skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google keeps a large suite of in-house built, enormously useful products alive and still manages to move them forward incrementally. FB has done nothing useful for me since I signed up in 2004.

I despised Facebook before everyone else but seriously:

Google is extremely well known for killing useful stuff that people love, not for moving them forward incrementally.

I can't remember Facebook killing off anything since parsley or whatever it was called.

Google has also been going backwards since I don't know, 2009 or something? (Back in the day it used to be that search results somewhat reliably contained the the you searched for. Today Google is in my opinion a copy of the competitors they outcompeted: customer hostile ads, poor results.)

Facebook is the ugly thing it has been since I don't know when.
And y'all wonder why Americans are hated. It takes a special amount of delusion to pat yourself on the back, for whatever made-up reason, after having killed innocent people.

Imagine saying the same thing about 9/11 and watch your life be torn to pieces.
Russia and China
I'm curious if projectors collect the same info? We bought several BenQ projectors that have no internet connection. Of course the computer player or Blu-ray player we use with the projectors do have WiFi connections.

For aesthetic reasons we removed the large flat screen TV's from our house. We now use projectors on walls with a skim coat and flat white texture. It blends right into our 1927 house. The projections are around 120 inches and look glorious. In the past week we watched John Ford's "The Searchers" and then "Avatar" in 3D. Both were amazing to see so big, bright, and beautiful. When we are done watching, the projector is put away and our home is not a constant display of gadgetry.

When ever I go into a store that has a wall of TV's they seem to get worse and worse every year with saturation dialed ALL THE WAY and images looking more and more like CG with smoothing and other weird filters. Perhaps i'm just old.
Show HN: Built a to-do list that uses NLP to create reminders
There is more (and less) to similarity than the shape of the flag. Taking in account economic, geographic and cultural factors, a fair comparison would also consider Germany and Netherlands, possibly also Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and UK. The 'rich germanic protestant NW Europe countries' block. For the nitpickers, Finnish is not germanic and Austria is Catholic, but the point stands.

https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/9jyxqt/gdp_per_cap...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages#/media/File...
I believe this evaluation is usually done by a stunt coordinator instead. This is an experienced stunt performer that finds the right person for each stunt, and communicates with the performers on any safety issues that come up.

More info here: https://www.nfi.edu/stunt-coordinator/
I see where they're coming from and in a lot of ways agree with them. However, I can also see some benefits to this. For the average user, if they can have a government-issued ID tied to their Apple ID that should, in theory, prevent them from ever losing access to that account. The number of times I've had to work with new parents or elderly who just want the account back for pictures of children, grandchildren, etc but ultimately had no recourse is more than I'd like to think about. If, however, I could guide them to the nearest Apple store and say "show them your drivers license, they'll match it to your Apple ID and unlock it for you" that would make most people happy beyond belief. Is that ideal for the privacy-centric among us? No, absolutely not. But for the majority of people who just want to be able to get back into an account with all of their stuff in it it's a potentially great solution.
What you're describing is part of the game.

It's like people being pissed off about PKers in Ultima Online 20-something years ago. It's literally what you signed up for. It's part of the world.
> The parking-lot attendant, he said, “let me off with a warning that I wouldn’t be so lucky next time.”

So... for some old timer who pulls up without a smartphone they'll turn them away? Sounds like an empty threat to me.

Edit:

Should have read more before commenting, later in the article:

> customers “also have the option of entering their license plate number into one of four kiosks as a means of validating their parking.”

So it's just a difference of convenience, much ado about nothing.
People also often forget that Windows XP was the first Windows to have WGA, which was fairly controversial. Windows 2000 was the last Windows version you could truly own, instead of having to beg Microsoft for permission every time you reinstalled or replaced hardware.
> When Kominek approached Boulder County regulators about putting up solar panels, they initially told him no, his land was designated as historic farmland.

That's Boulder for you, they're super progressive right up until progress forces something to change
I'm glad to see this framing. Reading the provisions identified in the article, you could easily react by saying "well, that's normal." Of course a parking app would ask for your vehicle's make/model and for your credit card information. But it is a cost, and the unrestrained use of that information is a further cost.

And that's before you get into "need[ing] to monitor people’s unrelated web browsing and links they click" ostensibly in order to "understand how customers are coming to Metropolis" (emphasis added).
MLops Startups Profits
I have seen the rise of MLOps startups such as Cohere.ai, Saturn Cloud, Deepnote, octoML, weights and biases, etc. How really each of them are using VC money and making profits or just burning money? Reasoning: I work in ML and computer resources are extremely expensive hence making a business out of it doesn't make much sense in the long run
Thank you for correcting me. It's important to learn!
Supershapes: A modelling framework for natural forms
Mastering the Glyphs
The worst offender I've seen is Xfinity/Comcast. Recently cancelled service, never got a notice and multiple incorrect bills after canceling. Anytime I would talk you customer service, they would always say... "If you want to see your correct bill, then you have to download the app."

I continually would have to tell them that I'm not downloading their damn app and that they are big enough that they can have the correct information on their website.

Joe Biden and the Democrats decided to give large ISPs an additional 65 billion dollars with the Infrastructure Plan shortly after this incident.
Very cool, if you are into this sort of stuff I have a YouTube channel on growing food at home.

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC1eySW_9TiI5wnvTnIIw2Nw

A blog post on my solar system I bought outright https://russell.ballestrini.net/fulfilling-childhood-dreams-...
I’d read that GMail also originated from it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_project_time#Google_imp...

> Founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page advised that workers “spend 20% of their time working on what they think will most benefit Google”.

I can’t imagine the founders would encourage that line of thinking and then not reward people who created benefit for Google from it.

I can believe that if you worked your regular role at 80% and did a 20% project that yielded no benefit that you would be judged only on your regular role (which also seems “whelp, that’s fair enough; no sense penalizing someone for trying. We’ll just judge them on what they did accomplish.”)
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities – Goodreads
"Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse."
GitJournal is pretty great. The automagical git sync Just Works, so everything is right where I need it, when I need it.

I spend 90% of my time on my "daily" notes, so (selfishly) that's where I would focus. My challenges there are:

1. My date format is "YYYY/MM - MMMM/YYYY-MM-DD" in a folder called Daily, which means the files have names like "Daily/11 - November/2021-11-18.md" (and surprisingly, Obsidian accepts that date format and manages the intermediate directories just fine). That crazy date/filename format would need to be configurable and supported for (I think) the Journal feature to work well
2. I don't include a heading with the date at the top of my Daily files (actually, _any_ files), so finding the right note (when I see a bunch of cards that all look pretty similar) can be challenging - at least my directory structure means I can narrow down to the month very fast by looking at the folder names
3. Bonus points for a calendar view to make #1 and #2 easier?

I think if I had to pick the biggest challenge, it's #2 because I end up with a big soup of files that all look the same, where the important thing to discriminate between them is the filename.

I also love the commercial model - I love Open Source, but I don't mind paying for quality, so I get the best of both worlds here. And more importantly, I don't have to spend a huge amount of money just to trial the software for a couple months - I can pay the (small) monthly fee, and if I like it, either pay the "full" fee or just keep paying monthly.
FTA nothing to do with Trader Joes, but where that particular THs happens to have its parking lot. Only at location, and you're allowed to emter a license plate number instead of logging in. Seems pretty click-baity to me.
A heck of a lot of the famous ILM Star Wars effects were old-fashioned models, stop-motion, and matte paintings.
It would be great to do sane carbon policy, but politics is the limiting factor at the moment. Carbon capture is one of the few universally popular solutions.
For those like me who blanked on what YAGNI means:

You Aren't Going To Need It.

EDIT: You Ain't Gonna Need It. Thank you for the correction!
Just say you don't have a smartphone. I got rid of mine and was worried I will have issues at places that do this sort of stuff. Turns out usually things suddenly become possible.
On the talk of reduced evaporation, can we replicate this at a fraction of the cost by running some plastic sheeting across a field? The solar is an investment that may not pay off in all farms, but reducing water usage is a major concern and stringing along some barriers could be a big help with that.
What about compost?

Surely the best place to sequester carbon is in topsoil where we can use if to grow food.

I have not done the maths, but I do do a lot of composting myself and it makes me wonder as I watch my soil get deeper.
Typically, when the jackpot is up in that range, the tickets actually have a positive EV.
It's unfortunate that it costs 77$ :(

Edit: unfortunate for me ofc.
Proposed solutions:

Facebook: Move to the Metaverse

SpaceX: Move to Mars

Google: Just click on the damn commercials

Amazon: Move close to the Warehouse and pick it yourself

Netflix: Accepting submissions for a real Squid game

Apple: This planet is not prettier than our products
If all the players sit down with $1000 and play for 5 hours, the casino will have taken approx. 6% of the total bankroll. It's not about what is fair, it's whether you are actually skilled enough to beat the other players AND the rake over the long term. Most people can't.
As is their right I suppose. Everyone should know by this point that saying things on Twitter can get you fired, so you should make that reality part of the risk/reward calculation when considering whether it's worth posting anything. Was this tweet worth it? Probably not worth the hassle at any rate, though there may be some value in learning you work for a company that would do this.
Did anything ever happen from this? It seems like this should have been a bigger deal than it was.
Storage will be a solved problem once everyone has an electric vehicle with a 65kWh battery sitting in their garage. Power your home overnight from your car, then recharge during the day when the sun comes out.

If you have a large home or need to always have a fully charged car, spend $15k on a home battery.

We need to get out of this mindset that electric utilities will provide unlimited power at a fixed price. With some investment from individual homeowners we can reduce peak to average ratios for utilities and make it much cheaper and possible to use intermittent green energy sources like wind and solar.
Where is segregation by comorbidity.
If you accidentally delete your data, your data will be deleted.

This is the curse of sharp tools. Don't run unix if you don't want rm to rm.

I still also have backups, and zfs snapshots on a different independent machine.
Are You Week?
A wind turbine is only profitable if you can physically connect it to someone who needs energy while the wind is blowing. That will get harder as more are built.
That's not what the article says. The article says that they stymied any internal inquiries, fudged numbers, and lied at every possible opportunity to do so. It's great that the NYT is covering it, because liberals might pay attention, but this looks like another case (like the rocket into the compound of an Afghan family seemingly out of a Hallmark card or a segment of CBS Sunday Morning) where pictures, testimony, and clear analysis were up shortly after the event, but since they were posted by locals and people opposed to the war, completely ignored by the media.

No one will be punished for this, ever, except the people who wouldn't let go of the incident internally, and anyone who leaked to a journalist.

I actually think that if it were China, we would see prosecution and punishment. It absolutely could never happen in the US.
We are spending a lot of our lives at work, we might as well make it enjoyable process. "Shackled to the screen" shows you really loathe it and I'd suggest figuring out how to make it actually enjoyable vs. approaching it with a self-toxic attitude that probably makes you not enjoyable to work with too.

Employers can choose to make you an amazon warehouse worker who is given zero slack inside a windowless room with no AC and no ability to socialize with your fellow workers, or to give you slack so you can have water cooler discussions and hang out time to get to know people better vs. faceless voices in a zoom call. Doing these things are not an either-or proposition.
This sounds like a great incentive. I feel like a 4 day work week is really the best motivation.
I mess around with ~5 Linux boxes, so this is a small sample size, and also all my neighbors' Windows PCs.

Seems like the Windows PCs are more likely to show you a blue screen/crash than a Linux one.

Would that match your experience too?
A small thread about the crazy early 90s period, after the BBSes before HTTP
Love it. What about Tesla and Twitter though?
Congrats! I just completed the easy demo on an iPhone SE and it worked great. No issue at all with selecting and positioning the pieces. Great work!

The UX is not good only because of the screen size. Either you see too few of the pieces or the pieces are too small. But I think there is no software solution to that, just a matter of being a game better suited for larger screens.
My suggestion is to not embed third party urls for infringing software.. that makes you a target. Inside leave that variable empty and make suggestions on where one could find the media whether it’s the original or from questionable third party websites.

This is how popular emulators survived the 90s, they emulate the bios but force you to find the firmware yourself. Even if it means downloading from an unknown source without a supply chain and running unknown code on your computer. The emulator and author are in the clear
Google has killed about 5x more things people love than FB has created. But they still keep a lot of core products alive.
It’s a false dichotomy to claim that they’re non-sterilising. They’re partially sterilising, at to at least 50% effectiveness even after waning. With boosters, it seems that returns to 90%+.
This is why I don’t connect my TVs to WiFi. I have NVidia Shields and Chromecasts on all my TVs when I want to run apps. Sure, Google spies on me too, but they probably already know everything they would learn from what I watch.
And someone might "spy" on a whistleblower that leaked an incriminating video, by issuing a warrant for the media fingerprint [1], and finding which TV was used to view the leaked footage. Google doesn't "spy" on you either, by your ridiculously narrow definition, and yet their data sends people to jail [2].

Or a personality/political profile could be built on a person from the shows they watch.

Or your social score could be reduced if you watch too many subversive shows. Oh but that's in China, and could never ever happen here, so no worries about building all the infrastructure to enable it. Except if you view terrorist content, then the UK feels justified in jailing you for 10-15 years [3]. But hey I don't think there's precedent yet for using smart TV fingerprinting for that, so why worry?

Lets give up our autonomy and privacy one tiny slice at a time. And when there is nothing left, you can point to each individual slice and explain to us how losing that one was totally insignificant and non-nefarious.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_video_fingerprinting

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/16/geofence-war...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41479620.amp
Hey, chronolitus thanks!

We've looked and interacted with Pepper, but they're distant from what we're building. They've got more of a research purpose, we are going full-blown social robot.

For the sensors, we're using the feedback we've got from all the 19 servo motors since they're closed-loop servos.

For the ML part, all the visual perception is being done the Jetson and only the audio and NLP is off-loaded towards the cloud. For the body planning, it's all developed through inverse kinematics and dynamic balancing ... no need for ML :)
Useless eaters. Who needs that crap?

And what jurisdiction does any member has over outer space?
It's ridiculous.
I’m a vacuum this makes sense.

When the right has folks who held power in the White House talking about wanting a religious theology to take over, you can be sure you don’t live in a vacuum.

Too many people are against your vision, either explicitly, or implicitly given their ignorance, to take it as a given.
> You can predict that not emitting CO2 will cost less than emitting CO2 and then recapturing it, because it's the second law of thermodynamics.

I'm not sure that's true, in two senses.

Even if the _energy_ cost is higher, the _monetary_ cost may be lower as emissions and capture don't need to be in the same place. It may be cheaper for example to just burn some petrol to cover long distances where there's less infrastructure and instead capture an equivalent amount of CO2 using energy from solar panels somewhere sunny.

I'm not certain the energy cost must be higher due to thermodynamics. If you were taking CO2 and water and recombining them to get back nat gas and oxygen then sure. But what if you're taking the CO2 and doing something else with it? If I'm thinking about this right the bond energy in CO2 is a little lower than the overall energy released. Of course things come down then to efficiencies but I don't think there's a thermodynamics point here.
Straight Talk Jesus
Good point. While it may make harvesting trickier, installing covers could be a cheap way to increase water use efficiency
Man, that is some next level "don't feed the trolls"

Alas, I am human and must therefore engage with any algorithms I come across..
Has this ever actually been a problem?

I think most of the recent progress has been in lowering prices, while the amount of power you can extract from a square meter of land presumably hasn't changed much. But I don't actually remember any serious commenter suggesting that running out of physical room was ever an actual consideration when it came to solar.
I really liked how stable W2k was as a workstation. I could run a bunch of terminals, programs and hardly ever had a crash. Nothing is worse working an outage or deployment and POOF there goes your desktop.

This was also around the time you could even run bbwin and themes, and tweak it some for fun. Pretty sure cygwin was also around.
I rarely shop in person so I can't really say if it's getting worse, but it's certainly always been my experience that other than in dedicated hi-fi/home cinema type shops they dial the settings to the ridiculous maximum and of course boast that it's 1200000000:1 dynamic 360 max HDR+ gen 5 or whatever.
At $15/hour, I'm sure the casino will let them sit for days if they want. It's peanuts and shows other non-counters a player winning, meaning good publicity for the casino that's surely worth more than $15/hour.
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I preferred XP with the classic theme, some of its utils were improved.
>So... for some old timer who pulls up without a smartphone they'll turn them away?

yeah? AFAIK if you want to shop at an amazon go store, you need mobile app and a registered amazon account. We're also getting there at other places because some establishments/jurisdictions are requiring proof of vaccination (ie. signed QR code).
You could set XP to look just like 2000.
That’s true but it’s also true for fossil and nuclear fuels.
Second paragraph: "Without warning, an American F-15E attack jet streaked across the drone’s high-definition field of vision and dropped a 500-pound bomb on the crowd, swallowing it in a shuddering blast."

Who is lying about the surveillance quality?
When you count for buffer land around nuclear (most don't want to live too close) land use becomes comparable to solar

For example, look at Diablo Canyon site acreage vs the acreage of the new large-scale solar project in Pahrump, NV.
Love this, perfect UI too. Wondering if theres any similar project out there for physical / analogue artwork?
At which point the most economically efficient thing becomes to install batteries or hydro or nuclear. It still isn't carbon capture, is it?
What could be the equivalent of GitHub Copilot for no-code/low-code?
Americans literally fund murder of innocent children. Insane.
We need Nuremberg Trails 2.0
Doesn't everything? It's not an issue so long as across it's life it results in less carbon production than alternative sources do per kW
When Shazam was popular, I believe they embedded digital fingerprints in the non-audible ranges of the audio stream. That allowed phone apps to quickly label content.

I suspect a similar thing happens with video content.
From the last time I looked into it (I may be recalling this incorrectly): the script is AI generated text that the writer sifted through, edited, and stitched together to form an amusing, vaguely coherent narrative.

So it's perhaps closer to "inspired by AI" than "written by AI".
Because he wasn't winning. Even if they noticed, he wasn't a threat.
Rare snow leopards die of Covid-19 complications at US zoo
It's not clear to me 280ppm is actually ideal, because below 150ppm, most plant life on Earth begins to die from the lack of CO2 in the atmosphere. It takes a couple generations for plants to adapt (which they can), but I don't imagine most crops and forests will survive the transition well.

I actually think where we're at is relatively decent. We know what's happening, can reliably predict certain storms.

Definitely don't want to go any higher, but going in the opposite direction for too long is entering ice age status.

The goal shouldn't be to adhere to a specific number, but identify an acceptable range/boundary.
I did not. I will probably run a local invidious instance soon.
It's usually called "dynamic" mode and it makes me sad when I see it turned on in peoples' homes.
Someone actually trusts MS and Apple? Their reputation doesn't exactly instill any trust.
Dirty tricks.

All the money in the world isn't enough for Apple.

I wonder if Google can be said to be colluding with Apple on this.
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