skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That perhaps some of the emperors weren’t totally Caucasian but rendering them as such from the best available evidence is somehow racist?

These days, sadly, yes. The definition of racism has been so diluted in recent years that, as you implied, I fear it's often a distraction from actual racial injustice. Anyone ever hear of the boy who cried wolf?

Downvote away! :)
There is always a reason why it might be a good idea for some government to prop up this and cut down that industry. The temptation is obvious, which is why people sometimes start believing in 5-year plans and great leaps forward, or enjoy Sim City.

Arbitrary action such as this is a sign of weakness: of economic weakness, and the fear to no longer be good enough to be the single biggest winner of free trade the US was for most of the 20th century. It's also a weakness of the law: of institutions competent and empowered to specifically define and litigate harmful behaviour, within the existing confines of law, such as due process. Instead, it's executive fiat, directed against foreign companies that have no lobby powerful enough to protect them, and coming from an office where nobody bothers to ask for reasonable explanations, because (last weakness) the guy is incapable, uninterested, and really just completely devoid of any understanding of the rule of law.

Americans already are losing as much as China is from this action. But its only in mindless entertainment that people won't complain about because they fear being mocked for enjoying such things. But if it works, the hits will start creeping closer, and you now need to make sure to stay not just on the right side of the law, but also the far-right side of politics.

Meanwhile, China isn't going to change for economic reasons: countries from cuba to North Korea to, for the longest time, the USSR have not budged in the face of sanctions. A country in the process of cutting off the lifeblood of its status as a superpower of science and entrepreneurship, just because people in rural counties that have never seen a foreigner have decided they don't like them, should really be in a good position to understand how powerless economic interests are against ideology and jingoism.
I've got the feeling that the problems that vector spaces is trying to solve can be elegantly solved by quaternion approach [1]

[1]https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2130951_On_quaterni...
You'd want a door of some sort to keep things (cats, children) from falling down it, no?
That was nearly 90 years ago.

Redlining was made illegal under federal law - i.e. by the government - in the 70s, not least because the private sector had absolutely no interest in doing anything to stop it.
The best way to do this for privacy concerned individuals would be on device through DNS. On iPhone or Android that means an app would need to be built.

My dream VPN app allows me to choose my protocol, DNS adblocking, multi provider integration, and VPN tunneling. Not sure what is all possible on iOS though. Passepartout is what I currently use, but it doesn’t support wireguard.
I’d imagine spacing of prints, how the foot engaged with the ground, depth of print, etc...
It doesn’t matter. The problem is that the people who don’t get sick, make other people sick.
> I can't believe that fixing those requires that specialized of a skill set.

No but it does require manual labor and a lot of people consider it beneath them these days to do that. Couple it with many people getting paid more to be on unemployment than they made while working and its a recipe for laziness.
If you are interested in Hawaii you should checkout their tech slack it's somewhat active and very friendly https://www.hawaiislack.com/
In relation to this, you then have AWS who basically support everything forever until their customers stop using it. They _still_ support people on EC2-Classic even though they would rather not. Every TAM I've come into contact with brags about how they won't deprecate until the customer deprecates.

There's a reason that people trust Amazon with their compute, and that's because in regards to their technology they're trustworthy.
A statement on the chance that an ordinary person traveled to Area 51 is in no way a statement on the chance that a person who traveled to Area 51 is ordinary. The two are wholly unrelated.
Have you heard of Abigail Shrier's book "The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters"? She was on Joe Rogan's podcast recently though I have yet to listen to it. A quick search turned up, not surprisingly, some negative critiques and others that are more positive.

If you have heard of it, or read it, I'd love to hear what you think of her position.

I appreciate the offer to be part of a dialogue. I think it's important to improve understanding for people. As a white, middle aged (45) cismale I know I'm viewing a lot of this stuff through a very specific lens.
> Of course adoption would be a big issue, but that's always a big issue.

Choose an audience that is disenchanted with the modern web, choose a subset of HTML/CSS that reflects their needs, create a prototype that demonstrates the idea, then watch people adopt it.

This is more-or-less what is happening with Gemini. It is a bit different in that they modelled their ideas on Gopher then addressed the shortcomings of Gopher, but there appears to be some adoption now that a specification has been produced: multiple clients and servers have been created, while others are creating content. Since the community shares may common interests, growth will probably continue for a while even if popularity is forever beyond its reach.

Doing something similar with the web will certainly produce a different outcome. It may even exert enough pressure to create a "clean" subset of HTML/CSS for specialized applications that is easier to implement.
SDL has more features: joystick/gamepad input, image loading from PNG/etc, scaling/rotating/overlapping images onto the framebuffer, multiple windows, touch events, audio, and a lot more[0]. And is GPU accelerated for 2d, or 3d with opengl.

It's more of a generic application framework which works well for games, whereas this seems to be more of put a window on a screen, fill pixels, and get mouse/KB/resize events.

http://wiki.libsdl.org/Introduction

SDL also has stuff that lets it work nicely with HiDPI screens.
But, isn't "extrapolating physical appearance from incomplete data" the entire point of this project?
> On a completely different note, I am not sure what you’re getting at with the racial stuff

What I am saying is that this sort of work can lead to people believing these images as true, i.e. "this is what Roman Emperors looked like". If you ask an ML system to solve a problem for which the inputs cannot possibly determine the answer (i.e. the color of a fossilized animal or the skin color from a person's statue), it will give you a highly biased answer.

I fear that some laypeople think of ML as "magic software that can do anything" without considering whether a problem is non-ambiguous given its inputs (e.g. something like object classification is less ambiguous than this problem).

I'm not saying "burn it to the ground" - I wanted to learn more about what data and model was used to generate these images so that I might understand better where potential sources of racial / ethnographic bias might come from.

> trying to find racial undertones in every tangential thing

If you read my comments history you'll see that I'm no critical race theorist, nor do I discuss everything in a racial context.

Out of curiosity, what "cause" are you talking about?
The SUN logo is very clever: splitting the "S" into two "U" characters that can be read as "U" and "N".

The Sydney Australia office had this on a large steel cube out the front.
I have never seen an Opus file in the wild.

MP3 and FLAC are by far still dominant. Ogg is still popular I. It’s niche (eg game sounds, and I think Spotify uses it too)
I was prepared to buy this and then I sorta stumbled across the Builder Book

They look very similar? But they're different? According to the docs this one is more focused on advanced patterns? Does a person need to buy the first to get value from the second?

Very confusing UX IMO
I saw the code. If I knew enough to judge whether the book was worth purchasing just by reading the code, I wouldn’t need to buy the book.

(I’m glad to hear you’re not receiving many refund requests. Are you refunding those requests you receive? The terms page makes it look as though you are not. That would be the relevant thing to add there, relative to my questions.)

The code might speak for itself if I were already an expert. I’m not. I’m a good programmer who wants to learn more about the details of building a service offering, and I’m trying to figure out how effectively your book will teach me what I want.

The link to your SaaS business is part of what I was asking about. Is there a way for me to explore that without paying to see what it’s all about? Is that a typical example of what the book is helping me build?

> If I were you I would not buy this book. At least one author is not a celebrity =)

I’m smiling at that, but it’s not at all what I meant when I said I don’t know who you are. I didn’t mean I literally need to know who you are; I meant I was hoping to see an example of the end state your book is purporting to guide me towards. SaaS is kind of a big space.

I’m really glad it’s working well for you so far. I hope that continues, and a cabin in the middle of the forest with a hotspot and generator sounds like a great place!
Their success is not directly from SEO but SEO amplified their word-of-mouth. They have also acquired brands that has helped but never ever forget - a killer solution to a killing pain point is what sets you up for success!
Can you cite some proof of this?

As a counter-point, I work for a large national telco and our mass-market site and mobile app (usage in the tens of millions of unique users across all demographics) both use hamburger menus and our internal stats show that almost everyone understands that it's the menu.
Why greenspace is different from a park
Yeah, but Linux Mint still has snapd removed by default and refuses to support it; so do most of the other popular downstream distros (PopOS, elementaryOS) for desktops. Together, they have way more desktop share than Ubuntu does.

Sure, there are other distros not based on Ubuntu that technically support snapd, but I have yet to encounter one that does it well; Manjaro's still breaks on many snaps, Fedora's snapd stopped working completely for over 3 months and nobody noticed. Pretty much nobody but Ubuntu users actually care about snaps; Flatpak has way, way more support and penetration than snaps do, and it looks as if that isn't going to change any time soon due to Canonical's refusal to open-source the snap store. I don't think snaps have much of a future as a widely-supported method of package distribution if this doesn't change.
> Not defending any of that (I'm not even religious), but I just find the coincidences interesting. Are psychologies reinventing things that religions have known for centuries?

Take it a step further. Most of this is common sense. There's a reason a lot of religious from different areas have similar ideals - it comes from man.
I imagine you already know this, but you should consider notmuch for searching within mutt (well, neomutt). It's pretty great.
Any other real non US company can benefit from it except Chinese companies ?
Interesting perspective. I think the truth is they needed each other and the circumstances in which they excelled.
Tables should be used for data, not for layout.
I think California in general has an identity crisis right now - a victim of its own success.

It is probably the most unequal place in America in terms of wealth and income. But yet it is almost in denial about that.

It is a huge polluter but refuses to really take action outside of token policies. Nuclear reactors might be a bit too much risk considering the seismic activity - but thorium reactors could be safely deployed. Regardless, sprawl is everywhere and it’s all cars with almost no viable public transit. If you take California public transit it’s almost never by choice.

It wants to punitively tax the wealthy and even those with some good fortune in a successful startup,(new wealth tax proposal is evidence) but these are the biggest revenue sources and they are leaving, like NYC to escape the taxes. The new proposal would tax you even AFTER you leave - good luck!

They keep looking for tax revenue to prop up their pretty bad public school system but yet have the most regressive property tax law in the nation. NIMBY and “I was here first” mentality is rampant for such an inclusionary place.

The weather is nice.
Trump wants to play 'tit for tat'. But people benefit from having access to all the manufacturers listed and verified by Alibaba, even if the American counterparts remain banned from China.

If Trump's strategy works, both China and the US would lift such restrictions on each other. Time will tell whether that's gonna happen.
Vixra.org open e-Print archive
When I do exploratory research, having a history of commits, days, months, years after the end of the research project is invaluable for many possible future needs.

I’m still not sure I see a strong case for not bothering with a remote. But I appreciate we all do things at different fidelities.
Vespasian looks uncomfortably like Lyndon Johnson.
David Kanter makes an excellent point about why CPUs still aren't going away any time soon - nobody's building GPUs with arbitrarily upgradeable memory, and there are still more larger-than-memory problems you want these systems to be able to tackle. As soon as your data set is too big for memory, you're basically forced to head to a CPU to coordinate things. And as big as some GPU memories have grown, the ML programming models are vastly bigger still, so there's still a lot of reasons you want a CPU in these systems.

So naturally the market is currently trying to find a middle, which is exactly where Intel's been heading if you've been paying any attention. That's the total explanation on why CPUs have been getting wider and wider - it just makes sense for them to, given the transistor budgets and the fact that just stamping more CPUs on a core is already showing signs of diminishing returns (to the point where you have to use an approach like chiplets to manage thermals appropriately, even).

The laptop market being repressed by Microsoft's stone-aged kernel CPU core management holding back designs like Lakefield (which are now completely old hat for phone-class processors) for a decade is a completely different discussion and really goes out of band with what we're talking about here though.
>I have never seen an Opus file in the wild.

You have likely heard one. For instance, if you are a
Youtube user.
Unlike other people I find the portraits surprisingly diverse, I expected to see very white faces considering most "realistic" representations are from white actors and white statues erase features. Not a perfect project but interesting.
Please let them deploy OAuth tokens and permission scopes as well.
Or perhaps cake?
> But they mean it in the sense that they should be in an asylum or should not be catered to.

They sound like bad people.

Let me offer an alternative explanation: you're thinking about a persyn made of dried grass.
not quite the same but certainly addresses the Electron bloat criticisms:

https://neutralino.js.org/
A 4 billion-plaintiff class action lawsuit would be pretty interesting to watch.
> But they mean it in the sense that they should be in an asylum or should not be catered to.

I have often heard it in a sense of "should not be catered to but rather given medical help". A fellow student once told me that he considers the current way of treating gender dysphoria irresponsible and that, if we'd treat schizophrenia the way we treat gender dysphoria, we'd all have to aknowledge the voices they hear and pretend we hear them too.

I didn't know how to respond to that. I still don't, actually. My knowledge about anything mental health is quite limited.
Do animals use highway crossings?
Sounds like a protectionist who doesn't want ARM to be owned by any foreign entity.

"most of the licensees are competitors of Nvidia"

Is this true? It seems like quite a stretch. Nvidia doesn't offer a chipset for the mobile, battery powered market(it tried, and gave up because of competition from Qualcomm).
Along with YouTube audio, it's used by Discord for voice chat.
There are all kinds of Euro-based electronics firms such as Alcatel or Phillips or Siemens.
Do you know where we can buy a wool mattress?
I feel like the current climate of society shows that people who have such a simplistic view of science don't tend towards "smart people said this, so it must be true"....
Aurelius looks odd, most of his statues have him with much curlier hair.
Delivering content curated by Chinese Communist Party approved algorithms and censorship on what may become a core part of world pop culture is definitely a powerful piece of soft power. It's no exaggeration that any app delivering content to young people several hours a day may one day rival Hollywood in cultural influence.

But AirDroid gives you full remote access to your Android device through a web browser. Including messages (reading/sending/receiving), camera (taking photos/videos, and accessing existing photos/videos), and full access to files. It's used widely (even by corporate IT) to transfer files between Android devices and PCs over Wi-Fi.

It's a very functional app with remote access to millions of devices, and just like Huawei there are of course a steady stream of major security vulnerabilities. These may be plausible-deniable "bugdoors", or just sloppy practices introducing major vulnerabilities than happen to be exploitable by independent researchers and nation states.

The issue is that it's developed by a company based in China and thus very closely linked with the Chinese Communist Party and given what we know about the CCP, it's almost certainly regularly being used by the Ministry of State Security and People's Liberation Army for to exfiltrate specific highly valuable files eg, private messages, VPN and SSH keys.

It seems strange there's no debate on banning AirDroid when it poses a far greater immediate threat than TikTok.
There isn't one, besides them identifying as genderfluid. Same as any other gender identity (like man or woman). I think this makes the terms slightly less useful but it is very important to some people that they're used this way
A little bit off topic, but I hear a Pijul release is coming some time within the next week (its been a year since the last one). I've never really understood Git and always hoped for something else to come along, at least as an alternative.
Balanced tags aren't really important, but _some_ sort of format that is understandaple and enforced is a good idea. The whole browsers guessing what the page actually meant thing isn't a great game to play.
My mother's family is all autistic engineers. I and two of my cousins transitioned as teenagers, so I've had my own theories about this for years.
Spending on infrastructure is Keynesian - genuinely Keynesian, not the faux-Keynesian of bailouts, which are often labelled Keynesian with various degrees of good/bad faith.

Keynesianism is absolutely taboo in a plutocratic neoliberal economy - possibly because it's a credible reason for increasing taxation. And there's nothing a plutocracy hates more than having to pay more tax.

As you point out, in rational terms this is self-harming nonsense. Countries need repairs and they also need physical infrastructure investment. The 50s saw the Interstate system, the 60s saw generous funding for computer and IT R&D as well as other basic science, but since Reagan public spending for the public good has become unacceptable - largely because it "costs money."

As if creating jobs and valuable physical infrastructure is somehow an unreasonable expense and not basic common sense.
I've flagged this comment but I also feel the need to write a response because this kind of uncritical dog-whistle is something that actively contributes to violence against trans people. There's no evidence to suggest that trans folks encourage anybody, including autistic folks, to "believe that they're trans."

However, there is myriad evidence that fear of trans folks "converting" other people is one of the motivating factors of violence against trans people.

If there are "so many ways to interpret a correlation such as this" I'd encourage the parent commenter to consider using as examples ideas which have evidence to back them up and that are not directly linked as motivations behind violence against trans people.
I'd love to hear your theories if you'd be willing to share them.
conversely, it may be just what RISC-V needs to go mainstream sooner.
> Sounds like a protectionist who doesn't want ARM to be owned by any foreign entity.

Should've thought of that before they sold it to a Japanese fund.
Why Do We Interface?
Consider being a little kinder. The developer probably will read this and it might ruin their day. Simply saying "I find the UX to be confusing" could have been less hurtful.
If curious see also

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14567074

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10182582
Some companies business models are simply better when they are independent rather than taking ‘strategic’ guidance from a parent company.

If Nvidia does buy ARM it’s time to buy stock in anyone who does RISC-V
As someone who heard those comments made about a trans friend of mine in childhood: yes, those people do exist.
I’m guessing it shields local government from lawsuits. You’re right though, better alternatives to an investor owned utility would be a co-op or non-profit.
But, it is FUSE.
In practice the biggest issue I've found with git+pinned hashes as dependencies is most public sources of remote git repositories allows the repository to be taken down by the author at any time, i.e. an author can turn a public github repo private or simply delete it at will.

Whereas most public package registries generally don't allow removal of publicly published packages outside of special circumstances, so the references will be more durable.
that response honestly sounds like he is referring to a caricature of schizophrenia as the ultimate ignorable and irreconcilable mental health disorder and doesn't actually know how we treat schizophrenia either

how do we treat schizophrenia? it is something that can also be managed

thats the primary limitation of the analogy. the secondary limitation of the analogy is that un-ironically accepting pronouns that otherwise bend the English language really costs us nothing, and gives us productive members of society instead of marginalized.
It don’t think it should be part of the conversation because it seems transparently little more than culture war scapegoating for an audience hungry for a moral panic.

If you want a more considered text for a general audience, I’d recommend Brynn Tanehill’s,
“Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Trans (But Were Afraid to Ask).”

Also useful is this point-by-point, sourced rebuttal to the misinformation Rogan repeatedly spreads (which references the above text):

https://www.adamconover.net/adding-evidence-to-the-discussio...
I'm in agreement. nVidia's history of not playing nicely with others does not make this sound like a good deal, especially for entrenched ARM vendors. (Apple won't be phased; they basically design everything themselves, so they don't really even care about the direction of ARM or the architecture. They could hard fork tomorrow, or two years ago, and nobody will notice since they're entirely vertically integrated.)

But, on the plus side, it's the biggest opportunity RISC-V will ever get. Almost overnight anyone who was building ARM cores will suddenly see investments in RISC-V prudent as a hedge against nVidia's future core designs not being licenseable. SiFive will very quickly become a multi-billion dollar organization...
Infineon?