skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's too much risk to hand a stranger your cell phone, unfortunately. They can steal the phone, call some high cost number, venmo themselves money, who knows what else.
I was actually going to go there last year for a show, until nature decided to try and destroy it again (though I hear the hurricane wasn’t too bad)
Thinking is good only when your mental model is correct with respect to reality.

The best way to get your mental model correct is to do the thing, and learn from it.

That's why people who do things are more likely to have better thought processes than people who overthink things.
Not so in Cali - there it is (almost always) a choice between democrat and democrat due to the way primaries are structured.
I guess living in SF is like buying a boat. You're happy when moving there but much happier when moving out
My favorite knot is the Zeppelin Bend: [1]

It's used to tie the ends of two ropes together.

It's super easy to tie, super easy to untie (when you want to), and will not untie accidentally.

[1] - https://www.animatedknots.com/zeppelin-bend-knot
In Czecho/Slovakia we call them vánočka/vianočka (same root as Christmas)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1no%C4%8Dka
That's the engineering argument. The societal expectation, however, is that it's 100% better than human drivers, as in, it must not cause harm, ever. The reality is that the vast majority of folks won't accept autonomous vehicles if they don't meet this high bar.

Opinions my own.
Hi. I've tried creating the same service, about 5 years back ;) articoder.com ;) Was digging at it for a few months. But natural language processing of the time was not up to the task...

Good to know that now it is doable in a week, with such good precision! Or do you have humans in the backend ;) ?

How do you compare yourself to PullRequest (they've been digging at it for 5 years as well) and recently folded? [funny fact, we've been interviewed in the same YC batch, which always makes me wonder, if YC liked the idea enough to have it implemented by another team ;) ]
They were doing something similar in London for a while. They'd install a large advert screen with a phone attached and say it was a payphone because the local planning rules made it difficult to oppose installation of a payphone. The calls were actually free.
Downvote all you want but prove me wrong.
I believe there are two things to keep in mind here:

1. There is the idea of compressing each Bayer color.

2. There is the compression method.

I believe this issue is about point 2, the compression. But it seems that Nikon is using a different compression so I am not sure Red will win this.

Edit: from the legal document, I believe it is about this part:

"The camera can be configured to transform blue and red image data in a manner that enhances the compressibility of the data. The data can then be compressed and stored in this form. This allows a user to reconstruct the red and blue data to obtain the original raw data for a modified version of the original raw data that is visually lossless when demosaiced. Additionally, the data can be processed so the green image elements are demosaiced first and then the red and blue elements are reconstructed based on values of the demosaiced green image elements."
It would be cool if governments issued each person a “real” SSN only available to that person and the government, and an encryption tool/function. When a company asks to verify your ID they provide a “request” with the company ID with a timestamp, you encrypt it and sent it back to them, and the company can send the encrypted request to the government who decrypts it and verifies that you authorized it.
If one has a hacker mindset that extends outside of startups and technology, knots are pretty dang useful. I use them all the time in DIY projects, camping, etc.
> Other state and local leaders alarmed by “truck bloat” would be wise to study the D.C. law, which represents a first-of-its-kind effort to address the negative externalities — or costs borne by others — associated with larger, heavier SUVs and trucks

First-of-its-kind? OK

https://www.chicityclerk.com/sticker:

> Vehicle with curb weight of 4,500 lbs or less with a payload capacity of 2,499 lbs or less - $90.88

> Vehicle with curb weight of 4,501 lbs or more with a payload capacity of 2,499 lbs or less - $144.33

> Vehicle, Truck, pickup truck with closed or open bed, or van with a gross weight of 16,000 lbs or less or with a payload capacity of 2,500 lbs or more - $213.82

> Truck or vehicle with a gross weight of 16,001 lbs or more with a payload capacity of 2,500 lbs or more - $481.10

This has been around for as long as I can remember, and there are a number of vehicles (especially minivans) where the lower trim levels pay one fee but the top trim level pays more.
Walmart Announces Same-Day Drone Delivery in Six States
> Personal opinion here, but I think defaulting to "stop and contact support staff" is as good of a "fix" as we will have for a long time.

I both agree, and see this as yet another reason driverless cars are on the road WAY too early.
I might have to try that. I’ve heard similar things from people saving money by rolling their own cigarettes as well.
When war is so unimaginably profitable to the people with an outsized influence in the running of country, that is going to play a significant role in deciding how we shape our geopolitical relations. This is precisely what Eisenhower warned about in his famous farewell address. [1] Literally everything he warned society about has come to pass.

[1] - https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp
nixpkgs has many owners that span across the 80,000+ software packages. When you open a PR against a specific package, the owner is notified via CI that Nix Foundation runs.

To test with your own config, it's easy to instead of importing nixpkgs, to import nixpkgs.applyPatches { patch } with a path to your fix.

And yes, overlays are a great way to quickly override attributes from a package definition, maybe while waiting on others to fix upstream ;)
Proof by strawman imaginary counter-example
Oh my you're right.
This is very hyperbolic. This place is legit one of the most beautiful cities in the entire world.
Realistically, is there any better alternatives for a modern personal computer? I'm currently running systemd as I don't know better, and haven't hit any issues, but always keep an open mind for all the pieces in my setup, if there is some better alternative that would give me something better.

But looking at the list of alternatives for the `init` (https://without-systemd.org/wiki/index_php/Init/), it seems like everything stopped updating after 2018, and if that's the case, I'll just go with systemd as it is still receiving updates.

Edit: looking at the footer of the wiki, it says "This page was last modified on 17 March 2018" so I guess the jokes on me, the wiki is not being updated very frequently and that's why the release dates are not up to date.
Doesn't hurt to learn the one-handed bowline as well.
The Ashley Book of Knots is fantastic.

You could probably find it at your local library.
Piping plovers come to Sleeping Bear Dunes every year, scientists are obsessed
yes, as I said, a oneweb terminal could be acquired by a local WISP and used as the primary uplink to serve a remote area. With the local ISP doing distribution of network services by point to multipoint unlicensed band wireless fiber, whatever is practical and financially possible.

The capital equipment cost for a oneweb terminal is much too great for anyone except maybe a very wealthy person with a private island. It's a big set of two motorized tracking antennas in radomes with their own RF chains.

> Also remote northern towns I believe still have network connections and I doubt a wisp will help much

in many cases these are connected by existing geostationary satellite links which are at minimum 492ms, and the $ per dedicated Mbps cost is quite bad. If oneweb can beat the geostationary operators on $/Mbps ratio, they will win a lot of business. Just as o3b beat the geostationary operators for high capacity links into places like pacific nation islands with no submarine fiber.
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-coronavirus-sport-...

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-coronavirus-sport/...

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-coronavirus-fifa/f...

And between 2014-2018 617 footballers died according to FIFA SDR, that's 123 per year. The Wikipedia list is pretty short for that years, because nobody cared to enter them on Wikipedia.
Rents are up across the country and you are right it's 20% in LA according to rent.com. However equating rental prices going up 12% in the past 12 months with "people coming roaring back" isn't really correct. I mean inflation is up >7% in the last 12 months. I wouldn't say NYC has had a huge roaring back of people...but rent is up 39% in the last year...triple what SF saw.

You can have rental prices increase and that doesn't necessarily mean an increase in demand...there are many external factors (supply shrinking, adjustments to account for lost rent in the pandemic, inflation, etc).
We would call the pay phone at the front of Steak ‘n Shake and talk to whichever drunk person picked up. Very amusing in the 90s. Then, some of us got cell phones, and we could call from the parking lot and see who we were talking to, without them knowing who they were talking to.
They charge fees. They also lend stocks to shorters (and charge a fee for that). And cheap brokers sell order flow.
Most people (including me) think they're better drivers than average. I think I'm probably in the top 10%, at least. Whether or not that's actually true doesn't matter for my argument.

All that considered, I need autonomous vehicles to be MUCH better than average human drivers to consider riding in them. They need to be better than I think I am, so maybe top 5% or so of talent on the road.

1% better than the average human is still an awful driver IMO.
That hardly made sense lol
"Download free money" sounds like a scam.
> The latter justification leads me to ask: how do we ascertain what our community values are?

Well, talk to your community and find out. Ask them what matters to them, what they think is important, how they want the world to change.
"Less than four casualties - nothing to see here, move on people, all is well."
Yeah, it'd be crazy if sites like Reddit, SurveyMonkey, Dropbox, Spotify, Instagram, Pinterest, Lyft, and Sentry were built on a silly little prototyping language like Python instead of a real programming language. Right?
The original comment was

> iPhone push notifications could only be sent with a signing key tied to the same developer account as used to publish the client application.

> That meant it was impossible to send push notifications from your own XMPP server to a generic XMPP client written by someone else.

and you were replying to

> This restriction that push notifications must only come from the developer’s server is a restriction imposed by Apple and their App Store.

So I'm confused as to what you mean.

> An __off device__ request that is processed server to server.

> ... They are portable (very smart) terminals ...

How does this relate to methods of reliably pushing notifications to an iPhone?
> - charging stations for the homeless to use

Isn't that a good thing?
Its not at all strange that you cannot use my device that has access to some really important personal info on it. It's rude for me to hover over you while you are talking on the phone so I can make sure you aren't snooping through my messages, email, etc, and I'm not about to let you use a device that has access to those unsupervised.
There is no lack of evidence. There are thousands of video records taken in San Fran 25-30 years ago. You won't see a city filled with vagrants and human feces. You won't see trash filled-streets or sidewalks lined with makeshift shelters. It certainly wasn't perfect (no city is) but it wasn't the open sewer it is today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0t9ogfCI3E
So there probably were some things during that time the team could change, even if it was out of pure pragmatism (i.e., "well, raising this issue led to a bunch of busy work. Let's not raise that kind of issue any more"). But even if not, there certainly was benefit just agreeing "yeah, this is a problem we can't address", since that builds a stronger team.

That said, the situation you describe gets solved by the org adopting a retro itself. The team lead raises the broader issues up at a retro with other stakeholders/higher level management/etc, who -can- fix it.
Seconding this question. I learned many knots from my father when I was small, but the taut-line hitch is one of few I have used on a weekly basis all these years.

(If anyone is curious, the carrick bend is the other one I use very often.)
Shape Up seems to have been gaining traction: https://basecamp.com/shapeup/webbook

in my opinion, it feels more like agile than Agile™
I think the point is that many people feel forced to live in SF because of their job. At the same time, there are so many people that love SF that are forced out due to economics.

It would be better if people were able to choose where they want to live rather than being pushed into certain living situations that aren't what they'd choose. There are plenty of techies that feel pushed to living in SF for their job. There are plenty of LGBT people that feel pushed out (or kept out) of SF due to economics even though they want to be there. It's not that any group is right or wrong. I just think that people get resentful when they're kept away from the things they want in life. Place is one of the biggest parts of our lives. "I want to live in X, but I can't really because..." is just a recipe for unhappiness.
I agree we must do something! It's much more reliable to talk with individuals and assess instances of racism, discrimination, etc. on a case base case basis (taking into account other evidence). We don't have to be paralyzed.
I have no idea and I’ve only seen very speculative theories on it
> Homeless people aren't stupid. They find a way to get to where it is most comfortable to be homeless

By this logic if you make it even less "comfortable" everywhere they'll disappear into thin air? Go to mars?
Only 28 of our current states have a population above the median population of all US states and territories. I don't think the other 22 states would be wild about that admission standard.
Knob boxes have had a comeback, for controlling photo values in Lightroom.

There are plugins for using generic MIDI controllers (for musical instruments) that have knobs, sliders and buttons. Then there are also dedicated controllers that do basically the same thing, but with specialised labels on the controls.
I don't think "eventually" is the right word there. It immediately became dogma, and the one most used description about people's implementation of agile was always "you are doing it wrong".

Somehow the things in the Agile Manifesto never popularized, only those religions did.
Two satellites from the same launch, in the same orbital inclination, following each other in a conga line of starlink satellites are still slightly moving relative to each other, considering the narrow beam width of a laser shot at distances of 50 to 80 km or more between satellites.
Surprised there's no equivalent in Reshade
I don’t know. “Car” is short for carriage. Arguably, horse-drawn carriages had certain levels of autonomy. An “automobile” focuses on the automated, or mechanical, nature of the conveyance. These days, “auto” is usually focused on mechanical thought. I imagine that we might just collectively redefine one of our existing terms once it is not so ambiguous anymore.
I watched The Great Simplification [1] last night, and it provided some perspective on this question which, until now, I had not fully considered in context.

[1] https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/
I'm more thinking "legally private" than "technically private".
Came here to say I have about a 3 meter length next to me. I started doing this to help curb snacking, but it also helps me problem solve and focus.
Is there no marker that can be provided to indicate why it failed or even a line number?

Can't tell if it's something like formatting and code style or "bad code" or what. Even as a first line reviewer I can't tell if this is valuable or not without any details on why it would approve something.

The PR's it would Approve here were all super minor. Could probably get similar number of these approved just by doing a Lines of Code changed + "Has it been linted"

It's really hard to tell if this is valuable or not yet.
If you're going to use provocative words you should be prepared for some pushback when people challenge the appropriateness of the terms you've chosen.
Sure, sometimes. Certainly against the people applying force.

I am definitely not suggesting this approach will help, it seems like a ridiculous solution that's all about exploiting performative compassion for the sake of the hacker's egos...

But I also disagree with your statement as a blanket claim. Kids are forced to go to school and while they'll be resentful of the system or their parents or their teachers I haven't really seen kids being resentful of each other and certainly their peer group develops social cohesion and empathy for one another.

Everyone forced to do community service doesn't necessarily resent the people they are helping, they resent the judicial system.

At least, that seems like the rational response to me, it would be incredibly petty to resent some kids you take to dinner just because you're doing it due to blackmail. Resent the blackmailers...
I've seen most men in Myanmar were still wearing longyies (sarongs) at least up to ~6 years ago.
> What's your suggestion here? That garbage trucks don't pick up on streets without two lanes in each direction?

Maybe they don't block the travel lane for extended periods, just like any regular person is expected to not do.

The article is basically saying "it's ok for the human driven car to do, but not the self driving car."
I'd say thinking is the union type of under and overthinking.
The approximation error he makes is a limit of our language.
I propose to coin the word opti-thinking to fill the semantic gap.
Here's an example[1] at random from YT. Many knots can be tied multiple ways (that still result in the same knot), and many knots can be tied with slight variations (for example lots of things can be slipped by finishing the knot with a doubled-over bight instead of just the single line, allowing you to pull the 'tail' and quickly untie them).

1: https://youtu.be/lvIRHvu2va8?t=162
Inverse Occam’s Razor
Yes, https://without-systemd.org/wiki/index_php/Special_RecentCha... shows the last edit on the site was 19 April 2018.
Forgive me if this is a dumb question -

Assuming you're an employee with a relatively small number of shares (in terms of company control) - what's the point of shares if you can't sell them? Just _in case_ you can sell them later? Some type of dividend/profit sharing (which seems unlikely for a startup)?
I would argue that the first major failure was with the Articles of Confederation, which had to be replaced in part because states couldn't even agree to pay soldiers. Everything has to be unanimous.

It didn't work. You need a central government.
Yes it is a community project but VMware engineers play a big part in maintaining as it is foundational to the kubernetes product that VMware sells. Open source does not mean it runs by itself.
Don't be afraid to use another code forge, there are many alternatives. People will come over if your project is interesting.
based on that logic it would be perfectly ok for all the food companies to lace their food with fentanyl?

or does the government bare some responsibility to regulate corporation and protect consumers from harmful business practices.

if you didn't have labeling laws and didn't have laws against addictive food additives why wouldn't all profit seeking corporations maximize shareholder value.
What's the point of even doing "sprints" then?
I've seen it work, but only in very small teams (not teams that were a part of a big corporation, mind you, but small teams in a very small companies). Where there was a thick layer of middle management comprised mostly of social climbers and micromanagers, it all fell apart because all the rituals were in place for all the wrong reasons.
> Can't you buy old PCs for 20 times less than a (second-hand) modern PC?

You can, but it's basically a paperweight at this point (I doubt you can even find a recent OS that boots it). Whereas back in the day, such a computer allowed me to play AAA games, browse the web, watch movies, and use the MS office suite for work or studies. Just as the average today's computer.

There have been gains (engineering or scientific calculation benefit a lot from the additional available computing power), but for most user, the improvement is at best marginal (the games' graphics are better, but I doubt it makes kids this days enjoy their games more than what I did when I was 12) or even nonexistent (what's the productivity gains from Word 2021 compared to Word 2000 for a student writing a thesis ?).
Many of the distros they link to are very much kept up to date. I can vouch for Voidlinux and Alpine Linux. Another one I like that they left off the list of Qubes OS [1] although that needs a fair amount of memory to take full advantage of.

[1] - https://www.qubes-os.org/
When I was in high school, the payphone (in the school) ate my quarter.

I called the operator and told them. I didn't care about the money, I just wanted a working phone.

A few weeks later I got a check in the mail for $0.25. It was on old letterhead from the telephone company's old name.
Yes! the zeppelin bend is also my favorite knot. I probably don't use it as much as a bowline, but it comes in handy joining two lengths of rope, looks cool, and is always easy to untie no matter how much the knot has been loaded.
Besides the bowline my most used knot is probably the trucker hitch.
Carrick bend is another favorite of mine, but I prefer the zeppelin bend for real world usage.
> if any claim gets invalidated, the rest that rely on it are useless.

This misunderstanding came up in another thread. If a dependent claim is invalidated, then it invalidates the claims it depends from, but not the other way around. For example, consider the following claims:

1. A method comprising steps A, B, and C.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising step D.

If the prior art only teaches claim 1, then claim 2 could still be valid if the addition of step D is non-obvious over the prior art. If the prior art teaches claim 2, however, then claim 1 is also invalid.
This may seem an wild idea for those in North America, but how about just eliminating car dependency in the first place?
Knots are generally a solution to a problem. I think that's why they fit.

Question is, why don't we see as many about saws?
SVGs work on IE9 and higher plus every single version of Chrome and Firefox and Edge and Opera and Safari and Opera Mini. What more could you want? https://caniuse.com/svg
hard work can compensate for a lot when you are solving problems that have already been solved with known answers (e.g. school) . When you are solving totally novel problems with no known solutions things get much harder and you start to be able to separate high performers.
I would appreciate if anybody would explain why there's so much hate against systemd. I don't get it but maybe I'm just cusual Linux user.
If it ain’t broke…
If you are going to use Linux at work it will be system d. I use Linux both at home and work so I use systemd. I’ve had exactly 0 issues with systemd and if systemd has a solution for something (like ntp time or efi booting) I just use that.

I understand it’s not everyone’s cup of tea and have nothing against peoples personal decisions. It’s just the ship has sailed regarding systemd regarding that most people use it and it’s the industry standard.