skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have some context to support your statement? How do you know what what "extended access to user data" means here?
Thank you for the perspective. As someone who grew up in France I find solace in witnessing a new chapter.
Eh don't worry, self driving cars are coming this year, Elon said so.
Policing the data should be the way forward. Just like I cannot take your PII and publish it without your consent, it should go also with your dataset of faces. The only trouble I see is what constitutes a face for facial recognition vs a face that is in the background of my Instagram photo?

Take this photo I took of the Manhattan Bridge in Dumbo [1], there are a few faces in that photograph that are quiet prominent. I'm protected in the US because it is in a public place, but in the future would I need to manually blur out the faces of those who do not sign a model release?

1: https://megapickles.photo/2018/06/03/dumbo-washington-street...
" World built for men" where women regularly outlive men, where men statistically commit suicide more often, where more men than women are homeless, where men do more manual labor jobs than women, where women have the ability to say "rape" and be believed without question. . .

Should I go on with the obvious hypocrisy of this headline?
Feeling a bit sardonic today... I suppose we should all submit a form documenting our utility payoffs with respect to temperature to corporate HQ.

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On a scale of 1-10, please rate your happiness at each of the following temperatures. Please remember to represent incremental units of happiness consistent with the standardized hedonic unit (traceable to ANSI) and company's ISO procedure HAPPY-03.

67°F

68°F

69°F

70°F

71°F

72°F

73°F

74°F

75°F
I Simplified My Lambda Deployments
Lowering your speed will technically resolve the congestion, but your average speed will still be the same as if you had simply "ridden the wave," that is, proceeded at normal speed up to the jam, then proceeded thru the jam at slow speed.

Essentially you are doing a "smoothing" operation if you proactively reduced your speed ahead of a jam.
I wish they made bathroom sinks taller. It would be nice to not hunch over to wash my hands. Desk height is super important. Extended work hunched over really messes with your back.
Domain Drive Design is one of those things that seems so easy to write off as "just another process" but looking closer it seems like it really is a solid method for resolving issues of modeling, requirements, implementation and communicstion on a project.

I expect to see is continue to organically grow in popularity as people try it and adopt it. It's both obvious and insightful at the same time.
Inoculating teens against junk food marketing by tapping their desire to rebel
Metro networks, airports and universities are also very good examples of architectural structures that have been or will be built over many generations. Metro networks are particularly good examples because they truly are built from rock unlike pretty much any newer huge building in modern countries (Sagrada being an exception). Back in the days, only kings and powerful religious groups could build such structures.
Announcement of “The Programmer’s Way” by Eric Raymond
Dynamic Imports in Vue.js for Better Performance
Would love to read more about this, if you have references...
Cursive is no more 'generally obsolete' than writing in print letters; and it's easier on the hand and more efficient.

Schools don't want to teach it because they're trying to meet standards and cursive isn't required. They also don't want to teach it because their students turn in assignments written on computers rather than by hand. These aren't good reasons.
It's still a meme because it is clearly still how Zuckerberg thinks.

His words and actions are those of someone who gives zero fucks about his user base as long as he gets to continue exploiting their private information.
Well... we should talk about how the world is safer for right handed people.

Bunch of rightists..
>because the real gains come after your brain finally switches over and it truly becomes muscle memory
This was half the reason I picked up blanks for my keyboard, sure the first few weeks were absolutely filled with glances downwards toward nothing useful, but eventually my brain managed to compensate. I found the hardest part was homing back to a known position on the board and would frequently mistype as I was floating back and forth. Turns out that was most of my issue.

Somehow I ended up designing a keyboard (Gergo & Georgi!) and eventually settled on a layout that minimized wrist motion (or in the case of Georgi, finger motion). The default layouts ([0], [1]) naturally happened over a few months of programming, once the brackets were moved to be accessible with index fingers, thumbs for mods and enter and the funky Control/Backspace. It's entirely different to any other board that exists, but it works, for me and has helped with ergonomics.

I guess trackballs are kind of the same, once you pick it up you'll be inefficient and clumsy. If you throw out your mice you'll be good enough before you know it.

[0] https://qmk.fm/keyboards/gergo/keymap.png
[1] http://docs.gboards.ca/Unboxing-Georgi#modes
Typically when we need something budgetary from a vendor we use the +/- 50% rule. That shouldn't be hard not to screw up.
I was required to learn cursive as a child in school, since at the time, you couldn't expect everyone to have a computer available. They even enforced the use of cursive for writing assignments all the way up through middle school.

To be honest, for just writing stuff down with a pen, I still use it. I just don't see any point in switching to block print, since anything that needs to be "properly" block-printed, I'll end up typing.
Wired has another article[0], with more detail, supposedly exclusive.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/exclusive-sony-next-gen-console/
The State of American Trade Schools
Ha! Now you've inspired me. I, and I alone, would like to start manufacturing a line of 43" tall work benches for sale around the globe. I will soon consult my attorney about the legality of manufacturing to this height specification. One month later I will get a bill from her for 5 minutes of her time...spent laughing.
Here is a good story about what happened: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6927345/Fire-chapla...
I've always wondered, which is better: a 7.1 system or stereo headphones with "3d audio"?

And if 3d audio is so great, why doesn't everyone just use stereo speakers (maybe with a subwoofer)?
What Questions Can Data Analytics Answer?
You have to remember that the majority of people with computers at this time had to be into this sort of thing just to get their computer booted. Much less loading a game.

> Turn on computer

"You turn on the computer, after 3 minutes a glowing green block slowly flashes on the screen in front of you"

> Wait

"You wait a while. A glowing green block slowly flashes on the screen in front of you."

...

I hope you had a mimeographed sheet of paper that would tell you to type "CLOAD VISICALC"

Infocom games played a key role in my learning to be a programmer, sysadmin, hardware geek, network guru, etc. It is all about exploring what these machines can do. I remember poking around Infocom games with a hex editor looking for clues.
I wish school taught me how to do your first point.

People talk about project management, gantt diagrams and all that but you have no idea how to estimate even grossly the complexity of a thing.
Office temperature is a very poor example; blankets and shorts are exactly what you would expect if the temperature were set in the middle.
That comment was not meant to be snarky (not sure why the DV)... I thought it was a common sense, if obvious, solution to the objection raised. Any time you optimize for one variable you usually do it at the expense of others.
So, it's sort of like GLUT was? (is?) I only messed around with 3D rendering a little back in the very early 2000's, but from what I remember, GLUT made everything much easier.
https://github.com/historicalsource/zork1/blob/87a3b787d166a...
After even a slight slowdown, I was unable to ever restore the vehicles to steady traffic again. Adding lanes, quick stop lights to ease the flow. It was maddening (like real traffic I guess...)
You're right -- but Boeing provoked Bombardier into "dumping" its aircraft by offering that 70% discount!
Perl isn't as popular as it was 20 years ago, but it's still very present - and now that ruby has been around as long as perl had been, I'd venture that ruby will be a smell we find in code junk drawers for decades and decades to come.
> Barbican had turned both the male and female toilets gender neutral simply by replacing the “men” and “women” signage with “gender neutral with urinals” and “gender neutral with cubicles”. The obvious happened. Only men were using the supposedly “gender neutral with urinals” and everyone was using the “gender neutral with cubicles”. Rather than rendering the toilets genuinely gender neutral, they had simply increased the provision for men.

How do you "[render] the toilets genuinely gender neutral?"

It seems to me the men started using both restrooms, but the women refused to use cubicles that shared the same space as urinals? Why?

I imagine the most efficient gender neutral restroom scheme would be something like:

Upright urination has one dedicated queue. Sitting down urination has another queue. Defecation has another queue.

You could then have just one huge restroom with LEDs above cubicles that designate an opening for a particular queue like a parking garage. That way cubicles can be dynamically allocated based on the size of defecation vs urination queues.

Kind of like how at work you have 2 microwaves - one for people who need to zap their food for less than a minute, one for people that need to cook their lunch for more than a minute.
Oh, another David Brooks article desperately trying to insist the root of our political problems is cultural preferences among upper-middle class people.
I think it's exactly this. We have something similar in RVA called "Open High School" https://www.rvaschools.net/OHS

And apparently it's doing very well and is sought after.

What a time to be alive! We have quite a few impressive elementary schools in the city but that often means that affluent people leave for the suburbs for middle/high school.

It takes a village.
SSDs have come down in price a lot recently. You can get a 1TB (SanDisk) SSD for £109 https://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-SDSSDA-1T00-G26-Internal-Sp...
Just want to jump in here and mention that it doesn't even have to be a PTA, it could be any community organization focused on local student welfare and community building. The extracurricular programs at my school were/are heavily supported by the community and focus on student welfare.
The GP's link is helps define it. Apparently on second access it becomes paywalled, but the gist is photos become personal information when "specific technical means" are used to identify individuals.

I think Instagram's suggested tags etc would count, so presumably they'll have to turn that off in the EU.

However, I think your vacay photo snapping is safe because you're an individual. From https://www.itgovernance.eu/blog/en/does-the-gdpr-apply-to-m...

> To fall within the remit of the GDPR, the processing has to be part of an “enterprise”.
The big difference is that Microsoft is abandoning things that barely anyone likes or uses so they go unnoticed when gone.

Google on the other hand abandons things that lots of people like and would love to keep using.
I believe they're refering to binaural recordings and synthetised 3d audio effects[1].

Specifically, it's likely about the inclusion and use of TrueAudio[2], its current encarnation (TrueAudio Next) or a successor of that.

On my own experience with Sennheiser HD600 headphones, these effects can sound real to the point of tricking my mind.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_recording

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_audio_effect

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_TrueAudio
The article confirms it will be backwards compatible.

The lack of a wow factor is a good thing, IMO. When they try too hard we get weird stuff like the Cell architecture.
Exactly, everything's magnetic if you have a large enough magnet. I'm more interested in how they limit such a field =P
> But no one wants to immigrate to European countries because they think it is a "land of opportunity"

At least no one with a high market value, yeah. I agree in general, Europe's model is very different from that of the US, it's much more stable, less flexible, much slower moving, more regulated, with higher taxes. You don't rise quite as high, you don't fall quite as low. It's "move fast and break things" vs "don't break things, move at an appropriate speed".
It's going to be backwards compatible with the PS4 according to the article.
And Medium articles. Those sweet sweet Medium articles.
I seem to remember it differently, what killed seven people was senior management choosing to ignore warnings about ice debris strikes on the wing during launches. On this one, they know ice had struck the wing, they choose not to have ground placed telescopes survey the shuttle, choose to not have the crew do an EVA and choose not have have a rescue shuttle sent up. The title has a nice ring to it all the same.
Microsoft has been there for a while now. In this way I think Google is the new Microsoft.
Personalization of everything (ads, products, content of any kind) is at an all time high and driven completely by demand. Relevance is the most requested feature by every user and the #2 complaint about ads.

There is no gain or advantage in irrelevance.
EU gives 'high-level' protection to whistleblowers
So that means if I plan to sell prints of my photos, I would have to get releases even though I didn't want a person in my shot, but the nature of it being a touristy place, people are inevitably in the shot. Take this photo for instance[1].

1: https://megapickles.photo/2018/06/03/dumbo-washington-street...
Bingo. 1) Train an algorithm that given any angle view of a human head, produce a 3D reconstruction of said head. (Depending upon the amount of face visible, the accuracy of the reconstruction increases. 2) Train an algorithm that given a human head geometry, it identifies any deformation due to facial expression and neutralizes that expression. 3) Trivial algorithm: given a human head geometry not facing the camera, rotate that head such that it is facing the camera. 4) render the human head geometry without expression, facing the camera, using the video image source as the texture map for said head. 5) Perform FR.
I can't really give an answer to that one. I haven't gamed with a 7.1 system and generally just wear headphones when I do.

I'm sure some people do use stereo speakers, but headphones are almost a given for professional gaming since it shuts out environmental noise to hear quiet noises in game. Paired with 3d audio it would probably just give better situational awareness. As to how well it will work, I can't answer that.
What would you do? What would anybody do?

I don't have an answer to this specific scenario that you described. That said, I wasn't saying we should all suddenly become 100% socially responsible overnight - it is just not practical.

There are lots of things that are super easy to do, and yet have positive influence on the environment, society etc. We can keep a handful of cloth bags handy, when we go grocery shopping. This isn't hard to do, and will help reduce plastic bags. We don't have to wait for legislation to act on this. We don't have to replace our perfectly working phone, every other year (or every year) and throw it in the landfill. And so on.

These are definitely small compared to the pollution caused by corporations. But corporations exist to sell to consumers. Plus, change has to start somewhere. Why not start at home?
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I use it. Yes I've tried. They don't want to switch :/
For OP’s personal projects? Meh, it works but will sometimes cause you problems. For a team of 10+ software devs? Disaster!
They teach cursive in elementary school, whose primary function is socialisation and childcare, not education. I taught kindergarten (in English) to children who were native speakers of Chinese for four years. I know you can take a six year old with minimal exposure to English to grade level reading fluency in 50 weeks of 30 minute lessons 5 days a week because I’ve done it. I’m reliably informed by Chinese teachers that you can take a child who speaks Chinese (Mandarin), from illiterate to within the normal range of writing skill within three years, at more or less any age from elementary school to the end of high school. I regret I lost the citation but John Taylor Gatto writes in one of his books that you can teach a nine year old to read English in 40 hours of instruction. I believe it, and the experience of teachers in Sudbury schools is that you can teach the entire elementary school math curriculum to a 12 year old in under 40 hours. The lowest figure I’ve heard for that feat is 20 hours.

Homework in elementary school is just a waste of time, theft from children and their families. The research is clear that it’s ineffective in aiding learning prior to middle school at the earliest.

An institution dedicated to teaching children would look very different to elementary, middle or high schools in any country’s public education system. They’d use mastery based learning rather than age based progression and spaced repetition at the most basic. Those particular educational techniques are more than a century old and used more or less nowhere.

On a less iconoclastic note German elementary schools are mostly half day and French ones full day. There is no real difference in their graduates readiness for middle and high school. And kindergarten as mostly play systems have no worse and often better results than kindergarten as school lite systems. In Finland they don’t even teach kindergarteners to read. They do fine in the end.

Elementary school is not primarily about education. Homework is not about education at all at that level.
Interesting to see how/if the cable companies respond to the resolution wars - last time I checked the only one offering 4k was DirecTV, with everyone else still at 1080

Newer stuff upscaled from 1080 generally looks fine to my increasingly middle-aged eyes, but content filmed on older cameras looks awful at 4k (Law and Order springs to mind)
I feel that I should mention that his son is Richard "Lord British" Garriott, also an astronaut.
What's the appeal of 8K? Is the support just there for some future VR plans? I already have my couch about as close to my 55" 4K TV as is reasonable, and can barely tell the difference between 1080p and 4K video. If I had an absurdly large TV (70"+) and didn't move my couch back yeah, 4K'd be a clear improvement. But 8K? Why?
Most of the literature attributes the walls to early settlers and colonists. The vast amount of walls especially in places that were never settled makes this hypothesis wrong and outright misleading. Some walls were created by colonists but you would need millions and millions to make all the walls in this region.

The early colonists were substitance farmers and there are no journals or diaries or documents which talk about building walls.

They do have diaries of farming and painting and all other topics but not building walls up mountains and sprawling over legde and landscapes.
Whose demand... advertisers or consumers? I imagine the #1 complaint about ads is the fact that they are there.

All ads are irrelevant. If they weren't, they would be part of the content itself. Or the entire content is an ad, and it can be ignored.
Listen to some binaural audio samples with headphones. You can't get that effect with stereo speakers since they're too far away from your ears.

https://youtu.be/aQH-jwE_kfo
I suggest watching following video of Neil deGrasse Tyson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joARXZagTuM

It opens with following conclusion:
There were only 3 bottom-level motivators where it comes to achieving grand things in human history:
* Survival
* Wealth
* Praise of deity

There are things people still do that span generations to satisfy the first 2 drivers (like Norway being cautious about its oil reserves or overall push towards clean energy and mitigating climate change, China's investment in its own and Africa's infrastructure).

People simply got smart enough not to throw monumental amount of effort and resources to please a deity. Of course that's a massive simplification as then there's a question if the organisation that "wrote the check" really did that purely because of the spiritual beliefs of their own or their people.
At this point the statement and other gestures that a company "value's your privacy" is just a default poster someone puts up, while they do other things.
From what I understood, the realisation that the Earth, that everything and everyone she’d ever known, was an invisible speck next to an invisible speck compared to the largest star.
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Given that there is an article article supporting the headline, I think responding to your own reading of the headline is counter-productive at best.

Or, heck, even the second part of the headline.
The size of a football 27,000,000 football fields away.
This belongs in the courts where the act, evidence, defense and outcome can be heard by all.

We're supposed to form/not-form a mob based a description so broad that could very well encompass the behaviors of Joe Biden to Bill Clinton and everything in between.

This trial by sketchy-facts is not fair to the accused or the victim or to anybody that's pressured to make a decision about this.
Empathy Might Not Be the Antidote to Poisonous Political Polarization
It's a very different situation though, a cathedral can't really be used until it's finished or at least significantly complete.

A complete metro network might take 150 years to build but each line is useful on their own, the final network is composed of several semi-independent lines which get added and expanded over time, and even if the system's fulness is designed at its origin with multi-decade plans it's useful long before that.

Same with road & highway systems, or other public transport networks (trains, tramways, …). They're useful and have a point long before they're "finished", assuming there's even such a thing.
When the tech demos in stores made the main use case how clear newspaper text looks in 4k instead of 1080p i realized we probably had reached the end of the TV resolution S-curve.
Women actually attempt to commit suicide more often than men. However, men succeed more often (they tend to choose methods with a higher likelihood of success).
ripgrep enables PCRE2's JIT, so it should be very fast.
You can easily be a solo entrepreneur and not be a freelancer.
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Good shout. Rather frightening thought.