skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Got any further info or photos to share of your project? I was going to build a film scanner a few years ago to digitize some rare 16mm films I own, but at the time I didn't totally know what I was doing and got caught up in other things. Now I've been thinking of starting that project again. Unfortunately, Wolverine doesn't make any scanners for 16mm as far as I can tell.
I really don't want to sound like an (unpleasant word) due to the subject, but I always like to see comments like this. Some in America like to portray the image that we are the cesspool of labor relations, and it reminds me we are not alone and there is a lot of work to be done everywhere to improve life.
If you can get into the facebook links I posted, you can see its a lot more than color grading im talking about.
I don't know why, but this one made me chuckle:

would_you_mind {
// Code here
} actually_i_do_mind (Exception £e) {
// Politely move on
cheerio('Message');
}
I'm surprised you even have drivers available, with those work conditions I'm not sure why anyone would apply

> If no crew is available at all, then the train doesn't run.

Cool, then treat them better before they all walk out.
I've used HAProxy in several roles over the year, been pretty much bullet-proof everywhere.
What happens when AI is learning from AI and no new content or advancement in a field is from people? Won't it be an eco chamber of recycled content?
The idea of making half that with those kind of hours seems insane to me. I know these people exist, but have no idea how. If anyone has any specific examples of what they're doing, I'd greatly appreciate it
Inlining heuristics used for -O3 are architecture-specific, so this just shows that things have been tuned in a particular way, probably based on the most prevalent icache sizes. -O2 numbers might be different because of reduced inlining. I would expect the -O2 numbers to reflect better the actual ISA capabilities.

The choice of sub-architecture matters as well. It's probably not fair to compare against outline atomics. In my experiments at least, VEX was more compact even for scalar code, etc.
Ask HN: Where can I find work?
I've been building webapps for clients since 2008. I test at "expert" on PluralSight for Rails and Linux, though I face difficulty interviewing at that rate. Getting interviews is hard without requesting a $90k+ salary. Please advise.
This is correct. They use census blocks for reporting. So all of these claims are widely over-represented. In theory if an ISP has "Broadband" to one household in a census block, the entire block then is considered to have "Broadband" access even if that is not the case.

Wrote my thesis on US broadband the whole thing made my blood pressure go up.
> What the freight railroads are doing here is forcing the employees to use their vacation pay when they are sick to discourage them from calling out sick at all, in effect penalizing them for calling out sick. That vacation you had planned with the family? Either lose a day (which may require you to cancel altogether), or come to work sick. If they have paid sick leave, they'd use it when sick rather than showing up to work.

This is how many (most) jobs work. There is a bank of "Paid Time Off" (PTO) which can be used flexibly for sickness or vacation. The term bank is used purposefully to describe it, since it can be paid out as pay at separation. Many employers also limit the total amount of PTO an employee can accumulate. This is done to control potential liabilities from the bank.

While I don't call for the elimination of sick/PTO/etc, I also recognize that they are essentially irrational, similar to employer sponsored health care as an artifact of tax privileged "fringe benefits" that come with working in a large org. Funds paid to a worker for not working come from funds withheld from the worker when working. Sick/PTO benefit just makes a complicated system on top of the work/pay transaction.
It’s not “from the union’s mouth”! The National Railway Labor Conference represents the railroads, not the workers:

> National Railway Labor Conference (NRLC) is an association of all U.S. Class I freight railroads and many smaller freight and passenger lines.

I can see how you assumed the reverse, given the misleading name, but that tells us something too, doesn’t it?
Who gets to decide what is or isn't a joke?

I assume you'd be okay with Twitter (and other forms of media) banning right-wing politicians and groups in the USA that associate with Nazis and fly Nazi flags at their rallies? Or those who call for Jewish people to be exterminated? Except no, everyone was up in arms about Twitter and liberals doing just that pre-Musk, because "free speech". Banning Kanye a month ago was the worst thing in the world, and today it's completely justified (despite the fact that he is posting much milder stuff). Funny how the conversation has turned now, and everything Musk does is justified using whatever mental gymnastics is necessary.
I'm sure everyone felt like they were overworked by their parents when they were younger and parents can readily identify chores that they were responsible for as kids which are not omitted from their children's current regime.
Keep an eye out on these people. Lots of things were possible in a 0% interest rate environment that aren't now. This could be brilliant people working an incredible job they don't need to work full time on, or they may be the individual version of a corporation surviving only because the interest rate environment is 0%.

They don't even have to be directly taking out loans to do it themselves, only taking advantage of economic conditions created by cheap money.

"Stocks" haven't been a great source of passive income this year, and "real estate" is showing signs of having just passed its peak. These easy jobs may not survive these things contracting.

Of course, if they're walking off with cash rather than debt, they may still be among the winners of the whole 0% interest regime.
There is apparently a “Diagnosis and Repair of the Encabulator” video[0], but it has been lost in an unfortunate incident in which it went up a tremmie pipe and commingled with a marzelvane.

[0]: http://www.plcdev.com/an_interview_with_mike_kraft
It's not even that. It's a symbol from a UFO cult https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%ABlism#Religious_symbo...
It's my fault. And other active users. Tensegritics polled us on what we wanted first -- Tensegritics is neither Oracle nor Google -- and we all had a REPL in last place.

The one caveat I offered was "...but a REPL will be a selling point!" ROTFL

Seriously, when I want a REPL I hack the test code into "main" and comment out the UI launch. Then I edit and save and the output goes to my terminal nearby thanks to auto build/restart.
It really boils my piss how Apple refuses to acknowledge that their relationship with developers is symbiotic.

Sure, Apple has built up a platform with tens of millions of paying customers, and invests in development of APIs (though they certainly aren’t investing in any fucking documentation or quality control). But anyone with two brain cells to rub together can see that without third party apps there would be nothing left to invest in.

Did Windows Phone fail because the devices and system software were inherently worse? Of course not, it failed because Microsoft couldn’t convince developers to support it.

I know it’s in company interests to act this way—to the tune of dozens of billions of dollars—but when you read some of the things Cook, Federighi, and Schiller said during the Epic trial, it gives an impression that they genuinely do believe that all economic activity on an iPhone or iPad is thanks solely to Apple. Absolute lunacy.
How did it goes and the experience?
Raelians murdered millions of people?
This is why the iPhone is actually a good split here: The default camera App is bleeding edge on computational photography but then when you want the pro experience there is the app Halide which is just an incredibly well designed pro camera interface that would thrive on a Mirrorless body. I'm kinda shocked that no small camera manufacturer hasn't reached out to the team.
What's wrong is that you're immediately labeled and assumptions are made, just like the parent poster did. No effort to get to know you, your situation, or the context.

Also, they explicitly want to control and indoctrinate your kids. If you fight that, you are gaslighted.
Someone said to me a long time ago that the best camera in the world is the one you have with you. It turns out they were right.
Clickable link: https://github.com/selimrbd/py-obsidianmd
Based on this paper [1] green tea can have up to about 130 mg per gram EGCG. In that case 6.5 grams of tea. Tea bags usually have about a gram and a half, but the extracion is less. In studies like this the tea is usually brewed for 5 minutes and in this study brewed 1g to 100ml.

My take is that it is not an unreasonable amount.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6100455/#!po=31...
In all this talk about why even bother with a dedicated camera any more - especially a small point & shoot that doesn't actually take any better pictures than a smartphone - one item is usually missed: The dedicated camera is made to be comfortably used one-handed. To me this matters a lot.

Also, with dedicated cameras being garage sale fodder now, you can inexpensively get another feature that the smart phones just don't have: Zoom! My current "daily driver" is a Canon SX210 with pretty good picture quality at 14x zoom and image stabilization to make it practical. And still pocketable.

That said, 50% of my photos are still with the phone these days, just for instant sharing or geotagging.
Which parts? Maybe they do mention it along with other flags in examples, as far as I know any actual official specifications are intentionally coy on the matter.

I.e. the Unicode consortium explicitly didn't want to get into the mess of deciding whether Palestine, Taiwan etc. are "real countries", or need to release updates if one country annexed another etc.

So the official standards for the regional indicator symbols[2] just provide a way to encode two-letter ISO country codes, leaving it the implementation's and ISO's problem to map that to political entities.

1. https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Flags

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_indicator_symbol
>> Illegal immigration is a market response to a failure of the government to provide a legal framework for sufficient legal migration.

No, it really is not. There's really no upper limit on how many people might WANT to immigrate to your country (other than the obvious 8B world population size), but there's an upper limit on how many immigrants your country can accommodate in the given time frame. Increasing limits for legal immigration won't stop illegal one, it might even encourage it (e.g. when one person gets an immigrant visa and some of their relatives don't but they still decide do go, illegally)
Siri, show me the early life section of the Irving Azoff article
Donna Tartt interviewed by Charlie Rose (1992)
Oh, it very much has meaning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUBAR_(disambiguation)
Yes, there are more examples of smart pointer initialization than just std::make_. I couldn't find instances of "absl::Make" in Android Code Search. But your point still stands, and I should add that not all new-delete pairs are evil. With that said, what I've seen still has too many raw pointers.

Thanks for the context about UAF. I am curious about this. Much of my C++ experience comes from working with in-house reimplementations of std/stl, so my question might be a bit stupid, but how is use after freed of an obj managed by smart pointers so prevalent? Should the smart pointer not be nulled after the object is destroyed? Maybe you have a good example CVE? Are these cases of using the raw pointer in the smart pointer without checking it first?
There's also the reverse in team size. 2 people @ 20 hours a week < 1 person @ 40 hours a week. Obviously depends on the task.
20 years seems very short, though. Retirement age for train drivers in Europe (BE, FR, NL) seems to be around age 60, so that's a good 40 years of work.

Are US railway working conditions really so much worse that people's bodies basically fall apart in half the time?
That's a bit odd. Are they unaware of the last 30 years of computer history?

Even as someone with a background in mechanical engineering the degree of complexity behind some software products, such as Windows, is really impressive.
> Household debt in the U.S. is at 20 year highs. Household savings levels have completely collapsed. Inflation is still ripping.

Inflation is largely caused by the same issues driving this rail strike: corporate profits. Maybe Biden should actually tackle directly that rather than continuing to shit on the working class.
In practise it's just #$%#$% annoying to have to write "color" instead of the proper spelling. #@$#@^% you you bastardizers of the beautiful word "colour"! :-D
> But your individual investment has a big risk too - what happens when you turn 80 (90? 100?) and the money runs out? What happens if the market takes a shit the day before you turn 65? Time to start buying Alpo if you're not in a pension.

You can buy target date funds to minimize how much you have to manually reallocate between equities and bonds, and you can buy an annuity from an insurance company to guarantee a certain income.

I do not understand your distinctions between liability and cost of a DB pension.

> The cost of the plan can indeed be gamed, but there's not much point. It's just an actuarial calculation with all the assumptions that entails, and the actuary shows that long term, investment of this amount is sufficient to cover all costs.

There is a point…to contribute less than necessary for the pension plan to have sufficient funds, in order to make benefits appear cheaper today. For private company DB pension recipients, this results in them not being paid, hence strict laws like PPA 2006 and ERISA 1974. For taxpayer funded pensions, politicians just continuously increase taxes, so it is not as apparent of a problem.

For the DB pension recipient, they have the risk that the DB pension sponsor will come up short, either due to incompetence or corruption. That is a cost. Even taxpayer funded DB pension recipients have had their benefits cut when state and local governments could not come up with the cash.

Unless I had a federal government DB pension, I would assume there is nonzero risk of benefits being less than expected. Also, as a US resident, I have no doubt that even CPI adjusted benefits will be cut in real terms due to impending demographic issues and that is just how the game will be played. Feds will bail out equities over and over, and people with fixed incomes will continuously have less purchasing power.

Either way, I would rather own the assets being bailed out directly so that I can gain the most from the bail out, rather than pension fund gaining it and then still giving me a fixed benefit.
I mostly agree. I have three DSLRs and several very high-end lenses, but I take way more photos of my kids with my phone than with the DSLRs. The workflow for getting shots out of the phone is just so much better than the cameras, and the phone is always with me.

This isn’t an insurmountable problem. Some Nikon camera bodies have Wi-Fi. If they cared to they could make it much much easier to get photos off and process them. It’s just not a focus of theirs.
Who's the worst programmer on your team? How can you tell? (2008)
> The Japanese learning space feels so crowded.

Let me fix that for you...

The Japanese learning space is crowded. With trash.

There's no "feels" about it.

Its full of apps and wesbites that focus purely on cramming Kanji. Which alone is stupid, because you then find out about Kanji readings and compound Kanji. Which means you've wasted your life cramming only a fraction of the permutations.

There's only one way to properly learn a language, be it Japanese or any other. That is immersion.

Use graded readers for reading. Find the equivalent for listening. Use apps like Hello Talk to find opportunities to speak with willing victims.

You cannot learn a language through vocabulary alone, constantly referring back to your mother-tongue will not get you anywhere except endless avenues of frustrations and throw-away "where is the toilet" phrases.

You have to learn to think in the language you are learning, not constantly translate everything back to your mother-tongue.

There is no easy route, anyone who says there is is not telling the truth.
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Depends on the market segment. People wanting apps on their cameras have very capabale smartphones now. People who want cameras, and not phones or computers one can use to take pictures with, have highly capable cameras without apps because they don't need nor want those software on camera. And guess what, photography is more popular than ever, and everyone is happy, including camera makers it seems.
> ... a biscuit isn't exactly a cake...

Certainly not. By law. Biscuits are luxury goods, and as such are taxed appropriately, whereas cakes are essential food items, and have a lower tax rate. This culminated in a VAT tribunal in 1991 [0] where the makers of Jaffa Cakes argued that said items were cakes not biscuits, in order to get the lower tax rate. One of the winning arguments was that cakes go stale, while biscuits go soft. I think this could count as precedent for a proper legal definition of the difference between cakes and biscuits. (Of course, American-style cookies aren't biscuits either by this definition.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes#Legal_status
I'd say YC is more organic.

A16Z is more direct.

A16Z made investments directly in actual media outlets like BuzzFeed, ProductHunt, Future.com, etc.
According to the OED, the use of faucet as a tap for drawing liquid out of something dates is attested as far back as 1400s - I'd consider that current sense (as does the OED).
Professionally, i've recently used haproxy with the dataplane api to provide programmatically controlled layer 7 load balanacing.

Personally, i also use haproxy as a load balancer to terminate https and proxy traffic to internal services.

it's features, such as logging and debugging are far superior than nginx. While the haproxy config can be a little cryptic at times, you can do a lot more with it too.
bootcamp grads not being immediately good when hired makes sense in the context that even CS majors with at least 4 years of coding experience generally suck when they start. What could you possibly expect from somebody with 3-6 months experience?

bootcamp grads make more sense to be brought on as some sort of intern level hire with similar expectations
You’re definitely not arguing in good faith with the personal attacks.
> When an employee calls out sick, a Special Inspector may be sent to their home to check if they are really sick and at home.

If the label between sick and vacation is meaningful, are "Special Inspectors" needed to ensure people are sick when taking a sick day?
You don't check your dive computer before going on a dive? I mean I get that is a much simpler device and more reliable, but I'm not sure that I would make the trade-off of not pulling it out and powering it on instead of possibly getting to wherever I'm diving and finding that it's dead or nonfunctional and being out of luck.
I guess that sounds a lot like a community college to me, but maybe faster and better.

Can non-self motivated people succeed if they go to say an Ivy League? I didn’t, so it’s a sincere curiosity for me. Would Zuckerberg have ended up bagging groceries if he went to a community college rather than Harvard?
Taylor Swift has a net worth over $400M. Why can't she rent venues?
I was addicted to gpt3 game more than year ago. But when events in the game got cycled everytime I was enough deep in a story. The game needs significantly more memory about what was said previously to unleash its storytelling possibilities.
Busses aren't standardized here, either. I've certainlu seen vans used in rural areas.
Yep, I'm aware of that and usually have my camera set at DR200. But of course it's still not close to the dynamic range that HDR+ creates on a smartphone.

Here's an early-morning photo taken with the Fuji: https://tmp.dbrgn.ch/DSCF7064.JPG (Either DR200 or DR400, not sure anymore). And here with the Pixel 3a: https://tmp.dbrgn.ch/PXL_20220709_033446459.jpg Of course, the photo taken with the smartphone has lots of artifacts, looks mushy when zoomed in, and the optical quality is far from the Fuji. In other words, it looks good on the phone, but not on a computer screen. But considering the differences in sensor size, it's still very impressive. (Fuji also has a built-in HDR mode, but so far I wasn't fond of the results.)
Yeah it's almost certainly this.

In Western culture, and probably others, your job is closely tied to your identity. Even if you don't feel so yourself, it greatly affects how others perceive you. After all, when you meet a new person, one of the first things you ask them is, "What do you do [for a living]?" If you're living off passive income, answering that question can be complicated. So you just make up something like "being a consultant" or "doing online sales."

It's pretty similar with generational wealth. I know someone who has been working doing script reviews in Hollywood for 10 years now. It's definitely paid work, but maybe a few thousand a month; the rest of their lifestyle is financed by their parents, who run a real estate business. But it's a lot easier, socially, to say "I'm a script writer and reviewer" than to say "I don't work, my parents pay for everything."
> be honest, how often are you sorting things by a number and only a number?

More often than not. Sorting by morton code, sorting by index, etc.
i'm looking for one if anybody has a good rec? i ditched my smartphone and now i'm loading up with all these devices that everybody in this thread say are obsolete (they have a point but i don't need an iphone in my life, i'd rather walk around with five devices than one ...)
Is it that they abhor the idea of someone else getting something unearned, or that they are frustrated and fed up with the things that they have worked for and earned being denied to them (and only incidentally that they are given to someone else)?
It is surprising to me that consuming dairy products is not on that list. After all milk is produced by lactating animals (whose lactation is sometimes induced by feeding the animal artificial estrogen). It seems like a fairly direct vector to me.

Why is this so rarely discussed?
If you mean unions should become actual corporations that sell the service of organized labor to corporations that want it, I completely agree. If workers want to improve their bargaining position, they need to manage the business risks involved with things like workers getting sick themselves instead of relying on employers to do it. Then those risks can be managed in a way that is fair to workers, because they are being managed by the workers, collectively, as a corporation.
Did they start this because Pando (which they were also funding) shut down?
It's been very fun watching this flailing get more and more desperate over the years on HN. Thank you for this!
There’s a lot of options between woke hyper censorship and 4chan-like social media

We both know this has nothing to do with Apple, don’t be ridiculous…

Edit : like Sandi's replied below, it's been confirmed
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1598090996281413638?s=46...
I think the point is, if the current contract without sick time gets pushed through, anyone who can retire soon may hold on until they hit 20 years, even if they’ll still have to work another job. People in the military do this very often. It’s exactly what I would do in their shoes.
I was expecting a collection of things people lose over their life, for example: Their life, virginity, parents, innocence, good faith, etc.