skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given a pixel isn't a perfect colour dot, it has subpixel patterns and there is space between pixels; there is an advantage to having substantially higher pixel count than we can perceive.

What we really need are better up-scalers and a smarter dynamic trade-off between spatial/temporal display resolution. E.g. upscale from half res using something like Edge-Directed Interpolation ( https://people.xiph.org/~ds/edi/info.html ), render unchanged elements at native res, reduce rendering resolution when needed to maintain always lock with screen refresh rate.

With cheap hardware neural network accelerators, we could make use of very high spatial and temporal resolution displays without needing to actually render at 8k/240hz etc.
Lab meat: More hype than substance?
> Why is it relevant if the seed were bred using genetic engineering or conventional?

Julian Van Winkle once made the point that it doesn't matter how you feel about GMO vs non-GMO, if you want to sell in Europe, you need to use non-GMO corn. I'm not sure how much of that was about regulation and how much was about public sentiment.

There's also the risk that regulations or sentiments will get even more unfriendly towards GMO in the time it takes to get the product out the door. It's hard to see how GMO is worth the risk in whiskey. The seed is the cheap part of the manufacturing process.
So, in your revisionist mindset, the opium wars were just like any other war?

The motivation of the opium wars was to fix the British Empire trade deficit by selling opium to China, turning them into drug addicts in the process. When the Chinese started seizing their opium they declared war.

It's fucked up to just imagine what kind of morally bankrupt psycho could have thought of that as a solution to an economic problem, and what kind of society it takes to get everyone aligned to execute it.
you mean like uber disrespecting taxi laws or paypal blatantly breaking international banking and money laundering laws?

this seems to be the trend for a few years already.
This is very well said. I made a ton of online-only friends with whom I've since met up with over the years. These were enabled by old school phpBB forums, gaming clans, things like that. I don't feel that any personal connection is enabled by Reddit, or even HN for that matter.
You could keep a certain timeline to see if things are transitioning. Important to have a conversation about product focus and what would it mean for the company.
Write a few bullet points so the ceo knows serious Ness of this discussion.
After your meeting you will know if you want to stick around.
Try to convince ceo at least 3 times before you call it quits.
Blocking EU ip addresses is an extremely strong indication of intending to do no business with EU citizens. I expect capricious use of the law, but I doubt they could stretch it to apply in those cases.
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What do you think about a situation in which a consumer would be happy to pay full price to watch content, but they are prevented entirely by a service provider?

For example, suppose where you live there is a monopoly ISP-cable conglomerate, you cannot afford to move away, and you are literally unable to consume from any other ISP / cable level provider.

For some content, like watching European soccer in the US, this situation can mean that you are literally prevented from properly paying money to see that content, even though providers exist who can take your money and give you the content. It might even come down to your specific zip code, street, or even apartment building in some cities, where a content provider is case-by-case prevented from selling their content to certain residents purely based on whether a certain ISP has a monopoly on that location.

Telling the consumer to just not watch seems morally hollow in that specific case (which is a really common case). The customer wants to pay, and a third-party wants to give the content, but a rent-seeking middleman that the consumer has no control over (ISP) can limit the customer’s choices. The customer cannot do what the market would suggest and take their business elsewhere to incentivize the services they want, and because of the ubiquitous need for internet connectivity to conduct basic life duties, totally boycotting the monopoly ISP is functionally not an option. (Really, it would not be reasonable to suggest such a drastic option.)

I don’t see any ethical reason why the consumer should just accept being worse off (in terms of planned consumption), since it’s pure rent-seeking and value destruction on the part of the ISP, which the consumer is literally prevented from rejecting.

Many other ISP behaviors are likewise just artificial rent-seeking attempts, to construct artificial tiering, bundling, etc., which the consumer is prevented from “not buying” because the service provider is often literally a monopoly.

I’m just curious if you take an extreme view of this, that the ISPs or monopoly providers “are right” to use their monopoly position to introduce artificial rent-seeking opportunities? And that if a customer must choose between either paying the rent-seeking premium, stealing the content, or not consuming at all, that the customer should accept that the ISP / content provider’s ability to inflict this situation (through what are unequivocally antitrust violations that are just not punished solely because of regulatory capture) does indees mean the consumer just should opt to not consume at all?

Essentially, “because ISPs spend money on regulatory capture, I should accept living a worse life by not consuming at all rather than watching illegally.”
Not remotely debunked. He definitely tried to hire multiple hits. He kept a diary of that part too. For his technical chops, he was not a smart guy.
God! I couldn't stop reading this it was so entertaining

but it's also similar to my experience.

The type of jobs where the incompetence of your superiors creates the absence of responsibility due to the sheer number of hierarchial and useless processes and departments. It's ironic that it's at these type of jobs where the bar is ridiculously low, like you really have to seriously put in an effort to get fired.

If you are thinking this is the life, please don't, the boredom from not having intellctually stimulating work and responsibilities is very real...

but at the same time you are not doing hard labor and making minimum wage so obviously it's a very good deal for most people....I just didn't feel like I can do that for long because of the boredom is too much.....
Those SD letter boxed locals are Comcast actively degrading the signal, so they can sell the HD version (which is how they receive it) at an inflated price. I sometimes think this might be illegal to tamper with a broadcast signal to degrade it on purpose.
It looks very ineffective. For example, in fbg_draw() they have this code:

https://github.com/grz0zrg/fbg/blob/master/src/fbgraphics.c#...

> memcpy(fbg->buffer, fbg->disp_buffer, fbg->size);

So they don't flip buffers, and don't even use video memory for them, they just copy data from buffer in main memory into a memory-mapped framebuffer. This must be slow. Also it doesn't check for vblank and therefore doesn't protect from tearing, but the description says they have "double buffering".

As a side note, I remember that framebuffer was very slow on a computer I had. Without proprietary video card driver both Windows and Linux had troubles even scrolling a window, it was very laggy. Why was unaccelerated VGA (or VESA?) mode so slow, I wonder?
literally within minutes of you writing, my comments against ICOs and showing doubt and criticism in crypto/blockchain were downvoted.
I'm from Nepal and I've been subscribed to reviewbrah since 2016. I suspect his viewership is much more diverse and widespread that you'd think. It's the internet after all.
Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but it appears he was in sales there? If you're a high performer in sales you get access to people because your activities directly impact the balance sheet
> I think he really was just that bad at coding

Count your blessings, bad coders that work hard screw up the entire codebase for everyone. They also seem to get promoted for their hard work.
The memory mapped frame buffer is video memory, that's why you have to use a driver API to map it. Though obviously on many systems it ends up just being system dram with different caching settings anyway.

And this isn't something you'd code a game with, but you'd be surprised at how high modern memory bandwidth is.
The other option is to just not watch it.

Why wouldn't I take advantage of every possible opportunity and technology to participate in our shared culture?
This seems to be the zeitgeist lately -- folks wanting to get back to the small community feeling. I think some of the different "fediverse" takes are trying to do just that. I'll throw out the typical Mastodon plug.

I've spent the last four or so years hoping around dead phpBBs and empty IRC channels trying to find a community that reminded me of the pre-Facebook communities.

So far Mastodon reminds me of a kind of async-IRC for the 30+ crowd who don't have time to idle in an empty channel all day. Plenty of conversations, and If feel like I'm starting to recognize repeated posters and strike up conversations again.
You could probably do the next gen stock market as ICOs
Is there an easy way to get updates about this case in my inbox? I'm really hoping Harvard gates raked over the coals for its behavior. Not only for the racism. But the self-righteousness with which it pursued its agenda.
His crime was he got too big and bold. Fly under the radar and you'll survive.
Personally, I prefer poodle.
> its agenda

Which is what?
wouldn’t there be an issue of diversity, where the pool of studied matter would get smaller and smaller ?

I would contrast this to languages, where we still study ancient languages, as well as preserve “dying” languages for future reference. Teaching music genres that didn’t ‘survive’ would have its benefits.
Along with the boredom I'd image you have the anxiety of getting fired or laid off if someone realizes you don't actually do anything. Then when you go to get your next job you won't have anything to show for the last n years.
I should also mention that low pH (acidic) environment is important to the proportion of many flavors being transmitted. That means that distillers (looking for flavor) will often prefer lower alcohol but fully fermented brew, which usually means starting with lower sugar (less ripe fruit or less malted grains). Corn usually starts high sugar so I'm not sure about them.
By enforcing racial quotas, Harvard and other institutions are actively cementing race as an important factor in our society, as if it's something we should care about. As such, they are not helping society to become post-racial - as must be our goal - but instead are forcing a racialized view of the world down our collective throats.

While well intentioned, racial quotas are a regressive policy and history will look back on them with scorn.
Through my work we’ve been in contact with the SEC as well, a few times, and they are pretty clear on not stating any real absolutes unfortunately. We do more of the service side of things for the institutional space, however - so perhaps our questions were a bit different.
Look at the aeshash in the go runtime:

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/asm_amd...
Dragonfly commit: Kernel – Additional cpu bug hardening part 1/2
If you read Guns, Germs and Steel, it doesn't argue that the specific sequence of observed history was inevitable. In fact, it argues against an "inevitability" position.

The book's goal is to present a coherent explanation of the observed course of history for the general public, without resorting to and in fact debunking "western Europeans dominated because they are a superior breed of human and their culture is superior to other cultures, and superior people win" arguments.

Thus, it argues that the environments in which different groups of humans found themselves influenced the course of observed history (things like climate, geography, availability of domesticable species, etc. all can provide advantages or disadvantages to people in a particular area), but does not argue that these factors made the specific sequence of actual human history inevitable. I suspect the author would agree that if you could re-run human history a huge number of times, you'd see variation in the results; he'd just argue that the factors he covers make certain outcomes more probable than others, so they would occur more frequently in such a mass simulation of possible histories.
That is interesting. People buy Vogue because of the paid content. The creative and editorial content too but that has equal weight with the paid content to the reader.
Also mention of the phrase "do you have stairs in your house"

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-terrible-secret-of-space
>It doesn't give the owner any stake in the company or right to a share of the company's profits.

This underscores the absurdity of the SEC's position on investing in the first place, including the requirement for "accredited investor status", etc.

You can spend as much as you want on a thing which may patently have zero-value, as long as you call it an asset (or something else). No one will stop you. But, the minute it's suggested that the thing represents the possibility of profit-sharing or ownership in something of potential value, then it is verboten or otherwise heavily regulated.

Likewise, no one stops you from blowing your entire paycheck on a slot machine or lottery tickets. And, this, with a simple disclaimer of odds.

Seems investment opportunities can be similarly disclaimed so that people can make their own decisions. This would not preclude SEC prosecutions for outright fraud, etc. when people are found to be nakedly defrauding the investing public.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi29TNPrdbwJLiB-VcWSS...

I absolutely love this series, the author goes into so much detail.
What are these "Newgle" glasses ? I have not found any useful references to these.
We're looking for psychic pets to predict the 2018 FIFA World Cup
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Yes. We found our two year old had found some pretty...strange YouTube Kids videos on her iPad, so we nuked YT Kids and only gave them PBS/Sesame Street.
> Why are paying customers sitting through 5 minutes of FBI warnings in front of DVDs because some other people pirate?

It's not your product to design, in this case you don't get to decide how it's presented. You also don't get to decide the design of iOS, or how Apple designs its next processor, or what color Stack Overflow's logo is, or the design of Wikipedia, or what resolutions YouTube offers, or what algorithms Google uses in its search product.
Do you think I should consider an ICO for a company which has been unable to close its seed round (except under ridiculously bad terms)?

I have an extremely strong association between the words ICO and "scam", but I also recently found out that seed rounds are basically non-existent [1]

If the SEC tacitly allows for "good-faith" ICO's, I would consider it. I don't want to shutter the work of my cofounders and contributors just because the seed-stage startup ecosystem is this broken.

However, I have gone down extremely long rabbit holes and I am very wary.

I would like to raise approximately 300k for a play that is built for an acquisition for a major player (within a small number of years). We got one term sheet for effectively 51% of the company for $17k or so. (That was from a real VC.) There were no other serious offers.

Another (more promising?) alternative would be to bootstrap doing something unrelated. For example we have some expertise on our team in machine learning and perhaps could use it in an unrelated market where the size of the opportunity is pretty small (and it's pretty competitive).

Is ICO worth exploring at this stage? (Bearing in mind that we are built for acquisition.)

We are a "real" startup and don't have anything to do with cryptocurrencies or tokens. I also personally think the SEC does fantastic work that makes the whole startup ecosystem, and indeed investment at all, possible.

There is a reason the United States investment climate is one of the best in the world, if not the best, and I think the SEC and general legal framework is one of these. So I am strongly biased against unregulated ICO's and would be very happy to submit to any oversight that would increase transparency and investor protections.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17284796
Who protested in the street when ISPs started sending letters to people who pirated content?
Would like to get my colleagues on IRC, but a crucial element is missing which Slack nails: Copy link

Conversations need to be able to referenced. Getting some logbot + archive going is way too painful.
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On the contrary, I wonder how people would view the school if it had no racial based entrances and people were entered solely based on their academic merit. Would people look negatively on the school if it were 90%+ asian-american students?
Wonder what kinds of software we have now if we didn't have Copyright Law for source code too?
> [its agenda] is what?

Harvard's admissions policy promotes a particular vision for its students' racial composition.
They may as well be instituting explicit quotas at this point, if these allegations are true. At least then it would be clear, and possibly even less controversial. We have x slots for race A, y slots for B, etc.

Racism is alive and well. Only our notions of which types are acceptable have changed. Do the ends justify the means?
I think it is more of an advocate.

Talking about things that you like is fun and from what the poster stated, they benefit from trying new things and building a following. One of my coworkers does this for beer and has a a small following more interested in the minutiae of beer stuff than commerce.

The problem is a matter of trust... when the advocate decides to cash in, the nature of what they write can change dramatically.
Sadly I dont even follow the article, its jumble mumble.

>Harvard admissions evaluators -- staffers who are likely under pressure to deliver a target mix of ethnicities each year -- rate Asian-American applicants far lower on subjective personality traits than do alumni interviewers who actually meet the applicants.

How da fuck do you get to this conclusion with:

>The following point does not require any sophisticated modeling (with inherent assumptions) or statistical expertise to understand.

If you can figure out the "intent" with just modeling then you're a genius or in the real world you're just making shit up. At the best you could see some trends, but what I can see that is the statistics is not an exact science and if you fudge the numbers well enough you can prove any point.
Numerous studies have been made on suicide, frequency of sex isn’t a discriminating factor in any of them, when you control for other aspects of their lives.

Suicide is complex and there are different modalities: long term depression vs sudden stress being the most obvious. You can get a lot of (v sad) data if you search journal publications on suicide.

Then you have different responses to stress and depression (some engage in “risky behavior” which can include lots of sex for example). On the other hand depression has a confirmed hit to sexdrive.

I’m sure on a case by case basis you can get all sorts of variation, but the net statistics don’t support amount of sex impacting suicidal ideation, nor ideation (on average) impacting amount of sex.
To unfairly advantage people who are simply incapable of earning admission by their own merits so they use their race as a magic card.
I agree completely that there is a lot of awfulness on Twitter. And when it came out it amazed me too that people would limit themselves to such a short form.

And yet it works. And intellectually it makes some sense too: it is very rare that a single thought actually takes more than 280 characters (and maybe a picture) to express.

(Hey, I think FriendFeed was the greatest social network ever built. But there are good reasons it lost to Twitter, and they make a surprising amount of sense)
I agree. History backwards is a "this is why this is so" lesson.

While history forwards is..."here's some stuff, it'll all make sense in a few years if you keep studying".

Understanding how we've arrived here, and all the connections going backwards can be profoundly enlightening, allowing you to try to project events forwards, because cause and effect are laid out for you.

Memorizing books full of facts just turns you into an encyclopedia and don't really let you try to understand how to break the present down to get at what the driving forces are behind the now.
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>Why are there so many ex-convicts in this ICO/crypto space?
>Why do we have criminals being entrusted with people's livelihood?

The second sentence answers the first: we do not want to trust criminals with people's livelihoods, so we leave lots of brainpower lying around outside of "normal society" because we don't want to let an embezzler write accounting software. Is it any wonder, then, that we would see an abnormal number of criminals end up working in a field where there was money but nobody to keep them out? You and I can choose between academia, industry and weird self-owned schemes, but there is a certain group of smart people that have only one option...
"political economy"

Marx used this a lot 200 years ago.
I agree. All aspects of the world only stay the same or improve with time. When society changes the consequences are never a compromise. Instead the result is universally positive. So when someone expresses their appreciation of something from the past that no longer exists that opinion is invalid and the result of nostalgic delusion.

Furthermore there is nothing to be learned or gained from observations of past conditions. Why would we want to recreate something worse than what we have now?
> Now if only it existed on other platforms.

and has everyone's original content.
I lost a job in November 2001 that was sort of the same types of feelings. Management was incompetent a new HR manager was appointed to downsize. I got sick on short term disability so it made me a target when I returned. I was fired for taking too many sick days even if I had doctors notes and an excuse. They lost them so they had to fire me.
Well, this article is about Result types in Swift,
and my point is, I think this kind of thing is overkill.
It tends to make the learning curve for a new programmer steeper because there's all these extra bells and whistles provided by the language that have to be learnt before you can get going, and then you have sample code and tutorials and so on. Learning and using C was and is a lot simpler than say Swift.
It wouldn't be 90%. It would be 40%, most likely, because that's what happens in California universities that don't have racial quotas.

Even if it would somehow go up to 90%, and people viewed that negatively, why does that matter? Those people are wrong.
Ehh, sure, it is a more explicit manifestation of common existing dynamics. But it is also much more exaggerated and empty than the examples you are giving.

There isn't much substance/ understanding/signal/meaning in buying a ride on the coattails of a superficial instagram "influencer".
Oops. That's what I get for skimming.
In almost any other context this would be the general response. But as soon as kids are involved people change their tune real quick.

It strikes me that many parents are probably flipping out about their kids seeing these videos but not porn or god knows what else they’re looking at. Maybe because there’s a logo to get angry at, and a big tech company with deep pockets to sue, if it comes down to that.