skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have difficulty understanding what the transformed image is equivalent to.

As a non-photographer with zero knowledge about photography, the fixed image, with straight lines, feels much more natural to me.

I'd say it reminds me of 3D games like, say, 3D game simulators?

Are 3D games not reproducing lens deformation more or less correct from a "physics" point of view? I happen to be on vacation atm in an apartment on the beach on the ninth floor with a clear view: what I see is much closer to the "corrected" (not my word but TFA's author's one) version than to the other one.
> In general, currently mostly held in Spent fuel pools […]

For the first 7-10 years.

> and or moved to decommissioned facilities because no one wants it in there back yard.

It's generally stored on-site, at least Canada:

> Canada’s used nuclear fuel is currently safely managed in facilities licensed for interim storage. These facilities are located at nuclear reactor sites in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick, and at Atomic Energy of Canada Limited's sites in Manitoba and Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario.

* https://www.nwmo.ca/canadas-used-nuclear-fuel/how-is-it-stor...

* https://www.opg.com/power-generation/our-power/nuclear/nucle...
> I think the expense aspect doesn't dig deep enough.

Agreed, a lot of Nordic countries provide more support to families with children yet they have very similar numbers to countries with worse support. The monetary aspect obviously plays a factor but it cannot explain everything. If you want to change the trend you will have to look at other additional factors as well. Not all factors have the same weight but they all feed into the same trend.

The different narratives around "why would you bring children into this horrible world?" also have an effect. It does not matter that they live better lives than people did in the 13th century. Their reality tunnel will latch onto anything negative to justify why they cannot have kids until things get better. And because they always focus on the negative they will never notice if things improved at all. Things will always look too bleak for them.

It sadly also remains a reality that if a woman gets kids her career will take a hit. This pushes women who care about their careers to delay having children sometimes too long.

The economical factor has easier answers I guess than the other more intangible aspects.
Lots of businesses have agreements with vendors to keep the source code in escrow, in order for the business to be able to ensure continuity if the vendor goes out of business or abandons the product.
>voters refusing to vote them out.

US states are rapidly banning ranked-choice voting †, in efforts to prevent loss of their two-party systems. Campaign finance reform is definitely necessary, but so is the fundamental nature of how citizens choose representation.

†: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

Just one example would be Tennessee, which recently banned the practice after a Memphis suburb attempted to implement the practice.
I think it's specifically Chicago:

>Chicago’s 9% amusement tax extends to all “amusements that are delivered electronically.” If you stay home and watch a movie, you pay the same tax rate as you would if seeing it in theaters.

https://www.illinoispolicy.org/this-christmas-your-gift-from...
I think they mean that the code base is small enough to be audited thoroughly. Maybe they should reword it to be clearer.
'First thing' ? AFAIK the idea existed looong before this recent discovery.

Even if only as a cover story for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer at first.
Add:

3. Religion and Culture - atheism has grown rapidly among western cultures over the past few decades. It is possible that western atheists have made a personal choice in service of their individual lives here on this earth, while someone who is guided more by religion or ideology is making a decision for what they view as a higher calling or purpose. This hypothesis is supported by the fact that first generation immigrants to the west tend to have higher birthdates vs those who were born in the west, as well by how common it is see modern religious and social conservatives in the west push for "tradlife."
> "Beyond Silicon Valley, concerns about Mr Biden run deep, too. Many ceos would love him to step aside in favour of a younger candidate. Yet a Trump-Vance ticket is more of a worry."

Well, those CEOs just got their wish!
> Plenty of kids in their 30s.

Did I miss the memo on who is considered a kid these days?
A Man Who Thought Too Fast (2020)
It can go both ways.

Pros of Expedia:

- they have my card
- their website does not suck as much as the airline’s
- they let me cancel within 24/48 hours for free and immediately

The second point can be a huge selling point and it applies to a lot of OTAs. Every time I try to book direct “because it’s best” I easily spend triple the time and sometimes I get fleeced anyway (oh, here’s a $5 convenience fee for using a credit card we don’t like)
> Can you quantify what you mean by "provided value"?

I took it to mean ignoring companies in sales & marketing or FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate), as well as focussing on the effects of a company's products and services versus their valuation.
> student loans should be private (but should 100% be dischargeable via bankruptcy)

While I mostly agree, how do you prevent basically every student from going bankrupt immediately after graduation? None of the downsides to bankruptcy really apply to students so it's logically the best course of action if students loans could be discharged.
Knowing that it doesn't matter how badly you screw up, you'll always be able to cover your most basic needs.

This is one. We should go deeper into this question. I most certainly would continue doing a lot of the things I do now, but for fun and to progress the state-of-the-art in my field of work. I'd accept higher taxes in compensation for the assurance I will always be able to do what I do best, instead of what someone would pay me to do.
WebAssembly is a better choice for sandboxing kernel code. It has a full formal specification with a mechanized proof of type safety, many high-performance implementations, broad toolchain support, is targetable from many languages, and a capability security model.
> caning people for littering

This is a myth. You won't get caned for littering, though you'll be fined and possibly made to sweep the streets as part of community service. See: https://singaporelegaladvice.com/law-articles/littering-offe...
With no specific location you should be sought at and more butts than desks nobody should expect to be able to find you anyway.
so they were more picky? I dont think that’s intrinsically good or bad, but it seems concordant with the finding in unemployment studies that a large proportion of unemployed workers who get a fixed period of unemployment payments end up finding a job in the last month when the payment is about to end. Which raises the question, should you make the period shorter to reduce financial burden of unemployment insurance on workers, or longer to allow workers to be even more “deliberate” about their employment choices?
Ignoring the shuttles which I don't think conclusively illustrate your point; Google has for years threatened to develop land into homes in San Jose so workers can choose to live closer, with the idea of doing exactly what OP suggests, but like so many Google projects, never seems to pan out:

> https://www.fastcompany.com/90978855/googles-plan-to-build-1...
>Microsoft has realized this and still broadly supports remote work

I wonder how this would look like if Microsoft's stock were to be doing poorly. I seem to have noticed a strong correlation between companies being all for FWH and other perks, as long as "line goes UP", but the moment it stops going up, for factors unrelated to the workforces' performance, then they start tightening the screws on the workers: RTO, layoffs, etc.
For clarity, I wasn't calling the PKM crowd a cult. My point is that after a certain level of engagement (i.e., consuming a ton of written and media-based information about the subject), I realized there was a certain cult-like following present. I'm unsure how much that following constitutes the overall PKM crowd, but I wouldn't say it's the entire crowd or even a large majority.

Like with many things, serious people tend to be a lot quieter (i.e., they are not running YouTube's content treadmill). So, the perception likely doesn't match the reality.
That we didn't evolve to read doesn't mean I don't enjoy a book or it can't be healthy for me to relax in that escape. This is not a useful predictor for whether or not something is healthy
The Amiga was definitely the more exotic platform! I learned a ton from Amiga OS though. It was my first exposure to a "real" operating system with libraries, multitasking, IPC, etc. Once I got a Linux box though, I never looked back.
hard to say either way without statistics on actual UBI proponents. I would argue most, but my opinion is also based on cumulative vibes from vocal proponents like Andrew Yang and random internet commenters.
I agree, but Id say theyre part of the same continuum rather than fundamentally different.
It's in Portuguese, no translation I'm afraid x) https://www.wook.pt/livro/agora-agora-e-mais-agora-colecao-7...

Six less well-known periods of the history of the past 1000 years, from a scholar of the Islamic golden age to political polarisation in Dante's Italy to the upheavals of WWII, with an always-present unifying undercurrent: the notion of human rights.
Mostly because there is a MASSIVE oversupply of people that can’t and won’t do anything useful, and insist that their technical incompetence makes them uniquely qualified to be in charge of everybody else that is doing the work.

But at some point, that’s exactly how it has to work out, because CEO is a poorly-understood role that is only discoverable through natural selection among legions of technical bozos. One of those crazy idiots can make you rational experts a billionaire, but most of them will waste your time, and you probably can’t tell the difference.
https://i.redd.it/o6xypg00uac91.png

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Apologies; I misread the function call as being inside the loop.
https://duckrabbit.tech/articles/learning-haskell.html
No, it is specifically not an automaton. It has a human operator.
No no, that's a void pointer .
But that doesn't seem like what they're suggesting:

> congested, underbuilt roads
Yeah, I know about the paracetamol; I took Oxy 24/7 for two months after a spine operation, and then got that crap instead. It's pure evil if you ask me.
Plenty of people raise other people’s kids without ever knowing. They didn’t love them less.
> But management refuses to acknowledge the fact, and mandated RTO.

That’s because while workers discovered they were working better at home, middle management discovered that they were useless and had nothing other to do than exert some control over workers lives.

They’re just afraid upper management may notice it.
I guess I'm still unclear about the first part of my question then.
A kid is anyone 40% younger than you
> Deel provides a solution to workers having too much time and patience

Their innovation was abstracting away the complexity of cross-border hiring. Their impact is meaningful to the degree employment is.
This is the reason.

Nothing is stopping airlines from offering 1-click bookings, except that lengthy funnels bring in tons of cash. Ryanair has been a master at this since the beginning of time.

In 2020 I booked a flight directly on Google Flights and the booking was complete before I even realized, it was so simple. I never found that UI again.
Same. For me, the office is door to door 35 minutes, 20 of those walking, the other 15 on light railway. Any longer than that and I would really struggle. As it is, this arrangement works well for me. I tend to WFH one day out of ten, or if I have a reason to be at home such as a delivery or a tradesperson visiting.
> Office life post-COVID is an entirely new thing that's worse than what office life was like pre-COVID

Yep. Now, on any given day, half the office is at home. So, even if you're there, you probably still need to use Zoom for meetings or collaboration. At that point, why? I don't like Zoom but if I have no choice I might as well be at home and not commuting in to a half-empty office.

I still find some value in working at work. I find it easier to focus, I'm not distracted by household tasks and activities. But I could achieve that by just getting out of the house, going to Starbucks, or a co-working space, or the park. I don't need a permanent office to go to.
You could add just about any University to the list. At least in California, many UC IT people left due to poor pay and long hours, however the UTPE CWA 9119 union has grown in numbers and strength and the trend in pay and hours is quickly improving.

There's plenty of gray beards, the UC is starving for seasoned talent, and the HMO plans are inexpensive and cover a lot -- 5 years to vest in the pension that matches nearly 100% and you can take distributions starting at age 50.
Last Week Tonight had a deep sea mining operation episode.

https://www.hbo.com/last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver/seaso...
> Glad this got some traction

Yes, we know.[0]

[0] https://www.kickscondor.com/satya-nadella-'reads''games'-hac...
This smells of vaporware to me.

Certifying a new electric aircraft is hard. There are several other startups who are trying to do this and they're all struggling.

Certifying a pilotless aircraft is really hard. There are no pilotless commercial aircraft because nobody has created one that can be trusted to never crash. I'm not sure that the FAA even knows HOW to certify such an aircraft.

So logically, certifying a new, pilotless, commercial electric aircraft is likely next to impossible. At least to a cynical bum like me.
Good luck Wisk; I hope you prove me wrong!
Following this rationale we should still be running naked in small packs, hunting large animals in some African Savannah.

Our basic desires and how we deal with them is informed by our society and how it is organized, its culture, etc.
The buffer cars are made of thin pieces of steel. As are most other railroad cars.
I hope they deviate from the books because I found the second book really jarring.
I'd disagree with this, but it's easier to just point out that the trendline is for higher and higher proportions of the population to become sexually inactive.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-have-been-...

> The decreases “aren’t trivial,” as the authors wrote in the study, published on November 19 in Archives of Sexual Behavior. Between 2009 and 2018, the proportion of adolescents reporting no sexual activity, either alone or with partners, rose from 28.8 percent to 44.2 percent among young men and from 49.5 percent in 2009 to 74 percent among young women.

The underlying paper has more demographic breakdowns:

> Wellings et al. (2019)—using three waves of data from the UK’s National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal) completed in 1991, 2001, and 2012—found that frequency of sex among 16–44 year olds had declined, more so among married participants and those in the 35–44 age group.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-02125-2

Similar article:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/all-about-sex/2021...
> hard to understand without subtitles.

My main issue with subtitles is that I don't need the lyrics in the background sound interspersed with the dialog.
~/.(local|share|whatever) means I have to search both the basement, the attic and the garage. For stuff i rarely need to touch so I forget every time where it was placed.

If it was only one place it would be great. If it was truly separated by config vs cache it would be great. The reality know though is that you have at least three locations where important config are stored, not counting those from package managers that have their own idea of this concept. Still, this mess is preferable to the even worse mess of hundred plumbing files spread on the living room floor.
Did anyone ask the engineers, or just the ceo?
Also, things like LLMs are radically different than the assign, compare, iterate logic of current digital systems. LLMs are based on probabilities with no guarantee from one input/output combination to the next. It's pretty hard to model a process with an AI when there's no guarantee it will follow the process. Businesses are going to really struggle to adopt LLMs across their whole business like everyone is promising.
Swift-Transformers
When I started my career in late 2018 and went fully remote in early 2020, a ton of folks said that the worst thing I could do as a junior software engineer was to work remotely.

Four years and a few promotions later, you couldn’t pay me extra to bring me back to the office. I like strict 9-5 work, and nothing can make me give up five hours of post-office daylight during the summer.
I’ve been amazed that none of the companies who have long-term leases they hate to waste have tried building actual personal offices for their staff in the space. Let the folks who moved further away stay home, but make the actual office experience something better.
Chronic pain (pvps) has a 1-2% incidence rate, and can be treated in many cases.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5503923/

Options for women include childbearing, which bears risk of severe medical complications and death; hormonal birth control, which is mood-altering, causes weight gain, unsatisfactory sex; IUDs with risk of chronic pain; and condoms which always seem to magically slip off.
The fractured ways people hear about big news in 2024
Welcome to the New Old Kingdom
If you're trying to get attention, copy should be clear to all readers. The fact that you did not misread it in no way demonstrates that others won't.

And why the rude response?
> Wouldn't it be better to have them as an ally?

I strongly suspect the possibility of normalizing relations while the Castros held power would have been impossible.

I had actually expected some progress on this front after they got new blood in a few years ago, but he's much the same, and given their relations with other sanctioned countries like North Korea, and calling Israel a terrorist state, I don't really see much desire for change from either side.
One of those two companies also makes the OS, the other one piggybacks on it. So it seems updates to Defender XDR would be less likely to brick the OS like this.
I think they're probably talking about something closer to lean startup methodology.
That reminds me of a note on the door I saw in a research department: “A month in the lab saves you an hour in the library.”
Cover that bad boy top to bottom for a real octopus-reaction-like experience!
>That question is whether basic income is the best use of a given amount of public assistance funding. Whether it is more efficient at improving lives than alternatives such as food stamps, rent assistance, childcare assistance, etc. There seem to be no efforts to answer this essential question.

Honestly, it's sorta self evident that replacing a myriad of confusing and contradictory systems with one system is more efficient. We effectively have UBI already for a subset of the population and it not efficient at all because it's provided through a ton of different programs that all different regulations and inclusion parameters.
So you believe poor people shouldn't be allowed to travel?
There’s a work of fiction “Venomous Lumpsucker” that has a near future take on building a regulatory industry exactly around extinction

I found it to be a fun read

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59593576-venomous-lumpsu...
Yes, the trick will be to prevent too much growth and therefore the appearance of rogue mutants that may lead to e.g. osteosarcoma.

Lots of organs in the body lack regeneration capabilities once you age as an evolutionary mechanism to avoid tumors.

Uri Alon's book Systems Medicine has lots of models to explain those differences depending on e.g. organ size.
> This move toward not giving permanent desk assignments to people who are required to be in the office also makes it worse.

Yeah, this is a real noodle scratcher. WTH is the logic here?
"Holding Court, Responses Delayed :upside down face emoji:"
Perhaps the worthwhile question is, why did people (Americans included) have babies in the first place. As many comments say, children now are expensive, expensive and expensive.

Back then they were less so, fine, but still expensive and not somehow magically more fun. So that can't be the whole story.

Was it the lack of contraception? Surely not just that, in 1970s or whatnot a typical family had maybe 1-4 children, but not like 10.

I suspect it was a combination of status, expectation and ease. Having children was simply a milestone on the roadmap of life that was hard to skip. Grandparents were younger then, and thus more able to help, and more likely to live nearby in the first place.

As the societal expectation to have children waned, people stopped.
> But severance packages cost money. You know what's cheaper? Return to office mandates. A certain percentage of people will quit. That's a cheap layoff.

Depending on who decides to leave, it could be a VERY expensive layoff.
> Several mining companies have plans to collect these nodules, which marine scientists fear could disrupt the newly discovered process - and damage any marine life that depends on the oxygen they make.

If companies could find a way force you to pay for oxygen, every single one of us knows in our hearts that they would.
It should be noted, there are a variety of chemicals that will dissolve and carry away the ink from most things if you look for it. Of note, rubbing alcohol and paper towels work well.

Likewise, the paint markers which I make use of are easily removed by rubbing alcohol.
Agree but Microsoft has more going for it than just remote work support. My wife switched from Microsoft to a much younger, hip tech company and her quality of life plummeted. The higher work intensity, forced RTO, and the overall lack of parents at the company and especially at the leadership levels made for an unsympathetic place for her to work while dealing with the day to day life of a parent to young children. RTO would not have been an issue at Microsoft even if they had mandated it due to the increased flexibility and chill. And the fact that it's in a safe suburb rather than the somewhat problematic streets of our west coast city. She chose to quit her job to be a stay at home mom. Despite all the lip service paid to supporting women's careers, the tech industry is showing its true colors.
The Azure infrastructure, as I assume most hyperscale infrastructures are, is hybrid depending on the service. Service owners typically have a fair amount of liberty in deciding how they architect their service and what they use underneath it.
Cool. Some new ones there. I usually use a script with dra to download my release assets to `$HOME/bin`

I also use `oha` (Load Testing), `btop` (better top), `rmlint` (find duplicates) and `cheat` (similar to tldr - short manpages).

There is a blog post / video that shows how to integrate fzf with git, bat etc... it's one of the best videos I've ever seen on terminal productivity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmqDYw9C30I

This guy is bonkers - take a look at his other videos, too
Did the value of your property also increase over that time period?
Related: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils "Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils"
It's exactly the opposite, they're essential and certainly do not have a "mixed history".

Every product you interact with at the grocery store, every movie, most music, and most products in our modern life go through this process.

It's called user focused design.
I think this is confounding the two points. I don't think GP was talking about "exercise per day" but rather long periods of time of sedentarism. The quote from the article doesn't at all dispute the proposed point that "standing still for a long period of time can also be harmful"