skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> OK on a Mac, with incorrect font blending

This text looks okay to me even if I manually adjust the gamma to approximate doing antialiasing/compositing in linear space. It’s on the thinner side, but plenty readable.

Which platform has “correct” font “blending” (and what do you mean by “blending”)? I have not yet heard of one which does antialiasing or compositing of fonts or other vector graphics in linear (vs. gamma-adjusted) space. The font hinting / antialiasing on Windows is super ugly. Linux varies a lot from one machine to the next and a long history of various font problems.

Maybe what you meant was “looks OK on the Mac with more-correct-than-usual font blending, and looks terrible on X other platform”?

More likely what you meant was “looks OK on a Mac with a high-resolution display (typical of recent Macs), but is harder to read on a lower-resolution display (still common among budget PCs).”
You can see how many products already use this framework. So, yes, it was an exercise at the beginning. Now it's a fully functioning web framework.
For super low bitrate speech, (1.44MB/30 minutes is 6.4kbps), codec2 is better than Opus, and can go to even lower bitrates. When combined with WaveNet, the audio quality is incredible, though required compute power is ridiculous.

https://auphonic.com/blog/2018/06/01/codec2-podcast-on-flopp...
> and it's not!

Well those numbers seem to show some C programs are faster than the C++ programs they are compared to; and other programs are not.
Oh for sure. It's garbage.

But opus still sounds pretty good until you get down to around 10kbps (this, iirc, is 6 or 7.)
It is a web framework. It helps you create a web app. Similar to what other frameworks do, like Spring, Spark, Play, Struts, etc.
Video playing through Kodi and nothing else. Nearly all other "competing" boards are either cheaper or more powerful or both, and more open, but the PI has the best CEC imlementation along with good video acceleration which makes it ideal for the task.
The freshly announced PI4 seems a step in the right direction price and performance wise, although I don't expect the Pi Foundation (aka Broadcom) to solve the openness problem anytime soon, so although it could soon become my main video player I won't consider it for anything else, especially if security related.
You will get used to them. Just ignore the prefix and read the body of the name.
Nah, this was just me screwing around with encoders while I was avoiding editing my podcasts.

When I actually release, I'll do it at a bitrate that's more listenable, but still optimized for space.
That is not really surprising, is it? 20 years ago the Internet was populated with different people, because the subscriptions were expensive. And besides that, there was no mobile Internet, the user demographic was completely different. Now that literally everybody on this planet has access to the Internet, and, well, there are some rather unpleasant people out there, I think we've reached a new historical period with these "low-trust societies".
"I was able to bullshit about A.I., so the whole field is bullshit."
May I know what did you do to make sure the research takes consideration of different culture and social differences? Because, honestly, I see none. It’s naive and biased to draw any conclusion from the simple experiments, let alone to measure and rank countries civic honest levels. For example, emails are not popular in many Asian countries. And in many countries, like China, people use lost & found centers or direct give the stuff to the policemen. Did you consider all of these?
I don't fully understand all the networking protocols involved but who/what is responsible to manage this kind of failure in the network? How should this ideally be handled besides cloudflare engineers calling someone?
I don't mean to dismiss brands. Just white label brands. All it means is that somebody somewhere has decided to slap a label on it. It's like buying a product because one person gave it a good review. Not worthless, but pretty close.
Lacking the Ruby ecosystem means it lacks like, 90% of the reason you’d choose a language.
“Elizabeth Warren is saying we should break up Google. And like, I love her but she’s very misguided, like that will not make it better it will make it worse, because all these smaller companies who don’t have the same resources that we do will be charged with preventing the next Trump situation, it’s like a small company cannot do that.”

“We all got screwed over in 2016, again it wasn’t just us, it was, the people got screwed over, the news media got screwed over, like, everybody got screwed over so we’re rapidly been like, what happened there and how do we prevent it from happening again.”

I think it's clear what she meant, but Google doesn't want to deal with the legal or social ramifications of being politically non-neutral.
Not to mention archiving it. As a VC I’m taking notes on companies I meet with an need to get them into our CRM for future review
I tried it both ways with opus. More or less the same in terms of quality, but the resampled file was about 3% smaller.

I imagine it would be less of a size difference and more noticable at higher bitrates.
There was a larger discussion in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20264543
http://serveo.net/
For a second, I thought you were going to talk about the Rupicola Peruviana:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Rupicola...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andean_cock-of-the-rock
Is TomoChain a Fork of the Ethereum Blockchain?
Revenue neutral carbon taxes are the most pro-market, libertarian friendly answer thus far to the reality of climate change. They're pushed by progressive politicians only because of the factual urgency of climate change. The USA can limp along with shitty healthcare forever, but irreversible climate damage is irreversible, and we don't have time for the partisan bullshit.

The high order bit is the complete disengagement from the American right on this issue. The carbon-tax-with-dividend is meant to be table stakes. The onus is on the other side to show up to the table at all.
The opus file is at 6kbps, the mp3 at 8.

Opus file is tuned for speech, mp3 isn't.

The opus file sounds unbearable when the music is playing, but is clearer otherwise.

Double the bitrate and opus is way ahead.
Proposals from Small Businesses and R&D Institutions Supported by NASA
As it should be, I think. You don't inherently trust stranger on a street, you shouldn't do that on the internet as well.
That's the premise behind most security software. We can't trust the internet, so download a firewall from the internet to block traffic from the internet.
Given style of the code, what Yegor needs is Lisp, but not OOP.
Given how few companies use it, we can safely guess personal projects.
Yikes, this and your previous comment are bannable offences on HN. Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines, and sticking to the spirit of this site when posting here? We're hoping for a bit better than internet median: thoughtful, substantive comments, basically.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ha, small world :-)

Agreed on timing, it could be better. I'll consider skipping some of the words + make them appear slower. Thanks for the suggestion!
This happened right before the first AI Winter in the late 80s: AI (in the form of expert systems) solved a number of hard problems and was hyped as being able to solve every problem. Reality set in when we figured out:

1. It didn't scale and

2. Getting 80% of the problem solved was easy, but getting that last 20% was very, very hard. Maybe several orders of magnitude harder than the first 80%.

Nowadays we don't seem to have problem 1 quite so much, but problem 2 is still there in a big way. Witness self-driving cars, where driving on an interstate highway in broad daylight is easy, but driving through a snow-covered construction zone at night is impossible. Or just dealing with a bicyclist on the road without killing them.

We're not going to have AGI any time soon.
> Because I provided a specific scenario where it would not be "gross negligence."

No, you didn't. You provided a vague conjecture for how the initial cause of the problem might not have been gross negligence, but offered no hypothesis for why Verizon isn't answering the Red Phone.
After 40 years of concern trolling (aka FUD), I'm fresh out of goodwill. Any one still not 100% onboard is the rump of the loyal opposition, or serves it, by default or design.

PS- Thread is arguing PV & batteries, problems which wind and direct current will solve. Just assume smart people have already figured this stuff out and you're not in the loop. Remaining obstacles are wholly political.
Thank goodness I learned this freshmen year in college, also the first time I was allowed a laptop in class. I starting taking notes with pen and paper as soon as I could write fast enough. I was successful in school, and I really think a large part of it was recording so many notes. I noticed that many classmates that stayed on laptops often were bad students. And the times I did take my laptop to class I was worse for it.

This article aligns with most of why I thought note taking was good. It definitely has a mechanical nature that typing just doesn't match. Also you don't want notes that are just transcription, you want your own thoughts recorded on the page. Something I think they missed though was diagrams. Typing may result in a perfect transcription, but most lectures contain a visual component. Being able to quickly copy a graph or diagram is extremely useful. When taking notes via typing, there is no good way to do that without a touch screen and some skill. I'm much more likely to remember a diagram I drew than one I looked at.

I love how they gloss over the internet connectivity portion, but I also find that to be a huge component in reality. Sometimes I need to "space off" for a few seconds to digest an idea. When taking paper notes, I end up doodling boxes or lines. When typing, I inevitably get distracted by some shiny thing designed to steal my attention.

I do note in the workplace who brings paper and who brings a laptop to a meeting. Sometimes you need a laptop to present or look up information. But if you are solely there to listen, people who bring paper pay the most attention.
Is the forest made up of indigenous trees?
When reading specs of the new raspberry pi I decided I will buy two in the near future to serve as a desktop for my girls.
I still have a raspberry pi 1b with 512mb. I was too soon and missed the free upgrade. Tried it once as media server. Was not impressed. After that I bought a pine64 with 2Gb ram that runs my bookmarks web application I personally use every day. Also bought the hardkernel mc1 cluster to play with.
Still the support for raspberry pi is unbeatable.
>> The list of discrete tasks (games, decision making once
the parameters are defined) a computer can't do is a very
short list.

> I'd be interested in knowing what coungerarguments the
people downvoting this comment might know of, which I
apparently don't.

I didn't downvote, but I will cite artistic endeavours.

How long until a film crew of computers can shoot, edit and score a documentary or film that would be interesting to humans to watch?

How long until they could develop an AAA computer game worth playing?

How long until we could assemble an orchestra of computers that can interpret sheet music with feeling well enough to impress a human audience?

I could go on and on finding other examples of human endeavours that computers/robots/AI will suck at for an extremely long time, if not forever.

As we've seen recently, we are further from completely autonomous self driving cars than was hyped over the past few years.

In my experience, programmers typically like to underestimate the breadth of human endeavour outside the domain of programming, particularly where the arts are concerned. And larger groups of humans working on larger artistic endeavours will take even longer to be displaced by AI, IMHO.
Yeah, SKF could definitely be improved. I'm excited about stage0!
Lovely UI, congrats!! You should definitely consider doing a 'gonzo' TV install somewhere in the city where you have access to power, wifi and shelter.
How much of the maintenance burden consists of 32-bit specific bugs? I would guess almost nothing, but I have no idea really.
I hope your professors post their lectures online.
No current networks are "censoring" anything. They have policies against certain types of content. If I run a printing press for anyone to use but won't let people use it for what I consider to be harassment, am I "censoring" those people?

Mostly, we're talking about social norms that cover behavior and speech. These get called "censorship" to form a negative connotation, but literally zero people are consistently against them.

For example, there's a norm against child pornography (this one actually is government censorship). NDAs are a form of government censorship too, but people are generally okay with it because you opt into it explicitly. What if you continually insult your boss? There's no law against it, but you'll probably get fired. If you divulge all your family secrets, are you being "censored" if you no longer get invited to the holidays?

Behavior that violates norms gets pushed to the margins. That's how society works. Centralized networks are making people uncomfortable because it's centering behavior that people want marginalized; that's a bug, not a feature.

And when we do force them to marginalize it, they'll do it badly. Because we're placing a lot of power and responsibility in a few giant corporations, accountable to their shareholders and clumsily coerced by voters. Which is why the article supports breaking up the networks: the best way to ensure everyone has a voice is to distribute power to them.

Re: Federated networks, people don't care whether their networks are centralized. Email has existed federated for decades! People care that they can easily talk to the people they want; the ability to do this is orthogonal to how centralized the network is.
The code will be tested in its 64-bit form. Is 6 months not enough to check for 32-bit specific bugs? How often are there 32-bit bugs anyway?
GQL can‘t know how and when your application or framework is issuing requests. The idea is elegant and copied from the TCP Nagle algorithm which works the same way.
AT&T customers were unaffected because of mitigations put in place by AT&T that Verizon hasn't put in place. The steps you refer to in the blog post are ones that Verzion has to take.
Well, IMS stands for "IP Multimedia Subsystem" and having IMS in the telephone network is, in my view, basically a part of the process of moving POTS services to IP and Internet technologies... of course, that is necessary for many of the centralized services that phone users are used to, but it is a possible point of failure of epic proportions.
He really does love it. Amazing! Hahaha
Would you please stop posting ideological and political battle comments to HN? It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
opus sounds amazingly good down to pretty low bitrates in general though, but this obviously pushes beyond those limits
I connected it to "dumb" computer speakers at my office and made it into a Bluetooth sink so that everyone can use it to play music
price discovery is the process of moving the price until you encounter more market resistance than you can handle in both directions. The process doesn't really end. It has to be redone after any new information comes to market.

halvening is not new information, so basically irrelevant for price discovery.
This all is so damn cool. Congrats. You're doing amazing work
How many people have their home wifi on a UPS?
My son use one to monitor the completion of a washing or dryer machine.
Instagram ads appear in feeds as normal posts. I would assume that they are not blockable.
I still have no idea what the issue you have is.
I am interested in blockchain in general and would like to connect. My email is on my profile
I've been collecting examples of where the ads that I see are based on extremely simple algorithms of the type that could have easily been supported 30 years ago, and yet I keep reading articles that suggest that the advertising industry is deploying sophisticated tools to target ads to me. I wrote about this recently:

-------------------------

Despite much talk about Machine Learning and AI improving advertising results, what I’m seeing is getting worse and worse. Despite billions invested, the ads shown to me are much less relevant than that ads that I saw on the Web 10 years ago.

I hired 3 developers from Fullstack Academy. They were all great, so I went and checked out the website, curious about the curriculum. And now, every website I go to, I see an advertisement for Fullstack Academy. (See screenshot.)

I’ve been writing software for 20 years. I’ve written semi-famous essays about software development. I am not going back to school. I do not need to go to a dev bootcamp. So why show me ads, as if I’m thinking of going to school?

For the last several years I’ve been seeing articles about the surveillance economy. In theory, advertisers know more about me than ever before. In theory, they know about my entire life. And yet, the ads I see are less targeted than what I used to see online 10 years ago.

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/when-will-machine-learn...
My current (digital) handwritten note setup:

- iPad Pro with (Gen 1 :sadface:) Apple Pencil.

- Screen protector that gives a significant amount of friction to the screen so that it feels closer to paper. [1]

- Goodnotes 5 or Notability (I use both--depends on the circumstances). [2]

- A rule: iPad is solely a reading/studying/note-taking device. No keyboard, no social media apps.

- Bonus: Twelve South BookBook case.

[1] ClearView Paper-Like Screen Protecter for Apple iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2015/2017) [Made in Japan]

[2] I generally prefer GoodNotes over Notability, however, Notability has side-by-side notes and recording. These features are supposedly in the pipeline for GoodNotes, but have yet to materialize. GoodNotes handles large PDFs better (Notability crashes). They both have passable desktop clients for quick cmd+F searching of handwritten notes.
dialyzer is terrible and doesn't actually work in practice, as is evidenced by the many dialyzer errors that slip through to current releases on hex of libraries even the size of Phoenix, StreamData, etc.... Even the major community members don't use it. It's not a substitute for a type system and especially not one that allows you to properly model things in it.
There is an IRC server (several servers, actually) + channel that a variety of network operators are on that has existed since the very early 2000s for these sorts of events. 414 users on it now, most peoples nicknames include their ASN to make it easier to find each other.

Unfortunately, Verizon is one of those networks that isn't present there. But many other networks are represented there and it provides a direct path to those who have config/enable access on some of the largest networks out there. Cuts out the having to go via formal escalation paths and NOC groups that require a trouble ticket before you can engage them.
The ingredients look very similar to most energy drinks.

The only one I don't recognize is Alpha GPC, the rest are standard components of a multivitamin with amino acids.

Crush one of those into your coffee if you really must.

$32 for a 340g bag of ground coffee + vitamins? The goose won't lay eggs forever.
This is also the same claim that gets mentioned when k comes up: the shortness of programs leads to finding better solutions.
A WebGL canvas-based volume viewer
I'm using an RPi as the main compute module for an Autonomous Radio Controlled Car. It's similar to a Donkey Car, but not using ROS (at the moment). Project is documented here: https://medium.com/@mikkelwilson/autonomous-rc-car-part-0-6e... (This is not a commercial project; just for fun)

I'm very interested to see how OpenCV 4 and YOLOv3 object detection will run on the new RPi. At the current trajectory I will have to upgrade to a Jetson Nano to get hardware acceleration (CUDA), but resorting to specialty hardware seems like cheating.

They also make a great prototyping platform for IoT projects. I've built 802.11.4 (Zigbee) mesh radio networks for passing small messages across neighborhood distances.

Previously I used an RPi to run an Airplay Bridge to my Sonos speakers. This has since been supplanted by AirPlay 2, which Sonos supports.
I mostly click on HN articles via Facebook, but I don't actively engage in discussions. I also happen to come across a lot of discussion on Chinese social media, like zhihu.

The news has been trending on Chinese sites for days, and when it's something as sensational as "China ranked lowest in global HONESTY study", people started to ask why, many went ahead and read the paper, found potential flaws in the design of the study, and wanted their questions answered. And when valid questions are not yet being addressed, many start to question the motivation behind this paper; the motivation of using labels like "honesty", that clearly has moral implications; the motivation behind Science publishing it, etc. Did the author exclude Japan because the result differed drastically from what was expected? Did the author include China because the result conveniently confirms the stereotypes? Are there any ethical concerns for such studies? After all, this seems to be a study about how likely it is for hotel staff to email the owner of the lost wallet in different countries, but it is being phrased into something much bigger.

Not saying those are real motivations of the paper, just emotions and speculation running wild in Chinese forums, then people get a bit angry, because they feel it's unjust, and they want to look for ways to communicate outside of Chinese social media.

Anyways, thanks for still keeping the discussion open. Most just want to have their voice heard, as they feel very, very strongly about it. And a possible explanation of commenting in Chinese is to force native English speakers to look up the translation, some sort of reference to how the study is conducted in English, even in China.
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. They're highly repetitive, therefore predictable, therefore off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
N26 refused to update my name in the account when one letter changed. They requested documentation my country cannot issue, and just sending them two passports, old and new wasn't enough.

That took them more than a month to figure. More than a month of a constant email ping-pong where they were requesting more and more documents, some of them multiple times over and over.
It means taking a set of packets sent to one address and spreading them across multiple servers to share out the load.
A fun dream I've had (context: I've always been confined to apartments) is some sort of cat/pet utopia in a block, so they wouldn't be stuck inside alone. But that wouldn't be feasible since they have to navigate the fire-proof doors between floors...

Unless your cat door goes to market. May luck be on your side :)

(really, don't underestimate niches, you can probably find plenty of places to sell this sort of product...)
If you're running a web server, why not just put up a page with a "ring" button and bookmark that on your phone?
Persistent IRC bouncer with Weechat.
This thread got flagged off of the front page within 20 minutes of being posted. It had a crazy velocity, then suddenly, gone. I guess some people aren't interested in relevant tech news if it hurts their narrative.