skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In other words all this surveillance is done for a useless purpose?
Mark Rober is an amazing guy.

Last thing I know is he was working with the police to help people get their money back and to catch the scammers.
most people don't have enough savings for investing advice to matter. An understanding of the job market would be pretty universally useful though.
100% yes. WFH is meaningfully “flattening the world”.

US labor market preferences have forced employers to offer WFH options. There is only upside to an employer expanding their candidate pool internationally.

Most folks I know are starting with LatAm as there is no meaningful timezone difference to contend with.

This won’t be issue while the global demand for software engineers stays high, bolstered by monopoly businesses paying “whatever it takes”.

But when demand softens: get ready to compete on a level playing field with the best of the best from around the world.

I say that because I think this round of outsourcing is driven by a flight to quality - not cost cutting. Imagine what happens when companies offer US wages to someone in a less wealthy country. They’ll get the top 0.1% of the labor market.

Many companies were dragged kicking & screaming into WFH. But now even the laggards in remote work have developed a culture and processes to make it possible to begin offshoring their operations.
In the linked video presentation [1] they automatically turn the NeRF into a mesh, so you could do the same and get faster rendering speed than SDFs. I wonder if simply enforcing less transparency towards the end of the training in a trained NeRF would help with converging to sharper object boundaries and would get the benefits of fast training without the downsides. The linked paper doesn't even discuss training times which suggests it's really bad.

NeRFs a are also direction-dependent so work with specular surfaces too.

[1]: https://nvlabs.github.io/instant-ngp/assets/mueller2022insta...

(I edited my post so maybe you replied to an earlier version)
Is this getting downvotes because it doesn't speak to or support the question of the level of trust in the US government? Or is it getting downvotes because the politics of the poster are evident, and people are disagreeing with those politics? I am pretty sure the poster and I would disagree very strongly and on many things, but this post would seem to relate directly on the matter discussed. We do have a decreasing level of trust in our government, and it is beginning to have the sorts of impacts mentioned in the wiki article. Our relatively high standard of living compared to those other low trust countries hides them to some degree by making uprisings less inviting.
I used to pay for the Youtube Premium as well, because the app is literally unusable on an Apple TV and iOS devices without it, the ads are just too much.

Unfortunately, the premium subscription does not work for the in video ads and promotions (shills) which seems to be everywhere now, so I cancelled my subscription, as I can not get the ad-free experience anymore, dropped the idea of using Youtube on devices where I can not install ublock origin.

edit: The idea is that I can not get rid of ads, even with the subscription, so the value of subscription itself is severely diminished.
Despite ideals, people don't like reducing inequality
I think the statute of limitations is up at this point so I am free to share this with you. It was me all those years ago who downloaded and edited the html for google.com adding my name to the page. I showed my mother the result of this pure vandalism before spending the next desperate few minutes putting it back how it was before. I regret nothing
There's a longer documentary released by noclip Dec 2021 which expands on some of the history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev7FqNa5rD0
yes. And?
> The next time someone tells you “If you’re not paying for the product, you’re the product,” remember this. These farmers weren’t getting free, ad-supported tractors. Deere charges six figures for a tractor. But the farmers were still the product.

Was this something that you could opt-pout, somehow, or the only way to win is not buying such tractor ?
I feel like this is an issue with all superset languages or however you want to call them and should be taken into account by anyone learning one of these.

You can't really learn Elixir without also learning _some_ Erlang, you can't really learn TypeScript without learning some Javascript, you can't really learn Clojure without picking up some Java. The platform/base language is abstracted away to some extent but not completely.

It's especially visible when trying to use libraries used in the platform language.
I believe this is a rather naive posts on the subject of URLs and honestly wish it never made it to HN front-page, but seeing as we are here... lets go through the points made and how they conflict with each other...

"You can remember them"

Well, no. You might remember a few. But you are only going to remember so much. This has a very limited benefit.

"You can tell someone"

Yeah, but no. I barely tell people a domain. I'll just send them a link on the spot. Again, very limited benefit.

"They look nicer."

Ok, but not a strong use-case. In general usage the display name of a link does not need to reflect the URL of the link.

"They remove the middle-man" ... "encourage people to copy and paste" ...

I'm just gonna say this is plain false as a generalization. I've worked on URL sharing in publishing for almost 2 decades (yikes).

It's built on a little bit of truth. On mobile devices all have built in share functions to text and spread based on various apps installed.

Again, very limited impact and effect.

"They’re enough."

This is my favorite! He talks about unique combinations but this goes against his original point of making them memorable. He should of at least talked about potential dictionary level word combinations... sigh
So this article wasn’t about how the close caption menu more often than not opens and blocks the skip add button
+1 social credit
It’s more like > $600k TC. Not sure about FIRE given a starter house is $2M.
Neurologic Manifestations of Severe Covid Infection in Hospitalized Patients
I have a project that uses Heroku Postgres because they handle high-availability and backups, and because they have some fancy metrics that help find areas for potential optimization[1]. Does anyone have recommendations for an alternative with similar features? As far as I can tell RDS should handle the HA stuff, but it doesn't look like they have query-level metrics.

I'm open to looking at a separate dashboard of some kind for query metrics if necessary, but I pretty much need the reliability features to be abstracted away. This product needs to be reliable to be worth anything, and I handle development/deployments/infrastructure by myself so I don't have the required knowledge or time to build out a proper solution myself.

1: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/expensive-queries
That's the point of the article. Oldest and well-adapted.
And I'll leave this here:

https://sponsor.ajay.app/

This also skips the sponsored parts of the actual videos ("this video is sponsored by skillshadow raid vpn,...")
> By triangulating these [...] numbers [...], I can tell if a software engineer is truly fast, or just simply slow.

It seems that Mr. Casey Cobb is more interested in micromanagement of his engineers and monitoring of their performance than value the experience of them.

Yes, he talked about having a good understanding of the topic is crucial, but engineers that have 95% of the time a correct estimate rises a red flag. I guess the engineers have a quite narrow scope to implement things in so it's quite "easy" to estimate the cost of the feature in question.

Let me tell you from my day-to-day work: I'm honest and transparent with my workload but because of the wide scope I have to operate in my estimates are more or less accurate. But that's ok! Because of the planning we're doing, the communication we're having and the transparency we live we can always explain why things go so fast or slow. We're adjusting the goals as required and that's it. No big management, no micromanagement, no one that sits on your shoulder just to ask if you're truly fast, or just simply slow.

We have only engineers in our team that want to build good software so we can skip the fingerpointing and poisoning (not that project ricochet has that problem.).

> ... if you're truly fast, or just simply slow

oh man...
Very few people are objecting to the presence of ads, but instead the fact that Google tries to trick you into watching more ads and blame yourself for doing so.

In an alternate universe without this dark pattern, there would still be ads - they would just have a consistent design that allowed you to skip the skippable ones without any thought, or alternatively longer/unskippable ads.
I know it’s probably obvious to some but in an MVC framework: the API can be the view.

That’s the whole point of separating the code into layers: so you can have multiple implementations existing concurrently at the same layer.

For example you can have models talking to Postgres and models taking to Elasticsearch or Cassandra. Or as everyone knows you can have different controllers which all talk to the same models or use the same view for output.

And if you were to abstract beyond the framework level, MVC can apply to software written in totally different languages.

I consider my code to be high level MVC and it’s controllers in Elixir talking to Java model layers and outputting JSON views, HTML, or even Excel files.
Did you read the piece? It goes more than just "being exposed to an ad." It's about implementing unpredictable UX around ads.
Hey... sorry I need a better way to track these discussions.

So... I looked at the TruNAS mini before and just configured the base model:

TruNAS Celeron & 8GB RAM (with 1x1TB SSD and 3x2TB HD) vs. HPE Xeon & 16GB RAM (with 1x500GB SSD and 3x1TB HD). So accounting for the smaller drives the TruNAS comes in around 1300USD (>1600CAD) vs the 1120 CAD I spent on the HPE (but I got it on sale).

Note the HPE drive bays are NOT hotswap though they are quick change.

As for VMs, it entirely depends on the workloads you need to run of course. It's lots for mine :) but I can see getting a second one at some point if I needed to.
Today, it is important to act you have 1000% more fun than the person before. Dude, you're just having a few beers with friends and you act like you just got married.
One point I hate on YouTube are the clickbaits thumbnails and title. I found an extension that uses a random image of the video for the thumbnail and it's much better
I'm not a Salesforce or Heroku employee, I just orbit their space, do projects, listen to podcasts etc. so this is just speculation on my part.
Salesforce is rolling out "Salesforce Functions", like ASW Lambda but for internal Salesforce work. A function is already logged in to your Salesforce account and has access to your data. It's for things that would be hard to do in their proprietary Apex language in the platform.
It's possible they're taking the Heroku resources and staff and getting them ready for Functions.
Based on the comments it seems this practice started when eBay switched to their own internal payments system.

A lot of anecdotal evidence in the thread that this is a common thing.

I assume there is more to it...
Yes it is. It and my mics are calibrated to at least the thousandth. The shop has a 6" mic set on the ten-thousandth. But nobody uses that one because that's a level of detail that is just amazingly frustrating to chase.

>between several persons

This is just wrong. Rule one of precision equipment - do not touch my precision equipment.
If they mainly use computers for web browsing, why not show them how can programing make it more convenient? Teach them how to use, then modify and later create userscripts to simplify annoying stuff. Same with Discord bots. Show them how to scrape all videos of their favourite tiktoker. Help them create webpages to troll their friends. Some might find interesting Game of Life. If they are into art, teach them Processing. If they are into video games, they might be interesting in creating mods.
I was listing things where I would not want an off-switch along with the reasons. As you rightly mentioned yourself having an off-switch on a smoke detector is a very bad idea.

The only place where smoke detectors are frequently switched off are remote huts that might be empty for the better part of a year. And there the best strategy is to unmount the whole thing, pull the battery out and place both things somewhere really obvious so the next guys notice immediately what needs to be done.
Why does anyone use eBay? They clearly can’t be trusted and the chance of being scammed is high. Now we find they suspend accounts with no explanation… just doesn’t seem worth it.
A Dutch city testing the future of urban life
Don't be ashamed. It's no you doing it. I know the feeling, though, I come from a country with a bad reputation, but most of us, just like most of the indians work hard and prove people we're not like the scumbags on the news.
Perhaps not a coincidence that 150 is Dunbar's Number[1]?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
I pay for YouTube, but they still apply dark patterns, namely, they constantly turn auto play back on after a week or so despite me turning it off time and again.
Google is raising pay, revamping employee reviews
If it's cheap, non-perishable and transports well, it will have a big market.
My son is almost 6. He knows the alphabet and can read some words. He knows addition and substraction (with fingers) and how to count to 169. I plan to help him expand in all of those areas during the summer, but naturally (not with homework)

He likes puzzles and videogames. We made a couple Pico-8 games together. Lately he has been developing levels in Mario Maker 2. He builds legos. He enjoys going to the countryside and playing with rocks, sticks, bugs, etc. I think all those will help him appreciate math and sciences later. He has a piggy bank and he earns coins sometimes when he does good deeds. He loves counting them. I will try to do more of those during the summer, but mostly because he enjoys it.

I also intend for him to be around other children as much as he can during the summer, which he also likes. And he is missing some social practice because of the lockdown.
HN users would nitpick everything and anything ad infinitum and never get anything done.
We added support for HTTP2, GRPC and streaming at Northflank recently. Could be a good choice for your team. Here is the changelog https://northflank.com/changelog/introducing-http-2-and-grpc...
For context, Morgaine Gaye's LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-morgaine-gaye-4727253/details...
> This device has no control over you that you don't allow it to have.

I wish this were true. Phones leak data about users, which companies use to make profiles about you to serve you advertisements. Even if you block advertisements, the profile is still there. Companies are coming up with new ways to use this data. You can read more about that here:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/locat...

https://archive.ph/se3nT
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Practically speaking, turnover in the US Senate is pretty low. Thomas Benton wrote a memoir called Thirty Years in the Senate of the United States, when that was a very long tenure. Chuck Grassley is in his 41st year, and has talked of running again. Mitch McConnell is in his seventh term.
You don't seem to be reading what I've written three times now. Perhaps you aren't aware of antitrust law, its purpose, and relevant cases: you might not know about how AT&T ("Ma Bell") was broken up using antitrust law, or how Microsoft was found guilty of abusing its monopoly position by bundling Internet Explorer. Standard Oil was the impetus for the legislation - that's a good one to learn about.

More recently, businesses have created duopolies of convenience and mutual defense. I'm not a fan of this workaround. Please refer to my earlier posts for details.
Yes. I read it. The presence of the ability to skip an ad or not is entirely obvious when you're on YouTube. Sometimes you can't skip an ad, that's not surprising nor dark. It is right in front of you and the result is obvious.
This seems so much more likely
Compromising bank servers is less harmful than compromising individual customers, because it's the bank (or perhaps the insurance) that's bearing the consequences, not its customers.
Google products have been incorporating a frustrating amount of dark patterns. In gmail for example, if you load one of the smart inbox tabs, it shows the rows of unread emails at the top. Right when you attempt to click on the top row, it rearranges the rows to show a few rows of ads instead (and the ads are fairly indistinguishable from the unread emails) so you end up unintentionally opening an ad.

Now, there’s no good reason for this loading pattern - since they intend to show the ads, they could have allocated a few rows, shown a loading skeleton, and then asynchronously loaded ads and emails in their expected place. Instead they now get a ton of extra ad clicks, but I wonder how happy their advertisers are to pay for these unintended clicks.
The problem is they are always addressed in isolation of the most dominant factor which is genetics.
It's the same way that the Java/JVM prevents Clojure being picked up more. To figure out Clojure's errors you need to be familiar with Java/JVM (most of time).

Elm is a great example of a language that doesn't suffer from being written in Haskell, you basically completely unaware of it and not required to dip your toes into Haskell's ecosystem.
Build stuff, make mistakes, fix them, then build more is the fastest way learn.
The fact that you can or can't skip ads doesn't imply any "blame" to me.
Perhaps if people were more literate in programming, they could demand more from software vendors. Think spotting BS/over-promising by vendors.

I think too many managers/execs sign off on software that's of such low quality because everything is magic to them and they don't know to dream bigger.
There is also an experience penalty on softcore in hell. 10% experience at lvl 98 is a few weeks of work for me.
Take a look at Aiven for Postgresql.

Disclosure: current employee.
What is the problem they are solving? My best guess is: A 3d model is rendered and overlaid a number of background images. From these compositions, reconstruct the original model. Is that it?
This is really good advice. Better teach your kid things they don't get to learn or experience inside school!
I thought that until I got most of the way through the article.
It is a long winded explanation that eventually gets to its point that the skip button can appear in various formats making it a tiny bit slower to recognise and use.
Without a reasonable explanation to why it needs to change it seems like dark pattern is fair.
Couldn't you subtract the resistance of the plunger and display the adjusted value?
> that ancient Greek and Roman culture are the basis of Western civilization

Honest question: isn't that specific part true?
Checkout Firefox Developer Edition, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

Create an HTML file and open it up in the browser without a web server (though some advanced stuff will need a web server running). The developer tools built into the browser can be used to interact with the page and see how changing HTML, CSS, or JavaScript affects it.

Web console can be used to experiment with JavaScript, https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/web_co...
Or OP just forgot to RTFM and is ranting because they don't know how to use what they bought? Wouldn't be the first time...

At the very least it's terrible UX design though.
P5 is such a fun library.
I'm constantly impressed at how quickly you can get an idea from paper to screen with it. I can't speak to it's viability in production but for research, prototype and just fun there are few alternatives out now.

It reminds me a bit of old basic on Amiga/commodore systems where getting something drawn on the screen and making a beep was trivial and built into the environment.
> Erlang, on the other hand, offers me much that Elixir does not.

Genuinly curious. Like what?
One minor quip that other comments do not seem to address - is that supposed to be a bad thing?

I didn't notice what the article describes when I meditated (if anything I got nicer because my failure mode is being impatient/easily annoyed, and meditation helps with that), but one thing I did notice is that I really couldn't handle going to some meditation groups and any Buddhist ones, because of all the religious/compassionate fluff. To me meditation was always just form of great mental exercise. I thought it was just because of my atheism... but I guess it's also because I think the selfishness is a virtue, so trying to counteract it with some new age stuff never sat well with me.
I remember telling people with a serious expression that I was the #2 on my huge army base after the Commanding General because as the Webmaster & Intranet Master, I controlled what everyone saw on their browser when their browser opened (intranet site), and our public web presence (web site), and over 100 tenant and subordinate organizations received our hierarchal navigation headers and footers via SSIs.
The YouTube subscription just seems excessively expensive. I find it hard to fathom they would generate anywhere near as much revenue from me watching their ads compared to the subscription cost.
They'll probably find some way to block this.

In firefox type cs-] then press the right arrow 4-5 times, then alt-tab, then tab until "Skip add" is highlighted and hit space. No need for extra extensions or anything.

Note: this lets you skip unskipable ads too.
Tesla sues former engineer for allegedly stealing its supercomputer’s secrets
The main reason I don't want to pay is it cannot remove the ads the content creators put in themselves.

I could see paying if it was a totally clean experience but to pay and get rid of part/half of the ads I would see does not seem worth it to me.
Take him to a planetarium or dinosaur museum
Considering malvertising campaigns still persist, I don't feel bad using an adblocker literally anywhere.
Drinking Kool-Aid is the ultimate expression of freedom.

This statement was brought to you by Kraft Heinz.
I wonder if you could build an AI using this datasource to automatically detect sponsored segments. 3.8 million segment submissions is probably enough data.
As corollary -- as soon as a recession hit in Ireland the bars and pubs that are most likely to survive were ones that served food -- gastropubs. Many bar owners who closed during Covid will tell you they should have served food.

The reason being is a bar/restaurant can have a symbiosis where the food encourages drinking and the drinking encourages food and this is great for business.

Selling drink is very profitable but you need a critical mass of people to to attract other drinkers -- pubs who serve food hit this critical mass easily.
Thanks for the feedback! Can I trouble you for your browser / platform? For the browsers I have tested, scrolling has worked.
Is this just saying they're open sourcing or someone is leaking the engine behind it? Like the original build engine in DN3D was made available and newer games like Ion Fury use it?