skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have Cisco Webex Room Kits. People wanted them in certain conference rooms because they're (to the end user) turnkey systems with good PTZ cameras, mics, and they tie into our room scheduling system so you can see what's coming up in a given room by just looking at the splash screen.

I haven't used one of the Zoom equivalents, but they also have the ability to join Zoom and some other types of calls via SIP and we have macros installed to add Zoom-centric buttons to the control touch panel for people who want to connect to a Zoom meeting.

I wouldn't personally bother with one of these, but I can see why it's easier to install and operate than (for example) a dedicated PC with the hardware needed to tie in a room mic system, cameras, etc. They're also easier to manage centrally.

But the flip side is also fairly obvious - lack of flexibility over time. A dedicated PC can more easily be swapped out than a proprietary box that acts as a VTC codec and will still become outdated in 5 or 6 years.
A colony of fleshy biological creatures in an unsuspended form?

This seems silly. Even if intelligence remains biological (which I find exceedingly unlikely), then why wouldn't you just freeze them? That's a lot easier than moving a PLANET.

FYI - rodents can be frozen and revived. There's no fundamental reason you cannot freeze and thaw a human.
Hello world in JS doesn't require WebPack in any environment. This JS file will run just fine in both the browser, node, deno, whatever:

console.log("Hello, World")

There's absolutely nothing to stop you or anyone else from writing a JS file, importing it into an HTML file, and hosting both on GitHub pages. With ES modules you can now split your code into different files that import each other, and it all just works. No build step, no webpack, just JS files behind a server of some kind.

Meanwhile, if you're interested in using someone else's code, the CDNs are all still there. Vue, JQuery, lodash, and many other libraries are available for import directly into your HTML file.

A lot of people in this thread are conflating "all the tutorials tell beginners to do things the hard way" with "JavaScript is now a harder language to get started with than it once was".
Some kind of RPG where you're a primitive human (70,000 years ago or something).
https://archive.is/DtdiH
Don't forget about "REDmags", which are bog-standard off-the-shelf mSATA-SSDs sold at a markup so high it would make Apple execs blush.
I find disabling JavaScript and browsing a paywalled site in a brand new session works some of the time. Most sites use cookies combined with your IP address to determine how much you browsed the site and will lock you out if you try and read more than 3 articles. This is where VPNs and isolated browsing sessions are essential.

Also: you could try uBlacklist[0] to filter out specific sites from Google.

[0] https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist
I don't disagree with your points, but I think lordnacho's question is a reasonable one. So, in a sibling to your post, I've included one link.

But I think the same type of question could be asked about your post. For example, the idea of "surplus men": I've heard this before, but is there some statistical "systems theory" view of history that can give us plots/data from which this will jump out?

Some parts of this are obviously true:

> War usually leads to a surplus of women

There are certainly many stories after the American Civil War about this -- about women who were unable to find husbands after the war.

> and a lack of male competition in any other area (jobs, land, wealth, opportunity)

This makes some sense (jobs, mates in particular), but I'm not sure about land, wealth; that could easily remain in the hands of elites.

> starting a war is seen as a society killing off its surplus men in hopes of getting something out of it (every war is a rich man's war)

I absolutely see this -- elites gain some geostrategic prize, at the expense of other mens' lives -- but, to clarify, I don't think the mechanism by which this helps elites is reduced domestic competition among men, since they're already elites; they've already won the domestic competition.

> incentivizing men to play according to the social contract rather than being violent or giving up.

It feels like the examples of ISIS, Hikikomori, and monasticism (Western and Eastern) are all relevant here. But it would help if a clear line of evidence could be assembled for one of those examples.

I sense that your argument comes from a conservative direction, but I'm aware of queer/feminist writing to the same effect, e.g.:

https://www.amazon.com/Loser-Sons-Authority-Avital-Ronell/dp...

I haven't read this beyond the summary, and don't know if its evidence is actually any good. But it's sometimes worth noticing when opposing political orientations agree on some underlying assumption.

Actually the same idea appears in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, in which part of her fantasy is that men's value has been reduced to peeing in a circle around the village to mark the territory. She does recognize that this "utopia" cannot last though (which she deals with by having a man invent the utopia in the first place -- "of course it's flawed").

So, plenty of people on the other side of the aisle do seem to agree with you about the "facts".
Here in the country of an encroaching police state, I recently learned that we do still have street ‘payphones’. And then, that they only work with special pay cards, and to buy one you need to provide your ID.
Sounds like it. I worked for a few months building demos for the "SensAble Phantom" (not Omni).

It was limited in that it gave force-feedback only against the sphere at the tip. The orientation of the pen could not be restricted. We attempted to simulate feedback on more DOF through leverage, but it was lacking: like using a mouse to simulate a steering wheel in a driving game.
Well this granny doesn’t have perfect vision so it’s nice when the default isn’t tuned for perfect human specimen, especially when the default doesn’t seem to buy us anything (what does grey text accomplish?).

Not that this website is that bad... I just find this attitude to be annoying. :) Maybe I’m still in partial denial about my deficiencies.

Thank goodness for my browser’s reader mode though when the website has way too long lines. No credit to the website designers, of course.
Most of the consultants/junior developers/managers and others who try to shoehorn "agile" into every process and team doesn't seem to have actually read the original "agile manifesto", which is:

> Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

> Working software over comprehensive documentation

> Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

> Responding to change over following a plan
This is common in most (if not all) countries. In some countries, though, people do not brag about it, but they pretty much do it. It's like political corruption: it happens in every country, but in some countries it's more obvious than in others.
> But if you had a raw image from a camera with a bayer pattern, and you were tasked to compress it, anyone with decent knowledge about compression and the technology they're working with should be able to come up with compressing before de-bayering. Is something really patentable just because it applies to non-mainstream technology?

Actually this exact reasoning is textbook grounds for rejecting a patent application. If a “person having ordinary skill in the art” would trivially come up with the claimed invention, a patent application can be rejected without a reference of prior art by citing obviousness of the invention. If what you’re saying is true, the examiner that originally granted the parent was probably not familiar with the subject matter(which is common).

Source: was a patent examiner a good while back
The obviousness test seems to vary by jurisdiction, but typically requires that someone with ordinary skill in the field would not likely come upon that solution[0]. It must also be novel[1].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventive_step_and_non-obvious...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_(patent)
Something like this: https://famousartisan.com/diy_2x6_deck_chair_plans/

Would be very easy to make with basic hand tools. In fact, what might be fun is to just look at the picture of that, and try to reverse engineer the parts for it. (I teach woodworking classes, and this is actually an exercise I make the students do in one of the classes).

This saw would be fine: https://www.amazon.com/CRAFTSMAN-Hand-20-Inch-Finish-CMHT208...

If you can afford it, something like this will last you a very long time (probably a lifetime): https://www.amazon.com/DEWALT-12-Inch-15-Amp-Compound-DWS715...

If you really want something that will definitely last you a lifetime (or two):
https://www.amazon.com/SKILSAW-SPT88-01-Drive-Bevel-Sliding/...

If you want something that is pretty good at most things, get this: https://www.amazon.com/SKILSAW-SPT77WML-01-15-Amp-Lightweigh...

This is a handheld saw, but it's a very nice one, and could absolutely be used to make many, many things out of wood. You can use it for almost anything, and people do.

Another thing which you will use all the time (and I mean ALL the time, regardless of if you are doing woodworking or not) is a good set of handheld drills: https://www.amazon.com/Milwaukee-2697-22CT-18-Volt-Lithium-I...

If you want a long series of videos to watch, check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn4L_aJ1rV4&list=PLRZePj70B4...

Or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh6cMQnWGwA
> Most people that do real R&D do it because they want to, not because they're rewarded with patents.

Everybody's gotta eat. Would you work your job if you weren't getting paid?
Obviously there is some level of demand to live in SF, and that's part of the explanation for the high cost of living.

But the factor really driving up rent and real estate prices is the massive resistance in SF and the Bay Area in general to building new housing.
Interesting. Emergency vehicles already interact with automation and have done so for a very long time. For example they have strobes that communicate with signal lights to make them turn green for the fire truck. It seems more like the ball was dropped here as the same automation could have been integrated into the autonomous vehicles to make them get out of the way. Not just the strobes but detecting emergency vehicle lights, sirens, etc.
Other cities seem like they have more diversified local economies than SF. Probably there are more people with the flexibility to work from home working in the bay area than in these other places.
"Omicron Deaths in U.S. Exceed Delta’s Peak as Covid-19 Optimism Rises in Europe"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/omicron-deaths-in-u-s-exceed-de...
Perhaps because it relates (vaguely) to

- Topology

- Combinatorics?

- Practical stuff like tying up boats?

I like knots because of the relationship to protein folds, but hey ymmv.
https://cryptohack.org/
It is like a first-line reviewer. It approves contributions that it is really confident are good and leaves the rest to humans. So basically it saves time and content switching for developers.
> The blame for that situation is squarely on India.

This is a bit of a sweeping statement. Colonization has a big role to play here also. When the british left india the average life expectancy was barely 40. Many other former colonies struggle with poverty and the socioeconomic disaster that it brings along. India has improved since then but has a long way to go.
So if the average is say 12% increase (which is what rent.com says right now)...that still means SF is lower than before COVID started. Not to mention that the most cities are seeing off the charts numbers compared to SF right now.

https://www.rent.com/research/average-rent-price-report/

36% increase in Portland, 112% increase in Austin, 36% in Miami.

But please, feel free to down vote me for using data.
Thanks for the help there. I am struggling my way through that.

I am glad it can be of help and plan to do much more. :)
> delivery that have absolutely no margin left for inevitable delays or completely unrealistic schedules that many drivers compensate for by driving longer than allowed. Add on that drivers who self-medicate the loneliness on the road with alcohol, dope or other stuff and that explains a majority of the accidents that could be (or are) prevented with collision avoidance systems.

Back in the 70s it was like that…

I first started driving in ‘98 and if you weren’t at one of the larger companies you could get away with a lot due to paper logbooks. Now it’s all electronic logs and GPS tracking so you can get away with basically nothing, gone are the days where you delivered the load and then made your logs look pretty — up until the DOT would start targeting specific companies so they would crack down on the drivers turning in falsified logs.

And drug/alcohol testing has been mandatory since the Reagan administration. People still do it but they don’t last very long.

One in a while they give me a load or two where I have to push it harder than I like but that just burns all my hours so they can’t do it very often if they want the truck to keep moving. In the before times you’d just rewrite your logbook and magically have enough hours to keep moving but that doesn’t work anymore.
Metaverse: Another cesspool of toxic content [pdf]
Well, almost. On paper I (and my colleagues) work 8h/day. On practice, though, we usually do 4h or 5h top.
That is business as usual for Hacker News.

Remember the now infamous thread where the Dropbox founder was sharing his work and people were saying it was useless since rsync existed?
They’re also known to quietly imply that you may also be infringing on some of THEIR patents for which they have an enormous pile of.
It fails quick when it becomes about scrum process and making sure the 3000 fields in Jira are filled out correctly and making sure every processes is done correctly.

If management types had to go through the same process to add each field to a task or each step to a process in their tools that they expect their teams to go through to get any real development done the world would probably be a much more efficient place. What specific, immediate, measurable benefit is that extra field going to provide? How important is it compared to the other ones you suggested last month? How much effort will it require for the team to fill it in (measured in arbitrary units that everyone on the team can dispute subjectively)? How will you monitor the performance of the team in using the new field? We can have a retrospective in a couple of weeks scheduled right in the middle of the afternoon when you need to take a call with a potential huge customer to discuss the new field and then if it's not working very well we can ignore that meeting and not change anything anyway.
Sounds interesting. Can you tell some more about it? Do I understand correctly that you are replacing icons with SVG's? Or even the font of regular text?
I think you're right about perception to people considering going there. But I really think it just comes down to cost. Cities have gotten exorbitantly expensive.

It doesn't make financial sense to stay in SF if you're salary stays the same in Texas and your company is remote. Unless there is some specific reason to live there - you like the vibe, or it's where you were born, or some other reason (weather).

I think it's good that we have this shakeup. Change is a good thing, and I think a lot of cities need some change.
> The server would need to bind to that address, and then it should work fine as long as that address is assigned to a loopback interface.

... you haven't worked on Linux or Windows networking stacks. On Linux, typing http://[::ffff:7f00:1]/ when you have a bound server on 127.0.0.1 will automatically connect to 127.0.0.1. Conversely, it's a illegal operation in Windows: you cannot legally bind even with SYSTEM privileges.
Do different sutures require different knots?
What's your suggestion here? That garbage trucks don't pick up on streets without two lanes in each direction?

The reality of driving is that there are a lot of these messy situations, and driverless cars need to be able to handle them.
> False.

You have it backwards. If a dependent claim is invalid, then the independent claim from which it depends is also invalid. It doesn't make sense the other way around.
typo from autocorrect:

*and the great majority of those cases unsurprisingly were among the unvaccinated
Granted I've only spent about 6 months of my life living in SF, but I did a decent amount of walking around and never saw human feces.
> A better option would be to transfer the residential neighborhoods of DC to existing states

The Virginia part was already retroceded in 1847, less than 60 years after the creation of the district; retroceding the Maryland part is a pretty common Republican alternative to D.C. statehood since pressure began for it (though it is opposed by both Maryland and D.C. residents who have 232 years of separate history.)
Ask HN: If you could do anything what would it be?
I.e. if you had no strings attached to your life (ie didn't have to work for money) - how would you spend your time?
I read your post at least 3 times and still don't understand how those sentences fit together into a coherent thought.

What does TotalBiscuit have to do with video compression? What does anti-capitalism have to do with being patriotic? How is TotalBiscuit related to anti-consumerism?

The only thing that somehow makes sense is that Red employs some anti-consumer practices through overly broad patents, thus restricting innovation.

Is that what you were trying to say?
I searched for two podcasts; one failed with an error ('Error: could not handle the request) [No Agenda]. I tested another one, [eggchasers], and that worked reasonably well. My main criticism is that, when a search returns something meaningful, there is not a lot there to compel me to create an account and drill in deeper. If I were designing this, I would seed the 'sign up' presentation to new users with some relevant bits from the conversations which are happening on your site. If there are no current conversations, then some message which would spark my desire to start one.

Also, what value does the acast privacy link for each episode provide that wouldn't alternatively be provided by some header element?
Author said https://twitter.com/russ1mitchell/status/1530278014231015424...
Splitting rent among roommates is not specific to San Francisco, it's common to cities with expensive housing. LA, Miami, NYC, San Diego, etc. all have high proportions of adults living with roommates (https://porch.com/advice/cities-whose-residents-likely-live-...).

Having roommates certainly helps save money, but it remains true that you and your roommates are paying for some of the most expensive housing in the country.
> But where does this live? Or do you literally mean that Jane The Sys Admin is supposed to type this into her terminal every time the service restarts in the middle of the night?

Depends on how the service is deployed. If you're just running it on a Digital Ocean instance by manually SSHing into the instance and running systemd services, define it in the .service file (it supports defining environment variables).

If you're doing instances via automation (like Terraform), most of them (including Terraform) supports loading things from environment variables. So you run `MY_SECRET_KEY=myGitHubPersonalToken terraform apply` when you create the instance, and use the environment variable in your hcl definitions.
Scrums sucked the life out of creative programing.
The problem is that there are literally uncountably many situations that a human with "general intelligence" will understand and react to accordingly. Sometimes smoothly, sometimes less so. But a non-conscious automatic entity needs to have the required behavior programmed in explicitly.

So yes, you might argue that for this particular situation, you "just" need to put in the proper programming and AI/ML training and then "maybe the car will notice more often than a human" as long as the situation is within very specific bounds. At least now that somebody made an article about it.

But it does not change that the autonomous machine does not understand the complex world it is driving in in the slightest, and that, for example, swerving into an unmanned fruit stand without being able to brake is much better than swerving into an unmanned gas pump.
Neither are as dirty as New Orleans. There's trash, there's excrement, then there is rotting catfish and shellfish on top of the trash and excrement and it just sits stewing in stagnant, humid, swampy and hot air.
Mozilla are doing this for HTTP/2 which transports the entire URI, not like HTTP/1.0 where people just figure hey, I needn't send the server's name.

So, the request for api.host.tld says "api.host.tld" on it. If your static server receives this request, but isn't able to service api.host.tld requests the HTTP/2 specification provides an HTTP error code to return 421, saying, oops, I can't help you with that - and the specification tells clients that in this case they might try asking via another route.
> Human drivers sometimes fail-to-notice sirens or other high-priority demands on road capacity.

In the lane directly in front of them, facing them, and honking?
Probably to give your argument as many points in its favor as possible - which is quite difficult considering how absurd your comment was. You originally said "436 states here we come" - even going by the lowest bar we currently have we'd only have two additional states.
I completely understand the hesitation, it appears to be going against 30 years of separation of concerns. However, there is a big difference between the HTML/JS mix in React, there you are using JS as a template language, mixing it with your html. Personally I prefer a domain specific template language (like Django or Vue.js) as it enforces separation of concerns. With Tetra you aren't mixing your js/html/css/python, they are just conveniently located next to each other. It's much closer to the idea of Vue.js single file components, where you have your JS, CSS, and HTML for a component all in the same file.

I have been calling what Tetra does "close proximity of related concerns", the creator of HTMX called it "locality of behaviour" (https://htmx.org/essays/locality-of-behaviour/).

The original idea with Tetra was to use Python import hooks to create something akin to Vue.js single file components, and I did in fact built an early prototype doing that. However then the idea came to use Python type annotations to enable you to indicate to your editor to syntax highlight inline strings (the Vue.js like single file components would have needed an even more complex editor plugin and setup).

So, it's not going to be to everyone's taste, it it shouldn't be. There are a million ways to build a website, this is just another. However, I believe its good way to do it.

It's worth noting that it's possible to split the html/css/js out into other files if you set your template to '{% extend "template.html" %}', your styles to '@import "styles.css";", and your script to 'export default from "script.js"'.
Yup.

Like I said, I don’t miss that field too much.

Like dancing in an iron maiden.
This is a fantastic response, honestly. I'll add that your last point about how different users interact with their systems differently is especially relevant for the longevity of open operating systems. General users coming over to Linux who do not have extensive knowledge with computers beyond Windows will primarily be using graphical interfaces on their desktop, and making that process confusing for them by not accommodating that will quickly make them give up on the whole thing. If we wish to keep the software alive with a userbas then it's actually extremely important to allow and support things like this that are more intuitive.
Yeah, 3D modeling was the use case they were demoing it for. It was really impressive.