skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taking photo with phone is utter horrible. I admittedly can't take a decent selfie with one hand. Even holding chopstick is easier.
It absolutely is. Workers getting paid more actually spend that money. If you pay more dividends to the Saudi wealth fund or even a local billionaire the economy doesn’t grow as much of that.
That's not bad comparatively. I will have to check it out.
A modern Bosch dishwasher will use 9.5 litres per cycle or < 3 gallons btw.

IIRC 10l / cycle is a standard set in the EU, but I can’t find a reference right now.
That's like saying it's bullshit because you have to put up a pole or dig a trench to get a wire from the road to your house to get fiber. Or that solar irradiance maps are bullshit because you have trees.

The provider gets the service to your property, its not their issue you have to modify your property to get it to your house and your equipment.

Cut some trees down and or put the receiver up higher if you want to get the service currently delivered to the treetops on your property.
I am waiting for phone cameras to use square sensors and just let us select between portrait or landscape without having to rotate the phone. New Gopro has it.
Musk already made it clear that he's not an absolutist, but picks and chooses what he wants to allow.

Most prominently, his public justification for keeping Alex Jones off Twitter is that it's personal for him. Which is just fine with me mind you, but doesn't constitute any kind of "free speech enthusiasm".
Thank you sir for books that are captivating, thrilling, and make me think (I've read and loved Rule 34, Glasshouse, Accelerando, Singularity Sky, Halting State, and all the Laundry files).
It is a sick society that can decide that some people can be sacrificed just to make things a bit cheaper.
>People think pretty things are better quality. You do too.

some people think pretty=better quality

I am not one of them - I think better quality=better quality

>Boring gets forgotten and replaced. Boring is not ubiquitous.

Boring is ubiquitous - Diesel engines are boring. Diesel engines are ubiquitous. Apache is boring. Apache is ubiquitous. Wordpress is boring. Wordpress is ubiquitous. Reinforced concrete is boring. Reinforced concrete is ubiquitous. iOS is boring. iOS is ubiquitous. 1/4-20 bolts are boring. 1/4-20 bolts are ubiquitous. SQL is boring. SQL is ubiquitous.

Boring doesn't get "forgotten and replaced" - it gets used by everyone everywhere ... the very definition of "ubiquitous" :)

Boring doesn't equal "ugly" - that you think it does seems to speak to your lack of understanding of the nature of engineering: engineers love "boring" because boring works. Boring is reliable. Boring lets you build bigger things because all those boring things Just Work™
Yes it definetly should.

Computing is the only industry, where people accept to live with tainted goods instead of forcing whoever sold them to pay back, cover for their damage or whatever.

We already have high integrity computing, digital stores with returns, consulting with warranty clauses, and some countries are finally waking up that computing shouldn't be a special snowflake.

https://www.twobirds.com/en/insights/2021/germany/the-german...
How are the directions on organic maps and magic earth? I tried OsmAnd and it's directions were awful for me.

The first time I used it, was for a drive that Google tells me is 2 hour/100 mile. It initially gave me a route that was 1:58 and 120 miles. I personally don't think driving an extra 20 miles is worth saving 2 minutes so I switched it to most efficient route which worked for that drive.

The next time I used it though was for a drive that should've been 30 minutes/30 miles. It gave me a route that was an hour long on back roads that saved me like a mile of driving. This time, saving a mile of driving isn't worth adding 30 minutes of time for me so I just gave up.

There really needs to be a mode that finds a compromise between route time, route distance, and route complexity instead of just optimizing for one and ignoring the others.
Location: Australia

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Last ~1.5 years I've been doing backend dev for a small GIS company,
working on particle filter algorithms for positioning systems, all
in purely functional Scala.
Same. This map isn’t accurate. Areas I know have no cell phone coverage are marked as 100% covered. Areas I know that don’t have cable broadband show 100% covered. It’s complete BS.
Google Maps without internet is barely usable. It only has driving directions which is pretty useless if you are on foot or a bike. It's actually astonishing that Google Maps can create an offline navigation plan for a vehicle that weighs thousands of kilos while walking directions always need internet to work.
You’re right, I meant CRuby.
If there is an upper bound on the latency then it is constant no matter how you look at it.
We used to dream of a day when automation and robotics would take the burden from our shoulders, leaving us to lead our better lives.

Now that it's happening (and has been for a couple decades) we only hear FUD from folks trying to get everybody back to work.
I like how it’s done in the Netherlands.

There are vacation days (guaranteed by law!). And then there is sick leave, and there is no fixed number of days.

They’re totally separate. If you’re sick, you’re sick - if you’re sick long term it’s covered by insurance. If you’re sick on holiday you even can get your vacation days back.

It’s so gross to me how this is handled in America. Certainly there are flaws in the Dutch approach, but it’s inhumane and precarious for so many people in America.

Makes me never want to return to life in the US.
Will nobody think of the Flashlight industry?

No science fiction story I ever read said anything like "It was dark, but it was okay, because I had my personal cellular internet communications device"
The right to strike is granted in the US as well, however laws mean nothing to the oligarchs.
On an individual level, this is a caution to not identify or over-identify with a particular group because it clouds judgement.
Good point!

One gotcha for me is ncdu2 going Zig and Zig dropping support for OS versions as Apple does.
Uh, they quite literally were under the law back when segregation existed. Yes there were rich black people and white people who marched with MLK. Zoom out to a population level however and they were clearly distinct groups and treated as such.

Good luck understanding the world while refusing to apply historical perceptions to historical issues.
China's Van Goghs
Kanye West Is Suspended from Twitter After Posting a Swastika
If you see aiding the other group as a moral evil, of course you'd rather incur costs yourself or to your group rather than participate, even in a small way, in supporting something you believe to be evil.

I don't want to distract from the generic point with a specific example, but it's easy for me to think of causes I would spend 10x of my own or my group's resources to prevent that other cause from receiving a benefit.
People who have enough vacation days don't use sick days that way.
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What aperture did the 18-55 lens have? Most likely the DSLR isn't low end, but the lens is a very low end 60$ kit zoom.
One of my favorite pop-culture samurai helmet stories involves Super Mario Odyssey. In Bowser's Kingdom (modelled after a feudal Japanese castle), Mario can buy a samurai outfit set, of which the helmet has antlers and six Mario coins in front.

It turns out to have been modelled after the samurai armor of the Sanada clan, whose battle-crest was the rokumonsen, or six mon coins. The Japanese at the time had a Greek-like burial practice of burying coins with their dead so their spirits can pay passage to the afterlife -- one coin to pass through each of the six Buddhist afterlife realms to get to heaven. So when the Sanada clan rode into your territory and you saw that six-coin crest, the message was: death is coming for you.
Wireless Device Detects Coronavirus with Magnetostrictive Composite Plates
We need self driving trains ASAP
Shifting pie can be very useful. Consider the situation: One super rich gets 100 million and 100 ordinary people get 100k. The super rich has an upper limit for expenditure because he is still a human being. However if all 100 ordinary people get extra 10k which is paltry, they will probably spend it all to boost economy.

$$ is useless if not flowed through economy.
It's not the railroad workers' fault that half of Americans can't afford food and basic necessities.
A lot of comments look at this from a political/party point of view, which is understandable. But could this also be looked at from a group survival point of view?

Let's look at Ukraine right now. In the short-term a deal with Russia might ease the pain of Ukrainians which are troubled by the harsh winter, but by "harming" themselves right now, they might survive better in the long run?

Edit: I didn't want to start a political discussion about the war, just ask whether this behaviour might be evolutionary beneficially from a group survival point of view. Since war has been part of human history.
That's the point, though; you use 'foo' and 'bar' when you want the reader to focus on an abstraction, instead of potentially distracting them with the details of a concrete situation.
Agreed. This is a huge opportunity to reset employment terms, and not just in this industry. Also, allegedly many current railroad workers started in 2004 and will be eligible to retire in 2024. If we don’t fix this now, we’ll be in a worse position in a year or so. All who can will retire, and recruiting new hires will be even harder. Long term, we probably need to bust up the railroads and create a nationalized and/or worker owned/controlled ownership structure. Else we’ll end up here again eventually.
i personally don’t know anyone who _wants_ to work. people work because fulfillment of basic needs has been tied to making oneself “useful” in a capitalist society. given a choice the vast majority of humans wouldn’t work a day in their lives.
To clarify what I mean: in the 2020 Senate runoff it was between Raphael Warnock and Kelly Loeffler. Despite what some people want to claim, Georgia is still a very red state, and has had Republicans at the helm for nearly 20 year. Even the Democrat leaders of yore (Zell Miller, Max Cleland, etc.) would be considered to the right of Joe Manchin - blue dog Democrats. Loeffler was going to win, but Donald Trump tried to wield his influence on the election, which did two things 1) turned off would-be Republican voters and 2) riled up Democrat voters. Prior to the rally to support Loeffler her numbers were up - pretty far up too. Warnock's win was a referendum on Trump. But apparently that wasn't enough - Hershel Walker is Trump's hand picked candidate, and is not a very good one besides that. He's probably going to suffer the same fate. Walker has popular social appeal as you correctly point out - he was an all star running back for the University of Georgia and everyone in the state over the age of 30 knew his name even prior to his political career. But as I say, he's a terrible candidate.
Same, but with fixed connectivity. Also, the definition of broadband is woefully inadequate: 25/3 Mbps
"Total Comp", which typically is more than wages. This includes health benefits, which can be a significant part of the figure. So like another said they get the bare minimum but these figures seem inflated and make the employees exactly as said, "overpaid." So, all the public sees is "130K," with no clue where it all comes from.

As well, I have no clue what their benefits are like. It is quite possible they contribute to their benefits as well as most people do, which means their take home may be even less than you'd expect. I for one have employer provided health coverage where the employer contributes, as well as a portion comes out of my paycheck, with co-pays upon an office visit.
FYI, many, many millions of people in America that work low paying jobs have zero paid sick days (or paid time off in general).

As evidenced by the fact that there is no federal law about it, and only a handful of states required a small number of paid sick days.
I had the same issue many years ago. Local ISP said fiber was available at my house. It was not. I reported it. A few months later I noticed they basically carved out my house even though I was quite sure my entire neighborhood was not served.
I've spent the last 11 years in SF. It's largely paranoia. It is a funny sight, I do see people who got here more recently than I have are describing things as new, but they are old problems, I've heard the same complaints the whole time.

One small anecdote, the first year or two I got here, I felt I was being sized up for muggings a couple times. Has not happened in a long time.
This is most agreeable take to me, Musk's organization style is a strict, recursive hierarchy, with a unitary and grandiose vision divided and conquered by VPs and managers. He cannot have a distributed self-organizing collective like typical Web services company is, and must be simply cutting down employees to the minimum.
> Most dive shops have "Discover Scuba" which is basically they give you some brief training, but then they go on a scuba dive with you to a shallow depth (6m I think?)

My ex-girlfriend got into scuba that way. But they never would take you down to 6 meters the first time.

She thought that she mastered buoyancy control instantly.

Little wonder when you have a dive instructor holding and operating your inflator hose :)

It's a great way to figure out if scuba is for you.
Now we just need the NOR-puter, so they can have a race, and settle the old NAND-vs-NOR debate once and for all!
I agree the automation is happening, but I'm not seeing the part where it leads to better lives for the majority of people.
We have a Garmin GPS in the Truck...it has 'RV knowledge' and will route us around places we shouldn't go.

It's a niche that's keeping them afloat.
The historical perception is part of the problem.
In other news, software continues to eat the world.

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WhatFont plug in is also a great tool for this!
They could all move to construction with minimal, if any, training and be happier for it. People outside of tech don't change jobs very often and are very weary of doing so. Changing jobs is a skill and experience they do not have. I would love to work for the same company for thirty years...just not feasible.

My cousin is a tree guy who runs a crew. He has been with the company more than twenty years and just now started getting a fair cut. They didn't have a choice but to cave to his demands (which were quite modest) because they simply can't run their business without him. They also promised something in the deal that never came through (a $300k piece of equipment to make his job easier).

I had been screaming at him for years that they had no viable business without him and that he should be getting a bigger cut. He just didn't have the business sense to believe it or leverage his power. He got fed up and had a much better offer from a startup and handed in his resignation. They panicked and started pitching better deals to him. Which he took.
Wow. That's even worse.
> The equivalent of a generic memcpy is probably something like a .clone() call on a generic type that implements Clone.

If you type "memcpy" into the documentation search, rustdoc will point you to

* https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/primitive.slice.html#me...

* https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/intrinsics/fn.copy_nono... (Though it should really point to the reexport at https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/ptr/fn.copy_nonoverlapp... )

The latter will also mention

* https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/ptr/fn.copy.html
> It’s pretty simple to understand the gist of the problem: modelling something

I also think that there is a difference between modelling something, and sparsifying the model calculations so far that what you have left is 164 steps of 2-bit logic gate operations to a 9-bit register.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05424-3
It's so bizarre that camera manufacturers never figured out that the camera should be treated primarily as a smartphone peripheral. When I take a picture on the compact camera it should automatically sync to the smart phone camera roll with geotagging. All of the camera's settings and shutter should be controllable through a smartphone app. This lack of integration was a real failure of vision by camera manufacturers.
The "formal proposal" part was my December Fools joke.
When you get the same kind of stupid reply on HN as you see in stupider places of the internet, a place where you come for almost a decade to have some in-depth discussion, it grates on you. Everywhere else on the internet is like this shit, it starting to be more prevalent here is definitely affecting me as I'll have to stick to my own in-person social circle to have some kind of discussion that doesn't devolve into this bullshit. And then I lose access to a plethora of other points of view where those try to at least have some reasonable argumentation.

It's exhausting if you cherished a place for good discussions, yeah, I'm just tired but not really a meltdown, just tired of trying to be somewhat reasonable replying to this bullshit, it's a dumbification of discourse that is hard to stand.

As an example:

> They understand it, but they actively work to undermine it by engineering the human race.

This is just fucking dumb to read.

Edit: but I believe you're right, time to take a long break from HN.
Table tennis is the name of the sport. Ping-pong is a brand of table tennis equipment.
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> It solves this problem!

Yes, it solves this specific problem, but what about the problems it potentially creates?

The comment I responded to mentioned losing parking on every block as part of the proposed solution. That's a hell of a large negative for quality of life in New York. There's a lot of details here that are being completely hand waved away.

Now, maybe it's still worth it, and maybe there's good rebuttals and counterpoints to the points I brought up, but the negatives aren't even being brought up and weighed. That's not how you fully evaluate some idea. There's no solution to a problem that doesn't have some unintended cost.
Agreed. The types of 3D they are putting out is not something I enjoy. Rather have a good 2D experience and broaden the scope of the games.
> (why is there voting anyway?)

Meh, it's not the best word, I'm no native speaker. There are some very vocal people pushing against this initiative which are "inciting" (DeepL) others to stand up against this.

> But this isn't so much a foot shoot.

Not sure about it.

We've got some money left from a good business year, so the CEOs wanted to make some "small projects" for the production site, with some kind of "longer impact" than one-time payments. With payments, taxes will eat most it and the holding corporation would probably step in and mess it up, as other companies from the group are struggling a little bit.

So they've built a barbecue area for example. A handful of people wanted that (it hasn't been used more than two times up till now) and some people have said that they'd like their next car to be an EV/hybrid and that it would be great if there were more charging stations. So they thought it would be a good idea to invest some of the money in chargers.

As there's this "inciting" now, it seems like that plan will be cancelled and the money will find its way into the holding group and be lost to the employees right here.

Not sure if that isn't a foot shoot in the end after all.
The etymology of faucet and tap is interesting (from Oxford online dictionary):

> late Middle English (denoting a bung for the vent hole of a cask, or a tap for drawing liquor from a container): from Old French fausset, from Provençal falset, from falsar ‘to bore’. The current sense dates from the mid 19th cent.

> Old English tæppa ‘peg for the vent-hole of a cask’, tæppian ‘provide (a cask) with a stopper’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch tap and German, Zapfen (nouns).

Both had the same classical meaning from different origins, but the British chose the German/Dutch word while the Americans chose the French/Latin word.
Next thing you know it’ll be running kata
It missed another category of USA-centrics behaviour that infused in PHP: the dates. For instance, `mktime(hour, minute, second, month, day, year)`. I've never seen a country outside of North-America that puts the month first, though my experience is limited to a few dozens of countries across the world.

Unfortunately, other programming languages also think the USA format is the standard. Formatting dates with Golang relies on using the USA ordering. The more I use it, the more I despise it. I'm from Europe, but I'm so used to ISO dates that I need a small adjustment time to read European formatted dates.
>And infact even for RAW format SLR cannot beat modern flagship phones [1] [2].

What is described is those article is the same as a normal raw that DLSR have been doing for decades. Adding the word "expert" or "apple" in front of the name doesn't make your RAW files magically better.

The only advantage for the smartphone here is that it's more user-friendly to edit the RAW files directly on the phone in one click compared to importing your photos in a software like Photoshop Lightroom
> the concern about things like student loan forgiveness [...] the extreme cost of the program contributing to an ever increasing list of expenditures.

SLF is a one-off cost (of between $400Bi and 1Ti depending on which plan you subscribe to) though. It's not like, say, the DOD which is currently burning $800Bi a year and rising - I would venture that the people happy to shoot down SLF are equally happy to keep that budget going up.

> People are nervous about the amount of government spending

...going to people they deem undeserving. They're perfectly happy with the amount spend on the DOD, DHS, etc.
Another possible causal factor is just that labor is weak in the US, and thus is unable to win sick days from their employers AND is unable to convince congress to pass universal sick days either. If that’s the case (I’m biased to say yes) these rail workers really need to strike. Voting for blues obviously isn’t cutting it.
The huge thing that encouraged me to port my Matrix library to CLJD was that I saw the Flutter community did not have a consensus reactive solution.

The tersest write-up I have on Matrix is of the JS version, and all the demos are CodeSandbox if you want to play: https://tilton.medium.com/simplejx-aweb-un-framework-e9b59c1...
The clustering here is really misleading at the higher zoom levels. Shows 100% coverage when you hover on a large area, then you zoom in and find 50% of that same area has zero coverage.
> he stats come from Google project(s) - you can be sure that they've used the best practices

The first Google Style Guide for C++ I ever came across in the wild espoused C with classes, had "standard" in scare quotes and banned most of boost for encouraging functional programming. I almost threw a fit when someone unironically tried to push that POS at work because "Google", it was entirely nonsensical especially given that we made heavy use of boost and math libraries with operator overloading.
It doesn't really matter engine you choose between, no matter if it's inhouse/unity/unreal/godot or whatever. What matters is what expertise you already have, skills of current/future developers and how your development process works.

If all those things are shit, the output will be shit. If all those things are OK, the output will be OK, no matter what engine you choose/develop.