skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "it's hard to tell people the solution to a problem they don't have"

It's my main complaint with how maths and physics were taught in school. I didn't understand electricity, trigonometry, integrals etc until long after school when I started tinkering with microcontrollers and robots, and had to solve real-world problems. Then, suddenly all those concepts sprung into life and got real meaning with clear and observable effects.

The only standout was my biology teacher, a former agronomist at a major food producer (rare to encounter someone with real experience), who made us do all sorts of practical things. I particularly remember a display of sugar in drinks that we put together: each of us had to bring a bottle, and he gave us glasses and made us fill them with sugar to match the content written on the food label. That was the day I stopped drinking juice.
It's absolutely not just propaganda. The KKK was formed in the 1860s and there are many accounts of reconstruction era patrols being perpetrated by or with the aid of police at the time.

Enforcing the law required acting as slave patrols for well over a hundred years in the US. In 1757 Georgia, for instance, the colonial assembly required white landowners to be slave patrollers, and this continued well past the civil war.

There is over a hundred years of law enforcement, particularly in the South, acting as slave patrols. It's absolutely reasonable to trace the roots from modern departments back through the nation's unique history.

Not all police followed that path, like I mentioned above, police in the North were formed more out of an interest of protecting property and landowners. Places like Boston founded their police to try and prevent crime, rather than simply exact justice post-facto. That's a different historical root of American policing, and it did not involve slave patrols.
Turns out there are some very small niches where it makes sense. Basically, if you need to maintain compatibility with a larger organization but your profit is independent from theirs, and you have necessary technical resources at hand.
I think you've missed the point. The point is that even if Scott were in fact a conglomerate of twenty people, Scott's writing is still the same, and is what draws people to the blog, and is ultimately why there's any story to be written at all. Nobody, but nobody, cares about the actual human originator(s) of the posts; it's the persona who matters.
Any chance of getting binaries for other OSes like FreeBSD instead of just Linux and Windows?
Did you happen to have Time Machine enabled? (To answer your question, I think what you're looking for is brctl evict.)
https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iphone/stop-iphone-nagging...
I see. But theoretically say I want to make a web-accessible GUI I could just make it using my favorite native GUI library which supports compiling to WASM and it _should_ work from there cross platform + mobile, right? Thanks for the chat :-)
The second metric is obviously more important, but when a pandemic as an Ro of more than 1, any increasing number of cases is a huge issue. Hence why the hospitalizations are on the way up, which is also reported in that article..
This is really not accurate. There are many topics where appealing to evidence or statistics is Not Allowed in leftist discourse. There are certain realities that are defined as not possible, politically, and permitted discourse flows from that.

The far right is even worse about this, appealing to braindead conspiracy theories, bald religion, fascism.

But the left is _really bad_ as well. Not “conspiracy theory gun nut” bad, but nowhere near “well balanced intellectual curiosity.”
If China mearly wanted to destroy Taiwan's civilian society, they could do it. But to take out the defences and make an amphebious landing across a large and dangerous sea is extremely hard. Perhaps possibly only with cyber-warefare to disable the defenses.
When I logged in today and saw the redesign I thought to myself, "how long until there is a hacker news post full of comments blasting this"?

Thank you for not disappointing.
Ask HN: Is Linked in Worth It?
Whenever i hit Linked in, i get this long list of different people spamming certificates of courses they just completed, some machine learning project to detect masked and unmasked face or even machine playing dino on chrome, it really irritates me, is it really that important to advertise your project on Linked in which is not even open source, or advertise how with extreme difficulties you just completed a course, contents of which you are gonna forget next summer?
How much this advertising-yourself thing works?
Secondly, is it really that important to do fancy projects? What if am interested in less fancy stuff, say cli tool development or compiler development, will the society accept me?

P.S.:Asked by a Junior year college student.
Perhaps most famously, the original creator of both ffmpeg and qemu.
So why do I see it going down the hole that Perl and ColdFusion are already occupying?

I see the other side: it's a sinking ship. FB comes to rescue PHP, but internally seems to like anything but PHP for greenfield projects: Java, C++, Erlang (chat msg broker), OCaml/Reason (messenger.com app), even Haskell is used for some spam filtering tool.
Big companies like to brag about operating in 'agile' teams like startups. And in startups you can't afford to over-engineer. It kills lots of startups. So, pretend you're running a startup that has a solid amount of cash? Not sure if there's an analogy for that with what you're doing...
You're free to do whatever you want with your Linux distribution, but if you're not using the thing that the vendor supports, they're not going to support it. There's not really any way around it.

Unfortunately the kernel has significant and widespread implications on the system, so it's very hard to figure out how to support a system that is running a kernel version you haven't validated. As a RH customer, the way I handle this kind of thing is usually by replicating the problem on a "stock" system and working with RH support on fixing it on that system --- this is often an important step anyway since, for my own purposes, I need to figure out whether or not I introduced the problem by something I did.
I pine for an m105 again
I use my real name and censor myself heavily. Pseudonymous speech is much more honest, but I'm not prepared to quietly defy a court order to protect a pseudonym from legal discovery if an employer gets sued. And now apparently journalists might attack your opsec…
> Apple has been slowly whittling away at the MacOS value proposition for developers.

Yes, I think the success of the iDevices have made them change focus. They are no longer interested in making devices for the power user. They now make more money selling iDevices, especially recurrent revenue. And so the ignorant consumers are now their target market.
Your argument doesn't really prove anything, you can just flip it around:

Linux is nice when everything works, and if you don't do anything too advanced for your setup and never have an issue it's good. But fixing issues is much easier in Windows than Linux as long as you know what you are doing.

Anything will be easier to do "as long as you know what you are doing."
I don't understand how people can defend his detractors in this particular case. Are you telling me that an image upsampling model that does not contain hard coded bias, and trained on unbiased data will produced biased result? Especially the kind of biased result represented by the error made by the original tweeter who fucked up?
Interesting. They've done the same for a number of companies including Nokia, Ducati, Lush, Intel, etc...
https://www.daltonmaag.com/work
Long term effects can take a long time to show up. We don't know what they might be.

Of course this is a case where no long term effects are something we are only sure of after currently young people die of old age.
Dude I live in Canada lol.

5% of 270k CAD/200k USD is 10k USD. That's not an insignificant amount of money.

Sales tax is higher here, 13% in Ontario vs ~7% in CA (varies by county or something weird).

Things really are more expensive. Grab any book off your shelf and look at the Canadian and American MSRP, notice how it's still more expensive in Canada after accounting for currency conversion. Gas is more expensive. Alcohol and cigarettes are more expensive. The list goes on and on.

Off the top of my head the only things I can think of that I know to be cheaper in Canada are maple syrup, propane and lumber.

>Most employers provide this. And vision/dental is far cheaper than paying for everything.

Most employers provide it in the states as well, but it's still money they spend on you instead of paying to you. Insurance needs to cover less here, but it is needed for much more than vision and dental. The biggest one I can think of would be prescription medications, there are more but I don't feel like grabbing a policy book off my shelf.

>Buying isn't cheaper. Renting is still significantly cheaper (at least by 1/3).

I haven't gone into any great detail verifying this but I doubt it is true. What cities and neighbourhoods were you comparing?

Again I love my country but moving to a major Canadian city from a major American as a way to save money is a foolish idea.
If it's a chip that you can search for in a product description it has a high enough profile to be an SZ fake. See this example of a fake signal gen IC that almost works properly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02XtneCHnDA

Add in a price that's too good to be true and the odds go up.
2 minute papers has good videos on neural nets learning physical modeling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bw5f4vYL98
Hmm, that’s interesting. BTW, are there known/standard ways to “ensemble” these different algorithms to build more robust solutions (at the price of some extra computation)? It’s not obvious to me how one would combine different extraction results, but maybe one could use some more heuristics to pick the best result for each example.
Is it necessary to reveal J. K. Rowling's real name in order to write an article about her controversial views? I think not.
Why do you need a neural network when you have the Hamiltonian mechanics of the system modeled? I've always understood Langrangian/Hamiltonian mechanics to be methods of modeling the behavior of a system through the decomposition of the external constraints and forces acting on a body. In other words you can understand a complex model by doing some calculus on the less complex constituents of the model.

I'm probably misunderstanding what the accomplished, but it sounds like they've increased the accuracy of a neural network model of a system, notably for edge cases, by training it on complete a complete model of said system.
I got through their virtual agent and reached a human agent who decided to transfer me once she got to know I'm asking for cancellation. I got this response "Please wait one moment while I transfer you to an account specialist." Now I'm just waiting after another automated response "Sorry our wait times are longer than expected. Thank you for your patience." This really sucks.
Work and prayer are not enough. While one's nose is to the grindstone, beavering away at whatever task, someone slightly wiser will notice some shortcut worth a year of diligent labor and prayer. The leisure time that shortcut buys will enable the identification of other valuable knowledge... It may be better yet to join such ingenuity with the labor you're talking about.
You are endangering yourself and others. Political advocations should be carefully considered with the actual science behind it. You might be young and think there's little risk. All the other people around you might not be the same. By the way, your vox link says going to an indoor area with others is the highest risk. It's not low risk.
With a large enough database of potential faces (see VKontakte), you might be able to use this tool to upscale blurry images and match them to a short list of candidates. Other intelligence could then lead you to the actual person in the blurred image. Scary implications.
My 7 Coronavirus Achievements
How much monthly income would a person need to support themselves and work on what they want to work on?
Until you have to connect to a 12 year old printer at work
You said:

>He made the decision to draw his gun in the first place already knowing

Which is different from the gun being drawn. You can clearly see the officer pass his tazer from his right to left hand and then reach for his gun prior to the tazer shot.

>And regardless, it's not like the moment that Brooks fired the Taser was the first opportunity the officer had to calculate how many shots it had left.

Having a second potentially valid argument doesn't change the accuracy of the one made.

>The NYTimes has a good breakdown: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/14/us/videos-rayshard-brooks....

Perhaps you should read it again since they agree with me:

>In seconds, Officer Rolfe passes his Taser from his right hand to his left hand, and reaches for his handgun.

>While being chased, and in full stride, Mr. Brooks looks behind him, points the Taser
An animated WebP is basically a WebM video.

Or let me rephrase, why is WebP as a animated picture / video format insufficient?
Except when they broke most Homebrew installations a few years back (Mojave maybe? Been using Linux for a while now too, that was my tipping point)
Apple has supposedly prepared a patch for OpenJDK to make it work on Apple Silicon.
The scrutiny this release is going through makes me confident that the Redis Labs team will deliver in the end.

Also, if you are looking for a linearly scalable distributed pub-sub with strong guarantees around consensus and message persistence, it might be worth looking at Apache Pulsar.
Proprietary tools, I get. But "breaking" linux is something I don't buy.
Well - you could look at it as extending the browser (into a feed reader) rather than extending the current page.
> people respond to incentives rather than intentions

I like that way of phrasing it. I suppose it's good to keep in mind in ... all? parts of life. E.g. also if raising children?

> Are there perverse incentives? Principal-agent problems?

If I setup incentives some day in the future -- I'd talk with the people involved, and describe the overall goals and intentions. And then all of us together can try to figure out problems with the incentives

(Of course in some rare? case some people might not want to do that in an honest way.)

This was interesting to read, "Principal-agent problems" was a new phrase to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...

> I think people are "intrinsically motivated" too [...] do things for some reason [...] intangible like "a feeling that I'm doing good"

Yes, totally agree
Using Decentralized Protocols to Document Police Misconduct
'face-to-face meetings are a justification for middle management to exist'
Having both written physics engines and worked with GPUs extensively (including GPU physics simulation), I would be really hesitant to go GPU-first unless there was a very specific use case in mind.

There's no doubt that GPUs have the flops/bandwidth advantage, and even all the overheads of adapting a physics engine to a GPU won't completely eliminate those advantages. If a company needed an absolute-maximum-performance backend simulation on computers they built to spec, it could definitely make sense.

But when you move into the realm of game client simulation, it's harder to justify the use of GPUs. Very, very few gamers have multiple GPUs, and the one GPU they do have is often already quite busy.

Ignoring all the nightmarish issues around driver bugs and vendor compatibility, it comes down a question of comparative advantage. GPUs are extremely good at graphics. They can also do a pretty darn good job at physics. Or sound path tracing. Or machine learning inference. Or any number of other high throughput workloads. There's a limited budget, and there's no reason to leave a beefy CPU idle. What task allocation gives you the most bang for the buck? Would your average gamer be okay with worse graphics, just because the GPU is needed to perform physics simulation in order to play the game? The answer will sometimes be yes, but it's something to be careful about.

Plus, especially with the latest surge in CPU performance and competition courtesy of AMD, CPUs can do a pretty darn good job of running physics simulations per dollar.
Of course not, because the police generally do not self-report when they victimize someone. Certainly the plethora of videos that have come out over the past few weeks, and the associated sales police reports describing those situations, indicate that the number is >0.

But as Erem points out, the situations are fundamentally different in that when one is victimized by a criminal, one has a number of options. When one is victimized by law enforcement, those options are severely limited, especially if you don't have money or influence.

But you do have to do a sanity check with the numbers at some point, and reconcile them with the feelings/beliefs/narratives you get from the media and pop culture

I am a black man, that lives in a poor city with high-crime rates. I've spent significant time in "dangerous" neighborhoods, as a resident and visitor. The number of times I've gotten the treatment I've described from criminals is 0. The number of times I've gotten the treatment from the police is >0. The same can be said for pretty much all of my minority acquaintances here. I, for one, am not getting this narrative from the media and pop culture, I'm getting it from life experience. Yes, that's not the same as carefully collected statistics, but it's not based on nothing.
I look at it as an equation between your conscious and unconscious

quite often things that require change end up equaling 0, where your motivation to do it = the resistance to stay the same, stay safe, stay comfortable.

so you need to add something to the equation that's external and outside of your control, that tips the odds.

we have all these big brain solutions to jimmy our unconscious into doing things we want, but we often don't realize our unconscious has the same ability to jimmy our conscious mind to create balance
"If you aren't careful, you are killing people". Seriously?
Those who are dying from this virus can blame their own weak immune system!
I have tried the latter and it seems to work fine.
The Self Improvement Silver Lining of Quarantine Times
> I do not count another UI as a new browser. It should be different under the hood.

Can you imagine any general user ever repeating that? I can't. As those users woud say: nobody cares.

I personally would care, but I'm not the main marketed target for Apple. I also care more about getting stuff done than what engine my browser uses.
> > Freedom isn't free. We pay for freedom of speech in whatever tragedy comes from spreading of "fake news" or whatever because society has generally agreed it's better than tyranny.

> That isn't the cost of free speech. If it was, we wouldn't mind it if teachers taught kids kooky conspiracy theories in school.

Can we agree there are difference between allowing someone to spread conspiracy theories in public, and paying them to spread conspiracy theories in our schools? I've italicized the differences.

You're not responding to what iamstupidsimple said, you're responding to a straw man.
I took the time to read this article and also check my phone settings. I do have automatic updates disabled but have been getting daily update notifications.

From the article:

"Turning off Automatic Updates and deleting the latest update from your Storage will prevent you from getting the alert windows in the future, although some users have reported that iOS re-downloads the update when the iPhone is connected to Wi-Fi.

If the 'Install Now/Remind Later' alert re-appears, check in your Storage & iCloud Usage and delete the update again.

You'll still get alerts from the App Store when Apple releases a new version. But these only come along every few months; not daily."
Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu 20.04 pre-installed is now available
Did Apple start using soldered on storage or RAM for (non-air) Macbooks?
XR Talks: Snap Triples Down on AR
What I want to see someday is a task manager that has "timeouts" for completed tasks. I don't want to schedule laundry and grocery shopping for the exact same day and time every week. Nor do I want it sitting in my to-do list forever.

What I want is to be able to add "laundry" as a reoccurring task and set the timeout for a week. After I do my laundry, I can mark it done, but it'll automatically get added to my to-do list again a week later. It should be marked low priority at first, but increasing in priority every day until it's sitting at the top in bright red letters. This should nicely correspond to the amount of clean clothes I have left.

So many tasks are like this. Except for hard appointments, I rarely set a day/time to get something done. Instead I have a list of tasks that I need to do regularly, and once I've done them, they won't be needed for another x amount of time. Oil changes, cleaning tasks, etc.
If NYT has any angle to do a story on the blog, it’s very likely to be along the lines of “while this guy got some interesting things correct, look at these other horrible examples of sexism (eg consider actual data when forming opinions about gender pay gaps) and racism (eg consider actual data when forming opinions about racial motives in police violence).”

Your comment seems especially silly given that the NYT did, in fact, shut down this blog by threatening doxxing. So, by definition, the idea is not “far out there” or even remotely questionable.
Bio-degradable plastic is a scam.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/biode...

https://theconversation.com/when-biodegradable-plastic-is-no...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/23/biodegra...
I would recommend keeping an lts kernel around when running arch. It’s not much harder than pacman-S linux-lts.
If that's the case, Apple is deliberately hindering their intel version so that the future ARM version destroys it in benchmarks.

They'll win anyway. But comparing a 2021-ish Apple ARM laptop against intel's early 2019 chip isn't particularly fair.

People will see the benchmark as a blow to intel (and it is), but the fair benchmarks would be a 2021 ARM mac against the best intel has to offer
It's a relatively smaller niche than gaming/esports, so such a pivot was unlikely.

Microsoft did admit there is a smarter pivot on the tech side, at least. Mixer's claim to fame over Twitch et al was lower latency streaming and Microsoft admitted they are already working to move the technical teams at Mixer to work on Teams.

> I also wonder what would have happened in a parallel universe where Beam wasn't acquired by Microsoft.

Best guess: something very similar. Beam would likely have also failed to break much of a second place against entrenched competitor Twitch and likely failed to find a solution to the network effects battles when Facebook Gaming or YouTube gaming started up. Best case for them would likely have been an acquihire by Facebook or YouTube rather than Microsoft in that scenario where Microsoft didn't acquire them.
A used iPod Touch is $35, the same price as a Raspberry Pi.

Is a Raspberry Pi "expensive hardware"?
But talk about how white people are superior was not off-limits, was it?

And the fact that he would clumsily ban everything political instead of specifically the nazi shit isn't exactly a great look, either.
Job required a lot of travel, I have at least one kid, partner works full-time. Got a bunch of questions about my childcare situation, hinting if I was committed to this job (requires long hours), etc. It's pretty standard in this line of work (dominated by men) to worry about men with families, preferring bachelors instead.

Not saying it's acceptable or anything. But it is really common.
A wild bug: 1970s Intel 8271 disc chip ate my data