skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> for a person that was pre-chosen in some also questionably democratic process?

I'm disinclined to entertain that notion until I see the average participation in the primary elections go above 40%.

People need to stop complaining about the system choosing leadership without their input if they aren't providing the input.

Besides, the two thoughts you expressed are contradictory... If the public isn't sufficiently educated, they shouldn't be choosing their leadership. That was exactly the risk that the authors of the Constitution were concerned about when they put in checks against simple mobocracy. Maybe the opinion that the FBI shouldn't be surveilling folks stems from an uneducated point of view?

Either way we slice it, it seems like Americans are getting the government they should have... Paternalistic because they cannot self-govern, or governed by them and beholden to their general apathy.

> If people were able to wonder what is true, perhaps we would stand a chance.

We have plenty of folks who wonder what is true. Some believe (still) that a child prostitution ring was operating out of the basement of a building with no basement. Some believe (still) a massively decentralized election was centrally rigged via voting machine manipulation in spite of a media company losing a defamation suit... An incredibly hard kind of suit for a media company to lose, because truth is always an affirmative defense.

We need more critical thinkers, not blind questioners.
A password space of 600,000 options is under 20 bits of entropy. That's basically pointless. If you want 40 bits, you're going to need a little over 1,000,000,000,000.
A lot of their customers operate ferries and flights to islands.
Slick effort. Php with Symphony backend & Doctrine db. And Vue front-end. Any other notable major deps?
The US isn't very good at building large infrastructure projects. Boats and planes have the unique advantage that you don't need a lot of infrastructure along their path of travel, unlike a high speed train.

Also this can be used as a replacement for a ferry. Note how two of their launch customers operate in the Caribbean, where travel between islands is a big deal.
Many smartphones do have FM radio receivers, they just don't include an app to use them.

The financial incentive just isn't there given that people will be using Spotify, Youtube, Netflix, etc.
When I used torrents for the first time - the client had these funky animated packets coming from seeders and leechers. I don’t know if that counts as a “moment” but my mind was blown.

These days my feeling is that the most memorable moments are still yet to come.
I liked the slow version. more fun.
The bad part is mostly the DB and the Netware integration, but mostly the DB. It's Borland Paradox.
Apparently they are cringe: https://junkee.com/giphy-gen-z/341589

It also seems like most of the ones I see are screen caps of older tv shows.
I don't see why 'defer' wouldn't work for FDs or any other resource. There's nothing about 'defer' that says it will work only with 'files'. In fact I've been using it for general-purpose resource management for a while now.
Everyone could just get into one of the 2 cars they own and cool down intermittently. Those that can’t could ride a bus or ask a friend. Some people would choose poorly but most would mitigate the worst heat.
Another comment in this thread mentioned that Neil Sloane now has his own channel, and is making some videos [0]. Very fun from that 20 minutes I've watched so far.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ogbsh8KuEM
It'll be the same way everybody can program with Excel right now. Things will work fine, until they don't anymore, at which point a professional will be brought in to help fix "the bug". Obviously, that bug will the obvious result of the whole thing being a horrible mess and will be unfixable without a proper rewrite.

_Maybe_ the AI will be able to help with the rewrite, generating test cases and translating business logic, which would be nice.
Yeah that's how it usually works.

This, however, was a major supermarket chain that's been going for nearly 100 years. They decided to make delivery cheaper AND reduce minimum spend per delivery by half. There must have been something they made more expensive somewhere to compensate or maybe they were pushed to do this by the market, I am not sure.
Yeah, Sonora, about an hour from Stockton or 3 from Bay Area, has houses available at 600k or something. Crazy.
This is all nitpicking about something every archeologist and historian understands. When they say earliest recorded kiss, they mean earliest currently recorded kiss, that we know about.

Time before writing is called prehistory - and that is different for different regions of the world. Nobody thinks that means nothing happened or people were not thinking before that time. Just that we don't know what happened beyond non-linguistic inference.

I don't think this shorthand causes any sort of imprecision among archeologists, and really all outside observers understand as well - hence the somewhat unnecessary nitpicking.
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Modifying it to work with a changing canvas shouldn't be too difficult.

You could simply clear the mask of a bounding box around the changes, and recalculate the masks inside that bounding box. In addition to hitting the "edge" of a drawing area, the algorithm can now also bit the edge of the bounding box and encounter an outside mask - which means the inside mask and outside mask can be ORed to get a new composite mask.

You'd have to take care with the fact that an edit can join two previously-separate areas together, but that'd also be a simple OR. The more tricky scenario is an edit splitting an existing area in two. It is reasonably easy to determine that an edit is trying to split an area, but it is not immediately obvious to me how you'd efficiently determine that no connection between two halves exists outside the edit bounding box: how do you distinguish a "|" turning into a ":" from an "O" turning into a "C"?
Yeah, it was meant as a joke but I guess I was too subtle. I still get why NF is doing it though.
You're right, a temperature rise without a corresponding increase in water vapor content does reduce RH (relative humidity). It does not, however, remove any water from the air in terms of mass (absolute humidity). So if water vapor going into the system increases RH faster than temperature rises can decrease it, RH will continue to increase. In your case, water isn't being added to the system fast enough to outpace the changes from temperature.

According to the article I linked:

> Not surprisingly, incidents tended to cluster on coastlines along confined seas, gulfs and straits, where evaporating seawater provides abundant moisture to be sucked up by hot air. In some areas further inland, moisture-laden monsoon winds or wide areas of crop irrigation appear to play the same role.

In other words, this problem is worst where a lot of water vapor is being added to the system.
Radiohead have a live piano version of Like Spinning Plates that you can recognise side-by-side but probably wouldn't be able to tell is the same otherwise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYzIksH67hA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnIHVvEwbLk

It's impressive how much a song can shift from its underlying chords and retain the same vibe.
You could do instant flood-fill on a slow PC in the early 90s. There is no need to precompute this. The possible issues are:

1. You're using a slow algorithm. This is almost certainly the case, looking at how slowly it run and at the order in which pixels get painted. The Wikipedia page on flood fill is enough to find a good algorithm.

2. Possibly, the overhead of individual canvas operations is high, so setting each pixel at once is slow. If this is the case, it would be partially ameliorated by using a span-based algorithm, but you could also run the algorithm on an offscreen byte array and then blit the result to canvas.

I would bet money that a 90s state-of-the-art algorithm running in JavaScript on an offscreen array will be perceived as instantaneous on a modern computer.
Statistic don’t affirm or deny impact. They are facts. The rest is left to you. Why are you trying to exaggerate its impact by suggesting we suppress statistics (facts)?
The ground effect vehicle goes around the sailboat in most circumstances.

There are rules of the sea that dictate who has right of way when passing in given directions. And there are rules they apply to vehicles of differing maneuverability.

A sailboat wins over most boats (except extremely large ships or ships doing work - fishing, tending buoys, etc).

It’s not a big deal. If the sailboat is crossing paths with this, it just tweaks direction to the stern of the sailing vessel. If they’re heading straight at each other, they pass port-to-port (left to left).
Absolutely idiotic. I’m subscribing for n streams, not 1 address.
At 100+mph?
Ya, but there are many more people who spend years busting their asses in menial jobs who are never rewarded for it.

But that's true for any job, not just CEOs. Plenty of people bust their ass and never make $250,000 like many FAANG employees. Should we cap the pay of FAANG employees to the lowest paid tech worker?

I have a problem with them making 100x more than their median employee

Why? What should the maximum multiple be? Should a CEO only make 20x the median employee? What if the company only has 10 employees? What if it has 200,000 employees, should it still be 20x?

I'm not sure I understand why a CEO's pay should be solely linked to the median wage of the employees. What's the logic behind it?
> There's also the AI evolution question. When we have GPT-10 next year, do we go through and regenerate all the comments? That would introduce a lot of noise into the repo's commit history and `git blame`, which I think is another indicator that the repo is not the right place to store this sort of thing.

Counterpoint: comments in code reflect what the writer thought at the time of their generation - whether they were a human or an AI (and, excepting automated stupidity, there would be a human reviewing and accepting AI-generated comments). "Having the AI perched on your shoulder" is like re-reading and re-interpreting what the code means. You get the benefit of experience (and improved AI models), but you'll also miss the context, long lost to time since the code in question was written.

I'd say, we should to both. And code cleanliness... we won't make much more progress here than we've already made, not until we stop coding directly in the final, plaintext source form. There are too many conflicting concerns wrt. readability, and you can't have them individually optimized at the same time in a single piece of text.
Following is the text from the link that you shared. They took the decision to raise the limit to Rs 7 lakh per financial year after public concern. This limit was definitely not there before.

>> To avoid any procedural ambiguity, it has been decided that any payments by an individual using their international Debit or Credit cards upto Rs 7 lakh per financial year will be excluded from the LRS limits and hence, will not attract any TCS.
So sayeth the Chomskyites. But the idea has been less and less broadly accepted over time. Some of my professors were still avowed fans, but most were willing to endorse at best extremely weakened versions.

Now UG, after doing vast cross-comparison of every language, is a tiny framework of seemingly random grammatical facts. It's not nothing! But we would expect some commonalities to hold regardless, just by chance. Considering how many times we've had to trim our model, how confident can we be that now there's actually a baseline. We're out of languages to test it on!

And there is other reason to doubt. We only have 20,000 some genes. Most of them code for structural stuff in the body, essential proteins and such. Explanations that require things to be hardwired into the brain ought to be accordingly penalized. Even stripped down to its bare bones, UG is quite a bit of information!

And why exactly would evolution hardcode this choose your own grammar into the brain anyway? Until recently we could suppose that language would be difficult or impossible to figure out without it. But big dumb machine learning models trained on nothing but prediction worked out syntax just fine! Why would our brains, superb prediction engines of even larger size and with cross-modality cognition, be less capable?

Of course, humans learn language with far less input than GPT. But we learn everything with far less input than current models. And regardless of whether there is actually a universal grammar, we'd expect linguistic drift to tend towards structures which are readily understood by our brain- an advantage not shared by LLMs.
Hmm. You might be onto something. I read the image caption, and it appears to indicate ... shenanigans!
Ask HN: What is your favorite photo or photography book?
I just flipped through Industrial Scars: The Hidden Cost of Consumption with stunning but heavy photos. Now I fell like acquiring a collection of photography books. What interesting photo books are out there?
Does Go allow to load an in-process profiler like the CLR (dotnet)? It’s very useful for application monitoring, e.g NewRelic, DataDog.
Oh, they all know it's not going to last. But they cannot say it out loud. Why? Because the stock price will be punished and because someone's empire building promotion will be blocked if they don't agree.

Until they keep rewarding bullshit management practices, nothing will change. If the incentive system asks managers to build empires to get promoted, that is exactly what they will do. No manager is asked to be thought leaders. No manager is rewarded for making good calls.

Management in tech is quite literally babysitting engineers.
If we're taking this opportunity to shout out others

Thank you Shawn - in many ways I owe my career to you!

-HR 33
"if you need to support older browsers"

Cute, but I'm pretty sure that era is over. I found out the other day that Logitech's website is unusable on the default Win7 browser.
So this post is not about VCs and startups getting people addicted to engineering :) (That was how I first parsed the headline.)
I am not sure what you mean with AI level drumming, but what about Tool’s Danny Carey though? I am not a drummer, but to me this is super impressive.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FssULNGSZIA
> Thankfully I can go outside, talk to people and find out that they don't have the same opinions as reddit mods/admins.

For now. People who grew up before the internet are limited and non-renewable.
The Hill We Climb was recently banned due to parental complaint in Florida.

That’s banning a book purely for its message. Any student could access the message of it by watching tape of a presidential inauguration.
Nice looking effort. Python with Django, Celery backend. TypeScript front-end with React, Remirror, Blueprint, Headlessui, Nivo components, and a Next.js backend-for-front-end.
Reflecting on the Founding of Overleaf
Mongrelism by Jono Rotman

https://donlonbooks.com/products/mongrelism-by-jono-rotman
Yes, the VST's won't run on a Push either.

But the context in this subthread was addressing the parent's claim that Logic on iPadOS has complete parity with Logic macOS and can replace it in its use - not Push.
Any reason why an automobile manufacturer couldn't buy a steel futures contract to fix the price?
I don't think we'll turn off NFLX indefinitely, and we probably won't pause. But this might get us to consolidate with other family members. If NFLX is blessing account-sharing, then we might take them up on the offer. Going it alone is pretty expensive.
I found FL's plugins (default and extra) to be cheesy and too mainstream-EDM/trap/etc based.
FTX’s Dr. Frankenstein Tries to Revive Dead Crypto Exchange
I think the main difference is that the CCL would compute 'enclosed areas' on the fly. To be more specific, it would first create a mask (black & white) of pixels that are similar to the clicked pixel, and then find connections between foreground/white pixels.

I don't work in web development but accelerating CCL algorithms do happen to be my area of expertise. While their execution time depends on the image content, you can expect them to be in the tens of milliseconds for a 4K image, at least for the 'modern' one you can find in OpenCV, and on current consumer-level CPUs, without multi-threading.

Of course, implementing these newer algorithms isn't straightforward. That's why you should instead use something like OpenCV if you have the option to.

Moreover, if CCL doesn't fit what you're looking for then you can also check out watershed algorithms ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watershed_%28image_processing%... ). Because they don't work on binary image, they might be a better way to describe what you call 'enclosed space'.
Neither of those companies netted me several hundred thousand USD. And I rarely use either, either.
Matlab quaternion interpolation function based on this paper:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/aerotbx/ug/quatinterp.html

"qi=quatinterp(p,q,f,method) calculates the quaternion interpolation between two normalized quaternions p and q by interval fraction f.

p and q are the two extremes between which the function calculates the quaternion.

Aerospace Toolbox uses quaternions that are defined using the scalar-first convention."
I've slept in a tent on the Greenland ice sheet. If you have proper bedding, it's fine...

(Maybe people in Texas don't have thick blankets or sleeping bags, and presumably live in homes with substandard insulation?)
Well, but the comparison was for it as a substitute for (or better value than) Push. Well, as we conclude here, Push does something different.
The average amount of time users are willing to wait for a web page to load will remain the same, thus any latency reduction will simply be eaten up by more crap being served, because greed. The constraints aren't technical, they're human.
I guess I’m not sure what makes a human kiss distinct from a dog licking another dog’s face, for example.
On the other hand, though, why does anyone believe they're entitled to a bot-throttling feature for free?

Certainly someone could write and release a third-party, open-source nginx module to do bot throttling, if they wanted to.
My argument is that robotics systems are naturally distributed. Pub sub works okay there, but the actor model is better in my opinion. Either way, I don’t see how it’s possible to argue a while loop is the main abstraction roboticist need.

Maybe we're talking about different kinds of systems. I work with robot teams, human-robot interaction, and long-term autonomy.
I’m so proud of these workers uniting and fighting back on RTO mandates. It has been proven that knowledge workers can work productively and efficiently without being required to be in the office a set number of days.
You’re begging the question. 90% of rural counties voted for Trump. The phrase “rural hospitals” is pretty much synonymous with “hospitals in counties that voted for Trump. That doesn’t prove that the policies people voted for caused the problems with rural hospitals.

Healthcare is handled at the federal and state levels, not the county level. Thus, rural areas in blue states like New York should be doing better than ones in red states like Florida. They all voted against these policies that supposedly would have helped them—but in Florida they were successful in opposing them while in New York they were overruled by urban areas and got those policies anyway.
> The US isn't very good at building large infrastructure projects

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/finalmap.cfm

But, yes, that was a long time ago. Still, we could find the will again.
A purchaser has zero right to assume that a freshly brewed cup of coffee can't burn them. I mean seriously wtf? Children should know better and do.

A purchaser has no right to blame anyone else for putting a freshly brewed cup of coffee between their legs while driving a car. That is dangerous and reckless driving and they should be charged for not taking the proper regard for others safety.

You can hate mcdonalds and I /really/ do and see this BS for what it is. Exploiting your sympathy for a burn victim to accrue a mass of lawyers fees. This case and all the other legal actions on the same principle.

You don't have to be a "rugged individualist championing personal responsibility above all things" (aka libtard) to see it. You can even be a a massive socialist and still see the incredible damage to ordinary people engendered by this frankly insane interpretation and enforcement of the law. Nobody is safer, but the existing lawyers get richer and their highly productive segment of the economy grows. The effect on insurance premiums across the entire economy has been profound and immense.

Add up all the legal fees and flow on then compare to "caution: contents hot" written in tiny print on a cup that cannot be seen without holding said cup. Include all the additional legal fees from just this kind of nonsense for any small business trying to grow that come out of this. That is the outcome.

It's such an idiotic "AKHTUALLY it's not what it seems."

AKHTUHALLY it's not crazy like it sounds because it's really good for lawyers who have a huge interest in avoiding the necessary legal reforms and have done a truly stellar job pursuing those interests.
Technically true! But one, very few neurons have connections going both ways to each other- any two neurons will be lined up axon to synapse one way or the other. And two, the specific structures that compose most of the cortex are remarkably unidirectional. The neocortex consists mostly of little chunks of neurons arranged in layers, themselves hooked up snout to tail. There are loops, eventually, but only on the macro scale.

Outside the cortex, and even moreso outside the brain, there is a far greater diversity of structures. Two neurons plugged into each other form an excellent basis for a timer, damper, clock, or even primitive stimulus response. There are structures taking proprioceptive info from the joints and performing integrals on them. It's neat because the circuits are so small we can actually understand them completely! But within the brain things definitely are not laid out right for backprop.
Hah, yes. I thought I'd get started with Rust going through building some basic data structures. Linked lists were near the top of my list so I didn't get very far with that first approach XD
>What does that even mean?

It means that it has enough specs to run the plugins and use cases Ableton designed it for, and tested it with.

It's not a complete studio or meant to replace a desktop studio computer for all uses. It's a dedicated standalone thing, and has its own capabilities and limitations. So, like any other "groovebox" style device.
It's currently "sorted out" by the several layers deep you can choose to go: from more centralized and more easy to more decentralized and more complicated.

One can lose paper money. No one out here is trying to solve that problem. Just put it in some shitty bank to avoid that issue, but the problem wasn't solved, just avoided.
> Are people not entitled to make $300 a month because they owe Nginx for a bot throttling feature?

Where is this attitude of entitlement coming from? Are people entitled to use Nginx's code for free? Yes, free software is a wonderful thing, and I do believe that most software should be free. But the reality, in this world, is that software developers need to eat, and relying solely on donations only works for a handful of projects (as does relying on selling support). Open-core is a reasonable middle ground.

If somebody wants to reimplement that feature on top of Nginx and release it under a free license, there's absolutely nothing stopping them. If you want to use an already written and well-integrated version from Nginx themselves, then you can pay up.
> It works with all applications. It sees what you're seeing.

Does it also snitch on you to your boss? "Here is my assessment of the work habits of cs702 for this week."