skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ACLU has often made voting easier for me. I live in a state with mail voting. We get a big booklet with all the issues to be voted on spelled out with pros and cons submitted by people and organizations. Typically I just flip through each one to see if the ACLU is for or against it, then I vote the opposite. There has only been a single time that I agreed with them and voted the way they want me to vote. They are a great litmus test of most issues.
I use it a lot for cycling/walking/transit and I despise how difficult they make it to see what the road names are now. They make you zoom in really far just to see what is basic information for a map.
> With starting salaries in the $300,000...

Uh, what? Which of FAANG have starting salaries at 300k?
Supabase is featured in the latest episode of the IEEE SE-Radio podcast: https://www.se-radio.net/2022/05/episode-511-ant-wilson-on-s...
It's a one-player game. What does "cheating" mean?
It's a little sad to see Intel trying so hard to be relevant. AMD has really upped the game, and Apple has surprisingly made Intel #3, all in just the last few years.

Intel is only relevant when they throw power at their CPUs, which isn't something you want with mobile chips.

I genuinely hope they become more competitive soon, since it'll mean better performance and prices for everyone. However, the high power chips really need to go.
Unity 2022.1 Tech Stream is now available
Kind of an irrelevant question I suppose - but did they have to pay for the fuel at each stop? The way it's written the various bases gave them fuel and other things out of kindness.
Good time to buy Coinbase stock maybe? They can't possibly go the same way as MTGOX...
While I think UBI is great, there still needs to be local investment to build communities, beyond just giving people money. I'm not convinced that opportunity zones are the way to do it, but in addition to giving people money, we need to build the economic infrastructure for people to use it in good ways. For example, in food deserts, getting grocery stores. That may require incentivizing businesses to take what they see as additional risks.
I'm sorry but I disagree. I carried around a game boy pocket, with several game cartridges just fine as a kid. I see kids taking Nintendo switches and an iPad everywhere with them today.
It's not exciting but it is pleasing. The ecosystem is refining well (e.g., $GOPATH deprecated and workspaces just added).

Now with generics there's even less to complain about.
It's all about 'gender identity' these days, not hormones and surgery.

Indeed, in trans circles, expecting the latter as a required factor is often considered highly offensive. This, and the notion that a person needs to experience gender dysphoria to be trans, is now derisively known as the 'truscum' point of view.
Hi Matt, speaking of PyCon, thanks for your talk on Qtile many years ago. It remains one of the funniest lightning talks I've seen, and also influenced my talk style to some degree.

https://youtu.be/r_8om4dsEmw
Then cite where the constitution explicitly protects discrimination against protected classes.

The problem citing the constitution here is it's an argument from ignorance. You can't ignore federal laws just because the constitution doesn't say anything about them.
> Priced in

By the time you are talking about, it largely will be.
Fine. I'll just say. "Some may not like your opinion" - also it's a bit rude to suggest someone's thoughts are not 'worth an indentation level' mr. HN elite.
The new definition of levelheaded is “straw man assertion I don’t back up with facts” then “somber toned analysis of straw man impacts”

The internet revealed that facts are real, but interpretations are extremely up for grabs. I mean is is really a “hard left turn” to stop defending the KKK or is the author just living in a world where people don’t grasp how truly outside of contemporary society that the KKK operates in?
> An important part of addressing these issues of violence in the prison system has been, up until recently, the segregation of inmates by their sex.

No, it hasn't.

That's an after the fact rationalization for preserving the policy invented long after segregation on fairly explicitly misogynistic grounds was established, when the original motivation was no longer something people felt comfortable saying overtly in government.

Preventing assaults (and sexual assaults specifically) in prisons is not a major motivator for the structure of our prison system; if it was, there'd be a lot fewer sexual assaults in it.
Developer creates bot to mimic stock trading by US politicians: portfolio up 25%
Is that irony, though? Not that I downvoted the parent comment or anything, but inasmuch as downvoting is saying "I don't think your comment is of high quality", that's totally not inconsistent with free speech.

There's a difference between saying "I think XYZ is wrong" and saying "I don't think people should be able to say XYZ", and downvoting feels much more like the former.
Relevantly to this discussion, the civil rights act of 1964 also bans discrimination based on sex.
Well, that would only mean they raised subscriptions last month to then add a "new" low price with ads. In reality, they increased prices for everyone and added back the original plan with ads.

I'd say my confidence in Netflix would be diminished.
> There is a part of me that wants to abandon streaming services and just buy a couple of albums per month based on what I think might be cool.

I highly encourage giving it a try if you’re inclined. I personally never took to streaming services, largely for the reasons you express.

For me it’s mostly because I dislike shuffle, and prefer listing to full albums. Not a hipster snobby thing, it just fits my attention span better and has led to several artists becoming favorites when I’d felt pretty meh about their singles.
Maybe they'll finally remove "iPod Touch (7th generation)" as the default selected simulator in XCode :)
It doesn't need to. Martin Baker takes care of those situations.
The bakery is a public accomodation.

The baker explicitly redefined his wedding cakes as his religious speech to avoid the Title II of the federal law.
Depending on the amount of lactose and intolerance, your body may be able to process a small amount of it(such as in a pill) versus the amount in a glass of milk. It's not a purely binary function.
Ha, I checked it out and it was definitely worthy of a star -- then I noticed I'd already done so. Now I just need to get around to playing with it.
Nah, it was absurdly heavy marketing. I don't remember any other mp3 player being marketed at all. The click wheel was also cool, although pragmatically it sucked and nobody ever used it on on anything again.

Also, buying an mp3 player was a bit of a minefield back then, because you couldn't tell if it behaved as a drive or through some elaborate software DRM/obfuscation dance that might even be specific to Windows ("playsforsure," maybe? Talk about an Orwellian name.) At least people knew that the iPod would work.

edit: I mean, it was on every billboard and the side of every bus in solid dayglo colors. Comedy shows like SNL did sketches about the ads. This went on for years.
Roblox shares sink on disappointing revenue and wider-than-expected loss
> `redis` and `ioredis` `npm` packages don't work with Deno, even with the Node compat layer (I tried).

I'd love to hear specifically what didn't work and how close the Deno team is to maybe fixing those sorts of issues. Not that they owe that to us open-source wise, just curious as like... otherwise you are right. We're starting the ecosystem again over from scratch.
See "The Conservatives Behind the Campus 'Free Speech' Crusade"[1] and "What the Campus 'Free Speech' Crusade Won't Say"[2].

[1] - https://prospect.org/education/conservatives-behind-campus-f...

[2] - https://www.alternet.org/2016/09/what-campus-free-speech-cru...
That first animation is unclear to me. Is that blue area all lightning? That lasts a lot longer than 10 seconds (or those clouds are really getting a shift on).
Ah, adventures in 'not quite as random as you thought' land.

1) I remember building a game in 90s where the locations of resources on a 2d game map were generated by successive calls to random() (and then were probably mod 1024ed or something). But, when we looked at the locations, they were clearly in a line pattern. Huh? After a while of confused debugging, we eventually discovered that the RNG was a linear congruential generator, which, when used the way we did to generate N-tuples, tends to produce points that tend to lie on a small number of N-1 dimensional surfaces! Oops.

2) I remember a big debate with a statistician at a company we were selling data analytics software to. We were putting random data elements into random groups to support certain types of statistical analysis. He was adamant that the randomization we were doing would introduce bias into the data and showed us similar tests he had done that "proved it". He told us that his company would be dropping our product because they couldn't trust it. I told him that there was no way bias was introduced and I took a closer look at his tests. It turns out the RNG in whatever tool he was using was just not very good and it had apparently shaken his very understanding of statistics :) Luckily, I told him that we were using MD5 for randomness (once bitten!) and that if he simply redid his experiments with MD5 he would see the bias disappear. To say he was skeptical would be an understatement, but, thankfully for our contract, his tests didn't actually crack MD5, all bias was gone, and we got a very generous email from the skeptic informing us that he would be trusting our software for everything from now on.
I've recently done the conversion, used Teleport to get access to the dashboard. It works pretty well and I like the fact that I can fork GoTrue / point routes at my own server-side components, rather than just Supabase.

I agree that a proper Helm chart (or a Kubernetes operator) would be ideal. Too bad it would probably also hurt their Cloud offerings.
Will 'Tall Building Curse' strike again?

The Curse states that tall buildings are a close forerunner to collapse. (As an example, the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building were built at the beginning of the 1930s and the start of the Great Depression.)

Saudi Arabia is running on empty at the moment. I wouldn't be surprised if things went haywire there too.
The are some families that had been wealthy for generations, but there are also some that worked hard so that their children could do what they could not. Eventually this builds up.

You could argue that to have the vision of planning ahead for the children's life is a kind of cultural privilege, but then you could also argue that this can be learned from observation and introspection.

There are still some groups of people that have some advantages when trying to do this compared to others, this have been changing over the years.

The point is, there is privilege but it's not the single factor and maybe nor the most important one.
Just get an old iphone tbh. They have great DACs built in and support iOS apps.
Personally I'd like to get back to a world where the fate of civilization is not the responsibility of every individual to worry about on a daily basis. That same mindset is underneath all the polarization as well; are you really a good (or loyal or principled) person if you're not actively fighting for causes X, Y and Z? Could be correlation instead of causation though.
Really great read! From a table lamp and a webcam to now. Really amazing innovation! Can’t wait to see how far this company goes especially seeing how far it has come just after 9 years. Are you able to shed light on any future plans?
All Terrible.
> The dirty secret is conferences would be much better if they simply had no sessions scheduled at all, and locked everyone in the ballroom for the entire day.

I've been to conferences where I simply forgot to attend any talks at all, simply because I was too busy/having fun chatting to people.

A lot of the more "professional" conferences have stands just for paying sponsors though, and usually not a lot of them. They tend to be a lot less lively than open source conferences and the like which allow any ol' open source project to set up a stand. I like stands because they're a good conversation starter, and in many ways also like a presentation yet a lot more informal.

Unfortunately all of that died with COVID in my area, and hasn't really started back up since :-(
It's TERRIBLE on motorcycle and honestly has probably killed some people. For context, on motorcycle I'll plan out a route beforehand, then I would have Google Maps play through earpiece in helmet, phone remains in pocket.

For some years I was using pebble smartwatch which would vibrate with the turn notification (and I could glance it quickly to verify if I wasn't wearing earpiece or couldn't hear it). In all of those described cases I can't interact with the phone. At some point Apple or Google decided to block the turn notifications from pinging over to my watch, so I had to exclusively wear earpiece to hear directions.

To tie in with the rest of the thread, Google Maps will automatically suggest whatever route it wants and since I cannot interact with the phone on this setup, it will just go with whatever it wants to do, which often leads me onto roads under construction and other potentially dangerous routes. No way to turn off this 'feature'.
Can I prevent people from publishing content I don’t like in my magazine?
If this bill becomes law, it means that Congress now has the power to target specific individuals and companies with legislative acts.

That is quite literally facism.
Well you have to ask yourself why that the same platforms and tech companies have setup a 'Trusted News Initiative' (TNI) [0] to try to combat what they think is 'disinformation' when in fact they are the ones doing the opposite and spreading 'disinformation' and flagging anything that doesn't fit their narrative.

From censoring 'official sources' [1] to muting a story that was once 'disinformation' and now quietly admitting it was authentic years later [2][3] or outright spreading debunked nonsense to spin and drive clicks altogether [4][5] knowing that it was fake news or misleading [6] since the author failed to mention or read the detail of the court document(s) but still reported the conclusion anyway for ads and outrage. It's gotten to the point where this TNI is just another entity that only outlines the opinions they accept and labels anything else as 'disinformation' but when caught, they either hide / delete the story or spin it once again and spread their own flavour of propaganda.

As for these tech platforms, after what we have seen going on TikTok [7], I think this is the nadir of it all disinformation and where it will lead to if it continues and social media has and will make it worse.

So nothing has changed.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2020/trusted-news-initiative...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27999720

[2] https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-nyt-now-admits-the-bide...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/hunter-biden-...

[4] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61285833

[5] https://fullfact.org/online/Hart-Newsround-report-misleading...

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29170633

[7] https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/xl/tiktok-doesn_t-show-the-wa...
What I'm trying to say is that there was such an evolutionary environment. The 60s were full of deadly riots mobilized by some minor rumor - the Watts riot, for example, killed dozens of people in response to rumors of police misconduct in a drunk driving arrest. We just don't normally think about it this way, because when we look back at history the Watts riot is always interpreted as a facet of "race relations in the US, 1960-1970" rather than a standalone event.
That doesn't answer the question. I want the specific policies and justification for why they fit those examples.
Next level is showing virtual lines on the roof (to guide the installation of solar-system racking) in mixed-reality / AR glasses. EagleView supports that with image-derived measurements... but they don't offer mixed-reality glasses. So there are still people walking around on the roof with tape measurers and chalk lines (which is time consuming and error prone, and adds wear to the roof).
This Post story is from this article. There's other nice images and stuff in the real source here:

New WMO Certified Megaflash Lightning Extremes for Flash Distance and Duration Recorded from Space

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/103/5/BAMS-D...
And comment is why we need the ACLU in it's old form.
Dude, do you not see no one is arguing for being pieces of crap, but that rights can easily be curtailed long term from an initial starting point of everyone agreeing we shouldn't be pieces of crap. You know, the saying 'the road to hell is paved with good intentions'.
Tangential, but, at least in Europe, the Earth was widely believed to be spherical since ancient Greece, and Columbus relied on that, both for navigation and path-finding - traveling west on a flat Earth would not get him to India.
I’ve grown increasingly frustrated with google maps recently because its time estimates are just way, way off.

My guess is that this has something to do with their ML assuming I will exceed the speed limit by X MPH based on my driving history or the flow of traffic or something, but it’s insane to go 80 on a 65 MPH highway and somehow arrive several minutes later than the original estimate.
Yep, I've seen Gleam and I absolutely love the idea, although it seems like its super early stage still.

Should play with it a bit more.
AFAIK, this is the first time that CPython could be directly compiled for WASM (with no patches IIRC), and PyScript adds a number of components for better integrating Python with the DOM, importing extra modules at runtime, as well as a dedicated py-script HTML tag.

But I've personally never used either, so maybe I'm missing something too?
It definitely does that, otherwise every estimation on California highways (where driving 20 mph over the speed limit is the norm) would be inaccurate.
That sounds a lot like testing in production. Move fast and break things when the stake are human life. I will accept a slower pace of aircraft development, thank you.
Leo is a pretty amazing project: Edward K. Ream treats it as his life's work, it seems to me, and his energy on the mailing lists, constantly thinking in public, is an inspiration. https://leoeditor.com/
>Eventually you just kind of see the writing on the wall (or _feel_ like you do).

I don't get it. You "see the writing on the wall" and then... throw science under the bus yourself as well?
> resharpen an image that had been passed through a blur filter

This is trivial if you know what filter was used and it’s possible even if you don’t know the filter: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_deconvolution

Note that when you blur an image in software, information is only lost when you round each channel to the nearest u8. Each of the NxN output pixels is a linear combination of the NxN input pixels. There are only N^2 equations with N^2 unknown variables.
Establishing a different pilot certification category would seem reasonable. Powered lift flight involves a transition from vertical to horizontal and back, and that isn't covered in regular pilot training.

A helicopter license only requires a 50 mile cross country flight so I expect the FAA would set a requirement closer to that for powered lift.
Apple iPod! By far. There are some outright strange things about the Sony app like not being able to manage a queue of songs easily without creating an adhoc playlist, the navigation is sometimes frustrating, and the default desktop app they provide to sync songs to the player in a manner that will keep lyrics and song art intact is absolutely atrocious. But pretty much everything else is good and there's nothing else on the market so...
>"... I also believe that the EU will not "break secure encryption" (or make it illegal) in the foreseeable future. And if Mr. Breyer or anyone else would like to convince me of the alternative then please show me some concrete evidence first..."

"EU’s resolution on encryption foreshadows likely anti-encryption push":
https://protonmail.com/blog/eu-attack-on-encryption/

"EFF Tells E.U. Commission: Don't Break Encryption": https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/eff-tells-eu-commissio...

"Encryption: Council adopts resolution on security through encryption and security despite encryption":
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2020...

Particularly in the last reference you can hear it directly from the wolf's mouth: "...resolution on security through encryption and security despite encryption..."

In other words, encryption they can access...
I’m here for this comment haha
Wow this is overly optimistic.

There are so many unappreciated subtleties to physical work. Manufacturing changes the work to fit the machine. So much of the work in construction just is not amenable to that.

There's still a ton to be done, of course. But something as simple as installing an outlet during construction requires a level of physical skill that is so far beyond what any robot can do that we have no idea how it would be accomplished. Maybe we could design around these things, create building standards that prioritize mechanical feasibility, designs where every step is laid out so that a robot can perform the next necessary step given everything that's been done before (and probably dozens of dedicated robot types for different functions). But that requires perfect vertical integration from design to each point of construction and verification. It would be hard to apply incrementally.

It seems like the realistic improvements are: design; construction planning, scheduling, timelines; applying instructions to the worksite; managing materials; applying instructions to the materials; verification and measurement. All the information parts, not so much the physical parts. Maybe materials could be cut? But even that seems questionable when so many things are cut to fit.

But I did enjoy hearing the story of Dusty Robotics, which is working on worksite lay out (i.e., the chalking/etc to guide construction): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nokkftQVa8M
Discrimination isn't free speech, end of story.
Doing that just brings up that app's exposé for me.
Really? Most of the women I’ve met on dating apps (which admittedly isn’t that many) have been quite uncomfortable with the idea of me paying and have preferred to split. I believe they see the man paying as a sign of an older time where women weren’t considered equal to men.
Nothing was posted in 1977. The web didn't exist until 1991; some sites might map to FTP archives older than that, but the first Sam's Club opened in 1983.

and of course you know that...
Slik: A data processing and modelling Python library
I really wish Red Hats Marketing was less bullshitty sometimes. I’ve been following the RHEL for Edge and RHEL Automotive development and Fedora IOT for a while now, and the technology is really nice, but this article is seemingly buzzword soup…
Man I'd settle for 200K/year
It’s not a single lightning event. It’s all the different lightning strikes throughout the storm.
I really like that the landing site itself is an instance of LeoVue

This looks like it's really good, interesting idea. I wonder what people might use this for.

I would perhaps move the search to be on top of the left-navigation-pane, as it keeps all navigation elements on one side.
Is your opinion nazi-adjacent? That would explain it
Google is better, but Apple maps is perfectly useful these days. They actually respond to suggestions on updating their map as well. I have pointed out that a couple uturns are not valid options and both times within a couple of weeks they updated the problem.