skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Always glad to see funds go to a great and well managed Open source project like Blender!

That said, looking up what the hell is 'Decentraland' and how it works is to dive into a dystopian nightmare. Cutesy illustrations tell you: 'Decentraland: it's like a second rate RPG, except instead of in game currency you have to use your actual cash to participate in a tech-bro pyramid scheme where each coin has the climate impact equivalent to burning down a substantial area of rainforest'.

Blender foundation should insist on getting cash up front ;)
Yes - I agree it is awesome.
Though long time since I have seen it but remember that Jo Brand was extremely funny.
I hate to ask, but are you fun at parties?
I didn't use "hacked" on purpose in the title. If software is the contract, than anything the software allows is legal.
Your suspicion is correct. I worked on such a dataset paper and worked to "beat" other methods on well-accepted benchmarks with dubious accuracy scores. One fundamental issue is that outside of POS tagging, there isn't a notion of empirical truth to measure against, only a small sample of what a "normal person would think." This stands in contrast to computer vision, whereby in a task such as monocular depth perception from a single frame, you can always measure against a Lidar-scanned depth map. The system can still overfit on the benchmark and they do, but at least the baseline truth itself is not in dispute. But questions such as: is this the "appropriate" response to a query is too open to interpretation.
Oh I don't know the entire premise is brilliant and hilarious from the get-go: Devil arrives in Moscow one morning with all his pals, proceeds to give everyone everything they want like Father Christmas, and it's a shit-show, I love it :)

I'm sure there's layers but I think most adults will appreciate the portrayal of human vice and vanity :)
The monetization models are broken, which is causing otherwise good tools to start trying to evolve into other things.
Unfortunately no, not this one. I also came across these but I recall a several page long reports for each device individually. Tested in controlled environment and compared with some professional $20k+ sensor.
I wish I could deliver better than promises lol.
That's fair, and to be clear I wasn't saying that's how it should be. I just know that a lot of people like to complain when they see "Project X got $N of donations" and feel like as a result they're entitled to "customer service"...at least in some of the drama of I've seen.

That said, the drama might be more outlier...I've never really had an open source project that's big enough for people to want to give me money for it, so I will totally admit I'm speaking out of ignorance.
What's the conversion rate on that baby?
Not to mention, money per year is a bad metric for how attractive a job is.
Americans work much more hours than Germans[1]. I heard about a guy in the Netherlands going back from the UK because even if the pay was good, they wanted him to work overtime.
I'd say purchasing power per hours per week is a better metric. (This anecdote was very likely about London specifically, checking the source below I noticed how UK on average is on the short side of workweeks with Netherlands.)

"Work smart, not hard." Seems to me something American employers don't get, they'd rather have you work inefficiently for prolonged periods of time than let you do hard work for a few hours. It's kind of proven that most people burn out and stop being efficient after as little as 30 minutes, there, a short break gets you up and running again, but this has a limit before you totally burn out for the day. So it's not even in their best interest to force you to work a lot.
And I much rather work with someone that knows what's good for them, it means they are less likely to make insane requests like forced team work.

Nevermind that, imagine working to a corporation that makes you think of them as "family". I don't know how often corporate culture like that you will encounter in America, but it is there to some extent. And if worst comes to worst, can you be picky?

Here's a source for national workweeks, maybe not every job is considered there, but seems like a good rough estimate that corresponds to people's anecdotes.

[1]: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-w...

The actual source of information the webpage above uses, it may be more up to date: https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm

TLDR: Consider work culture, actual purchasing power and free time.
it's not just zoning that makes it hard to build--it's building codes and environmental regulations
There's Charter rule 50 for politicization of uniforms. For which PRC athletes got warnings over in Tokyo for Mao pins. PRC will probably scrutinize thoroughly, and who knows which athlete's covid test turns positive and have to miss their event for 3 week quarantine
bump it up by a year and set it up in different country.
Just to be clear, those aren't stats for my site (or any site) haha.

Premium users get analytics on their website - that was just supposed to highlight the analytics feature. I'll try to make it more clear that they aren't real stats (it's a demonstration of the feature)
Yukigassen
For a more modern client, there is proxychains-ng. However, if I recall even that is sort of outdated and there are now better alternatives.
An observation, and honest question: aside from a few well known stereotypically racist areas, to my knowledge, most of the country is fine. You might run into ignorance, or be subjected to the the curiosity of others because of novelty when moving to a mostly white community, but the distribution happened because of communities and families emigrating en masse, so you get Irish towns and Polish towns and Italian places, etc. They become more diverse over time but they're not white for any reason except genetic happenstance. By and large, they don't care about race.

My question is this: doesn't it matter more to engage those communities with the same level of willingness to live among them as to deliberately pick already diverse areas, or an area that matches your own genetic happenstance?

If you don't have specific friends and family you're relocating for, then I'd say it's probably better to minimize the impact of any sort of decisions based on race or ethnic diversity. I think it's best to find good people and participate in your adopted community. And with that in mind, if you can work remotely, there's a vast array of affordable housing and land and communities of good people out there.
Yeah that's totally fair & we try to be pretty upfront about the issues (FAQ + forum). There's definitely a lot of bubblegum and duct-tape on this at the moment - been putting a lot of work in to fix the bigger issues ASAP (been modeling a lot off the AdGuard approach / targeting parity).

Really making the longer-term bet here that with a lot of work, the underlying proxy infrastructure will enable a lot of really interesting possibilities, and the shorter-term bet that with this approach we can create the best / most effective adblocker for paywalls by far.
I'm for the idea of no one wanting to own a company, who do I vote for?
TLDR: No.

But RTFA anyway, it's a good read, and a little unsettling how many problems people think could be solved with just a bit of nuclear bombing.
A superconducting tape girdling the planet's equator would suffice, and require after startup only the power needed to keep it chilled at all times below 70K.
Why US can't simply install left turn signals onto traffic lights more widely?

I noticed how few of them are there in North America.
I really love this! Any plans to make it a bit easier to use on desktop? I'd love to build my personal website on this, just like GeoCities back in the day.
hasn't china already said "no non-athletes at the olympics"
I really need to find the time to go and learn what DAO is. But if anyone could do a ELI5 would be great.
There are so many people who are collecting donations and advancing all their projects according to their will. they don't even take suggestions seriously :D but I like your point of view.
This sounds like splitting hairs. Taking news as an example, when you say a piece of news propagates, are you implying push or pull? It doesn't imply either. The news spreads, either by someone telling someone else (push), or someone asking someone else (pull).

Technically, a distributed database/cache at DNS scale, pure push-based invalidation is just not practical.

I wrote a post about DNS invalidation earlier https://blog.the-pans.com/dns/.
While it might be one of the last charcoal burning sites locally, large-scale charcoal burning is an active problem - https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/charcoal-burning....
Presidents have complete legal immunity for all official acts. Cranks file lawsuits against Presidents all the time and judges immediately dismiss them.
That takes me back.

I wrote SH-3/4 simulators that were significantly faster than the actual parts. (The cheat was that the simulator ran that fast on an early 200MHz Pentium while the SH-3 was something like 35Mhz.)

I also wrote a synthesizable[1] SH-5 hardware model that was cycle and signal accurate at every module boundary and ran >100k cycles/second on said Pentium. (SH-5 was a 64 bit successor to the SH-4 that also had a 32 bit mode that ran SH-4 code. I don't know whether it ever shipped.)

[1] The cache, TLB, and floating-point weren't synthesizable. Making them synthesizable would have killed the cycles/second.
Quite a few examples of this aesthetic can be found on Brutalist Websites[0]. (Be forewarned, the Brutalist Websites site itself is brutal in a different way: it tries to load hundreds of high-res screenshots all at once.)

[0] https://brutalistwebsites.com/
But what are "some" resolvers? I never saw one of those commonly in use.
It would be "trivial" to expand what the government looks at when it comes to safety of vehicles not just by looking at the occupants of the vehicle, but also any pedestrian struck by them. It's not even a revolutionary idea, this is the reason you no longer see new cars with pop-up headlights[1].

[1]: https://thebackroads.co.uk/2019/08/10/the-real-reason-pop-up...
I just want an app/mobile UI that makes tables legible and not a pain in the ass to scroll.
That is probably the simplest, best, clearest answer to this whole mess I have heard. Nicely put.
Mark's Editor for C
In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales there is a smith in the Miller's Tale, who worked on farming equipment: plow harness, shares, and coulters. (Unless my Middle English is more forgotten than I thought.)
In Austin and DFW motorists on a cell phone will kill you if you are on a bike and the worst is Plano and the worst for that is at 5pm. They are one their cell phones. I stopped riding in that area and in Austin i confined myself to trails.
We are now slightly over 2 years (if counted with spread starting in Wuhan since early Oct 2019 - or possibily as early as Sep).
They have a point though.
If you don't keep developers working on a product you'll find a few years later that nobody has a clue how to support it and then the rewrites start.
Creepy to see the faces of some of the most evil men in history.
They maybe anti of many things but still have aesthetics..
Well… yes? Employees trade lower revenue for greater stability
Nope, not related. Straw.Page actually released first haha
Good question. On the other hand, which other FS are you going to use on a Windows workstation?
Sounds to me like cars shouldn't be allowed to drive where pedestrians travel, if they can't really avoid driving people over.

Edit: This Tom Scott video shows how a cyclist can be perfectly occluded by the A-pillar while both are moving https://youtu.be/SYeeTvitvFU?t=55
Source: https://twitter.com/_sdomi/status/1428330892800442373
I honestly love the design, thank you! One design criticism I have is that you've completely eliminated any visual distinction around images and their captions, eg. in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof#The_Ali_B... you have multiple images & captions below each other where it's not immediately obvious which image a caption belongs to: https://postimg.cc/18cPJXPt

Humble suggestion: add some background shading to visually group an image with its caption, mock eg: https://postimg.cc/hJLrJF9N
missing vital features... like I can still read the text in Firefox
Oh man, this is so awesome. Great job!
Same here, most recent close call was about a month ago despite being fully aware of the blind spot but not expecting someone to be crossing on a 'don't walk' signal.

'A Fighter Pilot’s Guide to Surviving on the Roads' has some very good information on this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17900759
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29460985
It is hard for me to take percent statistics like this seriously.

How does the overall fatality rate compare to other cities? What are the total death counts?

Where would we rather have 40% of the pedestrian fatalities occur?
Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.
Better yet force the G7 all to do it.
why do i want this aesthetic for my own site? oh god
I'm kind of sad they minified their CSS and some of their JS. Sure minification saves some bytes, but I really wonder how much we really save assuming the server uses compression. I love being able to see how different sites work and minification makes that a lot harder.
Yes and No. Reminded me of Second Life but worse.

Good video overview here

https://youtu.be/z5-QaCq9mh8
Pinterest acquires video creation and editing app Vochi
>For a married person with a million dollar home, they'll make ~$150k back from the section 121 nonrecognition provision alone if they ever sell

1. that's on capital gains. If they're selling for a loss in OP's scenario, that works out to a tax savings of $0.

2. realistically speaking this can be factored into the cost of cost of capital (ie. opportunity cost of the downpayment/mortgage payment), but I didn't want to get into that because the calculation can get subjective. Housing has historically under-performed the stock market, but if you're a housing permabull, you might argue that the housing bubble will continue and outperform the stock market, making the opportunity cost of buying a house negative.

>not to mention the salt and mortgage interest tax deductions

that's a savings on mortgage interest, which is a cost that wasn't in my calculations. Including that cost and factoring in that deduction will make the numbers worse, not better.

>The tax code heavily incentivizes home ownership.

no disagreement there.
It’s funny that in my city, the most active retail area is a pedestrian only street. Anything with heavy car traffic tends to have more intentional destination type stuff.
As far as I can tell, there’s far too many file formats out there. I’m sure sqlite should be used more than it currently is.
So, according to this [0] although China is recognized as a developing country by the WTO it does not benefit from all the advantages that it would entail.

[0] https://theconversation.com/myth-busted-chinas-status-as-a-d...
i totally agree on more frequent and more rigorous certification, but there's much more to traffic collisions than fatalities, and focusing on speed (a factor in fatalities but not really in collisions) tends to take attention away from the biggest all-around culprit, distracted driving.

distracted driving unfortunately is relatively resistant to testing for rules. we need to create games/simulations as part of that driver certification process where the outcomes of our millions of little distracted driving events become very clear.
Alternatively, instead of relying on people not acting like people, we could design the streets themselves to be safer for everyone. Doing so most of the time has a lot of pushback due to the perception from drivers that doing so is somehow punishing them.
Great question!

There are three main parts to note: designing the videos, the backend for handling media, and the download renderer.

The video designing process is a React app that leverages a Ruby on Rails based backend API. The React app handles the views, and if you look at the UI, you will see how the app steps are persisted in the URL. Our React app is based on Redux Toolkit, which is phenomenal. The Rails application is a normal API with Sidekiq (aka Redis) workers, which handle asynchronous tasks.

Our UI renders a number of interesting elements which are respectively generated/prepared in various service oriented streams. The most important is our transcript API, which is from https://www.AssemblyAI.com - they are the best, cheapest, highest quality and best development experience transcription tool. We also have a series of Lambda functions that handle uploaded audio/video file prep, such that we can encode files in a unified format and parse out the audio data needed for visualizing things like the audio waveform or the animated audio frequency data.

A few interesting tidbits are that we use Lambda Layers extensively. We have functions written Ruby and JavaScript where we move the vendor Gems or node_modules into a shared Lambda Layer, and then we also use EFS to run Python based functions that have dependencies that are too big for the Lambda itself.

Our video rendering is also pretty neat, in that we leverage the browser as a rendering view, and batch process screenshots of each frame of the final output video, using a AWS-based container orchestration process.

In summary, this tool is based on the entire work we've been doing for our larger company. Since we can leverage that, we are spinning up a number of single purpose utility projects based on what customers ask for.

If this is interesting at all, we are hiring advanced Javascript engineers who are comfortable learning new things.

You can reach me at lenny@milkvideo.com or if you just want to chat to learn more/ask questions, please feel free to book time here: https://calendly.com/rememberlenny/15-min
The end game is no cars.

I live in France where cities with 3-lane streets were replaced with 2, then 1 lane, and now they are limiting to 30km/h.

It has the added benefit of pushing right-wing people out of the cities back to the countryside, and this is nice because cities is where you get connections and a role in society, and we wouldn’t want them to have a role.

They have been protesting for 4 years now, and I’m happy our president ordered to shoot rubber balls in their eyes (89 successes it seems). This is a well working democracy. See what we can do using lane width! Plus we’re raising taxes on them because they need their cars, so it’s double win.
The US really needs to get its priorities in order first cause they could just wear shirts that mock America's slave labor prison system among many other things.
For general average healthy kids out there, at some point you are adding an addition risk, albeit a small one, over the general Covid risk they already face.

There are certainly kids who have additional health factors that make them a higher risk for severe Covid illness if contracted, and I think it makes sense to consider vaccination there for best protection. However, it’s reasonable to me that some parents might express reluctancy at vaccinating a healthy child who is at such a statistically low risk of severe Covid disease especially since the vaccine does not necessarily protect against infection, instead seeming to provide much more benefit after infection at preventing severe disease.

I think the likelihood of severe disease with no vaccine and severe disease with vaccine in healthy children might be so low it’s statistically insignificant.
Right, that makes sense. It's now evolved into O3DE, but last year when they joined the BDF Lumberyard's license required games to use AWS for servers.

https://o3de.org/
Fully agree, agile is fine.

The real problem is that Scrum is not agile at all: Scrum is a fat "process" that enforces "following a plan" (regular, rigid meeting structure), "creating comprehensive documentation" (user stories, specs, mocks, task board) and "contract negotiation" (estimation meetings, planning poker). In that way, it's the exact opposite of the original agile Manifesto: http://agilemanifesto.org/

The only thing Scrum has ever been great at (and why it's continually chosen despite proven harmful to development productivity) is that it's great at simulating continuous progress and control to management. Other than that, it's simply fostering architectural mess and a political, dogmatic attitude from and towards everyone.

It all starts with a clear product vision from the top and defining how succeeding on it looks like.

If you don't know where to go, Scrum will get you there faster and in even more directions at once.

Or, to cite one of my all time favorites:

"Building intuition on how to make good decisions and cultivating a great relationship with your team will get you 95% of the way there. The plethora of conceptual frameworks for organizing engineering teams won’t make much difference. They make good managers slightly better and bad managers slightly worse."

— https://www.defmacro.org/2014/10/03/engman.html
Looks good. I adopted https://github.com/sendwheel/tw-receiver a while back which is also pretty nice, but I had to disable most of its safety features as they false triggered too often. (Acceptable for a single-user note-taking situation.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software) would be one major example
So, how should I behave differently knowing that I'm not waiting for DNS to "propagate" but rather I'm waiting for DNS cached records to expire?
What are you CASing? If the object is too large you will have contention to the point that you might as well be single threaded. If the object is too small you now have to CAS multiple things which is far from trivial.

CAS is a primitive, it isn't complex itself but it can be complex to work with once you are talking non trivial work. Just like locks. A global lock is dumb simple but a real locking system can be as complex as you will let it.
At a previous place, 30.000+ employees (~1000 people in IT and Development), we had to open a ticket to get new fields added and such. They’d usually be denied because the team that owned Jira thought it would result in more people asking for customisations.

At another place, ~400 employees, we’re allowed to have team managed projects (that we can customize to our hearths content) and company managed projects.
Let's say your password is Refridg3r@t0r. How hard is it to guess that password if you are given the strings Refridg3@t0, r0t@3gdifeR? What about f.lastname@gmail.com => f.lastnme@gico, moc.liag@entsf? You try a handful of possible combinations using this knowledge, and if they don't work, you move on to the next target. Personally, some of my credentials would be very, very easy to guess given this information.
I love reader mode! It's saved the internet for me
I got annoyed at this enough to write this tiny userscript:

// ==UserScript==
// @name Redirect from mobile wiki to desktop
// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version 0.1
// @description try to take over the world!
// @author You
// @match https://*.m.wikipedia.org/*
// @grant none
// @run-at document-start
// ==/UserScript==

window.location.hostname=window.location.hostname.split(".")[0]+".wikipedia.org";
Thanks for the tip. I ended up consulting a friend of mine (an attorney specialising in company law and ipr) yesterday and it turns out what I'm doing is perfectly legal and foolproof. So all's well.
You may want to check out 1936 Summer Olympics.
Just to note, you can achieve having "system font" for all the major OSs without using "system-ui" keyword.

Actually, "system-ui" doesn't even do anything in Firefox on Windows right now (and it behaves exactly like -apple-system on MacOS), so you shouldn't rely on it anyway.
For anyone else looking for the 5th book:

https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/seeing-with-fresh-eyes
The '21 Vector' XSS Challenge