skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really makes more sense to require order ahead and time boxing. That way people can just drive up to a window, take their bag, and go. Most places that you order online, they just make it when you show up. You never really save any time. Arby's is a bit interesting, they make you pick a time, and the store doesn't even get the order until 5 minutes before the time you said you'd be there.

As it stands today, it's mostly useless, because you still have to wait in the drive thru behind people just ordering now.

I propose the better model is the drive thru is for people who've ordered and paid already, and have shown up at or after their requested time. Cancel anytime up until five minutes prior. People who've not done so must park and walk in to order.
I agree with that if you qualify it with "sometimes". Strong types can force you to guess, sometimes. Other times, the data fits the type but isn't the type.
Slightly off topic but imagine an induction cooker with the original iPod control wheel as it's power control.

We opted for a gas hob when we installed our kitchen. Mostly because I like the controllability when cooking. Obviously it's a nightmare for health and the environment but man it makes cooking easier.
Even India has better payments than Europe. Thank you Modi
I'm able to open it and I believe I found an answer to your question:

> This instance runs Lemmy as backend, so it can federate with Lemmy, and all other compatible software. But for now, nothing is actually federating. You can enter a community or post url in the search field to fetch some remote objects and interact with them.
Dear Amazon, Anheuser-Busch, Apple Inc., Capital One Financial
Corporation, CBS, CenturyLink, Coca-Cola Company, Comcast Corporation etc...

-- Signed
Right To Be (formerly Hollaback!), The TransLatin@ Coalition, Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, Center on Race and Digital Justice...

What a nothingburger
Certainly sounds like it...
Having the government debt finance a giveaway to people who do not need assistance if pretty much theft from everyone. As debt service surpasses 9% of the federal budget it will begin to crowd out other spending. Furthermore, piling onto inflationary policies definitely hurt people who don't make enough money to pay federal taxes.
Its defiantly against the do's and donts of English, yes, apostrophe's seem to be the most mistaked parts of English. Also my favorite cigarette's are Marlboro 100's.
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Hi HN,

Can old dogs learn new tricks?

We've been running clippingmagic.com since we launched it here on hn in May 2013 [0]. It was originally based on a purely "classical" algorithm, but since then Deep Learning has taken over the field, leaving us with the simple choice to adapt or die.

Most of our old competitors shut down. The new competition is "a bunch of kids". We're two 40+ year olds with young kids, mortgages, and a 15 year investment in classical image processing algorithms rendered largely obsolete by Deep Learning. Fun times.

So it's been challenging, interesting, humbling & frustrating to switch out our entire toolbox and go from zero to our first full end-to-end DL solution for background removal over these last few years. It's been a journey with fits and starts. Classical algorithms are slow-and-steady work, craftsmanship if you will. DL is much more "doesn't work, doesn't work, it's a miracle, no it's crap, fixed it with better data, now don't touch the golden recipe!"

(Along the way CM got a little DL boost, but it's a DL + classical algorithms hybrid)

The big takeaway for us has been that DL is all about the data. The networks get all the glory, but it's the data that makes the bulk of the difference.

While we have a host of ideas for changing the business model for background removal to enable a wider range of use-cases, right now we're primarily looking for feedback on this very early MVP.

Thanks!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5682831
Assetto Corsa in VR is absolutely immersive with a proper driving rig, to the point that even without motion I brace myself.

DCS and MS Flight Sim are similarly immersive if you have a proper cockpit.

Controllers really break the immersion.
> But even then there is likely still a severe limit to the demand for launching payloads.

The Starship is about changing the approach, not applying state of the art to a changed parameter. Currently there is a limit. After Starship is offered on the market, that limit may significantly change, as its main reason to exist is the high price of the launch services.

> All those payloads cost serious money

Right, but if you, say, are going to send off-the shelf - or, ok, almost off-the-shelf :) - Caterpillar to the Moon, the payload cost suddenly drops. This is exaggerration, of course, but the idea is that payloads may become much - orders of magnitude - cheaper to produce.
so much for "unlimited data period".

And it's not like this is less confusing: Cricket's unlimited with hotspot plan has completely orthogonal features (cloud storage, HBO max, more high speed data) to what you get if you buy the unlimited plan, then add hotspot (more devices allowed, fallback to slow data when out of data allotment). There's at least three plans to choose from here.

The only simplifying factor is that Cricket doesn't even offer you the option to have 1080p streaming with any of these plans! Your premium data allowance is zero GB. How is that any better??
Twelve years ago I wrote a blog post on exactly that concept of people going after optional disproportionally large gains, where everyone else only see the survivorship bias:

"I have to wonder then whether, over many eons, we've evolved the risk appetite required to explore options - i.e. in exploration of new food sources. However, while I would argue that such risk appetite is a superior trait for populations, it may be of net negative value for any particular individual singled out of a population. Because, while a roaring success may benefit that individual as well as the population around him, say, if (s)he found a new food source and also could control its public distribution for his/her benefit, it could also turn out that the exploration fails, and the individual perishes from exposure to whatever risky environment in which he placed himself in the first place. So, extrapolated over many generations of natural selection, this successively repeated scenario would breed individuals into risky-options-seeking automatons, who don't necessarily do so on the net likelihood of their own benefit. In a large population of such risky-options-seekers, some would inevitably succeed, improving the lot of the population, but those that failed would be crossed off the natural selection list, even though the same traits were being exercised in survivors and non-survivors alike.

So when it comes to the value of risky-options on the individual basis, I would argue that the jury's still out, and that economic conservatism may be the individual's value maximizing choice after all . . ."

https://walkabout165.blogspot.com/2010/05/its-all-optional.h...
(There's context provided in the post).

I probably have some interim updated thoughts about this twelve years on, but nothing conclusive.
And a thing of the past.
I meant that increasing amount of projects related to Python/JS and others that would previously be created in C/C++ is now created in Rust. Some examples:

TypeScript type checker written in Rust
Ruff – a fast Python Linter written in Rust
Introducing Turbopack: Rust-based successor to Webpack
Deno is a simple, modern and secure runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly that uses V8 and is built in Rust.
Basically a new front-end to Lemmy, a federated Reddit clone started last year. More interesting than being a fork or entirely new project because, as article explains towards the end, it showcases how Lemmy can be used as platform to develop federated apps.
Is that why a Google Takeout of your Gmail takes 24 hours to complete?
Interesting analysis of US healthcare costs.

Summary: average household income for a country strongly predicts healthcare spending for a country.
There is a setting to left-align the taskbar
Then you might be interested in Qubes OS: https://qubes-os.org.
Rant about "Free market" until you lose the competition. Then its all out, hypocritical, double-standard protectionism, even economic warfare.
Man, so much time spent in that UI reading and talking with people. Good memories.
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While your advice sounds totally reasonable, it's at the same time incredibly dismissive. In my opinion, it's not much different from "Have you tried being confident/not being depressive, bro?"

If you need courage to face your demons but only facing those demons will give you the courage to do the thing in the first place, then how to solve that circular dependency?
While it's of course good by local UK standards, I still think sometimes London needs to recalibrate to pay closer to US norms. Cost of living in London is often just as bad as major US coastal cities. At my work, they recently introduced a London office paying eng roles in similar salary range, and lots of opportunities to move there with help provided for relocation fees. For many the interest evaporates when they see typical dev pay package and CoL in London.
> Also why is "groomer" apparently "incitement of violence" but directly saying "pedophile" isn't? How can one word put people in imminent danger but the other not if they are almost interchangeably used?

That's the point. Both put people in danger when used maliciously. If I told all your neighbors that you're a pedophile and a danger to children, you would feel uncomfortable and probably unsafe. Now imagine that I told all your neighbors, and then started putting up flyers all around town. Would you feel safe? Do you think you'd be able to convince your town that you're not a pedophile? Just saying "more free speech defeats bad speech" doesn't really work.

I'm not talking about banning words. I'm talking about moderation to deal with targeted campaigns of misinformation designed to put people in danger by powerful people with huge platforms.

> these are slurs/insults not acts of violence or incitements

When your rhetoric also often includes violence, they are incitements. "There's a pedophile living in your neighborhood, snatching up children left and right, right under your nose! We must act as We The People to defend our way of life against these groomers!"
There are over 160 companies trying to design and build rockets. Any SpaceX monopoly is going to be temporary.
Maybe start moving away from Ruby on Rails. Good web stacks in Golang and Rust do exist and at that scale they're likely the only sensible choices.

How far must the sunk cost fallacy go before something is done?
Our World In Data releases global health data explorer
I'm not sure that the political 'solution' of giving special privileges to avoid immediate consequences from their actions to AV manufacturers and special responsibility for signoff in the longer term solves the engineering problem that they need each minor version update of their software to have driven tens of billions of real world miles before they remotely approach statistically significant evidence that it is less deadly than the last version, or indeed an average human.

And this is where lack of general AI or tractability is an issue; knowing that the software typically makes fewer driving errors than the last version over a typical route gives us no confidence whatsoever it doesn't handle rare edge cases marginally worse leading to a couple of extra fatalities per billion miles (making it less safe than the average driver, many of whom suffer actual legal consequences for their erratic driving killing a person even if all their other driving is 'above average'...). Humans aren't bug-free or particularly tractable either, but at least we have enough of a mental model of how they understand driving to be confident that training them on a certain road sign found in urban areas won't make them more likely to stop on a freeway.
But marijuana is the dangerous drug
> There is a somewhat widespread implicit assumption that having sufficient intelligence to develop increasingly sophisticated machine learning implies that we also have sufficient intelligence to develop an “intuitive” understanding of how it works.

I agree with you on that point, but not with the conclusion that this is in any way a good thing.

> Evolution led to human intelligence just fine on its own; why are humans not simply the catalyst in the next stage of this natural process from which something more complex arises?

I think I have the complete opposite view here. Why would "being the catalyst in the next stage of evolution" be anything desirable? Evolution has no "stages", it's just chaos and life trying to deal in the best way with the circumstances at hand. If we blew everything up in nuclear armageddon tomorrow and the only remaining life were archaeae, those would be a perfectly fine "next stage of evolution".

Similarly, we can build a would in which only robots can survive, but why would we want to?

I think, gaining more understanding how the world works is the one thing AI can really bring to the table. If it solves practical problems on the way to that, that's great, but we evidently survived so far pretty well by doing that stuff ourselves.
S10e definitely has a hw proximity sensor under the screen, but Samsung also adds infos from touchscreen to complement this sensor. I used a s10e and loved it, but not on Samsung sw and I never did calls so I can't say much about it.
This valid concern should be addressed by creating one or, better, many SpaceX competitors.
> You mean a generally-recommended-as-medically-necessary-only procedure that would result in far more complications were it not performed?

A Caesarean is often performed even when it is not medically necessary. Hence "why are so many babies born around 8:00 AM"? Additionally, above a certain rate in industrialized countries, they are not even associated with better birth outcomes.

> And anyway, people get surgeries all the time, how is this any different?

Because childbirth is not an injury or deformity that requires fixing (or any intervention) in the large majority of cases. Surgery should be done when medically necessary. A Caesarean has many potential side effects for the mother and the infant, and doing it just to hurry things up is (IMO) unethical.
I doubt it. Raptor isn't a great deep space engine. It's ISP is a good bit lower than hyrdalox engines.
>>* uses about 70 MB of RAM *

Hilarious that like every fucking google chrome tab uses like 1 gig of ram PER TAB!
People believe that RHEL is rock stable.

People believe that CentOS was the same RHEL for free. Bit to bit. May be with changed logos.

So people believed that they’ll get rock stable system for free by using CentOS. They believed it so much that it hurted RHEL sales.

None of those beliefs were correct. But lost sales were real.
Said finance companies are also at fault. They are not willing to scale up their operations. They demand only the creme de la creme, but there’s simply not enough incentive to do C++ when the compensation is so bimodal.
Please tell me how one is going to meaningfully make use of a PANTONE colour w/o using a spot colour printing plate in an actual colour job --- oh? You mean use the process builds which are still in place and which folks can still use?

I've always held that the spot colours should be an optional install, and only installable _after_ a user has passed a quiz on what spot colours and printing plates are.
Presumably, had silenced call be the social default, the parents would have added your phone number into their contact list on the first day of school, sort of like how you have to add someone on a chat app to talk to them.
They did conquer much of the world and Europe as a result of WW2, and then the rest of the world post cold-war. It doesn't have to imply a draconian or complete absence of benevolence in their conquest.

They have military bases all over Europe, and rest of world, they control the global financial system especially amongst their "allies" and have dominant world reserve currency. They sanction and invade countries and leaders that go against their interests.

NATO: "To keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down". Always they are suppressing and sowing conflict amongst rival powers especially on "world island" / Eurasia. And this makes perfect sense, but to not call it a conquest is silly.

>self-determination

Just to take a recent example, they absolutely did not allow Germany and Russia to make an alliance over energy trade through Nord Stream pipelines, sanctioning all involved players and companies for many years, and making dozens of promises to destroy the project.

They also banned Huawei and demanded Western allies comply, not permit self-determination to do business of their own regard.

You'll say something to the effect of "well when the rules are broken..". Yes being able to write your own rules and have your vassals comply is called conquest.
Annual furry convention might be fun though wdym
If accurate, it's unfortunate to hear the situation has worsened here. About 7 years ago, I sent what was essentially a single-line bugfix to Go, and it was reviewed and merged within 3 days.
That is for next pandemic in 2023, silly :)

And of course, there are always trials¡¿¶
Sports games seem like an immediately obvious one to make work in VR, but it would be a very different model than the "top down, control active player, see whole court at once" thing. Think "actually playing" or "fitness game" more than today's sports games.

You're gonna need plenty of space to turn around in, though, which could be a big challenge for most people. Spinning your player around with just a controller seems like the sort of thing that would be likely to introduce motion sickness.
I agree it would have its complications, like onboarding your contacts onto a non-phone/sms tool for realtime communication.

I was just stating that its more possible to escape telecom these days, even mobile, than it has been before.
I would disagree. If you work in any position that requires a clearance or will at any point (the further your career goes the higher the probability) it's far easier to be honest out the door and skip any headaches. People you think are your friends or colleagues, will dime you out when OPM sends someone to interview them. Let's also not forget that OPM will interview people that don't like you. Anyone with a clearance can actually request their adjudication documents and you'll see things you would never have expected.
Interesting: Google's search snippet for 'how big was the tunguska meteor' found and reported a 20m size estimate from the Tunguska wikipedia page, but on manually reading the wikipedia page it becomes apparent that size estimate is for the Chelyabinsk meteor (which is also discussed on the the Tunguska wikipedia page).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOMS
It's 1/8 for ages 20-64

For 20 to 34 it's 1/4
For 35 to 49 it's 1/6

Those numbers are [literally?] quite sobering.
Need thousands of Raptor engines over the next 5-10 years.

Payload will not run out, demand is there (Starlink, military etc.)
Actually I always assumed who's hiring is independent. Either way I just sent an email :)
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You can probably do this with Windows 10 using TaskBarX[0].

[0] https://github.com/ChrisAnd1998/TaskbarX
It's kinda sad, I remember when every windows release was an event in itself, I would try to get a hold of early releases and marvel at all the changes (except the tiles of windows 8... that was a step too far).

But it's not even that I don't like windows 11... I genuinely don't care. Windows 10 works, a _lot_ of my apps are in the browser or in a browser-ish environment anyway (electron). There are no new exciting features in the desktop space? Thinking about it, I have a mac at work and I don't care about the OS updates either way. It's all incremental now.

For a while the mobile OS were exciting but it's getting boring as well.
I made a tool to translate English to SQL
Twitter really needs to reduce its dependency on big advertisers. Right now, it's almost designed that way. Other social media platforms have boosts, integrated directly into the app, twitter has a separate interface for ads, where you can send a "promoted only" tweet (you can't even promote an already existing tweet).

Lots of people use twitter to advance their career and business. If some VC tweets something brilliant that will make founders want to work with him, he might boost it to get more attention, and that might well be worth if it increases his shot at being able to invest in the next unicorn.
You are excluded from most decent jobs and relegated to an underclass.
Same here! "Call Screening" killed all the robocalls, or potential robocalls.
I've seen significant degradation in connection quality since the 5G rollout, but I'm on t mobile, and in the PNW.
Almost?

Herzog: "I don't understand. What do you mean?"

Zizek: "I am not saying that.
I am more than convinced that aliens should be treated as equals.

But you know, we are so close to this today in the sense that I am almost ready to endorse Lacan's idea of humanity being an obstacle to the evolution of sexual enjoyment: there is a limit to it.

If you can imagine sex with an alien, it would be an encounter with a different dimension.

Let's take fetishes or perversions.

A standard perversion goes something like this: what you are looking for is not a real woman but a fantasy woman; if you ever find her, to your horror she will turn out to be a whore so you always avoid her.

But what if this woman exists and, when you finally meet her, she is really a perfect woman?

Then, of course, you will have to kill her.

This would be my fear.

And, yes, I agree with you: I don't think we should kill them."
Odds of 50 Random Events Happening to You
A brief introduction to GStreamer
"You get what you pay for" - Elon Musk
Another reality is that virtually all of those stars are psychopathically hard workers, doing insane stuff behind the scenes to be who they are. My kid thinks Tom Brady is cool - he doesn't realize that Tom is a crazy dude who lives what would be a miserable life for 166 of the 168 hours every week. My kid just sees the touch downs and the people cheering and boy does it look fun.
Obviously there isn't a filter here...
Ask HN: How does TubeBuddy generate a video CTR?
Hey HN,

I'm very curious about how TubeBuddy's "Click Magnet" (https://www.tubebuddy.com/clickmagnet) determines impressions and therefore Click Through Rate for its users' videos.

Through the Youtube Data / Analytics API, there is no way to view the impressions of a video, and as far as I can tell this is intended. My guess is that they use their chrome extension to scrape the Data, but I'm fairly sure this goes against Youtube's Scraping policy (https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/developer-policies).

I'm looking to implement this feature in my own application. If anyone knows something I don't, or can comment on the legality of it, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks!
Code review seems to be a small but annoying problem in a lot of places, beyond the problem in the article of people who are no longer active being assigned.

When you've finished doing something, you want to get that review right away so you can fully move on to the next thing. OTOH, if you're a reviewer, you don't want to lose focus by jumping on random things at random times.

It creates frustration all around. Not sure what the answer is. What works well for your team?