skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem I encountered is that once if subset your color space to include only color within ranges of, e.g., lightness and saturation, the transformed (perceptually uniform) color space is some weird, non-convex shape. Packing spheres into that transformed space is difficult.
"They put the plane into a stall to make sure it can recover" CAN YOU IMAGINE? lol Could you imagine being the guy who wakes up in the morning and is like "Today I get to put a plane into stall to make sure it can recover" shivers
This is absolutely untrue for any PS/2 keyboard, as well as for most pre-PS/2 PC keyboards (incuding AT and XT keyboards). All keyboards have always had a microcontroller in them which is responsible for scanning the key matrix and sending output over the serial link. (In PS/2, it's also responsible for reading input to change the state of keyboard LEDs.) There is nothing analog about them whatsoever.

Here is a set of pictures of an IBM Model M, for instance. The microcontroller is clearly visible in the ceramic DIP40 package.

http://www.clickeykeyboards.com/model-m-gallery/1985-ibm-mod...
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I use it because of the built in service discovery and the built in integration with Hashicorp’s other tools that I use - Nomad and Vault.
From the company's perspective, though, at the end of the day the buck stops with the manager.

Yes it's important to manage up, but that's for your own benefit more than anyone else's. From the company's perspective, they pay the manager to handle you, not the other way around.
The more obvious example is to watch a video encoded at 10 frames per second followed by a 30 fps video. Does it look different? If yes, something's wrong with the statement

There are plenty of examples on YouTube if anyone's interested.
If you can't adjust to an Apple keyboard (and don't have RSI), the problem is you -- not the keyboard. Retrain yourself to type softly.
The 10 Universities with the Most Nobel Prize-Winning Work from 2000 to 2017
I used to work in an office in front of a MacDonalds.

The pigeons wold go in the trash and take fries to eat.

There, I witnessed the fattest pigeon ever. The thing was so big, that it cold have a lifebar over his head.
Except for pugs. They can barely breath without surgical help from humans. They also frequently lose their eyes due to recurring infections, because their eyes are too big for their eyesockets.

But they are cuuuuuuute :3
There lots of places in the East Bay where taking a bus is the fastest public transit. There are Transbay Bus stops in places, like Montclair, that are far from BART stations.
> If it ever gets tried on a large scale it'll be a hilarious disaster of unexpected second-order effects that will lead to the program's cancellation long before the whole crow species is subjugated.

This was kinda how I summed up the paper actually, the amount of side effects on any large scale deployment is mind boggling.
This is the essence of "Broken Windows" policing, and at least in the US has proven to be a broken policy. A large number of factors, specifically officer discretion turn these types of minor offenses into taxes levied against the poorest communities. Also, I'm not sure I want the armed enforcers of the state getting into altercations with otherwise law abiding folks over littering.
I'm turning 50 and most of the list is nonsense.
No, he really didnt... (sorry, this article kind of makes a few ok points, but it fails miserably at giving a bunch of credit to Trump on something that shouldn't be given to him. Feels very clickbaity).
Tanks are already in ImageNet: http://image-net.org/synset?wnid=n04389033
Lack of gossip in zookeeper makes changes in cluster topology much more painful.
Niiice! Thank you!
Yeah and what is it connecting? It's connecting a low income community (BVHP) to retail jobs downtown. What got lost? A direct link (15-Third Street) from BVHP to City College.
To hire?
I've been experimenting with alternative protocols to HID. I'm not satisfied with fixed-interval input polling out of sync with vsync; it takes way too many samples to reach the desired latency (and especially jitter!) numbers.

As for keyboards, there's no real excuse not to just have a Bigass™ shift register (or a couple) and address every keyswitch with a trace and an interrupt crossbar. There's a limit to how cheap a good-enough keyboard can ultimately be, so a difference of a few cents in BOM and assembly, and slightly more intricate membrane layouts is not worth crying over.

The methodology here is broken for non-linear long-travel keyswitches, for which the "point at which the key starts moving" is the wrong point to measure. For example, I'm typing this on buckling-spring keyswitches. The break for these switches is part way down the stroke, this is intentional and does not contribute to "latency", since the intent of depressing the key above the break is not to send the keypress at that moment, but to be ready to cross the break once the previous key has been pressed. This is very similar to how good handgun triggers typically function: a light, firm, and smooth uptake before a break, and hopefully with a reset very near the break. It communicates to the user how close they are to actuating the switch.

In the case of linear long-travel switches (i.e. Cherry MX Red style switches), it's harder to decide where to consider the key "pressed", but in the case of non-linear long-travel switches (buckling spring, Cherry MX Blue) it's clear that the break is when the keypress should be registered, not the beginning of the uptake. In the case of non-linear switches, they don't need to bottom out to register keypresses, so they can have exceptionally low latency. With sufficient spring stiffness, and a long enough heel, buckling spring keyswitches should take less time to actuate than scissor-dome switches.

Added:

Regarding the testing methodology, it seems like you could do better with a combination of a motor, an armature, and a small strain gauge (or a measurement of motor load). The motor will apply consistent force at consistent peak acceleration between tests if you input consistent voltage. For non-linear switches, you can measure the break time as a junction in the applied force across the strain gauge or in the motor load on one of the analog inputs on your logic analyzer; for linear switches, you can measure the start of actuation the same way. Motor load would work just fine, since you're not interested in the exact force exerted, and thus don't need to calibrate for the efficiency of the motor.
The idea that there is a black/white side of convenience vs. survival is not reasonable. It is very much a gradient, and I’m afraid that there’s much more nuance to it.

For instance, if I have a dog trained to fetch my fowl from a lake after shooting it, is that convenience or survival? Does it not depend on the circumstance? In the deep cold of winter it may spare me from a swift death, for the very same hunter in the summer it may save me from spending 30 minutes fetching it so that I can spend that 30 minutes making camp or playing cards.

This trade off runs the entire gamut, all the way from extreme survival to extreme convenience, and who are you to say what is right or wrong? Further, is there not a point where cirgarette butt collection increases survival for living things? Do you wait for that inflection point before you begin calling this ethical?
This Isn’t ‘the New Normal’ for Climate Change
the 2008 minis would still be perfectly useful machines if they still got browser upgrades, or better yet OS upgrades
Also with the brightest brains in the world devoting their phds to make sure you engage.

What social media is today is IMO a significantly different from anything humans have experienced before.

That’s not to say it’s necessarily bad, but for the last 5 years or so the evidence seems to be pointing in that direction.
> you have two societies with the same set of laws, one generated by dictatorial benevolent AI overlords and one generated by democracy. Are the people in the AI-governed society less free, even when subject to the same rules and restrictions?

Yes. Because that's baked into your premise:

> the same set of laws, one generated by dictatorial benevolent AI overlords and one generated by democracy.

These are not the same sets of laws. These are not the same societies. They are not the same systems. Those under the AI have no say in those laws or recourse to alter them. They are entirely at the whim of your AI. A benevolent dictator is still a dictator. By definition that is not democratic, and I would say, less free.

> The right dictator can come up with the same rules as a democratic government.

They could, but that would not mean their dictatorship is a democracy or free. It is a profound hypocrisy for a dictator to say they value freedom. If they did, they would not be a dictator.
> “I realized that most of the arithmetic was redundant, and could be simplified,” he says. “My simplification changed a million multiply adds into just four.”

Doesn't sound like FFT.
Simple, yet felt quite sufficient. The language itself is simple and with the compiler errors you rarely feel stuck.

The official Elm slack #beginners channel is full of helpful people as well.
Ironically the need for such a larger transit infrastructure is the lack of very-high-rise building and trying to maintain 'character' in neighborhoods that should now have near lumber limit MDUs.

Building a stronger transit system, such as this article is talking about, does allow a city to spread further out, but both such a system to enable lower housing density and commutes or more housing units (lessening the need to commute) are plagued by NIMBYs in many (most/all?) metropolitan areas (at least all the ones I've heard out outside of Texas / "the south").
I'm not familiar with XXXL Lutz, but it sounds like it's a bit like Wayfair, Overstock, Target, etc.? Home24.de is another white-labeling brand in Germany. Much of Home24's stuff can also be found on Wayfair and elsewhere.

Most retail furniture stores in the US (Blu Dot, Room and Board, West Elm, Herman Miller, Vitra, Knoll, Steelcase, etc.) either design their own furniture in-house or have name-brand designers (e.g. Eames, Jasper Morrison, etc.) they collaborate with. (Sometimes the manufacturer also produces their own "generic" white-labeled versions; for example, the factory that makes Knoll sofas apparently also makes identical/near-identical no-name sofas that are sold under different brand names at much, much lower prices, and if you have some inside information you can find out where to get these.)

Then there are high-end retailers like DWR, YLiving, Lumens, etc. that are more like Amazon in that they mostly don't rely on white-labeling.
This paper by one of the team members has more detail about the process used to narrow down the search field to a list of galaxies and identify possible locations of the event:

[edit]: link to the exact paragraph that discusses the method http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/10/13/scien...
Or, we would have long ago found better ways to adopt design and development strategies that more generally lend themselves to rigorous and easily repeatable testing.
You can't ban separating out economic interest and formal title to the shares without banning options, forward contracts, and other derivatives on the stock. Like, these are not unusual contractual arrangements. These are standardized and sold on the market. Put options transfer the downside risk to the writer, call options transfer the upside risk to the buyer, futures contracts essentially do both.
Consumers haven't gotten much awareness of the value of SSDs. Also I wonder if the industry would run into supply problems if SSD were pushed more aggressively.
If you think about it, SD doesn't require strong consistency, it is not a big deal if all nodes won't learn about each other at the same time, arguably that's actually preferred.

Can you go into more detail about this? Each computer has its own Consul agent that monitors the health of services running on it. You also get configuration from the agent on the individual computer. All of the agents communicate peer to peer and with the server don’t they? Isn’t that eventually consistent? I’m just starting to use Consul for configuration and haven’t started working on the service discovery part yet.
It's not enough to travel, save, have any remotely expensive hobbies (sports equipment for just one of many examples), or survive a car breakdown, buy a car if you don't already have one, and so on. It's funny that you budget in "media" automatically - so you've got just enough cash to eat, work, come home and plug in and to all the people living better than you, all the social signals that say you are your paycheck, and so on.

I agree it's a much better position to be in than say, indentured servitude, but it's naive to just expect or declare that people be happy living like this and stay happy living like this for the foreseeable future.
This app reminds me of the Black Mirror episode "Nosedive."

I know I shouldn't be so down on this.
>Yes, this strikes me as the obvious problem. The equilibrium is for third party to buy and hold all the tenure-voting stock and then sell stakes in the dividends of the company plus allowing voting by proxy. Basically, the third party becomes an exchange, and all stock effectively has maximal tenure.

You've essentially just described the current system. Most shares on NASDAQ and NYSE etc. are technically held by Depository Trust Company via its nominee, Cede & Co.
[1]. Through a complicated set of regulatory and contractual arrangements, public companies, the beneficial owners of their stock (i.e. the investor at the end of the chain) and each intermediary (banks and brokers, etc.) all maintain a sort of legal fiction that the shares are "owned" by Joe Schmoe, even though all he really has is an attenuated set of contractual rights that flow through the various intermediaries between him and "his" shares held by Cede.

Joe Schmoe does not technically or legally own those shares. Cede does. Believe it or not, you were spot on in predicting that the third party would allow "voting by proxy." That's exactly how Joe Schmoe (i.e. all of us) must vote our shares if we want to participate in a stockholder vote. We can't just show up at the meeting (or fill out the company's proxy card). You send a "voting instruction form" telling your broker how you'd like to vote, and your broker then tells Cede & Co. how to vote your shares at the stockholder meeting.[2]

To address your specific point, tenure voting would surely be based on the tenure of the beneficial owner (i.e. the person at the end of the chain who gets to vote) not the nominee holding the shares in "street name" on the beneficial owner's behalf. This might take some reworking of the arrangements between the brokers, DTC, clearinghouses, etc. (likely needing to be be built into the financial systems that log transfers and ownership, if not already provided for) but would not really pose a significant barrier.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-07-14/banks-for...
[2] https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/proxymatters/proxy_materials.s...
I do like getting my arguments vetted on this site! Thanks.

These arguments aren't really sequential; maybe only one is true. Maybe for three different people, each argument is true for one of 'em.

So, I don't think the connections you made in my argument are really what I meant. The more I think about it, it's very possible that the kinds of freedoms that were restricted because of WWII and the Cold War normalized the idea of restricting freedoms in defense of a certain ideology. After all, what looks better in historical hindsight: the ACLU in Skokie or Japanese internment?

I have a feeling that pinpointing a singular cause is impossible, if there even is a singular cause. Still worth discussing, but good to have the discussion framed with that in mind.
I think you're right that we don't really understand yet the implications of this idea. For instance, it's not just expectation that should be emphasized, it's the discount rate at which the present value is performed. Conditional on the expected value of the earnings over the future, one can calculate the implied discount rate given a company's price (equity risk premium). When this value is higher, the market is effectively more present-oriented, they care less about future cash flows. And vice-versa. Would the equity risk premium fall under this type of market? Would that mean lower equity prices? I don't know.
25ms is 1.5 * (1/60)... Is your monitor running at 60Hz?
Yes I recall a Forza motorsport physics guy saying they used a simple lookup table for the chart which holds the curve for the limit if grip on a tyre. Beats the crab out if calculating it every time.
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If you're talking about jobs, most humans have a plethora of survival options.

Once a wild animal is trained to an easy single source of food, it prevents them from naturally diversifying their diet to prevent starvation, removing that natural challenge could be deadly.

This isn't just about doing a task and getting a reward, this is about addiction.
Correct. You can't solve every problem with technology.
Bought a mattress online and loved it.
I rarely use transitions larger than 100ms in UX, I doubt i'm abnormal in not seeing the result as instantaneous (compared to no transition). On the other hand this certainly is not normal UX design, I am very irritated at how common excessively long transitions are used on the web... to the point that I actually have to wait for things to finish animating before I can interact with them, it feels so 90's like i'm supposed to be impressed with the transition rather than the transition to simply convey the introduction of something and then to get the hell out of the way (like it should).
I've never heard of this before, is there an honest review of Onavo out there other than bait for data collection?
I think slightly out of tune often sounds better (more natural) in all genres except perhaps classical.
How do you build the next-generation internet?
In this case, you just smash the flasme in the floor and then throw in the trash. There is minimum hazard of the thing catch fire, specially if it has a cover.

Many places have designated trash for butts.

Where I work, thare is a company that collect these cans, and transform in paper.

After 2 years they are now being proffiteble.

But as a smoker, I fell terrible when there is a trash can in the place, but there are lots of butts in the floor. Makes me mad.
You want a long-term exchange? Istitute a mandatory holding period and/or limited trading times.

This is the exact kind of experimental BS that lead to the derivative bubble.
Your probably right, it's an old TN panel in a 10yr old laptop... I'm gona have to steal someones shiny modern IPS in a minute :P (I know they are generally slower response but it's 10 years newer so you never know)
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No IPS still super slow. How common are >60Hz computer displays these days?
It's a frequent issue in FPS games. Simultaneously pressing four keys isn't particularly unusual in an FPS, but it confounds an awful lot of non-gaming keyboards.
You should see Varnish [1] and VCL language.
Also recommends to review offers / availability from major players.

fastly, keycdn, cloudflare w/o railgun, cdn77 (and the list go on)

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>True, however I'd say this is a problem with having an incompetent person in charge, not a problem with the process.

No, it's a process problem. Devs can't directly assess the relative importance of setting up a CI server compared to the new login workflow. If they could, there wouldn't be any need for a PO. POs probably don't grasp exactly how important setting up a CI server is. And why should they?

>The person making a decision like "should we do refactoring" should not be incompetent.

That's a given. If they're incompetent, no matter what process you give them they will inevitably just make things worse.

>I also don't think the solution of "30% of time" is good. Sometimes you need more, sometimes less, sometimes it's more important, sometimes less, sometimes more urgent, sometimes less.

Yeah, sometimes more, sometimes less depending upon how much pressure customers are putting on you, if the trade show is next week, if it's a quiet week, etc. IMHO PO should choose the % each sprint and devs should choose what goes in it.

>I still think you should "sell" refactoring to your boss

That's tantamount to saying you don't want it to get done, because devs are typically shitty salespeople. Also: do you really care whether module B is decoupled from module A or a new CI server is set up? Why not just say "spend 30% of your time this sprint on code quality improvements" and leave it at that?

At most, the devs should sell the % of time they want each sprint. Honestly though, I'd be happy to let that be 100% at the PO's discretion. Just don't make me try to explain to a non-techie why it's important that I need to refactor some tests.
>Not to mention that 100 ms is musically a 16th note at 150 bpm. Being off by a 16th note even at that speed is – especially for percussive instruments – obvious.

There's a difference in constant, but consistent lag (delay) and variation of lag variance(lag)>0. If one note is a 16th note off that is lag variance.
A New Way to Beta Test with Feature Toggles
Interestingly, at the end of WWII, when Tojo was captured by the Americans, he shot himself in the abdomen--creating referencss fo seppuku--and apologized that "I am taking so long to die."

Not long after, he was tried for war cimes and executed by hanging.

I'm sure he would have rather have died from the gunshot.

Whether right in some cases and wrong in others, I think it's difficult to say cultural norms are simply and plainly wrong.
>I would definitely draw a line between this kind of domestication and the domestication of animals by our ancestors for our own survival.

I don't understand why the treatment of other domesticated animals by our ancestors is the metric instead of the treatment of other domesticated animals today. Look at how our treatment of these crows compares to that of cows or chickens on any farm. Can you honestly say that training crows in the wild is the instance where we're crossing some ethical line?
> strike a key less than 100 ms after some visual stimuli, I'm sure I couldn't do it

The video game "Super Hexagon"[1] is a surprisingly interesting demonstration of this limitation, and how the mind tries to workaround the problem. The higher difficulties ("hexagonest"[2]) seem impossible at first. In the easier levels you can react, but now the time it takes to see the scree, parse the simple graphics, recognize that you need to turn left to avo##CRASH##...##GAME OVER##, You quickly learn that if you think about the game, you are guaranteed to fail due to insufficient reaction time. Winning requires a mental state possible related to meditation: don't think, let the muscle memory do it's job (maybe from a faster path limited to the spinal-chord and brain-stem?).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrPXBSh4mqU

[2] I finally got a winning 62.09s a few days ago, after many months starting at a high score of 58.57
You are disappointed that they were allowed to write an opinion piece while in college?

I'm assuming it wasn't a peer reviewed science paper, but an opinion piece on ethics. Being allowed to explore the boundaries is a big thing that higher learning can enable.

I'd be more disappointed if they had been prohibited. I wish I still had my ranting papers about randomness and infinity. Those weren't published, or even intended to be published. Instead, they were a tool in the process of learning.

Edited to add: I have a working dog. I figure he is earning his keep. He's pretty lazy but he points and retrieves and, if motivated, can follow a scent. Mostly he is a bum.