skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While working on an enterprise platform, one of its customers in the banking industry wanted to migrate from on-premises to running it on whatever cloud was popular at the time.

The migration was long, tedious, and overly complicated in its own right (i.e. one proposed solution for the "how do we migrate all data safely across the continent?" question involved armored trucks) but just as we reached the T-1 day mark, I realised we had forgot something.

The customer was regulated by various entities, and so it had to deliver periodic audit logs in a particular format. The raw logs (stored in a cloud hosted bucket) would not be sufficient and had to be parsed; in order to process the logs into the desired format, the customer wrote thousands of lines of code in the platform that I was in the process of migrating. This code could only run on the platform, due to some other esoteric privacy regulation.

So there I was on a Sunday, with :

- a few hours to deliver up-to-date, formatted audit logs to regulatory entities or risk legal action

- raw logs in a cloud bucket that required ingestion and processing

- a new cloud platform that could process the logs but was unable to ingest data from the other provider's cloud bucket (due to some temporary allowlisting ingress/egress issue and this being one of the first migrations onto the new cloud)

- an onprem platform being decommissioned and no longer allowed to process the logs BUT capable of ingesting them

The solution I came up with was to have the data flowing:

log bucket in cloud provider A -> decomissioned platform running onprem -> connector I wrote that evening and had no time to test -> platform running on cloud provider B

The ship was afloat the next morning and everything was in order despite cutting it close; I am now a big fan of exhaustive planning, months in advance.
This. An example. My homelessness, caused by my disability making me poor, is illegal in many places.
> one thing that /really/ helps already is kicking both units into intake when cooking on the hob with the hood fan extracting

Not sure how much good regeneration is doing[0], but it sounds like it put a band-aid on your problem of inadequate make-up air for the vent! :D

Do these standalone units recover heat only (HRV) or heat and humidity (ERV)?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38743885
Assange isn't even a US citizen.

This is such insanity.
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I've broken 2" PVC pipes by using a plunger, baking soda, and vinegar. You can easily get way above rated pressures doing that... doubly so if the PVC is older.

After doing that, NOT fixing the problem, and still having a massive plug, I did the next best thing. I cut the run of offending pipe out (clog included), used PVC primer/glue with a fixed joiner, and then bought a thick rubber joiner with 2 screw retaining rings, and joined the other side that way.

In hindsight, I absolutely should have rented a power auger and chipped at the clog and freed it. But I didn't.
> what is gained?

Removing film grain makes compression far more efficient. This reduces costs of streaming.
You're implying that less government should be the goal. I don't care about the size, i want better government.
Too much of a nice person image makes me really skeptical, especially if it seems at all cultivated.

People are people. Virtually anyone can be prickly or have some opinions you might not like. Show me the reality. I can take it because I don’t expect humans to be cardboard comic book caricatures.
There's some fun shortcuts in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screwball_Scramble too
because they were in a massive hiring spree at that time, if you hire 10s of thousands of people in a single year it's going to drive down your average tenure
You’ve described what YouTube used to be like.
This is the rare moment where a random channel in YouTube beats Simpsons to speculate on one absurd scenario:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7YVxLLIuGM

It's not exactly what you describe but it comes close.
> Some CEOs would get fired for moonlighting. Others (Elon Musk, etc) build massive companies and make their existing companies more resilient and lasting.

I don't get why more CEO/founders don't found second and third companies. You build a great leadership team, then explore adjacent spaces that can reinforce your vision of the future. In a way, it can clear the space of potential competitors. Or build potential customers.

I think Altman and Musk are doing an amazing job of it. Dorsey wasn't doing a bad job, either.
Most people rely on their employer to generate and capture wealth. Many senior developers would not make it going alone as technical acumen (without salesmanship) is generally insufficient.
Transistorized! (1999)
That's not always legal, is it?
My guess is that criminals are evenly sprinkled across income distributions, but being prosecuted skews towards poverty because police / justice incentives are set by wealthy elites.
The idea of preserving night vision is based on rod cells being insensitive to light with a wavelength >640nm (ie red).

Halogen bulbs found in headlights produce a lot of light under that wavelength, and are going to be at a much higher intensity than turquoise indicator lights.
Each individual behavior is indeed unexpected. When I go through an intersection I don't expect that somebody blows through a red light and t-bones me. But that does happen.

Perhaps a self driving car's unexpected behavior is on the "too defensive" side while human drivers are on the "suddenly do something wildly dangerous" but this is easier to account for as a driver rather than more difficult to account for.
What is anti-Semitic about his post? He criticised the actions of the IDF and Israeli government, which as we should all agree must not be conflated with Judaism.
It is kind of ironic how people don't understand how deterrence works. They think being tough on crime means more deterrence, but realistically those people leave prison one day, with less to lose and the deterrence effect disappears for good.
you can hookup the panasonic unit to a window manifold for a portable AC and put some insulation board over that. that is the only reasonable solution I have found for the states
In my opinion, the original was cartoonishly green. Theatergoers also commented the home release was way more apparently green than the original theatrical version - mainly due to the limitations of home media. Now with 4K, we’re finally closer to the original intent.
When he was accused falsely or when he was stuck at the embassy and couldn't release documents? He had a panic button to release more info but he didn't because they detained him quickly. https://www.businessinsider.com/assange-arrest-ecuador-preve...
Exactly my concern... Just buy the Aprilaire 8100 and don't risk mold...
Confirmation bias. For your success, how many failures are there? That is why in general "build it and they will come" is not a winning strategy. What I do instead is just find products I like but am frustrated with for whatever reason, and so I make an improved version and release it, run some ads for marketing or cold email sales, it works great because the market is already validated.
I'm someone who doesn't really enjoy cinema much. I watch a few movies per year at most, generally with friends who want to see them.

But I totally recognised what the author was talking about, and I'm seeing it more and more! Everything starts to look imagined more than seen, the characters are covered in artefacts that make them look like aliens acting as humans, I sometimes find it viscerally off putting like I want to be sick looking at their creepy faces.

I'm surprised that people want side by sides as the examples all seem quite glaring to me, but it's interesting to see how different people take different things from images.
My prediction is that the ability to choose-your-own will go away over the next 10 years, and it will only be the option to buy pre-packaged. For the retail outlet, weigh-your-own is slow to process and a lot of wastage.

Which is a shame, because it is better for the consumer and nearly always cheaper for us to choose-our-own.
What do you mean “why”? Storing additional telemetry helps Mercedes to show whether Drive Pilot or the opposing driver is at fault for accidents
Fascinating video. There was a comment on his video asking "Wouldn't this introduce the same amount of humidity/mold as opening a window?"

Curious if anybody has any more insight.
It's unfortunate that everyone else was so comically bad at literally any kind of communication. I'm starting to feel like the general advice lawyers give of say nothing is a terrible advice, when you have such a public facing company. It's like what you need in that situation is a communication coach first and a lawyer second.

But as an engineer that also never learned this kind of narrative control, I too am struggling at where I can learn this from. Any hints are appreciated actually.

Sam Altman on the other hand has decades more experience is that playing field.
This is a pretty terrible article. “Here’s two underspecified theories about crime vs income and I’ll pretend they represent every possible explanation. Now, this questionably designed study shows that an artificial, one-time, unearned, small-scale income shock doesn’t reduce crime. Thus there must be something third variable that correlates to both, like IQ.”

There are so many other variables here, easy to think of if you spend five minutes imagining other people’s lives. Jumping to “there must be something similarly inherently wrong with both criminals and poor people” is a really disturbing leap to want to make.
The wikipedia article (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_solid) is arguably better, giving a concise definition of "Johnson Solid" and better visualizations.
3 mA doesn't seem terribly far from the ballpark for always-on LEDs, even PWM-ed. The battery choice is kind of peculiar, though. A hearing aid battery with a small boost converter for the LEDs should give you several days of power per battery, and is about the same size as the battery used here.
We got out our Nintendo DS consoles and played some download play games recently (no internet required, one sends the game program directly to the other). Great fun! The battery is less easily replacable though.
I find it hilarious that HBO's classic "snow" static dissolve is literally the worst clip for digital compression.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Oh7HizY5I

Which I guess is why Max has a boring gradient.
So, you are saying that the richest people have never done anything atrocious? Give me a break. I bet this whole research is sponsored by some billionaire
Legal where I am, I've updated the comment.
Haloing is absolutely an artifact that can come from poor optics as well as processing.
Lol no need for an essay, I didnt mean the service provider has to prove they have moderation to the officials. I meant just here, it would be easy to just say the site has moderation. I don't believe there is, which means it's a dumpster ground with everyone posting all sorts of trash. Which, by the way, is another reason the site shouldn't even warrant any attention, but obviously government officials are stupid to even bother.
If somebody is whizzing past you and you are going the speed limit then they aren't going 5mph faster than you. I've never been on a road where everybody is consistently speeding by so much that it could be perceived as "whizzing."
I find this to be such a weird take - I just drove from San Diego -> LA with my Tesla doing 90+% of the freeway driving (I only have the free autosteer, so I have to handle exits, etc.). I have been in multiple rides through SF in friends' Teslas where they did not have to intervene at any point.

Is Tesla FSD ready to replace human drivers? It is not. Is it smoke and mirrors? No - there is a mountain of evidence that it is a very capable product in many situations.
"Authoritarian rule" is not a binary thing.

This kind of false equivalence and denial of nuance just makes no sense, unless you somehow want to argue that the US is EXACTLY the same as Russia or North-Korea?
commercial systems often use rotary regenerators
> I think it's almost an intuitive tenant of non-monopoly -- interoperability.

Interoperability with printer cartridges and game console controllers is different than mandated always-on servers.

In the former cases the only cost to the OG business is the opportunity cost of losing customers, and yes, that's just intuitively anti-monopoly rules.

But what is being considered here is the idea that a company should be obliged to allow another business to send them large amounts of traffic without paying anything, while simultaneously charging their own users for access to the original company's servers. This case is much less clear cut: you're essentially saying that, in the name of interoperability, any business that runs a platform is obliged to support some indeterminate number of other businesses at their own expense.

If you mandated interoperability but allowed charging the other businesses for server access, that would be a step in the right direction, but you're still mandating that the original business engage in a business relationship that they would rather not engage in. Still very much less clear cut than the hardware cases.
That still falls under the first set.
Looks really promising! How do you handle larger-than-ram datasets?
I don’t want to see boxes on my content. I’d prefer it fills the screen.
Yeah. You don’t get cult vibes happening by accident.
If pirates were cared about preservation, they would not dare compress the rip from the disc.

And yet, they do. They throw away detail as they please. That’s preservation?
You could do nonuniform probabilities.

Of course the same could be done using multiple dice (ex 3d6) but yes, options.
Agreed. Convicts having difficulty finding solid jobs seems... words fail me idiotic.
HN leans techbro and won't understand your thoughtful and correct comment.
Kitty does allow you to choose 4 different fonts for regular/bold/italic/bold+italic. I guess that with the right configuration it should be quite straightforward to set your shell to use bold+italic for your input, and set that as a different font. sure, that font will be used for other bold+italic text, but that's quite uncommon.
It is not. And even if it was - moves like this one should be considered as one of the reasons.

PS: at least read his post.
I wish HN would ban these articles making sweeping generalizations and stereotypes about populations.

The guy who wrote this article is a right wing libertarian, who has never had to experience a day of poverty in his life.

This article is an obvious hit job against Universal basic income.
Wolves do a better job of culling the sick deer (or cattle)
The name conflicts with a similar python module that allows one to turn any Python console program into a GUI with one line.

https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey
> Third, a few people might object that the correlation we observe is between convictions and income and perhaps convictions don’t reflect actual crime. I don’t think that is plausible for a variety of reasons but the authors also find no statistically significant evidence that wealth reduces the probability one is suspect in a crime investigation (god bless the Swedes for extreme data collection).
Yes, I would think of it as higher incomes increases a persons opportunity set.
If your circumstances/skills/knowledge/intelligence are such that you are limited to minimum wage in your adult hood, then pickpocketing, sticking up a bodega, or breaking into peoples cars may appear to pay out better than if you are making 6 figures straight of college at a FAANG.

And risk-reward evaluation is going to differ based on where you currently are in life.
If you make a FAANG income, the idea of being charged with a crime / going to jail is very unappealing and hypothetically career ending. If you are making minimum wage in a dead end job, then having a criminal record isn't going to reset you downwards post-crime.

I would also say there is probably some inverted causation on all the above. Someone who considers carjacking or gets into bar fights is also less likely to be someone to be able to seek education and hold down a steady high paying job. The people you know from high school who ended up with criminal records by their 20s are probably not surprises, and you might have been able to guess who would have those records before the end of elementary school.

Re: whether randomly giving people decreases their proclivity to commit crime.. I would point out the COVID era we had some historically high levels of stimulus, unemployment payments, loan/rent/mortgage/etc forbearance, etc.. and yet crime levels shot up nationally.

This may point to other factors as well.. like young males having time on their hands being more likely to do stupid things.
what does this fear come from? the logic doesn’t hold up with any automated mass transit i’ve seen. why aren’t people standing on the train lines at airports? why aren’t people trying to hit the distribution robots in Japans airports?

do you really think there’s a future where people in ‘rough neighborhoods’ (this is very poorly hidden classism/racism) where they are jumping out in front of cars? there’s very little evidence that people in a mentally sane state, read not incapacitated, will self harm to spite technology.

i know living in the bay i’d mess with the self driving cars, but never by getting in the right of way and risking my damn life, only by signaling a left and forcing them to slow down behind me. i never once tried to get infront of the car at the last moment to see if i could be menaingfully maimed. i strongly suspect the desire to not be hurt will trump your concept of how ‘poors’ live
> If blaming customers for manufacturing defects was company policy, that's not how it would have played out.

Your Beliefs don't matter.

To quote the Reuters article yet again:

> The control-arm problem continued for years, across Tesla’s model lineup. The automaker replaced front upper control arms on about 120,000 cars globally from January 2021 through March 2022, according to a Reuters analysis of repair records included in the Tesla documents. Most of the replacements came on the Model 3, Tesla’s least expensive vehicle. Many of the customer complaints were for noise.

And:

> Former service managers and technicians in Norway, the country with the most Teslas per capita, said in interviews that they were inundated with angry customers complaining of early control-arm failures. They said that tension increased as the automaker, starting in 2017, told service employees to push the cost of the frequent and repeated failures onto customers to cut warranty and goodwill repair costs.

One manager said he was forced out after resisting the company’s push to blame customers for the failures of faulty control arms. “I said: ‘Now, we have to quit talking bullshit,’” he recalled. A service technician said he started in 2018 and quit a year later over the issue. “I wasn’t doing anything else than just constantly changing those control arms,” he said.

And on half shaft failures:

> One repair analysis showed the company replaced nearly 66,000 half shafts between January 2021 and March 2022. Customers paid for about 10% of those repairs.

> More than one engineer made a point of saying the issue had nothing to do with damage caused by customers. Engineer Anastasia Skolariki, who was troubleshooting repair problems and customer complaints for Tesla in Europe, wrote in May 2020 to other engineers and technicians that the problem was a design issue “and not abusive behavior from the customer side.” The company needed to cover repairs for cars under warranty, she said, “no matter how many times the vehicle comes to Service with the same issue.”

And here's an exciting half shaft failure:

> In 2019, a Tesla engineer in Shanghai flagged a failure on a brand-new Model S with 160 kilometers (99 miles) on it. The car’s rear left half shaft had broken into three pieces when the owner stepped on the accelerator; one of the pieces pierced the electric-drive unit that powers the car.

You should have a proper read of the Reuters article:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-mu...

You're clearly not taking it in.
Do you believe the 4th amendment is sufficiently protecting your privacy now?
> Rhoticity was stronger in males, a pattern of results which suggests a female-led sound change, a widely documented phenomenon in the sociolinguistic literature. When language changes, women usually start it.

I found this bit particularly interesting. I wonder why that is.
"It’s well known that people with lower incomes commit more crime."

No, this is only for certain types of crime. The amount of money stolen via income tax evasion, financial crimes... by the well off is massively, massively greater than the total amount stolen by the poor via shoplifting and other theft crimes.
Space Bots
Many cars have autosteer at that level, once my silly minivan is on the freeway it can lane follow and adaptive cruise can go down to zero if necessary, and knows the speed limit and adjusts as necessary.
> And yet, somehow the recent Beatles projects reduced me to tears on several occasions.

In a good way or a bad way?
Broadly, the entire space of (lossy, lossless) compression falls under the purview of information theory, which tells us that almost all [0] encoding schemes with sufficient codebook entropy can achieve the desired capacity / compression subject to constraints on distortion. Unfortunately, this isn't directly useful since the proof is nonconstructive, but it suggests (to me, at least) that there is an infinitude of compression schemes that don't have to have any common given structure.

The special thing that image compression gets to rely on is that human vision is inherently lossy, so we can crush color spaces, or throw away tiny details, or even clone regions wholesale (JBIG2, anyone?). And unless you're looking very closely, you probably won't notice a thing.

[0] See: typical sets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typical_set