Should my washing machine pay income tax, and does that mean I need to register as a business to have it as an employee? So many questions raised by the automation of previously human-performed work.
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A weird thing: on the hacker news page, in firefox mobile, all the visited links are grey, but the link to this blog post won't turn grey even when visited.
nmeofthestate commented on LAPD helicopter tracker with real-time operating costs lapdhelicoptertracker.com... · Posted by u/polalavik
I find it interesting that the question is "why don't they use drones". My question is: why so much air surveillance? I live in Germany. The only times I hear a helicopter is if someone is being rescued or if someones missing. I rarely see them at all.
The German eagerly commenting that, actually, it's different in Germany is becoming a defining cliche of HN comment sections.
nmeofthestate commented on LAPD helicopter tracker with real-time operating costs lapdhelicoptertracker.com... · Posted by u/polalavik
Of course they're not optional, but you shouldn't be starting a high speed pursuit over a seat belt violation, or for someone going 5 over the speed limit. Principle of proportionality should apply, you shouldn't be risking the lives of the public over anything but the most serious offences where them getting away poses a greater threat to the public than potentially killing a bystander.
"you shouldn't be starting a high speed pursuit over a seat belt violation, or for someone going 5 over the speed limit"
That would indeed be dumb, but once somebody dumb has decided to do that they're guilty of something much more serious and the car chase is completely justified.
nmeofthestate commented on Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h) hwisnu.bearblog.dev/givin... · Posted by u/mithcs
Any hopes that MSVC will add C23 support before 2040?
Bit of a random question on an article about C.
nmeofthestate commented on Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pads replacement on Ioniq 5 N thedrive.com/news/replaci... · Posted by u/zdw
Not on our ’21 Honda
Mine (Civic '19) applies it if your seatbelt is fastened when you turn off the motor. Otherwise it doesn't.
I think there's a "don't do automatic stuff unless the driver is wearing their seatbelt" rule.
nmeofthestate commented on The disguised return of EU Chat Control reclaimthenet.org/the-dis... · Posted by u/egorfine
I guessed the term Chat Control had to be made up by opponents of the legislation, so searched for the real name.
The official name of the legislation is:
“Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse” (COM/2022/209 FINAL).
It is often referenced more simply as the “Child Sexual Abuse Regulation” (CSA Regulation).
nmeofthestate commented on You can't cURL a Border drobinin.com/posts/you-ca... · Posted by u/valzevul
Overstaying a visa is a big deal. You should not be counting days or nights because you should not let yourself be in the country anywhere near the expiry of a visa.
Yes, this feels like calculating to the second when you need to arrive at the airport so you'll spend zero time at the airport.
Instead, arrive a bit early to the airport, and analogously, don't run visas down to the last hour based on the minutiae of Moroccan timezones etc.
This is halftone (i.e., an apparent palette with more colors than the actual palette, by ensuring that you aren't just rounding the same way everywhere) but it isn't dithering in my opinion. To me, dithering means fading away the banding that occurs when the palette (or the apparent palette achieved via halftone) isn't large enough to avoid banding on its own.
The halftone technique demonstrated here takes a palette of 2 colors and increases it to something on the order of 20 apparent colors, but even with 20 there are extremely obvious bands.
That banding can be virtually eliminated by having way more colors (say, 256 if grayscale, 256^3 if RGB) or it can be virtually eliminated via dithering. I suspect the "error diffusion" technique (which is teased at the end of this demo) does what I'm talking about.
Noise is the key to dithering, and I don't see any noise in this demo. Everything is deterministic.
But the presentation is spectacular!
It's called ordered dithering.
I'd be more interested in the results, relative to the languages from the main repository.