skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
X-trans is still a mosaic and the underlying tech is mostly the same (color filter array with monochrome "buckets"). Instead of a 2x2 pattern, it uses a 6x6 pattern.

Goes something like:
GRBGBR
BGGRGG
RGGBGG

Instead of:
RG
GB
According to the article, Manhattan lost 6.6% (that is, even more) in the same timeframe.

Manhattan is a much closer comparable to SF than all of NYC, the lines just happen to be drawn differently.
How does this work? I went to an episode of Nerdland, posted a comment, saw a brief loading icon and the input area emptied itself and... poof, nothing happened. Reloaded page, no comment. Tried posting again, but no comment appeared.

Is the commenting system overloaded? Do I need to login first (it doesn't say so)? Does it need to be able to talk to Stripe the payment network to place comments (TrackerControl app shows that as the only detected tracker while using the site)? I didn't include links or markup, so if it was detected as spam (again: there's no mention of that, no error, no nothing) then I'd not know why.
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That's incredible! I'm going to give that a look later this weekend! Thanks!
I think the article touched in it, but from my group of friends, the main theme is this. We’re working just as hard as our parents, and particularly the older colleagues in our offices, but not receiving the same rewards in regards to life milestones like getting a ‘nice’ car, moving out, or even owning a house, which further delays other milestones like putting down roots and starting families, leading to an ongoing sense of futility.

The feeling is ‘why bother working 50 hour weeks in a stressful profession if I’m going to be in roughly the same position as working 20 hours at a book shop and getting to spend more time with my friends’, and this is something I relate to as well even on the more successful end of the young person with job spectrum. It does feel a bit pointless doing all this. My savings and money are just as useless as nit having them when a house I could live in is 20x a bookshop salary and 12x my salary, they’re both not cutting it so why bother?

Anyway, that’s where this feeling is coming from in my group, and is something I’m still trying to find a solution for in my setting.
I think I like this better expressed as a linter than a code reviewer. Maybe it doesn't sell as well. But giving this to devs to help them make better PRs and have more confidence in approval? Good. Skipping code review? Bad.

In my experience, most "issues" in code review are not technical errors, they are business logic errors, which there is most of the time not even enough context in the code to know what the right answer is. It is in a PM or Sales Person's head.
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Does anyone know of a good snort alternative? Any recommendations for a company that runs mainly off AWS?
Autodiff: Simple C++17 library for Automatic Differentiation
I don't really get the point of it either, since it just approves PRs. I know when my PR is mergeable, you don't have to tell me that. What I need is some feedback since that's what code review is for.

Any linter is more useful than this.
I had an issue a while back where my mobile service got cut off and in the most well thought out support system I’ve seen, I needed to make a phone call to resolve it.

At first I couldn’t find anyone who’d allow me to make a call real quick. Luckily the phone worked fine and I still had wifi and was able to use Google voice, but if pay phones were still a thing I may have reached for one.
Not true.

Most people aren't using and can't afford the flagship models. I personnally have never bought a smartphone more than 180€ and I know a lot of people doing the same thing.
You can't be underinsured in Germany at least for critical thing's.

The bills are smaller. USA is paying a high price for their health system. This one is statistically shown.
A LOT of ML applications should be exactly like this.

I want systems with low recall that "flag" things but ultra ultra high precision. Many times, we get exactly the opposite - which is far worse!
So they can own part of your game? Just hire a sound engineer.
As far as I can tell, none of the reported incidents in SF involved a "computer crash". Further, none have been as 'catastrophic' as other very-common accidents with human drivers.

So yes, the details of recovery are important – but only in comparison to the human baseline. If incidents happen less often than with humans, and/or recovery happens as fast or faster than with humans, that's the relevant criteria.

Also deserving weight: might autonomous cars avoid dangerous panics in some situations where humans sometimes panic & overreact? I've often seen human drivers make things worse by making an ill-advised impatient navigate-around. I've seen people trying, earnestly, to avoid a block or prior accident who – distracted, anxious – do something else wrong, causing another collision.

Weigh all the rates & severities. Don't set policy based on selective worst-cases, including many imaginary/theoretical contrived cases.
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> But eventually the vacant apartments will get rented out because they're costing their owners money

Owners make money leaving properties vacant all the time. In fact, in many markets capital gains have been much more significant than rental income for a long time now.
Inspiring.
Do you agree with the saying "build it and they will come?"
That was such a great camera! That and my Nikon 990 were my transition to a full digital video and still image workflow.
If you haven't played it, give Factorio a shot.
This is one of the most important skills to learn as a developer: when to add a comment explaining the reason for some non-obvious code — and also how to write it so that enough context is given for the future reader, who may not have the same understanding that you have of the rest of the codebase and the business requirements.

Not knowing why some particular piece of code is there, or why it’s coded in that specific way, impedes refactoring and adding/changing features, and in the long run contributes to the ossification of the codebase.
Amazon's one-click patent is probably the most famous example of this. Anyone with any database programming experience can figure out "store the customer's payment details and shipping address and use them later to complete purchases". That was also true in 1999.

The patent office seems to evaluate the requirements in a manner very favorable to patent applicants/holders. I think that's a bad thing; the criteria for what counts as an invention should be stricter.
I think the opposite is self-evident. The idea that private management and allocation of capital can do better than government management of the economy is ridiculous. This has been proven many times over by post-industrial history, and is also immediately obvious if you've ever been to the airport. Or if you know anything about the inner workings of a complex modern commercial apparatus, such as any investment bank, or Enron.

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Sarcasm is when you repeat something without negating it, but indicating that you really think the opposite (negation). Saying “private sector management doesn’t work” and meaning it is not sarcasm.
Also curious about GP's experience. Meanwhile I can
share my own: until age 25 I was unable to study at all. I couldn't even concentrate for ten minutes.

So for me the hardest part was developing the habit of just sitting down and studying every day, which I didn't develop until years after failing university.

My key insight came from hearing the idea that discipline is like a muscle, and as with strength training you must start at the appropriate "weight" for you. In my case, that was a painfully low 5 minutes of work a day.

I wrote a script to generate a schedule for me, starting with 5 minutes of studying (for the whole day!) and increasing the time by 2% every day.

By starting with 5 minutes and working 2% longer every day, I worked my way up to 5 hours a day this way. The fact that I was able to work for 5 hours absolutely blew my mind, because when I started I could barely focus for 15 minutes.

I might add that a year of manual labor did wonders for my motivation to study. (Perhaps that is what is meant by "it builds character?" ;)

As for practical study skills, I have heard very good things about this: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
> current 'inflation' price hikes are resulting in record profits

This is misinformation. Walmart's net income is down 25% year-over-year. Target's is down 41% year-over-year. Excluding the $7.6B Rivian Automotive loss, Amazon's net income went from $8.1B to $0.04B, down 99.5% year-over-year. That loss would have been larger if AWS wasn't doing so extremely well on growth - AWS operating income was up 57% year-over-year. North America retail went from $3.45B operating income to a $1.568B operating loss. International retail went from $1.252B operating income to $1.281B operating loss.

I think a lot of people look at revenue (which will go up with inflation) rather than income (which is what is left over when you take out the costs). As costs rise faster than retail can raise their prices, margins are getting squeezed. Consumers have an idea of what a product should cost in their heads and it takes time for that to get un-stuck.

There's a reason that retail stocks tanked 9 days ago - investors saw Walmart's earnings on the 17th and Target's on the 18th. They weren't raking in profits. Inflation was squeezing them.
Largely SOMA and parts of the Mission and the Van Ness corridor. It's mainly areas which generally feel less like a neighborhood and more like a bustling city - mainly areas where renters are more OK with living in than homeowners would be willing to purchase in. A great example is the new Chorus building which opened in 2021 on Van Ness and Mission. It remained mostly empty throughout 2021 despite offering 10 weeks "free rent" with a 1 year lease. Stunningly gorgeous building, incredible amenities, but a subpar location - a condo here would be sold at a heavy discount because of the location, thus this is a luxury rental apartment instead. Across the street is the new Fifteen Fifty building, also with heavy "free 2 months rent" discount for a 1 year lease.

But even in the most desirable neighborhoods, rents are still down about 10-15% compared to pre-COVID
It is just an expression. Frogs are actually smart enough to jump out of a gradually heated-to-boiling pot of water.
I've been out of uni for a few years and have forgotten a stunning amount of material that I worked hard to learn during my time there. In 10 years time, anything you haven't been using, you forget.
> Not true. There was one literally less than a year ago:

School mass shootings. The last one in the UK definitely was in 1996 (17 dead), after which gun control laws were tightened : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_massacre

But let's take a look at your examples :

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_shooting (2021)

6 dead.

It was the first fatal mass shooting in the UK since the Cumbria shootings of 2010. In response, the Home Office announced that it would issue updated guidelines for firearms licence applications.

>Another one in 2018:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Moss_Side_shooting

No fatalities.

Mass shootings are rare in the UK, with the most recent previous being a spree shooting in Cumbria in 2010, and the one before a school shooting in Dunblane in 1996.

> And another in 2010:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria_shootings

12 dead.

Along with the 1987 Hungerford massacre and the 1996 Dunblane school massacre, it is one of the worst criminal acts involving firearms in British history.

>And in 2009:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massereene_Barracks_shooting

2 soldiers dead.

That's a total of 37 deaths to mass shootings in the UK in 26 years. Let's see where the US is at : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_...

202 mass shootings, 221 deaths in the first 4 months of 2022

What was your point again ?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us!

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Unfortunately that can make the class pretty easy for top students, and I'm working on ways to challenge them. But I don't need to knock the whole class down to a B just to challenge top students.

Why not? What's wrong with a B? You said it yourself, most people in your class are average, although there are a few top people. Why would you assign them the same grade when the whole point of grading is to assess how well a student is doing? (Why grade anything at all then?) And why rob the average students of the honest but very useful feedback that "You're doing fine but there are still ways for you to improve"?

For instance, back when I was TA'ing a lab course for some introductory physics class, I remember a student coming over to ask me why I hadn't given her full points on her lab report. She said now she might no longer be getting an A for the overall class. …which, from my POV, would have been entirely justified: She had had no clue what she was doing and had not understood the experiments at all (no surprise given that she hardly paid attention in class), and her lab reports very clearly reflected that. How could I ever give her full points? How would I have justified that in front of those of her peers who were doing better than her because they were working much harder (or were at least paying attention in class)?

Obviously, that student had come to live under the impression that A's were the norm and that her performance, no matter how bad, demanded an A.

But even if one disregards the argument that grades (should) provide a measuring stick and feedback mechanism for average students as to where they stand, one should still ask the question, Why rob the top students of their reward (an outstanding grade) when they truly excel? Very good performance typically comes with very high costs for the students (lots of time is spent on studying), and rewards or at least recognition of what they've achieved are therefore absolutely necessary, I'd say.

So have you considered that, by makng A's your default grade, you might be demotivating some of your top students?

> And most of these students don't need the threat of a bad grade to motivate them

Again, since when has a B been a bad grade? It's obviously a rhetorical question: B's have gained the connotation of being bad grades ever since everyone and their dog have been getting A's without having to put in much effort. Grade inflation leads to further grade inflation.

I'm afraid, though, your reasoning just confirms (and reinforces) this usual catch 22 but it doesn't really justify it.
Just use QOI and be done with it. https://qoiformat.org/
Thanks! Strangely I wouldn't have guessed the 8086 had anything resembling microcode, even though when I think about it there are obvious examples of earlier microcoded CPUs - My understanding is definitely too vague, I wasn't even aware of the distinction between horizontal and vertical, thanks for highlighting the depth of this to me.
[1] at first I was like ... okay Head is going to the middle and „explode“ to spider view of commits and then I was like oh god yes he did it. The dvd thing.

Hahaha. Great work.
I could make more money right NOW with a BS in gender studies from Harvard, than I ever could all things being equal with my CS BS from a no name public university.

Anyone who takes this advice is indeed self selecting and I suppose that's good, because anyone who can't see that obviously shouldn't go to harvard in the first place!
Is there a reason that retailers for certain hot commodities don't just require a unique credit card coupled with a unique shipping address to effectively limit a customer to one item? Have this restriction automatically lift after two weeks from the last purchase for that particular customer so that they can buy another one if sufficient time has elapsed.

I'm baffled because it feels like this would instantaneously fix the scalping problem and it's not particularly difficult to implement.
The free economy self-regulates. That's why it works. What I mean is, people won't buy your good or service if it sucks, or a better one is available. Companies that are mismanaged lose out to their competitors and go out of business. Any weakness or rot is self-contained.

The government doesn't have a mechanism to self-regulate. Democracy was supposed to regulate the government, and probably can in small societies, or perhaps if formulated the correct way. American democracy definitely doesn't regulate government, and it doesn't self-regulate, so it's a system that's out of control.

You see the same mechanisms (plus others) in many societies in the 20th century. I don't see any evidence or reason to think the government can manage the economy. And a big part of the causal explanation is what I've stated above. Another is that the government isn't omniscient; it doesn't have enough information. Market solutions don't need to be omniscient and price serves to carry information.

As an aside, fun fact: Did you know that in the US, price controls are used by a government committee to set the price of the fundamental good, which is the US dollar? That does a lot to disrupt price as a signal of information. People think in the US we don't have government price fixing, and they are wrong. (I use the US as a pet example but I guess the above is basically true everywhere.)
How about the CEO of FTX who says they are doing it every day ?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/odd-lots-...
This is a neat idea but gives me pause. Thinking about how it would work in projects I maintain, it would either:

- be over-confident, providing negative value because the proportion of PRs which “LGTM” is extraordinarily low, and my increasingly deep familiarity with the code and areas of risk makes me even more suspicious when something looks that safe

- never gain confidence in any PR, providing no value

I can’t think of a scenario where I’d use this for these projects. But I can certainly imagine it in the abstract, under circumstances where baseline safety of changes is much higher.
In a system with finite energy and resources--the real world--infinite anything is impossible.
>These people are really fond of the number called «market cap.» All that means, though, is whatever the last price for a coin was multiplied by all the coins in existence. What it doesn’t mean is that you can convert all of them into real money at this price.

What kind of criticism is this, it works exactly the same in the stock market. Jeff Bezos doesn't have billions on some bank account either, and if he tried to liquidate his stocks he'd get pennies on the dollar.
I mean, you're right; someone making that list might not think to include "centaur", and maybe one Halloween a child is dressed up as one, and the computer vision system interprets the "centaur" as a horse instead of a child, and it makes the wrong decision, but how many centaur-related accidents do you think self-driving cars are going to be involved in each year?

It's completely feasible to imagine writing a list of the top, say, 100 things in the world that a car needs to make morally-significant decisions about, and then deal with every other accident or near-miss after the fact. Interactions with unrecognised objects should be rare enough to be a rounding error when comparing accident rates between autonomous and human-driven miles.
>The low-tier Harvard students are assuredly smarter than the top-tier students from my school. One reason is that students don't exist in a vacuum. Your peers influence your intelligence.

You might be conflating class signaling with intelligence. I've dealt with plenty of people from Harvard that did not impress in the slightest, but oh boy were they good at getting their suits tailored.
Oh definitely, it just goes to show that a lot of the sci fi gesture-based interfaces just aren't very practical
I think flexible WFH will also be a boost to Apple, which traditionally was unable to hire some people who loved city life and refused to commute.
There are different definitions of mass shootings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shooting

I am wondering whether the data can be crunched and find a pattern to mass killings where we can sensibly cut down on the mass killings. Is the perpetrator in a certain age range, easy access to guns, does the school raised the kid or are parents involved, played lots of first person shooter games, were the guns illegally obtained, what type of weapons used? I am not sure what sort of stats are collected, but there are some very smart people at finding patterns. Can a pattern be found that we can make use of AND have both left and right agree to do something to cut the number mass killing incidents?
Are there any knots useful for electrical wiring?
Literally doing the job they are paid to do (by the city I presume), in the expected manner.
Apple already provides all sorts of UI widgets that you can use without owning a part of your app/game.
I can see your local web servers (2019)
It's been 13 years
"Desalinating seawater costs about $1 per 1000 liters..."

Ah... so if I'm in the middle of the Mojave Desert, and have no water, but I do have a dollar in my pocket, someone will deliver me 1000 liters of water, sourced from desalination of Pacific Ocean water? How much energy will that take?
I think the truncate undefined behavior example is an example of OS behavior. On POSIX systems specifying a size greater than the current file size extends the file; it's well-defined[1]. So, presumably, Perl targets some other, non-POSIX operating systems where doing so is undefined.

[1] "If the file was previously shorter than length, its size is increased, and the extended area appears as if it were zero-filled." https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/t...

EDIT: Ah, it's VOS: "(VOS) Truncation to same-or-shorter lengths only." https://perldoc.perl.org/perlport#truncate
Imagine reselling PS5s with $500 margin.

Not a bad deal when the market is irrational.
How relevant is a rule based IDS in today's environment?

With most everything fully encrypted, what's left for the rules to detect? If I remember correctly, one of the first performance optimization recommended by snort/suricata is to detect and skip encrypted traffic, to not waste cpu cycles on random bits.

If a malware wants to exfiltrate data or receive commands from a remote command and control, won't they simply masquerade their traffic as regular outgoing https requests and bypass the IDS easily?
Do you have any good sources to seek out for learning about these improvements, such as optimized page engines and better indexing?