skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talk is cheap. Lowering standards is how you get craptastic AI like the camera system here deployed. But it's even worse than that because it's obvious they could improve its false positive detections, but seemingly given they already got paid, they don't care. Now imagine an entire city designed around that principle. That's either a British sitcom or a made for TV horror movie depending on where you go with it IMO.
Not OP but there is NO SITUATION where I'd EVER do this for a web site. There are NONE I trust enough for that kind of information and NO web site offers sufficient value to even consider the risk.
Wish they would QR the dang invite codes :D
Except:

- some conf room don't have a projector, but flat screens, a smart white boards or some remote conf setup that needs you to plug in, and/or no walls that fits the bill for projection

- some conf rooms don't have a place to put for your projector and get a good picture. Their is own the ceiling.

- unless you buy a very good one, some conf rooms won't have the light for your projector to be readable

- it addresses only the projector problem, not ethernet, sd card, usb A, etc

- a good projector is way more expensive that a few dongles, are easier to break, harder to replace if lost/broken or if you forget it at home

Not to say it's a bad idea to _also_ have a projector.
People in this context are talking early 90s, not mid-late 90s.
When academic studies are dedicated to trivial stuff that is either obvious to an unscientific mind (saying this to calm you down) or would be easily debunked in another study, and worse, from an institution inextricably linked to science, is there any wonder that when they come out and say "masks are safe" many unscientific minds (doubling down to still make you feel good) don't give a hoot?

But I guess the days when academic study (time, funds, energies, raw intellect) was spent on more pressing issues are behind us and we'd have to deal with these types of studies going forward. I'm so looking forward to the MIT study that finds that most of HN comments are not read.
Some PCs let you configure the fan curves. I have never done that though.
Maybe they are not upset about not winning, but that a fun to play game is now no fun at all? If there is an imbalance/glitch which renders most of the game depth obsolete I'm not leaving because I'm salty, I'm going to have actual fun elsewhere instead.
They've already tried this with Firefox Focus on mobile. It was the silliest idea ever.

The whole point of Firefox is that it provides an alternative. What sort of alternative would it be if it's the same as Chrome?
All governments around the world are currently on a bureaucratic regulation orgy. Let's hope it will stop soon.
Humans are continuously pretrained on a variety of tasks, though. Teaching a kid to say one word takes about a year...
> According to Roblox's S-1 filing, they want to move their customer base up from the current average age of 13.

I'm guessing that's because things like COPPA don't apply to 13+ and identity verification lets them start building accurate PII profiles for children the day they turn 13. What a nasty business.
I am not sure I see a huge issue here. The FBI does similar things when investigating any other criminal enterprise. Sometimes it's difficult to weigh the short term benefit against a potentially larger longer term benefit.
Yet. They are just getting started. Plus their modules have an open design.
Glad to see that many people share the same feeling that pushed us to do this in the first place - until this point, we were skeptical about whether it existed or not.

We're planning to double down on the features that supports a feedback loop from consumers to creators.

We wanted to build this product in a way to provide more value to the content creators, while benefiting content consumers. We hope with this, creators will get direct exposure to their follower's taste and expectations.

Thanks for your time, much valuable information. Have a nice day!
> If any UKites have made it to this thread, is be curious to hear why so few people leave for countries with a stronger and higher paying tech sector?

First of all, working in tech in the UK you can make $130,000 which is 3-4x the median annual salary. Very few Brits would describe that is "extremely low".

That's enough money to have a few kids, a wife who doesn't work, and a pretty decent lifestyle.

Why move a 10-hour flight away from all my friends and family, just because I could earn enough to drive a Lamborghini instead of a Lotus Elise?
I think this qualifies pretty much as coping or huffing the copium as Twitter calls it these days...
> The scarcity of bike lanes is wholly artificial and easily fixed by transitioning more automobile infrastructure.

Wouldn't it just be easier to just have all vehicle types share the same infrastructure (roads)? They're already built out and can be used by any wheeled vehicle by following the rules of the road.

Roads are designed to be used by any type of vehicle, not just automobiles.
Which is why "Asking" is an AUTOMATIC "delete the app" or "cancel the web account" or similar.

We weren't born yesterday. :-)
Tabacco is a magical plant that will grant you increased alertness, stress and anxiety release, decreased hunger, ...

Our problem is not smoking. Our problem is how and why we smoke. It has nothing to do with the drug itself but everything to do with us.
There are lots of reasons to like nicotine, there are no good reasons to get it through smoking.
Azure DevOps Pipelines is "stable"/"mature" and not seeing anywhere near as much active investment: most of the team supposedly moved directly over to Github Actions and that seems to be where all the new investment work is going.

Azure Codespaces was rebranded at the 11th hour before launch to Github Codespaces and moved almost entirely to the Github org and Azure DevOps was never given access unlike original announced plans under the Azure brand.

Rumors have been swirling for a while now (including when bharry, the VP whose kingdom was Azure DevOps, retired three years ago) that Azure DevOps is on the slow decline to some sort of chopping block and Microsoft will replace it entirely with Github eventually. There are rumors that even "deeply private" teams you wouldn't expect to move from Azure DevOps to Github internally at Microsoft have already migrated. (Certainly a lot of well known Windows Developers have much more active "Activity Indicators" on Github these days and it isn't necessarily entirely accountable by all the known public repos like Calculator, Terminal, etc and public facing samples projects nor that all of their documentation repos have obviously moved to Github.)

It would be wonderful to get an actual definitive and official statement from Microsoft, even if "eventually" when a migration will happen is still "years away" (which is presumably why they are afraid to give a statement yet, if it's still too far down the roadmap). That would make it easier today for some of us to start making cases to our teams that migrating voluntarily today to Github would be good for us. (Make the debate more than just "I want Codespaces" or "I want Github's dependency scanners" but also "Microsoft suggests it".)
Yes, I have a copy of it, but I'm wondering if YC is no longer 'supporting' the document.

In addition, the document itself includes the language:

"This Safe is one of the forms available at http://ycombinator.com/documents and the Company and the Investor agree that neither one has modified the form, except to fill in blanks and bracketed terms."

Which is no longer true.
Why on earth would you remove ports for "thinness" just to have a cable flopping around?
Deer are not everywhere. They would probably need to exist in higher ratios, even where they do frequent.
If we fall as a nation, just under 7.6B other people get a shot at running the show and fix what's broken to whatever extent we can. Good for them, bad for us.
Getting people not to eat heavy-carbon-usage-meat at scale might be impactful... like found a lab meat company or something.

I just don't think being a vegetarian has impact... it's something you do to keep consistent with your worldview or morality, not to mitigate climate change.
we did not need an MIT study to know this haha
Never used Kayak but thanks for the tip: I NEVER will use Kayak!
> For someone with this view, most of the New Testament makes little sense unless there was a literal Adam/Eve at some point

I’m surprised to read this. I was raised Catholic in the UK, and everyone in my school years seemed to be fine melding scientific and scriptural views without having any problem assuming that Adam and Eve did not need to be literal.
I’m close to wrapping up a job search, after hearing how hot the market was.

It started out pretty casual. Just opening up my profiles, rewriting my resume, etc. I as only looking at remote roles. The results ended mildly disappointing.

I only actively looked to apply to jobs that looked really interesting to me. This includes everything from the product I’d be working on to pay, to roughly how I expected the interview to play out.

I quickly realized this wasn’t going to work. On paper, I was completely unqualified for most of the most appealing looking roles and didn’t bother applying. For others, less appealing, but not totally so, I applied. These mostly involved working on tech stacks I hadn’t used professionally or in domains I wasn’t apparently experienced in. However this was mostly all on paper, and I still fit at least a little of the description and thus applied. As an additional note, most of these were tech companies (in that tech is their primary product), which I haven’t worked at. Most of them were not end-application development, but a few were.

Of those, I was either quickly screened out with a generic rejection email or just never heard anything at all.

On the other front, I did get some recruiter interest, but much less than expected. Majority of the recruiters were either shopping crappy positions, jobs that did not fit my experience or were just spammy (cough AWS). For the few not in that category I went ahead and engaged.

Probably around 60-70% of the recruiters I got were shopping roles in the state I live in, regardless of their remote status, which puts an unfortunate cap on salary. None of the roles were particularly interesting work wise, but a few were talking numbers that I was ok with. A vast majority were 3rd party. Most of them were very similar to my past roles (non tech enterprise companies working on low-scale internal stuff with semi-legacy tech)

This ended with a single offer that I’m debating. The work is mostly uninteresting and unlikely to drive my career in the direction I want, but the number is just barely good enough for me to switch and is probably the best I will get. It is slightly better than my last roles in that it would provide better professional development and fill in a few resume gaps that proved to be an issue this go around.

Sadly I think I have to resign the search for an ideal role and take what I can get. I’m slightly shocked at how bad the process was, as I expected things to get significantly easier with more experience, but this felt worse than searching at the entry level. For reference, I have about 5 years of experience mostly doing prior-referenced type work, but have a few notable items I will sometimes include on my resume or bring up in interviews, but they never seem to land the sort of impression I’m looking for.
This comment made me think a bit about the natures of freedom of speech and spam (where "spam" partially includes the scenario that you're referring to).

I've come to the conclusion that they're two completely separate problems. You can have spam with no freedom of speech, freedom of speech with no spam, or anything in-between, depending on implementation.

The problem with conventional spam is that e-mail accounts aren't usually tied to real identities (although that's arguably a good thing), and phone numbers aren't authenticated at all, and you don't need any sort of permission to call someone or send someone an email.

This isn't the case with social media platforms (and their analogous "spam"), either existing ones or theoretical ones. Signups are throttled and somewhat tied to a real identity - although even if they weren't, you can easily design a system where, say, you can't send someone a message without their permission (which some platforms e.g. Instagram do), or accounts are un-discoverable by default unless you make them visible.

Additionally, virtually every social media platform in existence gives you the ability to block users (and, very few, if any, people claim that "free speech" means that arbitrary users on a platform can't block you - almost everyone focuses on bans from the platform itself - and you're conflating the two).

Therefore, the virtual equivalent of "five people shouting in my and your ears" is not an issue because there's no virtual equivalent to "blocking" someone IRL, which trivially fixes this problem.

You're conflating "forcing everyone to hear me" (which very few people think is a good idea) with "having a presence on a platform" (which is the issue actually under contention).

In short, the issue that you're describing can be pretty trivially dealt with even when a platform has "perfect free speech" and does not remove any content that it is not legally required to.

...and, because the issue is a non-issue, it doesn't reduce freedom.
It could be related to smokers spending more relative time outside, since covid-19 seemed to not do well in fresh air and sunlight (significantly faster oxidation and high susceptibility to uv.) Some newer variants seem to be surviving outdoors a little better, but we'll need months to see reliable data.

It could also be related to buildup from smoking coating the lungs and reducing the available points of infection, which in not sure you want. All that black tar and crud... I'd rather get covid.
" yes it is literally illegal for a group of people to get together and go "fuck it this sucks" and not show up to work the next day."

No, it is not (!).

This thread is full of reality-bending statements.

It's 100% legal to say 'fck it' and not show up to your job (in most cases).

That was never illegal, and it still isn't either in the US or Denmark.

It is not, however, possibly not legal to do so and maintain Union protections and 'not be fired'.

The power to literally not do your job* and then to have the government force private companies to maintain your contract (possibly renegotiated) as opposed to just annulling it and hiring others ... is effectively a 'positive right' which is obviously going to be regulated.

'Blockading' businesses, is also a very different thing than a 'boycott' and under any reasonable circumstance would also be illegal.

Go walk in front of your local Starbucks and try to stop deliveries, customers and employees from entering, and you'll find out both what the law is, and what's reasonable.

'Political Strikes' wouldn't ever be considered a form of reasonable power as well. Can you imagine Tesla employees not showing up for work for several weeks/months because they want to support/oppose Gavin Newsom's recall? And that Tesla wouldn't be allowed to let them go for now doing their work? I don't think you're going to find a lot of reasonable sympathy there.

Providing for the ability for workers to shut down a company because they want to make a political statement, to damage other businesses or workers, or blockading other businesses or workers etc. shouldn't rationally be within the purview of normal Union activity.
As the other half of a former Atlassian employee, I can very much confirm that a lot of the essence of the OP's story is real, and particularly endemic to Atlassian's San Francisco office, one which has not groked nor imported the Australian work ethic of their Sydney head office. The issue with POCs is very real, but I don't beleive it to be universal nor 'from above', much more about the biases of individual middle-managers.

Atlassian has a long and painful history of promoting from within, for management roles (team lead, feature lead, product manager, etc), from a pool of mostly programming staff wanting to "give management a go", often with zero management training, far too often with poor consequences for those who then find themselves being managed by a once-peer programmer who's now 'off the leash', and sometimes with 'something to prove'. Programmers love to dis "management", but most of them make terrible managers theselves and havent a fucking clue how to be one; thee response characteristics of transistors and flesh don't correlate well.

In my other half's case, a 'sw development manager' (2.5 years experience in that role, followed by 1.3 years somewhere else that presumably didn't work out) was hired from outside to lead a Bitbucket team but with a title one level above the actual role (and salary to match). Within a year or so there was nothing left of that team of 5 who in all other respects was high performing and loved working with each other, they all either resigned or moved to other products, meanwhile Fuckface McL**s, as I tended to call him, got a demotion and continues to fester within. This was the final straw after 3+ years of languishing in a P4 'Programmer' role, because of the revolving door of team-leads that came before Fuckface, andother Atlassian hallmark. (1 employer and 2 promotions over following 2.5 years and he's now considered a 'Principal Programmer' in US nomenclature).

Atlassian's Glassdoor reviews are a classic case of greenwashing, with interns and recent recruits often sent in waves to flood over the... let's just say less enthusiastic reviews they get from more experienced staff - present or recent past.

It's a little depressing, but not surprising, that the vast majority of the comments on this post are fixated on the semantics of "unlimited PTO"...
Suppose Audi has a cog wheel mass produced in some factory in China. The cog wheel has to be made with very specific dimensions, or it won't fit into the Audi. Now that cog wheel in my Audi breaks, and I need a new one. What makes Audi the only one with the right to make a cog wheel that will fit my car? What you're trying to do is expand the patent system even further, without calling it a patent system.

If on the other hand those factories are infringing patents, then Apple may have a legitimate case ("may" because the quality of many patents is questionable at best, even if they're legally valid).

> that intentionally look so much like Apple’s ones that it deceives customers

But this is literally the opposite of what the training videos are about. They're about persuading customers that knowingly want to buy non-Apple parts, to buy Apple instead.
Can't help but wonder if there's a connection to the rapid expansion of Baal worship during the next few centuries.

Around that time, the non-Biblical Baal was supposed to have been some kind of sky/thunder deity, a proto-Zeus.
$40k in depreciation. Cautious optimism that they’ll get it right eventually. Lifetime supercharging. All cars are dangerous and despite that one slightly irrational fear of passing that bridge, Teslas have the highest safety ratings. I was making more of a point on how their system to rate drivers isn’t as reliable as they think it is.

Don’t get me wrong, though. I have considered selling a few times.
And your insurance company would likely be interested too.
> one lane (each way) for cars, 1 lane for buses, and 1 protected lane for bikes. most lanes are about 10 feet wide, so we can take a foot away from the car lane and give it to the bus lane

How will intersections be managed for each lane? Will we have an exclusive traffic light signal phase for each lane? I imagine that would significantly reduce throughput.
No problem, I really appreciate it. Definitely going to work on that.
Personally speaking (and I say this as a Brit who really likes the US, and Americans in general whenever I meet them). I haven't tried to move to the US because of the slightly distasteful situation in terms of education, healthcare and social security, car dependence, weirdly low holiday allowance, Foxnews, QAnon, an alarming gun lobby, and the current republican party in general is quite quite shocking to me in it's transparent gaslighting, racism and anti-democratic (small d) tendencies. The UK has its fair share of opportunistic charlatans too of course, ahem. That's why I now live in mainland Europe, get great health care, fast trains, fast internet, good work life balance etc though I probably earn less than I would if I was in the US

There are plenty of good reasons to move [to the US] too of course, and I do know quite a few who have (including my sister who loves it, and I suspect is never going to move back to rainy Britain)

There might be another reason you don't see many brit developers in the US though, we probably just don't produce that many of them. I worked in London for 20 years and the typical dev team had less than 50% Brits in it even there. Looking at Hollywood we seem to produce a lot more actors that can do a passable American accent than developers.
Kudos to everyone that contributed to Django in any way.

Been using it for more than a decade and never it has disappointed me.

Every release comes with excellent features and polishes.

Everything in Django is well mature, properly maintained and built for maximum productivity and maintainability.

One of the best thing about Django is, it's never gets involved with bubble type technologies until proven reliable and useful.

Either be it async, websocket, NoSQL, fancy SPA, AMP, or any specific frontend framework integration.
it's been awhile so the details are fuzzy but the Django shop I worked at had a repository of their like master app template, customized to rapidly prototype the kinds of apps the company built. it was pretty quick to get going on a new project but it was a bit of a kitchen-sink approach that pulled in quite a bit of cruft you might not need, but it was alright for our purposes. I assume other places do something similar.
Fuck China as an exemplar for anything moral or legal!!
This seems sensible, but I do wonder whether actively steering the car is as attention intensive as merely verifying that the car is steering correctly.

This is pure speculation, but it feels like humans have a very robust model to determine when something is about to go wrong (i.e. this car is about to crash into an obstacle). If it takes less attention to determine that the car steers correctly as opposed to steering the car, this would leave more attention available to, for example, monitor other cars behavior.
Of course they do, that is the point of AP. The question that matters is if the drivers are safer, to themselves and others, than they would be without AP. From what I have read this is undoubtedly true.
Why are you a reluctant actuary? Since there is professional certifications for actuaries, how much of the work is highly regulated?
Are you asking "what is a false flag operation?" or "when did the USA last do this (that we know of, outside of conspiracy theories) ?".

The Wikipedia article (1) answers the first, and the the second was 1964 (2).

Obviously, less expensive means are typically used than "just nuking themselves".

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag

2) https://allthatsinteresting.com/gulf-of-tonkin
> i do see e-bikers doing 20-25mph (up to ~40km/h) occasionally, and a determined pedal biker can reach those speeds as well.

At that speed, why not just use the road instead of the narrow bike lanes/paths?
The antidote is worse than the poison
Learning Logo in elementary school is how I was introduced to the concept of recursion. I have a vivid memory of the moment I made the breakthrough in understanding in my head.

40 years later, I still want to giggle like a child when I find something in Emacs Lisp I can do more elegantly through recursion.