skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consider this to be the greatest scene of modern superhero movies (Amazing Spiderman 2 - Electro first fight). The movie itself had a lot of problems and Sony is entirely to blame, but I digress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWNbliU6-LQ

This scene does pretty much everything marvel movies are criticized for. Lots of CGI. Lots of explosions. Banter in dangerous moments. But I think it works extremely well.

The use of bright color contrasts between red and blue; then later darkness is really sharp. The sound design of the moment highlights the villain's confusion and spidey comes off as really distraught that this guy is in this situation. You don't really have reason to think that Spidey will die here, but it does set up a level of belief that some civilians could get hurt here, and it does come off as pretty exciting to see him need to immediately pull off a difficult, slo mo maneuver to save them. The fighting is incredibly quick, with both players only doing heavy fight-ending moves. It's stylistic as fuck.

tl;dr the biggest problem with superhero movies is the awkward uncanny valley of trying to be both realistic and absurd with CGI. Go big and stylistic.
‘The Mandalorian’ and ILM invisibly reinvented film and TV production
Julia Evans has been talking about DNS lately on her blog.

https://jvns.ca
Website design and intro video look nice.
Pretty sure the entire value prop of gRPC is to help Xooglers avoid learning modern tools.
Technically speaking, there hasn't been a peace treaty between Russia and Japan, either. That doesn't mean we've spent the past 77 years waiting with bated breath for yet another conflict over the Kuril islands to break out.
Often it is done simply to get reports. The research is likely going to happen anyway in a lot of these areas. Signing a deal to give some money commits the researchers to give reports used to monitor the program.
"it makes me feel uneasy to suggest that everyone should use
WhatsApp and make one Big Tech company the gateway to all of
our digital communications"

Bingo. The author seems to be circling around something that is very important to me; open protocols. If there was a modern drop-in replacement for SMS that addressed the known security concerns while also being open and cross platform, I'd be all over it. Messaging used to have the hope of XMPP, but walled-garden interests and consumer desire for the new-shiny-thing effectively killed that.

The way I put it to friends to drive home the importance of open protocols: Imagine you want to send a package... you put your friend's address on it, right? You can use UPS, FedEx, DHL, or the USPO. And if it goes to another country, it transfers to that countries Post Office ~ because only an address is needed. Imagine how ridiculous it would be if you could only send FedEx packages to recipients with "FedEx Addresses"? Same with UPS, etc... Obviously sounds lame, right? We've done the same thing with messaging.
Can it be used for shock absorbers or seat belts?
> the lack of discoverability that happens when the list of settings gets long and you have to dig for them

Any modern application that has more than 20 settings should have a good search function in its settings menu. That way you can have as many configurable options as you like without them being impossible to find. The defaults should ofc be the most common (or best) ones, but some users really do value customizability and respecting the users is (almost) always a good idea.
It looks promising! But fixed-width lanes don't seem too cross-platform? I don't just mean the v256 and v512 types that may become ubiquitous in a few years, but also things like optimizing for different L1 cache sizes, doing some operation macro-fusion on the SIMD unit, or directly supporting leading/trailing elements to reduce code size?
You'd do your job as a CEO better if you didn't spam competitors HN threads with your own product, unless you have something relevant to bring to the table. This comment just looks like a shameless plug because you're in the same sector.

One way you could approach is to highlight what you think is good with Grafanas implementation, and what could be better, and then contrast that with your own offering, without sounding like a salesman.
The last of these recent years’ superhero movies I saw had the protagonist fly from the ground on earth into space and fly through a fleet of supposedly extremely advanced and capable and enormous spaceships in order to win the fight. Literally, simply flying through as if playing a connect the dots game.

One was left wondering how there could be any further movies with this person available to fly through anything.
That's the kind of cost-benefit analysis that's lazy on Heroku's part though, and doesn't properly track brand damage or even attempt to think about second order effects. The country has a huge developer population, massive internet penetration among the entire economic range and fast moving fintech scene. This is the kind of cost benefit that signals an inability to change or adapt rather than a projection of the real benefits.

Stripe handled it transparently, as did many other payment gateways — the changes were somewhat in the vein of European 3DS / SCA changes anyway, and it's quite possible that the EU will adopt similar measures — not to mention that adding flexible invoice payment options allows customers to use many more international payment methods.

The sad thing is instead of seeing the benefits the change would unlock it looks like Heroku focussed on the cost of doing it and gave up.
It can't be just any "average driver", they should be compared against "average driver" who just bought $40-50K NEW car.
The article is about stop signs. My point and this discussion are about it is not just, "always follow traffic laws exactly, at all times."
Pulling (tensile), which is also the direction steel is unusually strong in (from a materials perspective).

Compression wise it’s close to a wet noodle the way it’s manufacturable (though that has more to do with cost/practical production/gathering methods - if we could get a solid chunk of it I imagine it would be pretty strong in compression).

Sliding, it’s a fiber, so very weak in that sense (barring the same scenario above). It actively flexes, so isn’t strong’
The thing is it only takes one person to kill you.
Not to mention that, with the help of appdaemon[0], you can write Python code to implement all the logic you can dream of.

I found this much more powerful than the base GUI, and much more expressive (and less clunky) than Nodered or the yaml automations.

[0]: https://appdaemon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
> The US (meaning really, the American people) is expected both to innovate and subsidize the world?

See also, military spending. There's certainly an argument to be made that the US doesn't need to have quite the level of worldwide engagement it does, but what would that result in? Would China being an uncontested military superpower be good or bad for the world?
Do you recommend a font similar to Garamond with better congruence between the regular serif and italic?
The presentation of things that aren't really in question as being up for debate isn't great. At least not when the debate isn't well informed.

Like sure, it's important in science to question everything, but that means doing experiments to generate elucidating data, not getting high and rambling on Spotify.
At this point I would assume that foreign states have malware hooked deep enough into all the systems that the only way to eradicate them would be with an incinerator. Plus even after (if?) they update their software I doubt you’d need zero days to get back in. Im interested to see what the upgrade path is for the Red Star OS is though lol
Here I am with my default Ubuntu 20.04 setup (I think) with the default hippo wallpaper that looks like a pair of hairy balls.

I'd call myself a power user and to an extent I am (give me a deb or a PPA over snap and the app store any day) but tinkering is just a pain in the ass now.
> At the same time, it seems foolish to tell them not to use blind spot monitors, or to even expect them to "check their blind spot" the old-fashioned way if their cars have monitors.

I have never owned a car with blind spot monitoring. Do people really just rely on them completely? Even in dense urban environments with bikes around? Or is it more of a judgement call? Different perspectives on this would be nice.

I have never seen the little light on the mirrors fail to detect me while I am riding but I never trust a driver not to just turn right cutting me off anyways.

I am not trying to pass judgement just understand how these driver aids change the way people drive.
Note when looking at 40% vs 60% of accidents (assuming males and females drive the same amount) the % difference seems small, only 20%, but actually this means males cause 50% more accidents than females do (60/40=1.5).
Not being able to use arms absolutely is an infringement of the right to bear them. I mean, how would it be different if we claimed that you can own a gun but not shoot it?

One point that gets lost about the 2nd Amendment is that it should be considered an inalienable right. Meaning, it cannot be diminished by any law of man. Consequently, most of the gun laws can be viewed as fundamentally unconstitutional, and any attempts to enforce them are illegal.

Of course, this is a highly unpopular opinion, as most of the population has surrendered itself to creeping authoritarianism.
It isn't just FFLs. The Gun Control Act (GCA) defines a list of people who aren't allowed to ship, transport, receive, or possess firearms of ammo. This includes any person "who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act, codified at 21 U.S.C. § 802);" [1]. Since cannabis is federally illegal still if you use it you can't legally even possess (not just own) a firearm or ammo.

I think it is a stupid law though. Imagine if we applied that logic to other constitutionally protected rights. "Anyone who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance shall not have the right to vote" or "Anyone who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance shall not have the right to due process".

[1]https://www.atf.gov/firearms/identify-prohibited-persons
The earliest call for something like this that I am aware of is Douglas McIlroy’s 1968 paper calling for “Mass Produced Software Components” which he delivered at the NATO Science Committee, Garmisch, Germany.

It is not exactly what Block Protocol is all about, but it is good reading nonetheless, and most of it still holds true over 50 years later and it does provide additional perspective on how Blocks could be used: https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/components.txt
So that guy downloaded some random "hacking tool" a friend of his found, and no shit it had a backdoor. He was never directly targeted by the North Koreans.
Just curious, in what ways do you prioritize your efforts to help people facing real danger?

I'm particularly curious about how those efforts compete with showing sympathy to someone talking about their experience with this
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NK committed a sovereign act of war, not a crime. NK is not under common jurisdiction as the victim.
Not when I've turned off the WiFi to conserve battery while out and about not anywhere near wifi signals. Unfortunately, because I've decided to use Bluetooth earbuds, I now leave the bluetooth radio on as well. Until then, that was kept off specifically to avoid bluetooth tracking.

GPS is just fine for Garmin, TomToms, etc. Why suddenly for a phone that has WiFi in them Maps suddenly "requires" wifi is just not convincing me of anything other than Googs wants all the data.
VS Code is another program that I think does search in settings very well. I can't think of a program that isn't an IDE that has taken this approach, though.
It's not like Honda doesn't engage in puffery.

Most retailers make over-the-top claims regarding their products, including safety.

https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-honda-fine-2015...
They should adjust for car-age and price.
>Bezos, 57, is one of the world's richest men after transforming online bookseller Amazon into a global shopping giant. When not travelling by sea on superyachts, he can be found blasting into space on his Blue Origin capsule.

Couldn't help but laugh at the closing dig. What a time to be alive.
You could posit that this woman is in no danger whatsoever and it would still meet my budget for outrage. I guess we have different budgets.
Sure, but would they be if they could be “independently verified” by a startup like this? It might be a PR win.
i have noticed this myself. there's something about the spatio-tactile sensation along with the imperfections of the pages that can help printed media stick better than digital media, for me.
> If you have sensible defaults, you can make users do actions that you want them to do

> It's literally the job of the designer to make sure users can do what they need to do in the application,

See, this is two entirely different things.

The notion of attempting to manipulate the behavior of people without their knowledge or consent is creepy no matter how you twist or turn it.
North Korea destroyed their own credibility.
Boozing through the Soviet–Afghan war
> doesn't change what i said at all

Yes, it does. See below.

> I'm happy to change it to "wifi helps with a bunch of features they have".

This does change what you said, because "a bunch of features they have" is not at all the same as "GPS, a feature which pretty much everybody wants to use and wants to start fast".

> Wifi scanning is happening in the phone anyway to know when to switch networks, etc

Not if wifi is turned off. If I'm in my car, for example, I might well turn wifi off to prevent the phone from wasting power scanning for wifi networks that aren't there. But I'm still going to have my cell phone connection on.

> they are saving power when it is used instead of cell phone.

Nonsense. See above. Plus, the cell phone antenna is always scanning too, but on a phone it is far less likely to be turned off to prevent that than wifi is.

What I really can't understand is how any of this is connected to your (correct) claim that search is hard and content curation is hard and so we shouldn't expect Google, or anyone else, to just magically solve it. Google could easily serve the needs of users much better than it does, even if it can't do it perfectly. But it won't because it's not in the business of serving user needs, it's in the business of serving advertiser needs, and serving users is just a by-product.

If Google really wants to solve the problems of users, instead of advertisers, it should have users pay them instead of advertisers. But of course it won't since it has spent more than two decades now getting users used to the idea that search and other "hard" services should magically appear for free, and hoping those users won't notice that they are actually the product, not the customer.
Emotional danger is quite real and people can carry the trauma of it through the rest of their lives. As per the plate story she related, whether that was thrown by a rando or someone out to get her can't be known, but what can be known is that she'll never be certain either way and feel the fear of recent emotional hate coupled with physical threats.

Death threats and hate speech on the internet cause a serious amount of societal harm - extreme censorship also causes serious harm... I don't know what the answer is but I know that anyone who is absolutely fanatically devoted to either end of the spectrum to the point of "knowing they're right" is wrong.
I don't really buy it and I'm willing to bet it cannot be reproduced.
BAT has occurred to me as a means for artists to increase revenue. Would it make financial sense to exchange BAT for DRM-free downloads, is ad revenue per user anywhere near that even with multiples? I expect this would rely on the expectation that engagement would scale up owing to nil cost (except time). Thinking of myself as a consumer, I'd sooner just pay for an album outright.
Fully agree.

Interested about the tests though. I’m not a professional python developer but would love automated tests for my appdaemon code. How did you set it up, and how do you run the tests?
Whoopi Goldberg’s Suspension from the View Is Illiberal and Irrational
SCOTUS can also roll back existing policy.
The power to flip a bit is effectively power to make policy.
That was one short bayonet for a man, and open air slave markets for the Libyan people: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/11/27/clinton-po...

> 'We came, we saw, he died,' she joked. But overthrowing Gadhafi was a humanitarian and strategic debacle that now limits our options on North Korea.
or even something like --exclude={foo,ba[rz]} , probably getting the syntax wrong
>So at 43 when I am driving sober, I'm probably safer not using autopilot. When I was 19 probably safer to use autopilot.

That might work out for you, but if teens think like that _now_ and avoid years of driving experience, they can't expect to be any better at driving at 43 than they are as teenagers, which kind of kills the argument.
It's for safety reasons so that the system doesn't enter an undefined state if one of those sensors fails, which it eventually will.

If the signal goes from "black nothing" to "orange round" you know you went from no object to an orange, but what if your form sensor breaks and it goes from "black nothing" to "orange nothing?"
Public spaces have cameras and / or are safeguarded by the presence of other people who will usually at the very least report any heinous crime that takes place.
Ask HN: Mobile app legal/redtape too far gone for hobbyists?
I was looking to build a free app that would take, process and store photos - nothing earthshaking but solves an annoying problem. It's really more of a way for me to explore a new framework. I haven't really kept up with all the ways one can break privacy laws and I understand the need for them to protect consumers. Question is: In 2022, is it possible to just put out an app or a website without jumping through hoops to be compliant with the latest privacy laws? related question: is there a platform that helps you be compliant out of the box?
The problem with this is that steel is a large class of alloys, with a wide variety of properties depending on the chemical and physical makeup of an alloy. Even "types of steel" that people are familiar with - e.g. stainless steel - are not specific alloys but themselves classes of alloys. I'm not a metallurgist but I assume there are dozens if not hundreds of alloys qualifying as steel.

So when someone writes an article saying "it's stronger than steel!" that's exciting, but it's not enough information. In this case we know it's stronger by yield strength. We can say the new material's yield strength is twice that of the weakest known steel alloy, but no more than that.

A quick look around found this:

https://amesweb.info/Materials/Steel-Tensile-Yield-Strength-...

You can see here, there is a wide gulf between the weakest and strongest alloys just in this chart, which only has five alloys and a handful of different treatments. Yield strength is anywhere from 210MPa to over 1600MPa, an 8x difference.

This page has some charts for the new material:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mechanical-properties-of...

Subchart (g) in the image shows a plot of yield strength against elastic modulus, and it looks like the plot tops out around 1.4 GPa, meaning the strongest tested configuration by yield strength is weaker than that of tempered 4140 and 4340 steels, while nearly 7x stronger than hot-rolled 1020 steel. I don't know if "2D yield strength" is different than what is shown in the amesweb.info table, though.
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Could it really? I was under the impression that unless you incite someone to commit crimes (or confess to crimes), the story would be covered under "art" and therefore protected. It's just text after all. Where does the limit for "obscene" go?
HTML is accessible by default. Screen readers or similar tools are good at making sense of HTML that provides fallbacks (such as alt attributes) and doesn't stray too far from the standard.

As for tools, for example, there is https://tenon.io/ by accessibility expert Karl Groves.
Don't forget to adjust for the 50% greater distance driven by men [1]. In reality, per mile drive, the difference in genders is negligible and maybe even counter to what most people believe. Of course though, men will pay more in insurance because driving is inherently dangerous and driving that much more frequently is problematic.

[1] - https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm
Admittedly, it's hard to kill another person by voting, or receiving due process. And we do restrict speech when it verges on violence (imminent lawless action, fighting words).
Oh, I see. Sorry.
Well, the title here is "That's how it works when you're a woman on the internet" - but then she goes on to give example after example of times when she deliberately went out and picked a fight (with, in fairness, people who deserved to be stood up to). A man could and would get the same level of vitriol aimed at him for similarly provocative posting.
True, but the question is how likely it would be that the person is from that group, or from just walking down the street. Relative risk can help people prioritize their actions with constrained resources - tackle violence in their city, or tackle it by somehow targeting hate speech on the internet.
This article is about several types of real danger, one of which is the vitriolic online comments themselves. It doesn't have to escalate to a crime to be a problem.
Obviously I was being sarcastic.
Also the latter films used abnormally high fps.
I wonder what would need to happen to convince the management that actually they could run on Linux? I mean, 3 years ago the belief was we couldn't work from home because that would harm productivity.
Pre-print research based off of unpublished paper/dataset and “personal correspondence” makes this questionable. Why are we sharing this before knowledgeable and relevant reviewers get a hold it?

I’ll wait for the peer-reviewed version.
I was just watching this video of a Tesla trying and miserably failing to drive itself through the streets of Boston: https://twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1488555256162172928

A number of these near-crashes seem to be pretty odd errors (a couple of times it just decided to drive on the wrong side of the street?) -- albeit ones that one _could_ see drivers unfamiliar with the area making.

If a human driver started driving on the wrong side of a street, etc -- at least in Boston -- they would be greeted by a chorus of horns and rude gestures from those around, which would hopefully indicate to them that they were in error. Brings up an interesting question: does anyone know if Teslas are monitoring for surrounding horns/etc?

Another common problem in Boston is being blocked by geese crossing the road. Are Teslas able to detect such low, slow-moving obstacles?

It seems like it's not super feasible to rely on self-driving vehicles in a dense city like Boston, but maybe such features could be geofenced to areas like highways?