skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a cli program and pretty easy to make.

Every 20 minutes that I’m logged into my mac, it literally “say Recalibrate Vision” yes it’s corny but I like it.

A good reminder to rest my eyes for a few seconds by looking way at something distant, and back to coding.
>>Like so many controversial initiatives and decisions coming from the current White House, this executive order...

Difficult for me to give credence to a tech article that includes gratuitous political rants.
> Boston Dynamics has had locomotion solved for a decade

Locomotion is not navigation, as you can see from the persistent failures of the self driving cars.
The solution is to treat the Ship of Theseus not as an object but as a process. I believe it is what you are saying just with different words. It is no help to claim that there is no Ship of Theseus, because it is. Or at least it was. Or some says it was.
Nobody forces you to visit Europe. I don't want to visit USA, so I don't go there to complain about what I dislike.
That report was written in 1971, meaning it probably assumes sort of the same budget and goals as in the 1960s.

Had the report been written today, it would look very different.
The principles of the enlightenment underneath western civilization are…

Higher power / natural law

v

Irrevocable natural rights of individuals

v

Revocable rights given to the state for the common good

…

We can revoke the government’s mandate to rule us at any time. I understand people may have forgotten, or don’t know or have the background to understand, or maybe even don’t care. But that doesn’t change anything about the natural order or founding principles.

The system we are currently headed towards:

State

v

Subjects

This is monarchy / totalitarianism, and while it may be done for all the right reasons, it’s stepping backwards in terms of what’s good for the world, the progress of civilization, and is a failure to learn the profound lessons of the enlightenment that unleashed the greatest period of technology innovation and unrivaled economic expansion in history.
No republican will ever go against the spooks except if they are personally targeted by them (Trump). Even then, Trump wants a fanatically loyal group of spooks to act as his secret police. He's only temporarily against them.

Your only options to vote for if you dislike mass surveillance are hard left progressives (Bernie Sanders, Ron Wyden) or libertarians (though the ones who run with the republicans are unreliable on this issue).
Observation once was an important scientific means. Even common sense ranked high. Alas that methods are no longer valued.

Of course does hard work shape the mentality in a way that you value the amenities you gain, either in exchange or later in life.
Once I looked at a cheap lot in southern California on a whim and the ad specified "Neighborhood covenant requires 3000 square foot minimum for construction".
Paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10304148

My sense is that the authors' focus was on stabilizing the vehicle in varying conditions (ocean currents), and the training time needed to achieve that, rather than wayfinding. Not sure why the beginning of the article is so oriented towards navigation.

Although underwater vehicles are very much not in my wheelhouse this seems actually more interesting; I wonder what other applications there might be for the learning method they propose.
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Russian is a heavily inflected language, so the order of words matters less. For example, in English you can say "the cat ate the bird", but if you reversed "cat" and "bird" this would be a different sentence entirely. In Russian "cat" would have the nominative case and "bird" accusative, so you can swap the words around and it would mean the same, though perhaps with different emphasis.

French doesn't do this; as with English only the pronouns have vestigial accusative, and in any case most inflections are lost in speech because French drops consonants from the end of words. So you have to depend on strict word order to preserve meaning.
Even the courts? If someone is convicted of murder, serves their sentence then 8 years later they do it again, do the courts know of the previous crime?
As far as I know, in US/Canada after a students graduates from a civil engineering course, he is called as Engineer In Training (EIT) after he passes Fundamental of Engineering (FE) exam.

Then he has to work for 3/5 years at a engineering firm. He will then have to pass Professional Engineering (PE) exam to be called PE. I think he also has to get two recommendations from other PE's then only he can get certified as PE.

Usually, in US you are considered a 'real' engineer only when you get certified as PE.
I think you are greatly over estimating how much impact analysis is having here. Not to mention skipping over the dilution and fragmentation of Attention (even of experts).

Journalism value lies more in surfacing data/info rather than analyzing it - an MRI tech might be able to observe and detect cancer before everyone else, but that doesn't mean they are qualified docs or cancer researchers. Or whatever they think needs to be highlighted really needs everyones attention. The platforms regularly waste everyone's time and energy.

Journos are in a similar position to the MRI tech and do call in experts to look at their data, but it all gets regularly drowned out by the info tsunami, plus experts usually need Time the more complex anything gets. The platforms profit from the expectation that what they promote, translates to action or solution instantly. And when it doesn't they don't indicate how much energy has been wasted.

The info flows have to change for more action and less unnecessary attention capture. The MRI techs are getting too much attention without an equivalent increase in lives saved.
It's almost like intangible social constructs don't really exist or something. As long as you do not know the thing in itself, how do you know it's really there?
> I don't think the type of person who uses invidious is going to ever be convinced to buy something from an ad on YouTube.

That user is using YouTube resources, without being of benefit to YouTube.
Still trivially false. Turing machines and the lambda calculus can both enumerate all recursively enumerable functions. And infinity of complexity from simple formalism .
“Everyone is doing it” machine broken

rWars/lWars were sprileg verboten in earlier versions of The Matrix. Now, with all the resources around to waste (WASTE!), such discord can be used to form (or manipulate) popular opinion and herd competitors towards doom (“and then you paid your people double cuz they did it in Rails”)

If you don’t know what languages to use for your apps without reading a popularity survey, an exciting career awaits you in the field of marketing, customer relations, finance or golf caddy. https://youtu.be/za0nyYbp6is
Just because it was built that way doesn’t mean it’s not discriminatory. An aircraft being half a foot larger wouldn’t have been a big deal if they were built to accomodate tall people in the first place. 6’2 is not an uncommon height.
Has anyone seen any additional work in this vein? I’d like to think that, if this is just the starting point, the possibilities are relatively open for varied application. I’m drawing a blank on how this concept, in a general sense, could be expanded on and incorporated into a more traditional game context; but I know there should be.
comes with its own music style, Oi!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oi!
> there simply isn't enough room up there for taller pilots to fit.

Under the ADA "there simply isn't a wheelchair ramp up to our building" isn't a legitimate restriction on hiring someone who uses a wheelchair—you put a wheelchair ramp in.

OP's point is that arguably the same should apply to other traits like height. The space constraints are somewhat arbitrary and could be remedied.
That was a painful watch.

How does that get past any form of testing?
Yes, the courts will know (and possibly also police, I'm not sure). However anyone else will get back a criminal record report that's empty. Like if you need to provide a criminal record for visa purposes, or when an employer requests one, or if a bank wants to decide whether or not to give you mortgage. So it's not that your status as a human being in the eyes of the law are reset, it's that for the purposes of opportunities given to you, you are equal to everyone else.
> Does it make sense for the west to take advantage of this self delusion and help Russia own-goal itself for the foreseeable future

Short answer: yes. The long answer is also yes, but imagine it stretched the vowel out a bit.

> at large cost?

Supporting Ukraine is an unbelievably good bargain.
it’s worth reading his book “The Internet Con” - i found it fairly prescriptive on specific issues and fixes to try and enable further competition in the industry.
Xunzi is underappreciated, even in China.
How is that working out for you?
I picked "oi" up from my dad, who used it with us. I likewise use it with my kids, and also with dogs who have silly facial expressions.
> In many airplanes, there are legitimate restrictions on how tall you can be as a pilot -- there simply isn't enough room up there for taller pilots to fit.

Right, but they were designed that way. It was likely known at design time that there was a maximum height.

Standard bathroom stalls won't fit wheelchairs, but that doesn't absolve companies from a duty to provide ones that are.

There are obviously different physical constraints here than bathrooms, but I'd be surprised if there was a physical constraint limiting this.

As for the eyesight, this strikes me as the kind of things copilots and backup glasses are for. Require every pilot with glasses to carry a backup pair in their shirt pocket. Or maybe contacts in and a pair of glasses (turbulence may be an issue with glasses).

I'd be curious if they're equally cautious with people who are diabetic or have cardiac risk factors.
I doubt that upsets any children on the internet; more likely it upsets some adults on behalf of children on the internet.
Google can’t kill waze, its where a large part of their traffic congestion data comes from. This data is used on google maps to calculate best routes, but is collected from waze users. No waze users, no data.
yeah but how can you be sure things are different if they share the same name?
They don’t order cockpits. That’s not how the industry works.

It’s also not about “enough space” in the entire cockpit, it’s about the layouts of all of the controls and being able to reach them.

“Extra pair of glasses” is not a solution in severe turbulence where the plane drops 100ft in 1 second.
Auto refresh can be disabled globally or per-snap now, the server is still closed source.

I'm not sure why there's no real FOSS alternative to it, but there was an attempt at one point. I've always thought it would be cool to make a torrent-based P2P snap store.
> I think that this article is diffusing "propaganda" maybe even without realizing (I hope).

You know RFI is owned by the French government right?

If there is propaganda, it's ways to make France look more hospitable.
The Ship of Theseus was originally proposed as a paradox, not a question of where subjectively to draw a line between the identity of objects. Like most paradoxes it is the result of a flawed assumption. Here the assumption is that there is a Ship of Theseus. If we assign a definition to "Ship of Theseus" then the question of whether a given object is a Ship of Theseus is trivial. But the paradox assumes there is a Ship of Theseus object on its own rather than a definition of Ship of Theseus. The subjective question of "when, generally, should we consider the Ship of Theseus to be gone" is a separate and arbitrary question.
Aussie Aussie Aussie!!!
You can start by the most obvious cases. For the rest long term prison will work as an intermediate as well as complete bankruptcy of said individual.
Oi! (with this enthusiasm you'd be friends with a Brazilian in a second :).)
Learning that is difficult. It is a skill that needs to be worked on by learning maths, then control, dynamics. Instead, learn to use an AI framework and you can solve the problem with orders of magnitude more computing.

Not advocating one way or another, just that that's probably the thinking. Also, it's in vogue.
listen, if you want a bunch of concrete cheap, i gotta tell you people will literally pay you to haul away their construction waste, which is mostly concrete. it's almost 2 tonnes per person per year: https://www.epa.gov/smm/sustainable-management-construction-...

what's expensive isn't the stone and concrete. those are cheap as shit. even graded broken stone aggregate for mixing concrete is cheap. like a penny a kilogram cheap. sand, same story. random dirt is even cheaper and works fine to block sound

what's expensive is shaping the concrete and dirt (for example, as you point out, to run pipes and wires through them, but also for things like making thin walls stand up stably)

to a lesser extent, getting it delivered is also expensive, because it's heavy, but mostly it's the shaping. that's why concrete is so popular; concrete is mud, and mud is pretty easy to shape, but it's mud that turns into stone overnight. it turns out that it takes a lot of work to shape big things
It's funny, where you see persistent failure, I see the engineering process at work and making previously unfathomable progress. Amazing what people take for granted.
Planes can be customized, and the baseline design is based on what the majority of airlines want.

It's the fault of airlines. Nitpicking is fine if you want to add more details but doesn't change that.

And taller people on average can reach more controls, not less.

For glasses, how often does that make them come off compared to any other random reason for incapacitation? And what if there's a strap trying to keep them on? Acting like this is the only risk factor in isolation is bad.
The article presents essentially the same view, for a language which doesn't have that convention, and doesn't have slices (pointers that also contain size information). Zig allocators check all three requirements illustrated here. As do most modern allocator interfaces.
Ughhh.. I hate that word, especially when it refers to the protest acts like spaghetti on art, or slow march on a road delaying traffic etc... I think partly because it smells like a society that has started worshipping "traffic" or "business as usual" instead of doing that by deliberate choice.
Scientists Contact Whales in World-First Communication Experiment
FBI: Keeping Americans safe by smothering them to death since 2001
> The main criticism I've heard is kind of the opposite - that they dislike foreigners not trying to speak French, and just starting communication in English.

That’s the case most often, and that’s what most of my friends who lived in Paris say. There’s a (not entirely justified) pervasive feeling that French people can’t speak English properly and they tend to be self-conscious about it.

> If both of these are true then I guess that puts foreigners in a tough place where they're damned if they try and damned if they don't?

It’s different people. Most of them are forgiving, if clumsy, and a few of them are pricks. Just like in any country. A fair few don’t care and you can live perfectly well near Paris for years speaking only a handful of French words.
> As for climate control, I set it up once and I've never really touched it since

You obviously live in the particular part of the world that these screens are designed for, no seasons and no temperature changes during the day.

Unfortunately the majority of the worlds population don't have this, and find it cooler in the morning and warm in the afternoon requiring a change of temperature.
$200 Kindle only purchase, yeah, pass
Yeah, this is something I had to learn when I was younger in my career.

One of the highest value devs I've worked with was nicknamed the "gold plated bulldozer." He's not a 10x dev. He's not a rockstar. But you know what he does do? He shows up every day and burns his way down the issue list. He doesn't complain. He doesn't try to only work on the exciting tickets. He doesn't cause drama arguing over this or that grand conceptual scheme or architecture. He just plugs away and gets things done. Sure, with a tough algorithmic or architectural problem he'd need to ask someone, but he'd just do that without any ego involved.

It didn't really click for me until I was looking at some long term stats for that team and realized in terms of pushing the ball forward, he was doing more than just about any of us.

I think it's disappointing people like that are not just overlooked, but almost held in contempt by the more startup end of the software industry.
Yeah, the word they were looking for is "markup". People make this mistake all the time.
> That said, you’ll never get the level of service you see in USA. The French (Europe in general) just don’t care that much about customer UX. You either do it their way or you can leave.

I hate service in American restaurants. I don’t want to be babysit and have someone always behind me. I can fill my glass myself just fine, and I am able to call if I need something. I just want to be left alone to enjoy the meal and company without being watched. That said, Paris tends to be a caricature of a different kind, sure.
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Their need to sell future (high-end) machines to developers should keep that from happening. Microsoft OTOH, may do it.
Is this part of Project Replicator?
It’s fine tuned minstrel model based on orca Microsoft model.
> So voting for the 'correct' local politician and driving an eco-friendly car are more important than being nice and helping others less fortunate?

if you do some calculations before jumping to your prejudgment, you may find that it is more important, and people are less fortunate because someone burns too much gasoline and votes for 'wrong' politicians.

But it was simplified example, privileged people utilize more complicated schemes.
On the topic of getting dicked around with refueling/recharging charges, several times in the last few months I have returned a car with a full tank to Avis, only for them to still add some bullshit fuel charge that required calling and talking to someone to get it removed each time. No way the fees keep getting added by accident, they're just doing it so they can keep the fees from people who don't notice or care enough about their casual theft. Avoid those thieving assholes too.
Exploring the implementation of the Linux accessibility subsystem
Wow, someone took yesterday’s article about event sourcing way too seriously. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38664412
Unfortunately the answer is (limited) authoritarianism. See Singapore as the quintessential example of this. I think they may in fact be the highest trust society on earth as a result of it.

Folks would take seats at hawker stands by leaving their 4000 USD macbooks and keys/wallet as markers. No one even bats an eye.
I suspect Tuya wants a solution that lets them implement a solution stack for Wi-Fi+BT and Wi-Fi-only MCUs alike.

:/
> Citizens are all slaves of one corporation or another so speaking their minds is not within their power.

Speak for yourself! I work in the private sector and I can’t think of any way my speech is circumscribed by that - unless of course I tried to discuss politics in the workplace, which is simply frowned upon because it’s cringe.
Didn't the FBI director literally just give testimony to the effect of "if we have to demonstrate probable cause we would not be able to get these 'warrants'"?
Normal bricks block sound.

Acoustic bricks absorb sound, turning it into other energy. Commercial acoustic bricks example - https://www.randerstegl.com/en/wall-bricks/other-types-of-br...

So there is a Commons issue, why would I buy far more expense acoustic bricks when I can just reflect the sound, ie back at the cars.

Additionally bricks collecting stagnate water is very bad, and in a urban environment collecting dust and insects is bad.

Off topic but tress absorb a fair amount of noise and like Telsa's appreciate in value over time.
I was fortunate enough to have some time discussing this incident with one of the Qatar Airways media personnel this year. It was done by local authorities and the airline didn't get a say.

The airline and the cou try have lost my business forever because of the incident. We have had 4 trips of 6 people where this is one of the main stops on a possible route, and I've actively avoided booking that route because I don't believe in su jecting the women of my family to the particular injustices I believe were committed here.

I also believe the local authority figures who completed this search were later fired.
In any case, once Russia restarts testing, everyone else will have, to, because of tremendous advantage it provides.
Parent is probably confusing plywood with OSB. Plywood is indeed expensive (esp. high-quality types like baltic birch), but laypeople frequently use the term to refer to OSB (oriented strand board) which is much, much cheaper and is commonly used in US construction.

The "paper-plaster sandwiches" you refer to is called "drywall" and is only used on interior walls. It's fine for that purpose. For outer walls, you have to use something else that's more structural, and they usually use OSB.
This is something Americans say, but we have empirical data that it’s not true. Compare poor Asian Americans, who have very low divorce rates (similar to rich Asians), to poor whites, who have very high divorce rates. Poor Asian kids have double or triple the chance of becoming upper middle class as adults compared to poor whites. Mormons, another group that emphasizes family stability, also have much higher economic mobility than other whites. As Charlie Munger used to say: figure out what works and then do it.

My parents are Asians who don’t get along, while my wife’s parents are white people who have been divorced three times each. Her parents are happier, but my life was easier and opportunities came much more readily. Divorce is a great way to turn a solidly middle class family into two financially struggling families, disrupt kids’ education, extra-curricular activities, social circles, etc. And it doesn’t end when the kids grow up, because that strain of financial resources continues into adulthood when parents come to depend on children.

Americans are rich enough where imposing those costs on their kids isn’t fatal. But imagine you’re in a third world village, and at the edge of survival to begin with. Your mom and dad are “no longer in love.” Dad leaves, and the mom and kids starve to death immediately. That’s why most traditional societies have strong norms against divorce.
We kill entire ecosystems - truly massively efficient.
In my experience, 'oi' has a few usages:

- Drawn out "oiiiiiii" and a pointed finger when someone makes a witty remark or has some kind of success. As in, "oiiii, nice one".

- "OI!" as a generic "hey!" shouted at someone to get their attention in the street.

- "oi?" with an upwards inflection to express disbelief

- Getting your friend's attention, usually followed by an insulting term like 'dickhead'. As in, "oi dickhead, watch out" when someone is trying to pass them on the street.
Show HN: SPF Deconstructor in Rust
This is rust library for deconstructing SPF DNS records. Written ha a project to learn some of the basics of rust.
Depends on your goals. Lua aimed to be an incredibly tiny language with a very low footprint. The wanted you to need to implement very few functions if you needed to integrate it in your codebase. It has very few data types and function calls for that purpose.

The goals of lua may not align with the goals of most projects, but it does make sense to have a single allocator function there, the same way it makes sense to have a single array/set/hash table data type (what lua calls a Table).
Oi Oi Oi!!!