skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s so well known here in Australia that sulphur crested cockatoos will have a lookout high above watching for predators while the others feed that it’s a slang term for a criminal acting as a lookout.
Apart from “religion and mythology”, pretty much everyone knows counterexamples to all of these claims. (By the standard of “if it's in children's newspapers, it's common knowledge”.)
First of all, you need a really "good" story. What is "good" depends on people, there is no general rule for that.

Make sure people are ready to listen, try to get their attention.
Take a smile and try to make your voice deeper if you are a man, or adjust your pitch if you are a woman.
If people seems not interested, don't be afraid and continue to talk anyway.

Talk louder if necessary (but not too much). Look at people in the eyes, and be confident.

Keep it short. Keep in mind that nobody cares about your life or your stories, they care about THEMSELVES.

Be always positive, even if something makes you angry or sad. There is nothing more annoying than listen to someone complaining.
"Subpixel" rendering (a.k.a. cleartype) that abuses color fringing to provide higher luminance resolution only works when you have pixels made of three RGB columns. Mobile screens usually use a pentile pattern, so this trick is not just more difficult, it's actually impossible.
Language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnison%27s_prairie_dog#Commu...
So does anyone have the actual grant application and the actual rejection letter? Is that available to the public? I know the national post has a political spin and I’d like to see the evidence for myself.
> 99.9% people don't want to run their own SMTP server. It's an ultra-niche use case ISP don't care about.
99.9% of services you can get banned from aren't SMTP. There are many other services which you can be IP banned from.

> Look, it's just an internet addressing protocol, not something that justifies legislation.
"Just an internet addressing protocol" kinda puts the entire internet to shame doesn't it? It's important that people can communicate on the internet, with IPv4 we decrease reliability and increase cost (in the long run) for everyone except those who sucked up as many addresses as possible early on.

But if we are to follow your reasoning:

A common charging port is just a port, doesn't require legislation

A standard protocol for troubleshooting your car is just a protocol, doesn't require legislation

* which brings benefits to billions of people but you don't agree with, doesn't require legislation

That one thing you agree with that probably isn't important for a lot of people, requires legislation.

Let's raise the standard and discuss why IPv6 is necessary or not and what implications it has for consumers.

IPv6 decreases privacy because you're not sharing an IP with half of town, which is bad. Even if you're randomizing v6 on the local subnet you're still in the same /64 so it's still relatively easy to track you.

P2P protocols actually work properly with IPv6 since machines can commmunicate directly with each other.

IPv6 is more complex to understand the addressing scheme in.

IPv6 isn't IPv4, so there's a learning curve.

IPv6 encourages decentralization.

IPv4 enourages centralization, because you can't get addresses anymore you can't start up new ISP's and we could call that anti-competetive. It also encourages proprietary solutions like cloudflared, or just hosting your stuff on AWS rather than in a colocated datacenter, because you can't get access to IP addresses.

We can't stack unlimited people on top of IPv4 either, there are only so many port numbers available. And NAT is just such a major PITA to work with.
To put more succinctly, the least code wins. What we're talking about 2 opposite problems that cause the same end problem, too much code.

Overengineered what-if everywhere often causes way too complex systems where even simple things become hard, de-engineering is nigh impossible because it'd break things by taking away functionality (unless an alternative manifests itself).

Non-engineering hackjobs where we basically have N copy-pastes or more or less the same functionality everywhere, cleaning up anything will require a fair bit of testing to avoid breaking anything in the process, possible but causes a lot of uncertainty and risky if you won't see it unless failing in prod (because it goes hand in hand with bad deployment practices).

As mentioned in the article and above already, you need people with experience and to give those the business knowledge to find the correct balance.
In Australia outside of IT roles, IC means In-Command i.e. a team lead and 2IC as 2nd In-Command or the person who becomes team lead if the team lead is on leave or resigns.
> As you probably know, there is no policy, and no "Linux Desktop" either.

Yes, a common refrain.

> You've got Linux distribution releases that are supported for up to 10 years (like RHEL and Ubuntu LTS) by teams a couple of orders of magnitude smaller than either of MacOS or Windows.

Yes, and they're not really equivalent because they keep everything stable. An OS like Windows or MacOS keeps the platform stable and allows applications to be bleeding edge or not as desired. This way applications are typically distributed on Linux make this very difficult, hence things like Flatpak.

Regarding the team size, I can only say that if everyone worked on the same "distribution", that gap would be significantly reduced. Instead the Linux Desktop world delights in duplicating effort, so here we are.

> But it's in the nature of free software world to want to mix and match, so the idea of a singular Linux Desktop does not exist. You should treat each one of them as a separate OS, which is unfortunate, but realistic.

If that is the policy, then no one should be surprised when developers choose not to target a non-platform that doesn't exist.
Would this not be true of basically all animals? Why birds and not cats?

(I have neither, I’m genuinely asking, not playing “gotcha”)
The problem is that humans are more profitable.

Is there is a patch of land, the bank will get more money if some persons cut the trees and grow corn or palms or whatever, instead of having some ants doing some subsistence farming of fungus.
Not from the UK but I believe I prefer the classic paper form instead of any app (totally not safe against counterfeit signatures, but I believe everybody has to decide themselves if they want to get a vaccine).
I think it's partly about judicious use of products. I had a pretty minimal smart home setup -- Google Home, Nest, and Hue. It worked 100% of the time, I never had a problem. I get that part of the issue being brought up is that it's not 100% for everyone, but I see friends having the most issues when they're constantly trying new products, and new classes of product. Also, the more complicated the behavior, the harder it is to make intuitively "smart". Stick to the basics and you can have a pretty good experience.
> A more interesting phenomenon is where media consumed by a tiny group of well-educated wealthy elites is considered universal or common.

That's probably a consequence of those same elites controlling the media.
I did my whole house in Lutron’s smart switches (close to 50 of them), and I think it’s good? It’s been about 2 years now and I really haven’t had any issues.

The switches aren’t Wi-Fi connected, because Wi-Fi would be an awful choice for 50 devices that you only communicate with a few times a day. They use their own wireless frequency and communicate in a really simple/reliable way to the bridge, which is wired to my router and doesn’t need an internet connection to work.

There’s no always-running cloud service, the light switches work even when the internet is down (and I can still use the home app too in such an event, just no voice control.)

Siri is finicky sometimes, but I’d wager a 97% success rate in saying things like “set the scene Evening Downstairs” and “turn off all the lights except in the bedroom.”

My favorite aspect is that the pico switches can be programmed to switch whole rooms of lights on and off, which makes it so much nicer in the basement where I have 18 different lights to turn on and I can just hit one switch on my way downstairs and it’s fully illuminated (no voice command necessary) and I don’t have to visit 18 light switches to turn them off again.

Home automation tech must be invisible and fall back gracefully, and must always be interact-able in a “dumb” way, or else it’s just playing games IMO.
I feel like figma does the balancing act well
I'm saying "the system" doesn't work because it doesn't serve its purpose and on a deeper level it is inherently based on imagination.

Politicians and the financial system are not entities that can isolated from each other. The financial system is in of itself a form of trade regulation: to make rules about what costs what, who owes who, what can be traded how and so on. Finance is the bureaucracy of trade. It is failing because it shifted its purpose from regulation and quantification of value to a life of its own and has become in large parts speculative and non-proportional. Even some of the most libertarian thinkers like Adam Smith have warned us about this.

A crypto market is one such thing, but not only is it already disjoint from its purpose, which is enumerating value, credit and regulating trade. The speculative and volatile nature of crypto markets show that. But it also doesn't enable the use of a safety break - that has been used time and time again in larger history but also in smaller interactions - to repair the economy from becoming fantastical to real again. Crypto has also no alternative solution of doing that.

What happens when you don't do that for long enough is that the people will do it for you. They will at some point burn it all down. Debt and profits that are disjoint from actual value and become more so through financial mechanisms erode trust. And currently that is exactly what you can see happening since a few years. People are quitting their jobs, joining protests, unions and so on because they intuitively understand that they are being screwed.
Pretty sure HaikuOS runs software originally compiled for BeOS in 1995. They have a very small development team and they are quite active today.

...for that matter WINE is even able to make Linux compatible with Windows applications to a great extent, and they certainly aren't backed with Microsoft's wealth of resources.
Buying, Selling Saito Live on PancakeSwap
Really cool encoding, it is a bit incredible that such simple rules can archive such good results.

It is so interesting that if the image have few colors, method #2 alone (An index into a previously seen pixel) encodes the whole image into an indexed colour space (with the hash table becoming the pallet).

Ive seen already some comments recommending adding some vertical locality by tiling, Hilbert order, or Z order. I have yet another different vertical locality suggestion to try:

While encoding/decoding keep a ring buffer the size of one full line of the image, storing each encoded/decoded bit there. Then add a variation of method #3 (The difference to the previous pixel) which instead encodes the difference to the pixel above the current (the last pixel from the ring buffer). Maybe, due to the limited "tag" space it would not be worth it to implement it for DIFF8, but only for DIFF16 (taking one bit from red to the additional tag bit) and DIFF24 (I'm not sure which bit I would steal there).

Edit: Also, when thinking about video encoding in the future you may want to keep a ring buffer fitting the full last frame of video. And then temporal locality is probably even more important, so then you may want to change the tags to encode more commands relating to the pixel from the previous frame.
The regulator MAS is already starting to make a noise about "appropriate actions" [1] once the dust has settled.

It's also a matter of national pride, DBS is very iconic and there's been a lot of publicity about the bank as a regional success story, specially as they were publicising their "successful" transition to become a tech company going head to head with global giants, while also offering banking services [2].

I hope they don't forget their roots and end up treating banking as an afterthought and failures of this magnitude as par for the course. A sizeable portion of the population still goes into the bank to transact physically.

There's the historical angle and another point of national pride [3]. Since the post office savings bank (now part of DBS) was established by the British in 1877 it catered to low income groups, and provided a very high quality of service while keeping operating costs low. They were also early regional adopters of technology, starting to computerise their accounts in 1972. For a long time POSB was run as a statutory board with directors that were directly appointed by a government ministry.

All this is to say that people have a slightly different relationship with POSB/DBS compared to other banks. There's a lot of trust that's been carefully cultivated over decades. People believe and trust in this bank, they trust that the bank has their best interests at heart, and this has been generally true. Failures of this magnitude will start to break this trust. That in itself is not a big concern, there are other banks and we can jump ship. There's a social angle with POSB/DBS, specially with the older generations. When POSB was handed to DBS [4] on a silver platter in 1998 a lot of people voiced concerns that the bank would become yet another money-grubbing profit-seeking megacorp, and about how this would affect their earlier objective of serving the weaker strata of society. It's hard to predict what may happen if this trust starts to break.

References:

[1] https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/dbs-bank-service-d...

[2] https://innovationinbanking.efma.com/content/articles/transf...

[3] https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_2014-01...

[4] https://www.dbs.com/about-us/who-we-are/our-heritage
No. Just no.

Here is the pdp-11, birthplace of Unix:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11

It's by all means a mainframe. Same goes for the vax which followed it.

"Mid range" and "Mini computers" came up in the 1980s/1990s, e.g. as Department file and print servers.
There is a test for antibodies which medical professional have to go through in some cases. You will only get a binary result though if you have protection or not.
I was almost out the door to pet shops and animal shelters so I could build a 16 cat-core setup over Thanksgiving. Then I figured I should at least read the full article before going through the trouble. It's a good thing too. Now I know that I should probably go for 64 cat-cores and treat it more like a quantum computer with the potential for rapid decoherence.
Competitive clubs kick out (directly or indirectly) kids who don't do well instead of really attempting to teach them.

Especially in teams sports, if you want the kid to learn soccer/basketball/whatever and the kid is not a talent meant to win competition, coaches wont spend much time teaching the kid. You may pay private lessons or something.
How to do currency exchanging easy to NOT get more money?
They seem to be similar to Gene Sher's TWEANNS - Topology and Weight Evolving Neural Networks - that I learned about in his 2012 book, "Handbook of Neuroevolution Through Erlang" (sure, it didn't pick up because Erlang ;))

Gene's specific implementation is DXNN (Discover and eXplore Neural Network) implemented in 2010 [1]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.2412
I really like the trick of caching previously-seen pixels by value rather than position. Very nifty!

I was thinking this would combine well with progressive rendering (i.e. store pixels in mipmap-style order) so the cache is warmed up with spread of pixels across the image rather than just scanline order. That doesn’t make it parallelizable in the way tiling does, though, hmm.

Another tweak that would probably help is having the file specify a rotation (or even a full mapping table) for each component of the hash, so a clever encoder can pick values that minimise collisions. (A fast encoder can just use all-zeroes to get the same behaviour as before.)
The German System is also groups children based on their performance, not their age

That is the largest problem with American schooling, is we try to keep all kids in a chronological age based system, instead of a skills based system.
Problem is, on a FE you cannot simply build an MVP. An MVP would mean black/white colors, no responsive, no design, no styling etc. It would look like shit, even if it could handle all the requirements perfectly. You always want a good looking FE, and it has to work and (continuously) be tested on a wide set of Browsers, Devices and Screen resolutions.
Ask HN: What are the best and worst command-line interfaces you have used?
I am interested in learning what makes a great (or terrible) command-line interface.

What are some of the best and worst command-line interfaces you have used?
You could write it as fd00:ec2::0.0.0.254...
Can an AI project succeed without delivering any ROI
Show HN: Open-Source Auth for NextJS / React
The copying invalidates the claim that the original device was harmful.

It was safe enough that they decided to literally copy it. Unless they can provide contemporaneous evidence that they felt there was a specific aspect of it that was harmful.

At this point it seems like the only reason they said it was harmful was to avoid franchisees from using it, which would quite clearly qualify as defamation.
Six months ago I left a company that was working on an overengineered product. Even worse than it being overengineered was that it was also under documented. Working on anything was a pain, because the CTO wanted everything to follow his well thought out, and frankly very cleverly engineered design patterns, but he couldn't clearly communicate what those patterns were. And the entire company amounted to transforming and cleaning data sets using in-house tools, which could easily be done with existing tools too. Both myself and the other senior engineer on the team left at the same time. I felt bad leaving them, because they were trying to grow and had a ton of funding and deals with FANG companies but they were struggling to find engineers that the CTO thought were smart enough. I didn't want to burn bridges, so I didn't end up telling them that the problem wasn't a lack of qualified engineers, it was an over-engineering CTO who struggled to communicate.
It's a shame no one has been able to figure out how to cheaply mass produce carbon fiber frames yet. Otherwise the Milan - with our with electric assisst - would be a great vehicle for almost everyone. €10,000 is a little steep.
OP suggests there's a hump in the curve of experience vs over-engineering; more experience correlates to over-engineering until it gets to a certain point, at which even more experience leads to less over-engineering.

Is it true? I don't know, I think it matches my... experience.

Part of it is that the "experience" needed to avoid over-engineering is helped if it's not just engineering experience, but domain experience too. If someone is constantly jumping industries/domains, it might take longer to get there. I think they still would eventually.
I was about to say the same thing.

I set up all my non-standard lighting fixtures with Lutron Caseta switches, and replaced all the standard bulbs with Philips Hue bulbs. They've both been working flawlessly, together, with my 3 HomePod Minis for about a year and a half now.

It really is a brand thing. Most are bad.

[edit] > My favorite aspect is that the pico switches can be programmed to switch whole rooms of lights on and off...

This is my only gripe with the Lutron hardware. The Picos can only be used to trigger Lutron devices. They don't integrate into HomeKit like the switches do.

This meant I had to go with a bunch of Hue Smart Buttons, which do, but have a tendency of falling out of their homes and onto the ground.

Was looking at the Hue compatible RunLessWire stuff though. [1]

[1] https://runlesswire.com
This sounds exactly like the last place where I worked. I quit in anger Not because I don't like Kubernetes but because management sold it as the fixall solution.
I found this interesting article from someone who argues that Elgin took the sculptures as a public-relations move designed to refocus public attention away from his wounded nose and strained marriage: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/TWC2404381...
Cats are a superset of Turing completeness. Cats are "undefined behaviour" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1463112
Researchers have simulated what they think this might look like to the birds:

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/cryptochrome/Images/magnetic...

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/cryptochrome/
Nature is brutal in every single way, I agree. But the freedom it provides is also compatibel with humans loving animals; they can take care of them without the deprivation of freedom. I don't intend to romanticize nature's freedom, but I intend to point out the conflicting point of view a lot of people seem to have.
I doubt they make more from repairs than by selling ice cream made by functional machines.
You can also drop them into Mixxx and DJ with them!
Exposure to negative acts and self-labelling as a victim of workplace bullying
That's indeed the irony. The over-engineering happened in an attempt to be resilient to future change, but the outcome can often be the opposite. We've all been there, I think?
Has to be said I don't understand "smart devices" one bit. I simply don't understand how pulling out a phone and launching an app is preferable to an ordinary light switch. In fact I would say it's in every respect worse. And I don't want something that sits in the room listening to everything I say and uploading some unknown part of that to an unknown cloud service.
I have had great success with my home automation.

Home assistant running in a container interfaces my lights (Lutron) sensors (zwave) and entertainment (Yamaha / Apple). HA also presents a HomeKit hub that the Apple devices connect to for Siri, etc. All interfacing is via HomeKit because that’s our preferred platform, but the HA interface/app work fine and do everything as well.

None of this relies on remote services!
It is only illegal if done "in public" (whatever that is taken to mean). Arguably, a private Facebook group is not "in public".

I will also note that in most cases, these laws don't prohibit such speech unless it is done in a manner likely to lead to harm. How widely or narrowly that is commonly understood is a different question.
Link's Awakening is strictly linear, as far as video game go; depending on what objects and/or instruments you have, finding what the next step in the quest is simple
Yeah, I remember "learning" indices and logarithms at ~12 years old, using it for hacking video games (i.e. calculating the packet sizes, and bytes to bits, etc.) - then when we had to cover it in school it was super easy and relatable.

Ideally everything would be taught this way, like actually doing interesting things rather than just remembering things from textbooks.
TS-9 Cloned with Machine Learning
> In that same time period, my "plant light" timer, a $15 mechanical item of a design unmodified since the 1970s, has worked flawlessly, requiring attention only when the clocks change or my schedule does.

This could just be survivorship bias. If 99% of these plant timers broke and were sent to the scrap heap, you would still feel like they were 'built better back then' because you're only seeing the ones that made it 50 years. Not the ones that didn't.