skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Either I have utterly failed to express myself effectively, or this is not a charitable response. I'm not sure which.

I'll try one more time: it should be possible to empathize with the plights of many people, not only the ones who are worst off. Obviously some people have it worse than others, I hope I've made my acknowledgement of that clear. What I don't find productive is telling some people you don't care about their problems because other people have it much worse.
One of the culture changes I've had to try to push was to test for the failure rate of a distributed system rather than the absolute number of failures- don't test for "Were number of failures less than n", test for "Did the success rate fall below 99.99%"
Observation of Bose–Einstein Condensates in Microgravity (Cold Atom Lab)
Because the local shops have said that they're not being extorted. They're happy to have all the local business.
I personally think that Microsoft benefits are more pragmatic, realistic, and usable even if they rank lowest on the comparison. A lot of the stuff Google offers, is icing on the cake.

The problem is that there are loopholes in health insurance, that unless you have extensive experience and a keen eye, you will miss the financial tricks.

For example, in my state, we have the highest amount of surprise bills (usually out-of-network billing) in the US, statistically. I have a family member who was considering getting a plan that was $100 cheaper per month, but had a very high out of network billing cap.

But, if you have health conditions, making a spreadsheet like this goes a long ways: https://www.reddit.com/r/diabetes/comments/9xwvl4/usa_i_crea...

But, things should not be this way. It is chaotic to have to worry about healthcare costs like this.
What's even the point of adding a bunch of rules to break up a player with less than a third of the market and already in decline? It seems pretty clear that competitors have stepped it up. Meanwhile in Mobile ma bell has reassembled itself and in cable we're stuck with regional monopolies; in healthcare we're happy with the same or greater dominance by total monopolies like for insulin or glasses amongst other goods; likewise in payments with Visa and Mastercard.

Smells like political rent seeking to me.
I used to be quite annoyed with 2FA (although I understood the value)... and was particularly annoyed when one of my banks made 2FA mandatory.

Begrudgingly shlupping myself to the other room to locate my phone and get a texted code...

But, after receiving 3 different password reset emails in a short period for different services, I decided to enable 2FA for everything that supports it. Where possible, choosing the Time Based 2FA instead of texting codes (just in case I lose my phone or something).

With the right mindset (and paranoia), I'm coming around to viewing this inconvenience as necessary, and wish more services supported it.
OpenAI will start selling its text-generation tech GPT-3
Long-Delayed James Webb Space Telescope Is Again Delayed
I might paint with a broader brush. If your commit breaks master, we revert the whole change and you try again.

When the old stuff breaks, there's a bunch of other decisions built on top of it and there is no clear path to unwind the changes. Between HEAD and HEAD-4? Yank it.
Managing Semiconductor Exports to China
I'm surprised by the amount of NO2 present in the Atlanic off the west coast of Ireland. Given the prevailing winds, that must all be coming from the US. Or maybe it's pollution from airplanes?
Pixel aligned sharp edges do not actually exist and are not meaningful in images, because a perfectly sharp lens does not exist (and cannot exist) and as a result you can never form a sharp edge in an image. You also have de-focus that prevents you from doing so, and a lens that has a wider depth of field has an immediately noticeable limit in sharpness.

Even if you were somehow able to create a perfect lens, you would not be able to create a perfectly sharp edge with real world objects.
Black scientists call out racism
I pretty much exclusively use my iPhone for financial services specifically because it's so much less insecure than even the best desktop OS.
I personally found fairly "revolutionary" to have White players do Jihad. The illustration of Invoke Prejudice does look too Klan for comfort, and similarly Imprison, but the rest (particularly Cleanse) is just silly - you really have to squint very hard to find racist undertones into a color-targeting card during a color-based game.

I don't know, I still think people burning effigies and destroying art tend to be the bad guys. The road to hell is clearly going to be well-paved for the foreseeable future.
Why is it acceptable to edit the headlines on HN, especially to something nonsensical like this?

Original: Louisville police release the Breonna Taylor incident report. It's nearly blank

HN: Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incident report
People can do multiple things. Just the other day they went from the Autonomous Zone down to City Hall.

There's a ton of people signing petitions and sharing information down there, it's not just a block party.

And yeah the website name is not great. :P
I didn't realize I'd have to recompile Golang code after every change. That's good to know. Thanks!
Telling someone that they are breaking the law and giving them a chance to stop before they are punished is not "intimidation." It's like a cop telling you that you're parked in an illegal spot and that you're going to get towed if you leave your car there.
There was almost an air of disappointment from SPD that the police station _wasn't_ burned down. It seemed that they were threatening that it was only a matter of time, "We told you so"-style. But alas.
I hope you know that the "IEDs" that the cops found were candles left over from a vigil earlier. Still with the sticker on them, no less.
To be clear, this is the measure/probability theory definition of almost everywhere, which means that while there are exceptions, it's true 100% of the time.
Woah, this is definitely the solution that the OP needs. I did read about WaveNet's text-to-speech a couple of years ago but didn't know it has progressed this far. It's crazy good, mindblowing.
This is why I'll never access banking data through an app or mobile browser. All it takes is the right zero day and millions of people are compromised. Coupled with the general crappiness of Zelle and you can kiss your money goodbye.
"who air pollution map shut down", "who air pollution map china" and "who air pollution map" turns up no results. It's a green account and their first comment was accusing someone of being a shill, so my bullshit meter is going off.
I think this is more of black = Night and night=scary.

But it could be seen as tone deaf right now.
Do Your 1:1s
I know ProjectHoneyPot was pushing a $x billion litigation against a spammer. I don't remember if/how that was resolved.

This guy[1] apparently spent years just suing email spammers and occasionally winning.

[1] https://www.danhatesspam.com/index.html
I think you summarized nicely on-line vs off-line dating. And yes, look at online dating only one can tell the (online) preference vector.

Also, it is not only about personality. People make much stronger judgments on someone's else appearance: https://priceonomics.com/online-dating-and-the-death-of-the-...
Serious question: does anyone here know specifically what data is transmitted such that the filter authenticates correctly to the refrigerator? Guessing it can't some kind of challenge-response (no processing element on filter)?

I know a little bit about RFID and know a decent amount about DRM in general, but I'm specifically wondering what type of cryptography (presumably?) is used here.

I've got to imagine the RFID tag provides some kind of signed data (e.g. serial number) that can be verified by the fridge's "Führer board" (poster's term, not mine).

BTW this kind of stuff is everywhere, not just water filters and Keurig coffee. IMO sometimes perhaps it's justified for safety reasons (consumable parts of medical devices, laptop batteries[fires], etc.). Not so much maybe for inkjet/laser printer cartridges, coffee refills, etc.

Side note: I consulted with a printer company maybe 5-6 years ago, and they pretty much convinced me (brainwashed me?) that their big concern wasn't revenue stream, but customer experience / damage to the printer. The one and only time I've owned an inkjet, I bought a cheap ink refill and it printed like shit and eventually ruptured and damaged the printer, so perhaps I was pre-disposed to believing the printer company.
I‘ve gone through many chairs. They all create issues if you are sitting long hours.

My new thing is to move the ottoman from the living room into my office. I switch between sitting cross-legged and legs forward like a normal chair. I’m digging the change up fwiw
x2go always worked well for me.
*less of the undesirable and more of the desirable work

is what I meant but did not specify. Is that more in line with what you mean?
Exactly. The first thing they should dispense with is the idea that they should run _all_ the tests in the monorepo. That's what doesn't scale.

Run only the effected tests and the overhead is now more proportional the potential impact of the change.
1994 conservatives: "Magic is Satanic"

2020 liberals: "Magic is Racist"

I guess "protection from black" is the next /s https://scryfall.com/search?as=grid&order=name&q=oracle%3A%2...
Activision investigating Call of Duty’s ‘larger than expected’ 84GB Xbox patch
See, here you're committing the same error that the paper does: pretending pixels are all about photography and optics, and ignoring that some computer-generated graphics actually are supposed to represent perfect squares.

Sometimes, pixels really are little squares. Not always, but not never, either.
What is the racist connotation of Stone-Throwing devils?

Btw, if Pradesh Gypsies is racist, we better start torching a ton of Marvel comics - Dr. Doom is a gypsy and all the (often excellent) stories around his background use the exact same imagery, all the way to the cyberpunk Doom 2099.
Yeah, sadly this is true if you care about online gaming. Even games on GOG often rely on their client or some other form of online service for their multiplayer functionality. I think this is largely because people over the years learned to rely on external servers instead of the earlier P2P approach like what was used in the 90s Quake games where at best you'd have a central server that listed people's but that was optional and you could avoid it.

It was quite an eye opening experience when i noticed several complains at an online forum years ago about a game not coming out of the box with dedicated servers and only allowing P2P connections - essentially people were asking for a game to be tied on a company's servers that would inevitable shut down when the game ceased to be profitable.

But at least for single player games things are much better. Personally i do not care about online gaming so i tend to forget this :-P.

And yeah some games (though it is far from the majority) aren't easy to remove the steam dependencies from (btw all you need are some open source tools, no need to rely on shady alternative DLLs or EXEs). This is why i only buy games on Steam when the price is very low, like less than $10 (and that for games i really like, for other games i might not buy them unless they're less than $5), so that if i cant remove the dependency it wont be that much of a loss to me and i'd still get to play the game in short term. Lately i usually just wait for a GOG or itch.io release though, unless it is some weird indie game that most likely wont appear on GOG or itch.io anyway.
Another option is http://xpra.org/ . It’s a bit more of a commitment as (from what I understand) it replaces you displayManager (e.g. Gnome gdm) and I haven’t gotten around to trying it but I personally prefer Xforwarding over rdp.

Is the difference between RDP and xforwarding basically RDP is giving you a video of the remote display and sending the mouse clicks + XY position top? Vs xfowarding which natively renders the buttons and such and in the button example sending signal that a particular button got clicked?

I imagine a trade off is more security vulnerabilities with xforwarding? Does some have more incite into this?
Expats buy Japanese country house for a song & get more than they bargained for
I was pretty certain you'd raise that. Training people to think sloppily (in any area) is not what education is about. It is not a recipe for responsible citizenry capable of good decisions.
> Apple is turning into 90s-era Microsoft and System76 is turning into early 2000s Apple

This is spot on
Jim Keller giving a talk on Moore's Law at Berkeley,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIG9ztQw2Gc

And another

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eT1jaHmlx8

And another

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnl7--MvNAM

DEC, PA Semi, Apple, AMD, Tesla, Intel. He's been everywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Keller_(engineer)

The internal announcement memo:

https://wccftech.com/exclusive-intel-internal-memo-jim-kelle...
In my experience, SPICE is awesome on a fast local network. I even run it at 4k with a remote VM. I experience more frame drops than straight up lag - but things like video and audio are surprisingly good.

I've been searching for a good (free) virtual desktop/workstation solution but Proxmox as a host + SPICE so far as the best I have found. I'd love to also find something free that supports virtualized or pass-through GPU. I agree that SPICE is not perfect, but it's the only protocol that feels like I am actually using the remote machine as a local desktop unlike VNC or RDP.
The bully can shut down your better school and hide you're report card. Doesn't track.
Note that the idea is not to put a very big accelerator like the LHC, but something smaller.

Does someone have an estimated weight of a neutrino source? The price to GEO is $30000/kg. It't a very low bound to carry some equipment to the Moon.

It is strange that the article has only one author. (The other preprint looks interesting and relevant to this proposal, anyway.)
Why are there so many humans?
The memo interestingly talked about screens, and that it does not contribute to the pixels as squares model because there are "overlapping shapes that serve as natural reconstruction filters"...

But it was in context of old CRT and Sony Trinitron monitors! I was wondering what it'd say about LCD screens but the memo is from 1995, and the first standalone LCDs only appeared in the mid-1990s and were expensive [1].

What it says about CRT electron beams no longer apply, but I'm guessing this still does:

> The value of a pixel is converted, for each primary color, to a voltage level. This stepped voltage is passed through electronics which, by its very nature, rounds off the edges of the level steps

> Your eye then integrates the light pattern from a group of triads into a color

> There are, as usual in imaging, overlapping shapes that serve as natural reconstruction filters

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_monitor#Liquid_crysta...
I wouldn't discount the value of having some rudimentary signs to communicate immediately after surgery. It seems odd to me to focus on some dream of a perfect TTS synthesis if these more basic needs are not addressed first.

If you've ever had a mouth injury that inhibits talking, or been in a foreign environment where your speech is totally useless, it can be very stressful to be unable to communicate. I think the couple should consider learning some of the basics ahead of time, so that communication is possible without typing or any other apparatus.

Considering post-surgery recovery window, I'd want to be able to express very basic things like:

I am comfortable

I am in pain

I am hungry

I am nauseated

I need to urinate/defecate

I want to rest

I love you

When will you return

etc. I might suggest trying to boil down one or two inside-joke kinds of phrases as well, to be able to lift each others spirits in private or intimate way.
How much microplastic pollution hazard does PLA, the filament commonly used in 3D printing, pose?

As far as degradation goes, PLA is essentially like other plastics unless it’s specifically biodegraded in somewhat extreme conditions. However, does it shed micro- or nanoplastics, and if so how intensely? Relevant research is sparse.
> Anecdotally, I was once hired for a company that wanted to build a new product in .Net. The new product didn’t find a market, but their legacy product written in PHP did. None of us wanted to spend a year doing PHP development. All 14 of us left within six months.

Seems like exactly the point OP is making. By hiring devs that cared more about the stack than the product, your employer got screwed when the product with the boring stack took off.
Just posted something on xpra too! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23494012
I believe that won't work for the same reason that I can't cool my house with one A/C window unit and a big fan
Rdesktop is a client, xrdp is a server.
Better https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW18-jILJ66t9KZvoPpN6...
Why make real lasting change when you could instead ruin a children's card game?
What was wrong with the Gesture?
Any chance you could edit my original comment to use this link instead https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW18-jILJ66t9KZvoPpN6... -- much more representative.
> Google is obviously a monopoly.

Of which market though? Search: maybe. Ads: no.
They are thugs because they beat up people, threaten to shoot them and ask for protection tax. Your internalized racism is showing.
I think it would take a lot more than this to get Seattle to resemble Detroit in 1967.
At first sight I was thinking "Europe looks not bad in comparison with China or Middle East". But scroll back to pre-covid time (aka "winter" - jan/feb 2020) on https://maps.s5p-pal.com/:

https://imgur.com/a/Qkx0FPe

All of northern Italy is a one huge brown dot. Does someone have an explanation? I know this is very industrial region, but there are many industrial regions in Europe. What is used for heating houses in there?
I'd be interested in contributing to this project. I'm going to poke around the codebase and see if there's anything I'd be able to help with. Reply if you have anything in mind!
It is worth becoming an EU citizen just to be able to opt out. I am not exaggerating at all.
There are a lot of engines with rating on the chart way higher than the best humans, so every suggestion on their part should be in theory enough to overcome any human opponent. In practice most (if not all) of the players rely on Stockfish and Lc0 (both open source). During a game, most of the time the "best" move is easily agreed on by every reasonable engine on any decent hardware. Only in few cases during a game, the position offers two or three or more playable choices. In these cases a stronger hardware or a longer thought rarely makes the computer change his idea. It's a sort of horizon effect where more power doesn't translate into a really better analysis.

For example in a given position you could have 3 moves
M1 - a calm continuation with a good advantage
M2 - an exchange sacrifice (a rook for a bishop or a knight) for an attack
M3 - a massive exchange of pieces entering into a favorable endgame.
If the three choices are so different, the computer usually can't dwell enough to settle on a clear best move. Instead the human can evaluate the choices until one of them shows up as clearly best (for example the endgame can be forcefully won). In these cases the computer suggestion becomes almost irrelevant and only a naive player would make the choice on some minimal score difference (that can unpredictably vary on hardware, software version or duration of analysis). So the quality of the starting suggestion is somehow irrelevant if you plan to make a thoughtful choice.
This comes up all the time in dealing with geospatial rasters.

For instance, in GDAL there's a whole RFC for dealing with issues related to pixel corners versus pixel centers!

https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc33_gtiff_pixelispoint.ht...

"Traditionally GDAL has treated this flag as having no relevance to the georeferencing of the image despite disputes from a variety of other software developers and data producers. This was based on the authors interpretation of something said once by the GeoTIFF author. However, a recent review of section [section 2.5.2.2] of the GeoTIFF specificaiton has made it clear that GDAL behavior is incorrect and that PixelIsPoint georeferencing needs to be offset by a half a pixel when transformed to the GDAL georeferencing model."
Ah, "that chair everyone had at the computer desk circa 1997"! :) Thank you!
Thankyou for the feedback
Yes, but I think the differences in the ability to disseminate criticism to a large audience over time have have changed how this affects society. That is, people have always done this, and probably always done it about the same amount, but haven't always had it visible to hundreds, thousands or millions of others as easily as it is now. That's not really what I said before, but I think better encapsulates what I mean (or, at least, what I mean now that you've forced me to think about it a bit deeper ;)
I think the interviewer 'acts' dumb, because then the resulting video requires less pre-knowledge to understand.

The video goes from something that 100,000 people with a computer architecture background might watch to something that 10,000,000 people with a tech background might watch.
The mountains create a sort of trap for pollution in the air I believe.
Agree. Learning for my spouse. It's fun and easy and there's a ton of resources online and maybe at your local university. You can get good enough to have essential conversation in a few hundred signs. Deep and rapid skill takes study and practice, as you would expect.
wtf, a propaganda post from a brand new account?
Use each for a week or two. Whatever makes you productive and happy, use it. Most projects aren't going to have special requirements or don't need to scale to millions of users (not at the beginning anyway). So it would make sense to pick a tech stack that makes one comfortable and productive.

If you do have any special requirements (real time, video rendering, scaling to a ton of users etc) then it would be good to spend time looking at the pros and cons of various tech stacks
Change bitcoin to its successor and "theft" and selective redistribution to transference and automatic redistribution along a curve back to labor or into public works, and I think you've got something that probably should destroy finance, insurance, etc.
I recall that the "say" program on the SGI from the mid 90's was approximately Hawking's voice. Hawking gave his speech for the Whitehouse Millennium Lecture at SGI also, and while I wasn't able to attend I found the transcript of it and fed it in there... there were some jokes that he had that only really came through with the intonation and pacing of a voice synth -- its the ultimate dead pan voice.

https://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/show/16112
https://youtu.be/orPUQm1ZRSI

And his voice was his - even with the American accent.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/why-stephen-ha...

> “It is the best I have heard, although it gives me an accent that has been described variously as Scandinavian, American or Scottish.”

> ...

> “It has become my trademark and I wouldn’t change it for a more natural voice with a British accent.

> “I am told that children who need a computer voice want one like mine.”

Somewhere, I recall a NOVA(?) program from the mid 80s where it showed him using the speech synthesizer and the thing that he said with it that still sticks in my mind is the "please excuse my American accent". In later years he was given the opportunity to upgrade it to a more natural sounding voice - but that voice was his.