skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All you need is a hardware upscaler in the display cable to take lower resolution up to native resolution of this display.

Clarity isn't as important as getting rid of the screen door effect.
Well, people raise children, mentor others, create art, build real and abstract things that outlive them. I'm not sure why a twin with your memories and abilities would necessarily be the best possible creation. To me, someone who can only be satisfied by that appears to be somewhat lacking in identification with the rest of humanity.
Not my project, but Writing An Interpreter in Go is excellent: https://interpreterbook.com/
Real source: https://research.googleblog.com/2017/12/introducing-new-fove...

(the one you linked came up first for me too when searching around, took a little more digging to find the original article).
This is getting old. Google's first video was made in 2012...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdgQpa1pUUE
Yeah the results I mentioned were with incognito mode on the browser for that reason, but it's possible something still contaminated my results (not my location since I'm out of the country).
I often feel the need to say "Alexa, thank you"
That sounds really nice.
> Seems more like a hipster-ish take on making music. "I only make music on instruments that I can build myself."

I wish people would stop using this tired and bland description of people's motives to enjoy fresh, new, creative and diy. It seems pretty intellectually shallow to me.
Isn't it a very scalable problem? Just put more processors to GPU.
We just cancelled our Hello Fresh (which we loved) but if we can buy similar kits at the store we'll probably do so.

Hello Fresh boxes are great but their subscription and forced delivery model just doesn't work with our schedule. We sporadically shift between cooking and eating out. They're not having a "send me a box now" option forced our hand in cancelling.
No, I think it's the other way around.

People driving have accidents all the time right now that could have been avoided if proper automation was in charge.

At some point if you have an accident and kill someone, and it can be shown in court that if you'd been using the easily available technology that person would still be alive, people will start being prosecuted for gross negligence or worse.
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There is a simple solution. Just block the access from the EU. Let them suffer for the consequence of stupid law.
> The web is open for everyone, and thus following your argument the rights (legal or moral) should not apply.

I didn't say that, and I disagree with that. The web isn't "default open", and Google has a license that you agree to when using their product that says what you can and cannot do with it. And scraping their site is against that "license" (aka the "terms of service") giving them both the legal and the moral right to stop you while keeping it "publicly" accessible.

Wikipedia's terms of service specifically state that anyone is free to read, print, share, and reuse their articles and other media under free and open licenses. They have no more right (moral or legal) to take issue with youtube including wikipedia snippets in their application than Linus Torvalds has the right to take issue with Google using Linux in their application. As long as you follow the license to the letter, you are legally fine, and in my opinion as long as you follow the "spirit" of the license, you are morally fine.

I don't see this move by google as violating either of them. The director of Wikimedia might not like it, and that's fine, but Google is in no way under any obligation to stop what they are doing (again, legally or morally in my opinion).

Wikipedia can adjust their terms of use, but they themselves have a framework for how they can update their own terms, and part of that requires a 30 day comment period [0]. If they have issue with this, they can absolutely update their terms, but I would never donate to the wikimedia foundation again and would stop contributing if they are going to start deciding who is allow access to their data that they champion as "free and open".

[0] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use/en
Is this EFF article not a different discussion from yesterday where the actionnetworks article was changed to simply link to the Senate text? I don't see this particular EFF article
But, but, how are we going to put JS-powered reactive front ends on the VPN so engineers can telecommute?

I agree with you that they should not be connected, but you can have things disconnected and still be read-only. IE, one way optical feeds.
But how does the proposed model compare to the accuracy of the dark matter model?

In physics, how well your model can predict past and future states from the current state is rather important. Though future states more than past state but any model should be able to also somewhat agree with it's the past it generates.
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> When private actors behave badly, you can opt out and go for competiting services.

> You aren't entitled to viable alternatives.

????
This can't be overstated. You can achieve really convincing presence with nothing but flat shaded primitives, but the effect is greatly diminished if it appears there's something external in your field of view.

The other bonus here is that with the huge resolution bump, other use cases become available. Reading text in VR is tricky with the shipping headsets right now, but with this, a virtual desktop could be realistic.
Probably lack of business imagination on my part, so can you explain a situation where a company would be forced to do something that would lose it money?

If you agree to a deal you must be getting some benefit out of it, right?
iHeartRadio is the company that nobody asked for, who attempts to shove their music down your throat with moderate success. The sooner it's gone, the better off the music industry will be.
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That was impressive, I have received a response already.

It appears my MEP had a few concerns with some other aspects of it already, so has had their eye on it for a year. She said she has contacted "the Rapporteur for the file, Axel Voss MEP to ask for his clarification on the issues you raised related to code-sharing platforms and why the scope of the proposal suggests to include them."

I'm kind of surprised at getting such a genuine response so quickly! I will update once I get more information
>one is seen as a retaliation and the other as preemptive aggression

I don't think so. This fire has been burning for a very long time.
Well said.

Though possibly a bigger backlash could come when a self driving car kills someone in a situation where there are only 2 bad options to choose from. Being that with a human driver nothing was pre-planned people move on. But with a self driving car where such situations have to be decided in advance the backlash could be much more significant.
I've been thinking about taking a classes to improve my UX/UI skills since they are becoming more important. I think it would really round out my skill set. Anyone have recommendation on more formal way of learning good UI/UX design process?
This is HN we are talking about, not the brightest crowd.
Doesn't support Swarm, but thanks for the pointer.
She does mention that with bundlers, users will still use the ES module syntax.
>>Currently politicians have said a number of times that they'd like to get rid of human rights.

That's not true at all. They may want to leave the European Court of Human Rights but that's not the same as suddenly rolling back loads of human rights in the UK.

I'm old enough to have been an adult before Tony Blair signed the European Convention on Human Rights into law in the UK. People's rights didn't massively change for the better when that was signed, so I wouldn't expect them to change for the worse if it is repealed.
I enjoyed https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/
and http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/
And the dictionary definition of lobbying is "to conduct activities aimed at influencing public officials and especially members of a legislative body on legislation" (Webster). If I send an email to my MEP to ask them to block the proposed filtering requirement, I'm engaged in lobbying. In fact, this GitHub blog post is a form of lobbying, since it explicitly asks readers to contact EU policymakers. How is that corruption? It isn't - lobbying is free speech and an essential part of the democratic process.
I agree. The biggest annoyance with Blue Apron is planning your deliveries. There might be a week you were planning to skip, for cost reasons or "too busy to even cook" reasons, but you forget until its too late. Or, you might forget to go in and select the recipes you want, so you get a couple good ones and one that you never would have ordered, wasting at least $20.

But I think it depends on the cost of these in-store kits. It does remove the huge convenience advantage, but I still like the idea of meal prep kits. The problem with in-store is that this space is so easy to compete in, and now you're asking to go up against every other company that can find space on a store shelf, which is easier than maintaining a delivery network.

Blue Apron's food isn't especially high quality and the recipes aren't especially amazing. They're great, but not great enough that I wouldn't switch to a competitor if the price or quality was better.
I think we can take that a step further and heap praise on women for choosing work that involve caring for children, the sick, and the elderly.
Long periods of crunch-time in tech/finance/etc. can be draining, but IMO the mental and emotional fortitude required to sustain a career as a care-giver is in a class of it's own.
I had the same thought; but then I read about $500 million in charitable relief to Haiti disappearing, or Harvard faculty lying to the public about the health and safety of lead or sugar because they received some bribe, and I don't know what to think.
According to this source, third-cousin pairings are the sweet spot

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-incest-is-be...
excuse me, what? they owe 20 billion dollars? That is way more than Spotify! Am I missing something here, what have they done with that money?
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Publix already sells meal kits near me, including slowcooking kits and baking bags you just open one end of and toss in the oven. Seems like any grocery store with actually fresh meat and produce could easily compete with this, right?
If you can't get the state to stop engaging in this, how are you going to get them to pass a law against it? Or not repeal the law the minute they want to do it again?

The incentive for states to do this is a direct consequence of progressive taxation. If a company paid $1000 in taxes and got back >=$1000 in police protection (or whatever), and the government's relationship with every other taxpayer was of the same nature, companies couldn't do this. The government actually can provide >$1000 in value for $1000 in tax revenue because government services can produce consumer surplus like anything else.

And if every taxpayer had that relationship with government then there would be no room for arbitrage. If someone wanted lower taxes, the cuts would have to come out of some services, but all the services provide as much taxpayer value as they cost. You can't attract high income taxpayers by cutting services that produce a net positive benefit to high income taxpayers.

The problem comes when one state wants to take from the rich and give to the poor and the next state doesn't, because then the richest people all move to the states that don't take more from them than they give back, and getting poorer people to move in instead is not what any state wants. Then the states that were trying to redistribute income realize they've failed, but they don't repeal the programs because they're very popular with the recipients, so instead they give the rich tax breaks to get them to come back. Because $1000 in tax revenue is more than zero, even if they were originally supposed to pay $10,000.

And so the programs that are supposed to redistribute income end up distributing it from the middle to the bottom instead of the top to the bottom and end up destroying the middle class.

The solution to this, at least between US states, is to have a UBI at the federal level and no other redistributive programs at all. Then the UBI serves the goal of redistribution and progressive taxes aren't required on top of that, so there is nothing for companies to arbitrage.
Agreed. As someone that manages multiple documents under heavy revision control in a public repository (yay, public certificate authority documentation), Asciidoc has been a life-saver. We used Word for a long time, but found it was way too difficult to track revisions and approvals using it. Inevitably, you'd pass the document to eight people that need to approve and get back eight sets of changes, which you then have to integrate in and hope no one has introduced a regression from "DOCUMENT_JONREVIEW_VERSION1_COMMENTS_FINAL_FINAL_DRAFT_FINAL_DRAFT_FINAL_COMMENTS_V6". Moreover, the people doing the reviews are a mix of technical and non-technical, and doing the review/approval process in Word docs meant constructing an Alfresco instance or similar to track the approvals and validate for auditors that we'd completed reviews before pushing updates. Also, you have to create something to keep track of the Word document originals /and/ the PDFs they produce—it always seemed like the Word originals would disappear at some point, leaving everyone to back-create them from the PDFs.

Now we do the documents in AsciiDoc, and track everything in an internal Github repository using pull requests. The diffs are clean and are actually easier to read: you can comment, you can immediately see where the changes are, and everyone is focused on changes in content rather than getting distracted by font and spacing choices. Once N people out of M have approved the pull request, I can merge it into the master and then publish it into a clean, readable PDF with an auto-generated table of contents, page numbers, footers, and the like.

Now, if someone were to invent a WYSIWYG app for Asciidoc, that would be awesome, but this seems to be working a whole heck of a lot better than the previous Word-based method.
> It seems pretty intellectually shallow to me.

So does spending a crazy amount of time and tech to implement something that could be done in other existing synthesizers with a fraction of the time/effort, just so that you can say "I made this with ML."
I know some of the people behind that book. It's a very interesting take on the craft of programming. I highly recommend it.
My tendency is to say "Well, but that didn't happen, so discussing it isn't fruitful."

But counterfactuals seem to be part of our reasoning processes ("If i had turned left at the last light I would be closer to the restaurant.") and they do often capture the imagination (alternative histories, etc.):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfactual_conditional
Agreed. I can't decide whether to go to these places without a nice description of them and why they are so special. I really like the concise information like cell phone signal btw!
So in case you're wondering how a bunch of radio stations got $20B in debt (yes, that's twenty billion US dollars) - the answer as always is a leveraged buyout.

From https://www.forbes.com/2008/05/14/clear-channel-buyout-marke...:

"Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital, agreed to a lower sale price of $17.9 billion or $36.00 per share of the radio company"

Wait, maybe the name "Bain Capital" rings a bell? That's because their leveraged buyout of Toys R Us saddled the company with so much debt they went completely out of business.

https://nypost.com/2017/09/21/bain-capital-has-now-plunged-t...

Also see https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/sorting-through-the-...

There's really no reason for iHeartMedia to have all this debt other than Bain Capital did their thing.
As a pedestrian and driver I find it useful to see the faces of other drivers. When walking across the road I try to make eye contract with the driver to make sure they see me. Doesn't seem possible with self driving cars. If a display in the driver's seat could make "eye contact" then display my photo with a checkmark - to say "I see you" I'm be more happy about walking in front.
Look for collapse due to power concentration, not wealth.

You will find plenty of examples, but we usually call them "revolution", not "collapse".
its a fine line for sure. but MM definitely achieved way more than EH did, going into Yahoo.
As a home user who has a passing interest in VR. I would throw down a bunch of cash to get something like a STAR VR setup for watching TV/movies.

Something that can give immediate immersion when put on, scaled down, lightweight/comfortable, portable and can last around 5 hours would be a great first step.

[0]: https://www.starvr.com
"Blood Unicorn" is a great name for a metal band, though.
This paper reminds me of an article I read yesterday about how we are no longer in the information age, but rather the "reputation" age. Goes to show, even science that might seem reputable to the average layperson can be complete garbage.
Actually most international treaties specify all language versions to be equally authentic. Multilingual contracts on the other hand generally have a single authoritative version.
Nothing. They never had it. It was a leveraged buyout run by Bain.
Ask HN: Is consistent hashing the only reliable way to shard data?
This is a very disturbing question. Why do you want control over other people, especially with regard to casinos, betting, and porn? All of those are consensual indulgences.

What is an ethical limit and who decides where the line is drawn?
So unless capitalism can run completely unrestrained you automatically get China brand communism? That doesn't sound right.
I think it's good that they're exploring the trade-off between the convenience of home delivery versus the convenience of last minute decision to buy. If the meal kits were carried in corner stores or along the route from the subway to home, then they could satisfy someone who didn't plan ahead or whose plans changed.
Why would they want feedback AFTER announcing they would drop support, (and using a pastebin service to spread the "news"?)..that sounds counterintuitive to me.
Assuming YUV 4:2:2 at 8 bit per component you end up with about 32Gb/s, 40Gb/s for 10bits.

By the time GPUs able to render at this resolution and framerate become mainstream I'm sure we'll have the cables to connect them. The big problem with VR is that you want very long cables to be able to move around unless you manage to stuff everything into a backpack. Very high bandwidth and long cables don't always play very nice together. Worst case scenario there's always optical fiber...
> One big winner was the motoring series “The Grand Tour,” which stars the former presenters of BBC’s “Top Gear.” The show had more than 1.5 million first streams from Prime members worldwide, at a cost of $49 per subscriber in its first season.

BBC handed Amazon a win on a silver platter. They didn't need a writer, they didn't need a producer, they just bought the ones that BBC threw out. How did Netflix miss on Andy Wilman and Jeremy Clarkson?
This guide to Build Your Own React is great and even includes React Fiber. well worth it. https://github.com/hexacta/didact
A store can easily undercut Blue Apron by providing homegrown meal kits, as soon as they see that they sell. Some grocery stores already do this (https://www.thefreshmarket.com/specials/little-big-meal).
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> If you agree to a deal you must be getting some benefit out of it, right?

Well I suppose they get to enjoy the benefit of not simply going out of business.

The sharecropper working the land for his fief lord gets "some benefit" out of it, yes, in that he and his family get to eat and thus live. That doesn't make it a good situation.
One thing that gets mentioned is the many thousands of miles that have been driven by Tesla vehicles, giving them sensor data in so many situations that may not have been seen yet by other companies. We may have to wait and see how much of an advantage that actually gives them (if any).
And this article [1] on how Jean-Claude Junker made his chief of staff general secretary of the commission will tell you how corrupt it is.

[1] https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/03/a-very-eu-coup-martin-se...
As Canadian who spends a fair amount of time in Germany, I've always found German bankruptcy laws somewhat horrific. Although to be fair the idiots I've known that went bankrupt personally in Canada wouldn't have been able to do the same things in Germany they did in Canada.
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It's like Visual Studio install for Lisp. I like that the idea of single sane default configuration is promoted over infinite configurability.
> I would seriously doubt that any city would be offering this if they didn't believe that it would be net positive for their area.

I would. What's good for a "city" is not necessarily good for the residents of that city. These are two totally different entities with their own wants and needs, that are not guaranteed to act in the others best interest. In fact, occasionally the incentives are so misaligned as to be polar opposites. For example :

> Between increases in property values (thereby increased taxes)

Increased property value is never just a "good" thing. It's an explicit tradeoff. More expensive property is "good" for the municipality government (their incomes rise), but generally bad for most actual humans (their expenses directly increase as a result of this, doubly so if they aren't wealthy enough to already own property).

> number of high-income earners, and new spending from these people,

Again, this is not a good thing, it's an explicit tradeoff. This is good for high-income earners (who can use each other to push their own careers forward), but is explicitly bad for everyone other resident, who can't.

If a bunch of "high earners" enter your market, and you yourself are not a high earner, your income remains mostly flat, but literally every cost you have has gone up significantly. (Housing, Transportation, Education, Medical, Daycare, etc). You are now competing against high-income people for almost everything, but with little-to-none of the money they have. You will loose, every time.
The size of the screen isn't very relevant, because for proper use there needs to be a lot of lenses between the screen and your eyes, and they can use those lenses to magnify the screen to whatever field of view they want. Mostly a smaller screen just makes the headset smaller.
Improving resolution allows for reading text smaller than a billboard. FOV and lens flare are bad, but text is a higher priority IMO.
Huh, I've been wondering for like a decade if we'd start doing this, but the eye-tracking latency must have to be insane.
Ask HN: How do distributed key value stores balance shards?
On adding nodes, shards become unbalanced. How do you rebalance them?

Assuming, we've K:V pair, and receiving a request for value increment every second on keys.

How do you rebalance when you add node, without rendering values useless.
The article didn't just talk about the Saudi attack. It gave an overview of the history of similar attacks. Stuxnet was arguably the most significant of those, and it's especially relevant since they're blaming Iran for this attack.
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Asciidoc?