skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Them not being customers doesn't seem like it absolves Google of responsibility. If Google decided to always replace Pepsi with Coke or something similar they'd be in a huge controversy with possible legal ramifications even absent any formal relationship with Coke.
I’m really curious what language the telemetry data is written in. Does anyone know what the historically preferred language is?
IIRC, so take this with a grain of salt, the big N is the only major console developer to consistently sell consoles at a profit.
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This is true. The MVC idea of separation of concerns on the surface seems like a good idea, but the reality is that I've never been on a team that was disciplined enough to actually keep things separated.

As a mostly back-end developer, I am not a fan of the complexity and magical bullshit you have to know about to use React properly. I am also disgusted when a stopwatch app that can be done in 500kb of native code turns into 25 MB of cruft when implemented with React Native. The fact that it completely disregards MVC, which maybe never really worked anyway, is the least of its problems.
They weren't convinced at the time. Now they feel compelled to act. How is this political?
Replying to myself on the SPIVA point (PDF):

> Over the 15-year period ending June 2019, 90% of large-cap, midcap and small-cap funds underperformed their benchmark S&P indices. In only one asset class, large value (80% underperformed), was the percentage of underperformers below 86%.

* https://www.advisorperspectives.com/articles/2019/11/18/the-...
Amatuer. Any intterupt-based (at/xt/ps2) passive matrix keyboard, realtime kernel, and a CRT is the way of the low latency wizard.
I know I’d be fine with it.

I took 3 years off from working (lived frugally off savings) and that is basically all I did. Purposely avoided anything that would be considered “productive work.” I mean I read some books and rode my bicycle, too. But my time was pretty much just watching TV/movies and laying around.

Best time of my life by far.

I cringe when I tell someone about it and they are like, “oh but didn’t that get boring?”
> [...] always enforced with that very special enthusiasm stale organisations devote to policing arbitrary norms because that's the sole remaining source of the old timer's power differential. Or at least that's how it seemed to me, for I never felt courageous enough to try.

Why the same people that seem afraid of email, can however gratuitously accuse others of being on an ego trip on a public forum, I wonder.
I build up the karma of my accounts and then sell them.
You’re right. Yet currently there is one major normativity in action and that is the normativity of the market. Market rewwards economies of scale and monopolies more than anything else. Unfortunately there is no working institution left to bring in the normativity of societal good for balance. One might hope for state to make a move, but big tech pays the most lobbying money currently, so I wouldn’t hold my breath.
I just watched a couple of his videos, and it sounds like he got pretty close to landing with solid propellant ('echo'), but ultimately decided that it was too finicky and ended that project to move onto a liquid biprop rocket.
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but we're still living in an era largely defined by enlightenment ideas/ideals

(tho, increasingly less so, as evidenced by eg this thread)
"There are _a lot_ of forensic methods to reverse blur techniques"

Any examples? You can't reverse it if the data is gone.
How about antispam features, are those still only for Enterprise?
That's on the list to add.
I think one solution would be to have another language that's a bit more abstract than ASM maybe with some variables and register spilling and some macros, so you can write ASM more easily. That language could be transpiled into ASM, but would need to be debugged as ASM as well then, so you still need to know assembler very well.

I tried to do that a couple years ago with little success (readme and feature list missing, sorry but maybe you get the idea from the repo):
https://github.com/NanoWar/FunkCompiler
Lovely! Is it possible to inject SSID and passphrase parameters as env vars into the Docker container and have a png or pdf render without the web interface?

Edit: Thank you to those who replied!
Yes. If you'd be willing to email hn@ycombinator.com this would help me keep track.
I'm not sure if this helps, but after 45 years as a stranger in a strange land, the only friends I've managed to keep longer than a year have been autistic themselves.

My wife is also autistic, and we both marvel over how, for the first time ever in our lives, our home is our sanctuary where we can just relax and be completely ourselves with all the weirdness that entails. All previous romantic relationships were stressful and ended badly because it felt like I was walking on eggshells, and couldn't understand why my SO kept getting upset. My wife had similar experiences in past relationships.
Hmm, still not following. Why would the fact both are betacoronaviruses entail ace2 is conserved? Is human binding ace2 a common feature of betacoronaviruses? Are you arguing that sars is the more recent ancestor than ratg13?

I blasted sars2 against sars and against ratg13. 88% coverage for the first and 99% for the second, so ratg13 seems to be a much more recent ancestor.

- sars2 v. sars: https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?CMD=Get&RID=D7WE9PB...

- sars2 v. ratg13: https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?CMD=Get&RID=D7WGNJG...

Why would ace2 be much better preserved between sars2 and sars than between sars2 and ratg13?

Apologies for being dense :) As you notice, I'm pretty new to bioinformatics. Just trying to understand what your argument is.

UPDATE:
Sorry, I see a mistake I've been making that is confusing. I should be referring to Bat_CoV_ZC45 and Bat_CoV_ZXC21, not ratg13. ratg13 is the one that also has a close match to ace2, but the author claims is a forgery. The bat coronaviruses also seem to be more evolutionarily close to sars2 than sars, and they don't have the ace2 binding sites.
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Those open source tools are sometimes how I stay employed. Wouldn't want to be without HN.
Depends which Falcon. Falcone 9 has 10 Merlin engines, while Heavy has 28.

https://www.spacex.com/media/falcon_users_guide_042020.pdf
I just want to be able to use emacs with an e-ink display... any little machines out there for that?
Shouldn't it be 1 / 110,592 scale net worth though? Saying 1/48th model is a bit misleading as it's 1/48th in 3 dimensions, whereas worth is one dimensional.
> The police were beating random people and shooting pets.

Well, at least there'll be evidence for that, right? Dead pets?
Even within a company you may (should) have opportunities to change though. Going into management, or changing projects. Most careers aren't a straight line, there are forks in the road. Sometimes they're presented to you and other times you have to create the opportunity for change yourself.
Do you mean ethernet as the link layer? I ask because I've encountered a number of systems where CAN bus is operated over a cat 6e physical layer.
This is exactly what drew me into React.

I used to _hate_ front-end programming, everything was a huge framework of magic dust and unicorns. Stuff Just Worked - if you knew the name of the magic incantations (variables and functions) you had to cast to make it work. Never mind that the whole front-end landscape seemed to do a complete pivot and invent new stuff every other week.

With React + Typescript it's just components that produce fragments of HTML and are entirely or at least mostly self-contained with a clear interface.
It's a tough situation for police too. On one hand, how to you stop those taking advantage of the situation by looting/burning? On the other hand, how do they show tolerance for non-aggressive civil disobedience?

Should anyone breaking curfew be subject to rough treatment? Should the police stand idle while people burn and loot?
How can peaceful protesters be protected while looters/abusers are using them as shields for their activities?

PS: If replying, please be civil!
> metadata gets scrambled by both their "high quality" and "original" settings.

This is NOT true, at least for the "original" setting. Upload an image, download it again - the checksums are identical.

If you modify the time/date or add comments within Google Photos, that new information is kept in a .json file instead of the exif data, but Google NEVER modifies the original photo if you select "original" quality.
> unless you're a political philosopher you've probably never even heard of Rawls

Rawls is one of the most famous philosophers of the 20th century. Almost any Ethics 101 course (a requisite in a wide range of fields) will touch on his work.
Ooh - definitely should go through with that. Also, I'm doing a pilot show interviewing some Tech moguls local to Atlanta. There's a diverse group I'm interviewing from wealthy entrepreneurs to notable employees of bell labs, to people who hold an insane amount of patents. I think you could definitely fit in there somewhere.
That's actually another problem in itself. You shouldn't need a lawyer just to be given the time of day when there's a problem.
Is there a specific point at which police are or are not allowed to pepper spray people? Use tasers? Use other hopefully non-lethal force like this? These videos are really sad and I wonder when these actions are actually acceptable.
Some people know several languages, but it's difficult to learn a locale well enough to 100% touch type when you only have a keyboard in a single locale, and don't use some of the languages as often as others.

Also, per-software layers with action icons instead of learning alphabetic shortcuts.
The striking thing about most of those "brilliant asshole" stories is that by and large, they clearly weren't all that brilliant, they'd just managed to convince a bunch of people (including the story writer) that they were.

I remember that one of them even mentioned that the asshole was so brilliant that he wrote code sometimes even the asshole couldn't read.... the manager didn't seem to twig even after writing that that this was a glaring klaxon warning signal that he was an extremely mediocre coder.

IME the most toxic behavior in this profession derives from insecurity, not intelligence, and most of those "brilliant assholes" were actually assholes because they were hoping that their mediocrity wouldn't be uncovered.
I still hunt and peck for accents necessary for Quebecois.
If you like Vim's keybinds, use it. Vim has pretty much everything there is to offer in a text editor.

I've been far enough down the Vim rabbit hole to feel the bottom, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

The only reason I don't live in [Neo]Vim anymore is that I decided to learn a different keyboard layout, and ended up with some distaste for Vim's normal-mode mnemonic-based keybinds and their associated function names. Because of the way vim is designed, you can't really get far from the default keybinds. If you are willing to live with that fact, Vim is definitely worth learning.

As a sidenote, NeoVim is essentially better than Vim in every way, so specifically: use NeoVim if you like Vim.

Emacs is also very good. Evil-mode is very full-featured, and elisp is nicer than viml. Emacs is also great if you don't want Vim's keybinds. Emacs' documentation and configurability is essentially unmatched, although Vim gets real close.
Yes, gentleness and civility is appreciated for sure.
Great, finally programming languages can expect even beginners to keep typing characters like ⊢ with little difficulty. Your editor plugin will also include keyboard customization.
The data may still be there, it just looks like it's gone.
What about in the case of a mosaic blur?
Sure, that's all correct. But before showing it is dead it would be useful to have empirical evidence that it was ever alive. And the evidence is very mixed at best. The history of the EMH is a battle between those showing where it breaks from reality, followed by increasingly desperate attempts to save it with some additional explanatory factors.

It's a nice model. But like most economic and financial models shouldn't be held as gospel.
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I haven't used these a lot in recent memory, but Pingdom, Uptime Robot, etc. Some company COULD totally make something specifically for this like in the mockup on the README
There's not a scientific way. But you can definitely improve on these kind of interactions. The chances that something you are doing something (or equally likely: not doing something) that you had not even considered is putting people off interacting with you.

Do you have anyone in your life that you could ask for feedback? If not then you could look into Autism support services. There are people who specialise in exactly this kind of thing, and they will probably to be able to point you towards things quite quickly as they will most likely have seen the same things before.

It's also worth considering if there are other groups of people that you may not be coming in to contact with who might be more interested in the same things as you. I know some people who now have a very strong friendship group who initially struggled simply because they grew up in an area / environment where there weren't many people like them.
I really like this idea.

I agree the average person responds to unusual behavior with the same innate revulsion we fee to a physical deformity (perhaps to a lesser degree). However I think both revulsions do dissipate with time.

I think what doesn't dissipate, is the distaste for when somebody doesn't follow important and healthy social codes. For example, there's a stereotype of "nerds" pedantically interrupting everybody to correct minor or irrelevant details ("um actually..."). Now, stereotype aside, this type of behavior is genuinely offputting and counterproductive.

To a large extent I think "coolness" is the ability to keep the conversation flowing when a potentially emotional topic gets invoked. The opposite is that person who has a certain trigger-word, where if it ever shows up in passing, derails the whole conversation on a 1-man tirade.

In summary, I find a lot of what makes a good conversational isn't following arbitrary norms of the era, but a strong empathy/understanding for the emotional effect of every topic and bouncing between those emotional states with grace.
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The existence of other ARM SoCs doesn't mean they're competitive enough at the high end for the advantage of open source drivers to be the determining factor.

Meanwhile the low end is more sensitive to price than quality, so competition there pushes things towards things cut costs rather than things that improve the experience, or even things that reduce long term costs at the expense of short term costs.
Neat. You can find more supported QR codes for iOS here-- https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/tech-talks/206/ (I couldn't find docs but you can skip around the video, starts at 1:11).
Do all Android and iOS devices support this feature?
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> If looting and vandalism is “the action of a few”, then it doesn’t make sense to characterize it as “self-defense” on behalf of some collective “organism”.

Then we'll have to agree to disagree, opportunists don't exist without a crowd.
Not sure what you mean by scientific way, as there's no real way to test this objectively, maybe you've just had crap luck

On the subject of social skills, there have been many books on the subject, traditionally titled under Asperger's: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/12108.Top_social_skills_...

Friendships, like all relationships, must be nurtured to survive. A lot of neurotypical people are kinda crap at nurturing friendships naturally but they try to do so often in subconscious ways.

If your social skills are below average you may not pick up on the subtle clues, so you'll have to make more explicit efforts to maintain the friendship, and explain to your friends what kind of gestures go toward nurturing it when it comes to yourself, ie you mostly consider time spent together, or chats, or phone calls, gifts, what have you.

I'm not a psychologist but I'm a neurotypical person with a few high functioning autistic friends if you want my opinion on anything.
FWIW, there are some interesting tools for microarchitectural performance analysis which are getting closer (although it's a work in progress): https://github.com/MattPD/cpplinks/blob/master/performance.t...

One particularly interesting example in this context is OSACA (Open Source Architecture Code Analyzer), https://github.com/RRZE-HPC/osaca

The related publications explain the approach used to model and perform critical path analysis relevant for the modern superscalar out-of-order processors:

- Automatic Throughput and Critical Path Analysis of x86 and ARM Assembly Kernels (2019): https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00214

- Cross-Architecture Automatic Critical Path Detection For In-Core Performance Analysis (2020): https://hpc.fau.de/files/2020/02/Masterarbeit_JL-_final.pdf

There's also a broader line of research on performance modeling in this vein (some pretty detailed, including microarchitectural details like branch misprediction penalties, ROB capacity, etc.):
https://gist.github.com/MattPD/85aad98ee8b135e675d49c571b67f...

More on modeling microarchitectural details (chronological order):

- Tejas S. Karkhanis and James E. Smith. "A First-Order Superscalar Processor Model." (ISCA 2004) - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.79.....

- Stijn Eyerman, Lieven Eeckhout, Tejas Karkhanis, and James E. Smith. "A mechanistic performance model for superscalar out-of-order processors." ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 27, 2 (2009) - http://www.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/papers/tocs09.pdf

- Maximilien B. Breughe, Stijn Eyerman, and Lieven Eeckhout. "Mechanistic analytical modeling of superscalar in-order processor performance." ACM Trans. Architec. Code Optim. 11, 4, Article 50 (2014) - https://users.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/papers/taco2015-breugh....

- "Modeling Superscalar Processor Memory-Level Parallelism", Sam Van den Steen and Lieven Eeckhout, IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), Vol 17, No 1 (2018) - https://users.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/papers/cal2018-MLP.pdf
Another fun bug report: I entered lots of input, and the page suddenly went blank. In the console:

Error: code length overflow. (28252>23648)

So yeah, seems like all you have to do is paste 24KB of data in and it blows up. :)

I see this failure mode in React apps a lot, where a bug causes an exception to be thrown, and the page just vanishes in a puff of smoke, as though it never was.

Half the time I’ve seen this failure mode it’s also been combined with persisting the bad value, so that the site is permanently broken until you can unpersist the value (e.g. clear localStorage or IndexedDB or cookie; but if the bad value is stored on a server you’re truly stuck).

The impression I’ve taken away is that it’s entirely unacceptable for a React component to throw an exception, because it will immediately destroy everything. Wonder how common such failures actually are, and whether there’s anything React itself could do about it (my guess is not).
Police seem to be deliberately targeting journalists:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/31/george-floyd...
Ecologists frequently focus public efforts on widely recognizable umbrella species. Humpback whales are widely distributed and touch many complex parts of the ecosystem. Making them the face of conservation efforts makes sense, because protecting them entails protecting the ecosystem they live in and rely on.
The point of my comment is that you will always have bad apples, doesn't make the whole field rotten.
> This fragmentation between what works on what dists makes me sad. Philosophically I've always admired BSD for the consistency,

what use is that consistency if even all combined together they only support a percent of the consumer hardware support that the average Linux distro has though ?
I always suspected police hiring in America targeted idiots, likely idiots with a penchant for violence. Now we have undeniable proof. I wonder where else such anti intellectualism is codified into law.
Nice! I didn't realise that iOS supports QR codes out of the box now.
When coming here to comment, it's best to react to the most interesting thing, not the most provocative thing. Otherwise we tend to get a chain-reaction of provocations, as one commenter gets provoked by another's provokedness, and frequently an entire thread ends up burning itself on what was not even a tertiary point.

That doesn't mean it wasn't provocative, just that a community like this needs its members to work on core strength, so we can keep this place functioning for curious conversation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It would be nice if our law enforcement had legitimacy and credibility, because then we could know that showing someone’s face would lead to them being arrested and facing a sentence commensurate with what they had done. But unfortunately this is not the case.

Showing the face of a protestor smashing in a window will not lead to that protestor being brought to court and handed a sentence for community service, a fine, or some light jail time. It will lead to extrajudicial retaliation and possibly death.

Again, it would be nice if that weren’t the case and we could trust law enforcement to behave appropriately. But given that they and their supporters are known to hunt down and kill people who protest against them, we cannot in good conscience make it easier for them to do so.

If we are to trust the cops again, they need to show us they are worthy of trust. And they sure aren’t doing that right now.
And you are naive to think that not standing up against fascism works (cf. world war II)
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It also estimates the full body mesh, not only the 3D pose of a few joints.
In my experience those different people couldn’t do different jobs. Designers could write css, but I hd to set up magic id/class incantations for them. They could write html, but changes kept breaking business logic.

Css zen gardens was a fantastic idea that I’ve never seen realized in a real project with business needs. Maybe I’ve just been unlucky.
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@dang any reason this disappeared from the home page?

Other hydroxycholoquine articles weren’t buried, it’d be a shame for the correction to be.
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I'm inclined to believe that these orders are not coming from the top (i.e. the Governors or Police Chiefs) to go after people with cameras. I have a feeling that it is often the police forces themselves that will often spur aggression against journalists and others.

I feel throughout this we still underestimate the power of police unions and the organization of individual police officers outside of their formal duties with their departments.
If the suits are pressurized more than the environment, escaping gasses often cause moisture or frost to form at the point of escape due to differential cooling condenstion. Could that be what they were seeing?
Interesting, thanks. Seems to require use of a common base class though, i.e. to use a class with this pool, you have to inherit from Destructable, or else create a subclass that does. Seems ugly. Perhaps that's the only way it can be done in C++ though.