skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is incredibly sad.
I dream of a day where marketing & sales people lose the reigns of control. Where we measure success based on time optimization, freedom, and happiness instead of money.
The way it is now just isn’t working.
A friendly reminder that these insect hotels need annual maintenance, or else you will eventually have a parasite haven.

https://colinpurrington.com/2019/05/horrors-of-mass-produced...
An overview of my threat model
I’d like to recommend a book to you:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/trees-brain-roots-mind
> This becomes important important when photographing insects (you'll note there are no photos of insects in that collection)

I've gotten some interesting insect shots using Nikon 70-300 f/4.5-5.6G ED from a short distance.

I think people sometimes get too caught up with the gear instead of trying out what they have.
It's a great argument for camera phones, because you don't need added lighting or stabilization to get decent shots. The pictures you take are better than the ones you never took, and if you take a lot of pictures you're more likely to stumble onto a great one even as a total amateur.

I think the pictures on that page are aspirational, to be sure... but my own experience with this camera system suggest that they're not out of reach.

Here's one of the first macro pictures I took with an iPhone 13 Pro a day or two after I got it, completely without stabilization, on a momentary stop while I was walking my dog: https://imgur.com/uux8RNS (I'm not saying I'm a good photographer; this is just for technical purposes. It's also unedited.)

Compare that to the "leaf illumination" picture in the article. The professional's picture is noticeably better, of course. But it's more a matter of framing and choice of subject than any hardware limitation.
Where does the information on California having the highest poverty rate in the US come from?

The source they listed only gave California's poverty rate at 16.4% [1].

But the Census source used by Wikipedia lists California's rate at 12.58% [2]

Neither rate actually puts California at the top of any other lists I find.

In what measure does California have the highest poverty rate?

EDIT: I see the first number is based on California Poverty Measure (CPM) which takes into account cost of living [3]. But is there a direct way to compare this to other states?

[1] https://www.ppic.org/publication/poverty-in-california/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

[3] https://inequality.stanford.edu/publications/research-report...
Many thanks!!! I now have a great Easter holiday garden task. I might even try editing the wikipedia article with maintenance tips.
This is mostly an ad with a little bit of interesting history.
I have a fun one. The front door to my house had an automatic door opener, paired with a single-button remote control to unlock and open the door. The remote control was annoying to carry and use. (This was before IoT became a thing.)

I pried open the remote, soldered on an extra circuit bypassing the push switch, and hooked it up to an Arduino. When a packet is sent over serial, the Arduino simulates a button push:

const int basePin = 2;

void triggerRemote() {
digitalWrite(basePin, HIGH);
delay(2000);
digitalWrite(basePin, LOW);
}

void setup() {
pinMode(basePin, OUTPUT);
Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop() {
if (Serial.available() > 0) {
Serial.read();
triggerRemote();
}
}

This was paired with a tiny web server to do the serial write:

#!/opt/bin/python2.6

PORT = 5525

import BaseHTTPServer, SocketServer

class LoccaHTTPRequestHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
server_version = "LoccaServer/1.0"
def do_GET(self):
if self.path.startswith("/trigger"):
serial.write('A')
self.send_response(200)
else:
self.send_error(404)

serial = open("/dev/ttyACM0", 'wb', 0)

httpd = SocketServer.TCPServer(("", PORT), LoccaHTTPRequestHandler, False)
httpd.allow_reuse_address = True
httpd.server_bind()
httpd.server_activate()
httpd.serve_forever()

Finally I threw together an iPhone app with the most basic UI imaginable: a static full-screen photo of the remote; tap once, it fires off a HTTP request, and the door swings open:

- (IBAction)triggerRemote:(id)sender {
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://10.0.8.48:5525/trigger"];
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[NSURLConnection connectionWithRequest:request delegate:nil];
}

That's basically all of the code. Considering how much of a janky hack this is, it worked great.

Ancient write-up with some photos: https://web.archive.org/web/20120103180640/http://ghughes.co...
Was about to ask. How do you get people to use it? They have been running their business just fine for all these years. I would assume they think they have no problem that needs solving. I’m sure they’d love it once they use it and get results. But I imagine just getting them to give it a try will be an uphill battle. I see that you do have quite a few very recent ads on there, though. So you seem to have found a way?
If you were dealing with e.g. English words rather than arbitrary strings, one approach would be to treat each word as a point in n-dimensional space. Then you can use continuous (and differentiable) functions to output into that space.
Orange County treats homeless people particularly poorly. They want to force the homeless out of their county by outlawing them.
Yep. I don't trust them at all.
Where do you think the cloud lives?
Take one last look at your precious human moon. Because it cannot help you now!
During deflation the interest rate falls to 0% which is correct but since money is going up in value, the real interest rate is still positive. This means the real interest rate doesn't actually fall to 0% meaning profit is necessary even in an economy without growth.
Look interesting and perhaps this could save us from the surprised EC2 bills
We got a bill for over 800 million
I dunno about everyone else, but I'm generally frustrated and feel blocked when Slack is down, and I celebrate Jira being down because I've never had a pleasant experience using it. Jira is bureaucracy that gets in the way of me getting things done, and Slack is a critical communication path.
This is such a nonsensical argument. Crypto is a huge space with myriad benefits, which are not negated by having some elements regulated.

For example, perhaps you are in favor of crypto because it is (i) harder for a state to seize or (ii) impossible for a single state to inflate. Those are in part possible because of the distributed decentralized nature of cryptocurrency. Being in favor of those two things does not mean you cannot also be in favor of regulating people that manipulate crypto market by wash trading, in favor of arresting thieves and hackers, in favor of banning insider trading, etc. You can have a system with trustless elements and that still relies on the laws and regulations to enforce certain aspects.
San Francisco is not in the top 10 most dangerous cities in the US. Yet article after article is written about crime in SF. I haven't seen anyone deny there is crime in SF. More just tired of the outsized attention it gets compared to more dangerous cities. I don't see article after article complaining about the DA of Baton Rouge or how Memphis's crime is out of control.
Partial Indexes
Makes claims impossible to falsify, without naming names nobody can poke holes in your analysis.
Call it Shower Power
I mean default as in bankruptcy, then restructure the fixed costs in a way to become competitive with Texas and Florida.
Methane synthesis needs a source of carbon.

Generally, anhydrous ammonia is a more practical medium where pure hydrogen won't do. It just needs hydrogen and air as input.
What do you do if your on prem setup lost data? There is an implicit assumption here that on prem is more reliable than cloud. Less downtime, less chances of data loss etc. Obviously it depends on which cloud product we're talking about but I don't think a blanket "my on prem goes down less and when it does go down I can get it back up sooner" is true.
It's actually pretty easy in the US.

There are special protections for illegal immigrants so it's reasonably easy to invent a family of them to collect benefits.

In addition, various US govts or even agencies within the same govt, often don't talk to one another.

So, when an old person dies, friends/family can keep collecting benefits.

See https://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/mar/16/social-securit...

"Social Security records show that 6.5 million people in the US have reached the ripe old age of 112. In reality, only few could possibly be alive. As of last fall, there were only 42 people known to be that old in the entire world."

It's not just dead people.

"One Social Security number was used 613 times. An additional 194 numbers were used at least 50 times each."
That's ideology, I'm talking about physics.
How is insider trading a form of fraud? Insider trading can certainly be fraud, but you’ll have to further explain why this would be an inherent property of insider trading.

>Insider trading makes someone richer at the expense of others

This just shows that your understanding of markets is at elementary school level.

How exactly does insider trading cost anybody else money? It simply allows for more accurate pricing.

If I own shares of company $x and an insider sells their shares of $x causing the stock to plummet, I do not lose anything. I still own those stocks, they’re just valued more accurately.
Yes, when a woman is in breakup mode, it's every little thing, every little thing. She wants out because of A) New lover, of B) Bored and smells alimony, C) I can't think of anything else. But she's not going to ask for a divorce for A) or B) so it's any semi-real problems she can come up with. She probably wanted to nag the guy into divorcing her. Ka-ching.

Anyway, women will even journal this shit for the lawyer's benefit. There are guidebooks sold on the matter.
> NIMBYs really are selfish and shallow people

My parents bought a house in an almost-rural region of southern California in 1991. It was difficult to lose the beautiful field across the street when a housing development went in, but they shrugged their shoulders and moved on -- no biggie.

But more recently, the tiny empty lot next to theirs has been sold and 3 really ugly apartments just went in that are totally out of character with the rest of the neighborhood. If they could have blocked this from happening, they would have -- and I don't think that's selfish NIMBYism. Your next-door neighbors' behavior affects your life profoundly, and when they do dumb stuff like building ugly, stuffed-in apartments that don't fit in with the houses next door, it will affect you negatively.

All to say, NIMBYism gets a bad rap, but having a basic standard of caring about the quality of one's neighborhood (especially next-door lots) isn't selfish or shallow.

By extension, you'd have to say it's "selfish and shallow" to pay more to not live in a bad part of town... is it really?
I don’t believe slack has been down as long?

Slack is generally much more critical than JIRA in order to keep working.
Why doesn't this article skip down properly?

I use the space bar to page down on longer articles. But on this one it scrolls one sentence too far. The scroll doesn't know about the top banner....

Surely I'm not some super rare whacky outlier in this, and surely the webdevs at The Atlantic are proud professionals - so why doesn't it work correctly?

Chrome on Mac.
> Mixing: Artisan bread is mixed by hand.

Do you really mean mixing, or rather kneading?

Kneading bread is very hard work; occasionally I do it for a single loaf, but it really doesn't scale above 1 or 2 loaves. Even artisinal bakeries have machines for it.
My understanding is they tried to tune the GC percent to make the automatic heuristic do GC sooner, but they didn't allocate enough to have that make a difference. However, Go has a way to manually trigger a GC which they could've set on a timer on a goroutine. If they weren't actually generating that much garbage then pause times should theoretically be pretty short if you're doing a GC every 5 seconds or something like that.

That being said it's not something that 100% is guaranteed to fix the issue so maybe they did test this and just didn't mention it in the blog.
> I'd be somewhat willing to bet continue to stream audio is also a quality assurance mechanism. Some networks will shape traffic according to load. A quick jump in bandwidth can introduce unexpected jitter and latency. By continuing to stream audio (but not necessarily process or re-transmit), video conferencing can better ensure an un-interupted experience.

They don't have to actually send the data though in this case they should just send 0 padding. It's all encrypted presumably, so the only externally observable factor is the packet size.
Your usage of "wiki" here suggests you meant Confluence (an Atlassian product) vs just "why use anything Atlassian offers", but I think the answer is the same.

Disclaimer: I'm not necessarily advocating for choosing Atlassian's suite of products over a handful of separate open source tools, but just offering a guess from what I've seen at companies I've worked for.

I believe people choose Atlassian's tools as an overall package, often surrounding their issue tracking tool (Jira). If you happen to use/need/prefer Jira for your issue tracking, the wiki-like tool that Confluence offers just happens to be integrated tightly with Jira (and their other tools). If you've already chosen Jira (say) and you need a wiki (Confluence), or a git repository (BitBucket), or a status page system (Statuspage), etc, my guess is Atlassian bundles and integrates this all together in such a way that companies just go for the total package.

To your point, I'm not sure why someone would use Confluence as a wiki over some other wiki software, assuming they had no interest in integrating their wiki with a bugtracker, git repository, etc. I think the selling point has always been the bundling/integration.
I would like to assume having a kid wasn't just a ploy to get paternity leave..
Whew, seeing this is relieving. We just received a bill for $84k for using 10.5 million GitHub Actions minutes...
I wasn't talking about death as a reason for leaving. I was talking about all other reasons.
I sincerely appreciate your articulation of this, thank you for taking the time.
> Breadwinners need to treat their stay-at-homes with nice dinners, shopping experiences and pocket money that feels reasonable.

This to me feels like materialistic pandering. Breadwinners need to see their spouses as financial partners in a shared life.
Soon we will be able to buy it on Amazon by the bucket after Jeff Bezos privatizes the moon.
That is horribly plausible!
Dorsey’s $40m NFT sold for $280
For in person shopping I don't believe this exists. But look I said it "could" be a $billion company. This sort of project looks a lot like early versions of what eventually become $BBB companies. No one can predict the future.
I think that is a fork. The main upstream work is at the google repository
Thanks for the grep tip!

Unfortunately I've not put in the effort to learn awk past printing the n-th column of ls (my typical use) - the extra syntax required to properly 'quote' and {} things puts me off.
If by technical merits you mean "the tools all already exist" then sure, that's a drawback. But those tools don't create themselves, if nobody works in an area because they can't just install a settled on solution they'd never get built. ML didn't have the tooling it has now when I started with it, using recently released cuda to implement these new "deep neural networks" (more called RBMs at the time I think) on graphics cards because I needed them faster than the released MATLAB code - but now you can pip install huggingface and be away. When I was doing it, ML could have remained a niche area (people always asked me if AI was to do with aliens, and wondered what on earth I'd do with that degree) but has exploded after it hit critical thresholds.

Maybe this will happen with crypto stuff. Maybe not. I've been very wrong on cryptos growth since the early days.

But, people have business ideas and want them built. I'm building those while solving new interesting problems. Does that really sound so bad as a job?

I'm not talking about my specific client work because I don't want anything to come across as shilling.
Yup, a couple.

Most recently:

A webapp to track my runs, a service which creates backups of my google drive photos to AWS S3, a streaming app to monitor my puppy when we have to leave him at home (with raspberry pi + webcam).
Maybe their research is ongoing, maybe they are afraid of being sued, maybe they'd rather not harm a company so reputation without fully understanding why they do this
He's 11th in classical currently and there isn't much separation from 4th to 20th. He has a pretty good record against all of his opponents in classical. He's never lost to Rapport, Liren, Duda, or Radjabov. He is 3-2-5 against Nepo, 6-7-33 against Caruana, and he's never played Firouzja.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've been doing it a ton, unfortunately, and we have ban that sort of account. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

What we want here is thoughtful, curious conversation, not people bashing each other's comments or inflicting snark on each other or ideological talking points.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Usually software only captures one mic at a time.
wow coinbase again with the fractional banking...
If you keep it airtight, the crust will dampen from the moisture that comes from the inside.

Which storing bread that has a crust worth preserving, I tend to make sure it gets a little air (covering it with linen cloths, for example), and accept the small amount of drying out that comes with this form of storage.
> Google or Apple can get away with this kind of behavior, I doubt Atlassian can

Atlassian absolutely can in enterprise settings. In my company (a large cloud company), if JIRA goes down, large swathes of the business will also stall, including code deployment (deployments are tracked through change management JIRA tickets). We also use the DC version of Atlassian products, so presumably we aren't be at the mercy of Atlassian cloud engineers.
To be fair, dnf replaced yum for quite some time now. However yum is still recognized as a command (but symlinks to dnf).
You want to go to sleep but the final paper is due in 8 hours and you haven’t started. You are going to write this paper and nothing stops the paper from being written. As you find yourself at hour 4 or 5, well past any joy of ideation, you realize that you must still finish the paper. Caffeine is pounding in your head and you have wrestled the entire day before, now your brain is thinking at full capacity whether you like it or not.
Oh it’s not a pain that can be seen but have a migraine and say that’s not real or work a hard day and have to walk more.
It’s the hurt of causing your brain to be more active than it ever has. Similar to making someone who plays video games all day hike up a mountain. They’re gonna feel it.
On my T480s the mic mute button is handled in hardware/low-level firmware however all it does is set the mic input level to 0%, where the OS can trivially set it back to 100% if it wants.

At least the LED on the button is driven by firmware based on that level, so it lights up only when the mic level is actually at 0%. While it won't prevent the OS from raising the volume, at least you'll know about it as the mute light will go off.
They state that their findings will be presented at Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium in July. So it seems they want to keep some info for that event.

Should i hazard a guess, it would be either Zoom or Teams.
If the promise of in silico drug design comes to fruition, the potential drug discovery profits could very well rival Google's ad profits.
You can sleep soundly: it seems like they back _everything_ up:

> Second, the script we used provided both the "mark for deletion" capability
... (where recoverability is desirable), and
the "permanently delete" capability that is required to permanently remove
data when required for compliance reasons. The script was executed with the
wrong execution mode and the wrong list of IDs. The result was that sites for
approximately 400 customers were improperly deleted.

> To recover from this incident, our global engineering team has implemented a
> methodical process for restoring our impacted customers.

[https://www.atlassian.com/engineering/april-2022-outage-upda...]

Anyone else find it disturbing that they are able to restore data that they deleted permanently for "compliance" reasons? If this is true, how were they ever compliant? I guess data is only permanently deleted when the engineering team is following their typical, non-methodical process...
The story behind MIBSL is definitely fascinating and some great trivia there. There’s a longer article about it here: https://www.newsweek.com/2016/05/06/secret-ska-history-man-b... that covers not just the inspiration for the emoji itself, but a brief history behind the inspiration behind the inspiration. Lots of levels of metaness to unpack.
Toyota has had a 41% efficient engine in production for five years. If it were set up as a range extender it would likely be even more efficient (fixed RPM range and load can be optimized for.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Dynamic_Force_engine
> Compared to when there were three major broadcast TV networks

You're not wrong, but crucially those three broadcast networks didn't run their own studios. They couldn't prefer their own, lowly-rated tv shows over more expensive, highly rated shows run by other studios.
Read: 'slightly less liberal'

https://www.bestplaces.net/voting/city/california/santa_ana
My friends and I once (as in, one day...) went stealng bread from doorsteps in Germany, until we tasted one that was so ...different... to what we considered to be 'bread', we never did it again.
Black bread?
'Different', meaning 'absolutely disgusting' to [our] tastes, at that time.
> Did this guy need to help NK for anything remotely like that sort of responsibility?

This is what keeps me wondering. I guess that a guy with a doctorate from Caltech and in the current technological context could be making a lot of money legally.

From outside it looks like he is some kind of crypto idealist.
You have to learn to speak your truth courageously and divorce yourself from the outcome.

Going through is the only way out.

E.g. If you want more talk time at dinner, then voice that, and state that you will work on being present as well. To show that that you're in it together.
I combined a series of state collected freshwater bio/fisheries data into a web app that maps it out per lake. I use it for discovering and targeting specific fish species within a given area (town/county). I used it with much success during ice fishing season and have started using it for canoe trips to target bucket list species I want to catch.
I appreciate you sharing this.

Reminds me of a class I took at the University of Illinois, it was a seminar in entrepreneurship for engineers, if I remember correctly.

I believe a CEO of a $100M+ company came in and gave a speech. His first slide had a PowerPoint, on which he put something like, "3...2...1." Then he said, "3 wives, 2 divorces, and 1 heart attack. That's the real cost of entrepreneurship." I've remembered it ever since.
https://xkcd.com/2606/

Now we have an XKCD for this.
The quartern is twice the size of the half, got it.
How to make a supervillain, step 1

Jokes aside, after 5 years, I'm not sure how he will not hold a serious grudge (if he didn't have one already) against the USA.
> But doesn't this just mean that instead of writing your code and logic in Ruby you're writing it in RDL?

..and write a test for it..? :|