skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the way, given that porn industry was and still partially is a serious driver of Internet development, using original female nude as a benchmark for compression quality was more than justified.
Dang their need for "democracy" just went up by a lot...
Exactly; it means that you need to use strong words and attack in any argument to get user engagement.

Everyone loves attention and wants to get their words heard, and this will happen when you have only few words to use.
Or a great way to get yourself invaded by said superpower.
> your colleague is in sorta-ish good company

Not really. He was making a pretty serious error of not really understanding the "users," prioritizing his esoteric concerns over arguably more important ones, essentially forcing his users to serve his system instead of building the system for them.
https://youtu.be/UOUBOFZ3Tos?t=346
He didn't say "if the tech is successful one day". He said it will happen. [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1380316949087854595?s=20
The image is offensive because, as an photo sourced from a “men’s magazine”, it’s a reminder that mostly men worked on developing image compression and jpeg technology in the past, and this could make women feel left out or uncomfortable today. Seems motivated by political correctness, not any actual injustice, but perhaps it is time for a new image after this many years.
This seems to be the same paranoia as the fear that some stranger will snatch a child as soon as parents don’t watch it for second. It may have happened but real risks are probably somewhere else.
Aluminum is really easy to fatigue and fracture. In a car that is vibrating and jostling all the time, this could happen surprisingly quickly.
How does this article not mention nostr, given that Dorsey also funded nostr (https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr)
Has anyone tried freelancing part time as a developer while starting their new career?

I am considering freelancing so I can focus on making and selling shoes. I don't need to go all in on making shoes right off the bat, but having an extra 4 hours a day to do the non-tech thing I enjoy doing would be great. I would still be making enough money to cover the bills while I work on the new career.
isnt png lossless? what compression artifact is being introduced?
I'm considering the same. Approaching 30 and I've been at FAANGs for half a decade, but I'd love to grab a Doctorate in Physical Therapy and transition away from computing. Not sure how feasible it is in terms of time though... seems like 2 years for pre-reqs and then 3 more years for the DPT program?

If anyone has attempted this I would love to talk.
Imagine using Mullvad VPN for entering Tor and realizing that your activity is transparent for Mullvad.
COBOL was actually in the CS curriculum for my university, a fact that several of my friends brought up when the 'COVID is prompting a real need for COBOL programmers in light of the need to change benefits rules and unemployment!' stories were a regular feature on the nightly news.

'You should do it, man!' Yeah, sure. I'd already suffered through the liquidation of my entire department in 2018, the prospect of the heat around COBOL dying down and facing that once again with the additional stain of 'oh, what've you been doing? Cool, popular JS frameworks? No, COBOL? Pass.' on my CV during my next round of interviews didn't seem at all appealing.

That mentality should set the expectation for anyone looking into a COBOL job. It's not just this job, it's the next one.
Eh, this is kind of an odd statement here... He did take something that didn't change much and applied a lot of rapidly changing high technology to it. Much like Walmart before them, they did something kind of like everyone else was doing, but but their high risk, high reward twist on top of it.
I think the problem is that 9/10 people involved are nerds who genuinely want good things and then 1/10 is a jackbooted jerk who doesn't care about your things except as a means to implementing their jackboot fantasies and the little details they champion poison the whole effort.

Like for example having a traffic restricted at certain times road is fine and all. But implementing it with surveillance cameras knowing full well that "gotcha" tickets will be issued to out-of-towners, the system will be laden with all the perverse incentives that red light cameras are known for and that there's some yet to be defined permitting process (i.e. avenue for graft, preferential treatment of various types of uses, etc).

Just put a fucking gate on it during the times you want it closed and call it good. Why do they always have to go 1984 like this?

Like imagine they did this with a park or some other taxpayer funded resource that's equally open for public use. People wouldn't stand for it.
Sometimes bad things happen to people when they travel outside.

So my not wanting to leave my home is not exactly agoraphobia.
> At best it is a meaningless empty statement. At worst it is a delusional denial that any differences or lines of comparison exist. Nobody is talented, untalented, tall, short, fast, slow. They just are what they are, unique and incomparable.

Disingenuous hot take, you are putting words in my mouth. Done.
So, in the magnet-less design, are they saying that you are more efficient because your motor won't pull away energy/speed when not powered? As opposed to a permanent-magnet design, where you have to constantly add energy to maintain speed?

That's one quick explanation for how a magnet-less design would be more efficient...

After driving an EV for a while now, coasting is the number one thing that drives me crazy when driving an ICE car. It just isn't something that my mind thinks about anymore, so when it happens, it's a bit jarring at first. My wife's profile in my car is set to "coast" mode because she is the opposite. Her primary car is an ICE, so when she is driving my EV, it is jarring for her too!

I guess, for me, this would really have an impact on highway driving. And with non-highway driving (changing speeds frequently), I'd rather have the better one-pedal control. But what I didn't see what how much of an impact this would really have for energy efficiency.

Maybe the end game here is a magnet-less design that has a longer highway range. So you'll have two different range numbers: city vs highway ranges. Which would be very similar to the city vs highway MPG ratings we currently have for ICE cars. But those are the numbers I'd really like to see.
Paizo bans AI art and content in its RPGs, including community-created work
Evidence? Why would I need any? There is no unethical origin of that photo, as the article claims there is. The burden isn't on me to prove non-existence, that's silly.

But fair enough, I've clearly missed a bit of context. I think my overall point still stands, though. Though I personally think calling that cropped photo "pornographic" is a stretch, it's not an image I would have selected or personally find appropriate. Truthfully, I didn't even realize it was from Playboy until I clicked a link in the article. It's still not a question of ethical origins vs not.
Why not 90 minutes? Suppose I am not kidding.
That 1% won't invalidate the remaining 99%.
We're getting closer to Infinite Jest.*

* As in The Entertainment at the center of the novel, not the novel itself, which fails to wholly consume the reader in the same manner as The Entertainment despite being captivating enough for a book.
Yes, it is. I would want to know how a person solves my problems.

And I sure would hope they bring all their experience to bear! Just because they learned about CDNs at their previous job and “everything is proprietary”, I don’t want them to suddenly forget how CDNs work.

Very little is actually unique between software businesses. We’re mostly just doing data bureaucracy.
I hate lightbulbs... I have light sensitivity and it makes me hurt literally, and it destroys the ecosystem. Please take out that icon :(
Yeah the weirdest thing to me is abstracting away copy/paste seems so easy to me but every client I’ve tried actually requires the selection and copy and paste of handles… why not just a button to follow once I’m at a profile?
You did notice the first line of my post, right? Where I said by most measures tech work is a better job? :)
Many good comments in this thread. I'll just leave a note of my experience and opinion.

I've used vim since about the year 2000. Before having access to a computer running a Unix, I'd read books about the Unix environment and fell a little in love with ed commands. Their power, yes, but also the immediacy of the user experience. It's just there, all the time, in vi.

Having coded a decent amount of vimscript... Eh. vim is not great (I'll likely never switch to neovim either.) Perhaps the best part about vim is the manual. There are so many features, some of which depend on/affect other features in various ways. I use vim for taking freeform notes, transcribing long form texts mostly - the auto formatting that can hard wrap at textwidth, without any extra command or keypress to trigger the formatting) is a feature I use a lot. The ability to quickly pipe text through Unix filters (mostly `par' in my case) is also great.

All this is easily done in emacs too, but I feel there's more immediacy in vi (and vimscript).

I salivate at the better unicode support in emacs, and the ability to have frames - separate GUI windows of the same emacs process. I would use these all the time. (g)vim likely won't get better in these areas within my lifetime.

Availability on mobile devices: I use an iPhone - it's from work, I have it with me all the time. I do not want to carry along any other device. A recent-enough version of vim is available in the AppStore as iVim. This has become the only note-taking app I can bear to use. It can write to text files on iCloud and access them later from other devices.

On vi clones - I wish Thomas Dickey's editor (vile) had become popular, instead of vim. Proper lexing and parsing for syntax highlighting (instead of regexp soup) - Imagine! I started out on computing with Red Hat Linux, where vim was installed by default - and most documentation, online resources, might have mentioned vim instead of any other clone, leading to vim gaining mindshare.
It is impossible for me to switch between vim and viper. My hands will just start doing a text manipulation that doesn't work in whichever I'm currently using, and it breaks my flow.

Prior to evil-mode, when I used emacs for something, I used it without viper because at least then it was so very different that it didn't trick my subconscious into doing something that wouldn't work.

With a few tweaks to my config, I never have that problem with evil.
Isn't the "preview" function in timeline ripped straight off porno sites too ?
Is the problem that the photo is cropped from a woman who is nude or that the woman is beautiful or that a photo of a woman would be used at all?

I watched the documentary produced by the campaign Losing Lena (https://www.facebook.com/codelikeagirlau/videos/985614161797...) here are the complaints:

1) Female student says high school students made jokes about the photo and made her feel that women were made to be a joke

2) Female researcher says when the photo goes up on a screen "everyone laughs.... well not everyone"

3) Female math professor says the photo symbolizes the role women played in technology: "beautiful young woman in the photograph not the one doing the coding"
The Perfect NFT – A blockchain art performance by and for its participants
The Perfect NFT is a performative art installation which considers blockchains as a medium for artistic expression. It elevates distributed ledger technology from a distribution channel to commentary and critique of the absurdity in the NFT space. In place of a classic auction, a novel minting experience is used to allow organic price discovery of individual pieces in the collection. It's a generative artwork shaped by its participants, forever living on the blockchain.
I love how mostly liberal(and good) viewpoints about the badness of body shaming go out the window when it comes to their enemies. Whether it was about his weight, or penis or hand size. Heck, there was even a popular statue made of a nude trump with a micropenis which people were lining up to have their picture taken with.
Maybe we'll discover that being human is about a lot more than just creativity, friendships, and romance. These things are important, but are they necessarily what makes us human or are they the part of humanness that is most important or valuable?
Hindenburg technically did burn all their hydrogen
Easy to imagine archaeologists from a future civilization stumbling across a Black Mirror screenplay in the wreckage. After weeks of intensive effort at translating the text, they finally succeed, and at that moment they understand what happened to us. The researcher who makes the breakthrough runs out of the lab screaming, "It's a business plan! A business plan!"
I believe these sort of 'word bans' are motivated by Whorfianism; basically the idea that the sort of language we use can influence (or even set the bounds of) the kind of thoughts people have. But scientific evidence for Whorfianism is weak at best, and starts to seem particularly absurd when you try to state plainly exactly what you're trying to accomplish in situations like this. In this case, the idea seems to be that we can denormalize the practice of slavery by eliminating metaphorical references to slavery.

If you think about this, it's obviously a complete farce. The sort of people who engage in slavery today are not enabled to do so by such metaphors. And those apathetic to the problem of modern slavery, who might otherwise be doing something about it, were not made apathetic by the metaphors. The premise of fighting slavery by eliminating metaphors to slavery is pure pseudoscience of the highest order.
Regardless of what your cow orkers may do; you can send a "good luck / get well" note yourself, if you feel moved to do so.
Have you seen the movie "Her"?
A function/part of code is performed say a thousand times, the runtime collects statistics that object ‘a’ was always an integer, so it might be worthwhile to compile this code block to native code with a guard on whether ‘a’ really is an integer (that’s very cheap). The speedup comes from not doing interpretation, but taking the common case and making it natively fast and in the slow branch the complex case of “+ operator has been redefined” for example can be handled simply by the interpreter. Python is not more dynamic than Javascript (hell, python is strongly typed even), which hovers around the impressive 2x native performance mark.

Also, if you are interested, “shapes” are the primitives of both Javascript and python jit compilers instead of regular types.
> Provide an ad-hoc in-tree script to download the dependency

> Yes, really, git submodule is worse than ad-hoc Makefile runes

Please don't. Submodules are much better.

Projects using submodules and standard build tools are easy to build. They're easier to customize. They can be packaged downstream with few or no patching. On the contrary, projects using ad-hoc scripts are often hard to build, have no convenient methods of customization, and resists downstream packaging.

That's because with the former approach, build descriptions are standardized and (often) declarative. Standardized build descriptions are easier to build and customize because they're predictable and provide uniform methods to configure builds. Declarative build descriptions are easier to customize because they only specify the end state. It doesn't matter what changes you make to the build process as long as it doesn't create conflicts with the described end state.

When building a project, submodules can be viewed as declarative way of specifying dependencies because it only specifies a Git URL, a commit hash, and a target subdirectory. It doesn't really matter how you fetch them. This is convenient for things like package managers because it allows them to fetch dependencies beforehand. With ad-hoc scripts, dependencies are specified imperatively. Or as the article puts it, the script is "in precise control of when/whether the download occurs." If package managers want to prefetch dependencies, it would have to patch that part of the script out.
Hahahaha, apparently DeepL forged a new word! It's (supposedly) a translation of “mambembe”, pt_BR adjective that means something ordinary, mediocre, half-baked, average (in a bad sense). (Plus, it's sounds amazing, although I acknowledge that even in Portuguese it's an uncommon word.)

To avoid (more) confusion, I replaced it with “half-baked”.
I know that either G or gg was added in vim, but I don't remember which.
Just a quick note on this since I ran into the same wtf? moment a few years ago.

1) Saw Stop holds a number of patents that legally prevented anyone else from adding the same tech to their saws. Most of the patents didn’t expire until 2021, but a few are still effective until 2024. We will probably see other manufacturers add similar features in 2025 as a result.

2) SawStop built its reputation on being a premium brand in addition to being safer. So the quality of components, materials, and build is a lot higher than what you get in even a mid grade dewalt saw.

I still wouldn’t buy one at their exorbitant prices, but hopefully the “accidentally removing fingers” problem will be better solved in a few years.
I worked as a contractor for many years working 20 hours per week and using the rest of my time to work on my music career. I highly highly recommend that lifestyle if you can find a long-term contract and don't have a huge amount of expenses.
Could you please stop breaking the site guidelines? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly.

We've had to ask you this several times before - if it keeps up, we're going to have to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Show HN: A small live map of bus locations in Finland
This a small cool live-map using WunderGraph and NextJS.

Making use of a public REST API real-time bus locations service in Finland, introspected as openApi data source with liveQuery enabled, and rendering geo-event stream on a map component.

Published on Vercel and WG cloud.
Hm. I'm sad nobody answered this. I'm also on my phone and in a bad position to give an exact answer. However, rolling a few scenarios[1] and counting manually, I get 16 meals on average, with a standard error of 5. So not conclusive by any stretch, but it seems like it's roughly as expensive to be two people as it is to be one person.

[1]: https://www.random.org/integers/?num=24&min=1&max=4&col=4&ba...
Are we simply not looking hard enough in Europe, or is the European soil truly useless for competitive amounts of natural resources?
Yeah I hate turbo lag (it was awful on my old Tiguan). Start/Stop worked fine though - not once did I feel like the engine wasn't ready to go after letting go of the brake. I drive super safe these days though so it's not like I was jumping from pedal to pedal.

I have an EV now (id.4) and I'm of two minds. The acceleration is awesome but the inability to do a full road trip is (mildly) limiting and the suspension/drive quality is middling at best (partly because it's an SUV, partly because of the weight).
I don't know what you think a "luxury" university is- even government run colleges in the U.S. can be expensive.

A local 4 year degree at my city's state run university is around 18,000 to 22,000 per year for tuition. And that's without room and board.

In comparison a private liberal arts school near me is $65,652 per year for tuition alone.

To me the state option is still pretty darn expensive especially if you are also paying for the kids room and board.
Really depends on the brand. American consumerism (but not only American consumerism) has produced a peculiar brand indeed

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology
> shorthand

Pun intended? :)
Change the photo. In a few months, you'll have another campaign by the same group saying how "they are erasing women from computer history and replacing them with men. They are literally annihilating us."
I have no expertise in that field, so perhaps I'm gonna say something wrong, but isn't plastic comming from oil ?

Extraction, transport, refining...

That doesn't sound environmentally friendly to me.
It's a Generative Pretrained Transformer, same as all the others.
I find it funny how people aren't even sure what is wrong with the original image. There seem to be at least three reasons:

(1) The image itself is somehow unethically sourced, as seems to be implied here,

(2) The subject in the image doesn't wish for it to be used in such a way,

(3) The image excludes women from computer science.

I don't see any evidence for any of them. It seems to me this image just makes some people uncomfortable but they are not sure why so they just make up pseudo-logical reasons for it. It's OK to say that something just doesn't feel right. I wish people would just do that. Things don't always have to be logical. If we all agree we don't like it then we shouldn't do it.

I do wonder why people feel bad about this all of a sudden, though.
Or we could just deflate "truth" for this particular discussion, since what matters is whether predicting the next word works well enough without knowledge of the world. Pragmatically speaking, that's what matters.
Shallot donor means annual donations in excess of $100k USD. From the Tor website[0], it appears Mullvad is the only donor in excess of $49k USD annually (and possibly the only donor above $10001 USD).

[0] https://www.torproject.org/about/membership/
This is greatly exaggerated. She worked in areas with undertrained nurses trying to treat people with little resources. Hospice and care for the dying gets messy. In our society elder abuse in care homes is as regular as clockwork. I don't see the purpose of being obtuse about the nature of life and disease outside of the first world. For many people life has much suffering, and the best you can do is help to comfort them and give their suffering meaning. It's easy to poke holes in things, but again it's not as if our currently accepted medical system is perfect. We have better standards of healthcare for those that can afford it, but the rest are on their own.
Shame makes people living in poverty more supportive of authoritarianism
Perhaps today its not smart programmers per se, but smart people who are interested in learning to program.

The libraries are the killer feature for me.
It's almost as if some cultural mechanism was there in place to limit the public display of ego. Some kind of religion maybe?
I have just put a few minor fixes in, but glad to hear it!

It really made web development far less painful for me as well.
I’ve done the same but moved from vanilla numpy to numba. The code mostly stayed the same and it took a couple hours vs however long a port to C or Rust would have taken.
Hey do you have a recruiter email I could reach out to?
Also assumes the current camera suite is high enough resolution, high enough dynamic range, sensitive enough at night, and positioned in correct locations to provide the data the compute needs.

Arguably that is not true still.

The issue with the camera-only model is it is very non-deterministic.

Personally, every accident I have gotten into is a result of some sort of inattention, distraction, or fatigue. Computers don't experience these things.

Nonetheless, Tesla's occasionally do unpredictable insane things like turn directly into a bollard, cross in front of a moving trolley (that it can see & has rendered on screen), run right into a firetruck, run over child size dummies, etc.

It's worse than supervising a teen driving because a teen will fail in somewhat predictable ways, generally in being either overconfident or over hesitant. You can verbally coach a human as a situation approaches. With FSD you either let it ride, intervening at last moment.. or you need to constantly step in proactively.