skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Second life has been hosting virtual concerts for 15 years. They have apparently seen a huge spike in signups during covid , that they ran out of virtual land to sell
> It ran pretty well

It was a postproduced, recorded promotional video, not a live demo. They could have shown laptops reaching Mars and you’d have thought “that landing gear looks pretty solid”.
I like HEIC under the hood, but it's not suitable for web as it has exactly zero browser support.

https://caniuse.com/#search=heif

I'm surprised that Safari doesn't support it.

I believe Apple released a bit of Javascript that lets you embed the animated HEIF images (I think they're called "live pictures") in your web site, but that's kind of a niche use.
John Carreyrou managed to take down Theranos despite the fact that Elizabeth Holmes appealed directly to the owner of his paper, who sat on her board.
$100K before taxes is decent salary in London. It's not a lot a lot but that's what a senior developer would make in most companies (excluding financial sector+ some extremely funded shops). Would you stop worrying about money? No,of course not.But you could afford to live in decent area,drive normal car,have some nice holidays in pretty places + put some aside for rainy day.Of course,this is London,so no matter what kind of money you make, there's always someone making x10 times that. But isn't that's the case anywhere?
Your first sentence and its tone were unnecessary and pretty much rendered the rest of the comment pointless. Why even include the comparison?
I self-host my own proxy server on my VPS, so I'm hoping said server is close enough to the origin to be useful in the overall reduction of transferred bytes
Patrick Collison tweeted a powerful graph that quantifies this: https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1275288642022289410
Be careful! Are you sure you want an algorithm to produce more black faces if it would be applicable to policing?
Really? Mine is the exact opposite experience. Gmail, the website, takes at least 2 minutes to load and be usable, so much that I need to use a separate extension to use it normally (Checker Plus for Gmail).
True, but those are trivial to port as there are already mature JDKs and JavaScript VMs for ARM64. Porting an electron app should be a matter of checking it out and building it with ARM support. Applications with internal JITs custom-built for X64 are going to be a lot tougher.
I think sradman means that Nix enables IHP to guarantee the presence of postgres, rather than relying on the user to ensure pre-requisites get installed.

Edit: Gah. :)
Not even close. People have to start with a shared foundation to have a discussion. Agreeing that 1+1=2 is a start. How about agreeing that the earth is round? Agreeing that critiquing research, and gasp changing our minds when the evidence mounts is the goal. Let's pick a weirdly controversial topic - masks. Evidence is mounting/has mounted that masks work, yet people want to fight over wearing one.
This happened to an extension of mine as well, with 10k users. After repeatedly emailing them and getting back different snippets of the policy each time, I think there's some kind of AI or a very process-driven team that doesn't do any critical thinking handling each request.

I've ignored them now and the extension is still up so let's see what happens.

It's pretty clear that the walled garden approach will eventually stifle innovation, and building businesses or even apps for fun inside the frameworks of giant corporations is just not a good long term strategy.
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Some covid survivors sustained life-altering damage. But most did not.

Exaggerating the impact of covid is only going to throw more fuel on the fire for people inclined towards viewing the whole thing with a great deal of skepticism. All these white lies and misleading statements add up and the result won't be improved public discourse.
I mean, my immune system was down due to lack of sleep. I'd have to be healthier or luckier to make it through the adaptation period without getting sick perhaps.
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Good point! I just went back and checked that specific site, and they are definitely doing something odd. I retract my previous judgement
It seems like a stretch to call the algorithm "racist". It's the humans with the bias here. It only seems racist because you are capable of recognizing the image on the left and you know he identifies as a black man. The point of the algorithm is that the photo on the right closely resembles, when downsampled, the photo on the left, and the photo on the right is a generative artifact that has characteristics of human faces. It only seems "racist" if you cherry-pick one example and don't look at all the other faces the algorithm generated.
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Try a grid of 2x2. Is called ambiguity the more you hide it. The idea is so simple on why it wouldn’t work even on trained models.
Probably server-side rate limiting based on IP.
> Success is more random than we'd like to believe, and there is a risk when failure leads to victim blaming.

An excellent sentiment, if less common these days than it should be. Reminds me of a quotation from Chapter XXV[0] of Machiavelli's The Prince: "Nevertheless, not to extinguish our free will, I hold it to be true that Fortune is the arbiter of one-half of our actions, but that she still leaves us to direct the other half, or perhaps a little less."

[0]: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1232/1232-h/1232-h.htm#link2H...
LHCb has not seen lepton flavour violation, and neither has anyone else outside of neutrino oscillations.

LHCb, Belle and BaBar have however seen hints of lepton flavour non-universality.
> For starters, Rudin said, “We kind of proved that you can’t do facial recognition from blurry images because there are so many possibilities. So zoom and enhance, beyond a certain threshold level, cannot possibly exist.”

Least needed "proof" ever.
Branding does matter, but doesn't your example demonstrate the opposite point - overall brand experience is more important than a name?

Riot.im's potential brand association with the act of rioting stops with the name. There is no other reference to riots, or rioting, and violence is not a core part of the brand identity. There is no rioting community that it is appealing to, or normalising.

Discord actively affiliates itself with the gaming community in all aspects of its branding. The gaming community happily embraces it despite the (universally?) negative connotations of the name. You said that you would feel iffy about recommending the app because of the gaming-focused branding, rather than the name.

I get that this is a bit pedantic, after all the decision has been made and Vector, Matrix, etc. are all fine by me anyway. I'm all for changing insensitive, inappropriate names where they refer to specific cultural/historical events/figures which society feels should no longer be celebrated. But in my opinion this is much more superficial.
The "anonymous donor overseas placement" system is clearly a means to launder bribe money into holidays for officers. Anonymous "donations" to police are so obviously corrupt they might as well hang up a sign.
Imagine if you were getting your house inspected and your insurance drops you as a result of the inspection, but won't tell you why.
Relying on JavaScript just for images is a terrible idea.

That said, I do think it's a neat project and can be used if there are proper fallbacks to formats that are natively supported.
Germany's economic model in the late 19th century, one copied by East Asia, was to force savings into banks, and then give out loans at heavily subsidised rates to well-connected industrialists.

This model has never stopped. Equity markets have never really existed because they are competition with the banking system. And the banks are heavily supported by (or owned) government. They have always paid a rate significantly under market. Always.

Germans have the same median net wealth as Greeks and the highest level of wealth inequality in the world (bar China). This is part of the system. If savers take their money out of banks, it is over (and btw, most German banks are functionally insolvent...they were the biggest buyers in pretty much every meltdown in the past fifteen years).

Germany is a developed economy but it's financial markets/banking system is Chinese (unsurprising because China copied Japan and Japan copied Germany). Savers get utterly screwed, the wealthy are eating their lunch.
My news and social media feeds are almost universally negative about this.

Who is happy about H1B Visa suspension? Who was advocating for it?
HEIC/HEIF is not an Apple format. It's an MPEG format that's been around for half a decade.

Apple started supporting it in 2017. Microsoft in 2018.

You are correct, though — it's not supported by any browser.
They already did that in No Way Out, way back in 1987:

https://youtu.be/0zLL_XdqxmQ
Yeah; I have been trying to find ways to support my open source work and educational work over the past year, and I finally struck YouTube algorithm gold with a couple videos last month... but trying to replicate that success is hard.

Sometimes I can spend days or more polishing a blog post or video and making it really good—and it falls flat.

Other times I'll write up a post in an hour or so and it front pages on HN, gets traction on Reddit, etc.

It seems more random than anything, though the fact that I've put in lots of hours on other content means I'm not starting from zero here.

For GitHub sponsors, I didn't get any real traction until I explicitly started asking people to be a sponsor. I don't even have 'rewards' or anything... maybe that would help, maybe not. But it's still hard to get people to commit money to my cause, and I think the same skills are required for this that would be useful in nonprofits and charities soliciting donations.
As an intended MBA applicant for the class of 2021, the recent uncertainty around H1B visas makes me very uneasy and disappointed. I was forced to leave the U.S. back in 2016 despite having an investment banking job and paying meaningful taxes, which was incredibly frustrating. I was hoping for another shot at living and working in the US after completing an MBA, and now it looks like there either won't be a chance or it will be at best a shot in the dark. I am now seriously considering avoiding U.S. schools altogether and applying for top business schools in Europe such as LBS and INSEAD.
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> it was one of the core problems in physics at the time.

What were the specific "practical" problems that investigating and figuring it out that were solved?
I've reduced my average weight from 75 kg to 65 kg by daily intermittent fasting: I eat the same things as always, and I consume the same amount kcal, but I restrict my intake to a window of 6-8 hours instead of eating throughout the full 16 hours I'm awake. I don't eat until lunch, and I make sure I have had my last meal for the day no later than 8 in the evening.
I'd be curious to see a side by side comparison. It might make sense to use Starship for humans and initial supplies and a nuclear thermal design for much heavier loads that would require many back and forth runs by SpaceX Starship rockets.

Or maybe the reverse is true.

Chemical rockets (trad est): 8-9 months to Mars
Chemical rockets (SpaceX est) : 6 months to Mars
NERVA nuclear thermal rockets (NASA est): 3-4 months to Mars

If compressing the time to Mars becomes the more important mission parameter due concerns over radiation, 0-gravity effects on humans or just something going wrong. Then perhaps Nuclear Thermal are the only choice for people and chemical rocket makes sense for supplies.

I'd love to see any research people have done comparing these two options and seeing which one works best.
Some previous discussions from a quick search to give some context to the frustration (sorry for the length, it's intended to be illustrative, I cut it at 10):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23219427

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229073

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20186915

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21232438

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23285466

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12442048

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21990566

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23168874

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21233041

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20587440

I'm not suggesting Google doesn't care, but...
Awesome! Another reader of Taibbi's.

By the way, the Post Gazette seems to have stolen that article, so maybe don't drive business their way. https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1274747185507246081?s=20

Instead, here is Taibbi's substack. If you're off a mind, a subscription is only $40 per year, but the stolen article is nevertheless free. https://taibbi.substack.com/
My wife and I have a combined >20 years experience in microbiology and medical research, so we’re feeling the pain of “this journalist has no idea what they’re talking about” more than usual these days.

The coverage of COVID has been more distressing than the actual disease. (Hint: epidemiologists specialize in studying the spread of diseases after the fact; asking them about an ongoing epidemic is like asking an expert on Roman architecture to build an office building.)

Here’s some example nonsense in the news. I regularly see the same story argue both points in each bullet:

- Sweden has had too many cases (deaths), and too few cases (people with antibodies).

- Last week 5% of 1000 confirmed cases died; this week 0.5% of 10,000 estimated cases died. “Experts” “baffled” but we are winning and can reopen (the same publication will flip the numbers and conclusion tomorrow)

- Antibodies might not lead to immunity, but the vaccine (which does nothing but cause your body to create antibodies) will be a panacea.

Bonus gem from yesterday:

New study shows kids don’t spread COVID. The numbers are based on studies of areas where schools and daycares were closed, and the kids were quarantined. Adults were more likely to catch COVID at work than from their quarantined kids. There was one (just one) school where the kids spread COVID amongst themselves, but that was probably an outlier. No one really understands how it happened.

Note that the high-level conclusion of this last article was probably right: kids usually don’t get symptoms, and asymptomatic people are less likely to cough / spread it. A stopped clock is right twice a day, I guess.
They need to prove they can do a few things before I'm worried.

* They need to ramp the clockspeeds -- much easier to say than do.

* They need to include 256 or 512-bit SIMD operations without breaking the power budget.

* They need to design a consistent and fast RAM controller (and likely need to add extra channels)

* They need to integrate power-hungry USB4/thunderbolt into their system.

* They need to add a dozen extra PCIe 3 or 4 lanes without ballooning the power consumption.

* They need an interconnect (like QuickPath or HyperTransport/Infinity Fabric) so all these things can communicate.

These are the hard issues that Intel, AMD, IBM, etc all must deal with and form a much bigger piece of the puzzle than the CPU cores themselves when dealing with high-performance systems.
This is why I like the hybrid approach that Android has for apps, at least as of 2020.

That it has its walled garden, but it is possible to install from arbitrary sources (with sufficient warnings to users of those dangers). In iOS, you can't sideload at all.
While what you write is true, quite often lead engineers of big open source projects quit working on the project because they get frustrated of all the people demanding features from them.

As patreon got more successful over time and youtubers make part of their content payed, I would be surprised if many open source engineers without other revenue didn't adopt more of the sponsorware business model.
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Skype did a lot wrong, for sure. But something worth mentioning,

In 2004-2006 my ISP in Canada illegally "intentionally degraded the quality and reliability of Skype calls" to convince customers that Skype sucked and that we should buy/use their video/call software.

It worked, in one sense. I have hated Skype ever since because it was absolutely the worst, and never trusted it to work. I do know that wasn't their fault but still won't use them. They also seem to have super bad security, IMO.
This seems almost purposefully disingenuous to me.

Yann LeCun isn't receiving a partial research grant from Facebook. He's literally an employee of Facebook. His job title is "VP & Chief AI Scientist" (at least according to LinkedIn).

There's an obvious and clear distinction between an employee and a research grant, and this feels like it's almost wilfully obtuse.
>The fact is Scott Alexander was my canary. If a compassionate, liberal-minded intellectual that carefully understands both sides of every issue doesn't find it safe to write online it's not safe for anybody outside of the dominant culture.

By that measure, it hasn't been safe since he started his blog. In the article, he explains why he's always used a name he hopes people cannot trace to him.

"Cancel culture" is worth discussing, but it's not the topic of the article. He gives one example of it in a long list of things peoplr have done when they dislike him for the blog and discovered his identity.
> If a journalist interviewed a popular camgirl who introduced herself as (say) LustyClaraXXX, and then "did research" to compare pictures, and revealed her legal name an occupation (say, a schoolteacher), would you consider it ethical?

It really depends on the context of the story, with additional nuances that a competent editor must consider:

Is this camgirl the central figure of this story?

What are her reasons for not revealing her real name?

You say she is a school teacher. What kind of teacher? Is she a well-known professor? Is she someone who teaches kindergarten?

Does she make more money from camming than being a teacher? That in itself could be another story about the system.

And on and on and on.
H1B is terrible for the employees, and for those who work alongside them. Companies try to slow down green cards, and use H1Bs as virtual indentured servants.

They also fake looking for Americans- in practice, many of the jobs are earmarked for a specific person, and you are wasting your time applying for it.

Losing your job as an h1b requires you to leave almost immediately, which isn't great for anyone.

Hopefully they'll reform the process to focus on bringing talent into the country without chaining it to a specific company
Google/Apple/MS app stores are pretty much a bastardization of software repositories found in the Linux world for years beforehand[1]. I doubt we'll see requirements to allow importing 3rd party repositories/signing keys at this point without some legislation.

Yes, I get some users don't always know what they're doing and it might be a big security risk, but just put up a big enough warning. People shouldn't be locked in to what software they're allowed to run on their own devices.

[1]: https://battlepenguin.com/tech/android-fragmentation/#packag...
Very, very poorly. I do not feel safe talking about it in this forum, as I am sure I will get yelled at by dozens of people for at least 4 different reasons.
> The difference between left right and right wing movements is that the right has sort of agreed on an outer bound for how far right is too far.

Heh. Is that a joke?

> It looks something like political/national racial purity. Once people start spouting that, they tend to be removed from polite conversation.

Yeah, the American Right has really marginalized Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, et al.

> There is no similar outer bound on the left

Really? Which of the following statements will get you excluded from public political dialogue in the US)

“Europeans did Africans a favor by bringing them to America as slaves”

Or

“Capitalist ownership of the means of production is a root of injustice and fundamentally incompatible with democracy”

(One of these has been prominently made by prominent voices on one side of the spectrum without repercussion, while people are routinely excluded for statements for more moderate than the other. At least in the US, to the extent anything vaguely resembling your point is true, it's exactly the reverse of the split you've proposed.)
£80k income puts you in the top 2% of the UK. Something that 98% of people (lower in London but not vastly lower) manage without can hardly be called "table stakes".
It is strange that people don't consider the money value of time when addressing the prices of products. 30 dollars is extremely cheap, since 36 minutes per month as you say is such a small value as to be negligible.
taxes aren't a silver bullet. if the affected companies were to just pass the extra cost to consumers (why wouldn't they?), then you effectively have implemented a regressive tax that affects the poorest consumers the most.

clearly there's more to it than that, but assuming that the market can address any negative externalities just with taxes is pretty naive IMO
> Firstly, the biggest by far has been from a certain large games company that has consistently blocked us from being able to trademark Riot or even Riot.im

Using that logic would leave us to believe that they are changing the name "matrix" as well. After all, more than just "a big game company" will try to block you from trademarking it
Gave it a spin. UI is pretty clean, good landing page and neat that it can do isometric as well. Love the path tool. Wish there were dedicated Undo/Redo buttons in the top bar. Only bug I found was that if you use the menu item to 'rough it up', ctrl+z undoes the rough up and the last item you created.
One of the biggest barriers against adoption of these newer formats is the lack of pure java implementations for use server side.

The Java wrappers around a native binary are helpful, but for many projects not very useful and this hinders adoption.

https://github.com/haraldk/TwelveMonkeys/issues?q=is%3Aissue...
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What do you mean 10 could be? Ten copies of SSC? That wouldn't work.

EDIT: Thanks for the clarification, zepto. I see your point now.
It might be less true for pixeled videos. I know from some IR camera companys, they use very small movements from the camera to calculate the picture in a higher resolution. And I think, the first picture from a black hole use also a kind of this technologie
But that's my point. If app stores are an important enough part of our economy -- not just monetarily, but particularly with regard to privacy and cybersecurity -- then there may reach a point where we need laws around their policies.

It doesn't matter that Apple and Google aren't governments. Either app store approval could be done by a new government agency (after all, aren't doctors and lawyers regulated?), or (far more likely) the legislature could pass laws determining how Apple and Google have to run their own or face stiff penalties that actually have teeth.

So that, at the end of the day, if Apple or Google make a wrong decision and refuse to correct it, you can ultimately sue them in court and win.
I think the NYT considers the obscure blog a snack.
both of the arguments here are pretty laughable.
They were generally present beginning in the 1980s. The phone you linked is from the 1960s. The layout with Q and Z was standardized by ITU-T in 1988 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.161

Earlier in time the letter "O" was also not generally on phone keypads.
AVIF is in the comparison, and the article notes it's in Firefox (behind a flag) and ought be coming to Chrome soon.
I would say it really depends on the PNG compression library you are using.
Tools like RIOT or Compressor.io can give you optimal results on PNG compression.
Yes but life isn't all or nothing. One can choose to reduce their risk and one of the ways to do this is not use an app called "Riot".