skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know if Godot can play a live video stream with graphics drawn on top?
A ton of companies in the US offer this, including ADT. https://www.adt.com/patrol
Windows 10 on Chrome OS using QEMU and Virtual machine manager
I live in New York, which has no exemptions. I suspect that having a last name early in the alphabet has some significance in my county as well, I’m called about every 4.5 years, starting the week after my 18th birthday. I’ve been selected about half of the time.

Also, I’m fortunate to have a job where there is no financial penalty for service, I find it interesting, and I’m not comfortable hamming up some nonsense to avoid it. I’m always surprised I’m picked because of my job (lawyers don’t like engineers on juries), and I am friends or relatives with a bunch of attorneys and policemen.
From the article: "We ought to add some nuance. For each incremental increase in the frequency of the beneficial mutation, it’s not technically a death that’s called for, but only the failure of one individual to survive and reproduce. Maybe someone just doesn’t get to have her allotted offspring. The point is only that the parent’s genetic lineage must come to an end. But in nature, that usually means mortality for either the prospective parent or the offspring. A reasonable shorthand is, well, just death."

This is what happens when skimmers comment.
One dumb trick I've had success with when it comes to exercise is to just put on my gym clothes.

It may be several hours before I actually go on that run, but now the task of running needs to be executed before the clothes can be taken off.
Lovely. Just got my own 6.6kW ground mount grid-tied array installed. During the summer here in NM, this produces roughly 4x more electricity than we need. Currently, it's just dumping into the (local) grid, and probably powering a few neighbor's homes, which is excellent.

But this just highlights the bigger more general problem: it makes little sense for us to have our own battery system, and bigger systems need to power storage if solar is to be able to provide overnight supplies.

I keep wringing my hands over whether I should have aimed for full off-grid status rather than grid-tied, but if/as the grid gains viably scaled storage, grid-tied becomes more and more clear as the right choice.
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"Favor" is the wrong word, but only because that implies a lack of payment. Quoting from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18411779 :

> 2009 - NSA offering 'billions' for Skype eavesdrop solution [1]

> 2011 - Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion. Why, exactly? [2]

> 2012 - Skype replaces P2P supernodes with Linux boxes hosted by Microsoft [3]

> 2013 - Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages Subhead: Skype worked to enable Prism collection of video calls [4]

> 1. https://www.theregister.com/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_f...

> 2. https://www.wired.com/2011/05/microsoft-buys-skype-2/

> 3. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/skype...

> 4. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-...
ByteDance’s goal is becoming a global company， so TikTok intentionally keep a distance from Chinese gov't from the start.
It's kind of funny that the article, and most, if not all of the comments imply that basing sentencing on physical attractiveness is "unfair".

Yet our current society tends to consider it completely fair that success should be a function of IQ.

IQ is no less a given than face symmetry. Grit too. Nothing's "fair".
Tracking what tiles the guest has been to and disallowing travel in a direction that does not lead to any unvisited tiles while keeping behavior otherwise random would be my preference.
We have started to hit this in the last two years. Models get deeper, more FLOPS but not practically better metrics except FPS. But for our use cases and on our hardware constraints, 30fps on a model that's a couple years old outperforms even the Yolov99 or whatever is SOTA.
Now for the small matter of the 95% of unknown Dark Matter.
I am possibly wrong and not stating this in absolute terms, but it seems to me, most view this report as negative.

Unfortunately, not having multiple similar reports on different ideologies, it is very hard or even impossible to conclude it is actually negative.

There is good chance there is similar report on every ideology, possible organizations, that currently show any signs of possible violence on US territory independent of politics, religion, or race.
The blue one with a white-on-green cross was definitely Space, too. Maybe a couple of others.

Putting them together like this and photographing them well really elevates them.
Meh somebody on Twitter got triggered... every one else is jealous. The entire system is failing during covid so is that really all that surprising that wealthy people are opting out
Just copy blind auditions orchestras do.

Everything is done by typed text, with no humans visible. Jurors just sit isolated in a booth reading the text, or have the same person read out all the text to them.

Lawyers would be against it, but everyone would benefit from a society that decides guilt based on how convincing an argument is and not how convincing the person saying the argument is.

"Look at that man, he is guilty." Is not very convincing when the person who is supposedly guilty has never been seen.
That's why the salt is randomly generated per-password, and stored in plaintext beside the (hashed) password.
The original RollerCoaster Tycoon (1) also had mazes. I wonder if the same algorithm problem applies to it as well? / Edit: The answer turns out to be yes. https://youtu.be/b-5aX2oLOgU?t=61
>I like the idea of not supporting laws you're not willing to enforce by gun.

Speaking of which, this whole covid thing with the masks, the travel bans, etc. is really a great illustration of the differences between legal, enforceable and politically palatable. Of course nobody is learning these lessons because we're all busy arguing about masks.
> I think at this point it's just sloppy to use '$' by itself in any potentially-international context.

Totally. It should, of course, have said:

"0.0307227 BTC, as of 2020-08-04 01:31 UTC based on an average of the top 4 crypto exchanges"

;-)

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FWIW, if you believe the Gospel accounts, that's exactly what happened in Jesus' day.

His interactions with the Sadducees and Pharisees are mostly him lambasting them for doing much what you describe.

As he himself said, regarding eventual judgement:

> Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A21-...
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/hxvts0/d_b...
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> They also used depleted uranium, which is banned by international law

Uh, no it's not. It's not even covered by one of the treaties banning weapons that the US hasn't signed up to (such as the cluster munition or landmine treaties).
What is TikTok doing, other than selling its international operations, that would prevent it from having to provide foreign users’ data to the Chinese government at their request?
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I've not looked at the source, but I doubt that each guest has a unique PRNG. It's more likely that there's one PRNG for the whole game, and so the behavior will depend as much on the number of guests in the park as anything else.
Sorry, that's not an answer. I'm asking whether there are any projects that use modern C++ to its fullest. By fullest I don't mean using features for features' sake; that's a ungenerous reading of my comment.
Or replace the $80+ "tech" climbing pants or selvedge jeans, expensive trail runners or toe shoes or whatever, tech company t-shirt, and American Giant (on the cheap end, it goes up from there) hoodie with: $25 Lee jeans or Target cargo pants, cheap big box store sneakers or cheap work boots—not, say, Redwing Heritage or you'll accidentally start fitting in with the hipster-tech variant of tech fashion, because they're kinda impractical and expensive-for-their-features compared to other work boot options, and yes of course I own some—a Nascar shirt and a wal-mart hoodie that's missing its plastic aglets because it's been washed once.

You can definitely dress in a way that doesn't look that much "lower" to an outsider but looks very wrong, and, gasp, poor to someone in-tune with tech worker fashion. So it's not just dressing too nice that does it, and hell, for that matter you can spend about as much as the cost of an on-sale Brooks Brothers suit buying a "tech shabby" outfit[0], with results that will definitely be appreciated by many your fellow tech workers, or simply overlooked by others in a way that Red-State-Working-Class or suit-and-a-tie won't.

[0] The aforementioned Red Wing Heritage boots are north of $300 for most models, full retail, and check out Arc'teryx and such for how expensive trail shoes can get ($150+, and they're not the most expensive brand), but even something like Danners are pretty pricey compared to what normal people buy for shoes; dropping $200 on a hoodie and rain layer is easy (again, go for expedition-clothing sorts of products to run up the price tag but also the tech worker cred—$300 just for a paper-thin rain jacket isn't even the top of the range); $80 merino wool hiking shirt ("I just love how it keeps me dry, but also I love talking about merino wool with other people who know how expensive it is"); and shit, jeans, sky's the limit, you can hit $200 on those while still just "buying more quality" and not even in just-paying-for-the-label territory yet.
Hey - able to give any sort of salary band for the fullstack position?
>- Wore a shirt

I still insist you wear chaps on top of pants or your short trousers. Pants are fashion, chaps protect.
Why would any engine re-render if it's not needed? It will still have benefits even on desktops.
Are you advocating that doctors prescribe more pain killers to treat pain instead of medical marijuana?
You can probably try to find the English version of the memo in this news here: https://www.scmp.com/tech/apps-social/article/3095822/byteda...

But in any case. I did not say ByteDance is substantially moving towards independence from the Chinese government (what does that even mean, should it disobey laws in the country it's operating in?) and I'm not privy to any inside information as to how tightly integrated it is with the party. I'm just saying that it is trying to position itself as such.
it's working on expanding combusted gas through a turbine, rather than hot steam through a turbine

Recent gas plants are called CCGT, and use both combusted gas and hot steam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_cycle_power_plant

As Wiki explains it: combined cycle has a large gas turbine (operating by the Brayton cycle). The turbine's hot exhaust powers a steam power plant (operating by the Rankine cycle). This is a combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant. These achieve a best-of-class real (see below) thermal efficiency of around 64% in base-load operation.

Modern natural gas plants are very efficient. (But probably not as efficient as PV solar storing energy in grid scale batteries).
> going to store.google.com/cart returns 500 errors (Error code: TIMM) and support is non-existent

:shocked face:

(I think that maybe store.google.com is somebody's 20% time project, and they just haven't announced it's shutdown yet...)
It should shake out that way, but sometimes there are places where the gears don't quite mesh. For example they might have loans secured on the property as x * monthly rent, and so if they rent it out cheaper then they have to post additional collateral which would be more than a few month's rent.
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Some producers and engineers at Blizzard can make well over $100,000 a year, but others, such as video game testers and customer-service representatives, are often paid minimum wage or close to it.

It's about time this conversation entered the mainstream. It should go farther though — why shouldn't we all be able to buy Lambos or Teslas for the price of a Honda? Or, for that matter, Google shares for the price of GE?

Does no one understand modern monetary theory?

:clap: Just :clap: print : clap: the :clap: damn :clap: money.
For me smartphones died with the iPhone SE (2015). The last smartphone with sensible dimensions
A high % of the comments?
But also "You have to realistic about these things".
The margins on the financial instruments that affect real estate are generally slim enough that a couple percent here or there as a result of tax is the deciding factor.
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Dark City is one of my favorite movies. Other than the color palette and genre, it has almost nothing in common with The Matrix. The plot beats are very different between the two movies.

What beats do you think are the same or similar between the two?
I suspect sometimes people just have trouble acknowledging the real value of a building. It certainly happens with a lot of home owners.

In good times you sometimes see landlords dramatically raise the rent on tenants, have the space empty, and then continue to stay empty for months.
Ask HN: How can I build a strong network without LinkedIn?
I'd like to build a strong network (mainly for business/professional relationships) without the use of LinkedIn (or any closed/shady networks). Is this even feasible?
I agree, but Trump is not putting that frame on it. I suspect he doesn't have a problem with China's 'unfair' competition policies, he just have a problem that the US can't have it's own similar policies.
A better president would use this as leverage to get China to change it's policies.
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I love this font
A lot of work here is done on predictive prefetching.

What if the application had a richer way of communicating with the IO layer instead of a series of reads?

For example reading and processing data in a loop, it could first say that it will need the data at 1a, then x time processing, then 2a, then x time again, then 3a, etc. The IO layer learns what x is, finds the best access pattern given all its requests and upcoming requests. Although this doesn’t work for cases where your next read depended on the last read, it still unlocks many more usage patterns than sequential prefetching does.

Is this just too much extra work for the application developer?
What if instead a process similar to JIT was used?

Bottom line is I think incorporating application level knowledge could improve the prefetching
I think heat energy distributes itself in a system so that each particle carries as much energy as each other, whatever its mass. Molecules can carry energy in spinning and vibrational modes that electrons can't, which means the electrons have to go even faster, for any temperature. (Electrons have constant "spin" that varies only by direction.)
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Proactively mitigating the abuses that would emerge from a state that doesn't need to encourage more low paying jobs that have a very high rate of sex trafficking? At least the Bud Light at the strip club isn't $12 like that place I went in Las Vegas.
How did this "BioButton" only seem to come into existence in the past few months?

What is this tech based on? What was it called pre C19? It seems suspicious to me.

The Cayman Islands are looking into it for visitors as well

https://www.caymancompass.com/2020/07/23/government-gives-mo...
For certain tasks, of course, you can also make them enjoyable, or have a built-in (immediate) reward: you have a podcast or audiobook you want to listen to, but you only do it while exercising/cleaning/whatever.
The conversion of {speech, body language} to {text, nothing} is pretty severe when you're on a jury trying to establish if the person on the stand is credible.
Those budget phones are generally insecure from day one (many months out of date on security patches) and often never get security patches at all.
Yep, I bought a Pixel 3A when it first came out and I'm still consistently getting 2+ days battery with every charge. It's honestly amazing to not have to worry about batteries anymore; whenever it gets low I just charge for 15-30 minutes back up to 75% and I'm good to go for at least a day (repeat ad infinitum).

It's a perfect encapsulation of why I just can't wrap my head around phones without a headphone jack. Why would you want to worry about managing battery levels on more devices? Going from 1-->0 is the dream and I don't think I'd ever upgrade to a phone where I have to worry about battery again, let alone a phone where I have to worry about two batteries.
I think there could be some reasonable guardrails. For one, its servers could be fully hosted in the US (if it's not already the case today), and it could be subjugated to US laws and regulations that require user information be protected. Its data infrastructure and code could be audited and if found breaching such laws it could be punished accordingly.

On a side note, neither Google or Facebook could comply with the Chinese law that require their servers to be hosted inside China. But I'm not saying that justifies TikTok's business in the US either.
I once went to lunch with two colleagues. One was the son of wealthy parents, the other came from the poor side of the tracks. The first was dressed in a casual t-shirt and shorts, the second in an Armani suit.

The first ordered lunch and wine, in the most unconsciously casual, elegant way. The second then tried to imitate that manner, failing pathetically. I.e. the clothes didn't take away the upper class manner, nor bestow upper class mannerisms.

It's hard to fight your upbringing.
Is each generation independent though? In other words, if the past three generations were in the top N-ile, do you have a better chance to also be in that bracket?
Whenever the topic of sharing salary information comes up I always bring up the algorithm for figuring out the average salary for a group of people without anyone learning anyone else’s exact salary:

Say you have 10 people sitting at a round table. Person 1 picks up a piece of paper and on it writes a sum of their salary + randInt(100_000, 10_000_000) remembering what the initial random number was. We can call this number the seed. They then pass the piece of paper to the right and person 2 reads the number, adds their salary and writes that number on a new piece of paper that they pass to person 3. Finally when person 10 hands the paper to person 1, person 1 subtracts the seed from the final number then divides that value by the number of people. That gives you the mean salary of the group.
Much of what attorneys do is for their client(s): win or lose, the client pays the bills. One of the attorneys I work against is extremely loud in court but seldom wins. Even so, all their clients love them, despite the fact that they are incompetent as a trial attorney. Because they present themselves as the belligerent television attorney that does always win, every time the lose they can just blame the court for getting it wrong. People are easily fooled.
Using the Sun to gravitationally lens an exoplanet
What about my right to use tiktok? We give up rights all the time.
Nutrition and personal care go a long way as well. I'm (self-assessed) of around average appearance and my wife is, according to most sighted people, better looking than I am. Our kids are better looking than either of us (at least so far), in part from genetics, but substantially from having a healthy diet, healthy lifestyle, excellent medical, skin, and dental care, etc. (And we're just upper-middle class vs middle-middle class where we were raised.)

Even if genetics are a crapshoot, I'd expect offspring of rich and powerful families to be, on average, more attractive than the median for their area from these environmental factors.
The video game industry takes advantage of young people who have dreams of making video games, and think that suffering through terribly paying jobs is the way to make that happen. That illusion gives cover to the industry to perpetuate terrible working conditions by abusing low paying employees and then having new young people replace them. There isn't accountability when companies do not pay a penalty for the treatment of their staff.
You wrote "I don't care about the effectiveness." So, yes, it's theater if you want to require things that don't actually do any good.
Speech Synthesis on Linux
Compared to what? Any other brand I never expect an upgrade. Even when they promise one. What it ships with is what it has forever.
How frequently do you get updates? My friends have gotten cheap Android phones in the past and updates were abysmal.
Oh, there are certainly exceptions to this, Gary Bernhardt (whom I highly respect for giving excellent talks) wears exactly the attire I'm describing.

But we all have implicit biases, and it wouldn't be my gut feeling to trust a person who does not present as 'one of my group' like this.. even though I'm aware of the bias.
If it's general purpose, then I agree that visual languages always seem to be an annoyance. If it's domain-specific, that's another story, since many domains are all about connecting blocks together. The most common use case is audio/video signal processing, where it works well if you're working above a certain level of abstraction.
Agreed. That's what it's called in the URL
But do we have laws requiring user data be protected? Aside from the new California law, we don't have anything like GDPR nationwide, do we?
Car insurance is mandatory, and is more analogous to masks (liability limitation).