skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is not an OCR problem (as we switched off OCR on purpose), it is a lot worse – patches of the pixel data are randomly replaced in a very subtle and dangerous way: The scanned images look correct at first glance, even though numbers may actually be incorrect.

I have a habit of scanning invoices/statements/manuals etc to pdf and found the above quite alarming. Though I don't use Xerox (my scanner is Epson Perfection V39), I never considered the possibility that a scan of a document can result in altered numbers. How do I know if my scanner could also be affected in case it uses similar underlying software/setup?
Hal9: Bring Your Data to Life
Panels are almost exclusively sand. Should we run out of one of the things needed to make solar panels a recycling market will pop up. I also think you need to check your lifespan numbers. Solar panels degrade much slower than that, if they get thrown out after 20 years that has silly reasons like they stop getting subsidies after 20 years. There is a healthy market for used solar panels.
This extreme of "no zoning" doesn't work because of the negative externalities you can create, affecting your neighbors

Simply put: if you get to build your perfect house, with a nice mountain view, the neighbor west of you could build a building the size of the empire state building, and so does your neighbor east of you. Now you don't have any sunlight. The neighbor south of you could build a smelly & noisy factory, and the one north of you could build a nightclub.
Looking at their demo real cor the Camon 18 camera, this seems like the perfect example of universal design. It capture beautifully color-balanced dark skin, and does so right along side pale skin and vibrant colors.
And another 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29207278
> Funding from those programs often can be combined with financial gifts from your family and friends to reduce your out-of-pocket costs to buy a home.

I mean, I get the point of saying that (funding from F&F doesn’t disqualify the applicant), but man does it feel like a quasi-government agency is suggesting needy borrowers should just ask their parents for money.
Yeah, I don’t know about getting rid of those regulations for cars, but it is worthwhile to think about what happens when you get rid of a bunch of regulation for housing “safety.” A lot of housing regulation we have today is mostly to get rid of tenement housing. If cities got rid of minimum apartment sizes and we allowed dorms/flop houses where you get a tiny single room, or a slightly less tiny room for groups, more people could at least cram indoors in much safer spaces than they get out on the streets.

Laws in Californian cities go much further than just blocking tenements though. Just eliminating the cost of litigation and allowing constructions as-of-right would make a pretty big impact. But it politicians really do need to consider whether a law that is intended to help poorer people will actually put more of them out on the street.
It wasn't a mistake, they used photos and footage in their reporting of it. It was lies. Malicious lies.

Even if you want to use the weak excuse that they didn't know what they were doing, the fact it was not corrected or retracted after they did view this "hypothetical footage" (which apparently everyone else on the internet was able to find immediately), proves the malicious and intentional nature of it.
I think selective immigration is “eugenics” with extra steps.

it’s the logic thing to do but also completely unethical.

I hope the future sees the practice how we see picture of kids working in coal mines.

immigration visas need to be issued randomly.
experience informs

How are derealization, depersonalization and similar conditions explained?
Absolutely. If the status quo was hurting NIMBYs a bit instead of lining their pockets they'd change their tune real quick.
Physics and data processing.

Our eyes aren't actually 24 bit per frame. In fact our eyes are pretty shit. What they're good at is fairly quickly moving and adjusting, and are backed by a processor (our brain) that is capable of converting that data into a spatially aware image.

In fact our brain doesn't even really see much of the view. It's filling in a lot of blanks based on the understanding of the scene.

Cameras are trying to capture that into a still. You can capture multiple stills together with different exposures, but you're going to battle things like motion etc..

Most cameras these days are in the 10-14 bit range which is a function of the range the photosites will respond too before saturating, but also given that most displays are 8 bit, after a point there's just diminishing gains.

14 bits allows for a lot of latitude when shooting and processing.
Man Park – SNL [video]
1. Equip your soldiers with body armor with these bullet effect trapdoors.
2. Freak out your enemy.
3. Win your war.

???

5. profit
Timeout, did anyone consider that services would indeed naturally be more profitable, on net, than making and selling hardware? Look at gross revenues: most of the company's SALES are from selling TVs!
This unfortunately true in California. NIMBY moment is strong.

Another perspective..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCOdQsZa15o
(Love this channel!)
V minor point: new yq versions use 'e' instead of '-r'.
Interest is amortized in most mortgages so that this type of analysis on year 0 of homeownership is always going to look very unfavorable owing to the large interest payments in the early years of the mortgage. You have to consider what happens over the life of a 15 or 30 year mortgage to understand the financial benefits of ownership. As the years go by, you will be paying a larger fraction toward principal while inflation has shrunken the real cost of your debt and it feels cheaper to you over time.

If your wages keep up with inflation (say 3% for example), in 10 years you'll be making about 35% more dollars but your housing payment stays the same. If your home value tracks inflation, it will also be up 35% after a decade, but your payment stays the same. And if you're lucky, there may have also been appreciation above inflation. Inflation melts your fixed rate debt and grows the nominal value of your asset, speeding the rate at which you build wealth in the form of home equity.

Over that same period, a renter is certain to have experienced significant increases in their housing costs. They may have saved and invested more than the homeowner over the first few years of homeownership, but as you know this is a long-term game.

I guess it comes down to what form of risk/investing you are most comfortable with and whether you value the intangible lifestyle things like getting to customize things to your liking. Getting to purchase an asset with between 5-33x leverage in the form of low fixed rate debt seems like a pretty unique opportunity for most people who would not be comfortable borrowing for other forms of investment.
I am looking forward to fill an open position in the future.
It's funny, coming to Facebook from startups I thought I'd no longer deal with recruiting pipeline challenges. It surprised the hell out of me to see how much FB struggled with hiring senior engineers. The stupid hard interviews did a fantastic job of keeping experienced folks away, so the offices felt like college grounds (I don't mean to say this was done intentionally, they really did want tons of senior talent, but the interview process didn't help).
Virtual desktops and tiling are orthogonal.
When working at Transmeta as a QA engineer, I remember finding a software bug in the Crusoe processor that prevented IE 5.5 from working with SSL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta_Crusoe
Visa issues ? :)
Among the Unvaccinated
Yes, I'm sorry the millions of developers with their $3.99/mo apps ruined the experience for your unicorn $1,000/mo app. I'm sure your users, with such a high need that they would pay so much, are perfectly able to find a workaround.
No. It's been completely borked here in the UK since Thatcher's Housing Act of 1980 which introduced the right to buy your council house. The upper middle class have been popping champagne corks ever since whilst the rest of us struggle to afford a roof over our heads. So long as the government treats its property stock as a source of private profit instead of a roof over one's head nothing will change.
The building itself, on an individual basis, depreciates over time. The investment component is about the land, or more accurately, the volume of space above (and to a certain extent below) the surface that is inescapably necessary for human existence, which can be enclosed by walls and a door for additional dignity.

It is a claim on the sky.
Why would she move into a cheaper place and thus get a higher effective tax rate and pass less advantage on to her heirs?

But the whole conversation about Grandma is stupid anyway. The California Tax Postponment Program allows her to stay in her house, with zero tax pressure, forever. Plenty of states, even high property tax NJ, have something like that and it's just fine.
You’ve completely missed the point.

“Seuss” presumably tells you something meaningful about suessite.

“Greig” presumably tells you something meaningful about greigite.

“Dave Mao” doesn’t tell you anything about davemaoite.
This!

I sometimes really struggle to understand others when they are using wireless units. It is AM quality at best, like 5 to 8Khz bandwidth.

That is not so bad frankly. But, couple it with cell phone call audio codecs and it is a mess.
I had those too. AirPods are incredible and will change your mind about wireless headphones
Tier A cities have been getting cheaper for 3 years?
You're paying many of these things in a rental as well. But at the end of 30 years the landlord keeps the asset.
Yeah, let’s kick old ladies out of their houses so we can get a piece.

If they wanted to stay in their neighborhood they should have made more money before retiring.

Sarcasm aside, I’d like to see an example of increasing taxes on a good or service somehow making it cheaper.
Must have missed conflation in Capital. Is it like inflation?
reminds me of https://i.redd.it/469hjiwz3ga21.jpg
This strikes me as true. I have never worked for a fast-growing company that was able to hit their hiring target, Facebook included.
Not OP, but market does send a signal when I prefer that. That's how I signed up for Netflix and Spotify. I saw that in-app prices were high when I tried to sign up, looked elsewhere and found out that website prices are lower and now apple doesn't get my cut. But for everything else, I am happy paying apple more because I only have trust for a few companies. If apple is charging app developers more than they should be, those apps can have their own billing page and manage the billing and let the user decide how they want to pay for it.

Yes, users know how to shop around. That's how they buy cars, groceries, gas, computers, cellphones, etc.
That's the headline of the article, not an addition by OP.
Better than Windows ME?!
If wonder if Neanderthals discussed an idea akin to the great replacement and if most of them thought/argued that was a conspiracy theory.
This is a poor analogy. People rely on cars way differently then they rely on housing. If the only car you could buy was a Lexus, you might stretch you budged, take out a big loan and buy one, or you might simply not buy a car, get a bicycle instead, take the train, a cab, or pay a coworker to carpool.

Housing doesn’t give you this option. If you don’t want to be homeless you may be able to rent, but that is pretty expensive too.
I was a little disappointed that by "corded headphones" they meant "corded earbuds"
Clear startup opportunity?

Seriously. More of us would jump on board if it were not Bluetooth.
Wow. Thank you for addressing this in such a friendly way. Every time I point it out I can't help but mock the successful owners but really your way of saying it is more effective
If you're happy to go lispy, there's Babashka [1], a Clojure without the JVM. It has built-in support for 'tasks' designed to make writing build scripts easy.

[1] https://babashka.org/
The problems being discussed are more than just the ability of film at the time to capture things , it's the education around it. Shirley cards and books around that time were built to normalize white skin and blonde hair. It wasn't even considered a problem at the time that black skin wasn't reproduced well until furniture and chocolate manufacturers complained that their products weren't well shot.

There's both a technical and a societal element to it.

I suggest watching this video , especially from the 25 minute mark

https://youtu.be/ROuE8xYLpX8
Yes!

And:

* Cheap
* Better for the environment by a mile
* Much harder to lose

The one downside is the damn tangled wire.
This also holds for smaller cities in the Rust Belt. My childhood home, purchased almost new in 1980, is only worth about 2x what my parents paid at a time of 20% interest rates. It has been very well kept and sits on about an acre and a half. Everyone with means has moved away. Retirees and people with no better options are all that's left.
I did not make myself clear, yes it is not a binary choice. Yes overlapping is one of the solution. Hand-managed layout (where you just place a window wherever you want) is one too. And so is tiling, which counters the point the original comment made (no use case for tiling WM in modern era).
> It wasn't a mistake, they used photos and footage in their reporting of it.

They covered the most popular footage at the time, which was not the footage that exonerated Sandmann.

> Even if you want to use the weak excuse that they didn't know what they were doing, the fact it was not corrected or retracted after they did view this "hypothetical footage" (which apparently everyone else on the internet was able to find immediately), proves the malicious and intentional nature of it.

They published their correction to the original article on January 22nd (3 days after their first article, 4 days after the incident in question). Pretty quick fix if you ask me for this sort of stuff. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/picture-o...
Here's my only real parenting advice: anything you tell kids hoping to sink in, they want(or need) to see for themselves. Very frustrating, but, understandable. I've learned to stop making edicts, and instead say what I think will happen, and invite kid to test. YMMV.
Do you think it's impossible to imply something without saying it ("dog-whistling", if you will)?
Spend much time working with hydrogen as a fuel and you'll mostly be learning just how amazingly convenient sticking your hydrogens on to carbon chains is compared to the alternative.
Your opinion is subjective and only makes use of andecdata.
I stopped upgrading phones for a while and bought a backup.

Audio matters to me. Can't own a device with no analog jack.
Unexpected? I've been using them, never stopped, never bought Bluetooth headphones. Passively powered peripherals are always superior to actively powered peripherals.
so many downvotes. I guess it only make sense to only make comments when you're sure the perspective is the most popular ones among the HN audience.
Yes, I'm using a binary outcome, since that's what I get from playing a game. To get probabilities I'd have to play a lot of games with the same settings/features/point and take the mean, but it seems that defeats the point of Bayesian optimization finding the best point to evaluate for each iteration.

The SPSA method seems to work quite well with binary outcomes. This is what I was trying to beat. Unfortunately I was never able to converge faster than SPSA (or even close to that) even increasing the number of samples.
There is a pretty long thread of us trying to make it work here: https://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=71650&h...

I got some feedback form the botorch team back then: https://github.com/pytorch/botorch/issues/347#:~:text=thomas...
How do you know that? If you are reading that from MS news, and if you are just repeating a statement without actual numbers, you are spreading propaganda of those who are interested in promoting the vaccines (aka Big Pharma and the sponsored media). As shown in this thread , IC hospital occupancy was low in France, and I know it was the same in the Netherlands. The current occupancy numbers of vaccinated vs unvaccinated are conveniently undisclosed by the Dutch government.
* will at one point start mysteriously crackling unless you hold the wire in that one weird angle from that one spot
Bluetooth headphones are a nightmare when your computer is under heavy load.
> they have less incentive to build enough homes to actually drive down prices via market forces because it means less profit for them

If a developer can replace a $5mm house with a 30-unit tower of $500,000 apartments, that's good business. Of course, if you put ten years of planning commissions and environmental reviews in between, the cost might need to be $1mm. And if the neighborhood blocks the building because it changes the character of the neighborhood, the entry cost will remain $5mm.
But the author seems to misunderstand how it works almost completely. FaceID or TouchID protect access to the device which protects the ID, that’s the biometric part, there is nothing I see that requires or implies biometric data is used for anything else.
No it’s not that hard. But this lets me do it with a single command. No need to track down a disk image with a working key, configure the VM, and then run the slow installer. With this I can go do whatever silly thing I wanted to do that much faster.
Does it include a cable?
No, it's because they're paying for the therapy you'll need after burning out in three years.
Let me get this right.

You are using numbers from a computer game wiki in a discussion about real world?

Numbers which are by the way off by 2 orders of magnitude. Don't have any nuance in them, don't account for any seasonal variance nor in fact for weather.
I'm not an expert on this topic, but I'm certain it has to do with space constraints.

Supporting more range of color depth means that the raw output of the sensor is necessarily bigger. This means we have some range of tradeoffs to make in the camera:

* Save the sensor output directly as a RAW image onto storage. This means your storage medium can store fewer photos. You're also now beholden to the speed of your storage. Specialty photography like wildlife and sports impose requirements like being able to take lots of pictures per second; cameras solve this by having large memory buffers. Slow storage means the buffer fills up quicker.

* Compress your RAW images with lossless algorithms. These do a decent job, but they still result in big files on storage media. Same problems as earlier point. Need quite a bit of memory and CPU on the camera to deal with this, and plus this now competes with how many shots per second you can buffer.

* Compress your images with lossy algorithms (output RAW or JPEGs). Pretty much unacceptable since you don't get to decide what detail the algorithm removes.

Of course, this also imposes hardware demands on the photographer's computer. Big images require:

* Lots of storage. Maybe time to pay for a lot of cloud storage?

* Fast storage too because otherwise Lightroom takes forever to load an image

* Lots of RAM so that Lightroom can cache more images at once so you can flip back and forth with more ease.

* Fast RAM and CPU so that Lightroom can do adjustments without much lag (some of this can be offloaded to GPU, but it's not a drastic improvement).

Now, I think these problems are solvable today. They just require obscene amounts of money.

I do want to add, RAW images by today's consumer-level cameras do support a fairly wide dynamic range. A skilled photographer will know how to work with RAW files to bring out details from the extreme ends of the range (e.g. dark skin against a bright background). But it does require setting up the shot well, and one can only capture so much range (e.g. I have a few bird pictures where part of the bird is still totally blown out and unrecoverable because of sunlight).
It's a good tip, and should come with the warning to not hesitate to back off and give up if you feel it isn't working.

Teaching what you best know regularly fails depending on your field and your kids inclinations, with no specific fault of your own or your kids.
Where in Texas is this?
The smelter is the only one that could be legal. The thief is obviously illegal, there's no secondary market for small numbers of catalytic converters except illegally, and decanters are only necessary because what they're doing is with stolen goods. Large smelters do purchase catalytic converters - But they purchase them from scrapyards and handle the sorting and reclamation themselves.
Grid scale batteries became cost effective within the last year or so, though.

It's at the same point solar/wind were a few years ago when they were the cheapest form of energy but received a lot of criticism for making up a small % of total production.

Naturally that changed.
I'm putting aside whether this telling is accurate, or whether this happened or not (given it is a throwaway).

Just answering the questions about legality:

1: 100% illegal. Any FAANG manager has likely had to go through hiring training that stresses this point.

3: 100% illegal.

4: Might be illegal under Federal law if this is a blanket policy, definitely illegal under California law (most "equality"-type laws and programs are deliberately worded to be gender and race neutral).
some folks have a lot of disposable income. what's there to discuss?
> There is one issue with the developers - they have less incentive to build enough homes to actually drive down prices via market forces because it means less profit for them.

People were building their own homes for centuries before there were "developers". I would argue that over-regulation has made it extremely difficult for small builders or family builders to attempt to build their own homes. Only large corporations with a legal team can run that gauntlet.

If regulation were reduced, we'd probably see a lot more small time builders, or people taking classes to learn how to build their own homes, cooperatives being set up (possibly organized through Y Combinator startups dedicated to that) where people could Amish-style bring a community together to build homes.
idk about the housing market in Japan, but I was under the impression that housing prices in Tokyo were far from affordable. Also a quick glance at Wikipedia informs me the governments in Japan actually take a pretty active role in the housing market, including by providing public housing.

Are you sure zoning is the only thing that sets apart the Bay Area from Japan?
Lol, I always liked that line.

People like what they like. Forcing it just does not go well, unless the reasons are really good.

I was, and am seriously put off by the omission of analog audio jacks. Most of the reasons given just do not resonate and sometimes it is stated or strongly implied I am somehow the problem.
Companies, especially retailers, pass around lists of problem customers.
From the article:

> In the next section, there is a a short manual for you to reproduce the error and see of you are affected.
Sure, but the mortgage rate was around half that in the year before and just as high in 1974. Though compared to today, 13% is high but not ridiculous. 13% today would be ridiculous.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
There aren't many jobs in Malibu. I used to work for HRL, the largest employer there, and it wasn't a big place.

Unless the goal is Corsuscant I don't really see a reason to build up over there.
Or unscrew it partially, breaking the moisture protection and get some sweat in there.
The company is having trouble recruiting? Maybe Facebook should insist on their employees to be vaccinated.
Yes they can: tax land, not property.