skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For context, Quebec has also dragged its heels on making booster shots available. While Ontario has already offered them to everyone, Quebec will let you schedule a shot starting some time in January (I dont know when the actual time you get the shot is) depending on your age
Is that really how you would frame that Gawker episode, "silencing journalists"? Have you read the Wikipedia article?
Nope. Not BS. Sorry, you don't like it, but it is true. More Tesla's have caught fire than any other brand of vehicle in this Texas community.

Google Fire Tesla Texas. Enjoy!
100%. You can like your car, but be aware and open with the flaws. Thats me with my car. The behavior I see surrounding these cars is definately not that.

I haven't really seen this with another brand of car, at least to this extent.

I see it a lot with iPhones too, but that's not a car.

Definitely disqualifies your statements if I know they come from a place of blind infatuation.
I'd argue that the buyers are getting a free ride by offloading the negative externalities of the purchase to others. So we have to consider the cost of climate change remediation, the cost of accidents etc. A study by the Technical University of Dresden(1) estimated a rough cost to society of €16,000 per new car sold. 40%-60% of that cost was due accidents, the single highest cost category.

The costs will change from society to society, but given the mix of vehicles in the United States and the structure of our health care system I feel confident that A) the accident cost are higher here and B) those costs will be distributed in less equitable fashion.

1 https://stopclimatechange.net/fileadmin/content/documents/mo...
> I do miss airdrop and access to messages

Check out KDE Connect[1]. It works outside of KDE, too.

[1] https://kdeconnect.kde.org/
Year Old Vampire That Started Selling NFTs
From the paper:

"Recently, researchers have created a technique to vary the over-provisioning area according to the workload in the data storage system..."

So this is building research on research; it doesn't apply to actual SSDs.

"Micron recently released an SSD with a flex capacity feature that changes the capacity of the storage device according to the workload..."

OK, this attack applies to one SSD model that came out recently.
Ought to use Mos for the mouse scrolling fix. Works pretty well. I think there is a brew cask for it too.
https://mos.caldis.me/

I also used Linux for years and that has separate options (Gnome) for mouse and trackpad scroll direction. Really sad that this isn’t built in functionality. But hey, we got more emojis and FaceTime faces! /s
Is there more to it, because from that wikipedia site it sounds as if he wasn't actually involved?
> That's why the rules must be simple.

That was literally the point I made which you disagreed with!
I mean, maybe the original tulip buyers were doing so as they got genuine satisfaction out of supporting the growers themselves (ie their primary reason for buying was patronage rather than speculation), but that would be quite an amendment to the standard narrative
You don't live in Texas heat either.
But how long did they run for
That looks crowded indeed, and I was thinking about the use case of absent crew (as on the yacht) in relatively uncongested seas.

Still, if ships where to broadcast their planned route every minute they could even handshake/agree a conflict avoidance strategy, like planes do. It still feel like an easier problem that implementing a self-driving car.
> If the human trials have successfully concluded

They have not.
Your link, and its supporting sources does not make it so clear cut that he was 'caught red-handed'. In fact, it seems to be that he was setup and news papers that reported on the issue were not perfectly honest brokers of the information.

https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article214060112/Ibiza-V...

One can imagine Peter Thiel having sympathy for such an individual.
I have some software that has "digital film" emulations (DXO FP), I suppose that is what they mean, emulating old cameras.
> It seems like building pallets and loading the trailer with a forktruck is a better plan than this thing

This is fine for domestic loads, but anything coming out of a container (or going in one, depending on the destination) is probably going to be stuffed for transport efficiency (or best case, slip sheeted).

Palletised contained loads are rare in my experience due to the space efficiency loss (particularly at the moment with current freight rates). Even slip sheeting generally leads to shipping too much fresh air.

6% to 9% is on the low end - I would estimate the difference is closer to 20%. It’s at least 10cm per pallet, and assuming they are double stacked, with 10cm left on top for loading, that would be 30cm of the 2.5m height which is already 12% of the container fill before you even consider the space between pallets and all pallet heights not being at the absolute maximum allowable. It takes about 8 hours to unstuff a container by hand, so you can quite easily work out the trade off against shipment costs depending on your freight costs.

(My day job is a logistics consultant)
Pretty neat. I was working on an mvp for a routing optimizer when the pandemic started and enjoyed learning about the space.

Curious if any of the folks at logistics os (YC startup) have a similar demo of anything like this?
Imagine youre the first one to automate something many developers need, like converting IPs to locations or convert between two specific data formats. You can offer your API and make money from it. Check out this example:

https://rapidapi.com/spoonacular/api/recipe-food-nutrition/

There are many other APIs with freemium models at this API marketplace, and there are other marketplaces as well.
That’s fine, Lyme isn’t contagious like covid is. If someone doesn’t want the vaccine they’re only putting themselves at risk.
> is there some way to list them?

Over time, by observation, we discover what they are.

For example, do you have a right to not be a slave? If so, why do you think you have that right?

Do you have a right to not have someone clonk you on the head with a pipe and steal your wallet? If so, why do you think you have that right?
I don't know about better performing, but Manjaro on my Dell xps 9310 is near flawless. I never think about performance, everything is immediate.
You seem to be describing leveldb:
https://github.com/google/leveldb
One of the constants I've seen in the past 15 years is soft skills and leadership - learn how to work in a team, how to socialize ideas, lead without authority, do cross-functional work.

This will make you stand out from your peers and ensure a good career path for years to come.
Corollas are easy to get parts. My next auto purchase will be in the next two years, and I will be checking with availability of parts at third-party part stores. If you do this, do it for a specific model and don't assume that one manufacturer is better than another or has even availability on every model. Kia Rio has parts available, and the Kia Niro needs everything ordered. Also, checking what people who do aftermarket modifications are driving isn't such a bad idea.

Also, watch some youtube videos of common maintenance and repair scenarios. Even if you won't be doing the repairs, knowing the difficulty level and parts required might give you some insight into how good the vehicle is long term.
Three dots instead of four.
I'd be curious to see with other options exist, but the one that I know is Filemaker Pro. I'm only familiar with the stand alone version, and while expensive, to me it sounds exactly like what you're talking about wanting.
Yes it was truncated, because HN has a title length limit. The policy is to keep the original title as closely as possible, so that's what I did.
I would rate any camera that does this as 1/100. It cannot possibly be a worse camera. How anyone that have an interest in photography can see swapping a head with a leaf as just fine is beyond me. It's no better than using Snapchat like filters and calling it raw. It's is utterly broken and should be removed ASAP from all iPhones.
> OK sure but the distribution of natural images is highly redundant ie pixels are not independent and there is structure to exploit.

Sure, but that depends very strongly on the number of natural images you trained on and the specificity of the situation you present to the algorithm. Maybe one such structure in the training set just happens to be people holding knives given "a specific skin color and a turquoise sleeve on a picture with a color scheme as if it's a cloudy day".
Yes, this is getting better, but it reminds me of a story from a friend who was doing work on some classified satellite imaging systems (he was in hardware, iirc) and went to an internal seminar/briefing by some experts on how, from the front to the end of the system, to get the best images for the customers.

He said they went through hours of details on how the various enhancement algorithms and systems worked, and at the end, the bottom line was basically 'take a better picture in the first place' - as in get the lens, lighting, and parameters right in the first place, and that'll be the biggest factor in how far the processing HW/SW/people can take the enhancements.

Maybe the new software with huge R&D budgets is now better, but I'd suspect this advice is still not obsolete...
I think authoritarianism is generally bad
Yeah, if you like popular music which is what the average person consumes. If I look up some less popular artist or even a soundtrack on spotify chances are it won't be there. About a year ago I tried it, found exactly one of the about 30 works I searched for. All the stuff that gets played on the radio is there, of course. It was an immensely disappointing experience. Why pay for this crap since I'll still have to resort to youtube or something to get what I want?

What I meant by competition is they won't be able to offer higher quality and availability. They will never achieve the ideal I proposed: everything humanity has ever created at the highest possible quality. They are of course masters at being just good enough for the average consumer. Honestly that bar is pretty low.

I will never forgive them for shutting what.cd down. I consider that a crime against humanity itself that vastly outweighs whatever little profits they thought they were losing.
>Chemicals in the brain indeed, change from one day to another. And maybe the day they feel depressed is when they are seeing things more realistically and crash with that realization.

So, you think that chemical changes in the brain can affect how realistically one perceives their situation, but a chemical change that causes one to feel depressed is not something that happens? That doesn't seem like a logical conclusion.
They weren't physically unable to leave. They were not given permission to leave the work day early. Nothing stopped them from terminating employment to leave.
I recently got a Pixel and was disappointed to see that the stock camera app has no way to control the focus manually. I guess Google is so impressed with their post-processing they think users won't need any control.

Turns out, their software isn't that great at focusing in many of the photos I take, so I need a different camera app. My only requirements are:
1. Manual focus
2. Wide angle lens support

I thought a replacement would be trivial to find but I've tried a bunch of apps at this point and haven't found a single one that checks both boxes.

Can anyone recommend a basic android camera? Preferably one that doesn't distort the world too much or replace faces with leaves.

I've been using Open Camera which is pretty great, but doesn't support wide angle lens shots as far as I can tell.
Looks to me like Hollywood's obsession with Trump is never ending. Makes sense - they pretty much created him.
50 years is a long time. If you're looking for the answer to "what should I learn now so I don't need to learn anything else in the next 50 years?" then you're approaching the whole thing in the wrong way.

There's no conflict between learning new things and "fundamentals" (however we define them). It's useful to know both. You start with the more general stuff that applies everywhere (this is a lot of what you study at university - how a computer works, how code executes, how to design a program, data structures and algorithms etc.) and then over time you pick up details like language details, specific APIs, frameworks etc.

Languages don't matter that much. Learn a few, be aware of what's out there and get comfortable with picking up new ones as you need them. It's really not a big deal.
This feels like a metaphor for something
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.sourceforge.opencamera/

You need to change API to Camera2 and then you will be able to enable RAW.
"Global strategist for California-based Thiel Capital" is probably an upward move from many perspectives.
What would you do with an NFT?
There is a boatload of evidence that Hunter Biden is a shady grifter, but I don't think there is anything pointing to the President.
I normally care about reproducible rng results and do try to seed all rngs used. There are lots of applications where randomness is used but you still want repeatable behavior. ML experiments is one situation where randomness is common, but is also intended to be repeatable.

I think python standard library/several of data science library rngs are platform independent.
Because they're a 501c3 organization, their tax filings are public. The most recent filing is tax year 2019, but there's a decent amount of detail.

https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/detailsPage?ein=824506840&name=...
Isn't this a similar problem to the blurry-face vs. leaf-face issue discussed? If yes, then one would hand it off to computation to figure out which parts matter and need doctoring, except scaled up to video.
>being sued for breaching the NDA isn't going to make finding a new job easier

NDAs are unenforceable against whistleblowers who report illegal activity.
I think we have a lot of double blind clinical trials that show that anti-depressants do work. Not with super high success rates, but higher than vitamin supplementation.
Gnome Designers Exploring ‘Quick Settings’ Feature for Gnome Shell
I worked on something similar over the summer.

The most difficult thing about this problem is mixed size boxes. Knowing where every box is is easy when they're all the same dimension and stacked neatly, but what about when they're packed randomly, many boxes are askew, and they're all different sizes? Then you need to get into complicated time-of-flight sensors, point clouds, surface/box recognition logic/AI, etc..
Not a silly question at all. It's because having a reliable and uncompromised source of randomness is essential for cryptographic applications. Having the RNG in user space would make it more vulnerable to attack.
Lime disease rates of infection and therefore risk is higher outside of cities. Of course dramatically larger populations have more cases. So you need to look at county level vaccination data which shows some dramatic difference between urban and exurban populations.

Garret county MD with a population density of 17 people per km2 is 53% vaccination for 12+ where Montgomery county MD 810/km2 is 94% for 12+.

Bedford county PA (19/km2) is 42% for 12+ where Chester county PA (274.9/km2) is 82% for 12+.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-19-vaccine... https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/datasurveillance/maps-recent.html
> It's impossible to just 'enhance' an image to make a license plate readable.

Well, a phone can reconstruct this license plate, and in fact any license plate in lieu of this one! And invent a new one!

Which is worrisome for justice. Presenting proof, that was uploaded to servers, horodated and geostamped, won’t be enough in a court of law. Anyone can answer: “What if the iPhone recreated and inferred the presence of a knife using the neural engine? This face, is it real? The distance, is it repositionned?”
> These recalls used to be for things major. Now we are getting a recall over what would be a warranty claim

This is actually a great thing. That we seem to be ordering less major recalls means that automakers got their shit together and across the board, work harder to not kill people than they used to. A far cry from the Takata fiasco.
Try posting any article about racism or misogyny in Silicon Valley. It'll be flagged faster than you can say "Cancel Culture" five times.

Speaking of "cancel culture": HN is the only community where it tends to be almost accepted truth that Cloudflare or Youtube or Telegram doing anything to stop the vilest hate groups from using their platforms is tantamount to the end of democracy.

Do you know who ran Theranos? Do you know who ran Enron? Why not? Yes, there's a difference of a few years. I bet a text analysis would also show the female CEO being mentioned in connection with the demise of their company than the men do. See also: Ellen Pao.

HN went all-in on 'Gamergate'. For a brief time, it certainly did toy with the whole QAnon bullshit, although that went so crazy so fast, it couldn't take hold, thankfully.

It's more populism than right-wing canon these days, but this very thread has a few examples of mindless theorizing about the New Yorker picking its subjects with corrupt intentions. It is beyond me how someone would read this article and consider it a "hit piece", or anything a campaign or the CIA would want to see published. If the military-security-complex wants to change your thinking, they fly F-15 over football stadiums, not get the New England intelligentsia to put out 5,000 word essays sublimely sneaking in their ideas.
Two good reasons:

1. The kernel has access to unpredictable events that make good key fodder for the CSPRNG itself, which would be more annoying and less efficient to percolate into userland.

2. The kernel can assure all the processes on the device that they're getting random bits from a known source of unpredictable bits, and refuse to deliver those bits if its state hasn't been sufficiently populated; this has been a recurring source of systems vulnerabilities in programs with userland CSPRNGs.

To that, add the convenience factor of always knowing how to get random bits and not having to set up userland dependencies and ensure they're started in the right order &c.

You should generally use your kernel's CSPRNG in preference to other ones, and break that rule of thumb only if you know exactly what you're doing.
I had to check that, as these big chunky camera batteries “feel” like they should have a lot of mAH compared to a phone.

And I am wrong. Depending on the phone.

A Nikon battery: 2280 mAh.

An iPhone 13: anywhere from 2406–4352 mAH.

Yeah, that’s a way smaller power budget than a Pro iPhone, especially as you have autofocus and image stabilization systems that have to move around a lot more mass.
I just say something similar, doesn't have to be the exact form.
It is a reasonable desire, but not one very likely to be fulfilled.

Let's say I pick up some trash at the local park. Plenty of positive externalities there.

But if I then send the community a bill afterwards, I don't think it will go over very well. Even if they all appreciate the effort they might object, on any number of grounds:

- There are other trash pickers who are more efficient and can be hired more cheaply.

- There are other higher priority projects to which those funds should be allocated.

- That the quality of the trash picking was not in line with the bill.

- And on and on.

If I want to get paid for picking up trash I'll have to work it out with the community before hand. And then there will be expectations, contracts, a supervisor, and all those things that come with jobs.
Spectacle was my jam. Simple and free.
Interesting name. Rudaali in Hindi means a professional mourner, who used to be someone you hire for a mourning ceremony when there's a death in the family in parts of India. There's a famous Bollywood movie[1] by that name.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudaali
This is not that kind of RNG; this is the system secure random number generator. Secure random numbers aren't seeded.
Sure, if it is an option applied after the fact by the user editing the photo. Any camera that does this automatically is utterly broken. Otherwise where is the line? Some sharpening? Adding bigger boobs by default? Make people less black?
I'd push back on that norm.

I listened to a vendor pitch for a product that would need access to my cloud assets. They wanted me to export auth keys as strings and hand them over, with super high access rights. I laughed and pointed out OIDC, Workload Identity Federation, cross account user identities... etc as more secure methods that didn't require handing over any secrets.

Multi-billion dollar vendor; their engineer just gave me a blank stare as if the notion was completely novel. It's not. None of the products/integrations I build require a customer to share their cloud creds to work w/ their cloud assets.

2020 is calling...
Amethyst is excellent, especially for multiple displays.

https://ianyh.com/amethyst/
I do see GoboLinux simulating some aspects of tagging, based on reading https://gobolinux.org/at_a_glance.html and https://github.com/gobolinux/Documentation/wiki/What-makes-G... .

Their documentation gives examples of primary files stored at locations like:

/Programs/Bash/4.4/bin/bash
/Programs/Netkit-Base/0.17/bin/ping
/Programs/LibPNG/1.2.5/lib/libpng.so.3
/Programs/Glibc/2.24/include/stdio.h

The above paths have the format of "/Programs/<PackageName>/<VersionNumber>/<TraditionalDirectory>/<FileName>". GoboLinux presumably scans every package directory and adds symbolic links to "/System/Index/<TraditionalDirectory>/<FileName>", like the following example (respectively):

/System/Index/bin/bash
/System/Index/bin/ping
/System/Index/lib/libpng.so.3
/System/Index/include/stdio.h

The primary file locations make it easy to handle one package at a time, cleanly adding and removing entire packages. The indexed view makes it easy to find files (binaries, libraries, includes, man pages, etc.) by name without worrying about what packages they belong to.

Generally speaking, tagging can be half-simulated using hierarchies and (hard/soft) links. But a tag-based system would be cleaner and not prioritize one retrieval method over another. Here is an illustration of how I might rephrase GoboLinux's package storage and retrieval system in terms of tags:

Blob("... binary data of bash executable ..."), with hash = 9e19e455.
Blob("... binary data of ping executable ..."), with hash = 28224f5b.
Blob("... binary data of libpng.so library ..."), with hash = 6243c115.
Blob("... binary data of stdio.h C code ..."), with hash = d0335126.

Tag(packageName="Bash", version="4.4", target=9e19e455).
Tag(packageName="Netkit-Base", Version="0.17", target=28224f5b).
Tag(packageName="LibPNG", version="1.2.5", target=6243c115).
Tag(packageName="Glibc", version="2.24", target=d0335126).

Tag(traditionalDirectory="bin", fileName="bash", target=9e19e455).
Tag(traditionalDirectory="bin", fileName="ping", target=28224f5b).
Tag(traditionalDirectory="lib", fileName="libpng.so.3", target=6243c115).
Tag(traditionalDirectory="include", fileName="stdio.h", target=d0335126).
Personally I read these posts for tools discovery. There’s all sorts of small random tools / packages for odd little things. If I read about what other programmers use I might learn about a new tool that makes my life easier.