skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Baqpa Aggregates Backpack Recommendations from 10K+ Sources
Deciphering Uber Rating [with Racket]
Based on my experience [1], you would definitely run into a situation where users would inadvertently hinder others and that feels really annoying. We have tried to solve this issue by introducing two major concepts:

- The corner slots that would fixate the final image. This also makes easier to move crowded pieces around. Note that edge pieces are not constrained (unlike, say, jigsawpuzzles.io mentioned above) because that would make guesswork easier.

- Any cursor can pick and hold a group of pieces only for a certain amount of time. The timer was designed so that doesn't reset and instead runs backwards when you are not holding pieces, and you can't pick new pieces when the timer hasn't passed some threshold.

Also synchronizing all the things would be very interesting if you haven't done that so far :-) We specifically used a combination of lag compensation and opportunistic state merger, but there are a lot of other valid strategies you can try.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29218867
> Amazon is company focused on scaling commodity use cases, not at engineering excellency.

I think of it slightly differently. S3 is clearly the product of engineering excellency (as is DynamoDb).

But I think there are A teams and B teams at AWS, as you would expect from any company so large. And I get the sense that at least some of the newer, less proven solutions were written by the B teams. This likely includes some k8s-market-share-grabby offerings.
The obsession is simply around getting a high pay and great benefits at a very stable company. FAANG seems like a high confidence path to more money than employees probably ever wanted or expected. The reasons behind that are worth considering. We live in an economy that is increasingly consolidated, where massive capital sits with a few giants, where new innovators are easily copied by those giants, where network effects and shady practices discourage new competition.

If we had a more competitive economy, with functioning anti trust law, and protections for small innovators rather than giant conglomerates, I think talent might be distributed differently. But otherwise it is rational to look at the situation, realize nothing will be done, and to just work at FAANG and let the dollars roll in.
Yes eventually, but the key question here is timing. There choice needs to be removed within a window that enables Rivian to own the market. If we are talking 10+ years out (which I think is likely) then Rivian will be dead and EV will be a commodity feature in all other cars.
I agree, it's becoming near impossible to avoid.

And don't say "but commercial models!". They are missing a lot of features like multiple HDMI inputs and such, and I wouldn't put it past these companies to start adding crap eventually to commercial models too. The cost difference is also significantly higher than the amount of money they make from your via ads & surveillance because it comes with a bunch of commercial support features we don't want to pay for because we will never use it.
That is an incredible feat of flying. I would be terrified of some kind of reverse ground effect from the road overhead.

It's basically a 1990s version of barnstorming.
I see. So to a end-user it may not make much difference whether they sign up via the web site or app, but if Apple can get in-between, they can cleave 30% of the user’s lifetime revenue. Hiding email, credit card info already entered, subscription management,… there are reasons to want to run everything through Apple, but it’s interesting to see this behind the scenes as it can really change Apple’s incentives.
How will the former happen without the latter
Why do you think Windows isn’t a real OS? It successfully powers I’d guess hundreds of millions of devices.
It's a fascinating form, isn't it? I mean, nominally they're book reviews. And they will at least mention and comment on the book. But the best of them are really a special kind of literary essay written by someone who knows the subject (of the book and of the essay) very well and is making their own argument. Sometimes the books 'reviewed' are merely a parenthetical jumping-off point.

So the LRB, for instance, might publish a review by Hilary Mantel of a book about Danton [0] which is actually a meditation on what it means to be a revolutionary and how place might fit into that. Mantel, having researched and written A Place of Greater Safety[1], is not exactly a historian but does have some fascinating things to say.

I subscribe to the LRB. I don't know tons about most of what is written, but having smart people who can write well pitching engaging pieces about all kinds of randomiana is, as you say, a wondrous thing.

[0]: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v31/n15/hilary-mantel/he-roa...

[1]: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/A-Place-of-Greater...
Their current prototype, no 6, reached 100 million C. The next, prototype 7 they say should produce net electricity in 2023 or so. We'll see. That's not commercial electricity production but any production would be a step forward.
Oh, I don't really care about MacOS that much. I've already moved on to Linux, which has much better support for games and legacy software (along with the development I do every day for, y'know, work). I just keep the old lappy on Mojave because it reminds me of better times. I never really do anything beyond basic text editing on it anymore.
> The Moneyed classes have never given up anything willingly: the end of monarchy, the end of slavery and even labour laws were won in blood. Its likely to be the same with climate change

This seems to be a very valid observation. However, it's worth noting that with respect to climate change, it's nto about some mystical "0.1%" but rather in this case the "moneyed classes" include the vast majority of the first world citizens, which (as you state) are very unlikely to give up their privilege willingly unless the "global south", who will suffer the worst parts of the climate change first, would win that concession through blood.

However, as a counterpoint, nuclear weapons do act as a reasonably effective veto in conflict escalation.
Isn't this a security vulnerability?
I've seen a lot of suggestions that solar can be used as the only energy source for humanity, that we don't need anything else, just build more solar!

That's not realistic. Of course, the limitations that solar has are very much solvable, and having solar is better than not having it. Solar is important, and it is our future.

But the solutions to solar's limitations seem to be in their infancy (new types of storage), hard to scale (battery storage), not really helpful (just build more coal and gas peakers!) or not considered at all. Which does not inspire confidence.
I agree that that's one way it could work, but it seems really unlikely to me that Apple would be willing to lose so much money on a project like this. Some other possibilities that I think are more likely:

* Apple has a higher LTV estimate than Tinder for this traffic.

* Tinder has less available capital, so they are not able to outbid Apple even though they think that they would still earn lots of money at that price.

* Perhaps someone who is looking to subscribe to Tinder is likely to succeed even without advertising, but without Apple's ads it won't be via Apple's IAP. The amount it's worth to Tinder for a subscriber to come to them directly instead of via Apple and the amount it's worth to Apple for a subscriber to come in via IAP are about the same.

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, but not search ads. Speaking only for myself)
In some sense it's just using the entire atmosphere as a battery. Burn fossile fuels where it's the only reasonable option (currently), such as for planes, then spend energy to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere elsewhere.
> Which number do you think is larger, the cost for the US to dictate industrialisation policy for the rest of the world or the cost for the US (and possibly other governments more interested in reducing global warming, if the tech is there) to offset some of their emissions?

You only have to dictate policy to them if you're trying to get them to pay for it. If you're going to pay for it yourself, there is nothing at all stopping you from paying people in Africa or South America to buy electric cars. The main thing preventing this is that you would have to convince your taxpayers to pay to offset emissions in some other country. But that's the same problem with carbon capture, except worse, because you would need more dollars to offset the same amount of CO2.
My assumption is they pivoted from hay to growing high margin stuff (most greens are higher margin, I think) they can sell to restaurants/farmers markets/co-ops. Being close to Boulder definitely helps in that regard. The solar panels just provide the shade that shadecloth used to provide with the upside of producing income.

The biggest barrier to scalability is probably how labor intensive some of the farming is and the target audience for stuff like kale and collard greens outside of major metro areas.
Aha, I see what you're saying. You're right, but I still think you're reading something into the top-level comment that isn't there.

The way I understand it, they're not saying "casinos make money because their counterpart is going broke" (and you're right that they don't.) They're saying "in the casino vs. player situation, the player will almost always run out of bankroll before the casino does, and therefore the casino does not risk ruin, even in highly volatile games."
Vendor lock-in can be a real issue as you scale. I work at a company going through a hypergrowth phase, and we're more or less locked into Azure, which has been objectively awful for us
So the US internally docummented some of the incidents. Is that useful to anyone? Did it have impact on anything? A lot of the reporting at the time in the west was actually done by non-US organizations like airwars.org.

I watched the reporting quite closely at the time.

At least now I know how to interpret the reports from reporters embedded with US coalition in the past that they were not allowed into some area before it was cleaned. This article paints a clear picture of what might have been happening.
You can't convince people anymore. All that's left is resignation, anger, and used screens from the oughts.
In general, films are shot with a slow shutter speed because the low FPS would otherwise create a strobe-like effect. Unless that effect is being sought (famously, Saving Private Ryan), blur is preferred.
> These terms imply some kind of personal connection. The police will put a suspect under "surveillance". Someone might "spy" on their spouse to see if they're cheating.

The thing is, with "dragnet warrants" (see e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/16/geofence-war...) it is incredibly easy for your data to end up subpoena'd by the police. Secret services may not even need that and simply take all the data they want. And at that time, your TV, phone or other device has effectively become an espionage device.

This is why the European GDPR focuses so hard on data minimization: data that doesn't even get collected or stored cannot be abused by criminals and the government.
> (WTF is "STAR WNRS" even supposed to mean?)

Violating two trademarks in one go would be too much?

That would be my guess, and lifting Lego's format was just a convenience.
Great, thanks for the info
>Doesn't it make far more sense to just put solar panels in a field like this, instead of doing custom work putting them on top of individual homes which may have shade or directionality issues?

Depends on what you're optimizing for. If you're considering solar purely from the angle of replacing carbon-thermal generation on the grid then sure, large arrays are more efficient, offering more room for amortization of fixed costs, more optimization for solar gain, and more room for optimal hybrid usage like this example.

However, buildings need roofs anyway, and will in turn get sun exposure. Since solar tech like tiles can take the place of traditional roofing, there are some double gains to be had there in that they're both doing the job of protection from the elements and taking otherwise mostly wasted energy and doing some work with it. Depending on how one gets into the weeds on aesthetics (like if they wanted nicer tiling anyway) the marginal extra capex of tiling may well be worth it as costs come down further. Building-solar also can help provide resiliency to grid damage, which by definition grid feeding cannot. For people in areas where they'd otherwise be running generators anyway, solar/res-wind+battery (and as BEVs take over near everyone will have an extremely sizable slab or three of battery around much of the time) can be compelling. Still more upfront, but maintenance-free for a decade or more and constantly providing some ROI (and effectively constant verification everything is working), whereas hydrocarbon generators require regular maintenance/testing which cost money and generate zero return otherwise, they just depreciate. And local solar/wind/utility resources are going to affect the time horizons for all this.

So basically there are a ton of new variables and enormously more scalability up and down the spectrum for renewables and batteries. Doing the math is in turn going to be very individual, but it will often still make sense to do both.

Also:

>why don't we do this more often?

I mean, we're still in a pretty steep part of an S-curve here. It's just plain early days. People are still experimenting with stuff like this and learning what works. Unit costs are dropping, which in turn changes what projects make sense which in turn changes demand and thus unit costs. Grids are adapting and getting smarter. Both storage and opportunistic demand are doing the same in parallel in a variety of ways. Stories like this where someone tries some new stuff and it works out well will make others perk up and take notice. There will also be things tried that don't work out. Going to be a wild decade.
"Meta" is also a woman's name.

https://babynames.com/name/meta
24 fps can have good motion clarity with a strobed image. Theatres used to have shutters. I don't think DLP does, but I may be mistaken.
It works as well on Linux as it does using Windows for me, using Intel graphics (both have minor issues with displayport MST, i.e one USBC and two monitors). Are you using NVidia hardware by any chance?
As an alternative, would it be worth it to help developing countries build green solutions now, maybe the economies of scale will help offset some of the short-term cost?

You're right that it's not right to force still developing countries to halt their progress. I just wonder if there's a way to help them develop in a way that is better long-term.
Most people I know have either a Roku or an Amazon Fire connected to their TV. I assume Vizio's spying capability is nil if it's set up this way, with the TV wifi off.

I wonder how common that sort of set up is.
Not at all. Individually they are important discussions to have. The problem is that the thesis here is that "all companies spy on you regardless of how much you pay for their product" when the headline is about Vizio.

Perhaps I'm alone in thinking like this, but if a person tells me they are going to discuss a topic but instead do a bait and switch by trying to roll in a dozen other tangentially-related subjects so they can get me to agree with them about a completely different thesis they should not be surprised if the listener starts to smile, nod, and slowly back away.
In the minds of those who believe unlikely things.
Weird comparison to people complaining about very specific entities exhibiting very specific behaviors and performing very specific actions.

Those are general economic concepts that aren't even broadly agreed upon.
Isn’t a strobe light effect due to how long you project each image, not how long you expose it for?
That's why I use Chromecast. It's just enabling Google to "make the rubble bounce" in the ruins of my privacy.
Why do I keep reading rhel as “our hell”
Sure, but if it's 70% of the remaining smaller pie of violence, that's still an improvement. If money wasn't a thing, you wouldn't be like "Relationships cause 70% of violence. Relationships are the root of all evil"
Should have a (2007) in the description. :)
The only part about this that was one-off was that they were caught. It's an open secret that the CIA has been involved in some form of drug running for decades.
Sure; also by providing financial resources, code development, or similar.

I "pay" (i.e. make a financial donation) to any software development where I would have purchased commercial equivalent. It makes sense.
For who? For Google? Or for the client? The server's security shouldn't be dependent on https
If people survive such a crazy stunt, you congratulate them, if not, you bury them and the director. Risking people's lives for a few seconds of film is not worth it.
Does it have to be one or the other? You could allocate blocks of memory for the list then when it will be filled up you allocate more and add a pointer to it.
Solar takes much space compared to what? Oil wells and refineries? Gas wells and processing and pipelines? Coal mine and power plant?

Solar can be squeezed into lots of unused spaces, e.g. where I live all new Lidl and Aldi have solar on their roofs, an otherwise empty and unused gray space.
If you have numeric value you can use https://docs.python.org/3/library/array.html
And even if it worked for Cloudflare, it's not like they're shutting down the DDOS services they're tracking. The services could still go out and attack non-Cloudflare customers. So even if you were right, it wouldn't be exculpatory.
Facebook uses Facebook for internal comms as an alternative to GMail/Office. Would you use that if you worked there?
Catch Me If You Can by Spielberg (2002)

Good Will Hunting by Van Sant (1997)
Me too. While I think 2k was peak when it comes to a usable, lean desktop os, to me, NT4 was the first Windows NT that was "complete" and usable, the "we're done" milestone. Can't find the proper expression for it really, but it just has a special place in my IT heart.
You've failed to show a single example of a corporation deceiving you out of your money.

Your doctor didn't lie to you, the funeral director didn't lie to you. The salesman didn't lie to you.

Obviously they aren't trying to make the best decision for you, but it takes an awfully selfish person to believe it's everyone else's responsibility to spoon feed them optimal market information.
Cory Doctorow writes polemics. Not everyone likes polemics.
I heard same story told slightly differently - for services that process your requests when you go to amazon.com to buy stuff, you can expect engineering excellency. That would be dynamo, s3, ec2, networking (that whole side of AWS - hypervisors, networks, etc., I'd call engineering marvel).

But that would not be software they build "for someone else", like Redshift and Glue and Sagemaker and whole lot of other stuff. There's a whole lot of half-baked services in the ~200 they have.
Better that poor people should spend it on lawyers and application fees trying to get to the top of a decades long waitlist that may not even yield a visa?

From the perspective of a poor person, the coyote is a far cheaper option, with a higher likelihood of success. Do you really think that a wall is going to stop people who travelled thousands of miles? It might slow them down a little, but a quick youtube search shows people getting past most styles of the border barriers in about a minute or less

The CBP spends 18 billion dollars per year, which is up from 6 billion in 2003. This doesn’t look like a problem we can spend our way out of.
This argument is a denial of the existence and effectiveness of microtargeting.
Digital morphing was introduced to the public in that film. It's not out of the realm of possibility that they could have done the splash effects using a similar technology.
Or the others are strange.

I feel like the right wing in Sweden (conservatives) are the ones that are less likely to be liberal.

In the sense that the have opinions on how people behave.

For example when it comes to freedom of religion or sexuality or want to have opinions what should be considered real art and what is not etc.
It's not everything like microplastics. It's everything like everything. Palmitic acid is one of the most common fatty acids. Cocoa butter is 25% PA. Cow milk is 30% PA. Chicken is 20% PA. In human milk, 25% of its fat content is PA. Olive oil has tons of it too, so do soy oil and sunflower oil (and probably any vegetable oil you've eaten). But if you don't eat anything at all, human body is still about 2% PA - as I said, it's a very common chemical compound.

To quote Wikipedia:

Palmitic acid, or hexadecanoic acid in IUPAC nomenclature, is the most common saturated fatty acid found in animals.

If it were dangerous for animals, there would be no animals left living. It's not like microplastics that are exogenous. It's part of what living organisms are made of.

Instead, what happened is probably some kind of p-hacking - they gave this compound, lots of it to be sure, to lots of poor mice to which they gave cancer previously, and in some of them the cancer got worse, because it's cancer. So they wrote down which cancers those mice had, and declared that they linked the compound to "spread of cancer in mice". Easy peasy.

Sources:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03088...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095232781...
https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/240227/1/fatty-acids-c...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5682332/
This ‘bad submission’, despite many upvotes and significant engagement, is flagged and removed.

In favour of these submissions on the front page:

‘THOSE BULLET EFFECTS IN TERMINATOR 2 WEREN’T CGI’

‘Your Red Snapper Filet Might Have Been Caught by Drug Runners’

An absurd outcome.
From TFA:

"I was curious about how the overpass would affect the ground effect of the helicopter. Tragically, I have no brain for physics. But I do know a helicopter pilot, so I asked him. Apparently, at 60 kts, there wouldn’t be significant ground effect because the down flowing air off of the rotor disk would mostly be tailing off of the helicopter. Had Tamburro taken the stunt slower, the down flowing air would be more directly underneath the helicopter, creating an (obviously undesirable) effect."
I agree that creating an upper bound price is powerful, because it economically incentivizes those companies to figure out cheaper ways to save on that tax, like not emitting in the first place :p
CLRS is pretty accessible for beginners, at least as far as computer science textbooks go.

Perhaps you would benefit from pairing it with a MOOC like MIT's Introduction to Algorithms.
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
For more efficient "lists" there are Numpy arrays https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.array... which do have cache locality
With few exceptions like people flying in on private jets hoping to grow their own causes, the Jan 6 protestors and people who identified with them were poorly educated whites from low-income backgrounds

Poverty precipitates violent crime across skin colors:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J134v09n03_03?jo...

The FBI definitely knew these were people liable to make good on their threats lol.

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What your disturbingly often quoted factoid is mostly reflecting is that white people have a higher median income than blacks, which is no surprise in the country that destroyed black neighborhoods for basic infrastructure, denied them access to the economy during the greatest periods of growth it ever saw, denied them loans until that was made illegal... well in the 70s.

The FBI knows better than that.
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