skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you opt out of my brain recognizing your face?

Centralized face recognition where a single entity knows everybody a la Facebook would be a dystopian nightmare. Personalized face recognition where everyone has their own instance trained purely on the data they have access to (e.g. Apple's existing Photos face recognition) and only linking that face to the user's Contacts entry for the recognized person, that's not a privacy violation because that's just offloading information from my brain into my personal digital assistant.
Even if they don't fall within the traditional banking definition, which I have doubts about, they'd at least play the role of the exchange or broker and as such are subject to, at least, authorization through BaFin in Germany. Random hipsters buying BTC privately and Facebook attempting to erode traditional currencies are two wildly different things.
> It has a tile mode. That's going to be how larger images are handled.

Perhaps. But in the video, he said mode 7, and the VERA module documentation https://github.com/commanderx16/x16-docs/raw/master/vera-mod... lists that as a bitmapped mode, 8 bits per pixel.

However, I do have some experience creating complex images on an 8-bit machine using tile mode (using interrupts to progressively load new character sets while the image is being rendered by the video chip). There is a place for each. (I believe it might have been used in Super Mario type image they demonstrated?)

> Now, as to why it's done the way it's done? Simplicity.

Yup. Hopefully I've made that design decision clear for those who might have missed it, and I'd certainly like to encourage them to see if they can improve upon this one particular architectural decision.
Somehow people often cite the Chinese room thought experiment discussing consciousness/subjective experience, but Searle originally intended it to be about exactly this split between syntax/semantics:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/#5.1
contact profile would be nearly cylindrical

How would a 2-dimensional contact profile be describable with a 3-dimensional object?

A pro on 28s will definitely notice a delayed/muted impulse response over 23s.

Really? Is this a measured, observable fact or another piece of woo that cyclists have believed for donkeys' years?

I believe this also affects pedaling efficiency, as any MTB racer on a soft tail will attest.

Are you seriously claiming that bouncing up and down on a rear-suspended MTB is comparable to riding on a 622-28 inflated to 620kPa ?

Narrow tires also give much better handling/braking and therefore much faster descents. Fat tires braking gives this weird kick-back that feels like it’s tossing you over.

Again, I have to ask for specifics and measurements.

I will counter-claim that that the inferior response of over-inflated narrow tires to road imperfections leads to much more jittery descents and inferior handling on most surfaces, ths leading to slower descents (that's what all the Bicycle Quarterly tests of roll-downs are about).
Scolp: Streaming Column Printer for Python (New Python Pacakge)
There isn't remotely the infrastructure to support people on a large scale.

That is precisely where the potential humanitarian disaster comes from. If large numbers of people show up without the infrastructure to support them, things could go very wrong.
Well, we actually agreed on a specific number and we also have to consider what is reasonable and makes sense for the company at this stage.

I don't think I would agree to that because it would not look good for our investors to be taking huge salaries right now.
Hacking Darwin, a pretty interesting book
After 3.8 billion years humankind is about to start evolving by new rules...

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Why does the attacker gain a time advantage here? Is the attacker capable of transmitting at a much higher rate than the original sender? Even in that scenario, they just have to negotiate a send/receive rate up front, and that way the attacker can't jump the line because that would violate the negotiated rate (nor can the attacker intercept and increase the rate because then the original sender won't be transmitting fast enough).
Netflix has a large catalog, but most of it is either crap or owned by other studios and networks. They are all taking their content back to start their own service.
>A deep dive into his writings shows this isn’t the first time Stallman has expressed such questionable views, however. He has written dozens of posts on his personal website in favor of legalizing pedophilia and child pornography for more than 15 years.

Is that true? Where are those posts?

>“This ‘child pornography’ might be a photo of yourself or your lover that the two of you shared. It might be an image of a sexually mature teenager that any normal adult would find attractive. What’s heinous about having such a photo?” Stallman wrote in 2011 on his personal site, stallman.org, in an argument in favor of Congress limiting laptop searches at the U.S. border.

If that's all they got then I'm not convinced.
A word of caution if you are starting a small LCD project: the framebuffer approach is dead on Linux. The new approach is DRM (Direct Rendering Manager), that allows partial LCD updates from userspace. See

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=128736

https://github.com/notro/fbtft/issues/432
It should not be a competition about anything, instead all the efforts should be supported to solve the plastic issue, from reduction of use to clean-up.
Based on the guidance here, I did find something called the "Entire Fairness Doctrine" and that appears to be where the case would lie for the minority shareholders including myself on the legal front.

That said, an internal legal dispute is going to crush this company right now, and even a threat of one could cause a major fracturing. I have to weigh my options because I'm years, not months into this and we've created a company that has value. I cannot walk away and it would be a huge shame to stop this company from growing further.
> .. phone in my shirt pocket.. Recording would be unacceptable, but no one can tell if I am recording.

People know how phones work, you press a button to start recording. AR Glasses are expected to capture at all times, recording or sending to cloud for analysis. And that is what no one would like.
Interesting that all three gigacities seem to be in low lying coastal areas. I would expect them to hedge their bets regarding global warming and sea level rise.
What subsidies do airlines receive?
When are we getting lithium graphite batteries which are supposed to be not dense and a lot safer than LiPo?
I mean, to the point you can buy one for toys, drones, cell, etc
According BBC, any open air party first session was ‘possible humanitarian disaster’.

Most were tiny and not at all well known in their first season. Larger ones are generally put together by teams of people who know what they are doing.
Nothing in this article justifies the title. Can someone share more information about this? It feels like they are subverting his point to get more page views.
Food-Delivery Tycoon Adds $2.4B to Fortune by Beating Out Alibaba
On my long-running debian box, /lib/systemd/systemd is 1.1MiB in size.

In /proc/1/smaps, I find the following executable mapping:

55aa05f89000-55aa06076000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 1823 /lib/systemd/systemd
Size: 948 kB
KernelPageSize: 4 kB
MMUPageSize: 4 kB
Rss: 752 kB
Pss: 489 kB
Shared_Clean: 504 kB
Shared_Dirty: 0 kB
Private_Clean: 248 kB
Private_Dirty: 0 kB
Referenced: 740 kB
Anonymous: 0 kB
LazyFree: 0 kB
AnonHugePages: 0 kB
ShmemPmdMapped: 0 kB
Shared_Hugetlb: 0 kB
Private_Hugetlb: 0 kB
Swap: 0 kB
SwapPss: 0 kB
Locked: 0 kB
THPeligible: 0
VmFlags: rd ex mr mw me dw

So it appears 740KiB has been referenced, 752KiB resident.

There's also the read-only mapping:

55aa06076000-55aa0609b000 r--p 000ec000 fd:01 1823 /lib/systemd/systemd
Size: 148 kB
KernelPageSize: 4 kB
MMUPageSize: 4 kB
Rss: 148 kB
Pss: 74 kB
Shared_Clean: 0 kB
Shared_Dirty: 148 kB
Private_Clean: 0 kB
Private_Dirty: 0 kB
Referenced: 148 kB
Anonymous: 148 kB
LazyFree: 0 kB
AnonHugePages: 0 kB
ShmemPmdMapped: 0 kB
Shared_Hugetlb: 0 kB
Private_Hugetlb: 0 kB
Swap: 0 kB
SwapPss: 0 kB
Locked: 0 kB
THPeligible: 0
VmFlags: rd mr mw me dw ac

Another 148KiB, so 900KiB, a good chunk of the 1.1MiB - though this is with a substantial uptime.

The really disgusting part is all the dependencies; `pmap 1` says 57MiB total, and there's not much anonymous memory to blame.
A Review of The Actual Odyssey, Using AC Odyssey, in the Style of the Odyssey
in the words of idubbbz (cf. https://youtu.be/9WJs3S1D350 around 1:50 or so), "have you people TASTED cardboard?", or more accurately,"if it's flavorless, then say it's flavorless!"

i personally have never tasted cardboard to my knowledge so i can't say that Dominos tastes like it, but I can say that if it does, I'm upset with myself for not spending enough time eating cardboard, because I certainly find Dominos to be quite satisfying. maybe not the best, certainly, but no, it doesn't strike me as eating cardboard. and, just out of curiosity, have you actually eaten cardboard, or are you just comparing it to what you assume cardboard must be like!
What lock-in? I'm genuinely curious, I can't imagine it would be hard at all to move my service from Fargate to anything else. It's just docker containers and DNS, I haven't done anything Fargate specific.
And newborns would have mandatory NFC chips implanted. Ya.
I love WoW so much..
Sans paywall: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rise-comfort-college-14004972...
>.gitignore
USask-led study shows insecticides threaten survival of wild birds
It is nice to see this kind of thing still going on. I've been doing something similar with a Z80 recently; currently I have a Z80 hooked up to an arduino-mega, which is faking port-based I/O and RAM read/writes.

When I started my goal was to write some simple code, hosted on the arduino, then put together a "real" system with EPROM for ROM and proper RAM chips.

Instead I got distracted porting BASIC, FORTH, and similar things to the working processor. I should get back to it!

I think the Z80 is simpler to get started with than the 6502, when it comes to physical circuits, as it needs fewer components. (Having RAM refresh built-in, for example.)
Yeah, it doesn't have to be negative.

They might have re-launched with proper funding under a different name for example, in that case you might not want the previous site to point to the new one.
Fargate solves problems like patch management, but there are other issues. If an attacker were to compromise a Fargate service they'd have less to work with, but otherwise there are a lot of advantages they'd have over EC2.

On EC2 I can deploy monitoring tools like OSQuery, or rely on audit/ other OS subsystems to monitor for suspicious behavior. On Fargate I don't think anything like this is possible.
It depends. That's all I'm saying here. It is t an absolute answer.
> The fact that Apple doesn't have it means nothing has changed on the governmental front.

You’re presuming that Apple does not “have” our location data. I am making the claim that Apple could gain our location data if Apple wanted to. I think we are making different arguments. I don’t know if Apple has anyone’s location data. But if Apple decided to selectively enable the collection of some people’s location data, the iPhone 11 would offer them increased precision which other iPhone 11 users would unknowingly assist in collecting.
The smoking gun is the last plot in appendix D. A 2% step change in voltage results in VAR oscillation Of initially +/-100MVAR that takes 2 seconds to die out, with 13 peaks over that two seconds. This was behavior before the outage. Probably it has been like that since it was connected but nobody bothered to look. This is a problem with the smart grid, so much data is generated but nobody has time to look at any of it. Probably a good application for some kind of ml or ai.

They say it required a software update to fix it which was applied the next day - probably this was just a change in the gains in the voltage controller rather than an update to the actual program or firmware.

Somebody did a bad job of commissioning the voltage regulators on the wind turbines, and that is what caused a normal transmission line reclose to escalate in to such a large loss of generation.

I am still curious as to why the DAR delayed action reclose time on the transmission line is 20s. I would have thought it would be more like 1-2s tops.
Big fan of your site, the level comparison between companies is really useful. Keep up the good work!
>one professor asked for evidence of “violent practices.” Another professor responded that “to ask for evidence of violent practices is itself a violent practice.”

so: to question something is an act of violence towards that something?

oops, I just questioned something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
OP here!

We did a very thorough research about the pre-screening.

We thought that technical skills was the central thing, so we had a technical assessment as the centre piece in the pre-screening. However, surprisingly this did not make much of a difference for the companies. They didn't contact more the people who have passed the technical screening, they almost never looked at the test scores. As long as the person has experience/education, that easy sufficient, and they pretty much always test the person in their stack anyway.

That was the reason why we removed the technical part of the screening.

However, the part that really made the companies interested in getting in touch with a person was the video. It turns out that hiring someone remotely is very much about trust, and even a very short video is really good at building trust.

We think of the video as soft-skills pre-screening, in particular pre-screening for skills that predict success in working remotely. Based on research, talks with lots of people in the remote space, a d our own experience, we have arrived at the conclusion that the skills needed to be successful in a remote position are:
- Good communication skills
- Good independent problem solving skills (some people include being organized, and to not get affected emotionally if something doesn't work out)
- Have some level of intrinsic motivation about the profession, about doing this
- Sufficient language skills to communicate

Turns out that a short video is about as good a filter for those things as having an interview with a person. It's also structured format, making it more objective than most interviews.

Of course, the videos are not about how good the person looks visually, but about how the person talks about the topics. We are looking for well structured answers, we are looking for a bit of passion about the profession, we are looking for people who look reliable etc. and not for TED talk level presentation skills.

If you have some comments/questions/feedback about the screening process, I'd be glad to hear from you!

(it is 8am here at the moment)
The current state of JavaScript- Is it broken?
There are some drawbacks to that. Memory flagged as hotplug can't be used by the kernel itself (because otherwise unplugging the RAM would risk crashing the system).
That includes things like network buffers and a number of things which use the total RAM size as a guideline.

There was a bug in a proposed kernel patch a while back, that we were testing. It ended up designating a good chunk of the machine's RAM as hotpluggable. Test suite was passing, but the benchmarks showed a drastic performance drop. Took a while to track down why that was happening.
I did an evaluation at release time, and as you said, the pricing model was a complete joke.
I've been monkeying with a Qt/QML app recently on my desktop with an eye towards deploying it on a Pi based thing. One thing really stood out: the Pi support kinda sucks. Specifically, the binary situation is not great and Qt is a bit of a beast to compile (plus I'd have to setup a Linux VM to cross compile in a reasonable amount of time).

Raspbian comes with a fairly outdated version of Qt inherited from Debian, and there are no precompiled EGLFS binaries that I can find. Even the Qt folks don't distribute an installer. I could understand a complex beginners guide[1] if this were lower level stuff. It's not.

1: https://wiki.qt.io/Raspberry_Pi_Beginners_Guide
I suspect OP is referring to the idea that you can get significant power returns on the upstroke with clipless pedals. This is definitely questionable. However clipless pedals are still a good idea because your feet don't slide off the pedals. Especially in wet weather they are dramatically safer than flat pedals.
Activision & Blizzard is scam & spy business.

You are the product for the shareholders & CEOs.
I am looking forward to this release. I really like some of the older strategy games (Dark Reign, Total Annihilation, Warcraft) but they don't "age well" relative to newer games and it is nice to be able to re-create that feeling of amazement but now on a 2K or 4K screen rather than on a 1280x800 screen.
Totally. Remote work makes work to be about the work you do, not some other thing such as hours spent in the chair, or office politics.
Microsoft is scam & spy business in plain sight.

It is all about shareholders & CEOs.
So .. Fyre Festival?

At least in this situation, they should be able to turn around and drive home. That is, if the last gas stations to that location don't run out. FEMA should already have tankers ready to head out there. More than food; having fuel to make it back to populated areas is probably more important.
>If you don't have the incentives in place, then many people will find excuses to not commit. MOOCs are lacking those incentives.

I haven't researched this, but I would guess the $6,600+ cost has more to do with the high completion rate than any other factors. Most MOOC's seem to be pretty cheap, if not free.

Not to mention, completion of the Georgia Tech online program results in a degree. MOOC's typically just offer a certificate of completion, which carries little weight.
Sorry, that was what I meant - TopTal is about remote freelancing. But it is not about long-term remote jobs. Getting projects from time to time fits some people, but some people will prefer to work with one company for the long-run, a d that's what RemoteMore is about.
> Using 256 color bitmap, select the 320200 resolution. 64k for one full screenbuffer.

Based on what I see here, you've got a good explanation:
https://github.com/FrankBuss/x16-demo/tree/master/assembly

Their original image was 64K. They cut it down to 34K (+ 512 bytes) and then they included it in their binary (rather than loading from a file).

So it seems that David was correct in his explanation. They could only display about half of a 320x2X0 image because they ran out of low memory.

But it also seems that VERA doesn't have enough video memory to hold a 640x480 8bpp bitmapped image ("Mode 7"). 128K of private video memory just isn't enough unless they start playing tricks.

> 8 bit computers always have a lot of limitations. And these limitations have sparked a lot of creativity :)

I really am curious to find out if they plan on adding more memory or if this is going to be one of those quirks we'd have to really work to take advantage of? :)
I have a PhD, earned while on a prestigious national fellowship, and graduated with highest honors in undergrad. I graduated earlier this decade. I have enrolled in a single MOOC to keep my skills current in my field, and I couldn’t finish it. Maybe it’s because I work now, but I simply couldn’t find the time to complete the lab assignments when only putting in 10 hours a week. My sample size is low, but I get the impression that some of these MOOCs basically demand that you have traditional student-level time and focus to complete them. Is that wrong? Perhaps not, but 4% then becomes unsurprising for a completion rate.
Attacks expose Aramco’s vulnerabilities as it gears up for IPO
> Until now, Clear Linux wasn't even on my radar. Today, it is. Anyone have some experiences with this distro (for better or worse) that they'd like to share?

I'd urge some caution. It depends on your use case and the accuracy requirements you have. Clear Linux gets a chunk of its speed boosts by using compiler optimisations that most distributions won't touch because of the possibility they'll reduce accuracy and move outside the bounds of various standards, e.g. --ffast-math. Clear Linux also sets it so that by default when you go to compile stuff, it ends up picking up their "optimised" set of compiler flags too.

It works, it's fine, it's fast. Just make sure you know what you're getting and what the consequences for your software might be (I'm sure most people _don't_ have strict IEEE standards to care about, for example)
eh ... I bet this is blown way out. I bet less than 1,000 people actually show up. People should start office pools.
Because you want to make it easier for people and autonomous vehicles to crash into you?
Have you seen the movie? It's really good.

> Is it stable though?

For at least 42,000 years, based on the stability of their tools. IANAAnthropologist.

> What do they do when the hunting grounds disappear? Migrate to nowhere? Curse the gods and die out?

They live in very small and widely dispersed groups, they may go years between meeting other family groups (if I recall correctly. Seriously, the movie is a treat, don't take my word for it, see for yourself.)

The result is that they live within the carrying capacity of their "range", so there may be lean years but actually starving to death is rare. Again, I am not an anthropologist, and most of what I know is from that one movie.

But, obviously, they don't die out, as they are still here 42,000 years later (from the day someone left those tools at that site.)

> Agriculture was born out of need.

We don't know why humans started agriculture. We do know that it is about the dumbest thing you can do with land. Nowadays we have science, specifically ecology, that shows the way to a much better mode of civilization using applied ecology ("Permaculture" is one prominent school of thought, founded by an ecologist.) (It's also fun and easy and solves a lot of other problems, search for Geoff Lawton "Greening the Desert".)
> “banning Bitcoin would be very hard indeed”

It’s hard to take crypto enthusiasts seriously because of delusions like this.

Banning bitcoin would be trivial: no legitimate business would accept it, making it useless except to fringe outlaws.
Would be useful for amateur adult video sharing. Where face privacy is important, but blur kills the joy.
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