skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the nature of the mistakes that matter here. It's not like some dumb bug; time and time again they do unethical things that harm their users. Why?
Have you seen how small the UK is vs. our population density? I highly doubt you could find a site big enough and at the correct elevation to make a noticeable difference.

We're the size of Michigan with 67 million people.
That's amazing. The annual pass for all of Switzerland is only around £3,500.
>No, X Is Not Y

This template seems like an extension of Betteridge's law of headlines
Disclaimer: I work at a Fraunhofer institute, though not Fraunhofer HHI, which developed this codec, and I have no intimate knowledge on the financing of that institute or this project in particular. But some basic principles apply to all institutes the same.

Fraunhofer gets roughly 30% of its funding from public sources, the remainder is raised on a per-project basis. It's a fair assumption that those industry partners provided some funds towards the development here. Maybe they even covered all the payroll costs for the involved scientists for the duration of the project.

And yet more income means more money for other research projects. Maybe ones that are not as commercially interesting, or for which a partner decides to terminate a contract rather unexpectedly. While I am also a fan of OSS and would love for work like this to either have no patents or a liberal patent grant, I can also appreciate the desire to fund your research institute.
I presume an independent Scotland would still be happy selling power to rUK, I believe France does this currently actually
A $10USD rise usually means a $15-20 rise here in Canada. Games here are already $79.99 which means with taxes a next gen console game is likely to be >$100 at launch - that's a psychological barrier I think that will be very problematic.

When games are discounted at least 25% within 3 months of release and 50% after 6 months isn't that uncommon, I wonder how launch day sales will be impacted by this change vs longer term sales.

Maybe they've done their sums and realized that the medium term sales would be boosted by this change more than launch day sales.
There have been many games giving you far more content for the same amount of money. And the amount of work to create the same amount of content had increased, the level of detail is far higher.

Some examples I have played include GTA V, Doom/Doom Eternal, Dirt Rally, Fallout 4, Red Dead Redemption 2, and the Uncharted series. There are lots of games that have far more content and detail then their predecessors, and still sell for $60.

Some of those games have additional monetization (ex. GTA online, Fallout 76), but I think if you just buy the game you still get a lot more than before.
None that I'm aware of. I've never even seen somebody claim to be an otherwise qualified candidate who is unable to enter a field due to demographics.
One possibility would be to use your HP elite with an inline USB to USB keyboard controller. You could program it to remap all of your keystrokes to Dvorak, or implement a bunch of crazy macros, etc. they run the same software as the custom keyboards.
The only games where the sticker price matter are Nintendo games. Everything else gets discounted after release.
How can we ban facial recognition when it’s already everywhere?
I'm not a gamer by trade, but have played them in the past. Does the pricing differ if you're playing on Steam vs. buying the game outright?
The problem is that a lot of the investment comes from the large automotive manufacturers. Despite the fans and media interest in the drivers' championship, what really counts within the sport is the constructors' championship (the two are strongly correlated, of course).

What makes the sport more interesting to the fans is not necessarily what motivates teams to participate. One could argue that there are many other formula and racing formats that get that balance between the car and driver, but it's not necessarily something that gets people tuning in. People watch F1 because it's supposed to be pinnacle of automotive engineering and racing. So if I'm a team boss of one of the top 3 teams, I'm not going to be interested in artificially handicapping the sport so that the smaller teams can get in the mix.

However, they've seen repeatedly that fans get bored when it's the same couple of teams who are wrangling for the podium and there's not much excitement per race. So teams at the top will begrudgingly let the regulations be altered to try and spice things up, but nothing too significant. Unfortunately it'll take a downturn in F1 rights income & viewership to make the teams think twice about how to fight this tension between the competitiveness vs status quo. But then the big teams will think, why am I investing hundreds of millions in F1 when I'm not winning when I can spend a fraction in DTM or Le Mans and start building up prestige from other events.

Take the Monaco race, the quintessential F1 race. Watch the pole position lap from the driver's viewpoint and it's the up there with the most amazing 70secs you've seen in sport. However, watch the full race and it's typically a dull procession. As a fan I'd be glad to see the back of it, but sport itself love it.
Does anyone remember Vera Lynn?

Remember how she said that we would meet again, some sunny day

Vera, Vera, what has become of you?

Does anybody else 'round here feel the way I do?
Nearly all popular science journalism is either vastly oversimplified or outright trash. If you want the real story you have to study the actual science, which means reading papers or at least reading articles like this one written by actual practicing scientists or other professionals (doctors, engineers) very familiar with the science. Even then you should cross-reference and gather multiple opinions from the field.

Same goes for pop understandings of science. My favorite is "survival of the fittest" for Darwinian evolutionary theory, which is basically wrong as it's vastly oversimplified and prone to enormous misunderstandings. A more accurate and modern version would be "differential rates of reproduction of patterns of genetic information that influence the formation of phenotypes in proportion to those phenotypes' performance of said reproduction." Not as catchy, and much harder to use to rationalize popular cultural and political fads.
Yeah but back then they actually had to make expensive physical hardware.

CDs are cheaper, and it's incredibly absurd that the download product, which has no production or shipping costs, is the same as the physical.
>The problem with that approach is that anyone can create a certificate for any domain; so if I go to "example.com" then it's kinda hard for me to detect if my connection is being MITM'd, especially if this is the first time I'm visiting example.com. //

I thought they meant the .tld registry would issue the certificate, so any registrar could sell you the domain+cert but it would have to come from the registry (ICANN say, for .com).

Can't the DNS data have a hash of the cert to avoid 3rd party certs (unless the 3rd party controls the domain registry entry, but then MitM is a [ahem] dead cert).
No if you allow / don't control for attempts to game it then no such metric can be made. One attempt to counter this is to use multiple independent labs.
> (not many people use NIV versions)

[citation needed]

NIV is always on the list of most popular bible versions, and is in heavy usage. KJV is by far the most popular, but NIV is still very popular.
Pandemic “Moral Mathematics” Goes Wrong
Ironically in Germany, where Fraunhofer is located, you would have received no such bill.
The US has very localized housing problems. Many tech giants are realizing that they have to either diversify their locations or enter into a housing spiral, as there just aren't enough houses for how many people they'd like to hire.

Once you step out of a small number of markets, the price problem goes away. I live in a well sized metro in the midwest, and I've worked, from here, for companies you've heard about. 4 bedrooms in my street, sitting on half an acre and a decent school district, are $250k. A 1 bedroom apartment would be under a thousand a month to rent, and that's a modern building with good appliances, a gym, a pool and gigabit internet. A single person in tech, right out of school, can easily save enough to get a mortgage in their first year working.

So yes, your situation is very real, but if there was less pressure to be in Seattle, NY or SF, the housing problems would melt.
Finding new leads. When I have job requests coming in it’s all fine, but when I have to chase new jobs and go through multiple rounds of ping-pong messaging with possible customers it becomes very tiring. Ideally, I would be doing this weekly while working on projects, but I haven’t made it a priority.
I'll pay $20 for a movie and be entertained for a couple hours. I've paid $90 for a collectors edition game and played 100's of hours (maybe a thousand or more).

They could charge $100 for a AAA game that doesn't have in-app purchases and I would pay it - if its something I think I'd enjoy a lot.
Very interesting. I just checked back and the bio has been updated [1] over the weekend. It now makes (more or less) perfect sense.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200704120318/https://www.vaxpo...
"Free Speech" issues are usually welcome here.
There's no need for anyone to win, both the person working 6 hours and the one working 12 hours can contribute and be compensated proportionally to their efforts.
That seems likely at least.

You could actually use ML for all of the video decoding, but that research is still in it's early stages.
It has been done rather well with still images [1], so I'm sure it'll eventually be done with video too.

Those ML techniques are still a little slow and require large networks (the one in [1] decodes to PNG at 0.7 megapixels/s and its network is 726MB) so more optimizations will be needed before they can see any real-world use.

[1] https://hific.github.io/ HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23652753
Bosnian Pyramid Claims
As I understood the article, this isn't about storing energy so much as just stabilising the frequency of the grid.

(Yes, if we used more hydro-electric then that would do the job for us, but it's not the case that we need this in order to store energy).
Show HN: Cypher Keyboard Rebuild
Steam sells you the game outright as well so, no.
Thanks for that interview link!

BTW, the film music for both movies you've linked has been written by Tōru Takemitsu, one of the most important contemporary classical composers of Japan in the 20th century. He is also quite well known outside of Japan (at least in New Music circles).
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> Also, if 5% of people have been infected, and all of them make antibodies, then that means herd immunity is still reachable.

A low rate of antibody prevalence in hard-hit Spain would indicate reaching herd immunity (without overwhelming healthcare systems) would take quite a few years, though.
Response to Kohavi's note on non-significance in A/B testing
Luckily, software patents are unenforceable in the EU, so for many of us on this site that's irrelevant.
The APIs are better.
An assembly-line is a machine designed to avoid the need for synchronous human decision-making. Instead, there are only synchronous machine decisions, and asynchronous human decisions based on e.g. sampling, or spotting.

There are synchronous human tasks in some assembly-lines, but as long as they're rote tasks, inefficiency usually isn't introduced. Humans working as if they were machines, are rarely inefficient; and if they are, this inefficiency is "legible" for blue-collar work in a way that it isn't for white-collar work, so an inefficient human "part" can be, er, swapped out.

The whole "thing" that Toyota did to revolutionize car manufacturing, was essentially to make quality-assurance part of the same ground-level machine (i.e. make it a computed outcome of a series of "dumb" machine and worker steps), rather than making it a separate auditing process. As such, they essentially squeezed the ability to be inefficiency/incompetent out of the QA process.
> Then the preference is set and can be changed in settings.

The clipboard is one of those things where this behavior is unwanted. It's one of those where it is important to be asked every time.
I don't use IOS (yet) so "no" on that front. I tried Brave and was happy with it until these recent revelations, so upon hearing about Braver I simply decided to keep an eye on it.
A change in frequency generally changes the efficiency of voltage regulators / voltage converters; over a very large network this can exhibit behaviour that looks a lot like negative resistance, this can induce runaway voltage conditions.
They're open source on F-Droid. You could literally just grep for the clipboard access method in 5 minutes.
Software Update Brings Subscription Based Functions-on-Demand to BMW Cars
Write GUI for FFmpeg... or not exactly. I'm building an API + component library so other developers (and hopefully everyone down the road) can quickly assemble a UI that does a particular FFmpeg job.
Want batch transcode? Add the files selector, destination selector and render button. Want to mux audio and video? make that two file selectors.
How to improve your code quality with Psalm
I'm glad I didn't believe the hype. I just run edge, and I have a powershell script that runs on startup, shutdown to wipe everything.
Or if said static data is a huge data set and unwieldy to maintain.

Or if that data is copyrighted, but allows free usage of small selections.
IMHO, depersonalizing a problem may help to mitigate it.

My IRL analogy:

Working in election integrity, I emphatically encouraged my peers to pointedly ignore intention, to frame problems as "errors", not "fraud".

From the systems view, all fraud are technically errors.

And the conversation is full stop over the moment someone says "fraud", "chicanery", "electioneering".

But if you can keep the convo in the "safe space" of "errors", avoid partisanship and blame and whatever, then it's easier to build coalitions, persuade others, neutralize opposition.

Just my two cents.
Rebuilt Vortex Cypher with Kailh box heavies, added RBG, lubed, etc. Came out pretty nice!
i've seem the same comments here. only difference is that here it would have a source link pointing to a TEDx video.

Slashdot also allows you to mark the few people that make those (and political) comments that are often upvoted as friend or foe. That is the ultimate fix if scrolling past one or another comment bothers you. I personally only Friend people there to bump their comments, as i find scrolling past the bad one easier.
He's arguing that colloquial demonization of dopamine as the cause of addiction isn't fair because dopamine is necessary for normal cognitive functioning and isn't accurate because dopamine is not itself the feel-good hormone, then proceeds to tell that dopamine helps attribute reward to behaviour.
Building a CT Scan Covid-19 Classifier Using PyTorch
Ask HN: How often do you read academic papers?
I don't read academic papers very often, but I have found myself reading them more frequently in the past few years. Mainly these papers are on topics I'm curious about and are sometimes also tangentially related to my work. The topics I'm mainly interested in right now are Databases, Distributed Systems, and Programming Languages.

How often do you read academic papers?

If you do read academic papers, what topics do you read about?
Who Should Decide What Books Are Allowed in Prison?
It's sound epidemiology, but I still reluctantly disagree on practical/political grounds:

1) There appears to be no serious effort to extend the initial CARE payments into the summer and fall. As such, we can't possibly close force more businesses to close and then just stand by as people lose their homes and starve. We're already experiencing significant social instability. We have to be very careful about this, not to mention to core moral issues.

2) Our country is so divided (and most of us have played a role in that, myself included) that it's impossible for the government to order such strict interventions without invoking massive backlash from a significant portion of the population. And again, back to my point about social instability. COVID-19 is far from the worst thing that could happen to the country at this point.
Related to the future time travel. You somehow get thrown into the past, say 100-150 years. How do you put out a message proving you're from the future and requesting time travelers to come back and rescue you?

My proposal is to take out classified ads in newspapers, couching it as a code or puzzle to be solved, and put in dates of major future events you know about. D-day, Kennedy assassination, Challenger explosion, 9/11. Top it off with Murder Hornets and they'll know about when you came from.
Here's how much games of old would cost now, considering inflation:

Atari 2600 (1980, ~$25) - ~$77.79

NES (1986, $29.99-$49.99) - $70.16-$116.94

SNES (1991, $49.99-$59.99) - $94.11-$112.93

N64 (1996, $49.99) - $81.69

PS2 (2000, $49.99) - $74.43

Xbox 360 (2005, $59.99) - $78.76

So if anything, big-budget games have never been cheaper than they are now despite newer games requiring huge development budgets compared to classic titles. And there are way more "indie" games being released now in the $5-$30 range than ever before, many of astounding quality.

But even more importantly, the AAA game industry is moving away from charging a fixed price for big-budget games anyway. They would rather give you the game for free and get you into their ecosystem to buy season passes and cosmetic items. It's more profitable for them in the long term.

In a world of Humble Bundles and free-to-play games, no one has time to play even a tiny fraction of what is being released. There has never been more entertainment available for essentially no cost. The world has a lot of problems, but the high price of video games is not one of them.
> These cars could in theory be even faster.

The constraint is not the budget or testing though. You could make much faster cars with even less money if you removed some of the constraints (particularly in minimal car weight, engine size, aerodynamic effects, fuel, etc.). You don't want them to be much faster for safety reasons - if they go much faster then there would be too many situations where the human reaction time is not sufficient to avoid an accident. The Group B (Rallying) competition suffered from too many accidents and was disbanded.
In case anyone misses the link in the article, they have a graphic-rich version:

https://vdata.nikkei.com/en/newsgraphics/sony-playstation/

(The content is different, though both articles cover the same topic. A bit weird)
As an avid gamer, the price increase I find a bit unsettling (especially since content is moving digitally - thus cutting several costs). Realistically, it's only a $10 increase, however, I feel the sticker price is approaching that point where I personally am at the "wait for sale" mindset. Not to mention that many games these days include a variety of gimmicks (loot boxes, micro transactions, cosmetics) to vacuum as much money out of the customers as possible. EA is notorious for this behavior so I am interested to see how this game in particular (NBA 2K21) is received.

Lately I've found myself purchasing more games on my PC as they frequently have sales and prices tend to be lower than the console equivalents. Of course my "gaming PC" was a bit more than a console, that doesn't seem to be the case anymore with some of these rumored prices coming out on the next gen systems.
You do know Brave is built on top of Chromium which is funded by Google right? I won't call a browser that relies so much on Google as a sustainable alternative to Chrome.
And that's just a short list of the shady things Brave has done. For example, Brave has also carried out an illegal security offering with their ICO.
> Perhaps that progress won't happen at the rate you'd prefer, but it's significantly better than burning the whole thing to the ground.

Changing patent length (pc's suggestion) is hardly seems like burning the whole thing to the ground.

In the US, if I understand correctly, there are ways to defend against patent abuse, though it typically involves costly legal fees. Fees many cannot justify in spending.

Addressing patent challenges may be a way to protect innovators, both those who should gain reward for their innovations, and those who seek to grain reward by building upon innovations.
The most I've spent on a game in the past several years was US$40 pre-tax on Half-Life: Alyx (it was on sale just recently). In other words, I'm definitely not buying games at launch because I so rarely feel the need to play anything now.

But that might change later this year: I suspect I might be buying Cyberpunk 2077 at full price within a couple weeks of launch if it gets good reviews.
Ad-hominem. And misdirected, I'm far from a boomer. How many women want to start a family on their early 20s? How many women start working on that only when getting close to 30?
Pristina, Kosovo is closer to Oslo than Cedar Rapids, IA is to San Francisco. And so thinking about Norway in the way one has to think about the US would mean Norwegians taking national responsibility for the 1990's ethnic cleansing in the Balkans...and Berlin, yes, Berlin is closer to Oslo than Selma is to Cedar Rapids and so thinking about Norway in the way one needs to think about the US probably also means taking adult responsibility for the Holocaust. It was only 1200 km from Oslo to the gas chambers Auschwitz. And of course, Norway participated in and benefited from the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Because the trans-Atlantic slave trade was a European enterprise on a global scale.

If you want a study, study history and geography.
API with NestJS #8. Writing unit tests
Note that 'single payer' does not mean 'single provider'. Single payer systems with many public and private providers are common in Europe.
More graphics directly at https://vdata.nikkei.com/en/newsgraphics/sony-playstation/
"The 31.4-meter line, completed in 2018, has the ability to churn out a new console every 30 seconds."

That seems.... slow? I mean, I have no idea what I expected, but 2 a minute, is that really fast for this type of manufacturing? How does that compare to Xbox or maybe iPhone output? I'm sure 2 a minute is really impressive, but I started reading that thinking something like hundreds or thousands an hour, I guess I was naive.
Think at this stage we're just paying for the IP, regardless of the distribution medium which is just absorbed into the price point. There's also probably an incentive to not undercut in-store sales which would expedite the demise of the game store.
The "AAA" gaming industry seems unsustainable. Big budget games are getting more uninspired by the year and are mostly the same old games with identical game-play and mechanics with shinier graphics on top. They have become passionless assembly lines following a formula.

You'd think at some point people would stop caring so much about graphics. It's also such a huge portion of the cost. Smaller studios and indie developers can make nearly identical games without bleeding edge graphics technology.
FWIW, the NBA 2K game is not published by EA. But it is still full of micro transactions!
To be fair it's pretty nice when you get used to it as I doubt you're going to be using bit shifts much.
3D scanned human library for 3D artists and game devs
What happens if the grid frequency disagrees too much with the rotation frequency of the flywheel, too quickly?

The flywheel disintegrates and turns into a massive spherical weapon of mass distruction?

Like this, but 20x worse?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdcE3VyKv5U