skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. Maybe that's the reason why they chose that new system.
As others said: Synfig has usability, stability & documentation issues.

I suggest having a look at this incredible one-man OSS project instead: VCG.[1]
It's actually two apps. A vector graphics app like Inkscape/Illustrator/CORELDraw and an animation system.

Pictures (or movies) say more that words.[2]

At the core of the software are some novel algorithms for topology independent shape interpolation that were developed by it's author, Boris Dalstein. He published his research at SIGGRAPH 2014.[3]

This guy also needs some help spreading the word. The software is already usable in production but he has a meager 150USD in donations on Patreon.

[1] https://www.vgc.io/

[2] https://www.patreon.com/vgcsoftware

[3] https://youtu.be/-XONNPyeb5U
It really depends what kind of product you are building. Sometimes, especially an enterprise product, monolithic in nature, you have to building user management, session management, role management into the product. It does take a seasoned engineer to do to so. But lot of these concepts are well established. I would say dont write your own hash function, dont create your own concepts in user, role and session management.
And as far as I know its not something that's come up in the subliminal priming research, which is how we know most of the structure of how we recognize numbers and letters. I do wonder if it works like this for everybody, though, or if it could something specific to him.

As for names I did a blog post[1] speculating that remembering names might correlate to how you deal with the following:

>So, imagine someone is walking along, down a street. They see the store their going to and they enter through the shop door. So, when you were imagining this, did you see it? Which direction was the person walking, relative to your mind's eye? Did they turn to the left or right to enter the store? What color was everything?

[1]http://hopefullyintersting.blogspot.com/2018/12/ways-of-thin...
They won’t run long on battery if you try to run them constantly. This is why they support deep sleep, which allows you to instruct it to shutdown until an interrupt is fired by either the real-time clock, or some other input. Typical behaviour for a device like a temperature sensor is to wake up, report the temperature, and then go back to sleep either for a set duration or until a significant change in temperature is reported by some lower power components.
Juliacon 2020
"diversity of ideas" doesn't really mean that for most companies as a company and any group for that matter desires cohesion, peace and efficiency. What all company's want is to be successful.

Real diversity of ideas means more conflict and less harmoniously working arrangements.

But there are benefits:

The theory is that diversity of whatever kind brings creativity which is a benefit to the company especially if used in creative positions or upper management. Unions and collaborative worker action also suffer from the workers being, well, less unified, which an organisation may like.

Diversity is divisive to groups unless there is a larger shared communalist identity.
> are we going to permit racists to generate genocidal imagery to slake their hatred for $ETHNICITY ?

Umm... yes?
Agreed. The way I see it, current research directions have focused on approaches that work best with large datasets because such datasets exist for English, and because English just happens to be a language that is possible to represent well by training on large datasets.

It helps of course that English is the de facto lingua franca of most of the technologically developed world (if not the rest of the world also). If another language was the lingua franca, current approaches would not work so well. The article makes a point about how we assume that pre-trained embeddings encode all relevant information about a language when this may not be the case for arbitrary languages. The article also makes a point about the morphological simplicity of English which is of course a great asset for a lingua franca, and also simplifies the language modelling task. Imagine if the lingua franca was, e.g. ancient Greek (as it was, in ancient times, all around the Mediterrannean) or something with similar morphological intricacies (and Greek is still an Indo-European language; I just don't know much about, e.g. Finno-Ugric to give an example about them).
Yeah, GGP's take is not that interesting. It just depends on how much extra perf/value you get from the GPU vs the CPU.

If the GPU gives you some nice fancy shading, but your game works fine without it, then GGP's suggestion to "just make it fail" is of course silly.

Slight tangent: I think a lot of "tech hot takes" (and snarky SO comments) come from a lack of imagination outside our own experience. It's easy to forget that there is often a huge diversity of applications/use-cases for the languages/libraries/etc that we use.
> Is decentralization the only solution, if it even is one?

I feel that question is too often discussed without enough context. To be able to find a solution, we should first agree on what is the problem.

So, what's your problem statement?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w4rg3UcsgI also worth a watch, trying to devise a different type of AC system
Yes but it's easy to take this too far and conclude that e.g. Javascript is not memory safe because browsers are written in C++ and they have to interface with the kernel which is written in C. At some point you simply need to trust that the current implementation is correct and bug free. This is also a problem with formal verification. What verifies the verification?
I don't disagree, but I think there's a fair amount of friction when maintaining standard libraries rather than third party ones just because of the implied stability. Your versioning is tied to python itself so it's probably kind of dull having to work with an API that you can't improve simply by bumping the version of the library.
> Then, of course, there are all the device makers that simply expect you to bring your own content.

Someone on hacker news talked about using syncthing for their ebook and I had to replicate it. it sounded so much more useful than my previous experience with ebook readers, the nook simple touch.

My quest to find an e-reader that supported Android 4.4+ and both headphone jacks and SD cards resulted in a likebook Mars.

Now I can use syncthing to sync my library...ebooks, PDF, and audiobooks, automatically in the background, no account needed.

I would have preferred to purchase a modern incarnation of the very first Kindle, with a headphone jack, SD card, and keyboard, but nobody makes such a device any longer, or if they do, it is so out of date that it cannot run syncthing.

I continue to be excited about the pine phone keyboard design, because from there it is only a properly sized e ink screen away from being a tiny e-reader with keyboard headphone jack and Linux!
Amazon was not that big back in 2003.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/28/business/technology-amazo...
They are when you’re making under $600 a week in America
Ran fine for me: https://gpu.rocks/#/benchmark
As a US citizen, I'm incredibly saddened and disappointed in how my fellow Americans fall for the "national security" excuse every single time.

You'd think we'd have learnt by now. We do not deserve the freedom we have since we clearly don't care about it. Just look at all of the pro-ban comments in this thread.
I think you’re talking about a different device. Portable swamp coolers provide zero value in high humidity areas.
Resource allocation plays a part no matter how many resources you have, any company wasting resources is likely to lose to one who doesn't.

In the specific case of LIDAR, it also increases the price for the end customer significantly, for negligible ( perhaps reaching 0 at the limit ) gain.

More data for the model means a bigger model using more computation and storage, and likely exponentially longer training time.
It only uses those two cell batteries? Wonder what it can do.
> As others said: Synfig has usability, stability & documentation issues.

Thankfully, it's open source. Feel free to open some issues with them and help improving synfig.

IIRC, synfig started as a school project and has achieved much with minimal resources.

Edit: nevermind the last part, I was thinking of a completely different tool.
And somehow it is okay for Facebook and Twitter to wield this power?
A day after it was fined for not complying with a Brazilian Supreme Court judge’s order to do so

And here I was getting angry at Facebook and their censorship. Cheap clickbait is a cheap clickbait.
Socketed BIOS chips used to be somewhat common in gaming boards, which would always allow you to downgrade the firmware. I don't think they're found in workstation or server boards.
Ask HN: Do you use any systems/automation for household tasks/chores/life admin?
I’m thinking things like planning meals, grocery shopping, household maintenance, chores, any general ‘life admin’ things. What systems do you have in place to put these on autopilot?

Of course these can’t avoided, it’s part of being a human and maybe the best solution is to find pleasure in them. But on the other hand it’s nice to free up time or mental energy to throw at other things.
> Failing seemed reasonable to me, because my context around software fallback translates to “1 or 2 fps if you are lucky”.

Arguably I prefer to have the option to use software that underperforms than to not be able use it all all, specially if performance is not that critical.
I only know the malls from movies. And I never got why people would hang out there all day.
Yes her data, meta data about your network, devices etc. Just because you arent a target based on that data, doesnt mean someone isnt.
Sounds like a neat way to use Youtube without being tracked by Google analytics. I guess that's the next project I will try to run on my Raspberry Pi :)
Self-awareness is paradoxical, I am aware of that. What I'm trying to model at least mentally for now, is something that has a chance of becoming self-aware unless we are missing something else.

In other words, let's say these are the necessary but not necessarily sufficient conditions for the emergence of self-awareness: (1) having some model of the world (MOTW), (2) maintaing a relative position of Self in MOTW, (3) maintining a history of positions in time.

The level of self-awareness then becomes a function of the complexity of MOTW and the complexity of the system's interfaces. For example is the model good enough to help it survive or reach whatever goals it's programmed to achieve? Is the system flexible and adaptible enough? Can it discover and learn by itself?

So again, in this regard a GPS system is so primitive that it may be comparable to that of an amoeba or even worse. A coordinate space alone is not a useful or interesting MOTW that would help your GPS box achieve its goals.
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Have you ever used the app, and do you have any evidence of that statement?
Tesla Autopilot Accidents: 1 out of 4,5M Miles; US Average: 1 out of 479,000
Show HN: Brick, a free Notion-like tool for zero-hassle site making
Just to clarify a bit, it's possible he can't communicate thoughts about numbers. That's a different perspective than can't read them.

I say this because my father had a stroke ~3 years ago. It compromised him significantly. He definitely can communicate the way he used to. But one of the patterns we've seen is he can have a thought, but he can't communicate it. He tries but it doesn't come out. I haven't recognized it's specific like the man in the article. But I wanted to mention that processing and communication are two seperate steps.
Lifestyle changes could delay or prevent 40% of dementia cases – study
bluGill answered this well. To add a little: the total load of all but the smallest systems (9/12k BTUs/hour) is too large for a typical 15A @ 120V circuit, so most outdoor units need 220V. That means a new circuit. Also, building code in the US typically requires a shut-off box right next to the outdoor unit.

At least in the US, many systems power the indoor unit(s) from the outdoor unit. My guess is that since a control wire is required anyway (for central control of fan speed and direction), the manufacturers think it’s easier to power everything from one run.
We had something similar with a dude. Went "unnoticed" for months, then moved around teams doing nothing in multiple for months.
That has been going on in the greater metal scene for a long time. Especially for smaller artists, they put out a bunch of demos and EPs before putting together an album. In contrast to what you're mentioning, often the main tracks of some of the EPs will be on the album, but all of the "b-sides" will only be available on the EPs, but I've also seen examples of multiple EPs being re-released together. Not necessarily as an album in the traditional sense, but as a compilation.
> why are the presidents supporters calling for a coup

Acts asking for a militar coup have been happening for the last few years among the radical right. Their demands are not clear enough, so most news reports are about them happening and events surrounded them, such as the president appearing in some of them. [1] [2]

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I'm not going to guess what they want, so let's just translate what their banners say. Hopefully I can be unbiased.

- "Military intervention / Close the supreme court and congress / With Bolsonaro as president" [3]

- "Military tribunal", "Criminalize Communism", among others I can't read [4].

- "Military intervention so that Bolsonaro can govern". In the back: "criminalize communism" [5].

- "AI-5 with Bolsonaro in power" [6].

The last one is about AI-5. AI-5, according to Wiki:

"resulted in the forfeiture of mandates, interventions ordered by the President in municipalities and states and also in the suspension of any constitutional guarantees which eventually resulted in the institutionalization of the torture commonly used as a tool by the State." [7]

The previous reference is in english.

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> And how does blocking a dozen accounts change anything, really? Would the people behind them not simply open more sockpuppet accounts?

Some of them are under house arrest and forbidden from using social networks. [7]

The others are stopped for different reasons, but according to a news website "there's still no information about the reasons". [8]

If they open sock puppets, this will probably be dealt with in a case by case basis.

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Sorry for the excessive number of sources. This is still ongoing and very hard to explain, so I have no recourse.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-52353804

[2] https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2020/04/19/bolsonaro-d...

[3] https://media.gazetadopovo.com.br/2020/04/22162620/manifesta... / https://mediastorage.cnnbrasil.com.br/IMAGES/00/00/00/3368_7...

[4] https://conteudo.imguol.com.br/c/noticias/c0/2020/06/21/2106...

[5] https://static.poder360.com.br/2020/06/Apoiadores-Bolsonaro-...

[6] https://static.poder360.com.br/2020/04/bolsonaro-AI-5.jpg

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_Act_Number_Five

[8] https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-53570792

[9] https://economia.ig.com.br/2020-07-31/luciano-hang-da-havan-...
> I agree that having a CPU fallback is nice, but it's also pretty much the opposite of what you'd want to do in the field.

Do the opinions of potential users matter? Because most people aren't willing to waste money on unnecessary upgrades just because a developer wanted to assume everyone had mid/high-end hardware.
Considering the complexity and requirements it is amazing that it was as successful as it was.
OpenType font shaping is shockingly powerful ([e.g.](https://blog.janestreet.com/commas-in-big-numbers-everywhere...), so I'd be surprised if someone hasn't made a Roman numeral font already.
I had a prs-900 (sony daily reader). I remember at the time comparing it with the Amazon alternative and the Sony one being way better in both how open it was, features and speed.
Tbh video games with your friends is pretty much the same as drinking together but without the alcohol.
Equally fun, good for social bonding, but without the adverse health effects or hangover.

Singleplayer games on the other hand are useless, I'd say the equivalent of binge watching tv shows.
This feels like sensationalism. You could make the exact same argument for music, books, films or TV - it is an artistic medium. A game can be a complete waste of time, and equally it can be an enriching and educational experience. Blindly sticking them all into one category is naive.
Yes, he is.

Watch a few young gamers. Note how they behave - not how they describe themselves - and you will see he is right.

Now, for most people it's just a phase. But there are a few that keep that mentality for the rest of their lives and then get frustrated when they are not getting anywhere outside their computers (their "battlestations").
It should be noted that Rogan is a big fan of deathmatch style shooters with friends ... while baked.

He knows of what he speaks.
Are you sure this isn't just confirmation bias? When a program "panics" then its easy to conclude that it must be a Rust program but if it doesn't then aren't you simply forgetting to count all the working Rust programs?
Why does our not fully (or even close to fully) understanding how the brain works mean conscious vs subconscious is unscientific?

Is all mental health research unscientific based on the same logic?

My understanding is that it's conclusive that some of our brain's processes we feel we are controlling (conscious thinking), while others happen in the background without us realising. The fact that we don't understand everything that makes that the case doesn't stop that being the case.
Does anyone have any experience with password-less login? Like were you just do the other half of a 2fa like an email? And I mean both experience as a consumer or developer.

I feel like if I were to have a service that required log in that's how I would do it, but with all the talking about it I've never actually seen it in the wild.
Especially now a-days where games can have concealed elements of gambling as well as using other tricks to keep engagement.
Blindsight was a well crafted book but it sort of underplayed the benefits that consciousness gives us. We're bombarded by a huge number of sensory impressions at any given time. The unconscious parts of our brain do a huge amount of work in processing it and figuring out which bits are important. But without consciousness to synchronize, serialize, and persist it then all that information will just fade away within a few seconds. To remember something, or talk about it, or engage in multi-step planning regarding it you need to be consciously and not subliminally aware of it.
There are so many more ways to track you, not sure why the fuss about PWAs which almost noone is using.

For example you can just use WebGL for fingerprinting the browser.
The YouTube link doesn't work for me. Do you have a working link or another reference (title, search string) to find the video?
Yeah pretty much. I can get in a fire fight with my buddies on the internet without actually improving anything.

It's paintball, but you don't get exercise, don't learn about moving your body in space, don't get the same thrill, or the bruises.
For a start, who is Joe Rogan?
Cue Rodney Mullen’s TED talk: “Pop a Ollie and Innovate!”. If anyone’s in a position to draw such a comparison between skaters and hackers, it’s the Godfather of skateboarding.

Also, “This is Eric Koston”, the comparison is indirect, but the section around “we’re trespassers” resonates deeply.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GVO-MfIl1Q

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p8uUL5GdStE
The problem with Goodreads is more than just an old-fashioned website. The community there, the whole "social" angle of the site, has been taken over by the same phenomena as on Amazon.com: publishers send free copies of their books to certain reviewers, who often don’t even actually read the book before writing their review, and then those reviewers exploit this attention to build up their own reputations as "influencers" and eventually monetize those reputations. Because their reviews have bright colours and image memes, and cliques support each other with mutual likes, those reviews show up at the top of any book listing.

If you are one of those reviewers who honestly reads and reviews books, then you can feel like your signal is lost in the noise of the shill reviewers. Also, for those who were initially interested in what their real-life friends were reading, the majority of those IRL friends will have dropped off the site over the years, either because of a natural attrition or because they have come to prefer snackable web content over books.
> stop trying to make it "gracefully" fail. Just fail!

This is the web. Not a video game.

Accessibility is mission critical.
How is there no broad discussion? There's dozens of papers on the topic, both scientific and of the pseudoscientific "lockdown is worse than COVID, which is just a flu. here's a linear regression model"/"let's look at data that wasn't available to policy makers at the time" variety, and German media doesn't go a week without discussing the political or societal impact of one measure or another for a few months now.
Host of Fear Factor.
Could apply to programming too.

> Video games are a real problem. You know why? Because they’re fucking fun. They’re real exciting, but you don’t get anywhere… you’re going to waste your time

Programming is also fun and exciting. And if you're real good at it, you just get to do even more programming ...
The point here is to show the silly consequences of categorizing people by "race", not to argue about the minutiæ of how to properly do race discrimination.
Is there a "third world" anymore?[1]

[1]https://www.gapminder.org/videos/hans-rosling-ted-2006-debun...
> jiu-jitsu might offer a person physical fitness, excitement, confidence, and new career opportunities

Jiu-jitsu definitely wins on the physical fitness. Video games win on the lower chance of brain damage from concussions.

Video games can certainly offer excitement and confidence.

I am not sure what new career opportunities jiu-jitsu offers in any meaningful quantity. If we are talking about "jiu-jitsu" instructor jobs, well, there are video game trainer jobs and video game tester jobs as well.

The problems people have with video games come from gamers not meeting societal expectations for their gender and preferring to do something else.
Does anyone have any experience with password-less login? Like were you just do the other half of a 2fa like an email? And I mean both experience as a consumer or developer.

I feel like if I were to make a service that required log in that's how I would do it, but with all the talking about it I've never actually seen it in the wild.
Nope, he is not right.
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Nobody claimed HCQ to be an effective treatment. Everybody claimed it to be the best prevention drug. Still is.
The amount of work needed to write a secure implementation of RSA (you would surely need a library like gmp to handle big numbers) is not worth my time, I would gladly trade that against some download/compilation time.

The same goes for efficient map/reduce framework or even a key/value database (what's wrong with using BerkleyDB/SQLite instead of writing your own storage format?).

I need to serialize user-supplied data ? I'm gonna use a library that will handle edge cases I can't think about.

But I'm not gonna use SpringBoot only for its logging facility, or Django only for its ORM, or a BNF parser generator to parse "hello world".