skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once upon a time I did something like this for about 500km of track. The first pass was to dump the images at regular intervals into google earth. It worked great. The nice part about using ge was each pin had a km reference which made it very easy for us to zoom in on what we were looking for.

If I would do it again I would dump the images into Photo Sphere Viewer and make a mini-map.

It depend what is needed, but it is conceivable to use a cheap 360 camera on a stick and log the journey with OsmAnd/whatever. If only some images/locations need to be high detail, use a normal camera for those locations. With care the images could be merged, but it's probably not worth it. Just link to it from the photo sphere.

https://photo-sphere-viewer.js.org/
Is simply xenophobia, as it is with Russians or Russia-related issues.
This is how the internet works in the Western world.
When you point it out, they simply downvote you; if your account is new, they will claim it is a bot or that you are an agent/collaborator, and so on.
Yeah that's the problem though: A lot of websites don't set the password field to "type=password" or they don't set the second (verify) password field like that. Why do they do this? Either the web developer didn't really know what they were doing or they were given some very unique requirements (e.g. need to work with a legacy framework).
Salon owners probably charge obscene prices for a spot. That makes opening your own salon much more lucrative.

And customers are probably not willing to pay higher prices to attract more workers into this line of work..
No worries, Stanford, we'll come up with new slurs to hurt your feelings soon enough.
AI plays better chess but no one watches them in tournaments.
> the vast majority of the words on this list do not have the claimed negative connotations in the slightest

And who are you to judge that? Are you in any way subject to descriptors they offer alternatives to?

I'll have to admit my bias though, I presume everyone here who rails against this list is themselves a financially, physically and mentally healthy heterosexual white male aged 20-40. You're not going to be offended by any of these terms, that's fine, it's not for your benefit.
Sell it to Elon! Seems he's trying to shift focus.
Really really bad take. Really bad.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34066722

there was this reply - POLL: Should I step down as head of Pinboard? I will abide by the results of this poll.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_relations
It's absurd how this people don't know absolutely anything about linguistics. "Men" in menpower doesn't mean "the power of men". It means the power of people. Words can have different meanings when written in different contexts, even more when combined. Go on, downvote, be like the many preachers, iconoclasts and witch burners of the past, see you in ten or maybe a little more years when we can focus again on stuff that matters for mankind.
I feel harmed by the use of the word Stanford. I sincerely hope those behind this initiative will understand this and change the name of the school to something which does not cause me concern, anxiety and fear.
Toxic masculinity and patriarchy are unsurprisingly not on the list.
Are you personally offended by any of these words (except the ones that are obvious slurs, I mean)? I would love to hear a first person account, since they seem to be absent from this discussion.
Not sure Kushner will be thrilled as Elon's meat puppet in form of Twitter's new CEO. I don't see it.
That's just suboptimal microcontoller choice. There are a lot of microcontrollers that directly the Java Micro Edition instruction set, for example aJ-100.
I cached map clusters and achieved a ~50x speedup
Yeah because it is oh-so-easy to ensure your regexp matches only your company's tokens and not 10000 other companies tokens /s
I am aware it is still being used in many places. Nevertheless, the term has been discouraged by exactly this type of initiative, more successfully in some places rather than others.

https://github.com/github/renaming

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/jun/23/gitbranchname/
My comment is partly tongue in cheek but also serious.

I don't honestly believe in the infinite wisdom of markets. I like markets. But they're not infinitely wise. That is the peak "/s"

But at the same time, those who live by X can die by X. And since plenty of people were happy with the market's wisdom when it helped them, (like many CEOs, the current governing party in the UK etc), they cannot change course now without being hypocrites...
Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas
Optimizing a symmetric quadratic form in Julia
Fascinating how protected by their geography are USA, Canada, Ireland and maybe UK.

The remaining countries have too many neighbors and, accordingly, potential opponents. Look at the Balkans or part of Africa.

I live in Sofia, Bulgaria and it has always seemed silly to me that the reason our city was chosen as the capital was the fact that it is surrounded by mountains on all sides. Now with this war in Ukraine, this idea seems genius to me.
The “user” example surprised me because they suggested “client” as an alternative, which might unintentionally imply the person frequents prostitutes.
I don't know anything about helmets in particular. About a year ago I did some reading into risk compensation, the general theory that safety interventions cause people to take greater risks leading to worse outcomes than there would be without the intervention.

There's plenty of theoretical speculation. It's attractive to a certain sort of contrarian who thinks they're smarter than domain experts. But any time anyone has actually collected real world data they haven't found the effect.

Given it's been decades since the invention of the theory, and there's no evidence for it, at this point I think it's on the proponents to do some actual research. Until they do, I think we should disregard the speculation.
If Stanford was supposed to the beacon of knowledge it sounds like they decided to turn off the lights. Utterly ridiculous.
You have to trust your own body and mind to be healthy enough to keep you going - and if it can’t trust others to support you. None of that requires Truth. But definitely to avoid jail time you better understand what Truth is in your place of residence. And that is to realize it’s bullshit - if you buy into the lies you’re going to be a mark.
>How do you know what a non-wasteful allocation of those valuable resources is without truth?

In a post-truth world, any allocation of resources is acceptable.
So with software that makes decisions, could we start making them accountable before AGI? Without AGI there's no possible preventative measure, is there?

Our ML systems could work like a carbon tax, where it has to incorporate costs/fines/etc for bad decisions so it makes similar decisions less frequently.
Why are you calling him Elmo? Isn't that rather juvenile? No matter how you feel about someone I think that respecting them enough to use their name should be the lowest level to which we allow ourselves to sink.
> The rationale behind Latinx is that it covers both Latino and Latina

The real rationale is one of imperialism: everyone should use a non gendered language. Like English, things would be so much more simple if everyone used English.

So going for latinx to erase part of a gendered language is a sneaky first attack on this language.
In another world, I feel that being thoughtful about how we use language in this way could be a good thing. I might say something, and my counterpart could point out the history of the word and why it might be hurtful to someone, and I would walk away more aware and be more considerate in the future.

Sadly, the reality seems to be that the bleeding edge of sensitive language is more often wielded combatively to try to discredit someone.
"I could see someone else's account in detail but was too honest to do anything with that knowledge"

Are you patting yourself on the back for not commiting fraud?
Though I completely agree with you on a rational basis (the first string being coined by someone who is not even in NASA¹), for some reason anthropomorphising space robots² gives me a weirdly positive feeling.

¹ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/opportunity-rovers-final-w...
² https://xkcd.com/695/
In theory, (most) botnet operators can’t afford $8/month/bot; so this seems like a reasonable strategy from that point of view
Should I just say "I don't want special treatment" then? I'll come out and say that. If a private company or individual wants to give out cultural/racially based scholarships/financial aid then more power to them. Why does everyone assume that others don't know that some European countries had evil colonial period histories. It's too late to make up for those ills. Move on and quit living in the past. Let's start treating people "right" now, not forever be digging up the past. Use it for context and lessons learned and not keep this race war and white guilt (or cultural guilt?) alive forever. It only serves to keep up 99% split up and infighting. Aka we can't fix the world's problems before we work on the ones at home. Why drag our children down with the ills done by our ancestors?
But the suggested alternative was “client.” I don’t think they’re saying we should call people who abuse substances “clients.”
Ask HN: How do you add structure to your life?
General tips and info are welcome so that this question helps others!
---
But also, specific advice to my situation is extra helpful as I'm a bit lost in life:

I'm in a situation where I intentionally work 3 days/19 hours a week to make room for personal growth. The job pays just enough to cover my bills, rent, leisure/entertainment, etc. -- I have very few obligations otherwise.

The idea was to use the free time to accomplish personal goals, ordered roughly by priority:

Lose weight, upskill for a new field of work (software dev), make more friends, dabble in some new hobbies, try dating, etc.

However, I haven't made meaningful progress on these goals, and these past few months in particular I'm doubting my ability to break-down these goals into smaller steps and then hold myself accountable to those steps, and now it's beginning to make me depressed. I'm worried that I've given myself too much free time.

I suppose I could return to full-time work, but
(1) I might feel more useful short-term, but unsure I'd be much happier long-term.
(2) I'd like to become more of a self-starter.

I know I can do it as I've accomplished some pretty good goals in the past, but I'm having trouble building momentum / creating habits that support my goals.

(Note: I know therapy [and perhaps medication] is likely an important step in resolving my situation, and I'm going to seek this out starting January once my new insurance plan kicks in. Feel free to ask for more info if you think that would help!)
You are wrong. I'm from South America, and the "American" thing is an issue for many people. In Spanish, we don't even call Americans "Americanos" but "Estado Unidenses". Many people joke when Americans say they are Americans by answering, "yeah, me too." I couldn't care less especially because I know the difference between America and "The Americas" but many people don't
> unbans high-profile neo-Nazis and antisemites

I think this is often ignored given the daily deluge of chaos but this move was only ever arguably valid in the context of being a free speech absolutist. It's clear at this point that free speech absolutism is not at all what he's interested in.
I think you're getting downvoted by people not realizing that you're actually the head of pinboard.

Either way, a flippant post is kind of insulting to your customers.
yet we don't really have a way to know whether our experience exists as a continuum.

I could be a different experiencer to the one who was here yesterday, yet I retain their memories as mine so I have no clue that I'm 'new'. I might die today by falling asleep.

I may not even be the same a second from now.
I post this on every Fermi paradox thread.

Non-directional radio transmissions (e.g. TV, broadcast radio) would not be distinguishable from cosmic background radiation at more than a light year or two away [0]. Highly directional radio emissions (e.g. Arecibo message) an order of magnitude more powerful than the strongest transmitters on Earth would only be visible at approximately 100 light years away [1], and would only be perceptible if the detector were perfectly aligned with the transmission at the exact time it arrived.

Space is really big, and radio emissions are comparatively really weak.

[0] https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/245562

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0610377.pdf
Did you read the first two sentences?

CA is doing something very common, which is to try to prompt a SCOTUS decision on a controversy.

In this case, they're trying to get their own law ruled unconstitutional so that SCOTUS will have to agree that the TX abortion law is, too.

This is exactly the outcome CA wanted, which is why Newsom said as much and celebrated it.
Yeah its like they decided all imagery in language is BAD. This is just the beginning when you are down this route.
I also find it a little ironic that the class who police language like this also are pretty hesitant to actually talk about the commonplace eugenics of eliminating fetuses with Down’s Syndrome (and a medical system that effectively encourages this by pushing prenatal genetic testing). For all the talk of ableism, we are most certainly still ableist in the way it most matters, not just words but deeds. And we lack the self-honesty to talk clearly about this, using endless euphemisms instead, acting like we solve the moral dilemma by just policing our language.

It reminds me of NIMBY activists using land acknowledgements while blocking anything that would allow someone who isn’t high caste from actually moving to and living in San Francisco in a proper dwelling.
I wonder if you can take out an insurance policy against this. Many of them have cyber-fraud coverage… perhaps this would qualify.
No, it’s a funny joke.
The first alien we will ever encounter is likely a neural network we built with our hands.
The bizarre flashing lights on a smartwatch (Video)
Starting a startup: Reflecting on the first 12 months
This is the biggest issue with this list in my opinion. We are teaching kids to be offended by things they wouldn't think twice about.
For me, I think it might help ease the pain of death. I like my code, I want it to continue on. The more we see twin studies the more we see that code is maybe all there is.

Sure my clone will have different experiences but I think it would think just like I do. It has different memories and experiences but I will have different experiences from here on out too. It’s the reaction to them that makes me, me.
Jack Dorsey: Twitter was defenseless against a takeover by Elon Musk
Oh wow I coincidentally posted something about the same XKCD strip in my reply to the person above, but have never come across these versions before, thank you!
The movement is a joke. The very idea of "making language inclusive" is so full of hipocracy, contradiction, the desire to control others, there is no "good" version of it. It's possible to treat others with respect naturally without self censoring or censoring others. That's not what these movements are about, they're the opposite of inclusive and respectful, in any form.
Not quite! They capture one full frame every 1/30th of a second in the US and Japan, and 1/25th everywhere else.

They capture one *field* every 1/50th of a second, and interlace it.

The reason for this is that it was hard to scan a full 625 lines in 1/50th of a second, and it would have required ludicrous bandwidth for the AM transmitters of the day and massive output valves to drive the scan coils in TV sets which would then produced huge flyback spikes.

So the decision was to scan 312.5 lines per field, offset slightly, with each pair of fields forming one 1/25th of a second frame. Telecine was easy in the UK because you could speed the film up a little and then each TV frame would be two fields per film frame.

If you shoot 50i you can deinterlace to 25p by combining the two sets of scan lines from each field with a bit of clever processing to hide the "combing" caused by things moving between fields, or you can double it up to 50p by just copying each line out twice with a bit of clever processing to smooth out the steps. I could post some video clips showing this if you were interested.

Of course modern digital TV cameras are capable of shooting 60p as you say, but anyone shooting "telenovela" stuff is going to be shooting 60i.
A nintendo switch - countless hours have been put into this and it's still so enjoyable.

Jot coffee and alternate brands - pricier than brewing your own, but I'm back to drinking black coffee because of it, I've lost weight because I don't fill up the glass with creamer, and it's so much quicker/more portable.

My cats - technically adopted, but they've made my life a lot more entertaining.

One of those air pumps for my tires - my tires deflate often because of the very unpredictable weather (cold), and being able to fill'er up whenever/wherever has been very convenient.
I used to do this a lot and still catch myself doing it sometimes.

Personally I think it comes from not being exposed to a lot of music growing up (my mom is hard of hearing), and just assuming that almost all songs were 2-3 minutes. I'd say that the thought process behind it also has something to do with longer songs requiring more time or dedication to learn all the lyrics, so it feels more special when you know and really enjoy a longer song.
It’s not only a correct take, but a critical one. Elite universities taking over the discourse has the perverse effect of diverting political and cultural power from minority groups to elite whites (along with a small group of elite minorities hand picked by those whites).
> Having a battery on your server does nothing for being a UPS for your website if you don't also have one on your source of internet.

Having a battery specific to your server allows the UPS for your network to last a lot longer.

I use one of the 1500VA class desktop UPSes to run my home network, the largest variety normally sold for use with a 15 amp circult. It's good for about 30 minutes with my server turned on, or three hours just running the router, switch, and WAP.

If I were able to use a laptop as a server I could instead have the big brick doing just the network and then the "server" could get a few hours of runtime on its own.
International banks have spearheaded an absolute explosion in global economic growth. Looking at your story above, Philip was the bad actor and the Templars should've played politics better (maybe lending money to the pope as well?)
> all of those things are great, but their ability to stay great is conditional on a huge, precise system that depends on trust (which in turn depends on truth) to run.

I 100% agree that the system is built on trust and that the system is where I derive my enjoyment of "bucolic normalness."

However, trust in the system has absolutely nothing to do with truth. All systems are driven by those with power. The opinion of the masses, whether informed by the truth or otherwise, doesn't matter.

For instance, another person mentioned the lie of "de-nazifying Ukraine." Russia has also plainly expressed its imperialist ambition and the ability to reduce NATO's influence in Eastern Europe. Both of those things are true. Does that mean Russia is justified in invading Ukraine because they told the truth about their intentions? The population in Ukraine is strongly against Russian influence. But if those in power wanted Russia's influence, the population would be powerless to stop the transition. To see evidence of this, look no further than Belarus. In Belarus' 2020 election, something like 90% of the population voted against the president. 5% - 10% of the population actively protested in the streets. Workers went on strike. And yet, the elites in Belarus aren't interested in regime change so nothing happened.

Take gerrymandering as another example. The goal of gerrymandering is very plainly to disenfranchise certain voters. Everything knows that. It is the truth. And yet gerrymandering still happens.

Another example: do you really think Trump, the senators, and representatives responsible for the Jan. 6th insurrection really believed that the election was stolen? Of course not. They wanted power and "stop the steal" was just a pretext. I'm sure many of the "stop the steal" supporters understand this too. The lie is just a pretext to get what they want. Again, the truth doesn't matter. You're not going to convince Jan 6 supporters of "the truth" and have them change their mind, because they're motivated by a selfish grab for power. They could care less about the truth.

Ultimately, trust in the system comes from the shared belief that our representative form of government is the best for everyone. Sometimes, that means needing to sacrifice a personal objective, like a quest for power, for the good of the entire system. If the elites want a different form of government, like one where they consolidate power for themselves, then that is what will happen. That is what's happening. The truth isn't going to stop it.
In the UK, for buy-to-let mortgages, lenders typically require projected rent to be at least ~140% of buy-to-let mortgage interest repayments. Moreover they review the situation regularly and require the landlord to pay off some or all of the principal if they are no longer eligible by that criteria.

As a landlord, therefore, you will not be loaned the money unless there is profit to be made on the rent; we don't have to speculate - we know absolutely for certain that (rent-maintenance) is enough to pay off all the interest and a little principal each month, otherwise the bank would not have lent the landlord the money.

I am rather less familiar with the US buy-to-rent mortgage market, but I understand there are similar eligibility criteria involved there as well.
I wonder how difficult it would be to extract this kind of evolutionary history from LLMs.
"I'm sure there's some sort of logic to how these are set up"

Yeah I think the logic is:

1. Maximize car throughput.

2. A pedestrian is entitled to cross only if they were waiting when the light changed to 'walk', and not if they arrived when other pedestrians were already walking.
I've also read this article a number of times in the past - I used to fly sailplanes, and did a paragliding course at some point. Somewhat regularly I feel a strong urge to pick up paragliding more seriously - I think flying is one of the most beautiful things in the world.

However, pretty much every time that happens I force myself to research the safety situation (especially given that I have a daughter now) and I can't justify the risk to myself.

This part pretty much captures it:

> And that, is determined by one thing; the quality of the decisions you make. And how good do those decisions have to be? Simply put, they have to be just about perfect.

Also - "perfect" in this case means you have to be _very_ conservative, especially as a beginner, or as someone who doesn't fly regularly. Which, in turn, is going to result in less skill maintenance.

Turbulence being invisible + the power of air + the limits of these unpowered flying devices in terms of control and cushioning adds up to a lot of risk if this is an activity you do over a number of years.
There's a lot of silliness in college that goes away when you get your first job and have to take on more consequential and realistic priorities.

We've had bubble over the past 20 years where big tech companies and news organizations have indulged the silliness internally to reduce friction for the graduates they hire but that is drying up with the economic downturn. We're reverting to the mean.
At this point it's fair to ask how much was Musk and how much was Gwynne Shotwell.