skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can make a movie with a tiny crew too. A lot of people do it but you hardly ever hear about the results.

There are some aspects of moviemaking that I could probably do professionally, others I have enough experience with that I know I'm terrible at them (acting, directing), and others that I'm totally ignorant of (what the hell does the "Foley" person do?)

If I do make a video or a game I know I can do well in some areas and other ones are going to be weak. Right now for instance I am planning on writing three "Breakout" clones to try out three different programming models. There is really no game design other than tuning up a clone of a known design. Even though the point is to try out 'software architectures' for things that are gamelike but not games I'm going to work hard on visuals and sound effects.

I'm not expecting to make enough unique enough that anyone would pay for it.
Not me. Others. I've seen others just state a one sentence opinion that I myself disagreed with. Then I've seen these people get voted down.
If we're talking about N and Z (which makes sense since most programs are grounded in a mathematical model with some physical constraints added on top), then please acknowledge that N doesn't have subtraction defined, which illustrates why it's not very useful for most code.

You could also argue that subtraction for unsigned numbers is only partially defined, just like for signed numbers. But that would be missing the point, since most numbers in practical programs are small, and for these numbers the signed range is indeed much more useful since subtraction is defined for signed integers (e.g. i32) for small numbers. This is not the case for unsigned, where 3u-4u is usually not what you want.
Keep in mind, while yes this is a huge code issue mixing low voltage and high voltage - ‘it depends’ in a lot of jurisdictions on other elements.

Following is for other folks running across this, in case it helps them.

At least in California, I’m pretty sure it’s code compliant to use rated non-metallic conduit for outside high voltage runs for instance. That conduit is made of PVC. It’s the grey plastic electrical conduit at every hardware store (if branded as UV resistant/outdoor rated).

Normal PVC pipe (for water) falls apart at too low a temperature and becomes super brittle when exposed to
Sunlight surprisingly quickly.

It’s a much better idea to use EMT or even ‘hard’ conduit depending on how it’s exposed, but it’s not required. EMF protection is nice, but I haven’t seen a such a requirement for power feeds in residential anyway. If using 3 phase and some industrial equipment I imagine you’d be a jerk to not do so, but most residential neighborhoods here have overhead unshielded lines anyway.

Running to a separate detached building has a bunch of rules around grounding (for which you’ll find multiple mutually exclusive and conflicting codes across the county). Many areas don’t have lightning suppression rules though.

Depending on exactly how the building is constructed (technically ‘mobile’ vs ‘fixed) also changes codes a lot. Running the equivalent of an extension cord to a ‘mobile’ structure (which can be functionally fixed) is perfectly fine as long as it’s GFCI protected for instance. Not that he did that.

Ideally it would be a separate sub panel, grounded and protected as such, with proper rated conduit, etc.

But the bar is a lot lower than what you’re saying if someone follows some basic guidelines. And can be done safely.

But yeah, Article Author - you’re going to get someone killed. Jesus.
I was thrilled about Beat Saber initially but I felt more and more depressed when after a few levels, I couldn’t pass any more levels, no matter what I did.
It got so difficult and frustrating that at one point, I stopped and never played Beat Saber again.

Edit: One major contributing factor was that I never figured out how to get Sony’s VR glasses to calibrate correctly.
It’s been like this for some time. Just use incognito mode for NYT
I can comment on the second portion of this issue- never run Cat cables in parallel with electric cable.

You are forcing low voltage and high voltage cables to share their electromagnetic field. That’s never a good thing. It can lead to unstable connection all the way to frying your Ethernet card.
I live in SF bay area and I can build a accessory structure of 150SF or smaller without a permit.
> “20% of electric car owners switch back to gas-powered cars of electric car owners switch back to gas-powered cars”

Huh?
Making myself use the API for access. I'm very interested in the dynamics of social media, sometimes to a much greater degree than the actual content. Things like identifying trolling behavior or which way a split forum is trending can be studied without getting caught up in the particular words or personal exchanges. When I'm looking at those phenomena it can still be helpful to look at the content, but I build a craptacular-but-sufficient front end instead of using the platform offering.

I don't do this for HN, but for a couple of the bigger platforms where I'm fascinated by the activity but get cranky if I participate too much.
Gene discoveries could lead to heartier, less gritty spinach
Something I appreciate about HN is the number of reverse-bikeshedding moments there are and for which the parent comment exemplifies. Points out a critical flaw and explains it in plain language with no rhetorical flourishes.

Bikeshedding describes our tendency to spend too much time discussing trivial matters, and too little time discussing important matters as a result. It describes the inverse relationship between time spent and the importance of an issue.

https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/bikeshedding/
Most English accents in England are not rhotic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English), but there are indeed a lot of different accents in Britain.

As a famous example, [Wearside Jack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wearside_Jack) was narrowed down to a single suburb based on the dialect in the audio recording.
Some stuff I use often:

- Finding out what a linux command line tool's flag does without having to CTRL+F through multiple matches in the manfile (https://explainshell.com/)

- Test and visualize JS regex (https://regexr.com/)

- Render PlantUML class or sequence diagrams (https://www.planttext.com/)

- Unicode code converter (https://r12a.github.io/app-conversion/)

- Unicode codepoint viewer (https://r12a.github.io/uniview/)
Fix the title OP to just Google owns .meme or something since the rest is incorrect.
> I can't think of a single time where I've dealt with numbers that exceed a trillion in either direction.

A big one is dealing with currencies like Japanese yen in financial software.
Sounds similar to Logan's Run
From the article: “working-age people who are employees of businesses with group life insurance policies” - that’s a quite comparable effect although indeed not via the individual health screening thus less pronounced. Those not working are quite more likely to die.

What I don’t under from the article: they mention a $100 million loss on disability, but the effect of this size on mortality should be many billions.
Asking "is there a particular reason" comes off as quite bitchy and dismissive.
The default is to only accept transfers from people that are in your address book.
Well then he’d get wet going into the shed. He might not mind but his equipment will. Toward the fence or back would be better.

I also wonder from a water damage standpoint if he vented this or he’s counting on the door for ventilation. That won’t always be open.
I thought that was interesting, looked for more details, and found https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1958/december/nav... saying almost the opposite:

> The [magnetic] compass did operate as well as was expected. Even though at times the deviation was high, its readings were constantly monitored, especially after crossing the Pole, for a change in deviation indicating a course error. No such error was found, but it remains a fact that a good magnetic compass even though readings are approximate and/or relative is still essential to navigation in Polar regions as a basic backup should all other equipment fail simultaneously. ...

> The fact that a northseeking [gyro]compass did take the ship to a point 60–100 miles from the Pole and at that point would have by itself provided information to take the ship within normal navigational accuracy of the Pole may seem amazing to outsiders. We aboard, however, expected this type of performance from the MK 19 as a result of our previous Arctic experience with the compass and its everyday reliability since then. Even though it had already outperformed the expectations of many, it still failed to show any readable drift rate and was an outstanding DG. ...

Now, that concerned the North Pole, not Magnetic North Pole, but 1) they had a gyrocompass too, with cross-checks for possible failures, and 2) there's no mention of a navigation computer - it appears the calculations were done manually.
Yes, that hits the system. I was more or less back to normal then got a second round :( But this time recovery was swift, no more than a week or two, the only thing remaining is the cough.
> The technology is almost irrelevant at this point.

There I disagree, my news feeds in other places are heavily populated by development discussion, and word travels fast in the crypto-sphere. So aside from noticing that HN consensus is distinctly not part of it, it would be hard for me to agree less or disagree more. But people are here, they just arent the active contributors and arent coordinated to elevate their posts and comments.

For example, I just had the realization that I could learn a new programming language to write smart contracts solely because I dont need to market myself to out-of-touch recruiters and hiring managers. Deploying stuff onchain is lucrative enough. This changes the entire incentive model of a software engineer, or even a founder’s new venture, as both would otherwise need to optimize for new and shiny web 2.0 frameworks just to attract talent or be attractive to the next company.
I can already see this being used as a source that the vaccines are the reason for the increased deaths.

Could anyone point out if how vaccines as the casue could be ruled out by this data?
Well, you can. France are doing it. They are having 200k daily cases.

So it's not really "or", it's just "and".

You can either have everyone gets corona, or you can have everyone gets corona plus a miserable digital dystopia, loads of restrictions on everyday life etc.

Either way, unless you manage zero covid which is almost universally considered to be impossible at this point in most of the world, your options are still "hide inside forever" or "get corona". Which brings us right back full circle to risk vs reward.
This was my thought too. Mail chimp is probably the worst ESP so all options are going to beat it
its more efficient and more useful than anything else currently available
Being off-grid wouldn't normally get you around building code; where are you that it does?
"Carrousel" from Logan's Run, is the western equivalent.
Thank you for making it, I'm a fan.
Good theory. Even my Substack subscriptions land in Promotions on GMail.
FWIW, my dealer is not adding any markup. Here is the email I received from them explaining the process:

"We finally received an update from Ford regarding the Lightning! This will be a completely unique process from Ford and they will send a detailed guideline in January, however I wanted to let you know in advance that things are in motion.

This process is going to be based on invitation to convert as demand has outweighed production capability by far. Due to demand, not all reservation holders will recieve an invitation to place an order for a 2022 model year. Ford will begin inviting reservation holders to place orders in waves starting in January. Subsequent waves will receive an invitation in two-week intervals until 2022 model year capacity is reached. Invitations are based on reservation timing, and our estimated allocation. You will be directed to an online configurator (Build and Price tool) where you will then be able to spec out your order and then submit your finalized order. At that time, we will provide you with complete pricing including MSRP, taxes, and dealer handling fee. We are not charging any dealer markup above MSRP. Once the 22MY production capacity is met, all remaining reservation holders will be notified that their next ordering opportunity will be for the next model year."
That's slicing it rather finely. After transfer is complete, the host device opens the transferred data. When combined with CVE-2016-4657 on an unpatched device, they allow an attacker to gain control of the victim's device after they accept the airdrop. We can call that a Webkit vulnerability instead of Airdrop (because it is), but end of the day, Airdrop is another route for attackers to gain access to your system. You can choose to enable it if you deem it useful enough, but it would be naive to blindly believe "it's fine".

Now, the victim has to accept the Airdrop payload, and Airdrop has limited range, so it's not as scary as the Pegasus iMessage exploit which was totally remote, but I wouldn't bet my life on the Airdrop code having zero bugs.
This kind of highlights a flaw in the dealership model, however. Ford took the reservation money and made a promise that they're unable to fulfill to the reservation holder.
I'd start by questioning why you think addicts should discontinue their habits? Why do you think you know what's good for someone more than they do? If an addict says "I like my addiction, thank you very much", what gives you the right to intervene?
Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories
Google very likely only scans the input application, I'm not sure why you would bother with an automated system to detect a code repo for it when the majority of applications on the Play Store are closed-source and there's a low confidence if the builds are not repeatable.

Anyway, regardless of that it sounds like it would be easily defeated with the following C format string:

"%s-%s: %s/%s (%s) %s/%s %s/%s"

with argument list:

"User", "Agent", "Mozilla", "5.0", "X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64", "Gecko", "2010000", "Firefox", "90.0"

For bonus points you can make those floating points, too, and split it up a bit further. Now nobody can scan for this without a lot of false positives (The strings are going to display in anything that embeds a web browser or references it, lol) and you get ultimate flexibility.
I appreciate the downvotes as they confirm the emotional damage, but I am not a fan of misusing logical implications.

Obviously, in a pre-Covid world leaving your home to go to work was simply the societal expectation of how to acquire an income. WFH mostly came with economic downsides (lower salary, no promotions).

During Covid and post-Covid it's quite an interesting question why somebody would voluntarily lobby to add unpaid work time in the form of a commute to their day.
I spent a few days moving several tons of soil from bags to planters, and it was fantastic. Very rewarding for being everything my job usually isn't. Clearly defined, known progress, you just get stuck in and go.
Well, again, in principle, NFTs can be used to represent ownership of anything. The current crop of NFTs I find just as silly and worthless as you do. However, I will note that even the current stuff is no more worthless than, e.g. a piece of paper autographed by a celebrity. What NFTs are right now is the digital equivalent of an autograph. I think buying a hat autographed by LeBron James is stupid, but obviously a lot of people disagree.

However, theoretically, you could tokenize other assets, like real estate, or intellectual property, and then trade them in a more liquid, global manner than is currently possible. The NFT ecosystem is one of the least developed parts of crypto, though.

If you want an example of tokenized value, just look at stablecoins. Stablecoins are literally tokenized dollars. They allow you to self-custody large amounts of, what is effectively digital cash. That is something you couldn't do before. If you didn't trust banks, you either had to store physical dollars in your home, which is extremely dangerous for a number of reasons, or you had to suck it up and trust them anyway. Crypto gives you a third option.
> if you showed an image or two of an object to a person they could identify that object in other orientations and lighting conditions pretty well. To do the same with NNs requires thousands of examples and counter examples to train.

There’s work from 2019 on gauge equivariant NNs that looks to solve this, there’s a paper and explainer video from Qualcomm Research about it. Also, Tesla presumably does have thousands of examples for most driving scenarios. There’s also lots of work in the ML community on generalization—that’s arguably what all the research is about in some way or another. I don’t intend to be flippant, but I would bet that these are issues that the researchers at Tesla are well aware of.
I worked for Blackberry in the period running up to the iPhone launch. Was many tech people in support who saw it as a threat, though upper management did not and IMHO some serious mistakes were made as they were more focused upon shifting towards catering for consumers devices and yet had to keep their business offerings going and kind of ended up miss-managing both.

Then the whole business culture did change, the rigid suit brigade was not so much the core business base and form over function seemed to change in balance.

Ironically, was many core blackberry users who stuck with earlier models of the phone, shunning the colour screens etc and personally, the jog wheel was brilliant for email navigation one handed and yet to be equaled for me.
Valuation is forward looking and taking into account future growth as well with gigafactories coming online. Plenty of people had the same valuation argument and comparing sales vs other automakers 2 years ago but look where the company and valuations are now

Ford is also years behind in battery and fsd tech. That being said, they need to match / best expectations handily to retain these valuations
Billionaires Are Embracing Crypto in Case Money ‘Goes to Hell’
They didn't really specify the causes, but they did indicate that COVID was generally NOT on the death certificates.
I'm not certain that perk of parenthood ends at birth.
I usually use the Prettier extension with VS Code to autoformat JSON locally - then again, I already use both anyways on a daily basis.
It's more like rubbish/bad/not very good.
Signed also tends to mean modular arithmetic. It's just with a different definition of modular arithmetic than the Euclidean one. See Boute's 1992 paper "The Euclidean Definition of the Functions div
and mod" [1] for details on the various definitions.

Both signed and unsigned arithmetic are using finite fields, instead of Abelian rings as most people expect.

[1] https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/314490/file/452146.pdf
I saw this website today in this thread [0]. It made me more curious about bike-shedding which I've known about for a while. I realized that during code review I often do exactly what the article mentions: focusing on the small, tangible details rather than the things that actually matter.

How do others deal with this issue? Should minor but impactful issues be ignored during code review? How can I effectively review a large commit that I don't quite grasp, or that changes code that I'm unfamiliar with? How can I steer my team (and myself!) away from bike-shedding given that it's more-or-less part of human nature?

I'm curious about what others think.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29770105
Plumbing can also be the act of making something plumb, but generally people use specific sentence fragments to make that clear.

I was plumbing a wall when I dropped my hammer and had to start all over.
We need to build ITER all around the world! :D
> of course, in a large sense, the one that hits from behind is at fault

I don't know where you live, but where I live (Denmark) brake-checking is a serious traffic offense which can lead to loss of license. While the driver behind has to keep distance, you cannot brake for non-traffic reasons. I.e. you cannot simply brake-check someone on the freeway because you think the driver behind you is driving too close (also a serious offense).
The Non-Productive Programmer (NPP)
I tried leechblock as well and it works well, but I ended up getting around it too easy. Setting up a barrier at the network level worked better for my brain.
Search. Google’s monopoly and political and legislative corruption are the only things going for it. The world deserves a less evil search engine, ideally one that works like google did about 15 years ago.
To be fair, they said the risks are evenly distributed, not that deaths are.
Yes, and you can argue that coal and oil are currently being created... very slowly... from dead trees and what not. So renewable vs non-renewable doesn't make any sense anymore.

Lets make another name: "energy which source can get replenished in less than 100 years (a life time), as wood, or less, as solar, wind, waves, and can be practically harvested with current methods i.e. not fussion or matter dissolved in the sea". That's the whole phrase you should use from now on instead of "renewable".
> This is how "web1" operated all the time: People have a cool idea and fire up a webserver to host it. Self-Custody in its purest form.

Web1 assets are not scarce, that's the difference.

> Sure, others could copy it, but they can also do that with whatever someone generates an NFT for "digital assets" (the certificate cannot be copied, the thing it certifies ownership for can).

Forget NFTs. Go print yourself $1000 USDC and try to exchange it for dollars. The thing that prevents you from doing that - that's decentralized digital scarcity. There is no equivalent on web1.
> It's like getting banned from radio in the 1940s

It'd be like getting banned from one station, perhaps. Radio? To my knowledge the FCC has never banned anyone from the airwaves.

This pretense that the big social networks are so big that politicians must be granted access is just poisonous beyond belief to what the internet is. No one is stopping MTG from setting up countless points of her own presence, or sharing links to MTG-related media on Twitter.

Alas, that getting banned from one of the big networks is a crude, de-facto facsimile to a truth is quite the sad sign of the state of affairs. That we have become so very centralized, that our primary way of connecting is via such heavily centralized pillars that hold up so very much of the online experience is nothing short of a travesty. I mainly try to calm myself by reminding myself how recent all this is, how new. And assuring myself of their inability to create new & visionary ways of connecting; the big networks are beholden to their experience as massified, consumerized, common experiences. Their own impermissiveness, their own slowly closing, setting ever more fast in concrete rules & expectations bring hope that the frontier & more open communications might rise again.
"These extra screens shouldn't be offered" seems like exactly the point the article is trying to make.
Here's one of them:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/delayed-gratificat...

I don't think 15 seconds is necessary, I like 1-2 seconds (the extension is on a different computer than I'm on -- this one just as a News Feed Eradicator to stop FB).
TBH, I think that is a bit of a trite diversion/straw man. I don't think anyone is arguing this is an act by the government. However, censorship is not always something government does [1]. This certainly _is_ an act of corporate political censorship.

And if they can easily get away with censoring people who "get to whine about it on C-SPAN", it is certain that you and I and the rest of the plebeians have absolutely no recourse. That is not OK.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship