skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the hard and fast rules of open fires, regardless of anything the law says, is that you make sure it is completely out before leaving. It would seem that this guy, or at the very least his contractor, is a straight up asshole.

I would have called the fire department the very first day they left it unattended. And speaking to the legal situation, I would be shocked if actual firefighters gave a pass to that level of irresponsibility.
Peak vs average.
> - One EU country will default (not Italy), the EU will bail it out

Given your name, it seems you might be a bit biased about Italy not defaulting ;)
Outside of a math class the latter is never what anyone means. Your manager won't frame an annual raise as "104% pay".

Just to say, it's odd how often people trip themselves up on this!
Tree has stood here for 500 years. Will it be sold for $17,500?
I think plac and argh in the Python space pre-dated Click by a long time and had many similar features. I'm not sure if they had everything the Click author exactly wanted, but they do seem like strong prior related work.
Billions of faces sure. How many of those are duplicates? How many of each person do they have and in what quality? A low res snap from a traffic camera is useless.

To distinguish individuals you need a lot of data.
Getting funding, finding the most talented engineers, deciding what to build and motivating people are the high-level skills needed from a founder/CEO. I don't see any argument here against his importance to all companies that he's been involved in. Nobody's claiming he's building rockets all by himself.
The initial problems that inspired the biggest companies in technology
Where do you work? seems exciting.
I'm open to the idea that this is overstated, but would love to see the numbers. Is it 1/3rd now or 10 years from now? Does the alternative supply and import infrastructure have the capacity to provide 30% more on short notice? Alternatively, how long and how well can Germany operate with only 60% imports.
According to Unicode, it should be allowed to and the SMB server should be able to handle it. That's kind of the point of normalization, they're meant to be done before all comparisons so that exactly this doesn't happen. Your suggestion is just premature optimization, i.e. eliminating a redundancy.
Anyone else finding the article difficult to read? There are lots of paragraph-long sentences and weird constructions.
Their patent might have expired? Im not aware of the situation but these seem to be an identical product: https://heico-lock.us/
I pray that our politicians will listen to people and doctors and realise that euthanasia is fundamentally wrong from multiple angles.
This reminds me of frangibolts: https://www.ebad.com/tini-frangibolt/

Conop: an electric heater temporarily modifies the crystal structure and axially overloads the bolt, breaking it. We used these on a satellite that I worked on with deployable panels.
> But I could also implement that without bringing in a block chain, right?

Not only that, but they have! Signature-based authentication existed 20 years ago. Register with a public key. Sign a message with your private key to authenticate. Modulo some small details to prevent things like replay, you are done. The only thing that the blockchain brings is that now lots of people have asymmetric key pairs where their public keys are published somewhere widely accessible.
How can people put up with Windows update?
I had a bit of free time and i wanted to play a game that I was quite fond of a bit over a decade ago, aoe2. I never tried their new remastered edition, but since most players moved over i was planning on trying it out.

So i grabbed a slightly older laptop that i knew it had a Windows partition. On most of my machines i use Linux, and generally have no need for other OSes.

So what happens is that a notification keeps coming up asking me to "restart to finish installing an update". I ignored it a few times, but then I thought, heck, let's do it, can't be more then 5 minutes. Now, more than 2 hours later it's barely at 25% and the system is completely unusable for other tasks.

This seems to be a frequent occurrence. I don't understand how a product with such a user hostile behavior can still be on the market.

If i was at home, i would just reinstall a clean version. That is much faster.
Normalisation is expressly done with the composition of version 3.1 for compatibility: see <https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/#Versioning>. IF that’s what HFS+ does, then “proprietary variant” is wrong. And if not, I’m curious what it does differently.

(On the use of version 3.1, note that in practice version 3.2 is used, correcting one typo: see <https://www.unicode.org/versions/corrigendum3.html>.)

I find a few references to it being slightly different, but not one of them actually says what’s different; Wikipedia is the only one with a citation (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus>: “and normalized to a form very nearly the same as Unicode Normalization Form D (NFD)[12]”), and that citation says it’s UAX #15 NFD, no deviations. One library that handles HFS+ differently switches to UCD 3.2.0 for HFS+ <https://github.com/ksze/filename-sanitizer/blob/e990e963dc5b...>, but my impression from UAX #15 is that this should be superfluous, not actually changing anything. (Why is UCD 3.2.0 still around there? Probably because IDNA 2003 needs it: <https://bugs.python.org/issue42157#msg379674>.)

Update: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn/tn1... has actual technical information, but the table in question doesn’t show Unicode version changes like they claim it does, so I dunno. Looks like maybe from macOS 10.3 it’s exactly UAX #15, but 8.1–10.2 was a precursor? I’m fuzzy on where the normalisation actually happens, anyway.
Could someone give an ELI5 please? As I understand it, the explanation is that there was a leaf close to him that obscured the face. But what's he saying about parallax? Isn't the preview image that he would have seen on the camera display coming from the same lens that captures the image?
True, it needs to stop. My wife keeps commandeering my AirPods to Rick-roll me…
which is exactly my point? He calls it easy because he can do that in a couple hours, and if problems arise later he can always just fix them with a quick 10-20 minutes. It's easy.

On a side note this is actually a problem, in my experience, if I find something easy I might not cover every edge case - I can cover those if and when they come up - but given enough potential inputs and users the edge cases always come up. And then what happens if I am unavailable at that moment, the edge cases need to be handled by people who will find the easy solution I built up incredibly hard and daunting.
I would guess they are doing this entirely to keep people working through this crazy season. I have had 3 legs of flights cancelled (on different airlines) over the holidays due to lack of staff.

I think if this had anything to do with unions it would have happened a while ago.
It's peculiar that some people insist on ignoring the unequal power relationships in most employment situations, enabling exploitation and/or opportunities to use the corporate structure to implement personal biases, and so insist it doesn't happen.
Sounds cool, I might check it out.
Good news then. Being html proved nothing if it is not exposed outside the app. Might try it for a spin.
Energy subsidies in the EU says the opposit: https://ec.europa.eu/energy/sites/default/files/annex_to_the...

Countries that need a lot of reserve energy is paying a lot of subsidies to fossil fuels. Year in, year out. First you need to pay them in order to keep the plants on standby when renewables are plenty, and then you need to pay them again when demand exceeds the productions of renewables. The outcome is very large and steady stream of money going into the pockets of those who invest into fossil fuel.

Nuclear would need a lot in order to catch up to the same level of subsidies.
Thanks. For the CIL compiler there is already the OBXMC command line tool. For the C99 transpiler I will implement a separate tool soon.
Well, does Toni still sell snowboards?
NFT Doom
I don't really believe in win-win anymore when it comes to mixing FOSS with Corporate. The need for monetisation always wins in the end for big corporations. Whether they openly admit it or not.

For example: A lot of patches contributed by Microsoft are to make things run better on Azure and are irrelevant to most consumers. They view desktop Linux mainly as something that should exist under Windows (in my work there was a lot of pressure to move our development laptops to WSL2). They use their market position to push their views (think of the way they hassle third party browsers on Windows).

Canonical is trying to make the snap store something they and only they control (it is not possible to run your own even now). RedHat with IBM took over CentOS just to remove it from the market as a free way to run RHEL.

It's my belief that in the end they will always want something back, some kind of strings attached. The GPL is not sufficient to prevent that because it's purely about code, not about the business model behind it. Be it intellectual property, use of their services, data collection, whatever. And they will do whatever they can to gain a foothold over the competition, which is also involved in Linux.

Even if a current operator is benign, they can always be taken over by a less scrupulous party, as happened many times in IT history. I don't want my OS be used as a pawn in that game. This is what I like about FreeBSD, the MIT license while being more open gives corporate interests less guarantees their contributed work won't be used by competitors and because of that they tend to ignore it. With the exception of Netflix which hasn't really done harm to the ecosystem because FreeBSD itself doesn't really factor into their products other than as a server platform. Even so, FreeBSD is not free from corporate influence nor are many of the apps I use. But it is more so than Linux.

But yes it is more a personal principle than an explicit objection to some of the contributions made. I used to be a supporter of "big tech" influence a decade ago but too many things have happened. That was still in the days we believed Google really wouldn't be evil :) Now they rely on tracking and push clearly user-hostile tech like FLoC through standards bodies. As a result I've admittedly become more anti-corporate than the current situation warrants. But action = reaction. They have a lot to make up for.

Apple was the best in this regard IMO because their business model was all about hardware, so they could afford to give software away for free. But they too are becoming more closed, with increased reliance on app store and iCloud revenue. They gave us stuff like OpenCL but lately everything they've come out with is closed (think Metal).
I haven't wrenched professionally for anything bigger than a bicycle, and in that case one of the most expensive components (labor and parts) can be damaged immediately by too much torque or over time by not enough, so you did not want to do that without a torque wrench. Or at least not until you had muscle memory for what 'enough' felt like.

On bikes, car repair and a few other items, mine and others, I've seen sheared off bolts. In at least two of those I was involved with the tightening prior to failure, and the lightbulb moment where we figured out why the sequence of events made sense.
Should be possible to modulate the intensity of the laser pretty easily with a modern diode-based laser (so that you can avoid damaging the plant).
Anecdotally, I've been using loctite C5A (copper anti-seize) on lug nuts for years without an issue. I also torque them to the manufacturer spec with a torque wrench twice a year (when I switch summer/winter tires).
Yeah, that's the first one that came to mind. Sekiro as well, which explicitly has Buddhist themes and imagery too. I wouldn't say it's specifically a Buddhist game, but it absolutely has the themes of life, rebirth, and suffering.
Get into YC S22 or W23
Someone else thinks that telegramm is only a coverup by the cia or russians to get data from people? I mean an app that tracks the living shit out of you and saves all your data unencrypted on their server and is the host of some rly strange groups…. Pure gold for such agencies
> That's just such an obviously brain-damaged idea.

Is it, though? "Every character except '/' because it's the directory delimiter" seems pretty straight forward to me...

> There's not a single rational use case for it, yet it breaks nearly every text-based tool you could possibly imagine...

You don't have a use case, but that doesn't mean nobody else has one.

And as far as "text-based tools" go, their developers should RTFM. I'm fairly sure UNIX existed before almost all of them, and it's accepted new lines all along.
>_I_ see a leaf in the foreground,

You keep repeating "I". Again, the emphasis on "I" in your sentence is not relevant to the commenter right above you perceiving something else: "The blurry plus the tiny twigs connected to those leaves still make my brain think it's some GAN artifacts."

The blue/white dress example was not to apply color to the iPhone example but a cultural reference to this perception debate: https://www.google.com/search?q=was+dress+blue+or+white

Or put another way, consider : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind

EDIT reply to: >This is honestly blowing my mind that you think theory of mind applies

Let me try to put it this way... nawgz sees a clear and realistic leaf in the foreground. Case closed. Therefore, nawgz would not even submit a Twitter post or a new thread to HN wonder why the head is missing. And yet, such a thread exists with (some) commenters wondering if the software had a glitch:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29739235

Stepping outside of yourself and considering Theory Of Mind might help explain to you why such a thread exists with comments even though you yourself see no issue with the photo.

EDIT2: >There is no room for human perception here.

There is room for human perception because the person who took the original iPhone photo and posted it on Twitter is a senior iOS programmer with a degree in computer science and yet he overlooked the possibility of a real leaf. If we take his story at face value, his particular mind and perception initially chose to believe that iOS photo software replaced the head with a leaf rather than consider a scenario that a tree branch in front of his own house occluded the walker's head. Only when another programmer on Twitter theorized that a real leaf is in the foreground, he then went back outside again to notice that there's a low hanging branch on his tree. (That's his later video showing parallax demonstration.) The original photographer did not believe the pixels in his own photo. That's a human perception issue.

That faulty perception led to software theories from some programmers in that Twitter thread including this comment:

>When you open iPhone camera, it keeps recording. When you take a shot, it takes some frames from before and after you pressed the shutter and then merges those to create a detailed photo. One of this frame had this leaf on her head. -- from https://twitter.com/masnun/status/1476457354128281600?s=20
Lots of AWS frustration here, so I will mention a project I created to auto generate AWS web applications, covering what I believe are a majority of practical use cases (db, ui, api, users, roles, groups).

https://awayto.dev

https://github.com/keybittech/awayto

It's not a product, just a project. Check it out if AWS is getting you down! :)
Back in the 1990's there were heroin bags in New York labeled "Betty White". That was a tribute to her fame I suppose. Since then, I would think of drugs when her name came up.
How to Comfort Someone Who Is Sad
macOS is interesting: some APIs normalize filenames while others don't. And it causes some very interesting bugs.

One example is when you submit a file in Safari it doesn't normalize the file name while js file.name does.
>I would love to stick an Rpi in the corner and forget about it if this were not such an irresponsible thing to do.

If you can swing a say 10usd pm budget then you can get something of comparable scale from any of the VPS providers.

Simple linux firewall in front of it & have a think about backups and that should be it

If you can stick the service behind a free cloudflare to hide the IP and filter out a bit of the internet nastiness

Whether you docker it or not is personal preference. Def wouldn't do K8S if a rpi in a corner is your ideal vision
2021 Rewind: A Lawyer Becoming a Software Developer
Yes, I and others have asked you to list out what the natural rights are, and you've waxed about free markets. I have no idea what you're trying to say, since you seem to be contradicting yourself. Hence my request for clarification. You're doing such a bad job of communicating here that the only reason I don't think I'm being trolled is that I know you wouldn't do that.

My best guess is that you're trying to make the point that market economies are natural and that the rights we have under them are therefore natural, but this is basically an argument from status quo and it goes directly against what you said elsewhere about healthcare being a right due to government regulations.

And from that you seem to be saying that healthcare is a right due to government regulation, but here you're saying that government decree doesn't make something a right. So like I said, I'm lost.
I both maintain a server cabinet at home and rent VMs from providers. There are many reasons people don't self-host: noise, heat, dealing with hardware setup, etc. And if any of your service receives public traffic, you'll have to be very careful in configuring it because you don't want attackers to target your home network or the ISP/police to come at you for illegal traffic on your line.

$85/month is a lot of money, but given the number of services he runs on his server, each service now costs roughly $3/month, lower than the price of the cheapest DigitalOcean droplet.
The studies of medical mistakes included cases where someone actually died or was crippled for life. So it doesn't make sense to me to think this applies only to minor incidents.

My opinion: when someone sues for damages, they're looking not only to offset the harm they've suffered but also to ensure the same thing doesn't happen again. The first part depends on their circumstances—they may desperately need that money now. The second part may be satisfied entirely by a sincere apology, or the lack of an apology may underscore the importance of punitive damages.
This is sort of what happens when you use OpenID with Google. The "break glass to recover account" flow at Google does literally involve photographs of government issued ids and other human process like that.
Look at the pictures on the website and I think you'll follow me.

I was thinking of brown specifically but black has the same effect. When it's partially covered the color will be the average of the two. Probably black if it's near pavement, brown if exposed to nature.
Financial security can play a part of it, but that doesn't exactly mean being financially independent.

-- Having a job where you don't go in every day thinking that today is when they will find a reason to fire me or get laid off.

-- Having a bit of surplus personal money (after retirement accounts are paid into, and other planned savings) is really good. It doesn't take much, and you don't really need extra income, just make sure your lifestyle matches slightly below your income.

-- Knowing you can survive for a while without a job, if needed.

To accomplish the above (without having to significantly increasing your income), make sure to avoid the trap of monthly payments as much as you can. Sure you can afford $800 a month on a car payment, but your emergency fund stretches much further if you buy a car with cash up front (or going no more than 3 years on a loan).

-- Take time for yourself. Don't leave vacation days unused. Take advantage of flex time without using vacation if you can (cutting out for a couple hours for a Dr appointment, etc). Take a couple Wednesdays off per month during the summer (5 weeks vacation gets you a 4-day work week every other week for the year, or take minimum time off in the winter, take a few 3-4 day weekends, periodically take a day off that you don't have "must-do" activities scheduled so you can do personal projects such as woodworking or gardening, etc).

This is what has kept me happy, and will continue to do so even if I have to work till I'm 65.
2022 marks a shift for me from industry software engineering to research. I’m hoping I get accepted to a PhD program but if not I will likely leave my cushy job and spend time some getting myself into computer science research (being broad on purpose).

All in all, I’m really excited for next year. I feel good about where I am in life in most facets.

Happy new year to you and everyone else around reading this as well! I hope the next year has some joy for everyone!
Do modern Buddhists follow these guidelines? Is there an equivalent to pharisaism in Buddhism, where there's a strict adherence to rules and regulations, while completely missing the original intent?
Doesn’t DO itself have “apps” ?

Also see Cloudron. Not cheap but I’ve heard that people are very happy with their service. Basically you self host their “app as a service” platform so to speak.

Kind of like a super polished Sandstorm, but totally different sandboxing technologies (believe Cloudron uses Docker but not sure if they still do—- and I believe Sandstorm used Kenton Varda’s cap n proto technology which probably allowed for even greater sandboxing/protection than Docker, I would have to imagine..)..
Valve: We used to make games; Now we make money.
Peanuts are not nuts, but they are often processed using the same factory lines as tree nuts, and thus there's a risk of cross-contamination. So if you are allergic to peanuts (or vice versa), it's usually better to just avoid both peanuts and tree nuts.

Like I just tell people I'm "allergic to nuts" even though it's one specific tree nut I have an allergy to, and not the rest.

I do let myself eat Wonderful Pistachios (and only that brand), specifically because they're supposed to be processed separately from other nuts and tree nuts, at least according to some article I found online a while back.
She did a few days ago too. Just shut up Alexa.
The nuclear side is, “everyone who could do what we are doing, already knows how, but we are going to pretend it’s all secret anyway and keep it classified for a very long time regardless of how public the information becomes.”

In nuke school I had text books classified secret that I later purchased at Barnes and Noble
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Ball games? Why?
This covers many sports.