skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you the kind of person who ignores the moral arguments against eating meat by saying "others aren't going to do it"?

I don't understand the criticism. This is an argument in practical ethics; it doesn't matter how unpalatable the conclusion. It took 300 years for people to catch up the utilitarianism arguments Bentham was making in favor of gay rights (for example).
I believe the firewall is not supposed to be protection against Apple doing an attack on you, but against them collecting data because you forgot to change some setting to opt out somewhere.
We’re watching Harry Potter with the kids, probably haven’t watched the blu rays since they were born (now 10)

Popped in deathly hallows part 2 this very evening a few minutes before everyone was ready. Couple of kites later I turn on the tv and it’s playing some advert for some rom com or some sort

It reminded me why I stopped buying dvds. They aren’t happy with selling me a product for a cost, they have to double dip by advertising stuff.

Eventually I’m sure streaming will go that way, and once again The High Seas will be the only way to get the product. If there one thing the entertainment industry can be counted on it’s killing the goose.
The hep c vaccine is one of the biggest examples of this. No money, no cure.
Their final point means that you can't use these in a youtube video, even if you only show them for a few seconds and spend way more than the cost of these images on your video.
It was no further than 1 week ago when I was talking with my spouse about how could we compare the size of some cars. We found it very tedious to even find the official dimension. And we had no idea how to visualize the differences. This is absolutely fabulous!
Nope.

The 2nd paragraph shows why your analogy between ad revenue and oil revenue is flawed.

The third paragraph shows that even sticking with the flawed analogy, how you exploit the asset matters.
We have a couple drone partners...I'm a big drone fan (ran the experiment while at Uber Elevate) and want to have every drone hobbyist be able to upload their data and get paid (probably a small chunk but size based) as long as it can be geo rectified
Check out the list on Mudlet (https://mudlet.org), it's a FOSS desktop app for playing online test games you describe. Comes with a selection of good games pre -configured.
I keep the originals in a box. That way if someone finds put I can prove i'm morally right even though the law doesn't allow it.
I have the exact same idea for Symantic embedding based content aggregation (RSS reader + assistant)

What was your stack for processing all RSS pages on the internet ?
Retail exclusives including in grocery do exist. They are rare and limited to "high end" brands that are normally low volume, but there are things that I can buy at a Kroger that Walmart does not sell, and things I can buy at a Walmart that Kroger does not sell.
Having been involved in that world from pretty early on, I must admit I'm pretty appalled at the odd interpretations I get both on HN an in real life.

I'm not sure where to put the blame, but "Agile" does get a particularly bad rap these days. Mostly I'd say a corporate watering down of Agile concepts, money hungry consultants who didn't know much, and I h ave a personal dislike of how most of SCRUM tends to be implemented.

TDD in particular has fallen off the map in a way that I find very surprising. Generational amnesia I suppose.
Mailchimp was gutted.

You have to understand the sort of mythical place the company had in the nascent Atlanta tech scene. It was one of the first Atlanta tech unicorns and was growing and hiring at a rapid clip. The founders promised never to sell and that they would give annual bonuses in exchange for not offering employee equity. The office was brimming with art, music, and perks that were unusual for Atlanta at the time. They said they were going to build a generational Atlanta tech company.

I desperately tried to recruit my friends that worked at Mailchimp away, because I saw the writing on the wall. I had joined a promising startup offering significant equity, and more importantly, building real value in the world. To my disappointment, none of my Mailchimp friends joined me. They liked the culture too much, felt comfortable, and continued to tout the bonuses they were receiving despite Mailchimp offering lower total comp. I never stopped trying to pull them away, but I didn't succeed. I received counter offers and heard the Kool Aid stories. "The founders are so cool and so generous."

The job itself isn't that interesting, either. Marketing and email advertising isn't intellectually attractive. To top it off, Mailchimp has a disgusting PHP monolith that I've heard is like pulling teeth to work with.

I was right in the end. I walked away with a huge eight figure exit. Mailchimp employees got pay cuts, benefit cuts, and saw their culture ravaged. Intuit took what little niceties they had and threw it all to the wind. Macy's and Home Depot have better software jobs.

I really don't like Mailchimp. The company is rotten.
Specially for regulated industries and if the company you work for has clients in regulated industries and up the chain of clients. What if somebody steals your laptop with NPI/PII data. As with a lot of things, a lot of stuff only matters when things go bad (like somebody stealing your laptop)
its a great resource. more options the better with varying resolutions and sensor types
> I think the text is useful for describing the ultimate goal

No, text is not needed if the next target block is marked - after the first three acquisitions of the first three target blocks, the game is very clear.
Yikes, Writable DVDs/CDs are not permanent, far from it! The dyes in writable DVDs degrades over time. If your storage requirements are more than a couple of years you might have already experienced some pretty major data losses.
Play CYPHER, Cyberpunk Text Adventure here: https://cabrerabrothers.com

"Ever since you came back from the Moon colonies you've been struggling to get into the smuggling business again. Things aren't as easy as they once were though, especially without your old pal Eddie around. It was him who brought all the major players in the market to do business with. And boy did they line up to hire you. Even the Yakuza used to pay almost twice the standard rate for moving passcodes through the international borders inside your Synapse.

All you've got now is a French crook that goes by the name of Lime, who cares more about setting up his own deals than bringing new quality customers on board to work with.

You always knew working with that french bastard was trouble, only you never realized how much until one of the deals he had setup went wrong."

# Make your way through the crowded streets of NeoSushi City!

A deal that goes wrong. A beautiful young woman wearing red cowboy boots following you into a Yakuza nightclub. A pack of Retrievers hired to chop your head off and "Mr.Smith", a mysterious man who claims to be a friend in a world where everyone is after the passcode stored in your Synapse. Will you live long enough to see what it unlocks?"

From the game's website:

CYPHER Cyberpunk Text Adventure is unlike anything you have ever played before; it is a whole new dimension in game interaction and storytelling you can vividly experience from within the realms of your own imagination!

Think of a book or movie you like the most, now imagine for a moment a limitless world of interaction and adventure where you not only take control of the main character of the story, but ARE the main character of the story! Every word you say, every decision or action you take is exclusively your own in the world of CYPHER.

In Text Adventures you communicate with the game world through conversational English sentences, the same way you would do in a chatroom or writing emails. The story unravels into a thrilling interactive experience that will keep you on the edge of your seat for hours... as long as you can escape death.
At least one should evaluate other arguments before saying they don't matter. If we believe what people say about what Putin is thinking, he's really paranoid that NATO is going from strength to strength because it's planning to sooner or later invade Russia. It's amazing how this paranoia in 1 little guy's mind has messed up the world so much. But maybe he has more proof than just his fears...

And you say the countries want to join and that's enough? Huh, maybe we can evaluate their motivation for wanting to do so? To use a different example, if a partner wants to break up with you, would you ask "But why?" or do you just say "OK, you want it, so that's enough of a reason."...
AI is not human. Machine learning isn't the exact same thing as human learning. Treating them as exactly the same is disingenuous.
Taco Fiction: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=2ej7ntbmoit9ytvy

You can use gargoyle as your IF player and run many games https://github.com/garglk/garglk/releases
My issue with Xcode isn't a lack of features, its the fact that the features don't reliably work. And not the advanced stuff, the very basic features. I routinely have issues with stuff like clicking through classes or syntax highlighting.

Another thing thats highly annoying is that compile errors don't get properly cleared on builds, so if there are multiple errors, it might just be that one of them is a real error, but the others are stale.

Lately I've been working with Swift Packages, and now restarting Xcode many times a day is part of my workflow - otherwise compile errors persist.

Ive been in iOS for a decade now, so mostly I don't get hung up one these issues, I know how to clean the "derived data" folder, I know how to jiggle it "just so" to get it to do what I want. But still its frustrating that the most important tool in my job is doomed to be moderately broken forever.

It might be a "grass is greener" scenario, but whenever I hop to IntelliJ, I don't encounter any of these kinds of problems.

Oh, and BTW, if you want to check Xcode out for yourself and have trouble downloading it, its not you - Xcode is like 20GB big. I guess you need lots of space for the world's most broken syntax highlighting algorithm...
> Thank you! Once I saw this comment, very satisfying puzzle. At first I was fumbling my way through randomly, but around halfway I started to visualize the board as two "sets" of connected paths and grokked how to switch between them using the lower-right quadrant.

Exactly this - I used the upper right quadrant to switch lanes, but the idea is the same: if you cannot reach the target in the current lane, switch lanes and try again.
Maybe in the lower 48. Up north, all sorts of circuits get exposed to surprisingly low temperatures, resulting in all sorts of gremlins.
The F in FAQ isn’t to be taken at face value: […] text consisting of questions and their answers may thus be called a FAQ regardless of whether the questions are actually frequently asked. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAQ]
kind of true but it's also orbit positioning VLEO can have much better image quality than LEO if comparing apples to apples. There is a cost and that cost is atmospheric friction and energy use which can degrade the satellite faster
I host tens of self-hosted apps for various purposes, including ones similar to this one, all via docker-compose. Setting up new ones is a breeze (thanks to Traefik), backing up the configuration and data is trivial, upgrading to the latest version takes a few minutes at most. I’m confident my workflow is simpler and more convenient than yours. Granted, the initial investment to learn and understand the tools is pretty large.
Let Stealthing be the proposition p. If p is the case and ¬p the case, then the negation of ¬(p ∧ ¬p) is unsatisfiable.

QED there is a dude sleeping in that van for whom Stealthing is the case, and an observer outside the van for whom it is not the case; for all values of dude, van, and observer.
I’ve never understood story points either. Somehow, the argument goes that if you take a process that involves an high level of uncertainty, and you replace clearly defined units of work (time) with vaguely defined units of work (points), this will magically make estimation and planning _more_ accurate. Maybe, since you’re using Fibonnaci numbers, that makes it scientific?! I’ve never seen it actually work in fifteen years of trying.
They have resolution samples here https://app.skyfi.com/sample-preview .
I can't imagine how that would work. Living outside a base is out of the question.

Maybe if you somehow assume the identity of somebody working at one of the research stations and are able to do their job? If I was going to write a book and make it halfway plausible that's how I'd have the character do it. But unless I'm mistaken everybody has a fairly specialized job and/or is a grad student or professional scientist.

edit: There are some perhaps "somewhat" unskilled positions, I see, such as "Positions in waste management, food and station services, retail, lodging coordination, and more."

https://web.archive.org/web/20230120081822/https://www.usap....
A hunk of metal doesn't cool anything, it just moves the heat from one place to another until you reach equilibrium, then you have "zero cooling" again.
we could talk all day about use cases...trading, agriculture, real estate, insurance, curiosity, reporting, etc etc etc
That's not what happens in Big Pharma. In anything but covid their huge money makers are marketing, lobbying and bribery. Medical innovation lies somewhere at the bitter end.

Successful covid vaccines didn't come from Big Pharma. Moderna and Novartis were not that.
No questions but thanks to all of you guys. That's one heck fascinating stuff you are working on there and big kudos for researching and documenting the tech history!

I remember seeing this Globus device in all Russian spaceflight photos since I was a kid and we learned about Gagarin and others (I am from ex-communist country) - and nobody has ever published much information about how this thing works, until now. Yet it was a staple of Soviet spaceflight until early 2000s and similar devices flew also on all Soviet space stations (Salyuts, Mir).
Ask HN: Career Progression to Direct/VP of Engineering
Hi,

Assuming that one has been in staff engineer role having 15 years of experience, executed several projects across verticals making significant impact, taking care of other staff+ engineer[1] tasks like hiring, technical leadership, hiring, strategy etc.

How does one prepare for the career progression from here to roles such as Director/VP of Engineering, possibly CTO at smaller startups?

Mainly I'm looking for suggestions in

- Technical skill
- Soft skills
- Leadership
- Networking

https://staffeng.com/guides/what-do-staff-engineers-actually-do
Wow its not even an international agreement, it's just straight up an American law for Israel's benefit in particular
There are good reasons why indexing from zero with exclusive upper bounds should be preferred. I'll defer to Dijkstra for the explanation: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...
Dragonrealms!
VC firms are not really capable of anything purposeful: they're here to find a discount, which helps the company return a premium: they're a symbiotic parasite and whatever the culture they foster, when discount is hard to find or when premium look gigantic, well they jump on anything forgetting that finding a discount in a difficult period or a gigantic premium is a red flag.

But do you expect parasites to start thinking ? They cant.

Sequoia put in their own website that the FTX CEO was playing a video game while pitching hundreds of millions of investment. The same firm would kick me out of the door if I went without a tie to interview for a secretary job.

Difference is that I dont promise a huge premium at a huge discount. And it's a red flag for any sentient when someone is distracted in a high stake conversation, but not to the Sequoia parasite only eating premiums.
really depends on the use case and for some reasons Google Earth is just fine
I’m generally sceptical of latent EO, but I’ve never seen such a slick B2C play.

Few thoughts:

(1) Depending on your acquisition contracts, you may have scattered access to historic imaging. For a consumer, having an image of my house around e.g. the time of a break-in is valuable. (As a party trick, recent imagery will work in a way “wait a day” doesn’t.)

(2) You’ve heard this, but it bears repeating: four hours is an order of magnitude more valuable than 24 and an order less than one. You should be able to predict fast-return windows, given orbits and ground station coordinates, for a given AOI. Bonus: natural time pressure on the sale.

(3) Multispectral options unclear. May be worth discriminating by band.

(4) Exclusivity pricing. Where you sell the image to me, fully, and without retaining the right to re-sell it to anyone else.

There also appears to be a name collision with an Israeli ISP?
It’s relatively easy to take over the controls which instantly disengages FSD or Autopilot. Why this Bay Bridge driver didn’t do that just boggles me. It’s almost like these drivers have lost or no sense of a mechanical aptitude and so when something like this happens they freak out and freeze. No mechanical sense at all and just stays there to get rear ended. No athletic sense either. Driving school ought to incorporate playing tag or pushing around a grocery cart in a supermarket for a day and equate all that you do as an analog to driving mechanics and athleticism. (Just don’t use IKEA carts or you’ll go mad.)

It’s really easy to step on the accelerator or brake or turn the wheel which instantly makes the car human operated again.
That the original post elided this point really stood out.

I don't hear complaints about code getting used for training.

I hear complaints about code being used in proprietary products in what appears at first and second glance to be a code laundering scheme without attribution or their rights respected.

If it was trained on the source code for Windows 11, AWS, and Google Search maybe everyone would feel more magnanimous. If those were used I have the feeling that the lawsuits would be much faster.

I don't get how "I'm only sharing this under these conditions" is complicated to grasp. Maybe it's a technical annoyance but... good?
I miss the days when app installation had nothing to do with web servers.
> NATO has expanded because all those countries wanted to join.

Joining NATO is not like taking a membership card at one's local gym when one feels like it. If, say, Sierra Leone "wanted to join" it's unlikely it would happen.

NATO is a military alliance. It has a purpose, it has a governance and it doesn't just randomly expand to whichever country feels like joining. It's understandable that analysts analyze the expansion of NATO in a broader context. It would be naive not to.
Since we're linking to The Egg, we should also link to the animated narration of it by Kurzgesagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI
I saw this on Twitter last night and bought two pictures. They were from the existing images feature at the highest resolution.

The images totally sucked. They were blurry, and the experience was completely confusing since the sort of preview type map making image where you move the square around was very clear and sharp, and then the one I ordered was totally unusable for anything.
Is there any way to disable VLU?

It sounds like anytime I open an image in Preview it sends hashes to apple?
That's a separate issue and definitely a problem! There's no way they would get away with that if they were a small company. The fact that they can and do so routinely is yet another piece of damning evidence that our laws are broken because they don't apply equally to regular people and big corporations.
Docker is crazy simple, I love it.
Elizabeth Holmes tried to flee U.S. after conviction, prosecutors allege
Elon is too busy with Twitter to pay any attention to Tesla or SpaceX. SpaceX keeps going just fine without him, but Tesla, well…
My overriding memory of Shawn and Marlon Wayans will always be an MTV Movie Awards (or some such) from the 90s, where they were hosting.

Some smart-ass comic gets up on the stage and leads with "I always said you were the two talented ones in the family."

Ouch. And double-ouch at the big laugh it got from the audience.
https://archive.ph/yLHJS
But if they are not on spotify then where are they? I don't know anyone who buys CDs these days and torrent sites definitely don't pay artists anything.
> What kind of idiot STOPS ON A DIME with speeding cars hot on his tail? Only a Computer...

Humans do it on a pretty regular basis unfortunately. I have seen people slam on the brakes at highway speed for minor road debris, small animals, and a couple of times for no apparent reason. The only thing you can do as a driver is minimize your own risk by leaving sufficient following distance.
I recommend people learn the “proper” technique, even if they don’t apply it in every context. As they say, _you need to be in the mould to break the mould_.
I need some automated streaming-service ripper that will burn DVDs whenever I pop in a blank disk. And maybe generate nice sticker label PDFs from some intermediate scene with the title.
For the BluRay drive itself I have a "Pioneer BDR-XD07TB"[1]. For great compatibility and can do HD/UHD (and DVD obviously).

For a purely Linux way (as you linked to an Ubuntu Page) this[2] is a reasonable guide (giving it a quick skim) using MakeMKV. This should also work on Windows. (Ignore the Haandbrake steps here).

If you're on Windows (or know how to setup a VM with USB passthru for the Bluray drive) and don't mind paying for a license AnyDVD HD[2] is very good.

Both of the above will strip the DRM and leave you with the raw files from the disk (AnyDVDHD also gives the option to make an ISO). You can keep there as a 1:1 backup of the disk or you can further refine.

Without going to a massive rabbit hole and reproducing some (unfortunately private) guides verbatim you have 3 main things you can do from here if you don't want the raw source files.

1. Straight Remuxing: Take the video/audio as is from the `m2ts` container and stick it in an MKV, this won't save you any real space but makes archiving the film alone easier, you'll save some space from extras etc. by deleting the raw source files here. Takes about as long as a copy operation would. You can do this with ffmpeg on the cli in a single command.

2. Audio transcode remuxing. Take the raw video, transcode the audio to something smaller. You use a bunch of tools to strip the Audio[4][5], then transcode it using eac3to, then remux everything[6]. Realistically you've saving maybe a gig here if you're just transcoding the main audio track and dumping the rest. Some time spend recompressing the audio, then remuxing maybe an hour once you know what you're doing. This is usually what you'll see as a "Remux" on the high seas.

3. Compress Audio/Video: This is where you'd use something like Handbrake[7] to recompress the video, you can use the presets and get a watchable file but not the best quality but usually a significant size reduction. You can also tweak a lot of knobs here for excellent quality with little to no visual fidelity loss (a transparent encode) but this will take a lot of time. If you're using a preset you're probably looking at roughly the film's length encoding (more with slower processors). This is usually what you'll see tagged as a "BluRay" release on the high seas.

Obviously this is all for backing up your legitimately owned media in jurisdictions which allow it.

1. https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19634
2. https://www.howtogeek.com/161498/HOW-TO-BACKUP-YOUR-DVD-AND-...
3. https://www.redfox.bz/en/anydvdhd.html
4. https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=125966
5. http://haali.net/mkv/
6. https://mkvtoolnix.download/
7. https://handbrake.fr/
The newspaper was pro the invasion of Iraq, and denies climate change: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Weltwoche
good guess but farther east.