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> Not sure how the author decides what is ordinary and what is transcendent.

This. Why should I allow anyone to define what kinds of art should I find transcendent and, worse, which kinds of art are non-transcendent?

This article is weird and full of stereotypes; it's written from the point as if art was easily and objectively classifiable. No, art is not classifiable like that, and something that one man calls everyday trash can be eye-opening and mind-blowing to another. This fact alone disproves the main assumption that this article is based on, and breaks the point of the whole article for me.
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I'm talking about the challenge, building a car that can do 300mph and then also drive to the shops seems like a really difficult engineering task.
Yes, I think it's actually out of vogue now, but a few years ago it was trendy to describe things as bougey:

bougey

(pronounced: boo-G) a condensed version of the word bourgeoise, used to refer to capitalists, the upper class, gaudiness, and profit-oriented viewpoints

http://bougey.urbanup.com/4157958
I suspect even there two-stroke is getting rare, as it is in motorbikes. E.g. I think here in Germany it's basically impossible to get a new model of two-stroke vehicle licensed.
Alibaba and JD want to clean up the dirty business of pig farms in China–with AI
I purchased a commercial freezer for our home basement. We feed our dog raw and a shelf fully loaded with frozen cubes of meat can weigh a considerable amount.

I was skeptical that a consumer grade plastic freezer could hold the weight so I picked up a Williams A400 Commercial Freezer:
https://www.williams-refrigeration.co.uk/products/cabinets/a...

About £1800 retail, fortunately I found one on eBay for considerably less.

Firstly the thing weighs a tonne, it’s noisy, and it also requires a large ventilated space all around otherwise its efficiency drops through the floor.

We ended up having to point a pedestal fan at the rear of the unit to keep the compressor and radiator cool.

Service costs were high at £90 just to have someone look at it and replacement parts a minimum of £120. So whilst it can be serviced it isn’t cheap.

It also ate 4-5x as much electricity as a consumer freezer of similar size.

What you get when buying a commercial freezer or appliance is a device that can take a beating and can be serviced. They cost nearly an order of magnitude more over the course of their lifetime vs their domestic counterparts. So yeah they’re well made but at a very high price.
There is a bunch of R&D, typically not revolutionary but still best in class. It’s what engineers love to work on anyway; supercars would likely exist even if nobody wanted to buy them. I think we have plenty of similar “products” in the hardware and software markets - stuff that doesn’t necessarily move the needle, but somehow exists at the very top of the market anyway, simply because it satisfies a lust.
The cognitive systems lab at the university in bremen[1] ,germany does a lot of research in that field and I had the pleasure to visit them a few months ago. If you are interested you should find a lot of research on their homepage, ranging from regular speech to text, over silent speech (aka muscle movement to text) up to brain to text.

[1] https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/csl/

edit: small correction of my bad english :P
This is just mind-blowing! We all know China's AI catching up, but applying this technology to pig farms already?
Usually it's spelled 'bougie' cf. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bougie
Japan and Australia both have some GoA 4 systems. There may be no employees of the operator on the train at all when it's operating. I'm sure there are or will be more of these systems (as you say, for metro services which can be grade separated and run with high service frequency) over time.

In a GoA (Grade of Automation) 4 system the intent is that if things go wrong the remote team operates the train. This obviously means it can't cope with power failure, but these are invariably electric trains so they aren't going anywhere without power anyway. A mechanical fault that renders the train unable to continue safely under its own local supervision would result in a remote operator controlling it though.
google "tesla ludicrous mode"
I cannot really understand the perspective of this assesment.

Perhaps these "ordinary ambitions" have become something unachievable by so many people, that it can highlight the relativity of the statement itself?

Starting "culture wars" about mundane shit isn't my definition of extraordinary either. If so, Burger King vs. McDonalds could be a culture war.

But compare that content to former reality TV and I can only see improvement everywhere.

On the other hand, I don't mind the loss of splendor, pomp and royal weddings. I do like architecture and jazz though.

But yes, I would prefer to have an "ordinary" house first instead of some abstract effort to build the pyramids 2.0. Does the author work for a bank?
Those are some pretty -- to use the author's word -- transcendent conclusions to draw from a top 50 Patreon list.

Even if you were assuming the patrons were all American (obviously false) the most popular creator would have fewer than 1 in 10,000 people subscribing.

Patreon is an obscure way to fund yourself that a very small number of people make their living from, it's not a bellwether for the American heart.

I don't know what high brow things the author finds missing from the list that would change his conclusion, but this seems very much like a conclusion looking for scant evidence for to justify something to write. That page would have been better left blank.
> I'm seriously considering implementing a fully spec-compliant OAuth 2.0 + OpenID Connect Core 1.0 reference server implementation in Typescript

That'd be awesome - I'd appreciate learning from something like that, and I really appreciate Typescript
I have a question about Telegram. Let's say I have a number in my contacts, but the other side doesn't have my number in their contacts. So I can now see their name and picture and "last seen"? But can they see the same thing about me without having my number saved? Do they get notified at all? Seems really odd to do this one-way.
Yeah, one of the lightbulb moments for me when learning more about aerodynamics and talking to my dad (former aircraft designer, workedon concorde) is how often what's happening at the back can be more important than what happens at the front, or how air leaves a surface can really bump up your drag in unexpected ways.
I am talking about INDEX FAST FULL SCAN (Oracle) for example. If you do 'select distinct last_name from users;' and you have an index on users (last_name) you do not need to read the table at all. It is enough to read the index.

Otherwise it does not matter how many columns you select, because you will have to read all the columns for every row anyway.
For those interested in the science and physical limits of acceleration (not just top speed), this video talks about the physics behind the fastest 0-60 runs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAvIVGGhEis

He works at it starting with tire limits during ABS braking, and throws in real-world examples like Tesla and the Dodge Demon.

He covers a bunch of other car engineering topics. For example, the Atkinson cycle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z45fM2N-4C4
I've built https://kopi.cloud to try to provide an alternative option in between being locked in to a big mail service and running your own mail servers.

It's a consumer-oriented SaaS for taking control of your personal mail - there is no enterprise pricing, nor even a subscription pricing option - though you can you can choose to pre-pay for the service years in advance.

Kopi uses Amazon SES for email delivery. We know Amazon wants to make sure that their service is a viable product for mail delivery at the commercial enterprise level. The idea is that Kopi can survive as a viable retail product by riding on the coat-tails of that desire and arbitraging the cost of mail handling via SES so it's cost-effective at consumer level.

The intention is to run it as cheaply as I can, ($1USD / month at the moment, though I make no guarantee that it can stay that cheap forever) and to give people the ability to choose between different mail services.

The idea is that you can manage your own domain, and setup your DNS to use Kopi as your mail exchange via DNS MX records to forward your email to whatever mail service you choose to use.
If people don't want to even run their own domain, they can can use the shared Kopi domains if they want - with the understanding that those mail addresses are locked to the Kopi service, but at least they can change mail service whenever they want.

The goal is to be easy enough to use that you can set up your email handling via a smart phone, and cheap enough that running your own email handling using free software should seem expensive by comparison.

Though I'll admit - marketing this thing is a bit of a problem right now :)
An introduction to deterministic builds with C/C++
I work in this space, so I'd love to give a bit of detail on the ML if you're interested:

Style transfer is trickier to do with speech than images! One significant issue is the lack of a good "content" versus "style" distinction. In images you can get great results by calling the higher-level features of an object classifier network "content" and holding that constant. Some people have tried this for audio with e.g. a phoneme classifier, but there are additional characteristics (such as inflection) that relate the emotional content of speech which wouldn't be held constant.

Another issue is that much of the speech classification work is done in spectrogram (or with further processing MFCC) space, which lets you treat audio similar to images and leverage a bunch of technology that we have for classifying those. But for synthesizing speech, spectrograms aren't a fantastic representation, because small errors in spectrogram space can translate into large errors in the waveform which are very clearly audible, and humans in general are pretty sensitive to audio errors. There are cool neural spectrogram inversion methods out there which can help, but those should still be trained to be robust to the kinds of errors that a style transfer algorithm would make, so it's still pretty tricky.

My company, Modulate, is building speech style transfer tech; and we've found a lot more success with adversarial methods on raw audio synthesis, where the adversary forces the generator to produce plausible speech from the target speaker!

One of the coolest parts of the kind of BMI research in this article, to me, is the potential to buy back some latency margin for speech conversion! If you're working on already-produced speech, there are super tight latency requirements if you want to hear your own speech in the converted voice - over 20-30ms for the entire audio loop, and you start to get echo-like feedback that makes speaking difficult. Even without looping back, you don't want more than 100-200ms of latency in a conversation before it starts impeding the flow of dialogue. This means your style transfer algorithm gets almost no future context, and limits the kinds of manipulations that you can do (not to mention the size of the network that you can do them with, depending on available compute power!).
idk... I've always assumed that the pointlessness is in the playfulness: extending our boundaries, setting new rules. We value the daring, the boundless, the discoverers and the challengers. And I understand we connect a certain status to that and I also understand that certain people just want to be able to buy the status without putting in the time, knowledge and risk. But for me at least, this is so remote from and unconnected to the original challenge and thrill, that it becomes idiotic: pointless without even the playfulness.
Yep. From Herbert:

> The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

(Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20080616111957/http://www.duneno...)
last Frank Herbert book Chapter House Dune and from what I remember it was more like an underground society of Jewsish people who kept their beliefs completely unchanged over the thousands of years, as opposed to all the other religions and societies. I think it was politically organised along matriarchal lines but there were still male rabbis. I shoul read it again it's been decades!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapterhouse:_Dune
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You hired the wrong people. Difficulty of finding good engineers is global.
'Ninety percent of everything is crap' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
Religion lays claim to both the why and the how. The belief that "religion explains why and science explains how" is entirely modern. For most of human history (until secular science arose as a concept,) every aspect of the material world was seen as having been created and controlled by divine powers. Even when "natural laws" were discovered, those laws were divine in origin, and thus could conceivably be arbitrarily suspended or changed under divine will.

God created the heavens and the earth, created man from the dust of the earth, and woman from man's rib. There's no room in that for the big bang, modern cosmology or evolution - one cannot accept the latter while believing the former to be anything but prose, which would make it no longer religion. Thus religion can only coexist with science as long as religion isn't taken seriously.
That's why I wrote "in most cases" :) Anyway, in a situation like that where you have lots of values in the IN clause, I don't think that using = instead of IN would even be an option.
Thanks, second one rings true for me
Totally! I've done a similar thing, but in my case rather than going cold turkey, I've replaced it with a weekly (paper) news magazine. I figure, important things will show up in that, and the rest I don't need to know about. And the experience of reading a paper version is much improved to online, too.
Manmohan Singh on the economy: “India cannot afford to continue down this path.”
Not if they are mostly charged by the sun and also batteries act to level the load over time which lessens requirements for the power source.
Well right now the whole rocket. The US has no other way to send men to the ISS than to ask the russians nicely.

But I don't think they are thrilled about that.
something that responds right to your foot is probably amazing...
It explicitly (almost) doesn't interact with normal matter, so it cannot be illuminated: it's dark because the light just goes right trough it, the same way space is dark because it doesn't scatter light.
Creating a Horrible Trackpad [video]
"When you're deep in a hole, stop digging!"
> Tibet has been close to China, as opposed to India for more than a thousand years.

That is just laughably false. If you live in the US, I suggest visiting a Tibetan store to disabuse yourself of this communist propaganda. (There are tons of Tibetan stores in Berkeley, CA for instance.) You'll find them selling many items that are instantly recognizable to Indians that Chinese people wouldn't have a clue about. Things like Ganesha figurines, Rudrakhsha malas and kurtis.

An easier option is to try asking an actual Tibetan person. They'll tell you the same thing that I'm saying.
Art’s subjectivity has been debated since forever. It’s not a fact. That being said, I also didn’t enjoy the point of view in the article very much and I mostly agree with your sentiment.
PostgreSQL can use multiple indexes. So if you have millions of rows, and 3 indexes covering the table, on 3 different columns. PostgreSQL can use any & all of those indexes to filter the data.

Selecting only the columns you need just prevents the database from having to go back to the clustered index to retrieve the remaining information that wasn't included on the index.

Selecting * from a table has no impact on the indexes used. But it can be expensive to need to go back to the clustered index to get the additional information.
It’s futile to have quad-core laptops bought by managers who barely run office apps. But the world of commerce runs on dreams.
I'm thinking of these things:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadricycle_(EU_vehicle_clas...

With a limitation of 50cc capacity a four-stroke may be hard. But they should all be replaced by the electric subclass very easily these days.
http://web.archive.org/web/20190902014433/https://www.popsci...
Agree with everything, but there is a small UI thing that could be improved - it is very easy to occasionally press "flag" instead of "hide" on mobile.

This improvement could be very beneficial for users with fat fingers. Well, HN is inclusive platform, right?
We already know exactly what's causing this, and it has nothing to do with THC or vape juice (vegetable glycerin).

These people are vaping grey market THC carts. Grey market being the operative word, because the process used to make wax relies on using butane and other heavy solvents to dissolve the plant while keeping the THC intact. These small, backyard producers are dumb as shit and don't know how to properly remove the solvents.
Eh, the fusion wouldn't happen without gravity so it's more correct to say that fusion provides extra energy, but the basic process is indeed gravitational collapse.
Creating the typewriter effect with the use of async generators
Unfortunately the slang tends to refer to acts or items that are expensive, rather than, y'know, class relations or members of the French Third Estate.
Cryptocurrency Adoption in the US
Philosophers in Fiction
Why and how can contradict.

Easiest example is “god made people this way” vs “people are the result of random processes that came about due to happenstance”.
> the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt

All the respect for Rob Pike, but that makes no sense: learning ANY new language should be even easier for someone fresh out of school, and I imagine they set a high enough hiring bar to be sure that new engineers can adapt to whatever they are thrown at. All programming languages are easy to learn...

The harder part is figuring out process that are repeatable and result in high velocity and code quality, but I'd imagine that this is what an organization like Google is good at!
People like living high above traffic. There's a reason penthouse apartments are at the top.
300mph is a milestone, not a barrier.
You should write something up and submit it here. I'd read it for sure.
As most websites are 10s of megabytes to store, unsurprisingly keeping 100s of tabs alive consumes gigabytes of memory. It’s just basic math. The only way this can work is if the browser just closes most tabs and uses them as transient bookmarks internally.
The next derivatives in the sequence of position, velocity, acceleration, and jerk are amusingly named “snap, crackle, and pop”, respectively.
Also, there are a number of responses you could say to your date that would not be okay in a job interview.
Some people buy million dollar watches because they appreciate the craftsmanship and quality, some people buy them so you'll know just how much more valuable their time is than yours.

It's a status display in either case, given that one could adequately tell the time on a cheap digital Casio.
I meant "people who might have bought an old home instead went to the new one".

If I have a market of 10 dumpy old cars, people will pay X for it. If I destroy 1 dumpy old car and add 2 brand new cars, people will pay more for the new cars (like your new building) but the dumpy old ones will be slightly cheaper.
Laptop model: 2015 15" MacBook Pro

CPU: Intel i7-4870HQ 2.5ghz

RAM: 16GB

Screen: 2880x1800 Retina

Personal comments: Has the good keyboard, SD card slot for my camera's cards, plenty of ports, and powerful enough for everything it needs to do. Storage can be upgraded to larger and faster NVMe drives if desired. The recalled bulging battery is a great conversation piece at 35,000 feet.
Airtel rolls out a range of Airtel Xstream devices, applications and services
This, so much. I for one find the vast majority of so-called "high art" and "high culture" to be frankly depressing and off-putting, rather than "grand" or "transcendent" in any way. In the best of cases this is somewhat offset by the HNish intellectual interest and curiosity one can take in the stuff (and some variant of this is an often-cited point that's supposed to demonstrate the superiority of "high" culture) but all things considered, I'd rather explore the hidden intellectual interest of things that are usually dismissed as mundane, "middlebrow" or even "lowbrow".
Interesting. I've tried a few searches and haven't found anything. Are you able to provide more information to refine my search, or do you know the names of any of these cars?
Fun is important because directing and motivating teams of humans is a difficult skill -- especially when you want to do things where the path forward is at all nebulous, like materials and design research.
Sure, if you define religion as literal interpretation of the Bible, stuck in the 9th century, while allowing science the full benefit of modern understanding.

For example, you probably didn't have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinozism in mind when you said religion.

> Even when "natural laws" were discovered, those laws were divine in origin, and thus could conceivably be arbitrarily suspended or changed under divine will.

We still don't know the origin of natural laws. It's very probable that such knowledge is unattainable.
In my far younger days I had the great good fortune to own a Morris Mini - the original doghouse, not the modern pastiche. That car did weigh 600 kg, and I happen to know for a fact that six men could easily pick it up and carry it a distance. I also know that it had a length of very close to 3 meters, and that the basement ramp where those six men put it was 3.10 meters wide.
As they said when they fetched me, "You may wish to grab something to drink".
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that would be interesting if "made with code" was true. In reality this is not anywhere near close to what I would dare to describe as "made with code": https://github.com/cmiscm/leonsans/blob/master/src/font/uppe...
> Plus, Microsoft’s increasingly desperate pleas to stick with Edge that pop up in Windows when you search for and download Chrome simply made me even more determined to stay away.

I think the aversion to being forced/pressured to do something is pretty universal, and I'm wondering whether I'm wrong, or whether companies are going to realize it at some point. I think this also contributed to the failure of Google+: The harder Google tried to ram it down people's throats, the more repulsed people were by it.

Of course there is a benefit to advertising/pushing a product, but overdo it, and you might achieve the opposite: People not just disinterested, but actively hating your product, forever, just due to the way how they were pushed to use it.
The trabi is a car specifically designed with a set of constraints:
- to be cheap
- to be easy to manufacture with no need of low tolerance parts
- to be easy to repair without much equipment

Those design goals were met perfectly. And the 2 stroke motor line designed by eastern german engineers for MZ bikes and Trabi is actually an engineering miracle of the time.
The compression is partly achieved by the sound wave reflected by the exhaust.