skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A long time ago I had this question so I looked through some Android code for this. To me, the most expensive part is doing the search through the image given that you don't know where the qr code is or its orientation.

The key is in the finder patterns (mentioned in the article). If you imagine a line cutting through the center area of one and the series of pixel values you get along the line you'll notice that you get a simple symmetric (mostly)White(mostly)BlackWBBBWBW series. These sequences are easy to search for to get a list of finder pattern candidate locations. Rejecting the false positives is a relatively straightforward and local operation, as is refining exactly where the pattern is centered.

With the cleaned up (hopefully short) list of candidate corners you can propose an orientation/scale (technically a homography) to do the necessary sampling to get the rest of the bits. If none of these work out, you ask the user to try take another picture.
Looks like the spammers noticed Paul's tweet https://twitter.com/kspstk_gtk/status/1570094371009069056 lol
wikimedia labs built a world-class setup with many new services and tech, for one example
While it can definitely be good for morale, it's worth remembering that all changes bear the possibility of unintended consequences.

This amusing anecdote comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fsUAdlzwAs

Bearing risk in mind, there's probably a reason that it's acceptable to implement the DVD logo on the front-end client but poor taste to humorously update HTTP headers, for instance.

(That said, I tend to stay in the camp of "any path that can be hit, I'll eventually have to support.")
> but for the negative social consequences of the alternative

You mean like hiding your bank balance because the social consequences of people seeing it? Or hiding your medical records because of the social consequences of people seeing it?
Automatic Node.js Bindings for Zig
Legal probably approved the word "lens". And if this ends up in court they will say that "lens" means that we are aware of the impact layoffs have on our society, but does not change who we fire during a layoff, meaning even if we didn't do this through a lens the person suing would have still been let go.
Twilio lays off 11% of its staff as it aims for profitability in 2023
I think the problem for me is that ad free isn't ad free with YouTube. It seems half the videos I come across are littered with sponsored segments. Often multiple in the same video.

Worse, there's whole cadres of reviewers, mainly in tech, who have created a weird feedback loop causing their entire videos to be subtle ads. Reviewer gets popular, reviewer quits job to youtube full time, reviewer needs to get early access to make reviews, reviewer is told what they can and can't say by mfg. Mess up or give negative review, they'll never get another early access from said company. So their entire job has become to basically advertise.

There's a few channels I'll watch that I trust, like Project Farm, VCG, a couple carpentry ones I don't remember the name of. The thing in common is they mostly seem to be older guys and/or people just making videos for fun.
This type of application makes it easier and faster to navigate the tree, collapse and expand to focus on various aspects, etc.
The funniest part is that one of these spam accounts actually replied with the same spam facepalm. Lots of replies, all from what seem bot/spam accounts.

The (verified) account bio is "Official Account of the Directorate of School Principals, School Supervisors, and Tendik, Directorate General of GTK, Ministry of Education and Culture, Research and Technology" (translated from Indonesian). It's probably a legit account that got compromised; tweets from a few days ago are all fine (and about Indonesian politics and the like).

So basically, the problem isn't really with the blue checkmark as such; it's useful to verify this is an official government account rather than some random guy; the problem is this account got compromised somehow.
It doesn't. You are the one heavily devaluating the need of privacy.
A recent Peter Thiel video[1] has a great comment on this subject. If building 1% extra houses drops the cost of all remaining houses by 2%, would the city be really interested in increasing the supply? Especially if property is seen as investment first, place to live second.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=balGGAd6ZrI
I'd love to get feedback on my project sqwok.im and whether it may interest you.
Realistically, get a BGP dump from someone (your network team or a public dump)... and someone is using all the large address blocks not advertised.

If you want your addresses not to conflict with anyone elses, you should get an IPv6 allocation and use that. Otherwise, you're simply going to have conflicts, the IPv4 address space isn't big enough.
The Wikimedia foundation has a ton of money, the constant badgering is a bit much. I got turned off by Jimmy Wales early on and swore I’d never give a dime to Wikipedia.
"California and Nevada have high incidences of child marriage as well."
Again, Twitter’s disclaimer around mDAUs is a broad one and nothing stated so far by either Musk or Mudge provides any reliable evidence of that being materially false or misleading.

Ad buyers can’t claim to have been defrauded because the total number of bots on the platform, or even the proportion of bots to real people, are not of relevance to them. All that matters is the mDAU and the reporting they’re getting on ad effectiveness.

As long as mDAU is reasonably accurate and Twitter’s ad support tools are reflecting of that they have no case. Mudge was in a senior enough role that he shouldn’t be mixing up mDAU with the overall bot management question.

Musk does actually need to prove a specific thing: That something Twitter did or intentionally did not do represents a material adverse event sufficient to break the terms of the binding agreement he signed to buy it. That is, again, a high bar and so far nothing that’s emerged in this whole stupid saga has met it.

He’s trying to do the due diligence he should’ve done before signing that offer, but that’s not how the law works.
Why would you need 5ms of buffer?
>no one cares about the annoyances

Then why is adblocking so popular?
This comment was way too low, IMO. Lots of other comments re-state the "ok do you really have nothing to hide" point, which is a funny rhetorical point, but this one seems much stronger.

I may be boring. In fact I am pretty boring, looking at my characteristics, I pretty much rolled straight successes on the "nobody wants to oppress me" table. But those of us who are generally safe ought to consider it an obligation to protect our data, so that the more vulnerable populations don't stick out when they try to protect themselves.

The "needle in a haystack" needs the haystack.
That wikipedia article is kind of thinly sourced. The 2017 version of SB 273 just flatly outlawed marriage between two 17-year-old people. I can see why the ACLU objected. It does, in fact, intrude on civil liberties. The later revision that was enacted is here: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB273/id/1820759
The EEOC will have something to say if your layoff disproportionate effects a protected group. The right thing here is for management to keep their mouth shut and point people to the EEOC if they believe this layoff was disproportionate.
That looks like it's worth trying out, also I like the pricing model, god damn am I sick of monthly subscription.
Came here to point IBM out which is a sign of how it was: Many Americans supported Nazi.

There is this rose tinted glass view that Americans rose up to defeat Nazism taught in textbooks and mainstream media but was far from the truth. Not only did Nazism was cool then, American corporations like IBM directly aided Nazi party with surveillance efforts, very much like they have funded the persecution of uyghurs by purchasing American software and hardware.

What is constant is that the US looks out for its interest first and foremost, even if it means doing business with authoritarian or tyrannical regimes. Is it moral from a humane perspective? No. But is the state subject to humane? are corporations? The accepted view is that they have no consciousness and is not bound by the same moral/ethical afflictions unless they are shamed out of it that it impacts their bottom line.
I tend to work this way with a tool called Markmap (https://markmap.js.org/repl). I start with one heading and a list then begin moving items and adding new headings/subheadings as the relationships form. For example:

// Start with:

# Ideas
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
- Item 4
- Item 5
- Item 6

// Move to:

# Ideas

## Group 1
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3

## Group 2
- Item 4
- Item 5
- Item 6
Lots of great insight. Thank you for sharing!

Your comment about being too early is on point, though I'm not entirely sure it's a bad thing. If you're a big company with scale and cash to support it, exploring new frontiers is probably worth it - you either stumble upon the next big thing, or you at least get to stake your flag through some patents, and in the process - make it so if this things does grow - you already have some kernel you can build upon to start that up without having to pay up for an acquisition...

It's not perfect, but from a risk / reward perspective - I can see how this strategy could serve a large tech company well over decades...
I googled "JWZ's adventures" and didn't find anything relevant.
A lot of big name people will add small notes about important announcements to their display names (new book out, stuff like that) so preventing name changes entirely would be very unpopular.
I fail to see how the housing issue in SF and the issue you mentioned in Orlando is related to capitalism.

I think people with capital would love to develop housing in SF which would ease the housing problem in SF. In fact, people with capital really are the only people that may be able to solve the housing problem in SF. And the reason why they can't do this is the local government. How is this some sort of problem with capitalism?
I get the impression that discord users are mostly children and not programmers.

While there might be some overlap as discord users grow up and decide to keep their discord account, I'm guessing that even in that case they will have a separate github/gitlab/whatever account for their professional or unprofessional programming.
Here I am waiting way too long for it to move, thanks for the tip!
You seem uninterested in the details of how legislation is crafted to balance competing interests and values, and in that way both empower but also restrict regularity bodies. Congress did not say to Treasury "you can no 'limit financial transactions by people', good luck". If OFAC were to announce that they want to limit the number of bank transactions a person can do to 5 per day (say they are unable to investigate the larger volume), they would be exceeding their authority.

Another example, the tool that OFAC has here that we are talking about is their designation power, and the restrictions that follow such a designation are partly set in the statute defined by Congress, not something that OFAC has the power to make up.

> Then yes, OFAC would be able to prohibit this way of transferring money to Iran as well as any other way of doing it. Why not?

Transactions with the target entities ("Iran") are already restricted, whether through a crypto transfer or a tree-branch exchange. This is because OFAC has used its proper powers to designate those targets. The question at hand in this hypothetical is whether OFAC has the power /to designate the tree/ itself additionally, thus making it illegal for you to hang a sack of money there, regardless if you are transacting with Iran or just waiting for your cousin to pick it up.

Does OFAC have the power to say "we are designating the Hawala system"?
I think it's pretty clear that the service isn't for professionals. Possibly too niche to sustain a business.
Were any of the arrests at a cemetery?
Make it so that when they change their photo or display name or anything like that, they lose their blue checkmark, or maybe the blue checkmark has like a big question mark over it or something, until they get verified again.
Everyone who was laid off here has strong grounds to sue for racial discrimination. White people and non-white people alike.
Not from Cloudflare, but at a guess:

* They already have some pretty deep Rust experience on staff

* They were already dissatisfied with the performance penalty from Lua's GC, so Go's GC was presumably unattractive as well

* Rust is worth more internet points than Go (just kidding, mostly)
More of a nitpick but was the USSR not considered a imperialist polity? The ubiquity of the Russian language in Central Asia seems like a strong artifact of colonialism. Even today, Russia is throwing people and resources largely from the (non-slavic) provinces and satellite states at Ukraine. Even in the United States, Eastern Europeans immigrants were quick to assert themselves in the racial hierarchy in places like Chicago.

I’m not saying this to implicate or unimplicate anyone really. It’s more to point out morally elevating one group of people over others (western vs Eastern Europeans) to make a rhetorical argument doesn’t really hold up to scrutiny because of the contradictions inherit in all people and countries.
No, the B-52 is a paragon of beauty (no sarcasm there...it's always been my favorite aircraft).

And the C-130 is right around the same age, not to mention still (I believe) being manufactured.
This explainer goes into the math: https://atcm.mathandtech.org/EP2021/invited/21891.pdf

Or an explainer for Reed-Solomon codes:
https://sidewords.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/thesis.pdf
You could be a lot happier, really - in both practical and ethical segments. By using a sane alternative instead of a privacy-hostile proprietary platform.
Love this idea! Critically important to have something like this for crypto - I would reference it often.
She was likely expecting a bribe.
> and more borderline things ("redesigning the article editing UI")

You keep harping on this, but improving the article editing UI seems like an absolutely valuable thing for wikipedia to invest in. Retaining existing and attracting new contributors is essential to wikipedia's future, and the editing experience is an essential part of that.
I just got my channel added to an 'alpha' of their new spam prevention algorithm... and it seems to be working so far (fingers crossed).

I was getting around 300 spam replies to comments on my videos per week up until the alpha started—now I'm getting 0. So maybe they finally cracked that nut, but I won't count my chickens before they're hatched.

I still run YT-Spammer-Purge[1] daily, but it's come up dry for the past week now.

[1] https://github.com/ThioJoe/YT-Spammer-Purge
> Policies in this category include “by right” or “as of right” permitting, permit streamlining, California’s SB 35, and reform of environmental review processes.

https://yimbyaction.org/2021/solutions/
Since you asked... I'm using my account because I'm a meetup organizer, podcast host (well currently on a bit of a longer break) and open source package author.

I find that Twitter and LinkedIn still bring me and my projects visibility. It helps my career (though the ROI might be better on other activities, tbh) and some people joined my team because they knew me from Twitter/my podcast. Every once in a while when I finish a small library or host a meetup event, I publish them on Twitter.

I don't engage in fights, I'm not an activist on the platform and I don't try to "growth-hack" and come up with cheesy threads to boost my profile. When people still try to start some fight on Twitter, I ignore their comment until they forget about it, especially if it comes from people who always stir up controversies. I don't block anyone, but I use the mute button often. I mute if someone posts threads, edgy hot takes and if someone is too political (even if I agree with them).

There are good technical content from many of my follows, but somehow "thread spam" that's designed to inflate engagement numbers still leak into my feed. Political and social activism get into my feed, too. When this happens, I mute, unfollow, click "not interested" etc to keep my feed in an acceptable shape.

I ignore messages asking me to do stuff for them for free, asking me to debug something, etc.

The political commentators that I like, I browse without ever liking or retweeting their stuff.

I feel that this way I get something out of being in these platforms without sacrificing my mental well being.
“Woke culture gone wild”
The only way we'll fix this is by replacing the ideologues on the Board of Supervisors with forward-thinking leaders who want to grow the city, make it easier for businesses to open and operate. That's why we started GrowSF - we can fix San Francisco, but we have to act as a real voting bloc. Check us out at growsf.org
Thanks for the article, looks like that one is from 2016. I'll share another article I found with a quick search -- "Saturated fat is more metabolically harmful for the human liver than unsaturated fat or simple sugars" : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29844096/

Now I'm not so sure which is the "primary driver". There are quite a few competing thoughts but maybe the point is you should lower both. That's probably one reason many docs (including mine in the past) recommend cutting both.
I use NetBeans, never used IntelliJ so can't provide a comparison.

Main reason that I use it is that Eclipse isn't built for the operating system that I use and is hard to port. I would like to see more modelling features in NetBeans, there are several free and commercial tools built on top of Eclipse, the documentation on XML stuff in NetBeans didn't match the implementation the last time I looked at writing a plugin myself.
Tried and true: every once in a while I look at Billboard Hot 100 and other ratings. The top pop artists are not necessarily awesome but often further down the list is good stuff not in high rotation on the ‘trending’ lists.
If stripe doesn’t want to participate (likely) their funds are reallocated. They also have the option to pass on funds to their dependencies
The coastal left, especially those that are wealthy, do not care whatsoever what these “conservatives” think about them.
Looks extremely unreadable and ugly. Guess that's what happens when you're tasked with creating a font based on the "rainbow flag".
I would not promulgate this ancient Unix hack. It was excluded on plan 9 for this exact reason as the Unix creators knew it was a mistake and corrected it.

Furthermore, the idea of hidden files seems silly to me as they are mostly used to hide dot files that should be in a directory and not carelessly tossed into the root of a users home directory.

It saddens me we pollute newer software with ancient hacks simply because no one wants to fix the root of the problem.
I would not disagree with your PayPal opinion, but this does not explain why companies that really want to sell stuff will let me use PayPal but Google and Amazon does not, their lose, I use ad blocker for YouTube and found audiobooks on a different company that wants my money.

So I am curious what Google/Amazon thinks about this (not your personal opinion about PayPal if I should not have the choice to use anything else then VISA/MasterCard)
Whether something is practical to compute is a very different matter from what OP stated was their concern, namely logical knots, potential inconsistencies/contradictions of the "this sentence is false" type, and unbounded complexity.
Kind of, but the source here is someone who has been at Microsoft a very long time. Given that he didn’t put any qualifier around this story about it possibly not being true, I think it’s more likely that it is true. If this were J Random Blogger I’d agree with you.
It doesn't seem like our obsession with space caused any difficulty in printing RNA. Progress is not a quantity, you can't subtract from over here and add it over there by whim. Humans are also not born into service to their fellow humans, so there is no ethical mechanism to even dictate this.

Meanwhile, space networks have enabled global communications, global rescue, and global positioning. All exceptionally important mechanisms, arguably, more important than using one of several possible mechanisms to fight a flu.

Given that there were many other possible mechanisms at our disposal, the desire to push mRNA technology on everyone might be considered a medical technology fetishism of it's own.
Brands like to promote products or events in their Twitter bios/titles/avatars, and adding a forced reverify step would add enough friction for them to use Twitter less.
I had this digging a tarp/poncho out that I'd not used in a while.

Apparently they need airflow to "off gas" as the chemicals continue to react.
Where else would it be appropriate?

Either you give every application special knowledge of both dotfiles and NTFS, or you give the filesystem special knowledge of dotfiles.

Hypothetically you could write a special daemon that listened for all filesystem events on NTFS filesystems and set this attribute for any created dotfile, but that's incredibly roundabout for one feature.
Criticizing is not cancelling.
https://elm-lang.org/
I probably know this only because back in time I wrote a QR code generator in JavaScript [1] which was also one of such libraries reviewed by Nayuki [2], and as I haven't actually implemented a decoder my knowledge stops there. Sorry :-)

[1] https://github.com/lifthrasiir/qr.js

[2] https://www.nayuki.io/page/qr-code-generator-library
That's being unfair to him, there is tremendous local market for millionaire homeowners that still want to think of themselves as socialist revolutionaries as long as the value of their home never ever drops, and he is merely filling that demand
A SF school district is trying to solve the teacher housing problem by asking families to rent out rooms in their homes to teachers...

https://news.yahoo.com/san-francisco-families-asked-loan-162...

So - prospective teachers are expected to go to college, get into debt, get a master's in education, then get a job where they still have to live the life of a broke college student.

However, more market-rate housing won't solve the problem either, as teacher pay isn't enough to afford such housing. I suppose below-market housing could be reserved for teachers and other city employees, although then it has little impact on the size of the homeless population... It's all kind of dystopian.
> Another example is when our rights were violated the lawyer we talked to said it was a violation but there's not a good case because the judges only care if there was significant financial or physical injury involved.

It’s not that judges don’t care, it’s that courts are there to provide a remedy where one party has injured another. If there is no actual injury (damages in legal parlance), then the court has no power to provide a remedy.

Although just practically speaking oftentimes in these situations the expense of a lawsuit dramatically outweighs any potential compensation. Judges tend to view those cases as a waste of their time because the plaintiff is usually just trying to make a point or to punish the defendant rather than seeking meaningful compensation. It’s basically lighting a big pile of cash on fire to make someone feel better. Most judges believe the courts aren’t there to act as platform for grand standing or moralizing or punishing wrongdoers (at least in civil suits without punitive damages). The court system is already overloaded just dealing with more substantive cases where injured people need to be made whole in a significant way.
That is mostly true about regenerative braking as well. Once you hit a certain speed the vehicle has to use some energy to get the motors to actually stop the vehicle. Usually EVs and such will just rely on the friction brakes for the last bit but some cars like the Bolt will automatically use some energy to slow the car to a stop so you can use do one pedal driving.