skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. Reminds me of https://superuser.com/questions/1282598/what-sense-does-it-m... - what's happening with these "picture improvements" is effectively post-processing "photoshop". They will generally be displaying TV from digital sources, so the need for denoise is questionable. Anti-banding might give you nicer sunsets. But fundamentally you now have a TV that rather than displaying the input signal decides to give you something it considers better. Results are likely to be variable.

Also:

"Samsung, though it didn’t tout a new processor, promised that all its gadgets, big and small, will be a lot smarter this year—and will, by 2020, be using AI and talking to the cloud."

Fully compliant with all major buzzwords. Also employing a black box user surveillance engine.
Greed and speculation today becomes genuine mass distrust and dislike of fiat tomorrow, don't underestimate cognitive dissonance.
“The reason this stuff is crap is far more basic. It’s because better-than-crap costs a lot more, and crap is usually sufficient.

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Every dollar put into making software less crappy can’t be spent on other things we might also want, the list of which is basically endless.“

Software is crap because humans on the whole have an extremely difficult time reasoning through all the possible logic flows.

Software is also crap because in order to design good software a lot of insight, experience and empathy is required, and as it turns out, people writing crap don’t have any of those prerequisites.

Finally, most software is crap because most people writing it don’t care about getting it 100% correct, since it turns out that getting the last 5% correctly functioning is exponentially difficult, and those people would rather collect a paycheck than feel proud and content about what they wrote.

All other industries manage to deliver complete, working products; we are the only industry which doesn’t; computers and software never work 100% correctly. What does that make us? It makes us jerk-offs, that’s what it makes us. I understand now why Keith Wesolowski ditched computers and went to work on a ranch. And damn it, he is right!
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Caja is only getting security fixes for now, one of the GitHub issues from March 2017 states: "New features for Caja are pretty much on hold for the time being. However, if you'd like to write a patch to add this one we'd be happy to review and incorporate it."
I noticed on the TI DLP product web page for automotive [1] that heads up displays are another intended use. I've driven my daughter's car and really like color heads up display in her vehicle--It took a few minutes to get used. The ability to see the essential GPS information floating ahead in my field of view was far less distracting than having to look down at the instrument panel to read it.

[1] http://www.ti.com/dlp-chip/automotive/applications/applicati...
When you talk about static typing as providing some form of formal verification, you really can only talk about languages with advanced type systems like Haskell. Type systems like those in Java and C# give you very little formal verification (and I say this as someone who programs daily in C# for work and Python and Common Lisp for fun). What Java-like type systems give you is confidence in refactoring, which is not nothing, but it is not formal verification.

(I'll also say that type inference and generic types in C# give me about 80% of what dynamic types in Python give me. The main thing I miss is heterogeneous tuples, which in C# have to be of type Object, or defined as structs/classes, which is too verbose for the job.)
There have been a couple. However, when it does happen it gets a lot of media attention, the most recent incident taking place on Oxford Street, a popular shopping street in London: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-41263926
Rather than make robots, why don't they import millions of folks from Central America to Do The Jobs That The Japanese Won't Do?
> A lot of the sanitized fairy tales we read have very dark origins.

I still consider lots of fairy tales that I was told as a child as very dark (I don't mean the idyllic world "Disney" versions).

For example in the Grimm version of Cinderella the evil sisters cut cut away their heels and toes with a knife to fit in the shoe and at the end the pigeons peck the eyes of the evil sisters (see http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/-6248/16).

Or in "The red shoes" by Hans Christian Andersen the little girl protagonist prompts the headman to chop her feet (wearing the red shoes) to get rid of the shoes.

Edit: or Snow White: At the end the evil stepmother has to dance in red-hot iron shoes at the daughjter's wedding until she dies (see http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/-6248/16)
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TL;DR: how to turn a side project into an OSS side project: start by scratching your own itch, timebox tweaking, write a good README, hit publish. Easier than you'd think.

here's the project https://github.com/jehna/ga-lite
Well, in this universe, the actual design/development of new Olivetti PC related models, actually happened in Cupertino, JFYI (in Italian):

http://www.storiaolivetti.it/percorso.asp?idPercorso=608

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_Advanced_Technology_C...

It must be the air in Silicn Valley ...
I had this idea more than a decade ago but for another reason. If you're driving in heavy snow, the headlights light up large flakes near the car and make it hard to see beyond them. If you add another light at a non-visible wavelength and an image sensor whose pixels can be mapped to the DPL light at very high frame rates, you could turn off the visible lighting that illuminates the big bright snow flakes. Suddenly the stuff you want to see in the distance would be more visible. When I first thought of it, resolution seemed OK but frame rate would probably not have been high enough. I recently revisited the idea and it seems entirely possible today.

Snow Lights.
The skyboxes where very cool- you could craft little spaceships battling and then set them into the skybox, where they - tall as mountains would duke it out over the mortals fighting among themselves.
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In Europe the McDonalds I have been to already have screen everywhere where you can order food. There still seems to be a bunch of people working there.

I think this might is problem with automation. If you automate everything and you hire no people then who will buy your products. I think its why Henry Ford paid his people so well. So they could buy cars.
Looks nice!! How do you scale things in an aspect-ratio preserving way?
Good to see the strict typing of C has saved it from most security issues.
i think it it is quite facetious to put it down to type systems.
https://jobs.netflix.com/locations/london-united-kingdom

Yes. Furthermore they have licensed content for this purpose.
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One big difference is that the unpopular opinion can still be allowed to exist.

In other words, it is still possible to find neo-Nazi social media in the US. (Yes, there's been some issues on this front with some of the more visible sites due to certain Internet corporate CEOs getting "caught up in the mob", but organizations like the EFF are allowed to push back with counter-opinion -- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/fighting-neo-nazis-fut...). It is still possible to find the Google employee manifesto online, as well as social media both sympathetic to these opinions and completely disagreeing with them and anything in between.

In many cases of government censorship, unpopular causes and opinions simply disappear. They for all practical purposes don't exist. You are not allowed to talk about them at all, at least in public.
Right. I don't know how you would write a reasonable procedural generator in the first place without that kind of sanity check.

With that heuristic in place you just generate mostly random stuff and throw out what doesn't work. Writing a generator that works about 99.9% of the time must require painful tweaking.
I think the point of the article is something that does an 95% job for 10% the cost works for a lot of things, but somethings that trade off doesn't work.
It all depends on how your organize them really. If you follow the DOM hierarchy then you would only need to change one if the element has changed color for example, not position, scale, rotation as that would be done with the transform.
> End users don't care if content is encoded in a patent free format.

This is a tired argument. The same argument was attempted when VP8 was new, and when VP9 was new, and now again with AV1. I'm sure the same, worn-out ground will be revisited when AV2 comes along.

End users don't care that TCP\IP is royalty-free or that HTTP and HTML are royalty-free or that any of the other commonly used formats and protocols are royalty-free. They don't care because they don't understand the issues.

Developers care. Builders care. I care. I want to implement video on the internet for any use case without having to consult a lawyer just to understand the licensing implications of doing so. VP9 and AV1 make that possible. VP9 and AV1 normalize video on the internet by making it royalty-free like all the other internet formats and protocols.

Content companies and hardware companies and software companies don't join AOMedia for the fun of it. They join because it's the practical choice:

http://aomedia.org/about-us/
UK and India does censor movies. I think perhaps very many democratic countries do.
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C does not have particularly strict typing
Plants aren't capable of running away. I really don't see this as much of an argument. Then again, I don't know if I agree that "plants feel pain" either.

I'm not necessarily a huge fan of factory farming, but if people want to be able to buy meat at any time, I don't really know much of a way around it. Though ranching still exists, there are plenty of ranches with heads of cattle that graze freely and eventually are taken to slaughterhouses.

If we did end factory farming, it wouldn't be as simple as just releasing these animals into the wild either. If we did they would very likely die of starvation. So we're talking about a generation of cattle/chickens that would basically need to be killed off so we didn't mess up the environment with a massive population explosion it couldn't handle.

On top of all of that, you are acting as if these animals are capable of the kind of thought that you and I are. They can think about their future, what their eventual fate is. This is fallacious. While animals may show signs of intelligence, there is no evidence of any kind of consciousness similar to ours.

This can even be evidenced through humans. People used to think that deaf people were mentally retarded in some way. Hence "deaf and dumb", however a lot of them were simply missing language. Language is extremely important as it not only allows for group cohesion, it also makes inner dialogue possible. While animals may have some basic kind of communicative capabilities, it is nothing on the level of humans. So without some kind of language, even if they're theoretically capable of cognitive thought, they can't have the same kind of existence as us.

https://www.verywell.com/deaf-history-deaf-not-retarded-1046...

Edit: Another link
https://neuroanthropology.net/2010/07/21/life-without-langua...
There are different type systems (think C vs Rust), and having one is always better than having none. C still prevents some issues you can have with assembly.
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Caveat: I am also a high level programmer.

My understanding is that the problem is that the data in the cache _isn't_ rolled back.

You fetch the secret data. You then fetch a different memory addressed based on the contents of the secret data e.g. fetch((secret_bit * 128) + offset) [1] so if secret_bit is 0 it's fetched the memory at offset into the cache, if secret_bit is 1 it's fetched the memory at offset+128 into the cache.

After the speculative work is rolled back, the data that it fetched into the cache still remains. You then time how long it takes to fetch offset and offset+128. If offset comes back quickly, secret_bit was 0. If offset+128 comes back quickly, secret_bit was 1.

_That_ is where the timing attack part comes in: "timing attack" refers to using measurements of how long something took to glean information, not that you need to do it quickly.

[1] In reality you do it on the byte level and use &, but I wanted to keep it to guessing a single bit to make it simpler.
Likewise, that 2/3 is mostly not due to lack of knowledge. Over here (Finland), driving license training and testing nowadays has increased "attitude" training, as that is seen becoming more important than knowledge of traffic rules etc.

Here, a motor vehicle was involved in 62 % of all bicyclist deaths over the period 2011-2015 (116 cases). Motor vehicle was not the guilty party in all of those (but in roughly 2/3 of them). So, motor vehicle driver was at fault in about 40 % of cyclist deaths.
Netflix are doing business in the EU. I subscribe to the UK Netflix, which is a Dutch company under the name of Netflix International B.V.‬ The films stream from European servers.
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Are you arguing that the NSA does not fall under the umbrella of the "US Government"?
The Wikipedia article says January 2018: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOMedia_Video_1
Yeah, but each company just thinks in isolation. It's a bit of a prisoner's dilemma.
Interestingly I've become a much better cyclist after obtaining my driver's license. It made me very aware of the fact that you can't see anything from cars (compared to the elevated and pillar-free view from a bike) so you have to be aware of that fact as a cyclist and react accordingly. Some things cyclists do without thinking much are stupidly dangerous and I think this often is the result of cyclists and drivers being two different sets of people.

Also I got to know the rules of the road much better than before and could adjust by behaviour to follow the law. I didn't go over red lights before, but there are a bunch of other things where cyclists don't tend to follow the rules of the road and IMHO it creates a much less stressful environment for everyone if they just did so.
> fluff

Thank you for your summary and likely inadvertent cat themed pun. ;-)
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I'm curious if higher minimum wages in a small number of states will also impact jobs in low-wage states. I would imagine a fair bit of the cost of installing these machines is fixed (software development, machine design), and chains might as well roll them out in low-wage states as well.
Resilience4j is a fault tolerance library designed for Java8
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First, I didn't say anything about 'proving a hypothesis'. Instead, I described testing a hypothesis.

State a hypothesis, test, evaluate the results and draw a conclusion.

What you do with the results of the conclusions is up to you. I personally enjoy fishing, on the other hand, reading this article will give me pause WRT fishing as a sport in the future.

I do think the article has a slant and agenda, but it's an article about i terpreting/applying the results, not a scientific paper. The issue I have with the question presented is that it supposes that the experiments were conducted with some sort of bias. My point is that a properly designed experiment will test a hypothesis and yield evidence that points to some discernable truth. There is nothing different going on here that is any different from other experiments.
I work with C# full-time and it's type system constantly helps me. Of course, it's not Haskell or Rust, but it is still so much better than my Javascript experience. Anonymous types, generic containers and interfaces are usually enough for my needs.

Can you please go into some detail about heterogenous tuples in Python? I've never used it to build big long-lasting systems so I be not aware of some of it's type capabilities.
I'm running Debian stretch on the mac pro.

The following usb wifi dongle seems to have decent linux compatibility but I haven't tried it https://www.amazon.com/Panda-300Mbps-Wireless-USB-Adapter/dp...

There's a lot of tutorials on installing linux distros on macs since there's a few special steps you'll probably have to take. I googled the following tutorial (haven't used it) but it should get you started: https://linuxnewbieguide.org/how-to-install-linux-on-a-macin...
Carmck did do the tools for Quake, though. He wrote QaukeEd on a NeXTstep computer, I don't think id ever released an official Windows tool until QERadiant (which was after Quake III or somewhere around that time, and Robert Duffy ended up being the guy there that did the work on it)
If we can't have adaptive high beams [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSI-NVD1who] in the US we definitely can't have DLP. DOT for headlights in the US is awful. There should be revamped laws for headlights. When the base model has better output with terrible reflector technology than halogen projector you've screwed up the regulations.

http://www.iihs.org/iihs/news/desktopnews/more-than-half-of-...
If google makes a copy of original content and it doesn't hold copyright, why nobody sued them for breach of copyright?
The most discouraging part is that counter showing every shot you have ever taken. It changes a foolish shot that you can laugh at into another mark on your permanent record.
Henry Ford paid a high wage because his new assembly line concept required specialization. It would be highly inefficient to constantly rehire and retrain works. One worker missing probably had a much greater financial impact in Ford factories than in other car factories at the time.

Henry Ford would have automated if he could.
I imagine instead of making headlights easier to replace it's going to skyrocket in price and run off of closed source software. Why would this be a good addition for cars?
And how exactly am I supposed to determine if someone is a EU citizen or not?
That Henry Ford story is apocryphal. If you think about it, it doesn't really make any sense.
I generally wait with the traffic also when there is no bike lane/box. The only thing I ever worry about is getting hit from behind by some idiot not paying attention. I do try to mitigate this by turning my bike at an angle so that I look a little bigger.

This is all dependent on the traffic/intersection though, things vary depending on the circumstances.
I'm not sure what it says about humans that we keep these vicious and sadistic predatory killers around for petting and general entertainment.

And I say that as someone who likes cats.
I think that's a reasonable interpretation.

In looking for a connection between Twain and crinoline just now (spurred by your comment), I found https://webb-deane-stevens.org/swimming-against-the-tide-in-... :

> In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum will host a lecture, “Swimming Against the Tide in Crinoline and Pin Curls: The Life and Spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker,” ... Raised to believe that her place was at home, Hooker chaffed at the role. She was prickly. She refused to go quietly. She sided against her powerful family when her brother, a noted minister, was involved in a sex scandal that rocked the nation. Though he was a neighbor, Mark Twain avoided her, as did some of her family members.

On the other hand, there's also the book "Crusader in Crinoline: the Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe", and Stowe and Twain were next-door neighbors and friends.
This is what a 50-qubit quantum computer looks like
Edit: I think my comment was misunderstood.
> You fetch the secret data. You then fetch a different memory addressed based on the contents of the secret data ...

I was under the impression that there is no interface to read data from the CPU caches and that the cache is managed by the CPU itself only.
My Dad had one too, but I don't remember the date. It was probably one of the first in Northern Ireland at that time based on later discussions with him. I always gravitate to my Amiga when I visit home, but we still have the M24 knocking around. I wonder if it'll still have the old Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets he was working on.
In which case it would make most sense to build a mock container on top which clearly exhibits the desired behavior of the underlying container and then test the behavior of that.
I still don't understand this comment. A stop sign a simple 100$ fix to the problem but we hate stop signs so...
IP and location have no legal relationship. They barely have actual relationship. I used UK vpn on google.com but it thinks I am from HK. If google cannot get a correct ipdb what chances do others have ?

And why would I block EU ? Connection is intiated by user. So its user importing/exporting data from/to server jurisdiction. Why does not EU force their own citizens to not do business with those companies ?
This was the biggest takeaway from the article, for me:

I thought to myself "Holy shit, Carmack wrote a real-time BSP editor!" What I didn't realize was that it wasn't actually real-time, there was this re-build process and all this other offline stuff. I didn't know that, and so I thought I had to create a completely real-time thing, and so I did.

It basically goes to show you nothing's impossible until someone says it is. Had Tim thought, "There's no way you can write a real-time BSP editor on current hardware", he would have never done it.
Interesting, I remember when Moxie said:

"Pavel Durov wants to frame privacy as a question of trust"[1]

Looks like that's what WhatsApp has now arrived at.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/18/signal-moxie-marlinspike-t...
I was recently shocked to learn that you cannot buy "dumb" TVs from any of the major brands any longer.

The only source I was able to find were random brands from China, and commercial displays from companies like NEC. Unfortunately commercial displays are optimized for longevity and not picture quality :/

If anyone knows where I can get a decent dumb TV please share.
Nice work! I especially appreciated the emphasis on writing a good README… but I think it's missing the most crucial thing you need on top your README. That's the motivation aka why the project exists at all, why it's better than the alternatives, etc.
Just because a lot of people are working at McDonalds does not mean that the automation has not replaced people's jobs.

For example there are a lot of people that work in a law firm but there are no secretaries typing up what someone else is dictating.
> Do you have examples of things that are talked about as companies that are not also legal entities?

Sole proprietorships are not legal entity. (Their owner is a “legal entity”, but the business itself is not separately.)

Partnerships were not generally legal entities in the US prior to states adopting 1997 revisions to the Uniform Partnership Act model law (only 37 of 49 states who adopted the original law, apparently, have adopted the 1997 revision); I'm not sure if any of the states that don't use the 1997 RUPA still don't make partnerships legal entities.
why would you want a specific shape to be projected by your headlights? Having a sharp level of light beam defined, I agree.

Why would you want shape? You want everything to be lit up in front of the vehicle. This would hold true even for autonomous vehicles, where you blast the area in front of you with some wavelength of light.
Maybe, but he was a bit of an idealist and has strong thoughts about how people should and how society should be structured. And the resources to make a noticeable change. HAve you heard of Fordlandia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordlândia
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