skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn’t the idea of the tech that only the intended person sees it? When I’ve walked by I haven’t caught a glimpse of anyone’s info. I haven’t walked up close to a person viewing it though. It must have some FOV that allows “spying”.
You would never use it, therefore nobody would use it and it's useless?
Learnt a lot about how pandemics can affect stock prices. Just waiting for the second once-in-a-lifetime event to put what I learned into practice.
Around that timeframe I got 30 days for hate speech for commenting on a meme about little boys being evil by saying that 'little girls are also pure concentrated evil.'
I still find big chunks (like bigger than softball) of anthracite coal around where the Morris Canal used to be in NJ. Always assumed some just fell off as they were transporting it from PA to NY for industrial use. I don't think trains normally used chunks this large, when I was a kid we used the more thumb-sized pieces of coal to heat the house when we weren't using wood.

In coldest part of winter I think we'd go through roughly a 5 gallon pail per day of it. (stove would need charging every 12 hours)
My favorite unix shebang related oddity:

#!/usr/bin/env
echo This might not do what you thought.
I traveled internationally for the first time since 2019 recently. Coming back to Seattle, I was prepared for an hour of queuing up at kiosks, getting body scanned, getting facially recognized, etc. to get back into the country. To my surprise, I just had one guy ask me 3 questions and point what looked like a cheap webcam at my face. On the one hand, that's convenient. On the other hand it probably means they've gotten so good in the last couple of years they can know everything about you by pointing a cheap webcam at your face, and all that other stuff is just redundant now.
as someone who 30 years ago laid rail for the RJ corman railroad, the hardest sites were in the southwest. track that can go from near zero to fifty celcius is not long for this world. if the job site was quiet some days you could even hear the ties groaning as the sun came up.

in the US we use a vision system on a special rail repair engine that checks for issues, but common controls are lowering speed and some days just not using certain tracks
Totally agree - the details are critical. There are a thousand details that can derail a child from understanding programming, if you deal with 999 there's still one that will get them.

Kudos to the scratch team.
I'm not sure what you're reading into my words that makes you think I disagree about a large age stratification.

I live and provide emergency care in rural place that several times was reported to have the worst rates and case fatality rates in the country. Virtually every patient I see and community member I know had at least one first-degree family member die OF COVID, and many more if you include cousins / aunts / uncles.

In contrast, my parents and family live in a place not far away that had something like 5% of the case-fatality rate we experienced here. I don't think my parents know a single person who personally died of COVID, whereas I had 6? or so coworkers (not other physicians -- several hospital housekeepers sadly) pass away.

I can see quite clearly why there is so much controversy about this disease (or at least one of the reasons) -- because it's just affected different populations very differently.

We act as if each other is talking about an entirely different disease, and we may as well be.

> I'm sorry but I don't believe you.

Then I suppose it's not worth having further conversation. Best of luck to you.
Uh huh. And static typing will replace dynamic for all programmers, functional will replace all uses of imperative, nobody will use whitespace indentation, and all emacs users will switch to vim. Also, every programmer will abandon Windows and macOS for Linux.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/09/us/where-the-... (https://archive.ph/rwD7G)

“The site now draws six million page views a month, on average — quadruple that of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, according to data from Similarweb, a web analytics company.”
It's the same in Python. Methods just happen to be callable properties.
If I may ask:

Why former?
Why are people not talking about social views?

'Mobile Homes' are viewed as for 'White Trash' or 'Poor People'.

Funny the decline in sales seems to have started with the 'Trailer Park Boys'? Obviously it's a coincidence, but these things matter quite a lot.

I can definitely see an opportunity for such homes that are styled to be hip, with modern designs, tucked away in the forest, that kind of thing.

Manufacturers and designers are going to have to create a new perception. If there is a direct economic advantage, they might want to work with city hall / planners etc. as well on this.

It also could be related to the fact that regular homes are getting really nice and expectations much higher.

Irrespective of the economic issues, 'Mobile Homes' are 'Off Brand' and that's at least 1/2 the problem.
The point of this technology is that the 20 people behind cannot see the same thing you do. This isn't just "Jane is walking past, let's display Jane's information on the TV now". The point is that this technology has pixels that selectively beam Jane's information to Jane and only Jane, while simultaneously beaming OtherPerson's information to OtherPerson and only OtherPerson.

It's very cool technology. The one thing I don't see any information on is how precise it can be (like if I'm standing directly next to Jane rather than 15 feet away, will I see Jane's info?).
There is no global rule about when 911 vs a non-emergency number is correct. I've lived in a city where 911 is the only way to reach police dispatch, and police dispatch is the only way to get a police report taken, even if it's just for insurance reasons the day after a fire or something. I learned this by calling the city's non-emergency line, and they told me to call 911. What's the non-emergency line for then? Stuff like reporting a pothole on your street, a dangerous building that needs inspection, illegal dumping, a traffic signal's out, etc.
If you need the police to come for some reason, even a car parked too long on the street, you call 911. There's no bar to meet.

Where I live, 911 might not answer, though. I've had that experience.
Much easier. I assume the GP means something like SIPs, which are machined, insulated panels which fit together super tightly, with precise holes for windows etc. Typically, once the groundwork is done, they can be easily assembled in a few days. They then make then look like normal houses with a suitable external facade.
You may not realize how brutal, corrupt, and oppressive North Vietnam was, and well before any US involvement in their civil war, but my family does. The number of refugees from the North before 1975 and then from the whole country after 1975 is very telling (and not due to US ruining the country or other such propaganda). Vietnam only recovered after the USSR fell and they were forced to align with the west again, hence the original point about South Vietnam.
I've been similarly confused, but I believe that the majority of suicides are impulsive, and driven by distress rather than depression, and those are the people these services are intended to support.
Nit: calling GitPod a "super easy setup" is misleading. you're not going to use that in anything even close to production. better to say "try it in 1 click" or something that indicates more tentativeness/less production ready setting
This is true, actually. A good friend of mine disappeared for a while because of this. The story he told me about the experience afterward was wild.
I loathe secret requirements in interviews and am up-front and explicit about what I'm looking for. Even with that guardrail though, lots of folks don't answer the questions I'm asking. So I guess a more general piece of advice would be: listen to the interviewer, listen to the question, and answer the question that was asked.

(This is the same advice I give people when I'm coaching them for FAA oral exams, incidentally. People really have a hard time listening to a question and answering the actual question.)
interesting. kinda like 5g beam forming for light rays.

i wonder what the pixels are? something that looks like repurposed mems projector elements maybe? one hundred rays per pixel is pretty impressive.

it would be fun to try and confuse the head tracking/labeling.
Do you mind breaking up the sentences for ease of comprehension. Reading it made me feel a little out of breath and I lost the plot mid sentence. I know there is an interesting thought here, but the prose is a tad to turgid.
The never-ending quest to predict crime using AI
how do you solve the lemon problem?

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lemons-problem.asp
I don’t know how the service is used in practice, but maybe a lot of people are calling on behalf of someone else?
Hope to see much more of this unbundling in the future.
https://archive.ph/DxXtT
It seems better than nothing.
Amazing piece of software! I've a question. It's a bit unclear to me, is there a global adjustment applied to the sub-blocks that would help with the overlap issues?
I would think Elixir or Crystal would have been the more natural transistion for Rubyists. Or even Common Lisp. Go's philosophy is very much at odds with Ruby's.
The Royal Treatment (2012)
This is a nice read on why you likely should prefer a single threaded runtime and enable parallelism through other means. Or decide to pay the synchronization cost.

https://maciej.codes/2022-06-09-local-async.html
They don't seem always on the rise to me.
Not to be confused with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Atomic_Demolition_Muni...
I was planning on providing a pointer to Snap!, so I'm glad timbit did it. Snap! behaves similarly to Scratch, but its underlying language is more powerful (it's essentially a visual Scheme). Were I still teaching university CS, I would be advocating for the use of Snap! in the introductory course.

And yes, I find the exclamation point annoying.
Interesting - that looks like wooden sleepers too.
I'm not really talking about memory requirements. And I don't see how a GC would make any difference in terms of ease of use or flexibility of a codebase.

It is a mindset about memory, but you have to have a mindset about memory anyway so it isn't exactly unique.
That is tricky. It's also something you need to know when working with closures in Rust, which are for the same reason much harder to work with and understand than closures in other languages. I wonder whether it would have been better design for Rust closures to require an explicit capture list, like in C++, just to be more explicit about what is happening. (Not sure if/how that would translate to `await`.)
> Of course, most US mortgages are taken out on housing units that actually exist.

Construction is usually financed by a construction loan, at a higher rate than a mortgage, and the builder is the borrower. But not always. Here are some US failures from the 2008 housing crash.[1]

China has an unusual problem - the Party really, really doesn't like elections. For anything. But China has buyable apartments, which work like condominiums. Some organization has to run the building and maintain the common areas. That led to the creation of homeowners' associations with elected officials. This got party officials upset, and now efforts are being made to make HOAs subordinate to the local Communist Party units.[2]

[1] https://www.mortgagefit.com/construction/loan-default.html

[2] https://ebrary.net/153835/law/condominium_china
There is such a thing as white bitumen, and Obama's Nobel-laureate Secretary of Energy Steven Chu had suggested we adopt it.
The common path in my circle these days is to get a degree in computer science and maybe math. Then you apply to trading firms for internships/jobs. If you get them, great, make 500+ as a newgrad. If you dont, you can use FAANG or unicorns or even SWE roles at hedge funds as a backup and still make 200+.

The thing that makes trading a bit hard to enter is the interview process. A lot of firms test your mental math skills, so you really need to start in high school ideally and do UIL Number Sense (in Texas) or similar contests. Or spend some time freshman year practicing mental math and tricky probability questions. I didn't do this and fell behind and thus am not a trader but instead a SWE.

But a computer science degree is also an excellent backup in case you realize you don't want to do trading or aren't cut out for it.
Straight from the Minority Report 2002 movie. Add a beamforming loudspeaker array for personalized audio and that's it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiDMlFycNrw
Cultish is Christian podcasts about cults exposed for being funded by a cult
This is a very wild story of a savvy radical church trying to recruit new members with a podcast that’s the exact opposite of what it claims to be.
No, but I can visualize it that way. When recalling spaces and events I can usually replay it as I saw it (first person)

I assumed 3rd person visualization after the fact is reinterpreting the original memory and more subject to corruption/influence.
Bulletproof safety pods for schools draw the internet's ire
no, your feeling is valid, you speak for the rest of us who are so turned off we dont even bother to tell him
Grandparent post is insensitive to others who experience depression differently than they do.

GP deserves empathy, of course. At the same time, the judgement in their post is quite harsh and negative.
The photo and initial description are more dystopian than reality. I found this video showing the screen at the airport.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ECXBi2w9kZU

People who are concerned about things like privacy should remember that humans are incredibly adaptable socially. We quickly learn and socialize norms around new technology. For example, people will learn to avoid crowding when viewing screens like this. The amount of space and privacy people give one another will depend on the customs and personal boundaries that already exist in the local culture.

It's already culturally unacceptable in some places to read a newspaper over a stranger's shoulder. People will learn the same behaviors for this.

Also, it's opt-in.
Those are worse, but yeah, same principle.
I remember introducing a middle schooler to programming using Scratch at my highschool's open day. I had spent a few hours making a simple two player shooting game and a maze generator for the IT class display. Most kids just wanted to play the games, but seeing just one of them be genuinely excited about the possibility of creating his own interactive experiences, asking questions about how certain mechanics were implemented, what I did to get to this point, if I thought he would be able to create similar things, was really encouraging. Probably didn't make a difference in the long run, but still a treasured memory for me.
I wonder if this could be used on smaller devices to correct vision issues? Maybe it could recognize I don't have my glasses and adjust accordingly.
My lad has been learning Python in Replit. It looks like they are trying to introduce community feedback loops.

For making games, Roblox is perhaps a good choice. You can post a modded example game and get your friends playing it very quickly, then iterate rapidly.
It's not callous at all. Why would anyone expect random social media users to do more than post the number? If I was the type of person to try and talk people out of suicide I wouldn't be doing it on social media, it'd be volunteering for that hotline. Obviously the number works for many people.
lots of people have pets in the military, and they have a post veterinarian

if you're going away temporarily, you can usually leave the animal in the care of the post vet

but if you are going away for a long time maybe you'd have to find someone to take care of your pet

i didn't personally have a pet, but i watched other people's pets a couple times
Attributable to rapidly increasing police expenditures. The "baseline" level of crime in the counterfactual scenario where police expenditure had stayed constant is almost certainly increasing.
You could also rebrand this program to comcast-simulator lmao
And your new role is as an editorial board member for CovertAction Magazine?

https://twitter.com/covertactionmag?s=21&t=zbpg0lQWdYJ70Gbhq...
Why would you assume I was being national (implication: racial) about it. The national and cultural loyalties of the people working on these two products is highly similar.

I trust Instagram more because I was in the room when we said “using dwell as the signal and turning the online learning rate to who-the-fuck-cares is a bit much even for us”.

FB/Meta/IG’s bad, bad misses are just policy at ByteDance.
It is a neat idea.

Privacy is important, but at the airport we assume we've basically signed up to be poked, prodded, probed, scanned, and tracked, right? Might as well do some neat magic tricks as a side effect. For me at least, this will remain novel and impressive, because try to minimize the amount of time I spend at the airport (I don't actually want to be poked, prodded, scanned, and tracked).
Jaywalking is an example of this power being used for good. Traffic flow is more important than being able to cross anywhere you want when we have crosswalks.
Again, i get what problem you are trying to solve, but i fail how you can prevent yourself from falling down an echo chamber this way.
"I like living here" makes me think it might be nice to keep living there, at least for now :)

You probably don't need to relocate anywhere for building your own business unless you plan on opening up a production facility around existing talent pools (especially if your business is hardware related) or a brick and mortar shop to sell your product out of. Even then, there's places to do this that will be considerably cheaper and less saturated than the bay area.

Outside of this, if the culture and lifestyle there interest you at any point then I would say go for it!
The British rail situation can lead to very interesting problems. https://www.londonreconnections.com/2015/know-run-story-behi... it's one of the most interesting postmortems of a non-software issue I've ever read.
Sure, so how do you stop that?

As long as it’s possible for individuals to decide things via voting, there will be an incentive to convince those individuals to vote in particular ways.
https://www.harleytherapy.co.uk/counselling/12-steps-to-over...
You can use Poetry and Nix together with Poetry2nix! [1]

[1] https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-08-12-poetry2nix/
Carge-crev: A cryptographically verifiable code review system for Rust
I apprenticed repairing coal cars and mining equipment and I can confirm the industry is pretty wasteful. we used to get cars that still had nearly a hundred pounds of coal in them. we used to quietly shovel it out in the winter and use it to run little shop stoves we called dumpers for heat.
For development, poetry is the most user friendly tool and it's also battle tested. For application deployment/installation pipx "just works" and it's an official PyPA project inspired by npx.

I don't know why people are saying it's not going to get better but there is an ongoing effort to actually become better but as with everything it goes through the PEP process which is a slow.
It’s not about the content, it’s about CONTROL.

Control what people can say, share and do.

Obviously GitHub is essential an essential tool for modern day programers, and the CCP only needs to give the access to a version of that tool under the control of the CCP.
Yeah, thought you might be alluding to some inside knowledge
British weather is indeed often milder than that of other countries, but it’s also often much less predictable. In some countries it’s pretty reliably hot and sunny all summer and snowy all winter.
Facebook hacked and accounts on FB and IG now banned
It's been one frustrating week! Got banned after being hacked on facebook. I have a page with over 20k followers on our IG account and close to 20k likes on our FB page and all IG accounts linked to my personal account have been disabled. Not only that, I was banned from advertising and the hackers used $4000-$5000 ish in ads that was funneled out of the PayPal account connected to it. I want to dispute it with PayPal and the bank but have no one of seeing what was exactly "advertised" with the spending costs because I cannot log in. Ridiculous. We've spent well over 6-figures in advertising over the last decade or so and the business pages being disabled cripples our online presence (not to mention, losing photos and connections from my own personal account I've been using since 2006-2007). This is also a family business that is our livelihood.

If you know anyone from Meta/Facebook/Instagram that can have some empathy and a heart to help (or if you know someone you can forward this to), please reach out to me at roger@petzonesd.com.
I feel everyone's suffering and frustration here. Account got disabled for going against community standards by the hackers and not a single thing can be done as "their decision is final and cannot be reversed."
Helped assemble the lenses and lcd’s for these. Currently working on the next version which will have bigger lenses and LCD’s. Better pixel resolution.
XML still has few advantages over JSON: comments, namespaces, a canonical form and slightly better extensibility.
On macOS it’s pretty good, just requires a few extra packages and compiler flags for pyenv to work well.

I’ve found pipx to be the most reliable way to manage the installation of pipenv.
I'm on the EB but I don't get paid for that. Why?
The original "colors" article talked about two things:

1. Inability for sync functions to use async functions, which can have big consequences for API design and ability to refactor applications.

2. Author's opinion on how async syntax should (not) look like.

Rust can mitigate the first problem. It can have `block_on(async)` and `spawn_sync(fn)` which allows bridging between "colors" of functions, so functions aren't forever stuck with their "color". This is something that JS can't do without massive hacks, and is the objectively important aspect of "colors".

The other thing was about difference in calling syntax. That is just a design choice and a subjective preference. Rust prefers locally explicit syntax. It cares about low-level details and intentionally avoids having implicit magic, especially for major behaviors affecting control flow, safety of stack pointers, and risk of deadlocks.

Regarding runtimes: in practice it's easy to just stick to tokio. It's 8x more popular than the second contender, and there aren't any important libraries that don't work with tokio. Rust can have multiple runtimes in the same program. You can have futures running on different runtimes await each other, it's just wasteful (you get multiple event loops, thread pools, etc.), which means it's best to pick one and stick with it.
Python devx has always been a mess. Unfortunately.
Interesting, thanks. I wonder how narrow the angle of personalized viewing is.
needs pictures

model it after the already successful site that exists for this (flippa)

if you want to compete with it you must at least match it first

then you need to find a way to have an advantage over them (one way would be to curry favor with users here)
It’s about stealing the platform for a locally controlled version and banning the western equivalent.
Exactly this. Why should anyone be able to potentially see any of my personal info? (I doubt whatever parallax effect or whatnot magic tech is perfect - it's gonna eventually leak).

I'm already glued to my phone at the airport because that's where my flight info is, and it's not a static location, it's always with me.

Who is this for? The subset of people without smartphones but comfortable with Minority Report-esque targeted display boards?
If this “deficiency” is a new discovery, how was “normal” defined in the first place?