skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what sucks? A ton of families-with-kids would love to stay in the city, if only the schools-- especially high schools-- were on par with what can be found for similar price in the suburbs. There is no physical reason it should be like this; in fact, just the opposite. Cities may have the density to support more bars, but they also have the density to support more varied after school kids' activities and cultural attractions, etc (and the ability to let middle and high school aged kids walk themselves to school and other places rather than becoming a chauffeur)

But the failing schools push many parents out against their own and their own childrens' preferences.

This is one of the weird dysfunctions of the USA. It's really not that different to how a lot of third world cities leave a lot of potential wealth on the table by having poorly functioning electrical grids with scheduled black outs. In both cases nobody really benefits and there's no real net savings for society, it's just money left on the table and burned away and is the biggest reason cities are seen as child-unfriendly when in fact they are inherently more friendly to children than a suburb where you're a prisoner till you get a driver's license.
Maybe it'd be better if you root the phone first, but I'd be hesitant to set up something like this on a system that is administrated remotely by others. Google, the phone manufacturer, and your carrier can make changes to your device at any time without your consent or without any notice to you. Even without a sim card, this could enable them to access/delete/modify your files, add new files, or make changes that break your server or introduce vulnerabilities.

There might be some way to make this safer, but it just seems like a bad idea to set up servers on devices that you don't control and which multiple third parties have privileged access to.
Which used enterprise micro PC on Ebay for $30 would you recommend? Trying to sort thru the trash and other options.
Sad to hear this. Don’t you have any hobbies or interests? Perhaps being a little bit materialistic every now and then doesn’t hurt much. i.e. Get a better PC to play games, buy a better camera/lens to go out and take photos, get a bike to go for rides, you get the idea…

I know that things don’t make us happy, but the usage of them, the memories we create and the time we spent using them, many times makes us happy ;-)
I agree that we are deeply dysfunctional but it's not about "outcomes vs process"

It's a very short-sighted thinking of how the process change they want to achieve their outcome today could result in someone else using that same process change for a very bad outcome in the future.
These companies shouldn't be graded on a curve. Everyone knows Microsoft is crap for privacy. But Apple has their reality distortion field, and it's important to show people that their privacy promises are BS.
I was trying to soften my opinion. I very much agree with you.
Not to make this an ad for my project, but I'm starting to document it more here: https://valetnet.dev/

The Raspberry Pi is configured to use the USB HID protocol to look and act like a mouse and keyboard when plugged into a phone. (Android and iOS now support mouse and keyboard inputs). For video, we have two models:

- "Valet Link" uses an HDMI capture card (and a multi-port dongle) to pull the video signal directly from the phone if available. (This applies to all iPhones and high-end Samsung phones.)

- "Valet Vision" which uses the Raspberry Pi V3 camera positioned 200mm above the phone to grab the video that way. Kinda crazy, but it works when HDMI output is not available. The whole thing is also enclosed in a black box so light from the environment doesn't affect the video capture.

Then once we have an image, yes, you use whatever library you want to process and understand what's in the image. I currently use OpenCV and Tesseract (with Python). Could probably write a book about the lessons learned getting a "vision first" approach to automation working (as opposed to the lower-level Puppeteer/Playwright/Selenium/Appium way to do it.
Well played . . .
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Did the app include a system or kernel extension? Because I'm pretty sure these always require Security & Privacy authorization even when unquarantined, signed, and notarized.
Talking out his ass this guy:

"You don't have a company"

We literally do not know if he is incorporated, if there has been any sales.

"You should be 50/50"

Bold claim. First of all, making any blank suggestions for equity without any info is already questionable. But also giving half equity to a late contributor is a blunder.
Well, I'm considering purchasing Monarch because of this feature, so not sure that's true. I am a visual learner, but the reason I like them is they help me at a glance see the flow of money through multiple categories. Some systems represent this as pie charts you drill down on, but a Sankey shows it all at once glance. As far as actionable insight, they help decide areas that would be most beneficial to reduce expenses or increase revenue.
Whilst I don’t have a ton of experience in logistics, I have helped executives in other industries map out transition strategies.

For the software in question, a few considerations come to mind:

- how critical is the software to your company’s competitive advantage?

- how big is the vendor team supporting the software?

- how much revenue/customers does the vendor currently support?

- how much of the software is entirely custom developed vs modules built on top of other platforms?

- where does the software reside (on-prem/in-house acct vs mix vs vendor)?

Without knowing too much detail about the situation, if it’s an application that is easily testable and verifiable (I.e. perform an action results in observable actions), then it’s much easier to rewrite than an application with background functions and procedures so some level of due diligence or discussion with the vendor maybe useful.

Other alternative solutions that may make sense if software is critical:

- joint venture with vendor

- code acquisition + in-house team

- code/team acquisition

- short feasibility project to determine migration strategy

I’ve worked fairly extensively in transition/acquisition projects so happy to share more if there’s anything specific you’re interested in knowing.
Assuming Intel is changing direction right now, unfortunately they will face 2-3 years of latency to implement that.
Ah, ok, no worries. Apologies, I should have given you the benefit of the doubt. Your comment was generally insightful.
Please explain how Russians are still able to do it? They even blew up their own pipeline to stop EU from buying their gas but somehow those Europeans find the way to still work arou d the embargo’s…
> The point of Agile/Scrum is to give the developers total peace from interruptions for a sprint of development.

That part can be done without scrum.

However, you are omitting that scrum also drags: Product Owners, sprint plannings, poker, daily standups, sprint demos. And you know what follows a sprint? Another sprint...And every time you miss that (self imposed, totally arbitrary) deadline, you fail.

I simply don't understand why people do this to themselves.
C# doesn't really, but VS + the asp.net framework do.

You kinda have to fight against the IDE to not do a lot of things a certain way. For example, it'll automatically namespace new files according to your folder structure. They've also turned a certain amount of automatic linting on to gently suggest/nag you to write in a particular way.Suggest you write classes in certain ways, use newer language features, declare variables in better ways, etc. You can ignore all the nagging, but it's also incredibly easy for the next programmer to walk in and use the quick actions functionality to 'fix' the code in a few clicks.

And the asp.net core team have been incredibly opinionated, forcing a lot of good coding practices on the community.

So on the plus side, they pretty much forced DI to be the way we all work now. It's worked really well. Most library authors have now embraced it with gusto and you'll have a hard time using new libraries in a code base that's DI incompatible.

The bad side is that sometimes they made bad choices, but they are more minor things. Like they bizarrely went all in on JWT tokens which work really badly for corporate apps. Or the IOptions pattern for global settings which sucks compared to normal env variables in any other language. Lots of confusion over how they work on forums and SO.
Seriously, who is putting effort into this?!
I like to work with shares/membership units.

I calculate how long I have been working on the product and at what speed. Suppose a year at half time (4 hs a day), then if I make a deal to work 4 hs a day for another year and a partner does the same, I would get 2/3 and they 1/3. Reevaluating at the end of the period.
You look at the target, but without focusing your vision on it - it is locked to the iron sights. So the target, which is black bulls eye, is always blurry when shooting. Increasing depth of field as described in the article, would be beneficial. No idea if prescription glasses would help for someone with no vision issues.
Yeah, I also noted the fluorines (and Lowe's comment), and I know they're used to prolong action such as with, say, fluoxetine with its three fluorines but six months seems extremely long. I'd have thought it'd have been flushed out long before that. Presumably, it must bind to lipids, fats etc.

Anyway, whatever, it's clearly a brilliant bit of chem eng.
> Both describe the evolution of a system using differential equations in time

All areas of physics use differential equations, and so does relativity which you are contrasting these two against next.

> both treat the world as having a single shared time (like "frames in a movie"),

I think you misunderstand what the "frames in a movie" meant. It was about the distinction of time being modeled as discrete or continuous.

What you are talking about ("single shared time") is indeed a shared property of all other areas, which are not relativity, by the virtue of not being relativity (which introduces the distortions that make a single shared time impossible). But that is a tautology.

> I think the main differences are what evolves in time

All four areas are somehow describing the evolution of matter and energy. Again, not a difference.

> and also quantum mechanics possibly needing different rules for what happens to the system when a "measurement" happens.

Measurement, collapse and conscious observers are unnecessary additions which are not needed for a complete description of quantum mechanics. I would instead argue that the main difference to classical mechanics and relativity is the superposition principle (which has nothing to do with measurement): The idea that the properties of things are not in one state at a time but in a combination of states simultaneously. And that in turn means you can not model time as a simple 1D axis anymore.

> because e.g. the standard model doesn't have time symmetry.

My point was about flipping the direction of the flow or the role of past and future. The standard model has time reversal symmetry if you also flip matter and anti-matter, which for the sake of the argument makes no difference because you can't tell which one you are made of. From the POV of anti-matter people we are the ones made from anti-matter or matter which moves backward in time. Which strengthens the point that only thermodynamics assigns a clear direction to the flow of time.

> SR says that the symmetries we expect of spacetime are wrong, and that a very different group of symmetries applies.

Can you elaborate on that? Are you referring to the free fall equivalence principle?
yep (also works for kids / grandkids of poor immigrants, i'd say)
Conspicuous consumption should be shamed, not the other way around as this article does.
I have to imagine there were still other particles, but there numbers were lower enough to make the space particles findable.

It’s the difference between finding a needle in a haystack and a needle on a kitchen table with 10 pieces of hay strewn on it.
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I honestly don't care one bit how tidy someone's desk is. I've seen very good results from taking a more iterative approach as opposed to BDUF.

Software is not like building things that have been built a thousand times before. It is usually a bit more explorative, and the requirements can be hard to pin down. People aren't good at defining exactly what they want.

So I find myself disagreeing with pretty much everything you say. Which is not to say that you don't need a process to manage development, or that developers will like it, whatever it is.
Uh, ironically, the recently-overturned Chevron was at the time a big win for Chevron, the oil company, because SCOTUS required courts to defer to President Reagan's EPA which interpreted the Clean Air Act very generously in the oil companies' favor even though the courts ruled Congress intended stricter regulations. Now everyone is decrying Loper saying the EPA should be given nigh-unlimited authority since they agree with its policies under Administrator Regan. People support empowering whichever branch of government agrees with their politics at the moment. Things have just completely flipped in the last 40 years.
I also really like rust's support for deriving traits. Being able to generate hashes, equality, debug strings, etc., is really convenient for hacking around.
Yes they are. We don't have enough of them and should make more.

Literally all of Philadelphia (and its suburbs going quite far out) resembles this, thanks to rowhouses which allow true single family you-own-your-own-land-with-your-own-(tiny)-yard housing while still hitting enough density to get economies of scale and insanely great walkability. It would be paradise on earth if the public schools were good.

Queens is like this too (except I have no idea about public school quality there, and it's probably hard to afford these days -- but balanced by access to the Manhattan job market)

Governments need to accept that winner-take-all massive metro areas are the way of the future and just adjust zoning and incentives to flood the zone with transportation and housing (which help substitute for and encourage each other anyway), otherwise you're stuck choosing between affordable housing and access to education and jobs. Concentrating more jobs nearby creates more than the sum of their parts because workers are often more productive in industry clusters.
The two that I saw this were OrbStack and Podman Desktop, when their signatures were replaced (I think to ensure that their trampoline (launcher shim) apps could have the same signatures as the real apps).

Maybe apps that use Apple's virtualization APIs qualify here?

Here's the context of that experiment, after which I went back to installing those apps via brew and using them without such modifications: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41126387
The cartel mentioned here is not merely a figure of speech or conspiracy theory, but an actual agreement between manufacturers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
I'll take the "ban fossil fuels" comments seriously when nuclear energy is back on the table.
I know it was a joke but lots of bacteria can survive simple boiling as endospores.
> It'd be like if Apple decided to rebrand Macbook to be "Apple Laptop". Sure, it's accurate. It's also crap.

You get used to it. They also called the Apple smartwatch "Apple Watch" from the beginning, and nobody is complaining. So "Apple Laptop" or "Apple Phone" would be just as good.
Sorry to steer this from rust, but is there a way to cleanly remove factory logo decals? I have a keyboard (instrument). It has what look like very thin white decals that have been heat-treated in to black painted metal at manufacture. I tried Goof Off. I don't know if there is some kind of powerful solvent that might work. I don't want to wire brush it off.
I don't personally like the browser, but Safari has been on Windows for decades
Fair argument for doing it with highly mutative viruses like coronavirus and influenza, because it gives you a chance to prepare.
Reminds me of a joke:

"A shark could swim faster than me, but I could probably run faster than a shark. So in a triathlon, it would all come down to who is the better cyclist."
Well, let's not forget the little dance Apple did to make their programs and the system be able to bypass packet filters like Little Snitch...

... and then claim it was necessary for "updates and upgrades". Not sure why TextEdit.app needed a kernel network extension for "updates and upgrades".

They also denied it was possible until it was provably demonstrated that they did.

I like Apple stuff, everything I use is Apple. But too many see them as infallible or go to the whataboutism for missteps like these.
https://www.youtube.com/@Jeremy_Fielding

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https://www.youtube.com/@PaskMakes

https://www.youtube.com/@MikePatey

https://www.youtube.com/@jamesbruton
I'm curious if you've seen Matterport yet? IIRC they had a 3d virtual tour embed that works by capturing apartments using real camera images (vs from floor plan). They seemed pretty common in SF Bay Area.
Also good: https://www.sfmoma.org/read/stay-curious-stay-naive-an-inter...
"accordance with these Terms and Conditions" implies that the above limitations still apply, does it not?
I find that tricky to believe. This is a fast operation that is probably quite a bit smaller than the Russians are claiming (they claim 1000 guys). I don’t think Ukraine is going to have the manpower to collect a significant number of prisoners even if they are surrendering.
See if there is a Repair Cafe in your area and maybe they can fix it for free. If in NC go to http://repaircafenc.org
On rare occasions the live vaccine actually reverts. Polio is an amazing story because the live vaccination campaign may have had collateral impact on the families of the vaccinated as they shed particles.
They could stop forcing a windows license down your throat that you basically cannot get rid of and are forced to pay regardless of whether you're going to use it. That would be a logical and good first step. We've been asking this for two decades and have been ignored.

Also, I haven't seen a single seasoned Linux desktop user that cares about the "year of the Linux desktop". It's a meme that's only being repeated by Mac or windows users that "will switch over right away when this particular thing gets fixed", always finding another reason to talk themselves from doing it for basically decades, or well known FOSS haters such as yourself.
and that was a "catastrophic" outcome? When I think of "catastrophic", it would be something like ending up institutionalized, or dead, not ranked in the top 1% of college applicants.
> the vast majority of costs in getting a new drug onto the market

Debatable.

> according to these firms' annual reports, 16 percent of revenues was taken as profit, and • 31 percent went for marketing and administration. That's nearly three times as much as their R&D spending.

https://www.bu.edu/sph/files/2015/05/Pharmaceutical-Marketin...
It comes down to what you identify as privacy. Apple is commited to not give your data to any other company and keep it protected in their ecosystem. They'll sell access to you for ads, but only exposing your cohort to the advertiser.

From that lens, Google is also commited to never give your personal data (think Gmail content, Maps behaviour, pins etc) to other companies and keep it all in their ecosystem, for themselves only. Your data is their key advantage, the base of the ad empire, and they won't let another company run away with it.

If we call Apple privacy focused, Google also fits the bill, the question just falls down on whether we see Apple or Google as part of our intimate circle, within our private life. I assume you do for Apple but not for Google.
Argdown, like Markdown for argument mapping
> The glass bin we have in Amsterdam isn't one that you can even push broken glass into if you wanted - it's shaped specifically to receive bottles.

It wouldn't take large shards of a plate window but it definitely can accept anything with one dimension that doesn't exceed 10cm or so, which is almost all the broken glass we've wanted to put into it.
> their goal is to make sure people are formatted and replaceable.

Why else would corporations be the exclusive authors of "middle-level" languages like Java, C#, and Go? ;p JS and Python are too slow, but we can't find enough C, C++, or Rust developers! Let's invent these abominations instead with which we can churn out more good-enough mediocrity per quarter than ever before!
they used to be called misers
> ones who haven't flown in 3 years and jump into a plane for an IFR cross country to an airport they've never been to before

So, pilots who aren't legal to fly?
Most people would not have an easy time completely eliminating proprietary software from day to day usage. Reducing the amount of it is certainly possible (though may come with caveats WRT ease of use/UX; F-droid for example is not fun to try to comb through to find the good bits), but some amount is going to linger even if it’s just games the user plays to blow off some steam at the end of the day.

Even if full-FOSS were practical, I’d still want robust sandboxing and permissions to help limit the blast radius if some malicious executable manages to find its way in and to feel confident that nothing is poking around where it shouldn’t be. There’s not really a good reason for everything to have access to everything except for convenience.
They don't sell to many countries (mine included) unless you're willing to:

- lose warranty, practically speaking

- pay through the nose for shipping through a middleman

Most companies ignore small markets because they won't sell enough to justify the costs. And it's not just Linux vendors.

Very large brands attract enough interest from Joe six-pack to sustain such import volume that you can go and buy a MacBook or a Lenovo for somewhat reasonable money (still much more expensive than in the US or the EU).
this all sounds pretty reasonable and, honestly, a given.

> you should view open source as a series of kind acts people have done altruistically

> just because open source software is free for you doesn't mean someone else hasn't paid some price on your behalf to get you that code

Maybe this is directed towards people who don't write software?
Let's start treating cyber security like it matters
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