skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not my face specifically, but as a teenager my whole body sometimes suddenly had a different sense of size.

For my body as a whole, I also don't have an inner sense of a permanent body morphology that is "mine", so with one exception[0] I can't even imagine what it's like to be body-dysmorphic — even if we lived in a world of magic gender/species transformations that might happen with no ill effect, if I woke up and found that had happened, the only concern is if society can cope with it, not one of my own inner psyche.

The one exception is forked tongue. That is a sticky morphology to imagine, and one I don't like at all. It's also something a friend got done surgically. Good for them, they seem to be enjoying it, it makes me go "aaaa".

[0] I assume there are limits beyond my imagination, but my imagination does at least include tails, wings, gender flipping, and I've listened to the We Are Legion (We Are Bob) series.
Don't link to your project with indirect links. You've already posted a link to edenband.io recently. I'm flagging this submission.
I wonder why there's still no AI tool that would take okay-ish voice recording and make it sound stellar, just like there are many tools for visual stuff?
As someone with some non A-Z chars in name I feel this.

Have missed flights because of it before.

Cut off name at the special char on the ticket...and then they wouldn't let me board. It's obviously the SHIT system that is the problem here. I'm here, passport and ticket in hand...it's obvious what the issue is by looking at them side by side and seeing the special char. Nope no joy - your name has to be a precise match.

To be fair the culprit here wasn't airline but rather a crappy 3rd party booking site (lastminute). Applied for refund, which I kid you not came to NEGATIVE 7 bucks which they cheerfully announced they'd waive. Thanks Lastminute...a mere 1k down the drain!

Always book on airline's site directly even if more expensive.
> What USA does with its criminal system feels more like collectivism TBH - "we don't care who did it - you all die and let that be an example to others".

Could you walk me through how that's your appraisal of the US justice system?
> Is a financial reward (or lack of such reward), in and of itself, some sort of implicit indicator of the quality of the person putting forth the effort?

It is an implicit indicator of how much that person cares about the project.
It isn’t always fraud or lying - you apply for insurance. Insurer asks you a million questions. One is “do you have a trampoline”? You honestly answer “No”. The fine print of the application form says you have to tell them if at any time your answers change. After a while, you forget it even asked you about a trampoline. Then, you get your kid a trampoline. Per insurance fine print, you are suppose to inform the insurer of this change in circumstances immediately, but you’ve forgotten that.

Also, it depends on the jurisdiction, but while the insurer can try to void the whole contract, courts don’t always let them do it, especially if the policyholder convinces the court it was an innocent mistake or oversight rather than a deliberate lie.
> I recently started going through many big data collectors and expressing my rights to know, delete, and stop selling my information.

Can you share how to go about it? Do you have a blog post?
> protocol that allowed CT scanner talk to a contrast injector

was this part of the DICOM protocol?

i have worked with medical imaging devices as well, but was not fortunate enough to work with the CT modality. cool stuff!
4 rounds of tech screens when a simple call will suffice.
That's when you beat on the code until you aren't scared. Don't let the code out the door until you've unit tested, integration tested, QA'd it to hell and back.

If it's some random cat pic frontend website code and it breaks, yeah whatever, just fix it as it breaks because you have the luxury of hourly deploys. but on the other side of the spectrum, if you're writing firmware and it's isn't remotely updatable, you don't just sling the code over the wall in the same way. in that realm you have the luxury of an actual spec and a less complicated system.

everyone gets scared. what you do in the face of it is up to you.
Ubiquiti UDM-Pro has it, but I'm not sure how they're regarded in popular opinion these days. I've had good luck with everything but the PoE on mine, and they gave me a free injector to fix that.
Works where archive.ph is blocked:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=1812931943850&w=GaxRXZW2Vc...
See also:

https://temperature-machine.com/
Maybe you can start at the city level and move your way up. This is a great way to do it in the States.
The weather in the US can be wild compared to what Western Europe is used to. England doesn't have to deal with the same events.
I think the language thing is because it’s part of the meme / romantic idea that learning a foreign language is something everyone should do. I think it’s more for the parents when shopping around for paid schools and to yeah tick a box on some gov list for state schools.

I also regret the time I spent learning Japanese and Italian. There’s limited time to get a lot across to kids. It needs to be thought out. Those hours were completely wasted for me (no side benefits, nothing).
See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9ton_brut
This list is great, but what I find missing in these discussions is what to do about it.

And the answer is: if at all possible, only use a name for display purposes. Use a username, a UUID, or some other appropriate unique identifier that you can control the semantics of for absolutely anything for which you might need to assume any property whatsoever.

If you can avoid having a name, don’t even try to collect one. If you need one, it should be a single freeform text input accepting an arbitrary-length and arbitrary-content UTF-8 string. Persist that string exactly as you receive it. Perform no operation on that string other than rendering it.

That isn’t perfect but it’s as close as any of us can reasonably get as things stand today.
Will Spaceship will do some of the same things as Namecheap in time where they sell for one price, and don't tell you upfront that year 2 will be more, or it's changed before the next registration and you get a pleasant surprise?
My house is about 100 years old and still has the original concrete tile roof, with a stack of spare tiles under the house ready if needed.

An extension that was done in the 1980s has had to have its roof replaced once already due to what I have to assume was poor workmanship by the builder.
By far the worst thing we have is lack of protection on whistleblowers. There's multiple facing decades in jail right now. Even a change in governments didn't stop the prosecutions
Tailscale does actually support Wireguard packet forwarding over HTTP (a custom addition to the protocol; standard Wireguard only runs on UDP) for tricky NAT traversal use cases, but that's only used in pretty gnarly situations. Otherwise, it's a regular VPN, i.e. encapsulated and encrypted IP over UDP.

https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works#encrypted-tcp...
Quite possibly, which is related to my doubt of their skill at judging similarity.
Pgen Passphrase Generator v2.0.0 has been released
I’ve had the same thoughts and I’m glad I’m not alone. We like the money and prestige from wearing these titles but not the responsibility that others who call themselves engineers shoulder.

I can protest to my boss about security issues and data privacy or even try refusing to proceed with a project or release but that’s a minor inconvenience to him. Easy enough to fire me and get somebody else who doesn’t care.

We complain that we are powerless but investors and executives aren’t going to give us any power willingly. That will have to come from legislators and if we want it we’ll have to take some responsibility too.
You don't even have to be that far off from the baseline normie to confuse a tech-infested bureaucracy. Being registered at the same address as your parents or having a name ending in a vowel already significantly increases entropy levels.
They are usually equally suitable for both. Are you asking for a friend?
That’s not really true anymore. Try booking a hotel or a flight without a cc.
I would love to do an exchange program like this. Where the code I write is critical to human survival. I want to know what those people know.
Very interesting! Always wondered what the value add was and this is one of them
Placing Cloudflare in front of most shared hosting is often enough.
I'm glad Harmonic lets you filter some articles. the guardian, cnn and bcc articles have become a tumor on my timeline.
I personally believe that people just answer the question “do you visualize?” differently. I used to think I had “aphantasia” but like you said, you see it without seeing it. If your eyes and brain are functioning at all, your brain is perfectly capable of creating colorful images. Just look around. Those colors you see? That’s your brain.
I disagree. There’s an enormous amount of bleeding edge tech in spacecraft. This camera was a totally custom thing. The constraints are simply so limiting that we have to make tradeoffs.
Yup, I knew a postdoc once who didn't like to say litre; the first time I first heard him say "mole per dm cubed" I didn't know what he meant. (He also had an accent.)
there are tens of thousands of apps that use it, for billions of instances; most all of the most popular apps use it in some fashion. it’s a beast.
I wonder what happens when there’re no new dwellings that can come into a particular market. Only the existing can be used.
I think gambling is a much more destructive force in the world than porn, but I don't think either should be banned. Don't look at it like we have to ban a certain number of things.
very well as long as the country has an extradition treaty with your home country (if US, almost all you'd ever travel to does)
Assuming they mean a cat and mouse game like ytdl where the software is updated once it starts getting detected by the enemy.
Eh, Gambling disproportionately impacts poor people.

It's as close to Sugar, Nicotine or Alcohol in terms of addiction as you can get without being chemical.

Same reason we ban certain ads targeting kids.
> So, IMO, the airline here has done everything right.

They haven't done anything harmful on purpose. Also, they provide an alternative path (calling their customer service) that works.

During the last decades, companies and government services have reduced human agents as much as possible to reduce costs. However, this type of problem highlights the need to provide an alternative path. A silly bug or requirement omission may harm many people when there is no alternative.

Anectodal example: I live in Argentina, and my father is an accountant. I've heard him say that many times, the systems provided by the AFIP (the equivalent of the IRS in the US) don't allow certain situations allowed by the tax laws. He often says that a bunch of uninformed software developers are doing whatever they want with the Constitution. I cannot stop thinking about our responsibility as software makers.
"When schools get rid of advanced offerings, they hurt smart, underprivileged students."

What about the "non-smart" underprivileged kids? These gifted schools are another version of "separate and unequal". IMO, this decision will only have a small effect in addressing inequality - you will still have massive factors, like money, parental education, race, etc. But at least, the state decided not to exacerbate the problem.
Only with crappy ISPs like Virgin, which has court-mandated DNS bans for many websites (like ThePirateBay)

I use Zen which has no such restriction. Though for safety all my illegal activity is done via VPN because this is still a Five Eyes country.
And still, despite the weakening, hardly anybody passed even the watered down requirements. Large vendors like Microsoft complained that the bidding process was unfair because they were not even allowed to compete just because they could not meet the minimum security requirements. So, the requirements were reduced until the requirements could meet the the abilities of the vendors.

For operating systems in the early 2000s, this constituted a Common Criteria EAL4 certification according to the Controlled Access Protection Profile (CAPP) [1] which is only appropriate for: "an assumed non-hostile and well-managed user community requiring protection against threats of inadvertent or casual attempts to breach the system security". EAL4 certifications have since been viewed as too onerous for vendors so they progressively dropped it to 2 stacked EAL2, since clearly 2 * EAL2 = EAL4 (I am only half-joking). To where we are now where the requirement is only the lowest level of certification, EAL1, which does not even demand a security analysis. The vendor is only required to Google: Name + Vulnerability (I am not joking this time [2][3]) and show that any vulnerabilities that showed up were patched.

And people wonder why everything is easily hacked. Should be pretty obvious once you see the standards we hold them to.

[1] https://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/files/ppfiles/pp_os_ca_... Page 9

[2] https://www.niap-ccevs.org/MMO/Product/st_vid11349-vr.pdf Page 20 to see the searches used to validate iOS

[3] https://download.microsoft.com/download/6/9/1/69101f35-1373-... Page 14 to see the searches used to validate Windows
> …Which NASA also does. That’s the helicopter on Mars

So you agree with me that it's viable, great.

I guess I should have been more clear that the perfectionism is how NASA almost always operates these days.

> the first Starship mission.

Not NASA.

> Which 85% success rate space mission did you pull off?

What's with this hostility?

All I said is that it's not extremely vital. I didn't even say NASA definitely did anything wrong, just that there are options.
Whenever I needed to do a pivot in postgres, I used this approach that is described in this stackoverflow anwser:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20618323/create-a-pivot-...

So for example when you have a table like described (column_name, meta_key, value), you would create a query like this:

SELECT
column_name,
MAX(CASE WHEN meta_key='total_rows' THEN value ELSE NULL END) AS total_rows,
MAX(CASE WHEN meta_key='not_null_count' THEN value ELSE NULL END) AS not_null_count,
-- for all other metrics....
FROM tall_table
GROUP BY 1

(edit: formatting)
Lol my dude, trampolines in backyards being a rejection reason has nothing to do with climate change.

Yes climate change has caused an upheaval in some geographical regions.

But there are many economic forces at play, from the treatment of real estate as an investment making every home a million dollars to insurers all being reinsured by a ever smaller pool of reinsurers.
> Wouldn't said trampoline simply not be covered by the policy since you lied about it?

This doesn't stop expensive lawsuits, even if they ultimately don't pay the claim.
In my SaaS software I made the conscious decision to record names as "full_name" (e.g. Mary Smith) which is basically your legal name and then "short_name" (e.g. Mary) which is what I would address a letter to.

This handles a whole bunch of issues with people who have just one name (which I believe is high status in some cultures) and cultures where the family name is first and then the given name.

I have had very little issues with it - even though most customers expect first_name and last_name.

I had a police officer talk to me about my software and they were mucho impressed about how this naming system handles all the different name types. They say some of their system have issues all the time with some names.

Is it a perfect system? No, but it seems to be one of the better ones.
very easy to bypass simply by increasing TTL by 1
Sure, it's https://www.ectoplasme.com/

(It's in French, should have mentioned that)
Their post on Polygonal Map Generation for Games [1], from 2010, got me into procedural generation in general.

[1] http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/...
It’s called “money.” That is the reason. Slate roofs are common in the UK, and using synthetic slate is $7-12/sqft, whereas bitumen/asphalt shingles which are common in the USA cost $0.50-$1.00/sqft. Average home in the USA is 2,200 sq ft with a roof size of 1,700 sq ft. So $1,700 vs $11,900 is quite a difference (and that was being most generous, excluding installation costs, etc)
So basically, average person who owns a house has a big house, and big roofs are already expensive. Regardless of wanting to get a high quality roof that would last more than 30 years, that requires capital - more than the average owner really has access too.
Sources:
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/reviews/roofing/slate-ro...
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/reviews/roofing/shingle-...
https://www.rocketmortgage.com/learn/average-square-footage-...
https://www.rubyhome.com/blog/roofing-stats/
I wrote a Tampermonkey script which more or less was a true 'automate someone out of a job' situation, except it didn't do that at all; it freed up 20+ hours a week that someone had to sit there and do this awful manual thing with vendor portals, csv's, and spreadsheets.

I haven't worked at that job for almost a decade, and last I heard it's continued being used with only a small amount of maintenance.

That's the most compliments I've ever gotten for any software I've ever written and it had very real human impact.
I was not aware, thanks.
Correct the web version is not a 1:1 swap but the desktop version has been a stable product used by millions for decades. Most users use the desktop version and indeed it has few compatibility issues with itself.
If California was its own county with control over monetary supply, it could subsidize the building of houses (edit: without raising taxes) which would change the equation for building construction.
I'd like to do that, but our software has to integrate with a ton of different other SaaS software which often has dumb first/last splits, so the dumb business logic often oozes across.
(2023)

More current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954724
SAS, synthetic aperture sonar. I made the algorithms and software to make the near photographic pictures of the ocean floor from these systems. Completely amazing way to see the ocean floor! The software is in wide use by sever groups and runs in real time on a Remus 600 UUV.
Can’t help but feel that is a bit like saying can’t go to another website, the UI is different.
Different types of storm are one thing.

I think the biggest difference, though, is that the stereotypical single family US home of the 19th/20th century US expansion is on a large plot of land and has - so far - been one to get remodeled/expanded/revised several times in a hundred years. Houses are generally treated as mutable things, and people also often expect to move within a few decades, spending more to put in something that will hold up a hundred years instead of twenty seems foolhardy to many. If you sell it the buyer will likely want a cosmetic refresh; if you keep it, you likely will too.
I'm leaning towards the belief we can get rid of it to some extent through tech. I think quite likely an AI assistant version of you and then when your biological body is packing up you can take some meds to pass away peacefully and hand your stuff over to the AI you. Or something like that - it's a bit tricky to see how the future will pan out.
...why even bother with essays at all then. This is some kind of insane "they pretend to pay us, we pretend to work" setup that benefits nobody.
If money printer goes brr… you’re losing, not winning.
I'm with you, including NC customership and excluding a want of registrars to provide even DNS, let alone mail and hosting.

That said, GoDaddy makes about half of it's annual revenue from it's 'core' business (domain name sales) over again in 'apps and commerce' (stuff you and I don't, but clearly many other less enlightened people want).

The 'A&C' segment grew 13% in 2023 as opposed to 2% of core business.
They do tell you up front... They show you the price for the first year, then a dimmer price for year 2 on. I really don't understand where your confusion is, are you buying from their website or the app? Maybe the app doesn't show that?
Which one are you using? It's overpriced and it sounds like a bad experience. Fortunately most VPNs you'll find are cheaper and better than what you're describing!
Vue Fluid DnD
A fluid, smooth, versatil and lightweight drag and drop library for lists on Vue3.
Mandarin and Spanish are absolutely worth learning. Anyone who tells you differently is limiting themselves. There is a much larger economy that doesn't speak English.
Try living in Japan, where you're generally forced to use the name in your passport, including any middle names included (with space) in given name.

Meanwhile a typical Japanese name is no more than three characters each for family and given names, but someone with a western name will have several times that, complete with spaces. And of course most of the companies running various websites and computer systems don't care, because foreigners are a single digit percentage of the market. If you're lucky you can use a separate but equal foreigner flow with fewer features available. (I am looking at you, JAL Mileage Bank and your SEVEN character family+given name limit!)

It is typically possible to circumvent this using paper systems, but that's a particular shame -- one of the nice points about online computerized forms is that it is easy to send them back and forth through browser integrated machine translation which can make them vastly easier to fill out.
I think the distinction should be that if a private IP address is allocated for you, and hence this "tunnel" is forwarding layer3 packets or lower, then it's called a VPN. A proxy would not forward IP packets directly, but something at layer4 or higher.
This is not a good example of "fine print", because trampolines are notorious sources of injury. It's like if you added a pool to your property and didn't tell your insurer because you "forgot the fine print". You can plead that, but if I was your neighbor, I'd be rooting for the insurer. Knowing about the dangers of things you set up on your property is on you.
GrapheneOS and CalyxOS are great at what they do, and the present situation for both is positive and good. It can be exhausting digging up old interpersonal stuff that does not have a technical bearing on the present, especially as there are/were health and wellbeing issues that are/were at play. Choose to let it go, for once and for all. Peace out.
It's the same lastminute that has shitty dark-patterned checkout form which shows a confusing confirmation popup with a small print that sneakily adds insurance to your order despite repeatedly declining it, has a broken website and needs an app with a chatbot to modify the order and get that money back.