skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having no official play store also means you aren't getting the silent security updates today are a critical aspect of Android security.

I wonder why they have avoided Android certification. It is the only thing holding me back at this point.
Incentives: Spend five years doing difficult / expensive / dangerous research, gathering data that demonstrates X. The data set is vast, and you can get ten papers out of it, one every six months with some awesome collaboration and possibly tenure.

Do you do that or

publish all your data in the first paper and watch a dozen grad students publish your next nine papers in three weeks ?

Incentives matter yes. Science and data should be free and transparent. But if we pay peanuts and expect the monkeys to appreciate the applause of publication, we need to change our incentive structure.

The reasons AI / ML researchers don't mind publishing the data early is because they already get 500k salaries and equity.
Why? Why shouldn't respect be earned?
the interface reminds me a little bit of progress quest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Quest
I found sparkling water to be an amazing substitute to curb my drinking, because what I usually actually wanted was just something cold, bubbly, and tasty. Like Perrier or La Croix.
Those people are obviously less smart and educated than any rational man who seriously pondered whether the Earth's flat and could be bothered to do a couple of simple experiments.

But at the same time they're step ahead of majority of the population that just believed what they were told as kids and never, once in their life, expressed any doubt in it, or thought about how it was proven, or how they would be able to check that proof themselves.
Yes.

This concept says that PTO has no value, and because there is (theoretically) no limit to how much you can take, and no suggested amount that you should take (otherwise you lose it at the end of the year), that means by default you will take a lot less because you are afraid of upsetting some internally hidden value that they won’t tell you about.

And it means they don’t have to pay you for any PTO that you’ve earned but not taken when you decide to leave.

Definitely a scam.
I think this is closer to the truth.

I'm struggling to find it, but an article I read and found enlightening explained how there was seemingly a uniform struggle with education in every story the author was told by the people she talked to at a flat earther's convention.

They all had some profoundly negative encounter with the education establishment, and usually as a result of a learning disability that they had.

It's anecdotal and not a complete view, but a mistrust of academia seems requisite for many of these conspiracies to take root in a person's mind, and that seems pathologic to me.
To many, though perhaps not most, organized religion is seen as equally ridiculous as flat-earth theory. Are religious people illiterate or not worth debating or worthy of some basic respect?
Some sources, you might want to move the heat away (ie, CPU), maybe these loads of pipes they have are the same. But yes, point taken, insulation first. Ockhams Razor: don't multiply entities beyond necessity.
Spinalonga
By the way things are going, I think soon 3rd party analytics services will see a drop in usage and people with consider self-hosting more (so they have full control over their data and how its used). I built my own self-hosted platform https://www.uxwizz.com, but there are many others out there with various features and privacy controls.
Yes, the nuclear power plant workers can walk off mid shift.

Hence the incentive for the employer to provide appropriate compensation and hire sufficient redundant staff.

If you want redundancy and reliability, then pay for it. Limiting labor sellers’ freedom is unacceptable, especially when the labor buyers have no such expectations of commitment and can stop buying labor anytime they want. Society cannot have its cake and eat it too.

This employer must have been grossly underpaying staff to have a whole team up and leave, especially educated professionals.
While failures are often worth celebrating (don't fear failure, learn from your mistakes, etc) there's a line there somewhere where this type of "toast to the rejects" can cross over into something else. Sour grapes? "I didn't want that stupid grant anyway!"
I’m with the other poster, I don’t see how flat Earth is inherently crazier to believe than any of the large number of religions that people identify with.
It is now assumed that this already happened, in 2011, in a Bulgarian umbrella attack in Germany's crime capital, Hanover.
My somewhat unfounded guess is that the perpetrator himself perished not too long after the victim, which would explain why the case is still unsolved.
I went with Prisma + Nexus + Pal.js + Apollo, which was probably at least two layers too complex.

I'm looking, still, for an all-in-one solution to this, though I do need more control over my queries/mutations than what Hasura would give me.
Brief thoughts on right to repair issues people don't think about
OpenAPI generation is cool, but using the OpenAPI as the specification of even better. ;)
From my experience you are either under a flight lane and a lot of planes fly over, or none do. There may be some places further north where they are more spread out, but for example I used to live just south of the approach to one of the runways at my city's airport (maybe 10 miles away so the planes were not super low but were already lined up with the runway) and we saw a constant stream of them go by. I really enjoyed it to, there were lots i could identify readily and sometimes an obscure one that I'd jump on flightaware to see what it was. I think this is a cool project and wish I had something similar.

Edit: related, I regularly commuted by plane between two cities, and my parents live out in the country part way between the two. I could regularly see their house out the window of my plane, because by chance one of the flight lanes was just north of them. So they would have have a lot of traffic going overhead, despite being nowhere near an airport. They also have less frequent planes go by on great circle routes to europe, which is probably what you're imagining thinking about seeing planes infrequently.
This almost sounds too good to be true. I checked the prices here vs GoodRx and it is significantly cheaper. For example, Metformin is $4.5 instead of $11.5. Mesalamine is $36 instead of $112

Trying to understand why large chains like Walmart/Costco doesn't do this already.
Yes, you can do that --- but it won't fully eliminate the privacy issues. Contact with Google servers is hard coded into the Android source in various places. /e/OS strips this out and replaces it.

Also, most people won't forgo a lot of convenience apps/features that depend on Google services. MicroG allows most of these apps to still work without privacy invasion.
The part I found interesting [edit: but apparently not true, see comments below] is about Apple:

> The other thing I really dislike about Apple is their stance on privacy. They're bad, like really bad on privacy. Despite the advertising hypocrisy, which since the porn filter debacle has been bunk, whenever you have your mac connected to the internet most of what you're doing is being recorded. There is literally 30+ daemon processes constantly phoning home and doing all sorts of telemetry.

> If MacOS Big Sur was around 15 years ago it would be considered a thin client.
Another great privacy innovasion is that even though I don't use icloud or icloud photos or backup or anything like that, Apple still runs image recognition and face detection over all my photos with no option to turn it off. Big win for privacy right there.

Sounds even worse than vanilla Windows. I didn't realize it was that bad.
I keep saying Microchip instead
The idea that the cost of living in major cities makes such a huge difference is practically a meme, at this point. 300k in LA gets you ~180k after taxes (unmarried, no deductions), compared to ~109k from 150k in Dallas. Let me reassure you that life in LA is not anywhere near 70k/year more expensive than life in Dallas, for the majority of plausible life circumstances. I live in LA and don't even come close to spending 70k/year (minus charitable donations, which are obviously location-agnostic), and I'm not exactly pinching pennies.

Obviously there are some pretty specific lifestyle choices which are much more expensive in places in LA (or SF, or NY, or whatever), like "buying a large house in a nice part of town", which, sure? You can always find some set of preferences that are expensive to satisfy. But most people are going to come out ahead taking the 300k in LA.

Some people do pack up and take off as soon as they hit their number. Some people enjoy what they do, and the money isn't really a motivating factor. I have some acquaintances in the Bay Area who are well into their 60s but continue working in tech despite being able to retire several times over because they like it. I plan on being financially independent by 40 but I don't expect that I'll spend my days sitting on the beach, just focusing more on things that I think are worthwhile.
Hi! I am the guy behind this, awesome to see it posted here. Happy to answer any questions.

To answer a question I saw pop up, I am using the FAA aircraft registration data to pull up the extra information about the planes. It lists who actually owns the plane, vs who is operating it. That is why you see so many banks. Places like Flightaware have much better data, but a pricy to look up.
Revealed: The Flint water poisoning charges that never came to light
Festina Lente - make haste slowly.

“Sometimes you have to slow down to speed up”.
I feel like these myths are myths, I've never heard anyone making these claims before.
For local variables. Once you're passing the data around to other functions, the problem becomes much more complex, and it becomes much less clear when and why the compiler will be able to understand what's happening.

Not to mention, in an example like processing packets, the two views of the data WILL be simultaneously live: you're taking raw bytes on one side, interpreting some part of them as a struct to decide what's happening next, then sending the raw bytes somewhere else.

EDIT: Basically the code would look something like this:

char* buf = new char[100];
read(buf, sizeof(header));
header h;
memcpy(&h, buf, sizeof(header))
get_destination(h).write(buf);

Will this copy the header or not? How about this?

char* buf = new char[100];
read(buf, sizeof(header));
header *h = reinterpret_cast<header*>(buf); //assume we are compiling with "-fno-strict-alias", and that we know there are no alignment/packing concerns
get_destination(h).write(buf);

Also note that in C we have a somewhat cleaner solution:

union buf_header {
header h;
char buf[100];
} buffer;
read(buffer.buf, sizeof(header));
get_destination(buffer.h).write(buffer.buf);

This would of course be UB in C++ (reading from a union member that is not the last one written to).
The experiment I excerpted his description of seems to go along with exactly that. Experimenter who believes? Things happen. Experimenter who does not believe? Nothing happens.
I felt sorry for the laptop. I cannot imagine the working conditions it had to suffer. It's probably a dust haven inside, and the keyboard has never been cleaned once.
>Why are you involving the government in your love and sex life? Why complicate your financial situation so?

For same-sex couples, the legal ability to complicate their financial situation was hard won. Recall: Only 10 years ago it took an executive order by the President of the United States to prevent hospitals that receive government funding from denying a same-sex partner visitation.

Legal marriage is a cultural legitimizer that has value to some.
Nice, simple and easy to use! I implemented a copy in Derw[0] here[1], with a link back to yours, of course.

[0] - https://derw-lang.github.io/

[1] - https://derw-lang.github.io/examples/jeopardy/
No. Glad we had this talk.
Prefigurative politics. Your groups to change the world operate in the same way that you want to see the world be in the future, not in ends-justify-the-means vangaurdism. If you intend to implement democracy, you operate as a political group democratically, etc.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefigurative_politics
Why skyscrapers are so short
Any interest in sharing the plane dataset you used to train Azure Custom Vision with others? Happy to host it on Roboflow Universe along with an API to a trained model others can hit to detect planes in images.

We’ve got one detecting planes on the ground but not yet in the air! https://universe.roboflow.com/gdit/aerial-airport
It is always a scam. Funny how this story has similar rags to riches vibes as this one https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/service-station-worker-t...

It's all a scam.
I think you’re trying to split hairs for some reason I can’t figure out.

In any case your assertion is not correct: Multics was operational around campus in 1969.
I was just alluding to a subjective sense that you got something reasonable for your trouble and efforts. You could do something, or you learned something, or you were entertained. My argument doesn't depend too much on the precise meaning, I think.
so coooool :)
If that's all it takes to prove the earth is round it seems consistent to accept Fata Morgana as proof that gravity can fail once you get far enough away from the coast.
Pimiga: The Ultimate “Amiga like” Experience [video]
You probably hold humans too highly then. I don't find it surprising at all. Were just slightly better chimps, which are coincidentally one of the most unnecessarily violent creates in nature.
Most of the time, "science tells us" means "this question is not sufficiently interesting or relevant, and human life is several orders of magnitude too short to question everything". We all resort to "trusting the experts" in almost every action we take, because there are no feasible alternatives.

Believing in flat earth is basically a result of poorly calibrated trust heuristics. People may believe in it due to lack of education, for social/political/ideological reasons, or because they are contrarians. Or due to a random chance because the question is not particularly relevant to them.
This is overkill. Instead:

1. Photograph your signature

2. Add to a pdf in Acrobat Reader using "Fill & Sign" function or paste into a docx file.

3. Use https://makescanned.com to give the pdf or docx a scanned effect.
Do you still ultimately do product engineering, picking tickets of a backlog, after 10 years at a FAANG if you’re not in management? Are the promotion levels mostly salary bumps?

I spend some but far from most of my time writing code, I write RFCs, documentation, code reviews and emails, but don’t really know how this compares to positions at other companies. At some places a staff engineer seems to simply be a senior engineer who’s been around for a while.
Having worked at Microsoft in their headquarters in Redmond, I have to agree with the unhealthiness of being stuck in a work community all the time. I was dazzled by MS for the first several months, it was my first job out of college, there were tons of shiny things and fringe benefits, they rented out entire sports stadiums for company meetings, they had clubs for salsa and ballroom dance just like at school, etc. But it was very disconnected from Seattle or even the rest of the world. Microsoft practically ran Redmond and Bellevue, to the point where it programmed their stop-lights. I was there for a couple years and everyone I knew was a Microsoft employee or a spouse or family member of a Microsoft employee (many of whom were also Microsoft employees). I was also dating a Microsoft contractor I met through one of those work-related clubs. It started to drive me nuts, and it was my major reason for leaving MS. I don't think I could ever do that again, barring otherwise dire circumstances.

I later worked at a Google satellite office in Cambridge, and while I left for other reasons, it did not have the all-encompassing life capture that the MS HQ did, not because of any company policy (since Google has a similar HQ) but because I was not physically trapped in a company town. I imagine I would have had a better time at MS had I worked in their Cambridge satellite instead.
Feels like the website-about page: http://skybot.cam/about is a much better link than a tweet.. loaded with details. For example:

- Most planes are passing at over 30,000'
- It's using a Costar RISE 4260 camera /w built in heater
- It leverages SkyScan by IQT labs[0]
- It leverages Azure custom vision API[1]

[0]: https://github.com/IQTLabs/SkyScan
[1]: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...
This seems like it would be a good candidate
for a static site responding to all the requests
in an efficient manner.

Then have a server process somewhere that generates
scheduled updates of the site on a scheduled basis.

I would think the site does not have to be real time,
Fairly trivial: https://www.astro.princeton.edu/~dns/teachersguide/MeasECAct...
Check out notcurses: https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses
> You can use software like Anki or Supermemo and input these positive memories as they happen. Avoid trying to recall toxic, depressive or anxiety inducing memories—your brain is already good enough at doing that.

It sounds like a Catch-22 problem. People with depression and anxiety are often in a spiral of negative thoughts. But it seems like it could be powerful along with some professional aid.
Those aren't really comparable. Those conditions all can land you in the hospital but there is enormous variation from person to person in how long it takes for that happen. You make the decisions that lead to that condition and then sometime in the next ~60 years it gets you.

The effect is that these decisions result in a small increase in the steady state hospitalization levels. If obesity or smoking increases the effects of that increase on hospitalization will be spread out over decades giving plenty of time for hospital capacity to be adjusted to deal with it. (Same if obesity or smoking decreases--hospitals won't suddenly be laying off staff. Hospitalizations would fall over several years giving hospitals plenty of time to reduce capacity by simply not replacing as many workers who retire or change professions).

COVID-19 is bad for hospitals because it is short term. That's why in the US we are currently getting about 20x as many daily COVID-19 hospital admissions as we got cancer admissions before COVID-19 (that's for all cancers, not just lung cancer).
Because it's not. Nothing on this page is trustworthy or well reasoned.
Ponzi and pyramid schemes are materially different.

Madoff was paying cashflows to his clients. Bitcoin pays nobody.

What are the longest running pyramid schemes? Gold sees to be running for nearly 5000 years, seems like plenty of runway here.
That taxes and tax breaks can be used in to create incentives is one of the fundamental aspects of modern liberalism. Most people don’t have the libertarian idea of taxes where they are evil/theft.
We've just had a far reaching tsunami from the Hunga Tonga eruption and no one will explain why.

That is a trust issue.

Do they know how volcanos work or not? Can they get that knowledge to the public or not?

The mathematics is high school level in many cases to disprove possible causes of the tsunami.

The reality is people do know how volcanoes work but the field is so full of charlatans that info can't get out.

This is every field of science now.

[And the idea the info doesn't need to get out quickly is BS, it shows structural problems in the field, on top of that in this case Tonga and aid orgs needs to know what might be possible in the next few weeks and the truth helps with that]
That's a complicated discussion. To keep it short, I think different societies are prone to different institutions being centers of organized crime because organized criminals are rational evaluators of power structures and risk.
His claims aren't true. There's nothing recording your actions on a Mac.
> Apple has like 50x as many people working on this stuff as the entire linux community does.

This is not entirely true. The companies working in Linux (and the majority of Linux development is by commercial companies) together can easily match and outmatch Apple. However, they don't care about developing the Linux GUI/UX, and the Linux community ... well it's a bazaar :)
Doesn't Erastosthenes's experiment merely allow you to calculate the size of the earth if you already accept that it is spherical? As I understand the experiment it does not (nor was it meant to) prove that the earth is a sphere.
I'll never be comfortable with any tool for that automatically generates schema changes, as I'm just never sure at what point it decides to delete parts of my prod db.

All of my migrations are dumb DDL statements rolled up into a version. I know exactly what the final state is as it gets run and used when integration testing, staging etc.

It's boring but pretty bulletproof. I can rename a table and be confident it'll work, rather than some tool that might decide to drop and create a new table.

I can also continue to use SQL and not have to learn HCl for databases. This is useful when I want to control how updates are done, if I want index updates to be done concurrently Vs locking the table.
I don't think this list is accurate, because the expected number of guesses for the top words should be fewer than 5. I'll post something in more detail later, but the best guesses on the 12,972 5-letter words have an expected number of guesses of around 4.3.
No I’m not saying it will preclude the other clients. Just that Musk has a way of selling his companies as doing one thing to the masses while actually making money via the government.
As I've spent more time with flame graphs I realize they are, once you get down to brass tacks, the wrong tool for perf analysis because it's the width of the flame that tells you the most, not the height, and we usually worry about height when thinking about actual flames.

However there are all sorts of little subtle costs in your system that aren't captured by most of these tools due to lack of resolution (I haven't spent a lot of time with Intel's hardware solution) and asynchronous costs like memory defragmentation. Depth and frequency of calls are a useful proxy for figuring out what rocks to look under next after you've exhausted the first dozen. For this reason the flame graph is a useful fiction so I don't poo-poo them where anyone can hear. I can barely get people to look at perf data as it is.

But then I think how I'm turned off by some fictions and avoid certain fields, like parser writing, and wonder if a more accurate model would get more people to engage.
Can’t steelman an argument that isn’t in front of me, but it’s probably a unique decision to this case that relies on the following alleged facts: 1. Ascension Wisconsin poached 7 of ThedaCare’s staff in a short period of time that were all part of an 11 person team 2. ThedaCare-Neenah is the only Level II Trauma Center in Fox Valley and 3. the people on this team have a set of hard to replace skills that the people of Fox Valley depend on and 4. this is a temporary order, only sufficient time for ThedaCare to find replacements.

So the damage you’re worried about being done? I don’t want to discount the damage this might do to the 7 people who tried to change employers, but ThedaCare wants them to stay, working, which means getting paid, for that time, and this is unlikely to realistically affect anyone in a completely different industry and profession.

Was it a good or fair call by the judge? Hard to say, but the “this will set a new precedent” types of arguments against an order or decision rarely end up setting the kinds of sustainable precedents people imagine they could.