skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a bunch of smart bulbs, and actually, I really like them.

For starters, the Hue bulbs are fairly high quality LEDs. They don't flicker excessively, they distort colors less than cheaper bulbs, and I haven't had one burn out yet. Oh, and the default color is apparently now programmable.

We normally run ours off of old-fashioned switches, with the exception of one or two rooms where the switches are badly positioned and I'm too lazy to reopen the walls.

But even years after installing the bulbs, we still use our phones to override the colors on the bulbs, or set up custom lighting configurations.

The biggest downside is that after a power outage, every light turns on. That's happened once or twice at 2am, and it meant a grumpy search for the nearest phone.
So I may be working with DICOMs in the very near future and know nothing about them. This seems like it will be helpful to me. Where can I learn more about the format and how to use it?
The probability is orders of magnitude larger than this.

https://medium.com/@hellodonavon/what-are-the-chances-of-you...
Apparently, it depends on the definition. Personally (as pointed out at the beginning of this write-up), it's more about a visual feedback loop and fluid user interaction, which would exclude turn-based games or any presentation that runs autonomously while triggered on some user input, which is evaluated at the start of the program (compare Bouncing Ball or Mouse in a Maze). I guess, what makes a video game a video game is the kind of interaction – and typically a user may choose to interact or to not interact at any given iteration of the principal main loop – and this required real-time computing. There's a distinction of a "mere" computer game (whatever the output medium) and a video game. We may even add some cultural notion, like that a true video game had to introduce some "magical" world of its own (by invention or abstraction) as opposed to just recreating an existing game in faithful on-screen simulation. But, again, this is subject to debate.

For me, when it comes to digital video games (i.e. a visual real-time game running on a digital computer), the first one we do know of is still "Spacewar!" (1962).

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Edit: The cultural argument is rather similar to the question of rejecting "doing things on a computer" in tech patents.
Fascinating.

So why exactly is this not widespread now?

Is it too new, too costly, or does it diminish the taste/texture more than the slides indicate?

Or is it just not necessary, e.g. most people either eat their food before it goes bad, or forget about it for so long that this wouldn't make much a difference anyways?

I have a hard time believing that subjecting, say, a crisp green pepper to pressure high enough to disrupt all bacteria wouldn't noticeably alter the texture (perhaps similar to how freezing does)... or just as bad, make it implode and rupture. (Although I guess you could poke a small hole in produce with hollow interiors.)
Whoa, an EQ in the volume knob. Nice surprise!
So like Bandcamp, but...?
The early Intel MacBooks weren't much better - my black 2007 2,1 model gets pretty hot and has a serious lack of ventilation holes.
>By trading on insider information, he saved himself $117k in future losses

Sure, we know that NOW, but at the time he could have lost enormously more. If he KNEW that was going to be his total loss it's quite possible he never would have risked it.
It'd be nice to compare the effects of HPP vs Pasteurization in milk, and whether it less disruptive.

Pasteurized milk doesn't ferment as well as raw milk, suggesting lots of peptides are altered. And that is why some cheese DOPs mandate raw milk (only on hard cheeses, as on soft ones it'd not be safe).
Is German the most-spoken second language across the whole continent where the US is located?
Fun fact: when I arrive in Berlin, the plane often lands on the new airport's airfield and then rolls on to the old Schönefeld airport, passing the new, dysfunctional BER main building; just to remind us visitors of the city government's incompetence.
i think that is where conservatives will go. denial denial denial...then too late nothing we can do just do what you want.
Which episode of SNL did this air on? Hilarious writing
Our house is old. There are three separate switches to turn on/off three separate lights in our kitchen. Having an electrician fix this would have been thousands of dollars, so instead we bought three smart bulbs. Similar story in our living room, except with 5 lamps because we have no ceiling fixtures there.
The Talos II I'm typing this reply on is just my regular workstation. I have a dual-4, which is 32 threads, and it runs Fedora. Most things work just fine and it's a very nice daily driver. I'll probably upgrade it to a dual-8 in the near future for even more parallel goodness.

I also have a Blackbird, which does streaming video in the home theatre and is also a test system. It's a single-4, but it can take an 8-core part if desired.
It appears that the explicit desire is to destroy the work. I think they will resist any efforts that don't result in the work's complete destruction.
Yes, actually Super Hexagon was one of the games I play and was thinking of when I made my comment. I find it difficult enough to play with my older computer using Optimus, but when I tried it on Wayland there was at least another 100 ms of latency. It was unplayable to the point I feel pretty sure even a TAS couldn't keep it going for long. Compositing everything with no way for apps to bypass it when necessary is profoundly stupid.
Network Transparency with Wayland
FWIW, you're using the word "brick" incorrectly. Bricking is when the only fix is to throw the device away and buy a new one, which clearly is not the case here.
It's not that rare now. I have seen some mainstream dairies using it for particular products distributed in EU. And many veggie smoothie brands use it in the UK. E.g. Savse.

I would like to see studies comparing it to pasteurization as I said in another comment. I believe pasteurization creates some denatured proteins and weird peptides due to heat shock that might not be very healthy. It'd be interesting to see whether HPP is better in this regard.
There had to be a problem with backup systems.

In the US in certain industries, you have to do quarterly disaster recovery testing.

I am surprised they don’t do something like that here. The losses would certainly warrant it.
A few additional points:

I don’t have smart bulbs in the bathrooms. I don’t think they add anything. Bathrooms are usually turn light on, stay for a (relatively) short time, turn light off. This is the same reason why when I originally switched to energy saving bulbs, back when those were still very slow, I kept normal bulbs. I want the light in the bathroom to turn on fast, and I spend a short enough time in it to not waste too much energy.

As for guests: Not a problem. If they stay overnight, they will likely use the regular switch and turn their bulb into a dumb one. That’s okay and make sense. If they don’t stay overnight, they are usually not roaming around so much that they have to worry about lights. In the rare cases that they do, the lights temporarily turn into dumb lights, until I make them “smart” again. I don’t remember when this last happened.

Finally, especially if you don’t live alone, lying in bad and just being able to turn everything off, and not just your lights, was worth it so far.
So, if we compare real estate with new weather trend --.. we could find areas both going to be affected adversely and positively.

Wonder what sort of change that will bring to countries or regions in the world.
Fermentation is largely a product of naturally occurring bacteria is it not? Makes sense pasteurizing it and killing them all would prevent fermentation, which in this case would just be referred to as spoiling.
> Just 2 things to remember from Tegel, by far the worst airport I've ever been to.

It's among the worst airports, but still my favourite. Super fast public transport from center, with a cheap ticket, and fast security throughput. I need to reserve much less extra time for Tegel than any other airport, and side expenses never exceed the price of the flight itself (which can easily happen at many other European airports).
And teacher behavior!
At HPBB last year (coincidentally in Japan where high pressure food sterilization was first commercialized) there was a whole series on high pressure sterilization of food.

The last presentation was a company with a scalable automated canning and sterilizing machine that was simply beautiful from an engineering standpoint.

Since we don't fully understand nutrients and how stuff like high pressure sterilization, heating, and other methods affect bioavailability, impact protein structure, and create other changes, it's all down to trying and learning as we go.

What's great about pressure is that it can deactivate and destroy some of the harmful organisms in food, but my curious concern is what does that do to the cellular material we want intact for our body, how does that affect the protein structure (for those not familiar, protein structure and folding is absolutely crucial for functionality).

Irradiation concerns me more than pressure because if you're not careful, you could be breaking bonds that you don't want to be breaking.

All in all it's a fascinating topic and important to everyone who eats.
Plenty of people on the left compare the right to Nazism, which is equally obnoxious and rude. Not saying you did, but those types of generalizations aren't really conducive to proper discussion.
Being driven by curiosity is a wonderful thing. I don't know how he managed to keep it up his whole life, and I very much envy his ability to do so. In my case, I find my ability to act on curiosity to be waning as I get older. Commitments and general fatigue have started getting in the way.

Here's to hoping there are more Paul Allens out there.
> One simple problem, bizarrely enough, was the airport architect, Meinhard von Gerkan's dislike of shopping.

> Joel Dullroy, a Berlin-based journalist with Radio Spaetkauf, who produced a podcast telling this airport's story, says Mr Gerkan wrote disdainfully about passengers "dragging around unwanted bottles of whisky like a beggar" and wanted to have as few airport shops as possible.

> But when the airport company realised this - very late in the day - it insisted on adding whole new floors of shopping into the design, as the company now makes up to 50% of its revenue from retail.

Yeah, that's gonna do it.
Thank you for pulling a source and some specifics!

I also remember Apple talking about expertise. The number of people experienced in running a large factory exist in the US, but at a much smaller number. Which means they're harder to hire and likely warrant a higher salary.

I also think people greatly over emphasize the role of assembly. I believe it's less than 10% of the cost of each phone. But, in light of all that, it was good to see attempts to onshore more of the production.
You’re conflating the inherent, natural consequences of the crime he committed with the legal consequences...
The War on Backpage.com
>The biggest downside is that after a power outage, every light turns on.

Set your lights to return to the last state after power recovery.
When it originally opened in Disneyland, Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room required a massive bank of computers which filled the basement floor and required air conditioning, the only building that had it, making it an excellent way to cool off during the hot summers. Another fun fact, it was so expensive that Walt funded the project himself and it required a separate admission ticket to experience it. Finally, a minor correction to the article: The Tiki Room was originally envisioned as a restaurant but was changed to be an attraction before opening because the Imagineers realized people probably wouldn't respond well to birds defecating in their food (which they obviously couldn't since they were automated).
Wouldn't this have been criminal copyright infringement, since it was for commercial gain and impacting the commercial prospects of Atari?
1) we have one in our bedroom - wife loves to crotchet in bed, but of course then inevitably I'm the one being kicked out of the bed to switch the light off. Smart bulb solved that issue, I can just switch it off from my phone.

2) yeah smart switches sound great but it's physically impossible to get them installed in the UK thanks to the unique way our electrical wiring is done - the switch on the wall only has the positive terminal in, the ground is wired directly into the bulb socket. So smart switches just don't work as they don't have anywhere to pull their own electricity from.
This is my reaction as well.

This seems bad, but... what should I do? What's the alternative?

I've seen multiple people say that PGP in general is kind of bad and it would be easy for the tech industry to write a secure alternative if it really wanted to. Cool, but that's not useful right now to ordinary people like me who aren't crypto experts who are trying to decide how we should sign/encrypt messages.

I have no idea what I would use as an alternative to PGP.
1.5% lifetime chance of attending a school with a shooting. that's a super wide net. We almost all have friends who have been murdered or died in car accidents or cancer. 1.5% of merely knowing someone in a school shooting is tiny.
I use this and it's great!

One thing that would be helpful (and perhaps it's already included and I just haven't seen it?) is a set of functions to make the parsed image appropriate for display.

Right now, the raw pixel values are given. To turn this into an image, you have to determine the word size (e.g., 16 bits), then interpret the results in the context of the window and center values from the metadata. For my current batch of images, for example, unless I do postprocessing, the images just look black.
The BBC article says that's a major problem, but actually puts a large part of the blame on Gerkan himself. (IDK whether justified on not.)

> One simple problem, bizarrely enough, was the airport architect, Meinhard von Gerkan's, dislike of shopping.

> Joel Dullroy, a Berlin-based journalist with Radio Spaetkauf, who produced a podcast telling this airport's story, says Mr Gerkan wrote disdainfully about passengers "dragging around unwanted bottles of whisky like a beggar" and wanted to have as few airport shops as possible.

> But when the airport company realised this - very late in the day - it insisted on adding whole new floors of shopping into the design, as the company now makes up to 50% of its revenue from retail.
Why Is There Packet Loss?
Not sure how you could fix an OpenPGP client for this case without changing how the keyservers function.
Nonsense. PowerPC in old PowerMac and modern POWER 9 have about as much in common as Pentium Pro and a modern Xeon!

PowerPC is a dead platform, POWER9 is not - but they are not the same!
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To send messages, use a secure messenger, like Signal or Wire. Don't use PGP.
Absolutely, but if you add plenty of starters to pasteurized milk you can get nice fermentation. That's what most cheese producers do. Pasteurize and then ferment.

What I meant is that differences arising in fermentation processes of raw vs pasteurized milk may not be just due to the microbial populations present before adding more microbial starters. But also because pasteurization "damages" some proteins and lipids, which can't be subsequently processed by bacteria.
Yes but cameras and microphones are different than network monitoring. The monitoring of computers is individualized, whereas cameras monitor groups. It might seem minor to some, but the presence of cameras in british schools is really changing things for the good.

American schools use cameras to look into crimes. They are not generally accessible immediately by teachers, but many British schools now have very elaborate camera systems designed for immediate use. When two kids get into a fight there is little debate about who started it. Teachers can, within minutes, have the footage on a tablet at their desk. Having that unbiased video evidence immediately at hand radically changes bullying prevention. Some kids and most parents may not like cameras, but that kid who is afraid for his or her physical safety wants those cameras working.

Microphones are a more sensitive issue, but I could see them being equally effective in addressing harassment. They would need different protections, perhaps a 30min recording limit, but there is potential.
I don’t know of an article describing it offhand. The issue arises where each transaction occurs on a different node or set of nodes, and the causal link between them is external to the dbms. In this case, it’s possible for each transaction to independently commit without the necessary message exchanges to ensure their HLC based timestamps correspond with their causal order. In other words since the client doesn’t participate in the HLC scheme, it breaks the causal chain and can allow an HLC-based system to assign out of order timestamps.

This is hinted at in the HLC paper but it’s not very clear: Section 2 limits the definition of “happens before” to only apply to events which occur on the same node or after a message is received from another node.
I like the idea. Would be good if it can be proven that data (which is stored on Google Drive) isn't centrally stored somewhere else.
Tek mountains hr seem incompetent. You don't stop disclosure of trade secrets with a non compete agreement.
The whole idea of normal and the basis on which 1:500 and 1:1,000 events are built is starting to feel well past expiry date. We've had no end of them in the 21st century, whether cat 5 hurricanes, flood, fire or as in this case summers. It's not normal now, it's before we broke it, and normal is starting to sound and feel archaic.

After 5 in 15 years, and on course for a sixth, the benchmark looks way off. At what point should it simply become a 1:3 year summer, or just "summer"?

How deniers can experience it and keep acting like nothing's happening beats me.
No, I think the point here is that even if you inoculate pasteurized milk with microbes, which you typically do in cheese- or yogurt-making to ensure that you grow the species you want, they still don’t grow as well nor produce the same end product.
Do people buy smart lightbulbs these days? Is there any innovation to drive sales?

In the olden days they would be part of your weekly shop, somewhere in the house a bulb would need replacing or you would be running low on them. Maybe 'weekly shop' is overstating it, but you wouldn't want to be without a spare bulb on hand.

All of those filament bulbs have been replaced. The lights you have are the lights you have. People that wanted the smart bulbs must have got them by now, old timers who don't care for such things are not going to get them. The old user interface of the switch on the wall is what most people want. The idea of having to get your phone out to turn on a light isn't of appeal to those okay with the existing arrangements. This is particularly so in the world of light pollution where it is never truly dark in built up areas.

I notice some people in the comments talk about replacing all the bulbs to smart bulbs. In America it is okay to just do this but in more frugal parts of the world there would be the aspect of waste to consider - never mind expense. Ad-hoc replacement of filament bulbs that blow with novelty smart bulbs is one thing but chucking out perfectly fit for purpose bulbs to get smart bulbs isn't how people do things outside America. Exceptions to this are when getting a new house but the housing market is kaput at the moment in most of Europe.

How is this smart bulb market going? Has it reached a plateau with everyone who wants them having them and the market declining? Or are these new bulbs that don't need a Hue base station making it happen?
Not a stupid question at all! I actually looked into byte-range requests as opposed to downloading individual segments, indeed Amazon S3 does support byte-range requests. I would think it's similar to implement, and wouldn't have as many moving parts.

When I had started the project, I saw how other streaming sites fetched their audio, and I saw a pattern in individual GET requests for segments. I thought, "Hey, they're doing this for a reason, and even though I don't fully understand this reason, maybe I should do it to." At the time, I think I justified it by thinking that someone who wants to rip the stream file would have to piece the track together versus just requesting the full track.

In the end, it really doesn't matter: anyone who is willed enough can get whatever is being sent to their client. It's one of those moments where I didn't bother to really think it through and factor in the practicality aspect. I'd like to go back and re-visit byte-range requests, though, just to see how it would work differently.
The saying is "essential liberty for temporary security" and Ben Franklin was talking about taxes.

https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famou...
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Wouldn't the design have been carefully reviewed by the airport company before approval?
Well you can sort of see the point. If the world really can't be arsed to get together and actually try and fix it, may as well go out in a blaze of fire, heat and complex hydrocarbons...
Weasel word. "Lazy" implies a moral imperative that doesn't really exist here.
Right? I was reading about this and thinking "hey, maybe technically sound but less well-known languages like OCaml or Rust are not always a good choice".
Yep, and I think it's easier than ever right now. School IT systems will often whitelist browsers including Chromium and its derivatives for installation without admin privileges. That means any student can download Brave, access Tor, and get to any site they want. All GUI, no hassle.
People block ads because ads are annoying. Those same people freely use cred cards and grocery loyalty cards.