skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not arguing that the organization doesn't have emergent/systemic problems - that part is clear. But I still don't think any conversation that simplifies this problem down to "cops" alone can really get anywhere.

If you look at why they are insulating themselves, the climate in which these "us vs. them dynamics" are unfolding seems to be at the center of this, and the cops are just another tribe in the culture wars at this point. Albeit a tribe that is authorized to carry guns, and the power dynamic is obviously a big problem.

That just makes this issue more complex, not less.
3D printing housing is exciting; I'm also optimistic about the future of modular architecture, in which walls (or even room-sized units) are manufactured and transported to the construction site, plumbing/electricity already included, and assembled like Legos. Nexii (https://www.nexii.com/) is working on something similar. It seems there are significant construction cost reductions, faster to build, and easier to repair, although the space of possible buildings is more limited than in the 3D-printed approach
One of my earliest memories of writing code was playing Gorillas, a QBASIC game, on my school's PC in the early 90s. My friends and I would tweak the source code to make the gravity stronger or weaker, or make other interesting mods to the projectiles.

For me, it was a perfect introduction, because there was an already written, already playable program, and I could dive into the code little by little and explore.

Scratch is very similar. My kids love to play games on Scratch, but they also enjoy taking a look under the hood to see if there's something simple they can modify.
It is actually fundamentally more about social status and reputation, just like high school.
Airships?

I feel like you glossed over that little detail.

Even if the safety were better than cars, being physically in the air is terrifying to most people. That’s not a deal breaker, but it’s certainly a hurdle. If you’ve been next to someone on a plane who had to down a whole bottle of xanax (metaphorically) just to get through the flight, you realize how traumatic it can be for some people.

And then you’ll get stories like “mother of five perishes with all five due to airship failure”. Tesla has had relatively few such horror stories, and look how much it’s impacted them. (On the other hand, “how little it’s impacted them” might also be accurate.)

But I really want to know what you mean by airship. My mind immediately went to FF7 Highwind.
(That quote comes from the AFL-CIO, not Wikipedia editors, for the curious.)
I'm still not totally following your example. If it helps, it wouldn't be too challenging to make an adapter which pulls data from arbitrary shell commands.
Yes and...

> I see it a lot in American racism as well.

TIL the notion of races is an American invention. The origin was to justify the subjection of enslaved peoples, to impose a class society.

During the apocalypse, I've been binging history and biographies. The (more) recent scholarship about America has been both challenging and illuminating. As a gen-x white guy, mostly I'm embarrassed. I've always "punched up", so feel a natural affinity for minorities, working class, etc.

But I just didn't get it. Even though I considered myself an ally, my understanding of racism, class struggle, justice, and so forth was really shallow. My diet consisted of Zinn, Chomsky, Rachel Maddow, Thom Hartmann, etc. For whatever reason, aside from MLK and Gandhi, I don't recall reading much from non-white authors.

Highest recommendation to these books, probably in this order:

Jill Lepore's These Truths, The 1619 Project, Heather McGhee's The Sum of Us, Caro's LBJ biographies (passing the Civil Rights Act).

I think I needed These Truths to prepare me for 1619 Project, to provide context, set the stage.

> when it's actually classism born of racist roots

Yup. There's two books in my queue about this specifically. I'll update with cites as able.

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Another big cultural topic which I totally misunderstood was Liberalism and by extension Neoliberalism. Specifically, the (American) reactionary origins of "free enterprise".

Being a nerd, of course all my friends growing up were self-identified libertarians. So I thought I had a good grasp of that mindset. And I always assumed the grand struggle in the USA has always been wealth vs democracy, per Kevin Phillips' books and maybe a few others. (FWIW, I always assumed I was a left-libertarian -- anti-state, anti-corporation, rabidly pro people -- but noob me had no idea had no idea how to talk about it.)

But I just wasn't aware of the doublespeak. Nor how the intuitive sounding phrases obscure and obfuscate what's really going on. To the elites pushing this stuff, "free enterprise" is pro property, anti-democracy, anti-competition, freedom to act without consequences. It is explicitly against the rule of law, against accountability, against competition. Growing up in a "Lincoln Republican" area, "socially liberal fiscally conservative", none of these concepts would have jived with my notions of fairness and civics.

To really see the disconnect between the elite and folk understandings, I had to chew thru the podcasts Know Your Enemy, 5-4 "How the Supreme Court Sucks", and Strict Scrutiny.

Also, the books Democracy in Chains and Dark Money connected a lot of the dots for me. Specifically, the connection between pro segregation, anti-civil rights, anti-labor reactionaries and the modern movement conservatives.
Earlier in my life I nearly died driving 50 miles to get into work as a grocery store clerk on no sleep because a manager called me and in no uncertain terms told me if I didn’t come in that day I’d be fired.

I was raised to believe that a job is more important than just about anything, so I decided to try to go in as I was out of town. I crashed my car as I fell asleep at the wheel. It shouldn’t take that to get someone to realize the relative unimportance of a job, but the US culture (as channeled through my conservative parents, at least) doesn’t value anything higher than work and productivity in the service of capital as this deified virtue.
The logo is "Khwarizmi" written in square kufic script, pretty cool
Some people who come to rest may not be fine with it.

A lot of people come to rust for other reasons, like compile time safety checks etc...

But most importantly, the delta between the performance of block_on and not, versus block_on and Python are massively different. You can write inefficient rust and still have a huge win over Python.
> - Start adjusting the tension on tracks starting in March when it gets warmer

And of course this also implies adjusting the tension on the tracks starting in October or so, too!
It was a hell of a lot more than mere inconvenient protest. There were assaults at hospitals. Doctors and nurses had to take extra personal security measures. Ambulances were delayed and blocked. Patients were subjected to disruptive noise and din from dawn to late night. Vaccination clinics had bomb threats phoned in, and there were more assaults. Oh, and hospitals were overwhelmed by the non-immunized brainwashed, leading us to the current crisis of quitting, burned-out nurses and doctors, who just can’t take this shit any more.

It was a hell of a lot more than “a minor inconvenience”.
But the boycotts are rational, because even the Chinese government thinks that the developers are overextended and may fail. They seem to be taking the most careful, benign option.
My experience with squeamishness around meats varies depending on the crowd. People I know who I would consider to be a sample of the Canadian general population tend to stick to the meat trinity.

Folks who are from multicultural groups are definitely more experimental with other kinds of meats.
There's also this less generic lint: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#un...
Your comment comes off bitter. You could just provide additional links for those interested, and/or not read/buy the course if you're not interested. Whatever is upsetting you is not this.
Or you can just buy a mid-range digital mirrorless or DSLR camera with a sufficiently wide FOV lens and then crop the photo. Most decent cameras offer an in-camera aspect ratio crop, or various grids, if you want to have the composition assistance.

A current sony mirrorless camera will blow the XPan out of the water in every possible sense unless you're shooting VERY high quality, VERY low ISO film, and the exposure time required for working with such a low ISO film means you probably lose whatever resolution advantage you might have gained.

Keep in mind this page was written over ten years ago: https://clarkvision.com/imagedetail/film.vs.digital.summary1...

Note that a Canon 40D, an APS-C camera that came out in 2007, had the image quality of medium format film, with greater dynamic range.

On the full-frame front, a Canon 1Ds hit theoretical maximum signal to noise ratio at 100 ISO, and at ISO 800 still had better S/N ratio than ISO 50 film: https://clarkvision.com/imagedetail/digital.signal.to.noise/...

Film is dead. It has worse resolution, dynamic range, sensitivity, and perhaps most importantly: workflow.

Film is so dead, in fact, that in cinematography, people shoot in digital and then apply postprocessing to make it look like film. Just as one can make a pristine recording sound like vinyl, one can make a digital camera look like film, because in both cases, digital is vastly technically superior.

I'm betting quite a few "I shoot 35mm film" snobs walked out of the theater after seeing Knives Out thinking to themselves "film's not dead, it's still better."

They wouldn't be alone; Steve Yedlin screened shots done on film and then digital, post-processed to look like film, and industry pros couldn't tell the difference: https://www.polygon.com/2020/2/6/21125680/film-vs-digital-de...
>a user would never buy it at this price.

You don't know that yet.

>Here are my options as I see them, if you feel there’s another route please don’t hesitate to add:

- Leverage the expensive APIs until I raise enough money to train my own models.

- Start with a subpar model that is trained on a limited dataset (this runs the risk of damaging the perception of how good the product can be).

These are not mutually exclusive if you offer tiers priced proportionally to the model's performance or, better yet, to the value the users get from the model whatever its performance.

A model with subpar absolute performance from a "metrics" standpoint can relatively be good enough for what the user is trying to do.

I'm not sure how much experience you have with ML/DL, but one important point when you serve a client is to get what matters most. You want to know the impact/cost of a false positive and the actions your model triggers and how many of these you can get away with.

For example, one company we interacted with wanted to predict an event which, if it happened, would cause a loss in the nine figures. What's the consequence of an alert? You wake up an engineer if they're asleep and they have one on rotation anyway. The downside is nine figures and possibly catastrophic consequences (lives, environmental, financial, infrastructure, and actually destabilizing the supply of energy for a country and unforeseen ripples). They're willing to accept some false alerts.

What's the consequence of a false positive and a false negative.

Also, the timeliness. The client originally asked for a prediction 48 hours before the event. I asked at what time would it be useless to alert you? They answered it was never useless and that even if we alert them 2 minutes before, they have protocols and mitigation measures and they can do things. They'll have to do them really, really, fast, but they know what to do and they're trained for these situations. So we brought the scope from 48 hours to 2 minutes.

You want to know what's important and what problem they're trying to solve.
I find the camera to be perfect for environmental portraits. Not just because of the image quality or even the unique framing, but also because the camera itself looks so basic in comparison to over-designed professional-looking DSLRs. It feels much less threatening to your surroundings. Had a lot of fun with it as a travel camera: https://rybakov.com/blog/guinea_babka/

P.S. I own two XPans and would be willing to sell one. Hit me up if you are in Germany/EU and are interested.
What does this even mean? There isn't one single way to evaluate all links, not sure why you'd think that.
RedwoodJS is always looking for contributors!
I don't know anything about German weather, but according to a random article on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extreme_temperatures... says 9 of 16 extreme maximums are within the last year (with one about a month over).
If you want! I installed latest Ubuntu mate on an old imac for a kid and completely wiped out the partitions with snow leopard stuff.
Something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJJ75IBV1hU
A lot of the re-tensioning can be done overnight; there's no actual replacement, just changing the level of (pre)stress the steel is under.
Absolutely correct, and I think everyone/most here including GP know that, it's just that 'zero trust' doesn't obviously sound like that.

Paraphrasing you slightly, it's missing a word: 'zero trust [required]'.
It's because people don't generally understand them. Especially checked exceptions are very difficult to understand if the programmer has not been taught the fundamental principles of how to deal with them (generally, don't, and just let them ripple up by marking your method as throws). Well that, and poorly designed API's in common libraries that forces the programmer to do bad things.

It's very common that the fashion opinions of the day decides that something is bad or suboptimal, and the community reacts by doing the complete opposite, giving us something that may not have the core issue of the original problem, but also lack all of its advantages. A few years later the pendulum then swing back in the other direction.

Examples include the sequence: mainframes (server), desktops (local), webapplications (server), SPA's (local).
It need not be a collective boycott... It can be individual people making individual decisions to not pay the mortgage because they believe that paying is a waste of money. Ie. why pay monthly for a house which will never be completed? You're just pouring money away!

If you don't pay, the property will be taken off you, and probably valued at a high valuation (because the property developer wouldn't want to have their unbuilt properties selling for cents on the dollar). That means you probably will escape bankruptcy or any further debt.
You should be a able to change how URLs work for your own website. They're not making any promise of stability here.
I actually bought your book on Amazon and the book I received was insanely disappointing. Full of typo’s, super wonky formatting, super short in depth and content, and the paper book was the lowest quality of any I’ve ever received from Amazon.

I didn’t leave a review because There weren’t many and I didn’t want to sour your sales with a 1-star, but I now kind of regret that.

The course looks cool, but it honestly just feels like a monetizing attempt on something that really didn’t deserve much money to begin with.
To be honest, I am very fond of XML-RPC. It is a very easy protocol to understand and implement. It is my first choice for my own small personal projects.
Mirrors have low emissivity. While they accept a bit less heat, they will hold on to it more than something with white paint (which can have pretty good emissivity) and will thus get hotter.
Where this comment is missing is how you pay rent after doing this
Curious , what are the schools in Netherlands that are considered exclusive? I always thought Netherlands university was not selective.
the primary problem with dogs is that you don't know where they come from. there is no guarantee that dogs are raised in a healthy way specifically to be eaten, like sheep or chicken, but there is a high risk that the dogs are caught on the street, and have been feeding on whatever trash they found. and you don't know what kind of diseases they had either. basically, i would treat dogs like rats, unless the restaurant can certify that their dogs actually came from a farm for that purpose.
You literally just did a “both-sides” to social change. “Maintaining order” is an act of violence when people’s lives are on the line. A specific social change is either good or bad, there’s no room for people to stand in the middle and obstruct because they can’t be bothered to figure out if they value the risk of change more than the damage of staying the same.
Google has gotten worse for finding quality journalism
Realistically, that was only ever an extreme view held by a small minority even in the alternative lifestyle and arts communities.
Not sure if this is theirs, but [1]:

> “Everything is seen in China,” said a member of TikTok’s Trust and Safety department in a September 2021 meeting. In another September meeting, a director referred to one Beijing-based engineer as a “Master Admin” who “has access to everything.” (While many employees introduced themselves by name and title in the recordings, BuzzFeed News is not naming anyone to protect their privacy.)

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-...
> Steven Preister's house in Washington, D.C. is a piece of American history, a gorgeous 110-year-old colonial with wooden columns and a front porch, perfect for relaxing in the summer.

Unrelated to the article, but I thought this was an odd characterization. The building I live in in SF is at least 10 years older than that. Most of the buildings around me were built before 1910. I think my building is ugly and sucks because of noise and draft and stuff falling apart. I wonder if they built better in DC because of the snow and comparably more rain?
Conditions for Movement of Privately Owned Railroad Cars on Amtrak (2021) [pdf]
What’s a passive house?
This has been downvoted, but in my experience of 10 years of working in the UK rail industry, this is pretty much spot on.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, but yeah there's no public API and promise of stability there.
Yes, their original vision was b2c, but they pivoted to b2b. The reason is that AR is currently too expensive (and frankly not polished enough) for consumers, but it is good enough for industrial applications where it’s worth the cost.
Aside from the pano to traditional adjustment of course, everything else, the winding and the detecting ISO is pretty par for the course for late era film cameras. My olympus point and shoot does all that and more, it also has autofocus and autoexposure (spot and area) and multiple flash settings. Canon also had some very interesting film cameras, they had the eye control AF in them and it didn't come back to the digital lines until recently afaik.
(not the person you're responding to) If you're offering free, perpetual hosting, I think it's worth 20% of sales for the creator (who doesn't know if they're even going to sell much, or if the material will become outdated and stop selling in a few years)

I wondered how the creator of this course could guarantee the course would be available forever, and what a headache it must be to continue to maintain the hosting/content if sales taper off. Outsourcing that job to a service which is hosting many such courses (and with new ones continually added) makes a lot more sense here, and of course you have bills to pay too. That 20% commission isn't just covering the cost of time you put into the course builder and hosting now, it covers hosting in perpetuity.
It depends on their attitude. Trying to get your domain name is like a game of poker, it is a game of incomplete information, and it involves much risk. Consider this case

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etoy#Toywar

where failed retailer Etoys.com tried to take etoy.com from people who had owned it and published for years -- right in time for the Christmas shopping season!!!

This was the beginning of the end for Etoys. Instead of being focused on execution, they were fighting a severe PR fiasco, getting bad press in The New York Times and Wired. Hackers crashed their server on the last shopping day, so they called the FBI and had the FBI pull the attacking server out of the rack.

Etoys abandoned their court case a few weeks later and they went bankrupt the next April.

If they want to fight like pitbulls then they will sue you but it is a very dangerous game. The best thing to do I think is to develop the domain so that is more clear you are not squatting.
I don't get these projects. If you're going to write an html/js app, why not just launch the web browser against the local url of your app?
Everyone here does seem more… mentally together. Conscientious, maybe? It seems like they’re probably working way more hours than I am. I don’t understand how they do it, and I can’t tell if I or they are the weird ones. People here are directors of strategy or vice presidents or head tech coordinators or editors at magazines. I don’t think I could do any of that even if I had all of it handed to me.

I am solidly middle-class, have been for my whole life, and this is totally how I feel every time I talk with my animation school roomie. I burnt out on that industry and do weird freelance in obscurity, he stuck it out and was a director on the recent Animaniacs reboot. Talking to my other friends who have had success (multi-Hugh-winning writer, comics artist who's had years where collections of her strip sold more than the entirety of DC or Marvel) kinda feels this way too.
I use ctags that are rebuilt in the background on each commit or pull, makes find source code of definitions trivial.
if that's a question: yes I do!
China Is Flailing
That's actually a good point, I'm not sure how much broad influence that had but it's definitely an element.
A very Swiss attitude.

Like that time in 2016 when a Swiss town paid a 290k CHF fine rather than house Syrian refugees [0]!

[0] https://lenews.ch/2016/06/16/swiss-town-pays-instead-of-taki...
Serde is such an awesome library. Having to decode serialized data in the other languages (Swift, C++, Python) I write is such a bear after using serde.

Swift comes closest with codable/decodable but it's often still lacking the ergonomics of serde, especially the attribute options per field
It would certainly have been easy to do. In a weird way, it felt almost like a transparent test of my willingness to lie - or at least, to not keep my word.

Like everyone else, I change my mind about things frequently, and have to back away from things I've said. But it feels very different when you know up front that there's a good chance you won't do what you've just said you'll do. I really dislike that feeling.
right, that was my mistake
Jeez. I'm starting to think the people on this thread want it to get a C&D.