skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the comments are focusing on Duo, but the real takeaway for me is that the demo claims to achieve the better image with AV1 in only 30Kbps ! That's less bandwidth than the final dial up modems had.
even cryptographic guarantee doesn't mean shit, the "cryptographic guarantee" is exactly what all the scammy blockchain crypto ICO scammers provided.

At the end of the day, these people can just take all that money, keep some for themselves, and say "ok we tried our best but didn't work out, it was an incredible journey!" and be done with it. and nobody can hold them accountable.

If they really want to do their best to "guarantee" permanence, they should guarantee the debt relationship, so if the forever condition doesn't hold after a couple of years, they will be sought out and collected all the money they took.
I like bone conduction headphones, like these ones https://aftershokz.com/

The sound quality is not great for music, but they are perfect for voice. The big selling point is that they don't cover your ears, so it doesn't affect your ability to hear your surroundings.
Welcomes your reviews
thanks in advance
The book is a very cheap genuine option: it does not share your upside and has very limited downside (you pay limited price and can throw it out of the window at any time).

Claiming slavish tax is the same, like Lambda does, is simply a fraud.
What’s the Deal with Latency
Don't get me wrong, but a lot of CTOs said so in the past...including the one responsible for the infamous google PREF cookie that helped the NSA spy on literally the whole planet due to how google safe browing service has to be implemented.

As long as there's no control, your statement is worth nothing. Even if you are acting morally correct with the data, your future replacement might not.

PayPal were the good guys, too, until they were not.

In my opinion these tracking mechanisms are not GDPR compliant, as there's no opt-out possibility.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/after-long-fight-self-go...
We handle locality in terms of both source and destination, therefore we should be able to handle both DoS and DDoS attacks.
I think this is not true and lot of people are living out of moral superiority, fake altruism, based on the ego. They want to be a cultural hero by saying stuff that imply moral superiority and people with other opinions are evil!

There are good reasons to be sceptical about locking down a complete economy, but everybody is afraid to speak out, because they know they will be destroyed by the moralists!

The communists believed in altruism... they thought they were right and people around them evil. The human mind is corrupt. Some people simply live in a fantasy world. The christians, communists and fascists had 1 thing in common... they thought they were right and used the truths as a weapon against other people.

Speaking about other people as "evil", is sometimes projection or an egoic illusion.
I dunno. I love those notes. They're really off the chain. Wild sound rampaging about :)
CDC director warns second wave of coronavirus likely to be even more devastating
... as a cause for crying. Not overall.
> All necessary things will be kept open.

Worldwide, that's not to be taken for granted. Here in Russia, the police is sometimes stopping agricultural workers from planting their crops because of the lockdowns. (Source in Russian: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4311038)
Yes, IMO - the minimum possible number of parties is 1.
Real-time 3D object detection on mobile with Google's MediaPipe
Even if media is to blame for helping fueling anti-intellectual sentiments in the US, it's more likely an unintended byproduct than a massive conspiracy by media companies to purposely dumb down their consumers to buy more of their product.
A PDF I bought on sellfy actually did this. It stuck my email address in the footer of every page.

That email was tied to a transaction in paypal, making it highly traceable back to myself. In 30 seconds, one could easily remove that from the PDF in Acrobat, but that doesn't mean there aren't other hidden watermarks in the file.
As a developer, if I catch an exception handling some piece of data, I'm logging that data. Nothing irks me more than a file-not-found exception without knowing WHICH file. For example.
Rumor has it that power plants are having a hard time getting replacement parts, too.

I expect, though, that these sorts of things will get sorted out. For one, no government is going to be keen on letting people who are confined to home and dependent on computers and the Internet to keep their little corner of the economy going go without power for long just because it's suddenly next-to-impossible to get some special precision bracket from the overseas factory that got the contract to make it back in 2005, while at the same time the domestic economy has hordes of ex-machinists who aren't quite ready to retire yet yet, and would be more than happy to quit their jobs as greeters at the local big box store in order to return to a job that pays more and reduces their risk of exposure to SARS-CoV-2.

Worst case scenario, perhaps we won't return to the "easily availability of basically everything so everything's basically disposable because the global supply chain is so fluid that it's easier to buy new broken crap than replace old broken crap" that we enjoyed so far this millennium. But I doubt it'll get much worse than the level of availability that developed economies enjoyed when I was a kid. Which is still pretty good. It would take a bit longer to rejigger the design of consumer products so that they return to using more standardized parts that can easily be stocked locally instead of all this fragile, disposable, special snowflake industrial design. But I could see that shifting fairly quickly, too, if things are still looking bad in 5 years.
I give them one time payment, store a gigabyte of video, and share with millions of people. People keep watching and using up all the network costs and hosting costs. How are these guys going to keep going "permanently"?
> a 2 week quarantine on incoming goods

Huh, this is the first I hear of such a thing. Is this in the US? I thought the scientific consensus was that even under the most favorable circumstances the virus isn't viable on any surface after two or three days. And typically much shorter and very unlikely to be sufficiently concentrated in the first place, e.g., the person manufacturing your dryer in China won't be sneezing into it constantly. So locking things up for two weeks seems surprising.
It's not a great job market (and unlikely to wildly improve), but you're young and have savings. There will never be a better time to feel the satisfaction of quitting because you plain just don't like it there.

Some of the other comments have advice like trying to get furloughed, and all those seem worth a shot, but yeah.... just walk!
The current AMD chips have 1.5MB of LEVEL 1 CACHE! To say nothing of the 8MB L2, 32MB L3, and the integrated video processor.

And you had to do the work that an optimizing compiler could do today, although they have to target a "theoretical" CPU rather than a fixed hardware set like the old consoles.

Since all the superscalar tricks such as out of order, spec exec, and the like are now maxed out, maybe what should happen is that CPU vendors should concentrate on optimizing a fixed VM-sized hardware profile that the compilers can more efficiently target.

A CPU ISA is somewhat like that, but it has so much variance.

With Moore's law gone, we will actually have to start removing abstraction from the development pipeline and get to more optimized and direct code to drive performance.
South Africa has a huge .NET market.
You might be wondering "why Cape Town"? when it is right at the bottom of Africa, and the Southern African business hub is around Johannesburg, 1262 km / 784 miles away, and the next area that needs it is Lagos, Nigeria ( 4760 km / 2958 miles).

However I think there are some upsides to Cape Town, i.e.

1) AWS already has team and infrastructure there in Cape Town. It is a bit of a tech hub as well.

2) Submarine cables land in Cape Town - and they cannot in Johannesburg as it is far inland. By length of internet cable, Cape Town is actually closer than it seems to other parts of Africa. (a) a lot of the connectivity is around the coast, not so much over land.

There's probably a shorter ping time between Lagos and Cape Town than there is between Lagos and Johannesburg, despite the map distances being the other way around.

3) The further north you go from Cape Town, the closer you are to data centres in Europe. Cape Town is closest to exactly those parts that are worst served by Europe.

I have no inside knowledge as to AWS chose Cape Town, but those seem like likely factors.

a) https://www.networkplatforms.co.za/information/our-network
Why Are Black Holes So Bright?
Hitting "enter" instead of clicking the button in registration form does not work. Unsubscribe link in registration confirmation E-Mail does not work. Login does not work (gives 404). But landing page looks nice.
Exactly. It takes 100 add-ons to get this to work. We just wanted to make it so that I can highlight a text and say "create a flashcard" and then it is all done.

We also offer more tests options as you can do Memrise-like multiple choice test or an Anki-like card-flip test.

Is that something that you find useful? :) I know some passion are avid Anki-ers so I would love to get your take on it.
This is the right answer! I think it was made harder in the camp due to "above the line" and "below the line" already having semantic meaning in the context of the camp, most kids didn't expect that to literally be the answer.
Jio already has a payments app called JioPay.
Agreed. To me it’s fascinating to hear people singing about the same themes and problems of their day. Or even breaking the assumption that everything was simpler or more pure.

Hearing Robert Johnson singing about squeezing his lemon and quipping (yeah that’s what I’m talking about) is pretty funny. Or Hank Williams just reminiscing about going out, getting loaded with his girl, grabbing some after bar food, and causing a ruckus everywhere they go.

These are popular themes in pop music of today.
Would it be more fake news and no one to debate how valid the government approved stories are?
All because Joel Spolsky told Bill Gates it was there.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...

Reading Joel’s post again, I suspect Bill’s style of review (having read the spec, made notes, and having a “F” counter for screwups) lends credence to the idea that he would have done exactly as Joel did and sought out Fries or some other senior Excel person if he didn’t get a satisfactory answer.

As Joel laments, you can’t bullshit a programmer, and Gates was (underneath it all) a programmer.
You should have a "TRY DEMO NOW" button where I get to play with a demo sandbox. I just want to click around for a bit and I'm too disinterested to make an account.
One thing Polish education teaches is how to remember 100 random facts in 2 days and forget them immediately after the exam. This really trains short-term memory, but I don't think it's worth training it for 8+4+5=17 years so much :)

Also it teaches you that if you don't cheat the system on the subjects that doesn't matter to you - you will have worse grades than people who have the common sense to focus on a few subjects and cheat on everything else.

I guess it instills some healthy scepticism and antisystem attitude, but it can't be good for society if everybody first instinct is "is that rule for real, or bullshit like most of them?"
You are unsubscribed but Sendgrid sends you to a 404 for some reason, but you won't get more emails.
Yes, irreplaceable! Still using GitX mostly for creating partial commits by picking the exact lines/blocks that go into a commit.
A complex mixture of instinct and conditioning. Generally what they do is motivated by instinctual needs. How they go about fulfilling is determined through their environmental conditioning. This applies to humans as well. Also, certain things animals do that we've yet to understand are often anthropomorphized.
Why migrant workers can’t be ‘managed’ with food and money
Frame Analysis in Overwatch
Paternal age and the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in children
How fast can birds see?
The abuse penalizing part is rarely proportional to the income of the company. When the penalty, if you get caught, is just a slap on the wrist, it makes sense to just count is as a fee for making business.
Surely folks on HN understand that, if it was economically feasible to compete on this, then locally sourced flower start-ups would've already become a thing?

Yes shipping and storage seem wasteful, but there are economies of scale involved when centralizing production to areas with the right climate, with desirable soil qualities, with expertise in planting such flowers, etc.

To help local flower growers win out, we would need to increase the cost of shipping/storage/etc. (maybe because we think they are not properly pricing in externalities?). Then we're back in the realm of tariffs and protectionism, which is its own can of worms; personally, I think we can complicate our understanding of free trade, and reasonably choose to impose artificial costs/penalties when it comes to climate protection or environmental goals (as opposed to, propping up certain industries just because they're better at lobbying).

Consider that, it is cheaper/more-efficient for fisherman/crabmen in Alaska or the PNW to send their catch to China for processing (filleting, canning, etc.), before shipping it back to the US for retail. I always found that to be fascinating, that supply chains are such that, it's more economical to outsource the processing of seafood, than for the fisherman to dump their catch to a local processing facility that then sends it out for retail.
This looks really nice, congratulations!

Slack has something similar during video calls where anyone can draw on the screen and the annotation automatically fades after a few seconds. Might be a good addition to your product.
Good idea :D It is something we want to do, but just didn't get the time to do it yet.
Khan
Khan is all kis person
University rankings have two key issues:

1. They are significantly biased to English language (universities/research output) and bigger countries in general
2. They are totally irrelevant from the student perspective as they mostly focus on research output, which means that you'll get the richest universities and the best professors will be writing papers rather than teaching bachelor level courses.

There are some attempts to fix these issues (see eg the EU "Multirank" which allows you to choose your priorities), but it's still hit and miss.
>more companies would be supporting

Why would any company support free software to begin with? Sounds like shareholders got duped. One wise man once said "They're a publicly traded company with a fiduciary to operate in the shareholder's best interest not be some moral beacon of truth."

>How is it moral to build

Didn't hurt anyone. Built something new. Many people found it useful. More good in the world. Non-zero sum.
Ask HN: In what unexpected ways has writing a blog affected your career?
There are several reasons for maintaining a personal tech blog, among them:

- Create a personal knowledge base

- Learn something yourself by teaching it

- Improve your writing skills

- Build a personal brand

Besides that, as someone who started maintaining a blog quite recently (9 months ago), I was curious in what (unexpected) ways writing a blog affected your career, in both positive and/or negative ways. And if it didn't, that would be interesting to know as well.
A nicotinic hypothesis for Covid-19 with preventive and therapeutic implications
Absolutely. There are plenty places in Russia where you totally going to be bullied for academic performance. Also the plagiarism/cheat culture is rampant throughout the country, from elementary and up to postgrad.
Reading this brought me to tears. Tears of nostalgia.

nostalgia, sad and hopeful all at once, when the familiar and the alien mingle, as when we revisit the childhood streets where our friends are no more, or when we return all alone to the site of some joyful memory.
It says storage, not streaming. I think you're making an unsupported assumption about the nature of the service being offered.
The Shakespeareans
Well said. I think there are valid arguments from both sides. I wish it was not drowned out by the extreme flag flying gun toting, virus is a hoax folks.

I think there is a middle ground. We cannot be on lockdown for a year, lets be realistic. Even if the virus persists, the world or even a single country just could not sustain that. And on the opposite side, we cannot open up too quickly. I know China's data is not accurate but we can at least communicate with people inside of the country and we know life is getting more back to normal there. So we can see that we also have to stay closed enough that the first large wave does not devastate the system.

It is just a shame though that we can not have dialogue about the science and data behind this. And instead it becomes an extreme from both sides.
One thing I noticed in the US is that there seems to be many wasted years in mathematics education. Between learning long division (maybe 4th grade ?) and algebra which I didn't get until the first year in high school (9th grade) I don't think I really learned or was taught anything of significance.

EDIT: My recollection is poor, long division and the associated concepts like fractions and decimals may have been later and spread out over more years, but I'm sure there were at least 2 to 3 wasted years in my mathematics education.
I don't get the "starvation" point. As far as I know, nowhere in the world does "lockdown" mean "farmers aren't allowed to tend to their fields and animals". I live in Austria, which has been in "lockdown" for almost six weeks now. The shops are full of fresh food: Both food production and distribution are working exactly as before. There are non-staple foods where production is endangered -- asparagus and strawberries, I think -- because they depend on obscenely cheap foreign labor, which will now be flown in and given special exemptions. But even without that, we wouldn't starve without asparagus and strawberries.

Could you explain what kind of lockdown model you are thinking of that would prohibit production or distribution of food?
We will never be able to rid ourselves of the virus at this point. The only thing we can do is get healthy people out into society to build up immunity and eventually herd immunity. An additional benefit to this is we will have many people whose plasma we can use for antibody therapies.

The point of lockdown was never to completely eliminate the virus, it was to buy industry, academia and government time to prepare to deal with the virus when we begin reopening.
"We are in the middle of the epidemic"

I'd love to know what metric he's basing that statement on
When I think about the situations where I don't use lazygit, it is when I am unsure of what I am doing and therefore unsure what lazygit is doing. Almost everything I normally do with git, I can do with lazygit, but there are things I am not confident about. Squashing commits versus picking and do they go up or down, etc? Rebasing. I tend to go to command-line git in those cases, not because lazygit does not handle them but because I don't. :-)

The crucial advantage of lazygit for me is the "situational awareness" I gain in one window - more than any added functionality. The other take away is for your tools to be utterly trustworthy. :-)
All out kids are relentless teased by the popular ones. You have observer bias to what you were teased about, but if you look you will see many out groups teased about different things. You will often find kids in the in group not teased despite having the same characteristics.
If you mix up your own website, you ought to consider rebranding.
It is assumed that they are trying to mass produce the peptid in a laboratory, not making the babies suffer. Wouldn't be animal tears anymore.

(I wonder of the mice could enter in a depressed state at a middle term by that. Not directly related, but most humans (visual animals) would get depressed, or emotionally touched at least, if forced to work in a room full of posters of crying children. Maybe mice would have developped a similar response with olfactive signals..)
Bilinear filtering – artifacts, alternatives, and frequency domain analysis
Been -> Above the line

Fuzzy -> Below the line

Weeds -> Above the line
>Not all types of technology obsolete themselves like computer technology. The Beatles have yet to be beaten in pop music, and Bach has yet to be beaten in music in general.

At least according to the Bach and Beatles enthusiasts and people that game music to be a competition for money rather than a form of expression or storytelling.

If it has got to the point where 'bands' are manufactured because the music industry can kind of 'read' what the audience will buy, rather than what the audience needs, what actually _is_ 'pop music'?

Then again, to offset that, we have glitch music.

Things started to get really weird once we could apply room shapes to music and then play them in another room thanks to the wonders of modern technology.
If memory serves me This was an upgrade for me from Corncob 3D.
Tool looks great! Out of curiosity, are you planning to monetize? If so, do you mind me asking how?
By your logic, all NSFW online businesses online are vulnerable to their payment processing being taken away from them.

Can this possibly be true?
Bohemian Grove
there are a lot of programmers that use mac OS that don't even touch Swift or Objective-C. I'm in the web development industry, and I'd say 50% of the developers I know use apple computers for their job. Java, Ruby, even C#.
I'm still using GitX-dev[0], mostly for doing commits and visualizing branches. Although lately I've been committing directly from Visual Studio Code.

For more complex operations nothing beats the CLI.

[0] https://rowanj.github.io/gitx/
Why would GCP expand when they are looking to kill the product offering?
> Firefox simply doesn't have the market share to force anyone to develop for them. Even worse, Google has every incentive to not do it and instead pop up a banner "hey, looks like your browser doesn't support YT, use Chrome". People who argue that Mozilla was wrong to accept the DRM blob never have a good answer for this and usually then end in "people would have seen that Mozilla is right and boycotted YT" or "who cares if Mozilla has only 1% market share, it's far more important to never make any compromise".

It wasn’t just Google: Microsoft and Apple also sold both DRM systems and content, and all three loved the idea of getting rid of Adobe. I never could get anyone to offer a credible theory for how Mozilla could fight those odds.
So nice! This morning my 7 y/o son said the epic words: I really know a lot, I think about 50% of all there is. Naturally triggered and with Dunning-kruger in the back of my mind I start explaining about how he knows about rain, but not about molecules and exactly why it falls down and that generally smart and knowledgeable people realize that there is still a lot they don't know and that it is a sign of deeply understanding something if you realize it. But I was wrong he said, because he saw a movie about rain during his (home schooling) curriculum...
It's a new data-centre. How does that have a bearing on the way Epic manage their matchmaking? Matchmaking isn't latency-sensitive, is it?
Football offensive linemen should start plays upright to avoid hits to the head
Qt and widget based programs are absolutely not difficult to make. I don't know where this comes from. They are fast and responsive by default instead of laggy and sluggish on a many core xeon loaded with ram. Even using PyQt and embedding python is like a feather compared to electron and that approach is extra easy.