skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, this is less about what you can see, and more about sending broadcast television (live news, etc.) in "archival quality." 8K has far fewer aliasing artifacts than 4K when you embed a picture-in-picture thumbnail of one news service's report on another news service, for example. It also can serve as a better input for documentary footage (since live news stations don't really release actual archival media, people's personal archives of the broadcasts are usually where documentaries and other such "remixes" get their footage.)

Separately, though: you're assuming a pretty small (i.e. "regular-sized" TV.) There are a lot of other use-cases for display of broadcast TV signals, though. For example, there might be a 50-inch "wallpaper" TV on the wall of a corridor you're walking through, tuned to a nature channel, serving as a sort of "animated landscape art installation" to decorate the corridor†. 4K @ 50" is only 88DPI! And you'd be walking sometimes only inches away from it (if the hall is crowded.) It'd certainly look pixelated, and so not much like a real "painting" at all. 8K would look a lot closer to "real" in that situation.

† If you're wondering, this is a real thing that most modern "wallpaper" TVs already advertise themselves as being usable for. Most such TVs have screensaver modes that display high-res scans of paintings, embedded in photorealistic "frames", and from even a few feet away, it's a near-perfect illusion.
> will replace my 1080 TV when it breaks.

And sadly it’s been designed to break sometime around the 7-10 year mark.

E.g. using minimal amount of solder on connections that will eventually crack after repeated warm/cold cycles from use.
Pretty much. I think this is also why self-driving cars are still not mainstream, while we all carry little cameras in our pocket that can literally translate text in real time.

Like... the things we have that work? they work 95% of the time, and for translating menus? that's amazing! and really useful.

Advertising is something where getting it right 95% of the time is way overkill, too. so you can advertise on super tenuous links, and it's fine! totally works.

working 95% of the time just isn't okay for self driving cars, and that is what makes the problem so hard.
I always wonder if our language can influence our actual behavior. For example, think of all the different ways you feel ‘hungry’. Well, what do you do when you’re hungry, you ‘eat’.

Is it possible that your decision to ‘eat’ becomes independent from the impetus and a goal of its own? To the point where you’re now preparing food to ‘eat’ rather then to precisely address the sensation/discomfort that led you to that decision to begin with?

In other words, is it possible that languages that allow you to more or less precisely describe/categorize something effect how we think about them and ultimately act in response?
It's really not. Small businesses exist.
Previously, from a former Mozilla developer [1]:

> At best, there is negligible evidence that major non-MS AV products give a net improvement in security. More likely, they hurt security significantly; for example, see bugs in AV products listed in Google's Project Zero. These bugs indicate that not only do these products open many attack vectors, but in general their developers do not follow standard security practices. (Microsoft, on the other hand, is generally competent.)

In the linked Project Zero issue tracker, all 3 of these "reputable sources" have exploits in their anti-virus software.

[1]: https://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/01/disable-your-antivirus-...
> Most websites and applocations encrypt traffic

DNS requests, connections' IP addresses and HTTP's Host header are still in plaintext; in short, lots of metadata goes out the window on wireless Layer-Ones.
It’s been an hour and no one’s provided a translation, so I’ll take a stab at it:

Maaf, Charlie. Starkist enggak mau ikan tongkol yang canggih, tapi mau ikan tongkol yang enak.

I’m not a native speaker so what I wrote above is probably riddled with errors, but it won’t be long before a native speaker or someone with a doctorate in the Riau dialect of Indonesian comes along and corrects it. This is the Internet after all :)
It's not a story about authority, either, if by authority you mean something narrow enough to always be political.
I dunno, I recall hearing (and believing) a similar thing about the iPhone 4 retina display. Seen an iPhone 4 display recently? It looks fuzzy by modern standards.
> Oh, and you don't want mickey mouse in the public domain.

I do. I don't care about Mickey Mouse per se, but I don't think copyrights should be indefinite, or substantially longer than an average human lifespan. Mickey Mouse is 90 years old. Its creator has been dead for 52 years.

I don't have a strong opinion about whether that should happen now (90 years after creation), in 10 years (100 years after creation), two years ago (50 years after the death of the author), or some other roughly similar timeframe, but creative works should pass into the commons after the creator has had a reasonable opportunity to profit from them.
In those terms it sounds perfectly reasonable. Just as "Preferences in clothing and music are the leading indicators of political leaning" is rather different to "Preferences in clothing and music are two strong indicators, of the dozens of factors we used to infer political leaning". Just like Google use hundreds of factors, with probably a few more significant ones, to decide search placement.

I'm sure inferences can be made in aggregate, but the precision that is implied in the article, from just two indicators is a leap. Shoddy reporting, or a little too much hyperbole from someone giving a conference speech I couldn't say.

It's the sort of thing that gives rise to 30 minutes of comedy in the office when there's been some reason, like a news piece, to view FB, google or other profiles. We inevitably find that half the office is mis-gendered, aged, those with children don't and vice versa, and on. These profiles seem to get most people wrong much of the time, but be worth something in aggregate. :)
> I think it's naive to assume our vision can be diluted down to a fixed resolution at a given distance.

You have an alternative theory of vision where resolution is not limited by photoreceptor density? Look, there are only so many cells on your retina.

> However I can see a single pixel illuminated at about 25ft.

And you can see a star (which subtends a MUCH smaller angular size than that mere pixel) at hundreds of light years. Yet it takes a skyscraper-sized telescope and mindbendingly crazy interferometric and occlusion techniques to detect even the planets in that system, much less the disk of the star itself.

No, this is wrong. Your eyes can't detect the difference between 4k and 8k at routine (i.e. 90 degree width or so) distances. They just can't.
In languages without definite articles you can always use a word like "this" or "that" when clarification is needed.
How do I run XCode on Linux? Or do I have to spend $2k on a machine that will only be used to run a single build? Speaking of, how do I integrate that mess with my automated build systems? Also, how can I get it to sign stuff without forking over $100 every year?
> 2. Handover the task to a job scheduler and return the jobid.

That's the approach described in the article. Where does your suggestion differ from it?
Even worse, once NVidia discovered that gamers would pay $1000 for a graphics card, they raised their prices. Their 1080 line, instead of becoming cheaper, has been discontinued. Their new 2080 line costs more and doesn't perform any better on existing games.
Are you honestly saying that medicine (a branch of biology) is not a "hard science"? That epidemiology, or genetics, or oncology isn't? Are you saying that when Crick and Watson deduced the structure of DNA based on the X-ray diffraction work done by Rosalind Franklin, they were not doing "hard science"?

Hell, go back further: consider Mendel's discovery of the rules of genetic inheritance (and thus founding the field of genetics) by painstakingly planting, replanting, combing and recombining pea plants. It's hard to imagine a more pure and rigorous application of the scientific method, in any field.

I'm sorry, but your position is beyond absurd. Even the page you link disagrees with you. It sounds very much like you once met a biologist who said that they didn't very much like math, and since then you've carried a personal prejudice against biologists. You admit as much in your comment.
Memes and whatnot are almost always protected under fair use, which the EUCD does not have.
As if consumers were given any choice in the matter.
Someone may have a more technical reason, but my hunch is that NHK is pushing the next-gen button in the interest of the domestic panel makers. There’s some serious “made in Japan” nationalism when it comes to televisions, because of the challenge from Korea and China. Japanese consumers more or less willingly subsidize their domestic makers by paying almost double the price for Japanese-made panels compared to what the same models cost in the US. Go shopping for a TV at Bic or Yodobashi and you’ll see just two or three LG or Samsung panels on display, and salespeople have actively steered me away from those. I bought a Samsung for an older friend who asked me to pick something up for him and he was appreciative but also clearly mortified that it was supporting a foreign maker. (The thought never crossed my mind!)

To be honest, I understand the sentiment. Supporting Sony or Sharp means supporting jobs and the domestic economy, and (unlike, say, US automakers) the domestic product is very high quality—just more expensive. Nationalism and protectionism are gross, but a little team spirit is not evil.

So, I could be wrong, but I bet this is a way to move new models out of the showrooms, with the bonus of appealing to the upcoming Olympic broadcast, etc.
Right, but PHP alone is also not "usable out-of-the-box" if it needs hundreds of third-party dependencies, whatever as static compiled bundle or linked distro, libc, libmysql, libgd, so on... Comparing generic language with language bundle is unfair - that is my point.
For any electronic device of your choice, search for its manual and look for this notice:

"This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation."

Everything is backdoored, absolutely everything: your hardware, your firmware, the compiler used to build your software, your software, libraries used by your software, your network infrastructure, your crypto, your sources of entropy, the machines you communicate with, everything.
>No, this is wrong. Your eyes can't detect the difference between 4k and 8k at routine (i.e. 90 degree width or so) distances. They just can't.

proof please.
If you like this, you can find more at https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/
Just run benchmarks with -fno-unroll-loops and see what damage it does to performance.
Indeed. I recently binge-watched four seasons of a series on Netflix after seeing a Youtube montage of the lead character murdering people.
Public faith in institutions is deteriorating because they do not do this. The more shit that gets thrown out, the better institutions look.
kicad is gimp of pcb packages.
Only exception that I didn't expect was Vietnam. No clue why Vietnam over say, Thailand.
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People can tell the difference between a 4k and an 8k TV. 4K is still only 2,160 vertical pixels. That’s normally plenty but some images have really obvious issues at that resolution. EX: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moiré_pattern

PS: Eyes have 120 million rod cells, and 6 million cone cells. Further, those cells are not in a grid pattern. A 4K TV is approximately 8.3 million pixels so it’s approaching the right order of magnitude, but still has some room before you can individually activate each cell.
Is that more performant?
Of the ripest variety
But is 8K the final frontier though? It's finally "retina" for TVs at regular distances?
>The US at its best stands up for a free press, and against, for example, authoritarian states being free to murder their critics worldwide.

The US murders journalists.
I was at a bar last week in Santa Barbara that was cash only. I couldn't help but feel it was a ploy to extract more money out of their customers with their well-advertised ATM.
As someone with only basic idea of deep learning, I want to ask this question:

If deep learning is mimicking how our brains work, wouldn't it be theoretically as powerful as our brains? In terms of architecture and complexity of the model.
We were so worried about what we could do, that we didn't consider what we should do.

- Anon, before the tarantula massacre
True although there are previous technologies enabling home appliances to be connected and controlled from outside through radio and telephone couplers. X10 which dates back to the mid 70s is probably the most famous one.
Back then there were no such things as encryption protocols: if someone knew your air conditioner was connected to your phone line he could turn it on just by phoning to your home and sending the right tone over the line. Hacking was just a matter of time spent finding the right frequencies; no firewall to prevent anyone from trying a thousand times until someone would hopefully notice and pull the cord.
Despite those "vulnerabilities" though, I never heard about abusing other peoples devices. I would be interested in hearing experiences from actual owners (or hackers:) of those old systems.
> American exceptionalism is a religion

America is run by a Death Cult, which worships the ability to wage unfettered war and destruction above all else. We will never be free of it for as long as we allow them to keep their secrets - which is why journalists are murdered when they get too close to the fire.
> 4K OLED TV, which may blow your mind a bit.
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Genuine question: does it display movies in a "natural light" the same way as a plasma TV does or does it display it under a "fake light", the same way as the LED screens do? (even the 4K ones). I'm asking because I'm a movie buff who's really attached to his plasma TV but looking at the available LED options up on the market I don't see anything that satisfies me. Yes, the image is "clearer" on the latest LED 4K screens but it also looks "fake-ish" when it comes to watching movies.
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> This article is missing one detail: what if resource creation fails?

I didn't get your point.

If the resource creation fails during the request then either a 4 or 5 status is returned.

If the resource creation succeeds but the long-running process fails in some way, either during processing or at creation time, then the resource representing the long-running process will be updated by the server to inform the client of the process' current status.
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I'm pretty certain PLOS allows and even encourages this: https://www.plos.org/open-access

Elsevier is by far the worst publisher regarding open access though: https://twitter.com/protohedgehog/status/1028819653982736389...
You just wanted to fill our minds with the concept of spider cheese.
No doubt. Double bonus is that cash isn't tracked for taxation.
Frank Cifaldi and the Video Game archive do a lot of preservation work. https://gamehistory.org/
> What is your point? Japan...

Only a bunch of them are profitable and some are even incurring record losses this year and relying on government money to keep operating.

Can't let them go bankrupt because they're still important. Honestly I explained this in my earlier post, good job cropping that.
> The more I read about the js ecosystem, the more it seems the inmates are running the asylum

Let's safely call it immature. The principle objectives here:

* obtain employment immediately
* prevent unemployment forever

Part of the problem is that people are taught one thing in school, expected to immediately find work, and the then perform something immediately different at work. That, or they are simply Java (or whatever fill in the blank) and get retasked to write JavaScript.

What ends up happening is that people want to do their previous job in the context of their current job, such as write something that looks like Java in JavaScript. When that becomes the failure you would expect they blame the technology for not being their previous thing.

Compounding that training failure is that JavaScript has a low barrier of entry. Some of the people writing in this language are less than brilliant. The end result is a cluster fuck as evidenced by frequently used terms like imposter syndrome, snowflake, Dunning Kruger, and so forth. The insecurity, fear, and delusion clearly evident to me as a corporate JavaScript developer.

How do you solve for the obvious emotional failure that comes from the described lack of preparation? You hide under layers and layers of abstractions. You make life easier to the point of hoping code exists that does your job for you. Unfortunately that easiness is the opposite of slim or simple. It's great until it isn't if you aren't in a hurry.
part of this issue is that it's difficult for maintainers to capture value for their work even when they're successful

i've written a "paid use" license that attempts to capture many of the freedoms of FOSS while allowing a revenue stream if a package is successful. would love any feedback

https://github.com/db4j/pupl
I thought 8K was needed for that. But maybe uncompressed 4K is enough but compression clearly degrades signal even at 4K.

Note that I enjoy my busted 15" CRT quality fine. And to add to this, I really feel that there's a diminishing return in that era, where resolution is ultra high, yet content is not as enjoyable as thing 30 years ago.
If the law so clearly excludes Reddit, why are we reading this blog post? Is your claim that Reddit is confused about the law? Or something else?
Out of curiosity, what do you mean when you say you need 4K for programming?
I have a more cynical view: it's a field that almost exclusively deals in the creation and enforcement of behavioral norms; entirely political, verging on religious in its continual reification of theory-theory. I don't know what that has to do with the West, though.

Behaviorism is the only real psychology.
We use the erc20 contents of ethereum addresses to determine exactly which influencers someone is exposed to and will be exposed to

This is because nobody uses the best practice of avoiding address reuse

These are basically brands
Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.

This pushed me towards minimizing and downsizing all aspects of life. I operate on a closed list of objects, habits and metrics.

I work less, spend less, achieve more and everything is much more enjoyable.
Company opens office in location with skilled workers.

What an article
Stereotypes is just another name for abstractions and categorizing, which is how science works all the time.

It's just that there are reality (statistics) based stereotypes and bad stereotypes (e.g. jewish conspiracy and such).

Still, "all people are unique" is BS, more people within certain groups are more alike than different.

X DOES Y because X belongs to group G is always a bad use of stereotyping (except if Y and G are connected by logical tautologies).

But "X is MORE LIKELY to do Y because X belongs to group G" can be absolutely valid, and prove a great tool for marketing, policy decisions, threat identification, and such.
I covered stereotyping quite a bit in my university studies (I studied marketing) and the broad consensus was that stereotyping is a useful tool because it saves time.

As much as we "should" judge people on the nuance of who they are and their individual character, we are presented with an overwhelming amount of information and we need to make a quick decision.

This is why I've held the opinion for a while now that it's good to dress well. People are going to judge you and put a value on your time based on how you present yourself. Nothing wrong with maximizing your odds of that going well.
Any time someone comments on 'what the eye can see' without any objective backup, it's typically wrong. The number of people who say 120hz is 'unseeable', yet were completely wrong about that.

You're not even mentioning the TV's size. We talking a 60' TV? https://www.noteloop.com/kit/display/pixel-density/ The pixel density at 4K is atrocious on larger panels.
Coming up with a complex solution is much easier than finding a simple one. Go forces you to find those simple solutions. There are places where generics are the only solution, but they also enable lazy design.
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Kolmogorov complexity leaderboard for word lists
Would love to do/see similar benchmarks on Postgres using more performant setups. Like someone else said, the disparity is downright shocking.
Don’t those mean “this” and “that” ? “This”, “that”, and “the” are similar because they’re all determiners that express definite ness (whereas “a” is a determiner that expresses indefiniteness), but mean something clearly different in English.
Isn’t the moderate position in climate science (regarding anthropogenic climate change) the mainstream consensus position? There are no two ”extreme views” with the truth somewhere in the middle. There’s the overwhelmingly supported by evidence scientific position and then there’s the pseudoscientific position.
Looking Beyond the CPU
It's only mimicking brains in a very narrow/buzzword sense. In practice a full brain simulation, with millions of different neuron types is not feasible.
You should watch this video addressing some of your arguments: https://youtu.be/VxNBiAV4UnM
Unhappiness with my own life causes increased interest in politics and decreased interest in technology, math, philosophy, literature ...

I use it as a warning signal.
Of course we can make guesses about people who buy green hair dye.
Reddit having under 500 employees is beyond ridiculous.. it might be understandable if they were a honorable company that protected people's privacy, but they're the complete opposite, and they even go out of their way to make it near impossible for 99% of their users to download a video on their site (kinda hypocritical).

If Reddit didn't exist and their traffic was driven to niche forums/websites then you could expect hundreds of thousands of jobs.
This is such a delightful story. Genetic testing turned the lost biological family from an enduring personal mystery into a Google search. Something that was supposed to be forever hidden was suddenly indexed. And lo and behold, blood is still thicker than water.
Show HN: Bit-Rate Challenge: Think 320k mp3 files are better than 96k?
Witcher 3 was the game that put me back to play games and I still love it and all its DLC. And after Witcher 3 game the new Zelda, which reimagined the whole idea of an open world adventure. Waiting for Cyberpunk 2077 now...
>opting for Levi’s over Rag & Bone makes a statement about associations and history and opens one up to fashion profiling

Or you were born in the 50s and haven't, yet, heard of Rag & Bone, or you prefer Levi's fit, or they're heavier denim. Or you're British and prefer Rag & Bone, as they started here. Or one was on offer at Amazon.

Or all these objections just apply to this or that individual case, but in aggregate the observation is correct.
The article says they're not just broadcasting in 8K, but 8K at 120 fps!

How many displays are actually capable of not just displaying 120hz, but actually accepting a 120 fps input (as opposed to just interpolating)?
A loud bunch is a bunch healthy in ideals. Those that sit quietely are what lead to evil.
While it looks like mixed results at first, on closer inspection every one of those is for the same case. It appears that as of the latest ruling, he does not owe child support.