skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your genuine enthusiasm.

The Eureka I am plucking out of your kind words is to make it work as an online app, something that can be shared.

I am going to enjoy the iterations on this. It would also be good to innovate 'the Nintendo way' by using tried and tested hardware that is affordable.

Maybe Raspberry Pi is also worthy of study because that has kick started a whole sector and not been overrun by competition. Maybe it is possible to do the same for model railways, to have a standard locomotion unit that people can build their projects around, to share as you described.

I have decided against powered tracks. I like the idea of minimal tracks that look more like an aluminium curtain rail, embedded in the floor, and I don't want track cleaning to be necessary at the electrical level. Imagine a helix hidden under the stairs or in a disused chimney that enabled a train to climb upstairs, albeit taking quite a while to get there. It could exit into a properly modelled station but the journey there could be an AR trek across the countryside as far as the shared view is concerned.

I can also start with a 'reference design' kit for some of these cool controllers that have the bits on that I want. It is going to be fun getting there, but 'shared' is a must!
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I don't see what the problem is. Cloudflare should be able to make it's own judgement on who it does business with.

If I'm running a business, I may wish to make a moral judgement and not do business with an energy company because I don't think they're climate-friendly, or avoid doing business with Facebook because of their stance/impact to privacy, or not/stop buying peaches from 9/11 truthers www.palisadeproduce.com. I think these are all completely reasonable and normal ways for me to run a business.

In the same vein, other people are welcome to a view on the above, who i do business with, and try and change my mind, and might withhold their business from me because of it. I think that is also completely fair and normal.

No one is forcing anyone to do anything. Everyone's just having an opinion and operating by it.

Personally, I don't think Cloudflare should stop providing service for these website. I think they have a leg to stand on with saying they're a neutral dumb pipe who will just follow the law. But I also don't think it's abhorrent for people to think different, and try and persuade Cloudflare to cut their relationship with kiwifarms
It happens, but they're easier to tear down and repair / rebuild. Main problem that occurs in a manual is the synchronization gear mechanisms going bad (so you have to do the 1940's double de-clutching to manually synchronize), actual wear on the gears being worse because you can actually grind them, and clutch replacements (they are a wear part - essentially a giant brake pad between the engine and transmission).
Websites Can Identify If You’re Using iPhone’s New ‘Lockdown’ Mode
One of my main motivators for building FoodNoms (I'm the indie app creator) is to offer something that allows people to not have to worry about how their data is being used or shared. No ads and no account/username/email/password/etc. Food diary data and goal metadata are all stored on your personal iCloud account.
Interesting intro/overview in "What every software engineer should know about search" https://scribe.rip/p/what-every-software-engineer-should-kno...
> The word robot derives from the Slavonic word robota,

> roughly translating to servitude, forced labor, or drudgery.

Robota simply means "work". These two words are as similar in meaning and connotations as words from two different languages can be. FWIK the emotional coloring is completely invented by the author. The fact that they do such thing in the very first paragraph makes them a very unreliable narrator.
No, just VPN. Although my endpoint wasn't Switzerland. I still had email verification as an option in my case.

This was a very recent (within last week) change I noticed though.
William F. Buckley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTyZAul60ok

Mr. Burns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=othBTFk_W1Y
In the US, the constitutional right to a lawyer only extends to defendants in criminal trials. Civil action, even you are sued by the government, is your responsibility regardless of income
An AI could make the list, and pretty soon the gamers of the system would opt for really terse recipe sites.
> But I think you can also agree the delta between what they were doing and what geohotz did with the PS3 is not very large.

It was absolutely massive. geohots jailbreak did not enable piracy.

It’s like the delta between selling kratom and heroin is not very large, both are drugs that will get you high.
Church's work on Lambda calculus preceded the electronic computer.
Just got the email saying free Dynos and Postgres will be gone. I guess there's no point then?
> continuously updated

is what I saw as the primary difference. Whether that's going to pan out in reality as well as it does in HN comments is "the devil's in the details" though
Twilio, Cloudflare Attacked in Campaign That Hit over 130 Organizations
It’s incredible how negative these comments are. This is not a significant burden on taxpayers, this is a relief to those that need it. If you are seeing this news and reacting negatively, it’s time to step back and think about the bigger picture.

The US wastes an incredible amount of money though corruption, inefficient budgets, programs, and poor taxing, all while frequently bending to corporate and wealthy individuals’ interests. This forgiveness program is far from perfect but it’s the best attempt in a while of large reaching positive impact for normal people. Nobody should be claiming this solves the underlying issue of the price of education, but it acts as a bandaid for people still suffering from their debt. It is a good first step and shows relatively good faith. The $10k-$20k is great for those that get it, but the big benefit is the limits placed on interest for loans that are otherwise crippling people.

It is clear this is to buy peoples votes for midterms, but it’s also following through on promises made repeatedly to the public. Why would you not wait to make an action as impactful as possible? There are plenty of good faith arguments saying that this action is not enough or doesn’t solve the problem directly, but it’s ridiculous to oppose such an impactful plan that is genuinely giving relief to people that need it. If you’re stuck on how high the limit is (125k single / 250k married), it’s also important to remember that the cost of living varies wildly between different parts of the US.

There are too many arguments in both good and bad faith to refute, but overall this is having a good impact on a lot of people. If this doesn’t affect you, or you just paid off your loans and feel bitter, it’s important to remember that you have overcome an obstacle that many people don’t have the same privilege of overcoming for whatever reason, and just be happy for them to have a win for once.
> In fact the majority of their food database was community supplied.

And it shows. Values for tons of entries seem to be random guesses, with a bias towards lowball, guilt-assuaging numbers. I use MFP regularly, but I need to pad whatever it says by 20-30% unless I'm eating factory-packaged food or measured homemade food.

> would largely stand the test of time (while specific products come and go, base facts about specific foods rarely do)

Really? Not only do prepared products change their formulations plenty often (as you note), but do you really think the heirloom broccolis of 1950 have the same nutritional profile of the industrial-agriculture broccoli of 2020?

Whether you support industrial agriculture or fear it, it directly drives change to the structural and chemical properties of the things it grows. Macronutrients and especially micronutrients are going to be effected by that.

Public nutrient data seems like a really valuable social good, but community-sourced data for this kind of thing is just going to create a noisy, sloppy data set (as it has on MFP).
> I work from home. I'd still rather drive most of the time than rely on transit and live anywhere more dense. E-biking is nice and I do it for exercise often, but I wouldn't want to do it in the snow or rain, even with perfect separate bike lanes, no matter how much Netherlanders insist it's no big deal.

Yep. Not to mention, biking excludes a lot of people and is pretty ableist to be honest. I for one get sick very easily and having to bike during snow/rain seasons would mean I'm having a permanent low-mid grade cold.
I wish I knew. Hence my comment about FUD.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32572153
Complexity may be the wrong word, but what I mean is surface area for bugs you are responsible for.

I also question whether you really bought a horse in this analogy.
"The priority going forward is to support customers of all sizes who are betting projects, careers, and businesses on Heroku"

Who in 2022 is actually using Heroku at serious scale? This is a dying service, no one sane want to bet on that.
New nova disappeared fast, and a bigger cosmic catastrophe is coming
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> I lived in New York City my entire life and I am now wanting a house. I am tired of living in an apartment building. This idea that people live together communally within buildings or neighborhoods is very overrated.

I feel the same way. I grew up in an urban environment, moved to rural areas, now back in an urban environment. I can't wait to get out of here. Too many people, too much noise and too much energy spent looking over your shoulder. I don't understand the desire to be around people just for the sake of it. I'd rather live on the quiet "un-walkable" outskirts or suburbs of a city and occasionally go in if I need to. More than anything I hate the lack of privacy that comes with city life.
Content producers get sucked into walled gardens. Even if it is just an internet discussion, but nobody will ever read your shit on Discord if it is older than a week. IRC had some of the same problems, but only to a degree. So user content is decreasing and corporate and bot farms remain for the open net.

You could crawl forums and find deep technical discussions. Not anymore. And if a term was ever part of any news cycles, you get walls of Google selected propaganda.
“Fads” imply sophisticated social interactions that are generally associated with near-human levels (or at least likeness) of intelligence. I interpret that conclusion as being supportive of the idea that these are incredibly intelligent animals, not the opposite.
I hope it's a trend, but I think it's more likely that the government will do everything it can to do what's most profitable for the biggest lobbyists. Cars create a huge amount of pointless fake economic activity and bullshit jobs that will never go away.
In other words, he's asking you a question and you're answering him? But it's a series of questions so it's in a survey form? As long as he's not claiming it's anonymous or something, a boss or CEO asking employees about things is pretty normal.

Now, if he's giving the impression it's anonymous but it's not, that's another kettle of fish.
> "hey google draw me a horse with a tuxedo"

I think this is an oversimplification.

There was a recent write up by a guy who used DALL-E to create his logo for his open source project. What was clear from that writeup is that it is still a process for getting exactly the look that one is aiming to achieve. Even with an AI, there are different styles, decisions, choices, and visual representations that have to be made.

Your position that with photography, you have to "chose a subject, lights, &c" doesn't change with AI generated artwork; one still has to describe the subject, color scheme, visual style, composition details, etc. for the AI to generate the image. Except that instead of composing a scene with makeup, props, and subjects, you do it textually.

I'd say that in some respect, it is far more "creative" than photography because it removes physical and real-world constraints from the artist which would otherwise require knowledge of CGI and digital tools.

> A 6 years old can press the button of a camera but no 6 years old will produce meaningful work

This is also true of even painting. Even a 6 year old can grab a paintbrush and paint without producing meaningful work. So that does not change with AI generated artwork. Yes, a 6 year old can describe a scene to an AI that generates some image -- just as a 6 year old can pick up a brush and apply paint to a canvas, but the likeliness of a 6 year old presenting the seed/input that the AI needs to generate something unique and of visual interest/originality is low just as it is with a paintbrush.
> I would shoot straight. Not once in my career have I ever suffered for an honest assessment given humbly

Same. It is frightening how many comments point to the exact opposite, presumably with the ulterior motive that this increases the chance of self-preservation.

But at the same time nothing can be improved by this. Although a team should have exactly this as a goal: improvement of the product/service.
I always found it useful to consider the fact that America was at one point an aparthied nation. Its origins relied on the attempted extinction of a race of people who already lived here, then it lived for over a century with an entire race of people as literal property, breeding them like dogs or cats and separating their families with no respect to their humanity. A swathe of america fought a civil war to continue this treatment of this race of humans and the attempt as a nation to reconcile this failed within a generation.

There are still members of this enslaved race that, when they were born, were deprived the right to vote because of their race.

In this historical context, America's relationship with race does not defy reasoning. It's the only reasonable outcome of a nation that began with humans of one skin color being 3/5 of humans of another skin color.
Yup, bots say shit.
Thank you. Can a vaccination be legally regarded as a supplement or a medicine in the USA? It is not a surprise to look at the supplements market, vitamins, food in pill form, oils, and not these are deemed 'over the counter', or are they not?

edit : Somewhat rhetorical is my reply. I continue to read up/monitor/learn.
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That's the missing ingredient that can make merged finances work: both partners have to have the same respect for money and not spending it unnecessarily. My wife grew up in a wealthy household where the attitude was something like "Who cares if you break/lose it, you can always buy a new one/pay someone to fix it." Whereas my family was fairly frugal, always tried to make do with what we had before buying anything, etc. This has caused some friction since she's been staying home while I've been working.
Amongst other things, the f number affects the depth of field (how much of the image is in focus.

A low number (f/1.6 is fairly low. f22 is fairly high) means that only the object you focused on will be sharp and anything nearer or further away will become blurry. This is great for portaits for example as it draws attention to the person.

(f is the aperture and also affects the amount of light. You can shoot with a lower shutter speed if you have a wide aperture/low f number)

The "mm" number is the amount you're zoomed in. Wide is a low number, telephoto from a distance is a high number.

But blur can come from other things. Cheap lenses, unsteady hands or moving subjects. Depth of field is just one type of blur.
Are you spending that money on (a) food or medical treatments to survive, (b) mortgage/rent, or (c) an education to improve yourself and the society we share? If so, then sure, I'll go first, if you can prove that's what you're using it on.

In fact, I spend far more than $1 a year doing exactly that. It's called donating to charity.
Well, yeah, I know why they do it and it's a rational decision for them. It's really a condemnation of our own evolution as an industry and the incentives involved that it ended up that way.
A company I worked for heavily invested in having all its call center staff based in the Philippines partly for the reason of accents. It's an accent that is, as you say "non-distinct" and generally considered pretty neutral by western ears.
It's useless either way but I thought this was obvious.
The US chronically underfunds pre-college education. Universities are typically flush with money coming from grants usually from the government but also rich people. Often a large fraction of the grant money a professor obtains is siphoned off to dean's lush funds which help support education, hiring top professors, etc.
The flattened image patch of width and height PxP pixels gets multiplied with a learnable matrix of dimension P^2xD where D is the size of the patch embedding. In other words, it’s a linear transformation that reduces the dimensionality of the image patch.
Just fill it out as you would if you are speaking face to face with him. Remind any colleagues that the survey is not face to face. If you get the chance to provide feedback mention that respondents might be more candid with an anonymous survey.

Even "anonymous" surveys can be deanonymized though. I have had multiple times in my career where management asked to talk to me about responses I had written in nominally anonymous surveys. Luckily, nothing too negative came out of it - but it's something to be aware of.
You should spend some time and look at what housing prior to cars was really like as you are very wrong that "dense housing was the norm".

Prior to cars, there were large "estate" houses with separate carriage houses for the horses. These homes often sat on very large plots of land. Prior to that, was old farm houses, where a neighbour could be a KM away?

You seem to be thinking of "row housing" which at least in north america was more a post-WWII design?
I guess Priti Patel finally managed to weaponize orcas.
Ways the company could be improved?: anonymous survey
Huh. I can't say I'm not a little conflicted on this one. I ran a consultancy in the 2010s peeling sites off of Heroku and onto AWS, so seeing this feels pretty weird to me. As 'craigkierstiens says elsewhere in the thread, it feels a lot like the writing is on the wall. End-of-an-era stuff.

Mild plug: these days I'm in devrel at Render now, because I think a modern, thought-out PaaS can target most folks' needs. If you're on Heroku and looking for somewhere to jump to, feel free to email me directly (ed@render.com). Happy to chat informally, to give you a non-sales assessment of whether Render fits your needs, and to help where I can--whether it's Render or to point you somewhere else.
What is the PaaS people use today? Just big cloud is too powerful or are there still niche companies that make life easy for startups like Heroku used to?
Additionally, organize with your coworkers and have everyone fill out the exact same nothing-burger response.
If you know of any such companies it would be helpful to mention them? Instead of just suggesting they exist but not giving any hint of where or how to find them.
Write your comments with the knowledge that your CEO will know you wrote them.
This is exactly why I live outside the US in a country with walkable urban communities suitable for families, even though there are far fewer career opportunities and much lower compensation. I keep thinking about going to the US for the career boost and doubled pay, but just can't stomach the thought of driving everywhere to do anything, especially with kids.
I've wished at least 2 dozen times over the last decade that the nordics had better research universities. I spent a portion of my life in Finland and the quality of life is so much better there, I would say it's probably unattainable here (the reduced crime, the affordability of everything, lack of homelessness, a more well educated population, etc.). Unfortunately the research being done at the top universities there in the hard sciences are rudimentary compared to resources available here. I was quite interested in pursing a PhD in chemistry there, but the research labs I checked out had resources less than and not comparable to the undergraduate labs I had here.
Summary: Orthodoxy above all. If your Facts run over the Dogma we won't publish it.
Any success filtering for walkability in the US when buying a home? As far as I can tell, "walkability" scores are borderline useless -- the small town I currently live in has extremely low "walkability," despite being able to walk or bike to everything I need, whereas the large city I just left has extremely high "walkability" -- despite the fact that walking around town was not pleasant due to high volumes of car traffic. Manually checking or restricting the search is not really a scalable option.
It could have been better. We have tons of surviving tablets from ancient mesopotamia, there is no way of estimating a percentage but I won't be surprised if its within 40%-60% range. This is inherent in the mediums used: mesopotamian tablets are just hardened clay, no decomposition and no book worms. Even when a tablet breaks, it breaks into a small number of sturdy pieces (unless smashed deliberately and repeatedly). Paper is begging to be lost in comparison.

And this is important because we're repeating this mistake even more gravely now with digital media. Terrible proprietary formats and protocols that are lost like tears in rain the moment the private entity maintaining them closes down, terrible dependency graphs that are never frozen or even properly described (e.g. "runs on Linux" is an implicit dependency that is never explained or explicitly mentioned), terrible culture of "movE fAsT ANd bReAk tHiNGs", and a false sense of security and durability ("The Internet is forever") that makes us increasingly generate information in native-digital ways and convert whatever is not digital to digital then discarding the original. All of this is begging for a mass civilizational amnesia on a scale never seen or imaginable.
Even by 94 it was already decent in big cities if you worked for one of the new businesses or pretty great if you managed to scrape up enough to start your own thing. But yeah if you stuck around in deadend job at old soviet factory it was not good
Just a wild guess based on past 2 years, but probably outside.
This is mostly due to supply and demand. Disregarding market forces, low density housing is some of the most expensive out there. This is due to higher per-unit construction, utility, transportation, and infrastructure costs.

Unfortunately, low density construction is the default in the USA. High density housing gets bogged down in reviews and permitting, and medium density housing is effectively illegal in most cities in the country.

If we had actually been building medium and high density housing over the past century, the housing problems we're experiencing today wouldn't be nearly as bad. But that housing is sadly rare, and we now have to play catch-up.
Surveys at work are sketchy. I worked at a Fortune 500 company that did Gallup surveys. They were anonymous and “optional”. But if we didn’t fill out the surveys, it counted against our direct managers performance reviews. As did negative surveys. So they essentially forced us to create positive surveys because the direct managers were actually cool and we didn’t want to get them in trouble, all the problems were many management layers above them. I actually reported this to Gallup directly, they didn’t give any fucks. And the company I worked for them would tout their workplace engagement and happiness based on these coerced surveys.
And this is why i was unable to locate any information about it or its context.

Its pretty normal to change the name of something slightly on reddit to avoid the attention of banning bots while still conveying the original meaning.
Yeah kids getting mowed down left and right in my city this summer. City has announced only more lanes and faster traffic. Grim shit.