skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 8800 (iAPX 432) provided bounds checking too. Every object reference wasn't a pointer but an "Access Descriptor" that included permissions. So you couldn't access anything out of bounds. I should emphasize that this isn't like a JVM, but was implemented at the machine instruction level. It's hard to understand how strange and radical this processor was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432#Object-oriented...
$8,000 for 2 liters. I knew it would be expensive, but that's bonkers.
How can you tell what section is the adder by the shape of wirings?
All 3 values count, beyond a certain dpi pixels count much less, but before they count a lot (they are the "shelves" for your characters and everything else, given that sub-pixel simulation is very poor).

Unfortunately most monitors around are still at a limited 1920x1080 or less.

For people with poor vision big size counts a lot, good vision small might be better, etc...
On the other hand it may help the society to understand that the law is wrong and fix it. The fact that police is enforcing poor laws poorly does not help anyone, and instead of trying to ban police from using modern tools, in hope that police will not be able to fully enforce the stupid laws, we need to focus on fixing the laws.
I am the author. I would 100% agree with you IF the article was indeed based on a single Twitter poll.
Making risque images of people for blackmail?
Jesus. A 33 year old massage therapist with a peace tattoo. This is getting surreal. I feel a little sorry for her, not because she got caught (the crime, if she did it, is what it is) but because over and above that, she is about to become the target of a torrent of pent-up rage and counteragression from the right, who now have a perfect symbol to direct it at. (I feel the same way for the targets from the left too. My sympathies are with witches, not witch hunters.)
If you watch the body cam footage on that, you'll notice that after the suspect yoinked the officer's Tazer and booked it, his partner did try to Taze the subject but missed. Shortly thereafter you hear the two shots.

If the suspect hadn't stolen the cop's Tazer, he may very well be alive today. I cannot fault an officer for using his sidearm when someone is running off with his Tazer given the situation. A suspect running off with your piece is nightmare fuel for cops as I understand it, and in that situation, I'm willing to wager training and instinct won over political consciousness.

Point being, things went through an escalation from non-lethal to lethal in the right order. There is no reason besides wanting to be outraged to use that encounter as an example of the system gone wrong. If anyone else had done the same, I have no doubt it'd end the same way.

If we're talking about the drunk fellow in the drive-thru at least.
The old guard of restaurants in LA haven't really been touched by the new wave of gentrification. Tito's, Phillipe's, The Pantry, etc.. All packed every night, and haven't changed a thing in decades. (I guess Tito's finally accepts credit cards, so some change is ok...)
I disagree with this article.

Higher resolution (to an extent) allows me to see more stuff.

4K on a 27" doesn't work for my workflow.

My workflow on a laptop is to put two windows side by side so that I can compare things/read documents/code against documentation.

Unfortunately most websites nowadays are designed for widths of 1280px, and anything less than that is sometimes treated as mobile or gives it a terrible responsive design. It frustrates me, endlessly.

On a 16" MBPr I can get 2048x1280, which allows me to put up two windows side by side at 1024px, which does work for most sites, but sometimes there are some sites which are just broken.

A big reason why I need larger windows is when doing side by side PR Reviews on GitHub, 1024px can only show 56 characters, 1280px can only show 78 characters. Personal opinion, GitHub has too much white space. I tend to have another window open to compare against documentation/etc.

I've compared it at

https://github.com/aizatto/character-length

https://github.com/aizatto/character-length/commit/bae8f00fe...

For desktop:

I'm comfortable is 27" 2560x1440. Two windows side by side at 1280px. Pixel pitch is 0.2331mm

Using 4k at 27" is too small for me. Pixel pitch is 0.1554mm . Without the correct dongle/cable MacBooks can't even push at 4k 60hz via HDMI. Tip: use DisplayPort.

I've settled on 38" 3840x1600 because it allows me to setup three windows side by side at 1280. Which works great for my workflow.

Which sometime tends to be:

- 1 window for source material
- 1 window for my main focus
- 1 window for a comparison material

38" 3840x1600 pixel pitch is 0.229mm.

I settled on the Dell U3818DW, because it can charge my MBP via USB-C. Only recommendation is if your laptop is asleep, don't leave your laptop plugged int. It likes to wake it.

The 1600 also gives me some extra room vertically.

If you can afford it, I'd recommend giving 3840x1600 a try.

A list of such monitors https://pcpartpicker.com/products/monitor/#r=384001600
Sure it will when you use enough of it. Remember October revolution, Cultural revolution. You first have to eliminate your direct political opponents. Then you eliminate your allied but potential political opponents. Then you eliminate your possible political opponents from the general population. One of such systems collapsed but the other is still flourishing.
> Don't get so hung up on the size of the CSS when it's relatively tiny compared to images.

It's an issue when you have to make the user wait for the top of the page to render (so they might leave if it takes too long to see anything), especially on mobile on a slow connection.

That's why APM for example makes you inline the CSS at the top of the HTML file and won't allow more than 75KB of uncompressed CSS.

CSS might be smaller than most images but it's critical to the initial page experience whereas image loading can be delayed.
> I have been using a 4k monitor and 2 1080p monitors on linux for a while now. The current state of things is that hidpi works correctly on everything I have run including proprietary apps.

It's good to hear things aren't as bad as some have suggested.
I did live in Rockridge briefly, and it was nice.
Well, maybe it's because it's worse :D
My first thought was "Why a webring for freakshow performers on HN?"

I guess I'm getting old.
That is a ridiculously out of touch thing to say (reminds me of something Mitt Romney might have blurted out). Cleveland is a fine place to live.
I received an email that they reverted the tos to the previous version.

https://pastebin.com/raw/7bmHFK5w
Zoom is being used by at least one court system for remote hearings. Their barebones IT people are completely incapable of independently verifying Zoom's encryption claims.
Ask HN: How to calculate pupil (eye) dimensions in mm using CV (computer vision)
I’m embarking on a project using pupillometry (the study the pupil within the eye).

My requirement is to use computer vision to determine the size of an a closeup image of a pupil (for accuracy purposes the pupil needs to take up 80% of the image).

I can’t use a reference object in the image.

I could use the LIDAR in the new iPhone (unreleased) but the people using this product will not all have the latest iPhone so a more mainstream solution is required.

Maybe there is a published scale standard that I’m missing? Maybe there’s an ML dataset of eyes and measurements that I’m missing? Maybe I’m missing some other obvious solution?

Any help/input would be greatly appreciated :)
3m for 20% is a Series A, not a seed round.
And the shirt that got her busted makes it more ironic:

"Keep the immigrants, deport the racists."
The post states, "When we train GPT-2 on images unrolled into long sequences of pixels, which we call iGPT, we find that the model appears to understand 2-D image characteristics such as object appearance and category." This, to me (former philosophy student) feels like a very low bar for "understanding." Could the model _explain_ 2D image characteristics, or can it only generate them? I'm sure this debate will rage on for a while, but when it comes to intelligence, I believe we ought to be more rigorous with our use of the word.
> scaling

I was plagued with performance problems, mostly in IntelliJ, until I realized it didn't work well with scaling. Going to native resolution solved it.
They reversed course! https://github.com/bountysource/core/pull/1498/commits/b9774...
Storex Hub: offline-first API platform for creating workflows
> Storex Hub is an offline-first Zapier-like API platform. With it you can connect any app in custom workflows, by building Wordpress-like plugins. You can also work with Memex data more efficiently.
There's a list out there of dozens of things the protests have accomplished. Fear of rioting was a factor.
The tech industry is a lot broader than some high-profile companies that have made public announcements. My circles admittedly include a lot of people who work remotely anyway but my sense is that this shift is going to be fairly broad and sustained for people who can productively work remotely. (That said, I wouldn't literally move without having some discussion and assurances for whatever they're worth.)

There are no guarantees in life of course but I know multiple people moving from cities to more rural environments.
Working with the real-time kernel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
You can garnish wages at 1-2 percent. The goal isn't getting repayment, and when you factor against the cost of incarceration, not sending someone to prison for five years is a wash. From what I've read, the average cost of incarceration costs about 70k. Probably enough to pay for the car in one year. So the minimum sentence of 5 years is going to run 1.2 mil while the inmate can't pay because best case they make $1-2 an hour.

It's far more costly to incarcerate than to get repayment for almost everything. It's still more costly to incarcerate than to just forgive the debt and make it painful enough to not repeat.
Curiously, the term "cyber" originally referred not only to computing, but general issues of control and communication over large distances, particularly during wartime (encrypted radio messages and the like): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153954.The_Human_Use_of_...
Curiously enough, after running some simulations in a supposed realistically connected population model (but much smaller n), I found linear growth occurring soon after the exponential phase.

I suspect this might be a topological condition (i.e. the due to the distribution of connections) that limits the growth, in the same way a rope will burn linearly if you set fire to one end of it. Of course, a society is more connected than a rope (in the sense we usually have more contacts that just 'up the rope' and 'down the rope'), but continuing exponential growth requires 'fresh' connections at each generation (so no cycles in the graph) - maybe this limits the acceleration of the epidemic.
I think the creator of this site should revisit its dark mode feature because when I enable it I am getting black on black which makes the text hard to read.
> An entity that is bankrupt and barely functional despite having a state mandated monopoly on an entire country's postal system.

To be fair, plenty of state-mandated monopolies of postal systems still aren't profitable, often because they don't significantly control their revenue stream insofar as they don't set the prices of their products.
The author is very clearly not a gamer.
Post-hoc "evolutionary just-so story" of the day: animals evolved under conditions of predation, where they'd tend to lose blood regularly, either in the process of fighting off/getting away from predators, or in the process of attacking prey with violent defenses. A species that goes years without losing any blood, is effectively operating its body in an evolutionary out-of-spec configuration. It might work, for a while; but it wasn't heavily optimized for.

A testable hypothesis for this: if you count only the animals that survive long-enough to die by degenerative disease, then animals that get regularly bloodied by their predators or prey species should have longer average lifespans; while animals who don't (e.g. because they have no natural predators; because they're herbivores; because they prey only upon species with no violent defenses) should have shorter average lifespans. This shouldn't be purely a per-species effect, but should also be seen in a lifespan difference between e.g. wild and zoo animals, if the wild animals engage in bloody conflict that the zoo animals don't.

Does anyone know if that hypothesis holds up at all? (Maybe/especially if the question is phrased in terms of heartbeats† rather than years?)

† http://robdunnlab.com/projects/beats-per-life/
The Acer monitor's fan is louder as it also includes eye tracking tech which results in increased heat output.
Weibo approach; give your personal info and grow from there. Lots of info to pay with x00m ... World can’t trust they hold my record and share it with Gov (including and in particular chinese gov). The balance is not transparent. And you are not sure ... for the one I have no choice like studying my 2nd master degree. But the one I have ... a big NO. Already have google and Facebook that know a lot about me than myself. Do not want #ccp as well.
Yeah, I agree with a lot of that. Especially the point that creating an obligation to protect free speech is, even if a nice value, pragmatically totally impossible to implement. That's sort of what I was trying to say in my original post (poorly I guess): "sure, maybe free speech would be nice, but honestly how? all the medicine seems worse than the cure and this is a sort of fundamentally thorny problem"

What do you think of the proposal that, to keep section 230, websites with a large audience must implement a standardized api and then folks would be allowed to create their own content filters on top of that api?

Thanks for your post.
It's crazy that zoom seems to have no real competitors who take this stuff seriously.
Mine is 35. Still terrible.
You say this as though one would not expect that testing for genetic disorders requires DNA collection.
It isn't necessary to "cross state lines" to be charged with a federal crime.
Interesting, thanks for sharing (I too was curious).

This is my favorite video on Diffie-Hellman key exchange which is a slightly different problem (sharing a secret, without the constraint of dividing the key): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBfamv-_do (oh, hey, same channel! Guess I'll need to check out more videos from here!)
The current Ice Lake MacBook Pro 13" supports DisplayPort 1.4, which can do 4K at 98Hz with HDR or 4K at 120Hz in SDR.
> There are platforms aside from MacOS

The post I quoted was: "No matter what operating system you're on". I quoted that particular bit for a reason.

The ergonomics of better screen resolution don't change just because your OS isn't good at dealing with high resolution.

When you pick an operating system (if you have the choice), there are a lot of factors, it's good to know what's important to you and choose appropriately.
I think it was bad since when I look through the issue trackers a lot of hidipi bugs were closed less than one year ago but I have not really noticed much other than what I noted about multi monitors.
This is a fantastic post, I just bought a 28", 158 dpi monitor recently and spent quite a bit of time figuring out how to maximize the font quality.

Since there weren't any suggestions for linux, this is what I did for Ubuntu 20:

* 2x scaling
* Downloaded libfreetype, enabled subpixel rendering option, replaced existing libfreetype.so
(I think Ubuntu 20 might already have this enabled, but just to be safe I did it manually)
* Turned off all hinting options in font configuration
* Turn on lcddefault filtering
(necessary if you have subpixel rendering enabled)
* Specifically set 158 dpi in Alacritty terminal config
(Not entirely sure that's necessary?)
I know PayPal and Stripe both have working capital programs, you may want to see if your merchant company offers it.
Those are the ugliest monitors I've ever seen. I thought all monitors were basically boring rectangles. No, apparently there are monitors with weird designs on them and shrouds.
Agreed. My work monitor is a 32 or 34" ultrawide. It works well but I would really like more vertical real estate. I'm definitely shopping for 32-34" 4k displays right now.
With your personal info kind of closed sourced. The program is not the ultimate issue.

And they can be changed without you knowing it. Do you have a Fingerprint that what you get is what they share?
Why do you need a distributed file system to solve that problem? It sounds like all you need is some scratch space?
If you like this, you may like https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8211 and https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8212.
Probably used https://clearview.ai/ ?
I guess I was differentiating plain old negligence from the lawsuits that specifically go after immunity carve-outs in the PLCAA.

Interestingly, most of the reporting I was just reading suggests that the Sandy Hook case has been allowed to move forward because makers and sellers lose their immunity if they "knowingly violated a State or Federal statute applicable to the sale or marketing of the product." This sounded like an overly broad immunity carve-out to me, but if true it seems reasonable that the case is still alive.

But of course, the reporting is not complete, it leaves out the second prong of this carve-out "and the violation was a proximate cause of the harm for which relief is sought"

I can't imagine the Sandy Hook plaintiffs proving or even providing evidence that supports the second prong. It will be interesting to see how this case unfolds. Hopefully it will not settle until all the appeals have been exhausted.

For Section 230, the immunity carve-outs are much clearer and limited. The tech industry must have better lobbyists than the gun industry.

Though if Biden is elected they may have problems:

In January 2020, former Vice President Joe Biden proposed revoking Section 230 completely. “The idea that it’s a tech company is that Section 230 should be revoked, immediately should be revoked, number one. For Zuckerberg and other platforms,” Biden said. “It should be revoked because it is not merely an internet company. It is propagating falsehoods they know to be false.” Biden never responded to follow-up questions about this statement.

https://www.theverge.com/21273768/section-230-explained-inte...
I think people underestimate the degree to which most companies cooperate with the law enforcement.

When I was a teenager working for my Dad's small insurance agency, investigators would come in about once per year and ask for files on customer xyz. When I was old enough, I asked my dad if they needed a warrant. His answer was "Yes, but why the hell would I want to fight that battle?".

In my 30s, I worked for a major financial bank running tech for their US compliance/legal/regulatory departments. The mountains of data that we give local, state, and federal authorities on a daily basis is enormous. I mean you wouldn't believe how much data we handed over - or made available during an inspection. There was a documented official process for both the ad-hoc requests or the regular dumps, but we absolutely never fought with them about what we provided.
So unemployment equals immunity?
Where do you need a distributed file system in this use case? Sounds like all you need is some local scratch space?
I feel like a flare gun is more likely to scare than a lower receiver. A flare gun immediately looks like "a gun" whereas a block of metal doesn't look very threatening (assuming you don't have a tacti-cool one with skulls and garbage on it).

I only flew with a stripped lower once, and the baggage attendant at the Delta counter had to wave a TSA agent over because they did not believe it was a firearm. I never had an issue checking a handgun though.
If the police are indiscriminately killing members of my race simply because they're afraid of people from my race, I don't think a little property damage to draw attention to that fact is really an equivalent response. So yeah, I'm OK with setting fire to a police car in this circumstance.

But the bigger question is, did they really find the person doing the work they claimed or did they use parallel construction to hide illegal use of surveillance tools?
Slightly tangential - the safety of fentanyl isn't significantly different from any other opiate. The issue isn't the chemical itself but rather the huge difference in dosage combined with the unreliable nature of the black market.

If you know what you have is a specific concentration of fentanyl, you can measure out a safe dose. If you know what you have is a specific concentration of heroin, you can do the same. If what you have could be either fentanyl or heroin and you have no idea what the concentration of either might be, then there's no straightforward way to consume it safely.
There's no interlink between Starlink satellites? That's a surprising fact.
Things were definitely much simpler a couple years ago.
Which details are you concerned about? I'm in much the same situation with a common name, but I don't see anything I'm concerned about the whole world knowing on there. You get the schools I went to, the jobs I've had, and my general physical location, but not much else. I'd be leaking as much or more information if I just put a resume up on a personal website.
Browser plug ins only go so far, they can't add back in content which Facebook filters out of your feed using its own profit seeking logic.
> Not saying it wasn't wrong pitch to DEA, but it seems strange that it's Microsoft being called out when

It’s not strange, this is exactly the story that’s being called out. The behavior is incongruous
Even before the original dot-com boom and bust in 2001, San Francisco was seen as a desirable place to live for non-tech reasons. The tech boom drove out anyone and everyone that couldn't afford it, and even those that managed be in rent-controlled apartments found themselves priced out as neighborhoods gentrified and food prices increased far in excess of inflation.

I'm really hopeful that remote work becomes widely accepted so that everyone gets more of what they want. That those who don't want to live in a city are no longer forced to and for those that want to live in a city, it becomes more affordable.

The most recent tech boom finally managed to get some construction going on in SF, but in a city where living rooms were converted into bedrooms and wildly successful 20-somethings having roommates, it's going to have to fall a long way before the city is affordable again on minimum wage.
No. The reasoning is to protect police from frivolous lawsuits and financial liability in cases where they acted in good faith in unclear situations. If you want to get rid of it, get rid of it for all government employees, including elected officials.
I've heard of it, among others. But they are inevitably very specialized applications of what I was hoping would be a general physics simulator (and more detailed at the molecular level than one of the modern game physics engines).

I think it's interesting that humans can participate in the process of finding relevant solutions, but I think it's more important that any agent can be used to find and test solutions to specific physics/chemistry problems.

My hope was to do for low-level physics what OpenAI does with video games -- using them as simulators for problems and to create competing agents to solve that problem.
Every single worker has COVID at one farm
https://www.bloomberg.com./news/articles/2020-05-29/every-si...