skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I downvoted it because it bears little relation to this story, not because I disagreed with it. It's basically complaining that they're not getting enough love from other members. The mods don't quash comments merely because they convey dissenting opinions; they quash them when they become toxic to the community.
Yea I don't get the point of this. Someone convinced someone that the old one was bad and they need to spend $ on a new one? I personally prefer the old one because it gives you a better idea of how far things are.
How do you know that people use flags to further an agenda? I for one both downvote and flag pretty often, but it's largely because I don't like the tone of the discourse, not because of some overarching ploy.
Let us not use the word "thrive" or "quash" to avoid misunderstandings. To rephrase, I hope that on HN even minority opinions have reasonable rebuttals. Unfortunately what currently happens is people flag minority opinions with no discussion.
I presume there is a "bidders fee" payable in cash to register a bid.
Where three different disks (or storage underneath Ceph OSDs) each in separate disk silos fail?

In some earlier Ceph clusters I was responsible for I set replication to four or even five.

There was a point where I wrote an internal memo to business leaders explaining that had I not set that replication to four or five we would have been unable to meet business goals (we would have lost the contracts keeping us afloat during critical stages), but now at scale the real dollar cost of that redundancy was showing. In that memo I explained what networking we needed vs what we had, what people we needed vs what we had, and so on. I eventually got the networking gear the company needed in place and was able to hire the kind of people we needed.

For Ceph clusters I am chiefly responsible for today we have Ceph pools in each availability zone doing erasure coding (four or more parity bits) and a small service makes sure objects are copied between the distanced datacenters (availability zones).

While I do get a bit of a boner (of the Hank Hill on propane kinda vibe) on how the erasure coding is distirbuted across cabinet rows, to be fair it is a bit of an optimization.

_

> to have lower durability (say replicas are located within the same networking pod)

A network segment should never ever go down. I know in some places this is "optimistic". I can say for us it's not "optimistic" because we don't allow Ethernet protocol to "hop" anywhere. Layer-2 broadcast domains either stop at top-of-rack and the rest is layer-3 or we are using Infiniband. Stable Ethernet networks are a thing, but not using Ethernet beyond where Ethernet belongs avoids so much risk.

100% network uptime is achievable.

In some places more critical nodes are connected to three Infiniband switches with two uninterrupted power supplies dedicated to each Infiniband switch. Maybe that's "excessive", but within the last year we had to contend with a switch failure. Then a week later a datacenter provider (one that will tell you they never ever EVER lose power) for one of our availability zones was unable to provide power for over two full days.

I don't think we're ever going to have downtime or lose data. In other places this would be "optimistic", but for this deployment I have access to the resources I need to achieve the thing. The only thing that has me concerned about downtime is the current WW3 we are already in heating up.
Ask HN: How do you make a living contributing to and/or creating OSS projects?
How would one go about being a 'rogue' OSS contributor so to speak? Live off of donations, bounties, hackathons, ect?
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It looks like unintentional moderate and intentional moderate on chart switched, unless I'm misunderstanding?
It is to acquire and destroy Tiktok Shop, a serious pain in his ass.
He then spins one gun forwards whilst simultaneously spinning the other gun backwards. Which I assume is difficult!
The lines representing the routes now show a more schematic view which enables you to more easily tell how the lines connect and where/how to transfer trains. For better or worse, it prioritizes showing the routes and connections over landmarks and scale.
I think the fact that you're being downvoted for your comment proves your point.
I enjoyed Midsommar's overuse of orange/teal because it really led to the feeling that the viewer was on a psychedelic trip (which usually comes with oversaturating of reds and orange.) Agree that Marvel is doing a lot of trend chasing in its color grading.
Copying the Chinese government policies seems to be popular right now. Huge public investments in private industry (CHIPS) and restricting foreign ownership in companies. If you can't beat them, copy them, or something.
Without a license your repo is technically not open-source, only source-available. A license says what people are allowed to do with the code, so if you don't add a license, they're not allowed to do anything.
> For example, having the opinion that manifest V3 is good for users is an opinion that will not thrive on HN.

There is a difference between expressing unpopular opinions (e.g. "manifest V3 is good"), which receive an appropriate level of considered disagreement; and expressing opinions that are removed administratively.

In my experience, the former is quite common, while the latter only occurs in cases of hateful or off-topic comments. That is as it should be. No one is obligated to agree with you, and that fact should not dissuade you from expressing yourself.
Having a license clarifies what permissions are you giving to someone who downloads your code. The practical benefit is that others can clearly contribute back or build on your work without any legal concerns.

Something like MIT gives them permission to do anything as long as attribution is maintained, while avoiding liabilities.

But there are others you can pick: https://choosealicense.com/
You also need to encode the painted areas somehow. They are not only intersections on K shapes, but sometimes exclusions as well (like (A^B)/C). Two ways come to mind:

(1) Listing closed curves by vertices. Each vertex of a painted area is an intersection of two or more circles, and delimits a section of a circle. So the section of circles that enclose a circle can be encoded each by the union of:

(1.1) A circle (index);
(1.2) A 2nd circle (index) that intersects the 1st on a first point;
(1.3) A bit identifying the (first) intersection (because there may be 2 possible);
(1.4) A 3rd circle (index) that intersects the 1st on a second point;
(1.5) A bit identifying the (second) intersection.

Note the base circle would be the first intersection of a subsequent section of this closed curve, and the 3rd circle would be the subsequent base circle. So 1/2/3 won't be necessary for subsequent curves. So only (K+2) indices + (K+1) bits are necessary for this encoding.

Total ~K log2(K)+K bits. I hypothesize (left to the reader :)) a closed curve should contain at most 2x13 points. There can be at most 2^13 distinct regions however, so each figure (Animal) can be encoded with less than that many curves per figure. So each figure (Animal) can be encoded with less than 2^13 x 26x(5+1) bits =~ 1.3Mbit.

But that's mostly pathological cases, if each Animal must be a fully connected area, then that might reduce (hypothesis above) to at most only
26x(5+1) bits = 156 bits, or 20 bytes!

I left out a problem which area shapes encoded within each other (like eyes). In that case you need at most another 156 bits per inner cutout shape.

(2) Alternatively, you could use boolean operations to encode each shape. Also left as a fun problem :)
This is correct. For the people who disagree, go read Slashdot at -1 for a while. Then pretend that you're one of the people who are targeted by that vitriol, and think about how much you'd read the HN comments if they were like that.
> It’s not just cars — a study of over 7,000 objects in the UK’s Science Museum found that the colors of consumer goods have been steadily neutralized since 1800. Bright, saturated tones have been giving way to gray, beige, and taupe for centuries.

That is... not what that first chart ("Percent of pixels") shows? Much the opposite — reddish beige to taupe dominated the 1800s and slowly dwindled to ~20% by 2020. Meanwhile, greens and blues became a lot more common from 1960 onward.

To this article's credit, it does acknowledge the shift towards industrial materials, but it's still worth reading the article [0] where this chart originates. The nature of photographing objects contributes to the wider range of brown hues in older objects:

> The wide range of colours in the telegraph comes in large part from the mahogany wood used in its construction. But the colours also come from its shape (the rounded pillars reflect light and create shadows) as well as its age (the wear and tear creates colour variations).

whereas more recent objects trend toward smaller sizes and homogenous materials that photograph more evenly:

> In contrast, the metal and plastic materials in the iPhone give much less variation. It also has a more basic shape and is in better condition.

The pure grayscale band at the top of that chart has expanded significantly, but (variation in beige-ishness aside) can you really say that the left side of the graph is much less homogenous?

[0] https://lab.sciencemuseum.org.uk/colour-shape-using-computer...
BTW preact + hooks + router (preact-iso) is 10 kb. It's a good starting point.

And SVG icons should use svg `<use>` tag and shouldn't be counted in code size.
Awesome! I'd love to see it.

One of my goals was to make the code "hackable", so that you can take this as a starting point, then extend and personalize it, to make it "yours".

> Custom newtab is underrated

Exactly. I'm surprised myself how handy this turned out :)
Badly for everyone.
"only recourse" apart from all the other ones listed in tfa, and the article is about how those other routes let her down you mean?
That is absolutely the video, thanks for finding it. Also of interesting note: Real Genius was originally going to be more raunchy, but the director steered it towards more geek content.
no. you can't say it's evidence for dark matter versus any given other theory until after you have computed the expected metrics created by any alternative theory.

in any case, you can't say it's support for dark matter in this specific case without actually running the numbers (what are the rotational speeds and what is the bending curvature)

dark matter halos must have a somewhat specific distribution that goes beyond the perimeter of the visible galaxy itself.

however the more that i think about it this example is likely to be unhelpful. the closer galaxy looks elliptical and most dense elliptical galaxies "have no dark matter" (in basic MOND this is a phenomenon that falls out if the gravity law). We'd really need lensing from a more "normal" looking galaxy.
I can see the guy now as the realization that this native plant could undermine the British East India tea trade if people came to enjoy yaupon tea. It probably didn't take any convincing to get him to assign such an uninviting name to the plant and in doing so, save one of the British Empire's main trade items.

It was definitely a chickenshit move on his part though.
I agree that that's not a best practice. It's not what the downvote mechanism was intended for.
My pleasure! It was fun to build and didn't take too much time to do the individual platforms. So, if it breaks for one then patching it up should be pretty quick. Please leave a review if it's helpful to you.
I think this is a myth (at least in the US). I don't even have to provide the color of my car to get an insurance quote.

The exception (maybe the source of the myth) is that cars with custom or exotic colors will cost more if you opt for comprehensive coverage.
All it took was $5k / month?
hey thanks for reading! I believe that's right

intentional moderate = they're trying to straddle the middle, meaning they adjust views based on political swings

unintentional moderate = they accidentally end up in the middle from the average of their views, for which some may be extreme left or right
interface Animal {
Circle[13] circles();

// Leftover from Intro to CS, remember to remove
void make_sound();
}
Deepmind are heading that way https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1iol0ba/google...
The underlying strategy is so sound that Russia now effectively owns 20% of what used to be Ukraine, ground which is never going back. Their military has gained extremely valuable experience in fighting a modern war. Additionally, European economy has been decimated and the second order effects (weapon proliferation, criminal syndicates, immigration, societal effects) are yet to play out.

Throw in the ever-present threat of small-yield tactical nuclear weapons being used by Russia if it ever thinks it's in danger of losing and I fail to see the logic behind all of this. Unless of course weakening Europe, utterly destroying Ukraine and strengthening Russia was the point from the get-go. Or you just need to admit that the US fucked this one up badly (as it has almost every other war it's been involved in over the last 40 years).
hahaha, Delancey-Essex is now waterfront property!
While I realize I'm an outlier, I do NOT consider 24oz of coffee a lot, nor does anyone I know--that's literally a standard coffee cup at a coffee shop these days. At a minimum, I'm drinking 3 pots (~180oz) of coffee a day, with my usual being 3-4x that amount.

So; with that said, while I believe that eating 28oz of chocolate is a lot, I guess it could happen :-)
Without a license, legaly nobody can do anything with the code. The license is essentially the way that you communicate what you will allow people to do with it.

For a project like this, I would strongly recommend an MIT license. That will essentially allow people to use the code and modify it, contribute back to it, and otherwise distribute their changes.
I think it's great to see more moderation from non-Americans.

My biggest critique of this site is that the user base and moderation seems very biased with American perspectives to the detriment of the non-American user base and the quality of content as a whole.
I personally love the taste of coffee. If decaffeinated were able to achieve the same flavors, I'd be quite happy with it. Unfortunately, it doesn't taste at all the same.
Had no benefits/was more cumbersome than what?

My colleagues frequently use one of these general-purpose WYSIWYG drawing tools, and I'm not a fan at all – everybody has their own slightly or wildly varying riff on UML or flowcharts, and the result is chaos: Sometimes rectangles are states, sometimes they're decisions; sometimes arrows are labeled state transitions, but other times they're unlabeled and state transitions are also boxes.

Discoverability is also much worse compared to e.g. Mermaid or PlantUML diagrams checked into version control or stored as text source in Wiki articles.
No you'd just outsource to India and cycle through as many billions of souls needed.
You say that, but there was a big thread on Val Kilmer on the front page this morning...
If stating certain facts is made illegal (by our democratically-elected representatives) then by all means HN will need to censor those facts for the sake of its own self-preservation.

But until then, we should be free to state facts.

> The old adage “I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it” was once a touchstone of liberal society. Having been involved for most of my adult life in areas of social debate, it was a phrase I once commonly heard. Not any more.

> Instead, public discourse is marked by efforts to find offence, destroy the character of opponents or ensure reason is smothered by emotional manipulation.

> -- John Deighan https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/banning-those-w...
Amazon has become an unreliable company. Opaque return practices, overbilling and break of contract have become common.

"TikTok Shop is an integrated e-commerce platform within the TikTok app that allows users to shop directly from videos, live streams, and profiles."

Amazon just tries to destroy a competitor. We can only hope that authorities won't allow an acquisition by Amazon (EU maybe?).

I personally still use Amazon, but often use ebay. I don't use TikTok. I found the acquisition of Abebooks by Amazon long time ago already unfortunate.
"It has to be powered by an electric motor, because we no longer live in 1940."

Interesting juvenile take. Had we started on electric vehicles we would be rolling out ICE vehicles right now as all the rage.
Most people in the majority, you mean?
The word "täht" itself means "star" (both celestial one or a notable person) or "letter/glyph", not "planet".

> Or even further back, considering apparently Estonians didn't know what an asteroid was back then.

Asteroids have been called "falling stars" in most languages for ages, nor would "asteroid" work well as a name. Nothing to do with anyone's knowledge of astronomy really.
Taxis took over the color yellow unfortunately.
In my friend group it's clear as day: either you voted to kill and deport other people in the friend group or you didn't. Pretty obvious the group would like to know if you're secretly interested in their demise.
Yes, and even then only for Ultra HD Blu-ray. Regular BDs should still usually work unless they're uncommon enough to not have a title key known to MakeMKV.

“A LibreDrive is a mode of operation of an optical disc drive (DVD, Blu-ray or UHD) when the data on the disc are accessed directly, without any restrictions or transformations enforced by drive firmware. A LibreDrive would never refuse to read the data from the disc or declare itself ‘revoked’. LibreDrive compatible drive is required to read UHD discs.”
I mean, yeah, tracking prevention features basically completely break cross-domain authentication. There are a surprising number of valid use cases that need cross-domain auth (or make the user experience a lot easier). While there are workarounds these days, sometimes it does require deep changes in how auth works
The graph is from a study of objects held in the collection of a museum, not photographs by year they were taken. It says so in this article.

https://lab.sciencemuseum.org.uk/colour-shape-using-computer...
The Nintendo Switch 2 arrives on June 5th for $449.99
How do you feel about flags being public?
Current photos of old objects. I admit I had the same question based on the caption included in the graph itself, which just says "photos."

> a study of over 7,000 objects in the UK’s Science Museum found that the colors of consumer goods have been steadily neutralized since 1800. Bright, saturated tones have been giving way to gray, beige, and taupe for centuries.
Hypothetically:
-Government leader says they're nuking data
-Mad rush to back up data through other means
-Government leader declares they've 'transferred the cost of maintaining data out of government, thus making for a smaller, more efficient, government'

I hate everything about this.
I don't think the person getting flagged is always deserving of the dogpile. Your comment implies "you should take this time in timeout to think about your actions" which is just a gentler form of rhetorical struggle sessions, and not always warranted.
> My comment itself was barely a criticism of HN

Your comment is (a) off-topic and (b) smacks of a complaint about not getting enough up-votes. Neither of these areas are looked upon positively in HN. If this style of comment is your modus operandi, it may explain why your work is not well-received, and in short it has nothing to do with the popularity of your opinions.
Why is that? Is it because the streaming creators are so chaotic? Or convergence on a centralized platform people already use (youtube)?
How does this relate to dox?

Let’s say an individual posted identifying or incriminating information online, inadvertently or intentionally, in a public place.

Then a third party decides to store it, and possibly make it accessible to others.

If the original self doxxing user then pulled the original dox, but was unable to scrub the rest, would that information still be considered public, or would it be private? Was it ever truly public? Or private for that matter?
You mean a shared (unlocked / unpaywalled) link - thank you!
Is that a moderation issue? Because to me that's more of a system / culture issue.

You can't argue in people's stead. If most dissenting commentary is hurtful, inciteful, manipulative, generally demagogue, etc., it's going to get culled, and you get a situation where "dissent isn't thriving".
On selected models only :( E.g. Ford doesn't offer anything brighter than muted red on their Escape vehicles. They do have brightly-colored Mustangs, but nothing else.

Even Mazda doesn't offer them for all their vehicles.
If you think your dissenting opinions should be popular, your opinions probably aren't all that dissenting. This person's dissenting meta-opinion is unpopular, it's still there and it's still being discussed. Discomfort is inherent in dissent, it's not people putting a lot of likes on your NormanRockwellFourFreedomsPainting.gif.
The data in the article is either not representative or didn't go back far enough.

The best example, cars, only goes back to 1990. And the museum objects are objects a science museum happened to keep, that go back to 1800? Hardly representative of consumer objects in general. There isn't even a single chart about clothing.

Glancing through historical clothing and car magazines from the past century is going to tell you a lot more.
If you can’t talk about politics with your friends, then they are not your friends.
Welcome, Tom and thank you Dang.
A US-based dev costs 125/hr, on the low end.

A US-based dev directing Claude Code has like 3x output.

So the biz is spending 125 + AI costs, but saving 250/hr.

An individual dev might feel like a superhuman compared to those not using Claude Code. Could even earn them a substantial promotion.

Either way, seems to net out.
That's what I was thinking. Plywood is a horrible choice.
Thank you! MIT license added. https://github.com/darajava/reel-control/commit/4d014f578b93...
My unscientific wild ass guess would be that because of how LLMs are built to be pleasing, people wind up liking them more and thus lowering their guard with them and therefore judging them less harshly

For a concrete example of what I'm talking about

Imagine if you are really into older movies, like 60s and 70s movies

You start talking to two chat windows about your love for movies

One chat partner shares your love for old movies and is very enthusiastic and wants to talk all about them. In reality, this chat partner is the LLM

The other is lukewarm and maybe tries to steer you away from that conversation because they don't know much about older movies. Maybe they still love movies but they want to talk about more recent movies. In reality, this one is the human

But which one do you think is the human?

If you are self aware that your love for old movies is not really universal, and you are aware that LLMs have a tendency to match enthusiasm, you can probably guess which one is which

If you are less self aware, you are probably just going to guess that the conversation you enjoyed more is the one with the human