skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The image quality is higher because it has a lot more information in it; it's not accurate to compare the pixel count in a rectilinear array to the count of custom-cut tiles in a mosaic.

We use rectilinear images because that's the most convenient form for addressing the picture elements in memory. Not only from the point of view of getting to a particular pixel in a frame buffer as in y * scanline_width + x. Image processing algorithms of all kinds depend on the data being a rectilinear grid of samples: that the sample rate is constant across the scan line, and vertically.

We can recover image quality with higher resolution and anti-aliasing techniques.

We can also use vector techniques to represent a mosaic's tiles accurately (yet compactly, for file storage and network transfer), and render them at any resolution using square pixels. If there are enough of those pixels that the human eye is well beyond giving a darn, then the issue is pretty much settled.

We can prove with information theory that if the pixels are small enough, their shape does not matter. After a certain resolution level, we no longer add detail: we only improve the smoothness of anti-aliasing, and there is only so smooth it has to be relative to the frequency response of the eye's optics and retina.
Scientists find pre-existing drug Ebselen effective against Coronavirus
Got tired of deployments and built my own Heroku
Fire and safety codes may mandate much of this.
I call WET "we enjoy typing" because that's what you get when you're not DRY. But don't get me wrong, duplicate things is OK as long as you still try to share common parts instead just copy everything blindly.
Https://www.adoptopenjdk.net/about.html gives a better picture
You might be interested in his interview with Dr. Debra Soh. There is a lot of misunderstanding among parents regarding what counseling/therapy psychologists can provide and that interview clarifies some recent changes.
Crab – an interpreter for a tiny subset of Logo
There is no good reason. It's really a loophole in the law. An understandable one, because cancelling a trade is not legally the same as making a trade, even if financially it's the same. And one that's small enough not to have been worth closing. You won't get away with cancelling your plan every time sales data is bad, you should wait for the once-in-several-lifetimes opportunity when you get game-changing news and you were just about to sell a large quantity of stock.

You can come up with a bigger conspiracy theory than this, but the more boring explanation looks true.
>The fact that they do this but then don’t even mention what Epic is actually asking for, shows that it is not my reading, but the article which is disingenuous.

Are you kidding? He "mentions" it right here -

>Epic doesn’t want a reduction to 5%, it wants to pay nothing and run its own store on iOS. Which, let’s be real, has to be a negotiation tactic. On its own store, Epic charges 12% to developers.

The author doesn't think Epic even wants its own store and that the ask is merely "a negotiation tactic".

I don't see how you can interpret that as wanting Epic to have their own store like you claimed. How can he want Epic to have their own store when he thinks they don't even want one!?

Secondly, you said he advocates for Apple earning 0%. Here's the closest thing I could find:

>30% share is too much. 30% is what a run operation makes in profit. It’s higher than the highest tier in corporate tax. every developer we talk to and Business analysts around the world say 30% revenue share comes from a dark fairytale. What would be a fair share? 5% would be a fair share. Is there hope?

From this you claimed the author wants Apple to earn 0%? Really? The author merely suggested 5% is closer to a fair share. He never said what you claimed he did.

I'm not interested in debating the App store or the article per se. I just wanted to point out the irony of harshly condemning him for using strawmen, and then shamelessly inventing several of your own.

1) He didn't advocate for Apple earning 0%, and 2) didn't advocate for Epic having their own iOS store, and (3) absolutely did mention that Epic claims to want an app store.

Per the above, you've now mis-represeted the authors` words several times in the space of two comments. That's not cool, no matter how "bad" you think the piece is.
Neurodegenerative diseases are often also vascular diseases.
This has long been observe in Alzheimer, but it is also true for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or multiple sclerosis.
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent and role of systemic hypoxia in the pathogenesis of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). SMA is a disease that strikes infants.
This poor person is broken, clearly he has a rough time and is a defeatist.

I try to never hire defeatists into my companies and screen for them.

the pendelum will swing back and corporates will see that culture and office also matters.
A Gallery of Homeless Toys
My son, 9, is a keen Fortnite player. He uses this word to criticize newer or less capable players. "You're a bot"
There may be other reasons (legal) to not want to collect these metrics...
U.S. Department of Energy Unveils Blueprint for the Quantum Internet
Makes me think of an old tee-shirt I had: https://idata.over-blog.com/1/72/23/10/images-2/pixel_mort.j... ("yet another dead pixel"). RIP Russell Kirsch.
The "duck curve".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
That's one thing I can agree with him on. He doesn't seem to be doing a good job thereof domestically, but internationally that looks different.

So yeah, Trump 2020!
It never says that the crazy describes all trans people. It doesn't call all trans fakes. You seem to even admit you didn't make it past the title with your uncharitable read, so how do you expect to respond to something it actually claims?

It points out that there are some social contagion factors to some expressions in our youth. Which is completely reasonable given how much clout gives you in modern social media, for example. And that an impressionable girl with low self-esteem can suddenly "become trans" and win social favor, which I don't see how you could find unreasonable if you've ever been a teen.

Maybe approach it a little more open-mindedly. You basically dismiss everyone in the book as just being unable to "cope with loss" which isn't much different than dismissing any group (like trans people) with some convenient reason that leaves your world-view untouched.

Also not sure how your anecdote disproves the craze, especially since the craze is talking about the last 5 years. Your experience in the 90s has little bearing on 2020 where you get instant social proof on social media in some circles by putting a rainbow flag in your username. Times are different. You don't think social contagion could explain any part of the 800% increase in trans identity among the youth? I don't see how you couldn't believe that on any 800% increase in what the youth are doing.

It's like amphetamine abuse among kids. I have extreme ADHD and to some degree depend on the drug to get what I want in life. Just because you could write a book about kids claiming to have ADHD just to get prescribed a great recreational drug (and I bet you could even call it a craze, as it seemed in uni) doesn't mean I can't have ADHD or that everyone is an abuser. I would consider myself weirdly defensive to the point of dismissing inconvenient truths if I were to believe that, yet that's what I see you doing.

That you give yourself so much authority on trans matters, especially in response to such a reasonable point, is kind of an example of what I see as modern trans clout these days. Why wouldn't a teen want that? As the book points out, it's incredibly easy to "be trans" when the rest of your friend group in high school is suddenly on the non-binary spectrum unlike when you were a kid.
Been running my email infrastructure for IIRC about 8-9 years (with postfix).

Spam isn't much of a thing, which perpetually surprised me but there it is.

Some background: before I ran my own email server I relied on my ISP for receiving email for my domains and I was getting hundreds (even thousands) of spam messages a day. I used spamprobe to classify the spam away, very effectively. But that ISP must've had a very lenient smtp configuration.

With my own email server I enforce everything postfix supports enforcing at the time of the connection itself. Watching the postfix logs, I get multiple spam attempts per second but all of them are rejected before the connection attempt is accepted by postfix.

Actual spam that gets through that is minimal. About zero to five per week for me. I'm still using spamprobe to classify them just out of inertia, but the volume of spam is so low it isn't necessary.

As to outgoing email getting junked, it's harder to have exact statistics on this but it has never been an issue for me in the sense of not getting a response from someone, so they must've received it. You do need to configure SPF, DKIM, etc but aside from that, it's not a big deal. There are sites which help verify your configuration, use them.

Every time an smtp thread pops up on yc the difficulty of running your own email infrastructure is overstated. Of course I wouldn't recommend it to completely non-technical people, but if you have any interest in internet standards, just do it.

Own your infrastructure, help us all decentralize email and don't be the next victim of "gmail locked me out of my life and I have no one to call for help".
That would be psychiatry.
Major junk food and sugar addictions.
I’m sure if we still had to use tables someone would have built a React wrapper by now.
> ...and the expectations placed on me when I lived as a boy felt stifling and exhausting

I don't find that as extremely as you've given it here, but I do know what you mean and I'm a bog-standard cis male. But I never fitted in, never understood the blokey stuff - or maybe I did, but blokes take their nature (which are different from women, no doubt) and then push it to extremes[0] (you like to go out? Great! We must drink whether you like it or not! Maybe you like footy? OK, let's get extreme and tribal about it! But that brightly coloured thing you're wearing makes you look like a poof by the way).

I never fitted in and it can wear you down. As a straight guy I find the company of gays quite fine because they are more accepting.

edit: [0] this seems more prevalent in younger males. As we age, we become less so and more thoughtful, and therefore tolerant.
Yeah, not fitting in is probably pretty common among introverted programmer types. But for me, feeling like I identified more as a girl was really what pulled me in that direction.
As others have commented, you can’t send information faster than light. This is because time itself doesn’t run off any kind of central clock. The relationship between two events in time changes depending on where the observer is. There is no way to perfectly synchronise two events which are separated in space. This is called the relativity of simultaneity. FTL communication results in paradoxes because of this.

There is an awesome article on wikipedia that describes it more. Totally blew my mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity

As an aside, I’ve found this to be a helpful way to visualise data flowing through distributed systems...
Belenios: A Verifiable Online Voting System
Hi, thanks for replying!

> the way copyleft licenses have been managed has brought us back to the commercial licenses with source code, just under a different name to make them more appealing to younger generations.

I think, I'm following along (&agree), but to be sure, could you perhaps elaborate a bit on that? (Also for other? readers)
> tmux to give me a single horizontal split so that I can browse and compose at the same time

Do you mind sharing how you do this? Browsing plus composing has been the one thing that keeps annoying me for not being streamlined and typically I just open multiple mutts/neomutts.
It barely mentions the effect. Better see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Globa...

tl;dr we perceive gps satellites clock ticks faster due to lower gravity (+46us/day), but slower due to motion (-7us/day).
Which is all the more impressive given his indifference to carbon footprints, and hostility towards their reduction.
If your device isn't hackable then it's not because of ARM imposed limitations - it's because of decisions made by the device maufacturer and there is no reason why that would change if they were using RISC-V instead.
> I wonder why we don’t have something like that today.

Because CIDR happened. The net/subnet/node nomenclature used by MacTCP is a relic of classful routing.
Rigtheo then.

Prohibit Amazon doing business until they fix the problem.

You can bet the problem will be fixed overnight.

My wider point is this: Bezos knows this is happen, and the only way he gets away with it is because the USA doesn't have enough consumer protection and no desire to.

This has gone beyond fraud, it's abuse of customers.
Wouldn't they be forced into RAND?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminat...
As I said, it's not the President's job or power to fix broken state apparatus. That's the state's job.
That's a great idea - displaying the contents of a script or a style tag would be a terrible experience. Letting the user configure it would help future-proof the browser too.
For those who don't know what numismatist means: A numismatist is a specialist in numismatics
Lucid Motors has ambitious plans to defy skeptics and take on Tesla
No, you buy direct from Amazon or from 3rd-party sellers. These sellers can store and ship by themselves, or pay to have it stored and shipped by Amazon (this is called FBA - Fulfilled by Amazon) because it's faster and qualifies immediately for Prime which customers want.

You can tell the difference when you buy, it's just not blatantly obviously unless the main Amazon listing is out of stock and you click on the "other sellers" link yourself. Go to your orders page and every product will tell you the "sold by" name.
I think you're overthinking it :) Trans people I know just feel wrong in their bodies. It looks wrong, it feels wrong. There seems no need to suppose it was right at first then got distorted by relationship problems to the point you want your male genitals removed (I know a tgirl who is waiting for that).
Not that I disagree with you, but ARM doesn’t sell hardware—they sell licenses to designs of the aforesaid. Nonetheless, don’t forget that nVidia, insofar as it sells hardware in the EU, would definitely be within the scope of local anti-trust authorities.

I don’t see this being much liked by those authorities, either. nVidia is clearly interested in doing this deal because it will give them competitive advantages, and it’s pretty clear by their behaviour versus other firms (including Apple!) that they have so much of that already that they don’t have to “play nice”. Giving them further purview to do as they please is basically what anti-trust is designed to prevent, whether you focus on industry relations or the ascendant on consumers.
I've noticed my allergies are more severe when sleeping on the floor. I believe more dust settles on the futon and bedding if it's directly on the floor.

Platform beds are great, and there are quite minimal ones. It improved my allergies.
But doesn't Einstein not talk about how you observe the clock when you move away from the clock? So the clock keeps ticking the same time but you can't observe it because you are traveling at the speed of light.

So when you travel away from the earth at the speed of light you can't see the rotarion of the earth. But when you move back to the earth you are still just as old as the people who were the same age as you when you left?
For the specific thing you want, force push is the only way AFAIK. However, my argument is that you should let the commits reflect the true history of the code. Fix the minor error and explain it in the message.
"operators of the SIM cards likely run their own Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), which is essentially a telecom company piggy backing off of the infrastructure of a more established network."

This is certainly the trick, it may have little to do with the SIM card.

(personal opinion of a retired Telecom R&D engineer)
That would actually be allowed AFAIK - it's the bath/shower that makes it a bathroom (both in British English usage and electrical regs!) and banishes the white goods. But WCs tend to be v. small (as if given a little extra space architects say What shall we do, Fred, cupboard or loo?) so can't house them either.

Usually (flats/small houses aside) they'll be in the scullery (adjoining the kitchen) though, not actually in the 'cooking area'.
What would be nice is to add to this a way to plug language specific semantic analysers. Then it could be possible to do queries like "which commits did changes to a specific function" and so on.
VSCode Parameter Hints Extension
Found one myself:

https://ahreflink.com/domains/two-letter

Seems there are plenty available.
Light travels at a fixed speed relative to the observer. If you shine it from a train it will move away from you at the speed of light. I am not standing on that train, it still moves away from me at the speed of light. This is where time dilation comes from.

The classic example is a clock of light ticking between two mirrors. If you are moving with that clock it is ticking at the speed of light. If I am in a frame of reference where the clock is moving perpendicular to the light tick's path, the light
will have a greater distance to cover. [1] Since the speed is fixed to me, this tick is slower.

1. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Ti...
Indeed. Sony made ATRAC ASICs, and I doubt there's one in anything Rockbox supports.
La supercherie judiciaire: De la criminalité en col blanc à la criminalité en r
Hah, I tried to make that clear by including “coin collecting” in the post. Hard to get that from dissecting the word though :)
I’m (half-)British and I consider “could care less” a hideous American corruption. Recently I successfully argued my case with an American friend, not coincidentally a physicist, by analogy to zero-point energy.
Hopefully the subject of tech policy gets brought up in the first debate, I'd love to see Trump and Biden argue about a subject that neither of them understands in the least.
> the configuration is very arcane at times and monolithic;

For my needs it seems quite modular. I have one ~/.mutt directory with separate muttrc files for every email account (10+) and within each account I use folder-hook to have separate (many are shared) config files.

Arcane is more subjective, but I like it.
Python module to easily generate text using a pretrained char-RNN (2017)
Probably not. The star passes closer to Sgr A* than any other at 16 AU - about the distance between the Sun and Uranus - but that still puts it a long way from the black hole's event horizon. Despite its huge mass, Sgr A*'s Schwarzchild radius is only 0.08 AU.

Still in the long-term, yes it probably will be eaten up. After all the galaxy's black hole must have fed on stars in order to reach the huge mass that it has now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S62_(star)
Can this be embedded into other apps or is this "just another browser"? The page says it's a browser engine, but it mentions using opengl and glut, so I'm not sure. Seeing as it only has a `src/main.rs` I assume it's an app, not a lib?
This one deserves a read. It also shines the light on a rabbit hole which seems to go deeeep.
>the nature of the gp's claim would be impossible to prove or disprove without mind reading powers

Or by using inferential statistics.
I think these things are mostly for interest generation articles and possible exhibitions at museums. Artists have been sculpin these things since before the digital age, and while doing it with ML is cool and all, the results aren’t really more historically useful than what the sculptors did. But hey, if it generates interest I don’t see anything wrong with it either.

I wouldn’t be too worried about whether or not people view them as historical renditions. Most layman’s history “renditions” are mostly somewhat made up.
USPS Files Patent for a Blockchain-Based Voting System
GraphQL FAQs
That's mildly annoying indeed, but I just press v and select the html version in those cases.

As you say, not mutt's fault.
Would love some pointers too, I've run into it once implement in a way j could t circumvent and was blown away. I'd love to develop the skills to do the same myself.
Can the same phenomenon be seen inside the sun? Does the estimate of when the Sun will expand into a red star account for this?
Thanks for pointing out, I thought it was obvious from the context but I'm glad someone tells me when it is not.
Personal projects ideas to improve in programming, that are also useful
Story of Lego, it celebrated 88th anniversary this month
My point is that not all countries did bad. Many countries did poorly, but many others responded well to the crisis and have either kept cases down, had very few deaths, or managed to suppress their outbreaks.

> China locking down 11m people didn’t ring any alarm bells in the west.

Yes it did. Australia and NZ started preparing very early for this outbreak. The results are very evident. The US and the UK responded terribly, and their people should be very angry.
Why bother making costumes for Neptune Day?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLymNoVvC0k

(Но впрочем песня не о нем, а о любви.)
> It is not that business form, but some ppl use colorful format to emphasize some text, which basically gives same text in the email, which makes the reader (in plain text) easily miss that part while skimming.

I consider that a feature... On some email lists I'm on, there are endless complaints of how some people don't like some elses font/color/size etc. Using mutt I don't see any of that distraction, I just see the text. That's a win in my book.
Autism has this "savant"[0] stereotype, so what you're seeing might be an autistic symptom in some tg people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savant_syndrome
It's literally the third paragraph of the article - did you read it before commenting?

He didn't have one, but he did have a Pi.
Trump did love Wikileaks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnEoVzLKNPw
Robert Trump: President's younger brother dies in hospital
"Almost all" isn't really accurate, as a substantial chunk of the US is actually federally-held public land (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_federal_land.agencies....). Most of this, such as basically everything organized under the Bureau of Land Management, is available for public use with no permits or other restrictions beyond what amounts to 'don't damage the land' rules. That's before accounting for state-held public land, of which there's also a significant amount.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15049549
Show HN: Simple Blogging Platform – QuickPublisher
Let's discuss.

You see male/female as being genetic therefore effectively unalterable, therefore the label of male/female cannot be changed.

I am comfortable with the idea that if a person wishes to be seen in a particular way that I do so. Actual example: a couple I know were F/F when I first met them. Now one prefers to use a male name and be referred to as 'he'. Took a bit of adjusting to, ok.

Now genetically one thing, but socially speaking another, isn't it just polite to make them feel comfortable? Would you call them 'her' to their face, knowing how it could upset them?