - the software would have to somehow note that rather than just looking over an inch, you actually looked up 7 inches, and render that realistically).

Easiest way to confirm this is not true, though (rather than just describe the challenge involved) - have a Zoom/Teams/whatever call 1-on-1. As you're talking to the person, and they're talking back to you, note where their eyes are. 95% of the time they're going to be below where your eyes would "meet", i.e., the camera is at the top of their monitor/laptop, and they're looking at you on screen. In fact, I've had some people -never- 'meet' my gaze, because they never become self-aware enough to "oh, I should look at my camera when I am talking".
> The hostile design decisions of Apple are unbelievable.

Hostile for sure, unbelievable, not really.

This type of "we know what's best for you" attitude is deeply ingrained in the DNA of Apple as a company.

The fact that they did get it right many time and that their batting average is above other tech companies is no excuse for the fact that the attitude is deeply flawed.

This was bound to happen.
SimulaVR (www.simulavr.com -- Linux VR Desktop ported to a portable VR headset) is built over Godot. We've ran through some bugs during the development process, but being able to alter the game engine's code on the fly has been really nice.
I upvoted it, it's a really neat project!
> That's been a perennial topic on HN. My suggest as to the expense of archiving it was that a student could be hired at minimum wage to photograph them, page by page, with a phone camera.

> This suggestion was usually followed by a deluge of angry responses that archiving should be done properly by a trained archivist. Of course, that's expensive, and now the only thing archived is ashes.

Isn't likely that a student willing to work for minimum wage may not care enough to not treat the material carelessly and cause quite a bit of destruction or damaging disorganization?

You're also conflating archiving with digitization, when they're distinct activities.

IMHO, in most cases, it's also more likely that the original paper documents will survive in readable form than a mass of mediocre quality scans.
Professors make decisions that are stricter than what their university allows, and there should be no problem if they do. Two examples:

1. Universities usually have no or minimal dress-codes, but professors in lab courses or on field trips will have mandatory dress codes for safety or cultural reasons.

2. My university has mandatory minimum attendance for every in-person course, with 15 minute leeway allowed. But lots of profs enforce a 0 min or 5 min leeway.

I am sure others can add more examples.
The thing about the C/C++ analogy is that that there is already a safety mechanism in these dynamic languages that prevents error from becoming catastrophic. The program will signal an unhandled error and the program can choose to stop, to drop the request, to perform some failsafe action, to raise alarms etc.

(Of couse you can still have expensive failures caused by bad logic, but I think in security bugs alone the cost of C/C++ style nasal demons behaviour has been bigger than other bug categories)
> in many of the large cities and their suburbs (where more people live)

A 50K expense target is comfortably doable in most locations (that is, outside of San Francisco, New York City, and VHCOL suburbs). Keep your housing and car expenses reasonable, and cook at home.

> It will result in better outcomes, but it won't make people rich, like many claim.

$3M in investments allows for a ~$150K annual withdraw at retirement in near perpetuity. Add in social security, and the average take home for a dual income family will be at or over $200K a year. With this and assuming no other changes to their expenses, every year, they can 1.) go on 4-5 overseas vacations flying business class, 2.) eat out every night, 3.) purchase a new Mercedes E or S class. This isn't a bad way to live.

> One thing to note is that the $1.5M-3M is not inflation adjusted and would be worth much less than it is today.

$3M today will be worth ~$1.5M thirty years from now, assuming a 2.5% inflation rate. Even if they have only invested $1.5M, the $30K thrown off every year by $750k when, added with social security, still makes for a comfortable retirement.
> Basically they want to use up all 120W of a PCIe slot, at the highest efficiency possible. They could have gotten higher efficiency (at 8.5W per chip), but that would have resulted in not being able to use the full 120W

Right, at the end of the day they were constrained due to not being able to fit more than 6 chips on a single PCIe card. If they could fit 14, they would've been able to make each chip use as little as ~8.57W while still using up the 120W available to the card.
90% of this article seems to be background info on what Starlink is, the constellation, Elon, rockets. The tl;dr is literally “guy suffers outage when pigeon lands on dish”.
+1 for mentoring and pairing. Or mentoring via pairing. Getting with and expert, or even just another set of experienced eyes is a big help
> I’m not sure how you can think people approve of something they aren’t even aware is happening.

Because people often trust people based on reputation, results, or other proxy measures rather than reviewing every action they take.

> It’s not just deceptive to the shadowbanned user, it’s deceptive to the whole community, too.

It is. At the same time I think most people don't care, and are fine not having every moderation action announced to them.

Additionally, as I've stated multiple times here, and so have others, HN allows anyone to opt into seeing these comments from shadowbanned users, so HN doesn't even follow the same ideal of the problem case you and others are putting forth. You'll get a lot farther pushing this idea of shadowbanning being bad and a problem if you actually respond to the reality of the situation you're arguing about here, and the counter-arguments being put forth, rather than just blindly repeating the same thing.

> How can an average user trust that the content they’re viewing isn’t entirely astroturfed? Or alternatively, 100% organic?

How is that anything to do with shadowbanning or moderation? That's a problem entirely separate and that shadowbanning and moderation of the type we're discussing has nothing to do with.

But, if you really want an asnwer to this ridiculous question, it's that you can go into your profile here, find the "showdead" option, turn it on, and then you'll see all the comments you're complaining are hidden and deceptive and hidden from all the users. And if you don't trust this is all the dead comments, you can't really trust the moderators at all (and there's no more or less trust than any other site which says they do or don't do something).
Essentially no-one implements REST APIs as defined by Fielding and Fowler because what software developers and architects actually find valuable is an HTTP CRUD API. The widespread adoption of microsystems architectures required the selection and standardization of a format for the transfer and modification of resource representations between services, and CRUD over HTTPs serves that purpose pretty well.

Unfortunately, REST is the buzzword under which HTTP CRUD APIs were proposed and promulgated, so now we have a schism between theorists who consider HATEOAS a requirement but can't explain any benefit to the common real-world use case, or give any practical examples, and engineers who now just roll their eyes when the theorists say they're not really building REST APIs.

We know we're not, but if we tell our managers that we've implemented HTTP CRUD APIs for the backend services, they'll ask us why we're didn't choose REST...
> Literally every sentence in your comment is wrong.

It was only two sentences, so I don't consider that an accomplishment. I'll have to try harder next time.

> There’s a lot people can do about stuff like this. The only reason you aren’t breathing much more toxic air, aren’t consuming much more toxic food, probably not getting doused by acid rain every year, not inhaling lead from cars around you, not inhaling lead from the walls in your home, not dying of asbestos poisoning when a wall gets damaged, etc is because news has made people aware of these issues which have then led to changes.

I guess you figured out what politics they are advocating.
kind of a "what's heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of brick" situation you got there, I like it

I wonder if there's a measurable difference in possibility space where 200 lines of dense code is less likely to contain bugs than 20,000 lines of readable code. might be a case of "some infinities are larger than others"
Few videos almost showcasing blinking lights on front panel.[0,1]

[0] https://twitter.com/ViolenceWorks/status/1432080620830617601

[1] https://twitter.com/ViolenceWorks/status/1432083947295416320
also, fun fact: sgi irix shipped with a "system" flexlm daemon.
oh hey thanks for sharing my post! :)
I've recently checked out Godot and it turned out to be easier than I expected. I followed this series of tutorials [0] (I found it most palatable at 2x speed, occasionally going to 1x for critical parts).

Took me about an hour altogether to get pretty productive at making a non-trivial game. The engine is cool and takes care of a lot of routine things, like physics, collisions, and organizing things hierarchically.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvPTSZl2WCc
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That is an assumption. He could also kept a place from the younger generation (which is also an assumption)
Or possibly "steam-engine time".
I think that Rocky Balboa's profession was revenue security, no?
Pico8Lisp: A toy Lisp interpreter for PICO-8
It's very easy to forget to send the sms, which will then make you loose your number. The carrier will take the number back and assign it to another person.
The battery backed ram was a neat feature, almost entirely necessary as the cassettes were a major time waster (although that might have been the cheap cassette player I was using). I modded my Microbee to have a switch on the battery backup so you could save the very expensive battery when I wasn't using that feature. There was another crazy home-grown box hanging out the back based on a project kit you could buy that had several EPROM sockets on it, so you could have the WordBee and EDASM proms available. From memory it switched between the roms by switching out the leg that had power going to it, with a very carefully soldered prom socket on a ribbon cable heading into the back of the bee via that big unused expansion socket. My soldering skills were severely challenged by that simple project.
While I really enjoy Agile and Lean development, my most recent employer had an extremely toxic culture where retrospectives were basically akin to the Hundred Flowers period of China. If you voiced frustration, you provided an O(1) way for them to find who to bully into quitting next.

My current employer just lets me do literally whatever we want. A service is basically owned by a developer. And so far my customers absolutely love my work.
It's pretty interesting to assert that ~100k years of doing things a certain way is wrong. Do you have the evidence to assert such a thing?

The posts above talking about reversing the genders are kind of right, but that does already exist: it's pretty common for lower class middle school/highschool aged girls to sell their bodies for drugs, alcohol, or just money. This is tolerated in those communities and is seen as "the thing you do while growing up."
From what I can gather about it, it's not actually a ML code compiler but more like a backend for traditional neural network dataflow graphs.
Trying to find line item based medical bills and laws that govern what information can patients obtain about medical procedure pre and post procedures.

Goal is to bring transparency to medical bills and remove the unknown.
not if they have exclusive agreements with the satellite provider
I don't think so. It has a lot of useful information, and back in the day I used this site (or one similarly named) a ton.
I worked as a mover in NYC for years before becoming a software developer. Even though I make more money and have an easier life in many ways now, the mental fatigue of working a "knowledge" job is stressful in ways that outweigh most of my hardest physically and emotionally taxing days moving.
What percentage of USA schools do you assume offer such a "neutral discussion about intercourse (straight or gay)"?

If you found the number was 1/10th or 1/100th or 1/1000th as much, would you take action?
The pigeons surely concluded that RFC-1149 cannot compete with satellite broadband on technical merits alone, so they started sabotaging competitive installations with any means they have!
Because the differential effect requires the wheels to be rotating in sync, so the conical sections can do their thing. If the wheels could independently rotate at their own speed, then there would be nothing stoping the train from derailing itself (or bouncing off the flanges that you’d have to incorporate)
iOS 15 silently runs app initialization in background to speed up launch times
Building a Desktop Application for Datasette
Yeah, although maybe with native function pointers and static lambdas one could try to work around it.
I know this is something Apple FaceTime does. I recently noticed that when I looked at myself during a video call it looked like I was making direct eye contact, whereas when I looked at the camera it looked like I was looking away. I thought maybe I was imagining things but I found this article to back it up: https://www.fastcompany.com/90372724/welcome-to-post-reality...

There’s also a video where someone shows how your eyes get distorted to cause the effect, but I can’t find it right now.
This doesn't work for phone numbers if you want to do something programmatically with them. In Germany it's for example common to include the international prefix _and_ a trunk prefix like this in written phone numbers:

+49 (0)30 23125 123

Your naive approach to just replace non-number characters would lead to an invalid number in such a case. Using libphonenumber you'd get a correctly normalized phone number while the user doesn't get bothered for inputting a technically invalid number: https://libphonenumber.appspot.com/phonenumberparser?number=...
US Drone Strike in Kabul Kills 9 Family Members, Including 6 Children
> Building the wrong feature or product

A bit of background: a company I worked at had one primary product with a web interface for the customers, businesses who used the product, to do all their functions. Think AWS console but not so massive.

There was another, minor product brought in via acquisition, which had its own web interface.

A third group came into existence when my employer got acquired, which created a new web interface for its product, which did mostly the same things as the primary web interface but for a different set of customers.

These all had separate logins, so customers had to know multiple credentials. There were also several large customers of the primary product who had multiple logins for reasons which defy my full understanding to this day.

The project I was on was to bring in a system that would eliminate separate logins and provide a single sign-on system for them all. Good goal. very doable.

The VP in charge of the new group and a product manager got into their heads that what we really needed was a single landing page portal, a piece of software that didn't exist and wasn't necessary for the sign on. The team wasted at least three if not six months chasing that landing page goal before the VP decided her product needed to go live and oh by the way we didn't have time to do the single sign-on any more before her product was to go to production.

Ultimately the distraction killed any chance for the company to actually implement the desired sign-on that the customers were clamoring for, and to my knowledge they are still limping along with a every customer having at least three different logins, one for each system.
Best Process for Decision Making?
They do hire good people sometimes but then those good people leave. One of my colleague was complaining about getting sign off from 12 different people for releasing a minor feature to Prod.

Most people dont like that kind of bureaucracy.
You can publish on any store, it's just that you need help with porting your game because the engine can't do so due to ~the licence~ idk. There are several companies that do this. Even the Sonic Colors uses a modified version of Godot.
From 2016 - https://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6277/1039.1.full seems to point to a paywall link https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.5b05478

> They show that environmentally relevant microplastic concentrations led to reduced earthworm growth and elevated mortality as compared to a control. Futhermore, earthworms may transport microplastics into soils, from which they may leach into surface waters.
which, it'll also stat() a bunch of "random" files (among other things)
None here on Chrome+adblocker. I turned off the ad blocking just to see how bad it was - 1 on the home page, 2 on connection string pages. Pretty tame all things considered.
It's not a book, but Alice Grove might fit your interest. It's a web comic archived here:

https://www.questionablecontent.net/alice1.html
Maybe a really dumb question, but wouldn't the least complex way of doing something like this be to just attach the ACLs to folders instead of files/objects?

So if you want to grant access to reports to a role, you would set the ACLs on the reports folder, not on individual reports.

Object-level permissions feels too fine-grained for me in many cases. We probably need this for actual file systems, but those are quite different from something like an enterprise application. The file system has lots of "irrelevant" files for the user that might need specific permissions, and you can't arbitrarily reorganize files without breaking stuff.
Display something in terminal (curl, cat a download file, whatever will display untrusted content) -> control code (https://www.xfree86.org/4.8.0/ctlseqs.html) / escape code (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code) -> bug (or worse, feature) -> arbitrary code execution
false equivalence-a-palooza
Somehow, it's gotten me promotions and raises. I feel like I'm lucky and should stick around.
I'm not sure I'm close to solving it, but I have an approach that I'd like some feedback on.

I have a corpus of text in many Indian languages, which i'd like to index and search. The twist is that I'd like to support searches in English. The problem is that there are many phonetic transliterations of the same word (e.g the Hindi word for law can either be written as "qanoon" or "kanun"), and traditional spelling correction methods don't work because of excessive edit distance.

My approach is this: Use some sequence to sequence ML technique (LSTM, GRU, ..., attention) to a query in English to the most probable translation and then use that to look it up using a standard document indexing toolkit like Lucene. (I can put together a training dataset of english transliterations of sentences to their original text)

The problem is that I'd like the corpus, the index and the model to be all on a mobile. I have a suspicion that the above method won't straightforwardly fit on a mobile (for a few Gig of corpus text), and that the inference time may be long. Is this assumption wrong?

How would you solve the problem? Would TinyML be a better approach for the inferencing part?
It does show an ignorance of how the right wing thinks. However, it is directionally accurate - being an effective right wing leader is likely to get someone's phone targeted.

Not a partisan thing; effective left wing leaders also have their phones targeted. The swamp doesn't like change.
Having worked remotely before and since Covid, I prefer to at least keep my camera on. I think it makes me more approachable... as approachable as can be expected anyway.

I've also been in large meetings where everyone has the camera off - it doesn't bother me, but given a choice between not seeing people and seeing people, I would choose seeing people.
Here's how I did it by hand (assuming you can buy multiple of a given item):

Work in cents, modulo 87 (the cost of the cheapest item, the pinwheel).

The total we want is 4394 (or 44 mod 87). Write down the price of every item modulo 87.

The whistle is 98 (or 11 mod 87) so you can buy 4 whistles and make up the rest in pinwheels (46).

The dog is 457 (or 22 mod 87) so you can buy 2 dogs and make up the rest in pinwheels (40).

Lots of other combinations.

However, the paper doesn't seem to suggest that buying multiple is okay.

I'm glad others mentioned the dynamic programming solution. That one feels elegant. Should've thought of that.
That 100x longer life span is not useful to most consumers.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Tmux#X_clipboard_integratio... suggests preferring xsel
Is having perfect privacy worth turning a blind eye to the organized mass rape of children? That’s the choice, no exaggeration.

Considering there’s nearly 8 billion alive, there must be a whole lot of activity at this exact moment. I wonder what the current number of ‘victims in progress’ is. Has to be at least 25,000. Visualize that. Quite the price to pay.
Not quite. Any manual review system is going to have infrastructure to pick reviewers, route the data around, etc. it would not be hard, and could be done under the radar, to intercept data for specific targets in a way that wouldn’t arouse suspicion, and it would be awfully hard to prove it had happened too.
That sounds neat. I feel like I'd take that offer. 4x8hr for 80% of my current salary. I guess we'd just have to make sure the rest of the company can be productive during the 5th work day if their teams aren't doing it. Can't be blocking their work etc.
Still unethical regards the users in risk. And most likely, still illegal since you were hacking before (i do not know the exact legal situation in the US)
glug glug CRUNCH "whoops I ate the bottle again haha"
> People who show symptoms who interact with others and don't take precautions like wearing a mask are no doubt being irresponsible and worthy of opprobrium but that's it.

This applies to the vaccinated too because the data is clear that vaccinated people are capable of spreading the virus as well.

Also, in addition to the fact that many infected are asymptomatic, a study shows that one of the periods in which the virus is more easily transmitted occurs before symptoms appear:

https://fox59.com/news/coronavirus/study-covid-19-is-most-tr...

> If just 4/5ths were more disciplined in their daily consumption of calories then we'd highly likely be looking at a very different outcome.

Covid-19 death rates 10 times higher in countries where most adults are overweight, report finds:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/04/health/obesity-covid-death-ra...

In the US, however, it's practically an outrage to tell people that being fat has health consequences.
Uh, it’s not. I suppose people can produce a given play however they wish but I don’t think three hours is typical…
Of Course “changeme” Is Valid Base64 (2020)