skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clojure's Rich Hickey? No. I'm not too familiar with him or Clojure, but it seems he put a lot more thought on it than the co-founder in my story could ever dream of.
Yeah, pretty cut and dry: I say "farming", you say "factory farming".

Friendly advice? Learn to have a discussion like an adult.
It's British slang for shots.
It'll just be another year of nothing really changing and lots of blaming back and forth like the last... as many years as I can remember.
i don't know if the survey stated it as suchs, but material wellbeing doesn't mean you need money (per se). It usually means you have the means to live your life in safety. having proper infrastructure, housing, food etc to not have to worry about basic needs in life. (like, getting food).
I was shocked by a statistic I saw somewhere that one million millionaires live in the new york metro area - it made more sense once i realized anyone who bought a house in the 80s is now a millionaire thanks merely to rising cost of housing. I don’t think this metric is very useful for measuring economic opportunity.
https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/qzu1rc/a_detailed...

Loss of digits, reduced lung capacity, loss of smell, and the death is not a graceful one...
The GUI in general is ok. Some features are not accessible by shortcuts though which I reported like a hundred years ago.

Along with that, the states of the UI components in VS are sometimes not correct. For instance, the find feature. It changes constantly to Search within open files or. Something nobody ever want to use.

The go forward, go back, feature breaks all the time. I do not even understand how to fail to implement this. Or how to break it. It is basically stack.

...
" It also directs capital away from investing in technology and businesses."

Empirically this does not seem like a problem in the US at the moment. Large US banks are starved for lending opportunities, and turning away deposits for lack of balance sheet. The Federal Reserve bought corporate bonds. Lending conditions are loose (see links)

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRTSCILM
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRSDCIS
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NFCICREDIT
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NFCI
>taking a photo with me as the subject without my permission is almost on par with assault

Why would you wish to give 'permission' to art expression of someone else? Isn't that an assault to the freedom of other person?

>It feels like a huge invasion of my personal space

It feels this way until there is understanding that public space means that you are part of that public and public can be photographed by anyone interested to preserve the moment.

Some people feel uncomfortable and find it hard to respect basic freedom of other person for art expression. It is a small price to pay though considering the alternative of living in society where disrespect to the freedom of art expression is a norm. Such society is doomed to be oppressive and living in oppression could be much more uncomfortable.

Look at this attitude: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29332188
Well then maybe it's worth investing in a cover detector switch, just like my car can tell me I forgot to close the gas tank cap.
> I’ve heard it’s a sign of trust in the aircraft’s ground crew for a military aviator to walk out, strap in, and blast off, trusting that the ground crew has done their job thoroughly and correctly.

To be sure, military aviation doesn't give a flying fuck about virtue signaling. The name of the game is checklist and enumerated procedure compliance or GTFO the flightline/deck; it doesn't matter if you're a fighter pilot or maintenance ground crew.
Yeah, building a city from scratch opens up new possibilities for governance, institution building, city zoning and layout. I'm for a lot of small cities, each experimenting.

Adding to an existing city plugs you into all these incumbent systems, including existing hierarchies and notables.
If you need to pull out a device to control your smart home, you've done it wrong.

1) Motion sensors

* Our hallway lights turn on via motion and turn off automatically.

* My work desk lights turn off and on via a motion sensor.

Both apply the correct color temperature and brightness based on ambient light and the time of day, so that I don't get blinded buy 1100 lumen lights at 5000K when I go play a few rounds of $game at my desk.

Just having the bathroom lights turn on and off automatically is magical.

2) Voice control

We have a few Alexa routines programmed for the house:

* "Movie time": All lights off, TV and AppleTV turn on

* "TV Time": TV off, few lights near the TV turn off

* "Good morning": Lights at a reasonable level, Alexa tells us the weather forecast and traffic (well not anymore, we work remotely).

...and a bunch of others.

3) Wireless switches.

All of the above can be controlled via physical switches mounted around the house where practical - not where the wiring happens to be.
A competing product? Not sure how "providing data analytics to community banks" is a competing product to... cryptocurrency? But sure.. you got 'em!

<we should improve society somewhat meme.jpg>
I'm committed to not replacing any switches/plugs if it doesn't Just Work when the home assistant / hub goes away. My poor kids shouldn't have to wander around in the dark if my hass container craps the bed while I'm out of the house.

> My wife constantly wonders what she will do when I die and the whole thing goes south the day after.

Talking about life insurance is morbid, but.. if you have life insurance, try to either consider $5k of it set aside or try to increase your coverage by $5-10k, as a fund that would pay for an electrician to go around ripping out all the smarts from your home. As a yearly to-do, keep a one-page document up to date with two or three electricians you would consider qualified to do the work without ripping off your grieving spouse, and keep that in your "to my grieving spouse" binder.

If nothing else, consider the idea that they might have to sell the house, you wouldn't want them dealing with real estate showings where the light switches don't work.
The problem with surveillance is that law enforcement is not acting in your interests as an individual. Your image, captured on camera near a crime scene, becomes evidence of your guilt. It puts the onus on you to prove your innocence, and if law enforcement is lazy, fallible, stupid, or you just get unlucky, you're going to prison for a crime you didn't commit. Or you're going to get tangled up in a legal defense that could cost you years worth of paychecks to prove your innocence.

"I've got nothing to hide" is not a valid opinion to have with regards to surveillance - the two options are "I have information to share with the state" and "I do not wish to share information with the state. " Since the state is almost universally in an adversarial relationship with citizens, it never makes sense for a citizen to share information with the state unless compelled to (the processes of state compulsion have stricter rules and precedents that have higher levels of protections against casual abuse. A lawyer can recommend 5th amendment if necessary when compelled to testify. )

https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE

I think the side of private photography is much simpler. If you're in public you should expect to be seen and/or recorded. Public places are places where you have zero expectation of privacy. We should celebrate the art that comes from public photography.

I think we're long overdue for a sweeping, constitutional level reform of information privacy rights that protect citizens from abuses and reinforce modern norms around recording in public. It's obvious that we're living under the panopticon, so we need a system that accounts for that.
Yeah, FIFA went so far this time. They went from ordinary everyday corruption to cartoonish super-corruption. If a few prominent teams held an alternative World Cup it could have broken FIFA forever. But instead, here we are...
Several people have objected to my use of the phrase "poured money into SETI". To clarify:

1. I agree that "poured" is an overstatement (and I support spending more!)

2. However, by "SETI" I did not mean NASA's SETI program but more broadly, programs and research with the goal of finding extraterrestrial life and then subsequently, extraterrestrial intelligence. Do the Mars rovers, for example, fit into this broader SETI category? It's debatable.

What I was really referring to, however, is our myopia when it comes to seeking evidence that we aren't alone. Imagine we did receive a radio transmission from outer space. How much money would we spend on understanding it, and the beings that sent it? I'd wager the sums would be vast.

Meanwhile, there are apparently only ten vaquitas (a species of porpoise) left in the world. Science was unaware of this species until 1958. We know cetaceans are incredibly intelligent, but what if vaquitas are far more intelligent than we suspect? I expect that what we don't know about them far outweighs what we do. What if they, or some other species we've either destroyed or almost destroyed, are the "aliens" we're looking for?

I know this seems like a stretch, but just how confident are we about this? If you look at what we've learned about animals in the past century, how much more might we learn in the next ten centuries? How much would we have learned had we not killed them?
Well, just take a look at the Formula 1 calendar to see how the West is doing.

Last three countries are: Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi.
It's as if we're not even trying and just condoning the way human rights are treated.

https://www.formula1.com/en/racing/2021.html
Only if the capital is available. Speculators tend to use borrowed money to do their thing and drive prices up. Good times until they’re not, then boom.

I have family who made a fortune off the backs of people living under this delusion in the 1980s and the 1960s.
$5000 design sprint giveaway
>blame is clearly on the shoulders of politicians and those who keep voting for them

Or a system that depends on "voters" to know any of the nuances and details of manufacturing and supply chain importance, or actually vote with long term broad national interest in mind, instead of short term, out of narrow self-interest, and largely be ignorant of all manner of political, economic and other issues.
This is a great, but confusing, position to be in. You have a great start, but there is a huge different between being an amazing programmer and being a successful leader of programmers. In most companies, they don't really want that 10x programmer, and if that's what they are trying to hire, you don't really want the job. Technical leadership is about getting everyone on the team more productive and only jumping into the weeds, and being hands on, when you absolutely have to.

A great way to do this, as a senior technical person, is code review. Every note you leave has the potential to make someone a little better at their job. That means, over the course of the year, you can make 10-20 people 10-20% better - however, doing so, without pissing everyone off, is an art and takes practice.

Another place you can help is systems level thinking. Not necessarily telling people how to build something, more so about helping people understand the tradeoffs and making an informed decision.

Yet another way is to use your gift to make hard things easy, so others can learn too. Every company / team has a regression towards the mean effect. But, if you can make complex things digestible to everyone, that adds real value.

New engineers have to figure out how to write code and be productive. Mid-career engineers can make smart decisions, do things faster / more efficiently and every once and a while, pull a rabbit out of a hat. Great technical leaders turn more of the aforementioned into great technical leaders.
I worked at a company that switched to a PEO, people seemed weirdly outraged.
You describe it as some sort of heaven, and if that's your thing then (probably) good for you. It wouldn't be for me, I like actually doing things and see these automation as overpriced solution looking for problem that generation ago mostly didn't exist, while folks lived comparably happier lives.

Plus all the time invested into building and maintaining these setups can be measured by tons of fun/adventures missed in ones live. But that's my perspective, I incline more to OP' mindset of needing at most "plant timer".
> But when you're informed about cookies when entering the site, the only option is "I accept".

Not true in the EU. (Legally, anyway.)
They want you to go back to frontier days before specialization in the economy, you are supposed to hoard your wealth yourself and protect your family with a gun
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If your mortgage rate is 2.5% and inflation is 4.5%. You're getting 2% real returns. But you're also getting leverage since most buyers put 20% down or less. 4:1 leverage on 2% is 10% real returns.

This is BEFORE asset appreciation. That is, if the house stays the same in value in 30 years you're still outperforming the stock market's historical average.
And people wonder why China structures their political system to subordinate the interests of multinational corporations to the longer term interests of the nation, its people and economy as a whole.
Reactors and wind farms still need a grid.
I find it hard to breathe in spaces where people had either smoked Marijuana. The smell of something like coffee is far less invasive, so it doesn't disturb me as much.
Also the little (but becoming increasingly more) known cannabinoid induced hyperemesis.
basically I just looked for an excuse to post the link to the article - which is really a great article and describes the problems inherent to software in an - for me at that time - new and fascinating way.

Of course in practice it's always messy and rightly so, but I've learned the hard way that you better don't loose control about your state and data - because that's where the ugly bugs are.

The article is very good. Just ignore my drivel :)
Tacking on the conversation about arbitrary and static dollar amounts in law.

There's an interesting effect where law makers can pass a law with static dollar amounts that seems reasonable at the time, but the force of inflation covertly expands the scope of the state's authority deeper and deeper into the society without any further action or political risk by present lawmakers.

A great example of this is the Bank Secrecy Act, which requires reporting of transactions greater than $10,000 to the federal government. At the time it was passed in 1970, $10k was the equivalent of ~$70k in 2021 dollars. $70k actually seems like a pretty reasonable amount as that's a very large transfer that the average person does very rarely for mostly legitimate reasons, like buying a house. It's easy to justify why the feds could use this data to investigate large scale criminals and money laundering. But as inflation has stripped away the value of the dollar, more and more people and activities are falling into that $10k limit.

Basically, the surveillance state gets to sneakily expand when laws are pegged to a currency that's constantly inflating by design.
I agree. Reading this I was thinking 'only 4k?'. I'd have thought flight management systems, radar and weapon systems to take at least that. And then you have all the other software... UI, ancillaries, engine control and monitoring, systems supervision, sensor data fusion, comms... Yeah 4k doesn't look much for this thing. Maybe they're thinking still working on it after delivery and even then, not that surprising.
There's No Dark Matter
As gravity is a signed integer it overflows when it gets big enough and turns into a negative number.
The F-35 wasn't intended to do everything. There are certainly those who have tried to make it do everything but that wasn't the intent of the program.

For example it was never meant to be an air superiority fighter. While it does have a great radar, missiles and even a gun on the air force version it was never meant to fill the role of an F-15 or F-22. The air force wants to replace the F-16 with the F-35.

The new Digital Century program shows the AF hasn't forgotten about the importance of dedicated platforms. However given the cost and development times of modern aircraft it takes a new approach to make them practical.

The navy has also been clear about the role of the F-35. It wont ever be used as an F-14 replacement. They are actually working on that separately.

As for other customers, different militaries have different missions and needs. It is true the F-35 is capable of filling most roles if needed. Some nations may rely on it as their air defense backbone. That's a secondary capability but when you only have the budget for one fighter and this is the only 5th gen on the open market then its defacto the best option.
Having a cough is not enough of a threat to mandate forced booster shots on people (which will happen in US within 1-2 months.)
Worked for Mark Whatley.
Hehe you learn something new every day
West is no longer powerful. 21st century is the century of India, China and Asia.
Oh wow! Thanks for that gem. I have managed to never eat from FEBO but the next time somebody suggests it, I can add a little nerdy know-it-all to my snub :-P
Crashing is fine if you are dealing with trusted input. But in the post, parameter validation was just an example. I've seen plenty of code using init methods to create network connections and the like -- and in those cases, you need proper error propagation.
Before you start rolling this into a video codec, please consult the sources of UT Codec, which has been state of the art in this space for many years. Or, at least, use UT Codec as a direct basis for comparison, to see if you are beating it in terms of compression/decompression speed.

Modern lossless video codecs don't care that much about saving space, since you're burning gigabytes per minute anyway; the key is that the compression and decompression are as transparent as possible, to reduce the bandwidth to/from the storage medium. A good lossless codec can be used to scrub through and edit on a video editor's timeline, so decomp performance is what's most important.

Also, any such lossless video codec is going to need more than 8 bits per component; most real-world footage coming off of phones and cameras is 10-bit Rec.2020. If it is too difficult to position QOI for real-world sources, you can certainly keep it 8-bit and market it as an animation codec or similar; just keep it in mind.
I actually agree with your assessment and did think about the issue you mention. I chose this imperfect set of trade-offs because I didn't want to DIY in-wall fixtures and, after reviewing the current tech and market and which "open" standards were being developed, I decided to go with an inexpensive shorter-term solution (~4 to 8 years). The dimmer switches are only $15 each delivered from Amazon (https://smile.amazon.com/Dimmer-Martin-Jerry-Compatible-Neut...) and under Tasmota are highly configurable to the extent of being able to communicate in a switch-to-switch private mesh.

Since I had to commit to hardware six months ago, I knew the kind of longer-term hardware I'd really prefer didn't quite exist yet - at least not at the multi-vendor, commodity-cost level. There are some interesting high-end, proprietary, single-source products as well as some cool experimental DIY & low-volume kit-type designs, using stuff like touchscreen displays and ESP32-type CPUs. I think this kind of flexible display/interaction end-point will be the most likely next inflection point but it will first need to go through the early-adopter Darwinian process sorts and then come down the price-curve to reach Shenzen-container, multi-vendor commodity pricing.

My choices were to either

A. Spend too much now making an early bet on something available today that probably wouldn't be a longer-term keeper.

B. Go with a traditional "dumb" dimmer for $6.50 each and upgrade in a few years.

C. Pay $15 each today on a shorter-term, standard-sized, replaceable "smart" solution that can fall back to a dedicated wifi subnet for control or, worst-case, be a stand-alone dimmer.

I decided to go with C. While I agree with your point that the wireless protocol world will eventually move on, I suspect that wifi as a protocol is so ubiquitous, so standard and so cheap that some form of backward compatibility may survive for decades through bridge devices. A likely contender for the next big multi-vendor standard in home automation is likely to be the ChIP-based standard being pushed by Google, Samsung, Apple and a couple hundred other companies. The standard has been finalized and the wireless will be based on both wifi and Zigbee (2.4ghz and 900 Mhz) as a basic required element, so there's a fair chance my current cheap "Shenzen-specials" will be adaptable through firmware since the vast majority of in-wall wireless stuff installed today is based on wifi or Zigbee. It's okay if they aren't because in my mind they are a short-term disposable solution anyway.
Windows font rendering is surprisingly flexible. When you do the "calubrate cleartype" wizard, it can change many options on a per-monitor basis.

You can also directly edit the registry to change the gamma, greyscale/colour, and subpixel order.
That cat looks a lot like my Ashley, who died nearly 14 years ago but is still missed. White chest patch, white toe tips, and all.
Maybe not the kind of "cloud provider" you're thinking about but tarsnap works on a prepaid basis. You top up your account and it debits that account daily. You get warnings when you go in the red. Super simple.
"In principle it should work, but in reality it doesn't", boy isn't that the Linux story in a nutshell :)
This is likely why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22#Anti-capitalism

I mean, really there's a lot in there that the people banning these books would probably find offensive. Questioning the MIC, questioning God, questioning capitalism...
Why is deciding what nation has the best ball kickers relevant to anything at all let alone be an exercise of power to hold said competition?
> If for example there was a leak, and it was purely the fault of one country, I would imagine there would be vigorous finger pointing.

I imagine by the same account, if a person is murdered, it was purely the fault of one murderer, that there would be vigorous finger pointing.

However, if they don't come forward and citizens, media, and prosecutors have to determine who killed someone; not only should they be required to pay significantly more if they have assets, but the punishment should be harsher because they deliberately withheld the truth causing their victims families more suffering.
Yes the Qataris absolutely deserve the benefit of the doubt here!
Challenges of Digital Transformation in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Which is why ceding so much power to these entities, rather than vesting that in the state and the people, is a mistake. Of course capital free to come and go and flow wherever it wants will discard a nation and its people's interests to pursue global profit margins at every turn. Just letting that happen with no recourse and restriction is a silly way to run a country.
The last World Cup winners are:

- 2018: France

- 2014: Germany

- 2010: Spain

- 2006: Italy
Before I clicked I was wondering if that nation was Italy or Mexico? It was Mexico in this case. But Italy also loves accordions. When I was there in 2005 they had a TV station that seemed to be 24/7 accordion playing.
I absolutely love laser-cut acrylic with tapped holes accepting m3 screws or standoffs.

For the MDF, it's mostly practice and time/care. It took me quite some time to master making square wooden boxes that stand up to abuse and nowadays I could design in Fusion and rip out a case on my CNC machine pretty fast (<hours).

Next project is to encase an entire RPi in clear epoxy: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/epoxy-pi-resin-io/