skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those scenarios aren’t the same: those photos are a literal state of fact, not an endorsement. SpaceX can say they fly NASA missions because that’s a provable fact that they were awarded a contract to do so and anyone who wants to search the public procurement records could verify that. Where they (and NASA employees) would get into trouble would be saying that NASA thinks they’re the best, or that you should give them your business, too. It’s the idea that the reputation of a public agency is being committed to boost a private business that causes the legal concerns.
I assume that canny and sobel could also detect the document edges better if a different kernel to image resolution ratio is choosen.

One way this could be done is downsampling the image and then use sobel or canny edge detection.
The Canadian province of Alberta has more or less this exact policy.
For a lot of people going through a first layoff, it would be shocking.
This company that keeps telling them they are all family here just cut x% of them. Its a slap in the face and makes them understand that there is no loyalty from the business to the employee so why be loyal to the business?

This drives people to take a more mercenary approach to work and look for better pay elsewhere.
Copilot is great to do boilerplate, it guesses and completes code correctly most of the time
Having a stronger financial industry lets companies (both new and established) get funding more easily and more cheaply. That leads to more investment and development in those other industries. American companies are much better financed than European ones.
Then why is life, which is more complex and structured, assumed to have arisen by chance?

If random processes can give birth to structure, then one can also argue that maybe this ring is a fluke.

Remember that randomness is not necessarily uniformity
This whole horizon system story is fascinating for so many reasons. One thing I don't understand though is exactly what the bug was?

For context, it led to (sometimes huge) discrepancies in what it thought should be in the till based on sales data from the day.

I don't build systems anything like Horizon, so this is probably a massive over simplification, but surely tracking stock and cash in tills should be really simple? Does anyone know if there are public details on what exactly the technical bug was?
No, the American system is measurably worse. Dying destitute of a preventable cause is a uniquely American phenomenon contrasted to Western nations with socialized healthcare within capitalist frameworks.

And as far as I know, Cubans have inheritance.
> But I also annoy myself as a user when I can't remember what the syntax options are for the CLI that I coded so I end up having to open the source code and re-examine the argc and argv sections to see what the spelling or ordering is.

I try to avoid this in two ways:

1. I use the history in my terminal to search for previous invocations of the command, which tends to give me a good set of examples of how it should be used.

2. For anything but the quickest and dirtiest CLI tools, I like to use a declarative parameter parser like docopt or argparse. This forces me to spend a couple extra minutes writing some docs and makes the --help useful.
Their government might though..
With all the sensors onboard, can they actually go above speed limit?

[edit: never mind. they can, probably]
Yes. That’s the point? So why is it egregious in a way that <form> is not?
When you rent a gas car, you don't have to bring it back full. You have to bring it back with as much, if not more fuel than it left with. So if you get it with 1/2 a tank, you can bring it back with 1/2 a tank. They usually give you a chart when they give you the keys that tells you how much fuel it has currently, and how much fuel you would need to add from empty to avoid paying extra fees.

So whether you're in electric or gas, obviously nobody is going to expect 100.0% fuel capacity on return. This is customer arm flailing, being pedantic and dramatic about something that is very clear. "Maybe if I make a bunch of noise they'll treat me special!"
This is not on Cloudflare in particular. This is not even on the two clueless hatchet people sent to do the dirty work.

This is an indictment of the HR profession, its credentialing entities, and various state and federal labour laws which often create perverse incentives.

It is also an artifact (and indictment) of post S/Ox corporate culture where line managers have been removed from the "non-functional" administration of staff. and a cult of youth that has seen people with hard won managerial experience pushed out and replaced by younger employees who are too often -not- selected on the basis of management performance (since they have no track record) but rather for natural aggressiveness and disregard for others combined with an ability to hide that behind a bland non-threatening, socially acceptable, exterior. An ability that is in my personal opinion uncomfortably close to sociopathic behavior, but hey, that's just me and I am not a psychologist, right?

Anyone who thinks this is an isolated incident, or indicative of Cloudflare being in some way worse than any other similar company is profoundly mistaken.
> Is there a particular reason to underline/emphasize _The Mashall Islands_?

Yes, the reason is that I didn't know the Marshal Islands had anything to do with the U.S.A. Though now that I know the relationship, it's no less shocking (it's part of the U.S.A. but not part of the U.S.A.?)

> And it is not like the U.S. is the only entity with various sanctions against Iran

Sure, but I didn't know / think the Marshal Islands did.

> ...which part is the most dystopian to you?

All of it! It's like something out of a sci-fi book where the world is governed by a Romanesque empire. Maybe this kind of thing only offends people outside the U.S.A. since it's not normalised elsewhere. If the Netherlands did something like this for example, people in the country would freak out.
> Sometimes I wonder how people can actually enjoy songs that are so utterly linked to their times.

Because they are linked to their times. That song teleports me back to the best parts of high school, particularly my then girlfriend who was obsessed with Eminem.
Look up 'Power to the Proletariat' on yt.
No lecturing, just great tips for dealing with the uk cops.
After a while you see the same, same tricks they use.
This is awesome! Also, I'm pretty sure I've come across your repo before from a SO answer (if I remember correctly)
She's in Georgia, and Georgia, like most states, is a "one-party consent" state for purposes of making audio recordings of conversations. They'd have no case at all.
You can prevent this by bringing democracy into the workplace. Right now the workplace is like a dictator ran country or monarchy. Its a very top down tiered system In a co-op structured company it is owned and operated by its employees. You vote as a collective on how much the CEO makes, if you even need one. How the work is done, how much everyone should be getting paid, etc.
What are the limits to technological progress?

In the past we have replaced resources that we might run short of with other resources. We have almost entirely replaced wood as a source of energy, and many countries have almost replaced coal.
Something like it but with (large) in-memory computation would be a welcome addition. Ability to run LLMs on edge platforms needs to be addressed. The question is: will it take 1 or 10 years.
Sadly the coral was already outdated when released.
I can't speak for everyone but I can tell you what my ice-breaking moment was that got me into software: I was playing the original Driver game for PC, and via reading on Gamespot forums, learned you could give yourself god-mode + access to any map if you went into the files and edited the map configuration, which was stored as plain text and easily editable. I never completed more than like... 3 missions of that game back then, I was just too dumb, but I was smart enough to edit a text file and it was the first time I altered software without using an interface or settings menu.

Of course being a dumb kid I assumed all software was like this and broke many files and executables opening them in Notepad and changing random characters, but nevertheless I credit this with starting me down the path of being a software developer. I don't think most people get into this stuff because it's easy or hard, we get into it because we want the computer to do something that it isn't currently doing, and we look for a way to make it do that. And of course there are still innumerable ways to go about it now, but they are paradoxically more complicated (not able to be performed in something like notepad, usually) and also less complicated (installing mods via Nexus, for example, is not technically challenging: the software does the vast majority of the work for you).
Best sarcasm is when u r not quite sure .. ))
> there are lessons to be learned here about what impact => a mgmt crowd with zero skills and integrity <= can have on individuals' lives

A friendly yet rueful amendment.
https://archive.is/lTc0o
Sometimes I think the ad industry made up the misleading term cookie-banner.
At least GDPR does not limit the technology used for collecting personal information.
You still need to ask for consent if you track users with some other technology.
Using cookies does not require consent under GDPR, collecting and sharing PII does though (if not necessary for the service to function)
This is some reference I don't get.
so according to his, Asian & African LOTR incoming?

J. R. R. Tolkien United Kingdom 3 January 1892 2 September 1973 Writer The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings
often the decisions for the cuts are not made at the manager level, the people who know who the best performers are. The C Suite just says we are cutting these departments often including the managers. Its not done with a scalpel but with an axe and only the very best, known to the c-suite get a stay of execution.

The best talent is often unknown to the csuite.
The Chinese government routinely runs DDoS against GitHub because it hosts VPN software that can be used to circumvent the Great Firewall of China. They use the Great Cannon of China, which is the offensive side of the Great Firewall, effectively turning ordinary Chinese Internet users into an unwitting army of DDoS-ers.

Of course, GitHub and Microsoft have significantly higher resources than SourceHut to endure the DDoS.
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Yeah, that post is not at all related to getting a discount from Cloudflare on a product they need to buy from somewhere regardless.

The owner is in general against slowly having all traffic on the internet routed through Cloudflare, but considering that they asked Cloudflare they seem to be interested in that compromise to stay online.
> Like, who the hell targets a "company" because of an employee who works there you don't like

I've seen plenty of witch hunts of the sort the past years in tech, including attacking or boycotting the company due to an individual (usually due to them having conservative views).

That said, I'm inclined to think this is a form of "pay us or we keep on ddos-ing".
It may be that you didn't understand what satire is? If everything is fine, satire is redundant. This sort of investigative journalism is closely allied to the work of the satirist.
With all these command-line parser libs, I'm surprised there aren't more libraries that automatically generate a graphical interface for them. Would be super useful for e.g. ffmpeg, cc, curl, etc. Especially for people unfamiliar with the program....
Cloudflare does!
Sounds like a customer service issue, as a starter. In a long running business where "things just work" - due heavily as you point out to existing standards in product design, I can see the problems you ran into being an area that eventually starts to get overlooked at a large company; or perhaps there were people down the line who were pointing out this problem but no one at senior enough level with decision making power was design-product oriented?
I agree that it came off as a bait and switch. Having looked a bit deeper, the plugin is open source and you can download, compile and distribute it for free. They charge for the precompiled binaries that you can get in the Unity Store (now videolabs store).

If we were already aware of all this then this wouldn't have come off in the same way. The problem is that due to the way it was written I think most people expected the plugin to be free on the store. Personally I think it just could have noted that the general interest section of the article was finished when they segued into the store announcement.

Anyway, assuming everything is as they say then it seems pretty clear that Unity have some other reason for banning it, most likely commercial.
Suicide deterrent finally comes to the Golden Gate Bridge
It's not too hard to DDOS a website. Here's the 9th google result for booter service:

https://nightmarestresser.net/
Likewise for the reach out to CloudFlare given their reverse proxy is actively blocked from source hut and anyone using source hut pages.
I'm sure that they will be glad to have the fastest site on the web. Don't mind them being in debt though.
Yes, that's an interesting case as cameras are routinely calibrated, but the software is closed source which I think is a mistake. It should be possible to challenge whether a system is operating correctly if you have decent evidence against it e.g. GPS tracking. I do think that modern cars should be fitted with a black box device with the owner having ultimate control over access to it, so they could submit it for evidence to prevent miscarriages of justice.
I've been in some Tesla taxis, they usually have to have an arrow sticker pointing at the open button for the door. It's definitely a non-standard car, and while in some cases it can make sense, because the mechanical contraptions behind some of the levers and latches are not a thing anymore, in other cases it's just a way to scream "we're different!" that doesn't help users, or a cost reduction measure.

(Also, the ride quality in the back seats is abysmal)
Ransom, taking out competitors (e.g. gambling sites), censorship.

The Chinese government regularly targets GitHub because it hosts VPN software.
What shocks me the most is the amount people who pleaded guilty (who claim they are innocent) to receive a lesser sentence.

I'd equate that to torture.
>Microsoft has been innovating way more than Apple,

What has Microsoft been innovating recently?

>taking tested and consolidated tech from others and rebranding it as its own.

Didn't Microsoft just recently build out a whole public cloud infrastructure by copying AWS and "rebranding it as its own"?

That's not innovating, that's direct competition, red in tooth and claw - something MS relishes.
Fidelity's bitcoin ETF fell 2.5% on it's first day of trading.

According to some sources, the volatility of bitcoin has been 5X that of the broader stock market over the past 5 years.

With volatility comes opportunity --- particularly for those with some insight and control over it --- like the unregulated exchanges who can easily trade against their own customers.
Minimum Flyable Plane
I just posted this in the shoelace thread yesterday, so if you’ve been there you know I like this library. Are you the creator? Why is this posted as a Show HN?
Neat seeing this alongside all the mass layoff threads.
There’s a decent chance they want to chit-chat a bit. I’ll occasionally strike up a conversation I know I could avoid by googling, just to have a conversation.
If they are 3 volt I think you would most likely use them in parallel for more power, not in series.
There is for Python: https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey
Given that Unity itself also uses LGPLv2.0 dependencies in its own iOS version, it seems clear that at least Unity believes that there is no issue deploying LGPLv2.0 code to iOS.
Why is it absurd? Any such provider has something to gain by scaring us into believing we need their protection.
Haha, obviously you haven’t worked in any large enterprises before that aren’t software companies. Basically the business rolls dice and comes up with some random requirements and then tries to change those requirements constantly until you end up with software that looks so hideous nobody understands anything about it and all the chopping and changing leaves the code in a complete mess with lots of bugs. The problem is the people making these requests do not understand the costs, if they were building a house they wouldn’t dig up the foundations on a whim, but because software is so ephemeral it seems (to them at least) cost free.
I was making good buck being ie6 expert, wish the tech didn't progress that quickly ))
Content blocking is not an all-or-nothing process. Popular blocklists have different flavors depending on whether you value privacy (blocking almost everything Google, etc.) or usability (blocking ads, telemetry, third-parties) but allowing everything else.
> E.g. I wish banks and credit cards had a pseudo SSH terminal that I could run text commands to list transactions.

Really, it'd be nice if they offered any upgrade from the 80s beyond a smartphone app. How does the rest of the world have better peer-to-peer payments than we do? How can I still not fully deny all transactions to a bank account? Why can't this banking app ask my permission before letting charges go through? Why is over-drafting a debit card possible at all? Why can I not ensure that a PIN is necessary to use my debit card in all situations and not just at a physical point-of-sale or ATM? Why do they all use SMS for 2FA—which has already bitten my twice?

I hate that Venmo and cashapp basically leech off the incompetence of our banking industry. Banking is a joke of an industry in dire need of regulation.
Then it should be easy for you to find at least one passage that demonstrates that.
Show HN: Make Rust feel like an interpreted language in a Python Server
That's not the word I'm looking for. The overwhelming number of scams and rug pulls built around blockchains and fake decentralization should be ample evidence that crypto isn't "protecting financial transactions" from anyone. If anything, it makes them more vulnerable and more likely to be lost.
Value in the context of Hacker News means something that is amusing, insightful, or impressive. It is very rare for plain ol' documentation to make it to the front page.
> The quality of your average tech worker has completely nosedived in the last 10-15 years.

Not my experience. I've conducted 300+ interviews at FAANG in the last 15 years and haven't seen a meaningful drop in the hiring bar.

Based on anecdotes, I have another theory. The people that build the systems got old and are unwilling to work the crazy hours. The new folks are hired to work on maintaining these systems, and it's not fun. So overall both quality and speed declined.
> Even crazier. The Post Office just recently lowered(!) the amount of money

It's even worse: they're still fighting hard against the appeals, heaping more misery on the people trying to turn their lives around!
I'm trying to decide how pleased I should be if Airbus is winning customers from Boeing.

I have an overall impression that Boeing had excessively chooses profit over safety. E.g., the various 737 MAX problems, maybe other ways as well?

If they have, then I'd hope that losing orders gets them to mend their ways.

But maybe my view is overly simplistic.
>It doesn't need an idrive button. It has voice.

Every car has voice, it just does not work well in the US because street and establishment names are often not real words in English, people don't know how they are pronounced and, even if they do, the car itself has different ideas about pronunciation. iDrive guarantees that you can get to the "Manet st" and not the "Monet st".

>The Tesla does all the things you listed vastly better.

Don't you need to get into menus to change the A/C air direction/temperature/pressure in a Tesla? How is it better than operating a physical dial/lever for example? Especially for the people on the rear seat? Also, the glove box latch is in the menu too, is not it?
That sounds like something that would be of general interest, but I couldn't find it in your Medium. Could you give a link?
Archive link posted two minutes after you…
You don't adblock...at all?
I'll start by saying that if you're going to roast a paper that an econ nobel winner and one of the most famous and respected working statisticians put their names on, you probably want to turn down the volume and double check your claims a little more before hitting "post."

A z score is not at all morally equivalent to a p-value. It's just a standardized measure. Converting measures to z-scores aids in interpretation. They also can aid estimation in some cases: using non-standard parameterization in Bayesian analysis is often crucial to get MCMC to accurately sample from the posterior distribution.

Sure, you can take a z score and look at the area under the curve and come up with a p value. But you don't have to. In the referenced paper, they use z scores to be able to standardize the measures in the papers they draw from, so they're comparable.

The author's other critiques of the paper seem reasonable. It's a problem with all meta analyses: the amount of work it takes to correctly interpret publishes papers and then take those results and aggregate them is herculean. To do it to over 20,000 is inevitably going to lead to some mistakes. That said, those mistakes may not be fatal to the analysis.

Moreover, saying "no one knows what happened to those 11,285 studies" without checking in with the authors is completely unfair. The first author responded with the code showing exactly how they achieved that figure. Nothing mysterious.

Andrew Gelman responded in the comments to him, as did the first author. I find their responses convincing.
Tesla's insurance product wasn't/isn't available in my state (NC), so I can't speak too much to it.
Oh, is "environmentalism" how the Rockefellers became rich?

Destruction of the environment is the core business of all the super rich, to counter your point. Obtaining "alpha" or maximizing profit by externalizing pollution costs was and still is essential to manufacturing and resource extraction.

If you statement were true, there would have always been a carbon tax and we would have had wind power 70 years ago, battery and solar technologies would have been developed 30-40 years sooner.
Nice writeup, very helpful!

I wonder at what point it makes more sense to adopt UUID v7 instead of ULID, but I guess that's a relatively irrelevant point.
I wasn't able to quickly find an answer: can you use it also in private browsing mode on Firefox? I basically only use private Firefox browsing both on mobile and desktop.
European countries have had aviation industries stretching back to the 1910s. They always had the engineering. But making a good product is not enough. You have to SELL it.

No what made Airbus start winning in the 1980s was hiring a former Boeing salesman. That's when they took off. Convincing air liners to take a chance and order Airbus planes.
Life is an extremely interesting and complex phenomenon worthy of study. It's not a counterexample to the observation that structure and complexity indicate interesting phenomena, rather than "coincidence".