skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Since it's probably the same underlying parallax tech powering both, I'd guess the reasonings are the same.

It's not. Looking Glass is an advanced version of lenticular optics, which is 100+ year old technology, except used to create a multiscopic display(many views).

Nintendo 3DS is newer technology, known as parallax barrier. However, 3DS is only two views, which is pretty much only useful for a single viewer.
Apparently this pretty much happened in the UK in 1930: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39633603 It's remarkable precisely because it's so hard to imagine today.
You think the news that causes widespread public outrage is substantially inaccurate 25-50% of the time? I'd be shocked if it was even 5%.
'drawing algorithms like "fill with color"'

What? You mean this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_fill

Who ever called that artificial intelligence?
maybe steal some date flow ideas from Oz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_(programming_language)
China Wants to Use Its Coronavirus App to Track How Citizens Sleep, Drink, Smoke
"Choosing to live his life as a gay man..."
Probably both? I do know that GM ended up going more "parallel" with Gen 2 than with Gen 1. And Gen 2 has more torque than Gen 1, despite switching to a lower displacement engine and going to an Atkinson (tuned for electricity generation) cycle.
Coolest features of non-Java JVM languages
Those interested in this post might be interested in Alan de Botton’s book: The News, a users guide

https://www.alaindebotton.com/news-users-manual/

It talks about how to responsibly consume news in these modern times
Not ordering from Amazon.

There are a couple dozen sites I trust across a number of categories of goods. I order from those, even if it means paying a bit of a premium.

Heck, maybe because it does. I’d rather pay $30 for a well made widget that’ll last a few years than $10 for a knock-off that’ll fail in a few days.
> The fact that there are consultants who specialize in figuring out AWS billing was, in retrospect, a warning sign.

Well, there are whole organizations in my company dedicated to installation, procurement, provisioning, ordering(and tracking of said orders), of datacenter resources and hardware.

We are spoiled.
Weirdly enough, Spotify's goal is to scoop up all the money that's currently going directly to podcasters by making the advertising market more efficient.

They want to enjoy the type of monopoly that Facebook/Google/Amazon currently have online, except in the podcast space.
Related: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/13/uk_archer_supercomp...

"One of Britain's most powerful academic supercomputers has fallen victim to a "security exploitation" of its login nodes, forcing the rewriting of all user passwords and SSH keys."

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/05/coronavirus_researc...

"Foreign state hackers are trying to brute-force their way into pharmaceutical and medical research agencies hunting for a COVID-19 vaccine, British and American infosec agencies are warning.

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and America’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) cautioned of a “password spraying” campaign targeting healthcare and medical research organisations."
I remember watching that when my parents got it on rental from the local store. None of us had any idea wtf was going on the whole way through.

Must watch it again to see if it's better now that I've watched clever cinema (gentle /s implied).
I think that's what a masterclass is. If I see a flyer saying some X professional musician is giving a masterclass I'm assuming it's going to be 2 or 3 hours of just ideas, tips, methods and his general vision about music.
I learned a lot about writing better _software_ and product development from David Mamet's masterclass on writing _screenplays_.

He has a no-bullshit, get to the point, approach that I liked. He has points on what should a story accomplish, where the responsibilities of a character end, and the nature of the job being to entertain, not inform or lecture. It can directly be transferable to feature creep, single responsibility, etc.
Using GitHub Actions to Drive MLOps
Greed Is to Blame for the Radicalization of YouTube and Facebook
convenient, since they were going to have a lot of blowback from their HK stance.
Whilst I completely agree with your comment, I have a nit to pick about the self hosted VPN part. What commercial VPN providers sell is plausible deniability through multiple users having access to the same set of endpoints. A self hosted VPN does not provide that. If I have a server somewhere and route my traffic through it, that server doing something can easily be tied to me doing something. Hence why you probably shouldn’t self host a VPN. Now, if you’re only afraid of your ISP or neighbours snooping, then a self hosted VPN makes sense. If you’re afraid of advertisers or the MPAA, then a commercial VPN makes sense.
I have a heap of ebooks i got from amazon and find I need to break the drm and convert them to pdf just to read them on my kindle. Really hate the situation on one hand I want to support the author but I don't want to support amazon for the bs that doesn't work.
> The right course of action is to stop using Facebook.

That'd give rise to something akin to a Gresham's Law problem [0]. I think we have a civic duty to engage patiently — and politely — with our friends who hold views we disagree with, because (A) they get to vote; (B) angry invective isn't persuasive; and (C) social proof is a thing, and sometimes people can be persuaded to come around to their friends' point of view, eventually. It's a long shot, but worth a shot.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
Yeah he wasn’t jogging. People are dumb.
A true master can teach anyone but not necessarily at the same time. This is the same problem that plagues even school teaching. Pairing someone who groks the content at a rapid pace and comes up with derivative insights with someone who struggles to understand the basics is a waste of both people's times.
> ...I don't know how many you'd need to have in rotation...

My lawn mower 5Ah @56V (EGO power) is good for half an hour. It charges from empty to full in maybe 40 minutes. In a trimmer same battery seems to last forever, maybe at least 2 hours.
Not really. Traditional societies are often better at providing basic economic security to their members than market economies, so the members of those societies will reject the market in favor of their own social structures.

When someone like a colonialist wants to introduce the market economy to an area organized into traditional societies, he has to first undermine and destroy those societies, so their people have no choice but to participate in his market as a laborer or else starve.
I’ve recently gotten my shit together by deciding to stop making new habits and worrying about what I do or don’t accomplish

It’s been incredibly freeing to not worry so much about hitting these arbitrary KPIs and instead just see what I feel like doing in any given moment

You’ll struggle to find any blog posts about this perspective though... we’re all too busy enjoying life
Noise. Outrage. Distraction. Always on.

TV was bad enough, but now the internet is everywhere. It is time for a universal time management and distraction mitigation API that gives control back to the user. This API should connect to most major digital services, and it should work on most devices. We cannot rely on media companies or digital platforms to become less distracting, since their profits are on the line. We should create an API for them to plug into and say "your turn." If they refuse to play nice, go to the government and ask for laws to make it mandatory. Human beings have not evolved to deal with all this noise. Hard controls are necessary.
You know the worst part? I do pay for YT Premium and yet Google still finds a way to throw ads at me on Youtube videos through videos it suggests via Google Feeds (the leftmost screen on a Pixel). I bloody pay for the service and yet I am still getting ads on any youtube video I play when clicking any youtube suggested video on that feed. How annoying do you think that is? When you give in and pay, yet you are still getting harassed.
So it turns out local news isn’t actually public service, but really just the cheapest crap they can produce to run between ads for local car dealers. Go figure.
> The author's argument is one in favor of selfishness: being a well-informed citizen of your state or country does not benefit you personally, so why bother?

I don't think that the author point at all. He is arguing that the news in their modern form have mostly become a form of entertainment.

I will hasard that someone who would forever stop following the news but actually engaged in any form of local actions connected to their outrage of choice even in the most sporadical of manners would have a disproportionally larger impact on society than a well informed individual. Heck, any kind of local engagement, be it the knitting club or kids soccer, will probably have a larger impact. The news is thankfully not the only source of news.
I've heard before that this is common practice, both for written articles and segments. It does seem like an unhealthy relationship to have journalists in a position where they have to either run with what they're given or risk being excluded by private organizations in future press interactions. But that is a bigger societal problem we are exposed to, beyond just Amazon.
Very cool! I'm a bit curious about where the performance losses are. I just made a CPU path tracer for a graphics class and was able to render similar scenes in much less time. This is running on a GPU so it should be much faster, but isn't.

I've written some CUDA code and GPU assembly for unrelated projects, but it was designed to avoid warp divergence and I don't know you would go about doing that with a ray tracer.
I can redownload the files I uploaded as FLAC, but they download as lossy files. I don't think I can get at the originals.

Plus my playlists are full of tracks that were available in Google's subscription service that I didn't upload.
Riding the State Unemployment Fraud 'Wave'
I’ve watched the Judd Apatow one with my wife a bit, so it’s the only one I can comment on, but here’s where I think it shines:

1. Exposure to his story. How did he get there. What did it take? How long? How did he pay his dues? How did he get lucky? How did he make his luck?

If I were a teenager, this would’ve been HUGE. It isn’t a blue print, but it gives you an idea of what these people go through, and how many years it takes to get where they are.

2. Exposure to his methods. How does he come up with jokes? How does he shape a story? How does he harness inspiration? How does he workshop and develop those ideas?

This is valuable to anyone interested in doing what he does. It’s a playbook for getting started. It has the potential to shatter the whole, “I don’t even know where to start” barrier.

“Start writing down funny things that happen” is obvious as hell, but hearing that’s exactly how one of the best in the world does it, from the horses mouth, gives it a different weight.

3. It’s entertaining. Even if you’re not intending to write comedy, it’s kinda like watching an episode of VH1 Storytellers. You get to hear great stories about how things, that you’re intimately familiar with, happened.

4. Pro-tips. This kinda goes with 3, but there are some real gems. He’ll say something casually about how he does X, and you just think, “duh. Of course that’s how I should be doing X. Can’t believe I never thought of that.”

Think about times in your life when you’ve learned something small from a peer and had your mind blown that you’ve not been doing it that way your whole life. Those are peppered throughout.

5. Demystification of the “master”. I actually think this might be the important thing in all of this. These people are just people. They worked hard and put themselves out there. They fail a lot; probably more than most.

I had the same feeling arriving in a start up office in Silicon Valley from a Texas childhood. I had pulled back the curtain, and it was just more people. Sure, they know a lot about machine learning, but that’s not because they’re superhuman, it’s because they spent the last 10 years (PhD) studying that extremely specific topic.

Seeing how human these people are makes me feel like there are a lot of people I know who are every bit as capable of writing funny things as he is. That doesn’t mean it’ll be easy for them, or that they’ll ever reach his level, but it makes it feel like if they just reprioritized a few things and did it — they might surprise themselves.

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So, will he teach you the intricacies of script structure, dialog, timing, etc... no.

Will he spark enough creativity and interest that you get off your butt, start writing some stuff, and go find the content that will teach you those things? I think so.

In my mind, Masterclass is like a tasting menu of hobbies / alternative professions. It gives you a feel for what’s involved and what it takes, and then the person can decide if that’s the rabbit hole they’d like to go down.
Depends on what you want to get from the class and what that amount of money means to you.

For example, the violin class by Perlman that I took. Judging by the content alone, I wouldn't say it's worth $90, since it's not that deep, and a lot of the information is online for free already.

On the other hand, I can comfortably afford it. I'll happily pay that 90+ bucks just to hear Perlman talk about violin for a few hours, regardless of the depth.

I'd say the same for the writing courses. Not deep, no special secrets, not going to make you a master. But if you just want to hear them talk about their own crafts and processes, it's also a bearable price.
Yes, but if you were serious about espionage, say, you wouldn't draw attention to the compromise by running one.
You're stretching what I said. I should note that I'm a lifelong fan of radical education (particularly John Holt), and I don't think that the way we teach children most things has a lot to recommend it.

However, your conception of how this could work starts from the supposition that the kids are actually interested enough to wonder. I don't doubt that there's something that will get every child wondering (and likely, more than one thing). But if we're going to actually require the teaching of fractional arithmetic (implying that we're requiring the learning of it, really) then we need to accept that we'll be teaching it a great many children who are not interested in the conundrum, and who even in the presence of a great teacher will remain not interested in it.

Self-led discovery learning is without doubt the best kind, but its not compatible with the current goals of education in a (post)industrial highly structured society, because it will naturally lead to people who for their own reasons chose never to learn things that we consider vital. I might be entirely willing to agree that they are not vital, and even that a (post)industrial highly structured society may also be a bit of an issue, but pretending that every child will just be naturally curious about 1/3+1/3=2/6 vs 1/3+1/3=2/3 is, IMO, not ground in reality.

In the original article, the guide isn't "standing front of the art". She's just taken them over to a corner that has a piece called "no mammals lay eggs", and then noticed that right next door to it, there's a platypus. She's wondering what to say next, or whether to say anything.
There's no copyright claim involved here. The complaint process being abused was an anticircumvention thing.

Now, you can argue that those anticircumvention laws exist in service to the existing copyright regime, sure. But those aren't the laws we forced other countries to adopt.
Agree. And there's actually empirical data to back that up: individuals dramatically overestimate the infectiousness and fatality rate of COVID-19 relative to expert opinion.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w27245.pdf
I don't use Facebook, and I want it to die. Facebook is one of the many, many reasons why advertising must be destroyed.
It's a pretty important one. iOS's lack of support is the main thing that is preventing "PWA"'s from taking off. They're already pretty viable on Android. It's the iOS's browser stack that prevents them from being viable cross-platform, and locks everyone into the the 30% Apple tax.
Apple may not include EarPods headphones in iPhone 12 box to boost AirPods sales
I don't believe this is a spoiler, but:

There's a point at which you get to join the monastery in Sasau and I'll be honest, I just stayed there for ages going about my daily duties because it seemed like an okay life, translating illuminated manuscripts and such.
> How can you simultaneously be outraged that Facebook is imposing any restrictions on speech at all, and horrified that it isn’t actively molding user behavior on a massive scale?

There is a simple answer to that - HN is not a homogeneous set of people; different users have different opinions and express them at different times with different intensity.
"The ultimate problem is that Facebook doesn't want to show you good, enrishing content from your friends and family."

Well, it is someone else's website. What do you expect Zuckerberg has his own interests in mind.

In 2020, it is still too difficult for everyone to set up their own website, so they settle for a page on someone else's.

If exchanging content with friends and family (not swaths of the public who visit Facebook - hello advertisers) is the ultimate goal, then there are more efficient ways to to do that without using Zuckerberg's website.

The challenge is to make those easier to set up.

For example, if each group of friends and family were on the same small overlay network they set up themselves, connecting to each other peer-to-peer, it would be much more difficult for advertisers to reach them. Every group of friends and family on a different network instead of every group of friends and family all using the same third party, public website on the same network, the internet.

Naysayers will point to the difficulty setting up such networks. No one outside of salaried programmers paid to do it wants to even attempt to write "user agents" today because the "standard", a ridiculously large set of "features", most of which benefit advertisers not users, is far too complex. What happens when we simplify the "standard"? As an analogy, look at how much easier is is to set up Wireguard, software written more or less by one person, than it is to set up OpenVPN.
I'm a very good forecaster, and skill in this area doesn't stem from reflexive dismissal or ability to deploy fallacious counter-arguments.
In NZ, we follow along behind the USA in most things, so getting angry over politics is growing and growing. I see it as a hobby, growing in popularity. But also a hobby you can discourage those you know from getting into, and if the social momentum pulls us away from it then the hobby doesn't take hold.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23305064
Please don't repeat tired tropes here. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

HN is for curiosity and curiosity wants diffs. Those are the interesting bits.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Interesting to see the 'modified' image before it's put on the display(https://youtu.be/-EA2FQXs4dw?t=375)

Seems similar to how pixel art worked, and tricks artists used to get a better image with CRTs.
https://66.media.tumblr.com/8d2cf7adae94fde97d1a8c9cf78a46a2...
Indeed, regardless of how you feel about any President, do you really want evidence of what they're saying and doing hidden away? I'd guess that if he himself decided to move to a private list that the same people crying for censorship would be crying about that.

This simply isn't Twitter's bag of crap to deal with.
Fair, but I think for the purposes of this article, social media accounts (could be friends or corporations) that talk about breaking events would also count as "the news". Both in the plusses and the minuses! Upside, you're more aware of what's going on. Downside, you still can't do anything about it. Only faster.

In a lot of ways, current-events Twitter is more like cable news than it is like reading a weekly. All hot takes, no time for context. But like you said, for idiosyncratic folks, the "lifestyle" content is going to be much more relevant on Twitter than on CNN.
I'm dubious of this claim that those paying attention to the news were those best prepared for COVID. The mainstream news didn't really seem to think it was a huge deal mid-February. I feel like the people that were "prepared" were those listening to certain experts sounding the alarm.

Even then, what was anybody really able to do to prepare? The best you could have done was to have gotten your shopping in during mid to late February before the panic buying started. And even then, most goods weren't that hard to come by. The other thing would have been having a good emergency fund, to prepare for the economic turmoil and potential job losses. But that's something you would have needed to prepare for much, much earlier, and should be something everyone does, regardless of their news intake.

> I find that weekly and monthly magazines strike a better balance

I agree on this. Do you have any recommendations for good monthly magazines that do this well?
Why does this commie garbage always show up on HN..... makes one go hmmmm....
It is, been using it since multiple months. I have no more ads on my iphone now, for free. The dns request pass throught Switzerland and i feel i have 007 level privacy. sweet !!
Having a database for a personal blog seems like overkill.
> However, you need to consider that if someone controls the economy of a country, they control the government of that country as well.

What do you mean? the FED is just a bunch of private institutions, and they don't control the US government.
For the same reason people use huge transformers for sentences in natural language (which are also tree structured): they scale really well. If you have enough data, huge transformers have huge capacity. If you notice, this paper is entirely about how to cleverly generate a massive dataset. There is no novelty in the model -- they just use a standard approach described in two paragraphs.
Show HN: Bigbucket – Serverless Bigtable-like database, backed by Cloud Storage
Yep, Google's was. They never enabled server-to-server TLS, though, so GTalk was effectively cut off from the federated XMPP network after May 2014 when that became mandatory: https://blog.prosody.im/mandatory-encryption-on-xmpp-starts-...
Actual no-compromise panel-sized laser-bending holography is far beyond current tech. You need micrometer resolutions - think 5k dpi as a blurry bare minimum, and more like 50k dpi for high quality output - combined with 3D rendering at that resolution, passed through a holographic transform which maps a 3D scene to a holographic plane.

For animated holograms you have to do this in real time. And colour is still a problem - ideally you want at least three different planes for RGB, all correlated with sub-micron accuracy.

Shortcuts are possible - actually with stereoscopic 3D TVs and monitors they've been and gone - but the real thing won't be happening any time soon.

3D-like emulations - like this product - are much more plausible in the short term.
You can do this explicitly with puppeteer. Given a prototype it can tell you how many love instances of that prototype are currently in the heap.

For the authors use case this seems like it would work, since they mention it is part of their test suite
Yes. About a quarter of the time I hear about some public outrage, I've definitively concluded that it's misinformed. It's possible there's selection bias in which outrages I hear about, but I don't have a strong reason to expect that.
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FB channels are slow even if you're giving them millions of dollars in ad spend.