skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sun had different kernels for the sun4c and sun4m architectures.

In this infamous post David Miller brags about how he has made a single Linux kernel capable of booting on both.

https://cryptnet.net/mirrors/texts/kissedagirl.html

and then the response from Bryan Cantrill
My opinion is, if you do not want to have dinner when it is dark, then have dinner when it is not dark. It is dark or light depending on what season, and what location, rather than the clock, anyways, whether you use DST or not.

The clock is good can tell you the time and how much time is passed and to synchronize the schedule for TV shows and cron events on computer and whatever, but is dark independently from that. If solar noon is at approximately 12:00 then the time doesn't jump (causing many problems with appointments and complications with other stuff that it doesn't need), and it will match with a sundial approximately and closely enough, but also that between for example 01:00 and 13:00 is going to be twelve hours, without needing to deal with DST.

(Avoiding DST is simplifying the computer programming too, as well as many other stuff too, so that is also good.)
You're talking about the diurnal cycle, but what we call evenings are defined by social convention and certainly do get darker after the November time shift.
Not exactly, they do not have complete control. States can choose their timezone, they can choose whether to adopt DST or not. They cannot choose to switch to DST all year round though.

Edit:

http://timezonereport.com/?page_id=313

The bottom line here is that a state (or other political subdivision — see the Wayne County, KY reference below) can only:

- Opt out of DST

- If not opted out of DST, you must advance an hour starting on the second Sunday of March and ending on the first Sunday in November.

- Petition the Secretary of the Department of Transportation and request a change of time zone designation.
> Who gives a shit, really?

People who may be concerned that a CEO is trying to run two companies and sleep for 4-5 hours a night for years and take too much ambien and may have impaired judgement.
The article mentions that there are different types of memory, and that "working" memory, i.e. short-term, is the type that was found to be "reduced" by the study.

Jeopardy trivia is almost certainly a different type of (long-term) memory.
And you introduce weird edge cases because days now change while you're eating lunch or driving home.

The phrase "Dinner on Thursday" would become really confusing. ("Do you mean after work on Wednesday? Or before the football game on Friday?")
That is just like what I remember. Same time frame too, 1979-1983ish. That is what the store looked like just after school got out for the day and for most of the day during the summer. Young kids jockeying for turns at the machines, pointing out their high scores, etc. I was older than these kids by a few years. Thanks for this!
Is this technology somewhat akin to a code linter? It automatically finds that problems that would be tedious for humans to find and greatly speeds up the work of the human expert?
Right. I was making the comparison that mobile games are like horse races, and WoW was like payday loans.

Now, I don't really have a solid base of experience to form these generalizations with, so a lot of it is just being judgmental. But I want to make the point that while the endorphin loop of loot boxes (or worse, time boosts) is rightly condemned, the WoW model of milking your audience for literally billions was - aside from revolutionary - malignant. It wasn't just the good old days, it was a cash cow that consumed Blizzard for a decade until they too switched to the loot box model.
The anti-Vietnam-War movement was because of the draft. That's a different dynamic. The Obama years, though, fit the pattern well. For example, there was no significant movement against the Libyan war.
No, it’s worth dropping the anglocentric “GMT” altogether and using UTC everywhere instead. Let’s decouple time measurement from accidents of history, and make rational choices about what we want our life to be in the future, rather than being shackled by pointless traditions.
Yeah, I was just pointing out that it would be counties buying the equipment, rather than the state.
I wouldn't mind seeing an ActivityPub-based (http://activitypub.rocks) comment system. It would enable a decent self-hosted, experience that works with other AP-based platforms. The landscape for such a thing should be forthcoming given the popularity of Mastodon, PeerTube, and others supporting the protocol. Doesn't seem overly hard to implement for a comment system.
Akiyoshi's site [0] has been serving mindwarp since .. forever? (says since 2002) That's gotta be hand wrought html - dig the hitcounter!

I used to have some of these tiled on my desktop so that in true BOFH style when someone came to pester me I could click show desktop and they would forget what they came to bother me about.

[0] http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html
That front page does have a link about how one of the reasons the author stopped working on it is that they break the ways it works too often, by removing functionality needed for it.
In both cases, there's a low-dimensional latent space, and there's a pixel space of images. In the case of Eigenfaces, the correspondence between the two is linear. That's not a bad approximation, but "make him smile" or "make him bold" is obviously a very nonlinear operation. Eigenfaces approximates it with something linear, and that's just not very good. The justification for all the added nonlinearity in the mapping is that this operation really becomes linear in the latent space.
The New York Times example is by the inventors of blockchain.

https://www.anf.es/pdf/Haber_Stornetta.pdf
I'm definitely not an expert, but I think the way to go is to use an algorithm that can find a specific face in the latent space. If the latent space has enough dimensions (trained with a big enough set) it should already contain your face. The problem is to find it.

Actually I think this could do the job: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.04782

https://github.com/simoroma/RecoverGANlatentVector
Can't they just move to the neighboring time zone and not adopt DST? (i.e. If California wants permanent summer time, they can switch to MST and sync up with Arizona ("America/Phoenix"))
Sorry, I thought we where comparing to a sqlite database. Each of those 7 hives is equivalent an individual database.
If you have never seen one, I strongly recommend seeking out a real vector arcade machine. The monitor has a beautiful, otherworldly appearance that can't be captured in photos or emulation. Somehow the lack of the raster grid makes the image feel more tangible. In an arcade the vector machines have an aura that even the best raster machines don't have.
And here we are still putting this to vote in California https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_7,_Permanent_...
If you expect everything everywhere to be a grid, sure, your mental model is not reality-compatible.

Thing is, that's also true of most "grid" cities, too - San Francisco offers you two grids, and then ignores both of them in hilly regions. Most cities I can think of in other places also are inconsistent.
>> My point is that they all generalize better from larger datasets.

Like I say, this is not the case. There are learning algorithms that generalise so well from few data that their performance can improve only marginally with increasing amounts of data, or not at all.

I appreciate that you probably have no idea what I'm talking about. I certainly don't mean linear regression.
Yes. The clock doesn't need to change. You can schedule your employees out early to enjoy sun if they like to do, regardless of what the clock says.

If you are scheduling a meeting, you will specify the time by the clock, but how to decide what time, can be decided by whatever else is applicable, such as when it is light or dark outside, or other considerations, and then know what time on the clock that time will be, to schedule.

Yes, many clock won't and shouldn't need to be Internet. Even so, you can also to use a sundial or pocketwatch, anyways. I also use "dumb" alarm clocks, actually.
Classifying Vancouver as an "actual city" makes me wonder about that qualification. I think that in many ways it's simply a suburb of Portland. The climate isn't that bad, but it's a lot closer to Seattle than Los Angeles.

Alaska's a pretty cool place. Just as long as I don't have to live there, I mean.
great work :)
I got lost plenty of times in Europe pre-GPS. I typically had a physical map, but this wasn't always sufficient. You'd simply have to fall back in things like payphone calls and asking strangers for help.
There's really no point in continuing this since I don't think you understand what the size of the camera sensor does in low light. I was simply pointing out, over and over, that it is not the same feature Huawei had. Just like you can't take a $50 point and shoot with extremely complex software that took the same image quality as a $5000 Nikon, and say that "this technology exists". Huawei has better camera hardware in almost every dimension you can imagine, and more than half the pictures in the video you sent are worse on the Huawei, despite those advantages. I did not say that Huawei can't take any pictures that are better than the Pixel. I said it's not the same technology, and dismissing this as "it's already been done" is ludicrous. If the Pixel 2 had the same hardware as the P20 the results would be even more impressive.
if you 're doing image search and not interested in stock photo sites, try bing or yandex
But the optimization there is rewriting the algorithm (which is 'brittle' because it depends on the operation used being commutative in that example).

Just optimizing tail calls as written in the programmer's code (which is what is normally meant with "TCO") don't need such rewriting, and would be trivial to implement via a jump if the back-end supports that, except C also needs to take into consideration structures on the stack, and perhaps other details, hence apparently gcc's handling isn't straight-forward even for plain TCO and fails to be applied in all applicable cases (or at least that's what happened ~4 years ago).
Tesla's General Counsel is Elon Musk's divorce attorney. The SEC settlement contained some not-very-subtle digs at his qualifications to keep Tesla/Musk within the bounds of securities regulations.
Exactly. Musk doesn't qualify.
frankly at this point, i'd consider it a blessing to get a kid out of the public school system for any reason.

>Alternative school is for kids with legitimate behavior issues

it sort of depends on where you go but really that's a misconception. alternative schools are simply that: an alternative to the institutional apathy & intellectually demoralizing environment provided by our modern schools. facilitating a broader array of learning styles can be highly beneficial to those with behavioral problems or disabilities but it is especially empowering for the type of highly intelligent & creative kids who find themselves at odds with the administration & dispassionate structure of our industrial education model.john taylor gatto's criticisms really hit the nail on the head in my opinion.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpycMRTBrfY
this sounds like another case of a highly engaged kid being driven out of a school that doesn't deserve what he has to offer. if that absurd & failing system doesn't want him, then all the better.
And beeing slow is not a bug, it is a feature. A feature that prevents all kinds of things from happening that would undermine trust in the system as a whole.

2004, Bush vs Kerry in Ohio. The voting commissioner was Republican and had promised to deliver Ohio. Without Ohio, Bush would not have won the election.

Heavily Republican precincts were set up so that voting was easy all day.

Heavily Democratic precincts in Cincinnati got so backlogged that they closed the door and people had to be in line for hours to vote.

Bush won the state by 2.1%. He carried Harris County, which includes Cincinnati. No Republican has carried Harris County since.

Now tell me. Does the feature of voting "beeing slow" improve your faith in the fairness of that election?
This is offtopic, but can you please post that article with this title to /r/nottheonion? "Contrails" instead of "vapor trails" might make it even better, but it's damn near perfect as is.
In the recent Deep Mind paper on Big GANs, they discuss this point and compare their generated images with the most similar images in the training set. They certainly makes it seem like the network has learned something real and can generate new images that are not just blends of previous ones.
I'm pretty sure if someone sends aiju or cinap a high-five unleashed we'll have an official "unofficial" 9front port running in a few months.
Because there is no money in electronic voting machines, at least not when compared to gambling machines.

If similar review and certification was required, states would throw their hands up at the cost and just opt for optically scanned paper ballots.
It is in fact common that what I look for will not be found easily in any search engine.
We should be careful about easily judging others, there are different life philosophies and diverse definitions of success in life, and different paths than most people in this forum have taken. But I have to agree here.

He is portrayed in this documentary for his fight against a major housing property investor and shows the camera team around his Kreuzberg flat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI2QpsWQgEA&t=580s

I really wonder how he can still be living in his old 2-room student Kreuzberg apartment with a full family. It is not true that Berlin has no cheap apartments for families anymore. Outside the hip quarters for sure, but certainly offering better living spaces for 2 little children and a wife than this tiny Kreuzberg flat. He may believe that he is carrying the fight over to his private life but I call this irresponsible.

And this guy was one of the major players chasing Google away.
Hamilton has a gritty feel Cap Hill used to have in Seattle before it was ruined. Great nightlife but always a slight worry you might get robbed. It has density without the cost so you can see uniqueness you won't get elsewhere.
Why not? Where does it say that?
The radio spectrum archive
You are glossing over the most important aspect of retirement which is financial independence. Choosing to work vs being forced to work to support your family. Even if you don't want to retire you should plan to _be able_ to retire in case you change your mind or life changes it for you.
I was pretty shocked that Yellowstone wasn't at #1 or #2. Apparently it's #21, based on their assessment.
The solution is open source, and the caravan approach- everything has to be migratable within seconds, the moment the heat comes around the corner.

So that if your service dies on you, you basically can re-host losless on your own device within a few minutes.
In case it's of interest, Sonny Scroggin gave a talk last March at Code BEAM SF (i.e. the rebranded Erlang Factory) on writing NIFs in Rust, if you're interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F86JXaCPowo

(Sonny is a core team-member of the Phoenix framework).
Canada solves this among its provinces with equalization payments. Unless you want economic deadzones its the only way to solve the problem.
Certain whole Linux distros would be high upon that list, not to mention NetBSD.

* NetBSD: 8 in Tier I, another 49 in Tier 2, total of 57.

* Gentoo Linux: 10 to 12, as they target i[456]86 separately within IA-32

* Debian Linux: 11

* Fedora Linux: 4 primary, 7 secondary, total of 11

* L4: 9

* Red Hat EL: 8

* Ubuntu Linux: 8

* QNX OS: 8

* OpenSuSe Linux: 7

* Alpine Linux: 6

* CentOS (Linux): 5

* Illumos: 4

* Kali Linux: 4

* Q4OS (Linux): 4

* Android: 4

* Arch Linux: 1 official, 2 unofficial

* Parabola Linux: 3

* Slackware Linux: 3

* ChromeOS: 3

* QNX Neutrino RTOS: 2

* Haiku: 2, with 3 more ports underway

RiscOS runs across four or five generations of ARM.

Darwin used to run on three more platforms but newer versions don't.

Illumos is the kernel and libraries underlying OpenIndiana, Dyson, and many other systems based off the old OpenSolaris effort.
$100k just for knowing what HTML is
The HN community has become pretty thoroughly cynical about blockchain stories.
I'm not particularly pro blockchain although I think the tech is pretty neat. The only example of a blockchain being useful I've seen was Estonia's cross roads. They use it for their citizens, so things like medical records are stored on there somehow, and then every view of them is recorded. This way you can see who is looking at your info, and punish bad actors for doing so.

I think they use it for other aspects too, maybe voting? Not sure.

But of course that's totally centralized.

No idea what the hell web 3.0 is or how that'd work.
Sure they pulse/switch, but that is into/from the inductor/capacitor used as intermediate energy storage, not through the load (LED). At the output a constant voltage is seen (plus some ripple).

A capacitor on PWM output will give a decent approximation, _if_ it is big enough. For large LEDs this can be very costly (relative to other parts in system).
Though the inductor in a switching converter is also a big cost driver.

Both for the capacitor, inductor and wrt to human perception increasing switching frequency helps. So that is what modern designs focus on normally.

A challenging aspect of LEDs is their nonlinear voltage versus current characteristic. A small change in voltage gives a very large change in current, and thus in output power. The characteristic is temperature dependent and has per device variation.
Hence LED drivers are usually constant-current sources, ie they measure and attempt to regulate the current.
Exactly. The usage in question is completely at odds with the legal protection afforded software created in the last few years.
Less Turbulence on Delta Flights?
Lawyers have traditionally been able to secure their own payout by law, so they ll just thakn you for the extra free time , but will this lead to actual reductions of legal costs?
In re: boring, I guess it takes genius to see what everyone else doesn't.
It's not the only thing people complain about ; merely the first one. And I don't think anyone can seriously claim that Common Lisp is a simple language. Powerful pragmatic languages never are.

As far as syntax goes, the proof is in the pudding. All languages have people gripe about some part of their syntax or another, but it's clear from experience that "OMG parentheses" is exceptionally prevalent. Hand-waving it away as something that people just don't get because of lack of prior exposure is not really sound - somehow other languages don't get similar complaints (at least, not as universally, and not to the same magnitude) with first-time users. Besides, why is there a lack of exposure? Why, because everything else is different. But why is it different? Isn't the obvious conclusion that Algol syntax family is vastly more prevalent for the simple reason that people prefer it, and simple homoiconicity is not sufficiently enticing?

All arguments in favor of Lisp syntax feel like they ultimately boil down to "you're holding it wrong". And that may well be so - but if so many people are finding it so awkward to hold, isn't that prima facie evidence of ergonomic deficiency? I don't claim to understand why Algol-style is easier. Maybe the way our visual processing works is just better with more varied punctuation? That's something for psychologists and brain scientists and maybe linguists to figure out. But in the meantime, we could at least acknowledge the way things are. I really like Lisp as a collection of ideas (not just the usual ones like HOF and macros, but also stuff like e.g. symbol-based namespacing, or the sheer flexibility of CLOS). But lispers have to ask themselves why, instead of Lisp seeing wider adoption, other languages - that came literally decades later, so "upstart" would be a very polite way to describe them in this context! - become vastly more successful than Lisp by appropriating its cherry-picked features.
Packets per Second Limitations in EC2
I'd be curious how the power usage compares between this GPU rendering and the old CPU painting / compositing rendering. I'd expect it to save power but could also see it going the other way, particularly for webpages with minimal changes from frame to frame.
Chayanne – Qué Me Has Hecho (Official Video) Ft. Wisin
I do not read paywalled content.
still not as bad as reddit
Yeah me too. And I am kind of surprised how high Mt. Rainier is in the list.
Oracle still runs circles around postgres for high availability, backups and management tools.
However most big companies are slowly migrating all their small Oracle instances to pg.
I happen to work in one of those companies who's had enough with Oracle's outrageous pricing schemes and audit threats.
No Wonder Scientists Ask Statisticians to Cook the Data
Coercion will always be a factor, paper ballots or not.
The failures are quite likely deliberate and malicious, given the corrupt revolving door between Diebold and the Republican party. https://medium.com/@jennycohn1/georgia-6-and-the-voting-mach...
Like https://mylittleforum.net/ ?
Ruth Bader Hat Guy? AI Generated Halloween Costumes
Some parts of the US have achieved banana-republic levels of corruption where the people getting elected go and work for the voting machine company and vice versa. https://medium.com/@jennycohn1/georgia-6-and-the-voting-mach...
Thanks for sharing, that addon works marvelously. I tried similar ones before but they made various pages unreadable. This one gets most pages right.
It is. I've never heard of that reaction.

People just being freaked out was fine with me. Making them actually sick would not have been.
You still have to maintain all of the same information. Keeping track of the local solar time for cities, countries, and regions. Also, consider what it would be like to travel to other time zones. Not only do you have to learn of the UTC offset for the local region in terms of the time of day, but you have to keep remembering it constantly for everything you do throughout the day.

So now, if you're living on the East Coast and you want to get up at 8am local time you need to set your alarm to 12pm UTC instead. But when you travel to Hawaii you need to set your alarm to 6pm UTC. And now every single one of your waking days is distributed across two days with the day change happening at local 2pm in the afternoon. Your work week is Monday through Saturday, your weekend is Saturday through Monday.

I do not understand why anyone ever thinks this insanity sounds like a good idea.
Making things hard to vote is a feature, not a bug.
Well text files work perfectly fine for unix/linux.
And the installation process is infinitely less painful.
One could argue that it's made "natural and easy" by making Lisp itself much more difficult to write. So, in other languages, the macro authors pay the tax, but their users do not. In Lisp, everyone pays the tax. This is, perhaps, why writing macros is far more common in Lisp than in other languages with them - if you pay the tax either way, you might as well fully utilize what it buys you. Whereas in another language, you weigh the benefit that a macro will give you, against the tax you will pay if and only if you write a macro.