skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even though I watch WWDC every year and the iPhone release event, I was surprised with how it works, and how fast it is. Basically hovering my mouse over any image (ouside of Google Chrome/Brave/Firefox) changes the cursor to selectable after half a second or so.

Took me a while to get used to. But it has ben actually useful a number of times. My most common use-case (as a front-end developer) is when people send me screenshots of bugs, and I can select, copy, paste texts from the screenshots to find the source code files =)
Somewhere I read a quote from some cranky business analyst complaining about how the low prices, quality products and high wages impact profits. "It's better to be a Costco customer or Costco employee than it is to be a Costco shareholder."

To which I responded "That sounds like a well run company!"
Assuming that the GP's talking about David Carruthers, it was a layover rather than a diversion: https://www.ft.com/content/69eebb30-18df-11db-b02f-0000779e2...
Fun idea, but I agree. I was greeted with a shade of cyan and a shade of lavender. Apples and oranges.
When an entry can belong to 0 or 1 related object only. Not that I'd put a constraint in such scenario, but I imagine a User can optionally have a Subscription, so subscription_id is either nil or present, and said subscription cannot be associated to any other User.
Not something to get excited about because maglev doesn't solve any of the real problems trains have in the real world.
I think that if there is voting, one should sort of do some type of spreading algorithm where the color you vote on, is sort of a much weaker vote for the surrounding colors.

There is just too many colours, especially in this color space, and it is sort of hard for humans to really differentiate them. Thus spread out the vote based on average human visual perception differentiability capabilities.

Also this color space (R x B x G box color space) spends too many bits on low intensity and high intensity colors. When a color is near white or black, we can not easily tell the hues apart.

A much better color space to vote on would be something akin to the Pantone color list or paint swatches. Way less colors but still roughly covering the whole color space.
Warning! By default Calibre modifies files every time you open them. You have to disable reading position saving to stop that.
Music and other art often repurpose things.

Nefarious uses are sometimes predicted by manufacturers. Like Airtags for stalking. Tone generator crystal swap for blue boxes.

Data mining leads to new uses for collected information, like for advertising, insurance, political campaigning, law enforcement, etc.
Sorry, I was talking about in general. Eyeballing things from this article and [0], it seems like devs are maybe taking in 10k Euros over the median salary in Germany.

Feels like it would be hard to describe this as big bucks! Opportunity costs etc. But I do think it's important to qualify this with the idea that you're still earning a good amount of money relative to other people living in the country so you're probably going to be OK (especially if you don't have super high ambitions requiring money).

[0]:https://housinganywhere.com/Germany/average-salaries-in-germ...
> I literally used a paper check last month for my new apartment's deposit.

That's interesting to hear. I didn't know that was still common; this article from 5 years ago suggests Europe doesn't use checks any more, and that's my experience as well.

> The love affair with checks may be strictly American — countries in Europe, like Poland, Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands stopped issuing checks over the last two decades

https://www.theverge.com/ad/16774328/american-checks-currenc...

A bit more poking around suggests France and Portugal are the main countries in Europe still regularly using checks in common practice.
I'm not aware of what he said 11 years ago. I'm more familiar with the collective dog-pile he suffered in 2017 when he said he would personally maintain Python 2 after its EOL date to avoid having to update Calibre to Python 3.[0] The internet has never forgiven him for that moment of hubris, it seems. Calibre eventually migrated to Python 3 anyway with the help of other developers.

But yes, I frequent the MobileRead forums and by and large he's responsive and helpful.

[0]https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1714107
Are there any peer to peer protocols in particular that you can recommend for this use-case?
It would be interesting to have something write 3D code for rendering worlds. Like DallE for 3D meshes and textures.
Dev language filter would be desired as well
You'd need some algorithm that works on continuous variables, that is, #44E205 should rank closely to #44E106. Somehow you need to learn a function over rgb sampling only some of the points. Maybe you average over votes for colors that are close to a color in rgb space.

16 million collars aren't that many compared to large-scale internet systems. If you got 160 million+ votes you'd start getting meaningful results without any averaging.
I don't get lonely, I enjoy my solitude.
I can't imagine that the loss could be any more than two years of school attendance, which puts them at the same level as their global peers who went through the same thing. The only reason we think of this as a huge loss is because we don't have free public education, but instead make education far more expensive and difficult to get the older you get. The dilemma isn't about how we can educate children, it's how can we educate children while simultaneously booting them out of a fairly piss-poor for most educational system immediately after high school or any significant pause during high school, to give them the option of a system that costs $15-20K a year in order to be qualified for unpaid internships.

If we lose a generation, it will be because we wanted to, not because we didn't have the ability to educate them.
It’s curmudgeonly, but I can’t help but bristle a bit at the ‘we didn’t have _____ when I was a programmer’ stuff because it very often existed in some substantial form.

Case in point, UI/UX- You could have user interface design as a job back then, perhaps at IBM working on ATMs. UI philosophy was a significant part of what was done at Xerox PARC, and you can read a 1989 article by Alan Kay on the topic:
http://worrydream.com/refs/Kay%20-%20User%20Interface,%20a%2...

In 1988 the first edition of the Handbook of Computer Human Interaction was published, a staggeringly expansive book on the subject, which included stuff like rapid prototyping, user acceptance and design review.

Sure, plenty of companies didn’t bother with this added expense, but that’s still the case today. The idea that it wasn’t there at all is misguided.

Another bit that seems off is mention how Java was ‘a total game changer’ when it came out. Cross-platform development was an exciting idea, but in practice, everything with Java was dog slow for quite a while. The true and eventual potential of the JVM was still opaque for years after the 1996 launch.
That is not exactly all that much. It is tiny little something ... and still promotes narrative of Ukraine being "bound" to Russia.
Asteroid OSIRIS-REx landed on had a surface like a ‘pit of plastic balls’
I've been lucky enough to experience that as well, and it's actually great. Despite the pay having been quite low, I actually enjoyed working there enough that I always have it in the back of my mind to go back one day. It's such a rare privilege to work in a place where you feel like everyone gets along and you're really a team working together, rather than individuals trying to meet deadlines under the same employer
According to the docs, it uses sqlite as the backend:

"Currently only SQLite is supported (see launchbadge/sqlx#1225 for what blocks us from supporting more SQL backends)."

although presumably it would be better to query the graphql API.
> Costco is generally clean

That makes it sound like cleanliness is not the norm in grocery stores in US.
try treading on a British plug, then a Lego brick seems like nothing
Yeah, in hindsight the world would be a slightly better place if SQL didn't include NULL, but instead "UNKNOWN" and "NONE", with "NONE = NONE" being true, and "UNKNOWN = UNKNOWN" being unknown.
Where I live, I believe you get a tax break for any extra room and/or equipment you buy but use for work-releated purposes only.
Canada sent in the military to help out, and the long term care facilities had staff fleeing rather than risking their lives. Yeah, you can special case anything, but to when both blue and red states and provinces had their icu’s running at 95% and we’re looking at running out of ventilators things were bad. But memory’s evergreen I guess.

3x flu deaths or so at the start. But nobody carries that much extra medical facilities so running out becomes a bad day.
Very interesting that Firefox would have this level of integration with the OS. Firefox of old was criticized specifically for being completelly not native to macOS. Times change. I might give Firefox a shot in the recent future.
In famines, children die.
If you aren’t caught doing illegal things you will never see a judge.
Sure, but wheels work just fine at those speeds. the advantages of maglev over steel wheels need much faster speeds before they are realized. At least for all current maglev systems, this is still vaporware, ask me after it has been in use for 20 years and we have real world data on how it works out. Don't be the person who pays for getting that real world data though.
The entity making decisions and benefiting does not heed and does not work to benefit the american taxpayers. The US from the point of view of the rest of the world is the military industrial complex, a network of corruption/compromise of varipus governments and one sided trade treaties, and the interests of american oligarchs.

The american taxpayer only benefits insofar as they are goven crumbs so they do not revolt or use what little democratic control they have to reign in the beast.

From the point of view of the rest of the world, there is nothing really to distinguish the US from the CCP other than the CCP are slightly more forward thinking in some of their projects in terms of long term benefit to themselves and are (momentarily) more brutally authoritarian. On the US side the main downsides aee they're currently dominant and there is a real danger of the US being taken over by a literal apocalypse cult that seeks climate change as an end to seek rather than merely something to be ignored where possible as the current incumbents do.

Other than that, one imperialist is the same as another -- to some degree even for the other countries in the imperial core.
Possibly fundraising over some "hot potential topic".

Note that it is /trivial/ to create an ANN system that takes some relevant input to produce an output - just a single scalar labelled "loyalty" - when the ground truth is so fuzzy. An output, not a good value. You do not measure loyalty, so it is pretty hard to obtain an objective value through an approximator - an approximator to what?!

Why not measuring how much your boy/girl/petfriend loves you?
This is a good way to remember the SQL behavior. Though I do hope it'll change in the future. So many other languages interpret null as a comparable value, and it will be less surprising to folks coming from those.
It's really hard to figure out how the system differs from PeopleMover. Is this new tech, or just a new vendor for basically the same design they have at Disney?
Wait, is this a MagLev peoplemover?
I thought QWERTY was invented to avoid jams? I'm pretty sure you can still type fast on a manual typewriter.

https://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2014/03/evolution-of-world...
MNT Reform The open source DIY laptop for hacking, customization, and privacy
Dina Font, always Dina Font
https://www.dcmembers.com/jibsen/download/61/
It reminds me time that I bought a DVD from Target that wouldn't play and just downloaded the movie instead of returning it.
EVs are (much) cheaper to run, for commuters that need a steady, predictable mileage within range, they are already less expensive in TCO terms for comparable quality/comfort.

In Europe, where gas is insanely taxed, the operational costs of EVs are 4-5 times lower than ICE, you can save about 10,000€ per 100,000 km (62,000 miles) .
I interpret that in the complete opposite way: he was a deeply unhappy person who didn't realize it until he really experienced being alone. I can be just as happy alone as when I'm with people so the sentiment certainly doesn't apply to some people
I enjoy writing and hate editing! There's always some problem.
I found it quite readable, easier to get through than War and Peace. Has to be a good translation though.
Smart mushroom growing device for beginners
Good question... onE that people have written countless essays on! Maybe I'll turn it back on you though to give you an idea where I'm coming from: how would you measure the quality of a friend? Some things are measurable, some are not.

Personally, I'm not hiring based on "number of algorithms written per day" or "number of Jira tickets done in a week". For one, I'd almost certainly not get the kinds of people I'd love to work with day-in day-out for years. For another, it strips people of their humanity and autonomy whilst also discouraging contributions outside of measurable work. No doubt other EMs thrive running a faceless sweat shop, but it's not for me.
Honestly it's so good I don't even have a reason to update it to the latest version. I'm probably several years of releases behind and it already does everything I need it to do without any hassle.
I feel like you're cherry-picking. Games have gotten way bigger content-wise and way more intense in many design aspects. Many retro games had massive teams and utilized earlier frameworks and content to release faster.

There are many old school techniques which are amazing and quite a few talented developers, but I wouldn't make a sweeping statement that "they" had more talent than "we" as a whole.
Not sure if "Asdfgtyuhijokl'" is easier to memorize than #33-51-B5 .. :) https://colornames.org/color/3351b5

The problem with anything crowd-sourced is always that without moderation the results are garbage, and moderation is generally expensive or at least requires passionate volunteers. Crowd-sourcing 16 million unique color names is bound to be problematic and very difficult to moderate.

I actually gave this a second thought as a technical problem. The CSS defines 140 color names. It would probably not be infeasible to crowd-source / invent 4,096 base color names spread out exactly evenly across the 3-dimensional RGB space (e.g. "maroon", "deep sky blue", "slate gray" and so on.) If we could then further name 64 "tints" (like "reddish", "dark bluish", "purple hazed"), one could express about 250,000 colors with base color + tint pairs (like "reddish deep sky blue" or "purple hazed maroon"). This should be already sufficient for expressing almost all colors normally needed for UI designs etc.

If even more fidelity was somehow desired, one could then add one more of the 64 tints from the same vocabulary with some qualifier, like 'slightly'. So e.g. "slighly purple hazed dark bluish slate gray". This system could express the full RGB space, and there would be always possibility to find a closeby very similar color with shorter name - e.g. "slight dark bluish reddish deep sky blue" => "reddish deep sky blue" => "deep sky blue".
Balaji Srinivasan's the Network State
if high CO2 equals more risk of contamination then Japan should be getting large transmissions of COVID in over-saturated trains on a daily basis, but it does not. So this data seems more junk than anything else.
I had a series of WD drives that failed, and I managed to get them all replaced under warranty since they died within 3-5 years.

I find hard drive warranties to be mostly an illusion. It's better now that full disk encryption is becoming better supported and potentially available on personal devices and not just corporate ones managed by IT professionals. However until recently the number of drives I've had in any personal/home system that I would have returned under warranty instead of securely destroying to prevent the risk of data leakage was zero. The number of phones I have ever traded in is similarly zero. It's horribly wasteful but until there are cast iron guarantees that all the private data we keep on these devices is going to be securely deleted it's the only sane policy IMHO (apart from never using these devices for anything remotely sensitive in the first place but that's all but impossible in modern society).
Wow. Hug of death I guess. They used gpt3 to convert natural language descriptions to regexes
It's very dependant on culture, slavic elders used to go into the forests forever once they notice that they should require daycare soon.
This movie was made in 2017. Soviet era ended in 1990. War in Ukraine started in 2014.
For older times, there is of course The Ballad of Narayama [1]

> The film explores the legendary practice of ubasute, in which elderly people were carried to a mountain and abandoned to die.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Narayama_(1958_f...
This is why I order anything alphabetically, always. Properties, methods, columns… anything. Saves you the trouble of custom conventions.
Friends enjoy being reached out to more than we think
I can’t speak to why there’s a limit but you can export your history as a CSV from within the app: as long as you export at least once every 7 days, you’d have a full history through the life of the device.

The CSV contains datapoints for each recording (default to 5 mins but use configurable): Time(dd/mm/yyyy), Carbon dioxide(ppm), Temperature(°C), Relative humidity(%), Atmospheric pressure(hPa)

I’m very impressed by the device and recommend it.
I didn’t see anything in this that addresses the concerns around the delays in attaining literacy for young children.

It’s also important to note that the original article does touch on some of these points, but it explains that the situation is different, and different points are also made, eg:

> Schools in a quarter of countries still have no plans for catch-up, says unicef

> A quarter of poor countries are not keeping track of how many pupils have returned to school. Going after dropouts while there is still a chance to tempt them back is urgent. “It could be hopeless in six months”
Look for "RANKS" on the bottom of the page...
> Replacing your short-range transport needs with a bicycle, on the other hand, is a great idea.

I don’t disagree, but not every area is what I would consider bicycle friendly. Especially in the US. Nearest grocery to me is 4 miles away. Certainly do able on a bicycle, but unfortunately in this area the roads are not super friendly for bicycles. I’d rather not be run over by a semi full of tomatoes, while going to buy some tomatoes.
1. That’s not exactly true, AFAIK all RDBMS return columns in table order when order is unspecified (`*`), and while they could reorder on retrieval

2. postgres definitely does not, and column tetris is absolutely a thing in the same way struct packing is (with the additional complexity of variable-size columns)
Can people please stop making this stuff, I've seen hundreds of these "screenshot tools" all of which do the exact same thing, with the exact same settings
Are these old laws that are no longer applicable? Because online gambling seems to be perfectly legal in the US based on the millions of sports betting (including fantasy) advertising slots I see when trying to watch a sports game.
This news was posted within the last 7 days already, can't find the url now though.
Go Mono and also Iosevka (a fairly narrow font). I also historically used Bitstream Vera Sans, (and occasionally still do).

https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/go-mono
Yep, but it'd make Uber much more of a platform for negotiations between buyer and seller, which is what it kind of holds itself out to be.

But it would also encourage the Uber drivers to snipe each other as prices climbed.
>>Are you Ukrainian?

Thanks for the high compliment, but although I stand with the Ukrainians, I do not have that heritage. I also do not appreciate your insult to Ukranians as if it would be their take, and their desire for freedom from Russian tyranny is somehow senseless.

>>Do you really think Russia can afford going to war with literally half of the planet?
In merely the past few weeks, Russian officials have specifically threatened Lithuania, Estonia, Poland and other areas, literally saying that these are 'historical Russian territories' and should be under Russia's control - the exact same justification for their current 24-Feb-2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Russia was not stopped after Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, Crimea, and other territories. Russia therefore assumes that since these advances were not strongly opposed, that more will be accepted. Since we are now opposing, if we do so successfully (push RUS out of every square inch of UKR territory), it will stop. If we yield, which is what Russia is counting upon, they will go further, at a time of their choosing. Not instantly, but they will not stop. This is being demonstrated at this moment.

>>If that's the case, NATO might as well send preemptive strikes (nukes, etc..) to avoid that scenario or probably Russia could foresee that and strike first since they are currently at war.
This is not true and is an unnecessary and counterproductive escalation. Russia has already made lots of nuclear sabre-rattling about various topics such as Finland and Sweden joining NATO, yet been shown to be absolutely toothless. Russia does not want nukewar any more than we do, but they do want us to cower under that threat. The choice is simple, either back down and accept tyranny under their threats, or stand up and face the threat.

Again, Russia will not undertake these ongoing wars instantly but will do so at a time of their choosing. The message we want to send is not that we will wipe you out now, but that your future attempts will result not in the successes you have enjoyed, but only more costly failures.

>>This war is more complex than we think. The world is already in a second cold war ...

Of course this is more complex. IMO, we are already in WWIII and have been since at least 2014.

>>We are at "...hard times make strong men..." Cycle now.

Fully agree. Now is the time to stand up to authoritarianism, or democracy will be lost globally for at least generations, if not centuries or permanently.
There's several Python scripts that can pull the data over Bluetooth.

https://github.com/stijnstijn/pyaranet4

https://github.com/Anrijs/Aranet4-Python
Sounds like a great vacation! And never mind other peoples opinions, some even call what you did "Vanlife", I know it as camping. If you enjoy, just do it!
Wegmans has recently come to New England. They are generally much nicer, cleaner, and organized then our big local chain, Stop & Shop.

However Wegmans has a weird inventory. Many things you could find in any New England grocery store like steak tips, salt-top rolls, or brown bread are simply missing.

It wasn't until I was perusing Wegmans' extensive cured meat department that I realized I was thinking of Wegmans the wrong way: it's not a grocery store, it's an ethnic food store, like a Super 88. But instead of being Chinese, Wegmans is a midwest ethnic food store.
good thing it isn't written just for the pharmacolgists then
90% of new generation capacity in the US annually is solar and wind. That number will only continue to climb; we're really constrained by how fast you can kick out PV panels from the fab and polysilicon supply. Adoption curve goes vertical before 2030 imho, with natural gas slowly being edged out as storage and more generation rolls out. Coal is dead, nuclear would be without subsidies (which we should provide as long as the reactors can run safely until an extended EOL date).