skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes good for creating product images but it leaves a watermark in the free version.
There's an interesting dark side to this as well, which is that in 2023 when you think you are crowdsourcing data you may actually just be tasking it to ChatGPT. A lot of turkers just turn around and use an LLM!
Clothing, food containers and cooking utensils would be my guess.

Remember the cool ads in the 90s for pants that would repell water and dirt?
nonchildren are also future society, unless every adult immediately dies, so deprioritizing them in favor of someone related to yourself seems selfish to me

if it's just some random kid and you have none of your own, such professions of selflessness might be more convincing
Not SV but there's a lot of aerospace companies in Cali and the rest of the SW. The guy[0] who invented the first modern UAV that became the basis of the military's entire drone program was running his company out of his garage in LA, literally a garage startup. This is why DARPA exists and funds companies outside of the direct purview of military R&D.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Karem
> Apple is a capable company - they would not let the user discover malicious code unless they wanted you to find it.

Apple is not capable of magic, or the impossible.

> Tools exist to mitigate that discoverability

Citation needed.

> The only safe assumption seems to be that they are hiding something. Proving the contrary requires tools we may never have.

You can assume whatever you want, but with no evidence whatsoever, I wouldn't call it "safe", I'd call it "irrational".

Also, you didn't answer my question, which suggests that I was right about your not knowing what you were talking about.
It's not a pizza. Period.
> t simplifies almost all naturally occurring expressions

basically the point of the Tau Manifesto: https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto

And would ya look at the date today... 6/28...
> does the server fetch the html itself?

Yep, the client just sends the recipe URL and then the server fetches the HTML. Agreed, it would be better to have the client send the HTML for paywalled sites, which is another reason I just want to do it all on the client.

> I spent quite some time on ingredient labelling (what’s a unit, quantity etc.)

I can relate to you there. It was a long process of trial and error for me to get right, and there are still plenty of edge cases left to handle. Long-term I think AI + NLP will make this kind of thing easier, but for me it wasn't fast, reliable, cheap, or portable enough to run in an iOS app in real time quite yet.
> Passion-based industries don't ever follow proper "market dynamics", video game programmers are paid less because there's always someone else who will take the job at a lesser rate because they are passionate about it.

This is an example of proper “market dynamics”.
There's some boring/obvious QoL stuff like expanding the notion of channels into groups + channels (16 groups of 16 channels in MIDI 2 instead of the implicit single group of 16 channels on MIDI 1), better synchronization messages, higher resolution control changes/velocity/aftertouch, polyphonic control changes, and so on. Basically the limitations of MIDI 1's 8 bit protocol are being lifted.

But the big difference is that MIDI 2 is duplex (devices can send and receive messages from each other, rather than just broadcasting them into the void). This allows for discovery (devices can find each other on the same connection/network), capability inquiry (devices can get metadata about each other) and the super power: property exchange (get/set properties as JSON).

The reason the last bit is so big is because it fixes some giant issues with MIDI, like being unable to control the tuning system used by all the connected devices. With some conventions and the new protocol we should see MIDI 2 open up a lot of room for non-western and microtonalities without resorting to tedium or hacks.

But that's just an example. It's kind of like a binary protocol for hardware and software music devices that goes beyond basic performance controls.
Units are not the same as dimensions, something can have a dimension of 1 (which is what we usually mean by "dimensionless") and still have different units, just as something can have a dimension of length but still be measured in meters or feet.

As far as you three examples go, which is "correct" depends on what you are trying to calculate - if you want this to approximate the power series for sin close to 0 you should use radians. Otherwise you use something else.
Why don't they just migrate everything to iCloud for you? This is a very clunky deprecation path, and people *will* lose precious photos because of this.

Badly managed.
Isn't that the whole point of this discussion? We're talking about conventions programmers treat as absolutes that are detrimental to the maintenance and security of the programs.

So I don't see how this has much bearing on the ultimate point I'm making, which is that yes, conventions can be bad haha.
> If you have US citizenship

then it doesn't apply to this case, since H-1B visa holders are on this vis because they are not citizens
“But lawyers know nothing about tech ”
The reality is they are actually not as well paid as they think they are. If your employer can afford to pay you $300k or more and still bring in billions in profit, you are generating a whole lot of profit that does nothing but go to the top to pay for another yacht.

Being better paid than the lowest of people doesn't make you well compensated. People need to stop making this a rat race and considering pay only by who they make more than.
And based on news articles, Texas has the most unreliable grid of the country.

Maybe those federal regulations do some good.
If the update is targeted at a single individual, it's almost guaranteed to go undetected.

Yes you can decompile code. But reverse engineering is time intensive (I've done it). And these code bases are huge. It wouldn't be difficult to obfuscate some element of the code so it's difficult to detect. Especially if it's rarely triggered.

> The proposed solution to stopping child porn from being shared on these platforms would at most only do just that: Stop sharing on these specific apps. There are plenty of alternatives including encrypted zips, TOR etc. Breaking e2ee in WhatsApp would not do anything to stop sharing the material.

There is value in introducing barriers, even when imperfect. You must admit that, otherwise the fact that Google/Apple can ship an OS update whenever they want negates the entire argument in favor of e2ee.

Also, just FYI encrypted zips are easily brute forced.
“…can be selected for copy-pasting by double-clicking”

Details matter.
What violence is used to keep workers laboring in their factories? Your position seems to hang on that point. I don't think refusing to intervene and letting someone starve to death is a violent act. To claim otherwise redefines violence as any actor action which does not meet your personal wants.
The best engineers and scientists have taken Silicon Valley jobs paying 5-10x more since the late 90's.

Not necessarily. I once sold a Ferrari to a nuclear weapons tech from Los Alamos. His boss had a Countach.
But you received hundreds of hours in training to fly, more than most car drivers get. Besides, you probably have a minute to turn the autopilot off and take over before anything disastrous can happen in the worst case scenario. A far cry from requiring sub-second response times.
How does this compare to a SQUUID for sorting or nano-id for human readability? Both are options I've used in the past when using databases like Datomic or XTDB. SQUUIDs in particular because I have a UUID that can be ordered by timestamp, nano-id when prototyping things and I want meaningful prefixes in my entity IDs rather than a bunch of UUIDs.
So when are you planning to move to Canada?

No?

Could it be because you and I both know that FAANG companies' Canadian offices are basically places to stash those who cannot and will not ever get US visas, plus the occasional native Canadian who does not want to move to the US for family reasons?
It would have been five or six meters with someone speaking loudly into the mic and someone else with one headphone cup on. So you'd need another person to test.

It was also in 2009 so it could even have been Celt rather than speed or opus
Would you mind emailing Gary (gnolan@drowlab.com) with your concerns? I’ve gotten a response from him on some concerns I had with an interview he did. He’s a very nice fellow and he tries to respond to every inquiry from w what I understand. If you send a respectful letter asking detailing your thoughts on the public discussion of Havana syndrome and ask him some general questions about the work he did with patients experiencing it, I am certain he will respond (albeit probably not in a timely manner).

I’d love for us to follow up if and when he does.
am currently deciding what to do next.

That's what I was wondering, what do you do with this information? How do you narrow down where your exposure came from?
Using postfix operations in the Way of Forth would be unambiguous and of course otherwise superior as well as is well known [citation needed]. “x b plus squared” vs “x b squared plus”. Well, at least as long as it’s agreed on whether “x b” means two variables or one with a two-letter name. But the latter don’t really exist in math. You just expand to new alphabets when you run out of letters.
housing incredibly scarce

rents and prices spiking

"hmm maybe we should make it easier for enormously highly paid American tech workers to move to Canada."

I like the idea in general, but the specific timing of this, as high interest rates are making house construction slow down and fixing the housing crisis even harder, is going to make a lot of inadequately housed Canadians very annoyed!
Technically, all the bookmarks you have are hibernating tabs.

There's a whole spectrum of activity you can have on a tab, and to me I see really no difference between "unhibernating" a tab and just reloading it from scratch.

Either one is very slow in modern crap software.

Unless it happens under 150ms, it is slow.
It kinda sounds like martyrdom, or a monk or philosopher, pursuing enlightenment or, in this case, knowledge and expertise.

But like with any software development, technological self-gratification doesn't make a product. Every programmer loves writing code, but you need to be aware whether you're writing code for writing's sake or if it has an objective.

If you want to develop games, develop games; focus on results first, only when you've proven to yourself that it's games you want to develop instead of the technology behind them can you start to think about what the existing engines are lacking that your custom engine would do better.

It has the same energy as PHP developers from a decade ago that for some reason all insisted on writing their own frameworks, CMSes, etc.
It has notes
But CEOs and Lawyers both have at least informal in-groups that do such gatekeeping. Law school is full of aggressive hazing, and a requirement to burn yourself out to please someone else, and CEO and director boards are the epitome of nepotism. Of course they don't need unions, they are the exact power dynamic unions are an attempt to balance against.
It's the carrot and the stick:

- Stick. Today a program that is doing "Advanced Propulsion Research" that happened to be reverse engineering UFO tech would be perfectly legal. Cutting funding for this, unless explicitly authorized, opens up liability for anyone in the government and related contractors.

- Carrot. The amnesty is an opportunity to come forward without the liability.
The person consuming the medicine is not the consumer? I catch your point, and maybe you’re right if the insurance company is paying 100%, but if there is a co-pay of any sort the sick cancer patient is also the consumer.
I like to entertain myself with the idea that perhaps what's driving the recent spotlight on UFOs is not that we are seeing/detecting them, but that we are detecting more and more of them.

Maybe governments around the world have always known about objects flying/floating around. And that was fine because there are many natural causes that could explain these blips on radar. Many weather phenomena or man made objects could explain people "seeing" UFOs. Buzz Aldrin famously saw glowing objects flying around in space but he does not necessarily believe they have ET origin.

But recently, there's simply way more of these objects everywhere, and nobody knows for sure what these are. This worries some people because, well, what if they're Chinese spy balloons or drones? Remember when the US military shot down a couple balloons some time ago and it made the news?

This is a potential threat to the national security and it makes sense that they have put together teams for the retrieval of these objects. The government may not believe they have ET origin, but they now see them more as potential threat to the national security.

Of course, I would definitely find it enjoyable and exciting if there is some "otherworldly" intelligence behind these objects.
We make one helluva juice pouch squeezer!
I would put weight on this if it were to re-occur. The navy has done lots and lots and lots and lots of drills since 2004. Nothing like this has magically re-appeared.
I once used the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement (union contract) as a model for a hypothetical software engineering union at Apple. Pro athletes are a great example of white collar organized labor.

If Apple devs had the same revenue sharing agreement the NBA players do and received a similar share of Apple’s revenue, the median pay would be around $600k. That’s just the median, think about that.

Just because engineers are well-compensated compared to the rest of the economy doesn’t mean that we can’t benefit from organized labor.
UI trends are likely similar to fashion in that they are cyclical. I'm sure the old-school skeuomorphism will be back soon, hand in hand with the maximalist interior design trends du-jour.
Longer term: move to a different planet.
> Rents have gradually come down from July 2022’s peak of $1,777, but they remain nearly 25% higher than in 2019.

Rents were sky-high in 2019, and they continue to outpace inflation.

> The largest year-over-year declines are in Las Vegas (-6%); the Riverside and San Bernardino area in California (-5.9%); and Phoenix (-5.7%).

The phenomenon appears to be regional. North-East regional rents are soaring. Atlanta and Austin are also going up.

> Hale said, noting the historic levels of multifamily construction activity currently underway.

Are houses being built where rents are high ? There is not enough clarity on this.
Currency conversions are a transaction not an operation, the conversion rate fluctuates constantly and typically involves fees and involve tax liabilities. For a money type I’d go so far as to want it to either disallow or throw an exception if attempting an operation on two monies in different currencies.
I don't usually touch the bottle with my mouth, so I guess that allows for a bit more leeway.
I made the same misassumption when I moved back to Ottawa.

Got laid off in 2020 during Corona. Jumped ship from private to government. Went from 185k US to 120K CAD.

Substantial drop in purchasing power and ability to buy a house.
I love my country but it feels like it has become openly hostile to staying in middle class. Scary stuff. I can provide more details if anyone is interested.
https://archive.ph/65CUY
I think it was physical to start with
> If a tool makes you 1% more efficient, it's worth them putting 1% of your annual salary into it

Hear me, nameless internet stranger, that you might learn from my mistakes: This is not true. Efficiency is only worth money if it increases profits - concretely this means your efficiency gain must result in the following:

1. Delivering features faster

2. Delivering features with meaningfully higher quality

3. Delivering the same features with lower headcount costs

(2) is hard to measure, so you can generally only sell on (1) and (3). During the 80s the business world learned the hard way you can throw away a lot of money on useless efficiency. If that interests you I recommend "The Goal" by Goldratt for a fictionalized account of those learnings.

* There's also a subtler point that corporate finances may mean that even if efficiency is perfectly captured, a 1% efficiency increase may only be worth 0.1% of your salary.
Splunk can save money, as long as you’re intelligent about processing data. I can think of dozens of security and operational incidents where splunk saved the day.

I’ve been through a few savings exercises where everything is gonna go open source dashboards etc. Once the guy who understands how it all works disappears, it migrates back to splunk.

One security incident response will pay for the entire splunk infrastructure.
Author here, I'm sorry to hear that it doesn't work well with a screen reader. I tested it with the reader mode of Firefox, which renders MathML perfectly, although I don't know how that would translate to a screen reader. Safari reader mode renders the math inline, like this:

I just define a new derivative operator, like so: dxđ f(x)≡2π1 ⋅dxd f(x). That’s all.

while Chrome's reader mode just fails to recognize the content entirely, even though it's the most basic <body><div id="content"><p> ... structure possible. I have basically zero web dev experience so I don't know how to fix this, maybe I need to tweak the KaTeX settings.

I think it's quite sad that math is so difficult on the web. While setting up the blog, I looked around and it seemed like FF is the only browser with proper MathML support, but I think that was also being phased out because it's apparently buggy and hard to maintain. IMO, the screen reader version should just basically be the LaTeX source, which is probably kind of awful when read out loud, but at least it would be unambiguous.
I'm not exactly sure.

My levels of PFOS was the highest, that's "Scotchgard". The house I live in has a very expensive reverse osmosis water filter on the tap so I don't think it's that.

I eat a ton of fish (like everyday) and recently read they are a significant source of PFOS exposure: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36584847/

Some of the limitations of the test are you can't tell if this is past or ongoing exposure. Hence my desire to investigate phlebotomy.

PFOS has a half life of ~2.7 years so it could have been there for a while.
Source: https://oem.bmj.com/content/75/1/46
Neat, I like the type safe prefix idea.

Personally, I rarely find I need ids to be sortable, so I just go with pure randomness.

I also like to split out a part of the random section into a tag that is easier for me to visually scan and match up ids in logs etc.

I call my ID format afids [0]

[0] https://github.com/aJanuary/afid
There's no one to vote for. All the parties favour lots and lots of immigration.
People have proposed introducing a symbol for 2π before, most often τ. I like to go a step further and introduce a symbol for 2πi. I use pi with a dot above it, pronounced "pi dot". Pi dot can be defined as the period of the exponential function (which can be defined in terms of its Taylor series). Then 2π is pi dot / i, and π is pi dot / 2i. Of π, 2π, and 2πi, 2πi is probably the most natural, even though it's imaginary. I suppose that depends on the type of math you're doing though.

On a similar note, when doing quantum physics, I like to introduce h dot, which is i × h bar. There are tons of formulas where you either get i × h bar or -i / h bar, but these are just h dot and 1 / h dot, so this removes a little sign confusion and saves a little handwriting.

People will argue that real constants are more natural, but maybe they're not. Maybe radians are naturally imaginary, so if h bar is meant to have dimensions of energy time per radian, then it's better to use the imaginary h dot.
Dude, you can't even get a good picture of the moon on most phones without some AI assistance. How the hell are you going to snap a clear photo of something much smaller and dimmer?

A challenge for the incredulous, bring me some high quality cellphone pictures of airplanes at night without using any extra equipment like tripods, lenses or stabilizers.
> Probably hasn't ever worked on a car in his life

How do you "work on" a EV? Why would being a mechanic make you a better driver?
I've worked with the government in the past. Their compute systems definitely are not decades behind. Though some are. They have the the top supercomputers and machines that haven't been updated since the 80's. That's a more realistic picture of the government. That it is this gigantic thing that is in no way remotely monolithic. It's more like The Blob, that it is an amorphis mixture of a lot of things. Neither this nor that. This is why people get into arguments when discussing the government, because it is a hodgepodge of conflicting things that with extreme differences in capacity and effectiveness. The same also goes for the military (and this should be more obvious to people if you know the joke about "military grade" and recognize that our military is the most powerful and modern one. It is the reason all those "more advanced" private sector things exist. Just because not bought in "bulk" and handed to every private doesn't mean it isn't in the system). So stop painting it with a broad brush because it is leading to conspiracy theories that are just silly (goes in both directions).

With the military (in addition to what I said) you have to be very aware that it, like most gov entities, outsources work. The private sector is coupled with the military. The US military doesn't build the secret jets on secret military bases, Lockheed and Boeing do. Lockheed built the SR71, which definitely led to many UFO stories.
To address the problem they discuss at the end with defining Θ = e^2πi, they could instead define Θ(x) = e^2πix, the circular analog to the exponential function exp (which is really more fundamental than exp(1) = e anyways).
Few trees left
Of course, it depends where you live. If you are an Apple customer of the Chinese mainland, your iCloud data just gets uploaded to government servers from the start. The Chinese "feds & law enforcement" just gets carte-blanche access to all uploaded user data.

So what stops them from doing the same thing where you live? If you're relying on absolute honesty from your jurisdiction, you're bound to be disappointed the next time a Snowden type hits the news.
Bless you internet person for this
I don’t really have any insight, but I found this comment (and its parent) helpful as a starting point:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36508063

It seems so obvious, but it’s also easy to lose sight of, especially when technology is so interesting!
e^i*tau = 1 is pretty elegant, too.
More than 100,000 live public cctv systems.

https://securityjournaluk.com/public-cctv-cameras-tops-10000...

Boroughs alone operate over 20,000 cameras.

https://clarionuk.com/resources/how-many-cctv-cameras-are-in...

How many more cameras until you feel safe?

Even if one property owner declines to hand over cctv footage and somehow the search warrant is denied (which basically never happens) then there are probably several other camera owners who will provide footage.

Everywhere you go, everything you do is on film. The police have access to it either in real time or by request form.

And yes, those cameras are used to stop crimes.. like not picking up after your dog. Obviously this intrusion is necessary for your safety and security. How else can the police provide such valuable services?
> Can you confidently say that $100>¥10 in an offline environment?

Yeah, one more reason for it to be a different type.

> Where is the line drawn?

It's not.

As a rule, measurement unities have an absurdly bad support from computers.