skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I'm talking about. I realize it's not state/church sponsored censorship, but the scientific community does suffer from groupthink and orthodoxy. When bringing up somebody's name immediately makes a group mad, it's usually because they are having an emotional reaction to a potential loss of power. It sounds like he is dedicating his life's work to building that alternative case, without the support of major academic or scientific institutions.

I agree it should be easily provable or disprovable. Since it makes people so angry, and still hasn't been disproven, I'm inclined to think this hypothesis is worth more investigation.

> The Mews have enraged the orthodontic community with the caustic, uncompromising way they’ve promoted their theories. They and the coterie of nontraditional practitioners who follow them often occupy the furthest reaches of the orthodontic fringe, written off for decades as a small but troublesome band of cranks and kooks. They almost never speak at mainstream conferences. Their papers, if they publish them, tend to appear in obscure, fourth-rate journals or profit-driven industry magazines. British and American orthodontic researchers told me that nearly every claim the Mews have put forth is wrong. Kevin O’Brien, a leading academic orthodontist in the U.K., described their work to me as “mostly discredited.” When I mentioned Mew to a prominent American orthodontist, he cut me off. “John Mew is an idiot,” he said. “A total idiot.”
It is not a tax on sales. It is the cost of using their channel to market.

If you host the app yourself on your website then how are people going to discover it. For most developers they would buy ads or invest in content or influencer marketing. Those marketing costs are your channel to market and obviously aren't a tax.

It's hilarious watching so many people on HN discuss this topic who are completely naive and ignorant to the realities of customer acquisition. Apple and Google hand you customers on a silver platter for the bargain, consistent price of 30%. Whereas as a startup I have to pay much higher to Facebook and Google for PPC ads.
In a pyramid scheme you would be tricking others into buying junk for "their own businesses" to sell to other people.
Didn't mean anything arch by that. I tried looking for them by name and charity number but nothing turned up. I consider it a cock-up that I couldn't find them by searching by charity number on the Charity Commission website, which has worked for every charity I've done that for. The only other explanation was that they were going to change their charity status, but I considered that unlikely, hence "cock-up rather than conspiracy".
It seems to me gmail has not changed much in the last few years. Search is much the same but worse. The only change seems to be snippets that, for me, usually host some badly scraped content from another site with wrong answers but more effort on SEO. It seems a bit of a waste of 20% of the page. I wonder what those tens of thousands of people are mainly doing? Maybe working on stuff that we never see, like applying bandaids and string to hold together the ever growing infrastructure that provides the mediocre apps to more and more of the world?
> Do you validate every single unsafe code in every single library you use? Even the standard library? Every time?

Nope. But if I use a rust library, the compiler will do that for me. If it's Rust. And not CXX.

I shouldn't have to in Rust. That's... the central premise here. Usage of unsafe code should say that it's unsafe.
This data is worthless and likely very skewed by the use of mean prices instead of the median, while not displaying the standard deviation.

Take France, for instance. 42 plans. 0.11 for the cheapest. 108 for the most expensive. How the hell are they finding 0.81 average, BTW? Same with South Korea.

Also, in my experience, the bigger the plan, the less expensive it is, so they should have sorted "per 1 GB/month plan" or controlled for that issue somehow.
I'm in the U.S., and I pay for an unlimited 4G plan and download a lot. My price per GB is cheaper than 9 cents/GB which is what the article reports as India's average price.
You've set up a very strange strawman; never have I argued that we should "use up" or "abandon" the Earth. I specifically said post-Sol. The reality of this planet is that it has a finite lifespan. I hope with all my heart we maximize that lifespan, but we have about 1.3B years before life (as we know it today) is no longer possible on Earth without major geoengineering projects on a planetary scale -- which would presumably also enable us to settle other planets. The Sun will simply get too hot, our planet will not be able to maintain any sort of thermal equilibrium and carbon cycle. It's a physical inevitability. Within 2.8B years, the average surface temperature of the Earth will be 147C [0].

Dreaming of the stars is one of the most natural and wondrous human experiences. It's the only constant across hundreds, thousands of generations; a single canvas we've pointed to and asked questions about for millennia. Do not mistake optimism for our species as a dismissal of the problems we face today.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
So do production costs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Baia_Mare_cyanide_spill
We Are Sorry to Inform You (2005)
If it’s for your own business who do you send the receipt to?
Stock certificates usually have your name on them, and then there's a process to sign them over to someone. The corporation has a register of its shareholders, and in this case it's you.

At least in Canada, once you get a physical share, you can then buy shares directly from many companies by writing them a cheque without any commissions. Less important as trades here now average around $10, but that's fairly recent for many.

I still have a share of a Canadian bank that spiked in value by the time I got my certificate sorted out. They still mail me a cheque every 3 months for <$1 in dividends.
I live and work in NYC but the company I'm employed by is based in CA. How fucked am I if I'm ever able to cash out my equity. Note, technically I'm a resident of NYC. If I don't have an office by next year, I've decided to move back to TX, or pick a spot in New Hampshire or Vermont.
Errol Morris famously uses a two-way mirror contraption for his documentaries so that when he interviews his subjects, they are looking directly into the camera as if they were talking to you. It definitely gives a more intimate feel when the subjects are talking.
At the point of them taking in input to process, audio that comes from a microphone or comes from a file is basically just a series of numbers and is the same. So there's no barrier in terms of feasibility.

Whether they're all set up to do that "off the shelf" is a different matter but it should be fairly straightforward to add this to any that lack it and because they're open-source anyone could do a bit of Googling etc and find suitable code to adapt to do it. I know DeepSpeech definitely can take audio from files directly as input as I've used it that way before, and I strongly expect many (or possibly all) of the others could too.
Not all Internet experiences are equal though. 1 GB of internet in Pakistan ($0.69) ≠ 1 GB of internet in Canada ($12.55). I would gladly trade my Pakistani internet plan for my Canadian internet plan.

Last month, when I was in Pakistan, my experience was:

+ highly censored to the point where even services like Cloudflare's edge-node's within the country were being MiTM-ed by the censors [0];

+ I couldn't use "any mode of communication such as VPN by means of which communication becomes hidden or encrypted is a violation of PTA regulations" in the words of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authoruty (PTA) —Pakistan's FCC-equivalent. I asked them if TLS/SSL was included but they never tweeted back; and

+ I didn't have access to services like Paypal, and when a service hadn't rolled out "globally", it wasn't available to me.

Oh, and while I had "unlimited" internet, I was subject to my carrier's "Fair Use Policy" which had an unspecified maximum download limit after which your internet would be cut off. This was reported by a lot of people during the initial work-from-home boost during the pandemic when home-data-usage spiked.

Now that I'm in Canada, my internet is nearly unrestricted.

Edit: previous said my ISP restricted IRC. Just rechecked, it no longer does.

[0]: https://twitter.com/amingilani/status/1283448960666009601
Hmm, I guess I considered Unix utils rather narrowly specialized, so `parallel` meant ‘my CPU got too many free cores’ for me. I'll take a closer look at it, thanks.
Canada #209 out of 228 I'm not surprised, CRTC is useless, mobile / internet is still crazy expensive in 2020.
What IDE are you using for CadQuery? I really want to get into it, but I had trouble getting the default IDE up & running. And standalone python was too troublesome to code/visualize, the feedback loop got too long, especially compared to pure UI CAD such as Fusion360
I think Google is great. It's convenient. Their search results are tailored to my liking, I love Gmail, I adore Google Docs/Sheets, and there are tons of tools I use almost every day as well.

Honestly, the "switching away from [nameHere]" trend is so tiresome. Good job, you're a unique little snowflake now. You don't have Facebook, no LinkedIn, you don't use Google but DuckDuckGo, and you're even switching away from GitHub now it's owned by Microsoft.

What's next? No more StackOverflow? No more using that popular package manager and, instead, installing all that stuff manually?

Why aren't you a sheep, using Linux like all those others. If you want true anonimity and control you build your own OS. And all those microchips are scary, better reinvent the entire computer just because they might track and trace you.

Where do you draw the line?

You're making life harder on yourself.

But okay, privacy is a thing. Right. Yet you're using a computer. Most of you won't be on a VPN every single day. And those who are, are probably on a commercial VPN. Or worse, a free VPN. Because if the service isn't the product... who is? Hmmmmmm.
If you like cheezy cheerful music accompanying nuclear destruction, watch https://youtu.be/HWZXinRwCaE?t=210
You got me curious (I don't use Google Voice, but my dad has for a very long time) and I started to search around. It looks like all the alternatives are either expensive or shitty. :/

Edit: The universally accepted "best" seems to be Grasshopper[1] which is $29/mo or $26/mo billed annually ($312/yr).

[1] https://signup.grasshopper.com/plans
You should look into the recent proposed bills that target exactly this. The provision that made headlines was a wealth tax on $30MM personal wealth, however it also includes enormous income tax hikes on anything above $1MM and explicitly targets capital gains.
No evidence that it's tied to publicity.

We've seen dozens of situations like this over the years and often we find out that Apple and the developers were discussing behind the scenes way before it was public.
As far as I can tell, rural conservatives are Extremely Online™.
Cartilage Is Grown in the Arthritic Joints of Mice
I hope this rings as genuine... I would very much like to hear back from you!
When leaving Australia in 2005, it had one of the worst value mobile/internet plans, was pleasantly surprised returning after 15 years to find it now offers some of the best value.

Currently on a Woolworths no-contract pre-paid mobile, A$150 for 12 months for 84GB Data / unlimited mobile/SMS [1].

Works out as USD $8.95 /mo for 7GB / unlimited calls/SMS

[1] https://mobile.woolworths.com.au/Shop/Plans/Woolworths-Phone...
There exists no purely fusion bomb. All thermonuclear bombs are lighted by a fission stage and bomb of such size would definitely have more than one.
It's not that their feelings don't matter, it's that their is nothing anyone can do for them.

I'm very ugly, I'm very single. I don't expect anyone to do anything about it for me. You just have to get on with life and make the best of it. Be a nice person and try to enjoy yourself.

If the worst thing you have to deal with in life is having a sub-optimal face then you're probably pretty luck! Act like it.
> I suspect it's the backhaul from the mobile mast but I'm not sure.

It might be in some cases, but in most cases that backhaul will be a very scalable fibre line. It's probably more down to limited spectrum. Three attracts heavy users, because their pricing is designed around them, so they have the most loaded network, and they can't just manufacture new spectrum (they can add new towers up to a point, but there's a lot of cost to that). 5G should help, somewhat.
Does that include phone payments at all? Because it sounds like you’re getting a not so great deal. I’m also in the US and pay that much for unlimited everything on 2 phones
Worry instead about the National Museum of Computing.[1] Those are the people who did the bombe rebuild and the Colossus rebuild. Separate admission. They had a falling-out with the building-oriented Bletchley Park Trust.

I've been there, but before it was built up into a major tourist attraction.

[1] https://bletchleypark.org.uk/visit-us/the-national-museum-of...
For me, the biggest issue is the complete lack of visual feedback you've actually launched FS... It's at least 30 seconds on a fast SSD, on a fast PC that is suggested to use the high spec profile!

At least some progress screen to show you've started the program would help.

One major issue is that sitting in the menu seems to use 100% GPU. I can't see any reason for that, especially when the game often runs at 90% GPU for me.

It seems to be multi-core aware, but multithreading is definitely leaving a lot to be desired. Modern CPUs with 8 cores (16 vcores) seem woefully under-utilised.

Turning on vsync tanks frame rate by about 6 or 7 fps for me. "Popping out" a navigation window and putting it onto my second screen also causes around a 4 to 6 FPS drop.

This is definitely a "release broken, patch later" build. I do like the game, but I fear the extent of "patching" might not fix the fundamental performance issues that probably need a rewrite of much of the core simulator engine itself. No software should take 30+ seconds to appear on screen with any indication it's loading. I get the feeling the devs have focused so much on feature development that no time at all went into performance optimisation, and that's a shame as this game has such real potential.
Has it? I'm very interested in using data science for astronomy as it was my childhood passion and I'd love to read anything you can provide.
They will require you to only accept Apple Pay in your restaurant, or you will have to remove your app from the app store. :)
Very true. An example I just saw (and reported) of something that's about to get much worse:

https://rennlist.com/forums/987-981-forum/1177333-best-oil-f...

("I have Tucson 2.0 and I can say that the mechanisms are as similar as possible and it was also very difficult to pick up oil, because it is also old. That is, hard oil will not fit there, maybe even spoil the engine and transmission. Therefore, it is better not to take risks and take exactly those oils that are best suited to such types of cars and engines. You can also read about the best oil for tucson 2.0 (spam link redacted), there are different variants of such machine oil described in details. I personally took Mobil 1 Extended Performance 5W-20 Full Synthetic Motor Oil and I do not regret, because of its full synthetics it is quite loyal to the engine. Therefore, it is ideal if you have an old car, but in any case, study the top and then already select from it.")

This is pre-GPT quality material, and it's already good enough to hang around unreported for days in some cases. A lot will depend on how much effort forums are willing to put into vetting new users.
And one could argue that the gamemakers were much more motivated to create a successful product when they started out in the red, but got the keep all of any profits.
I didn't see that one, but on another instance, I was not at all surprised to see the trailer for the completely debunked film "Plandemic."
You need to look at prepaid options. All major carriers have those. They are not bad if you like in or around a metropolitan area.

TMobile -> Metro PCS

Verizon -> Visible

ATT -> Cricket
I thought "dark matter" literally refers to any matter which is not emitting light, and the speculation about there being some "spooky" form of dark matter is only to account for the sheer quantity which must exist but we can't observe
I’d like to secure the rights to an adaptation of your continuation
Thanks. Please try to add 'paywall' to your comment, that makes it easier to find quickly.
It's explained in the beginning of the video.
And somewhere out there today is a penny stock or "sketchy"/high-risk investment that will go to the moon. And it will seem to straightforward in hind-sight, but ignore a lot of other failures.
This was released by Rosatom, which the US administration does not control.
I'll second this, at least as of a few years ago. I used to regularly take the Amtrak train into Boston's South Station. The area near Mansfield, MA. had basically no signal, despite being in a suburb. Not sure if that's improved since then.
The general Bel Riose had his military headquarters on one of these things in Asimov's Foundation and Empire.
I agree about Brave. Don’t understand why people seem excited about it.
Nextcloud is indicated here.
With a Facebook share link embedded in the page? Glad the rest didn't load without JavaScript enabled...
Said 8 GPU server was consistently in use for Mozilla DeepSpeech (now renamed Mozilla STT) in training models. Its impressive how far Mozilla got considering how limited their resources were.
Yes, if you want answers, you need to frame it as a Q&A session: https://lacker.io/ai/2020/07/06/giving-gpt-3-a-turing-test.h...
I'm surprised Brave is recommended over Firefox (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027)
Also if the app store is the only way to sell or distribute apps to customers using a specific device for which it's customary to only own one device in that category (such as a mobile phone), or it's otherwise impossible for others to create a fully equivalent app store (e.g. because the OS doesn't expose APIs to install apps), then the fee must not exceed the money required to do payment processing, and all apps must be accepted.
You've got a bunch of buzzwords to describe why telcos in America fleece customers. Make it simpler for the rest of us, would you? Rent isn't a good thing here.
There are a number of quite good modern primes that are tiny with big apertures, especially for smaller sensor sizes. Even then, though, lens plus camera is almost always much bigger than the current crop of depth cameras (K4A, Realsense D400, L500, Lucid Helios). Even those cameras is still too big for some applications, that's where PMD's tiny little cameras have a niche.

There's always going to be some room for larger, better sensors, but a lot of applications are in need of more sensors to get better coverage, and size is definitely one of the tightest limitation on where they can be applied.

I think this can be explained quite simply. In a fully controlled environment, using structured light but cheap lenses and small sensors is much more cost-effective. Why would they use expensive APS-C+ sized sensors, that they don't seem to be all that good at making, when you can get away with very cheap parts?

I mean sure, greed is a plenty good explanation of Canon's behavior. The RV-series are pretty big and plenty expensive, so I don't think using better optics would be an issue. Indeed, if single-frame PDAF depth worked out, it would considerably speed up the parts recognition cycle time, which is actually somewhat slow due to the multiple patterns required by the structured light system. The projector and structured light processing work isn't free, either, so it seems like depth they got for free would be better in every way.

Dual Pixel AF II, at least in marketing speak for OSPDAF, has been around for longer than the RV-series, so I can't help but have doubts about the actual practical applicability of PDAF SfF.

But this is precisely the point of OSPDAF or split-pixel phase detection. You get both depth and RGB at the same time, because the RGB sensor doubles as a phase detection sensor.

Yes, that's true, but the problem of making a good RGBD camera is that you generally want a deeper depth of field in RGB so as much of the image is in focus as possible, while maximizing PDAF SfF depth quality requires as shallow a depth of field as possible. It's not impossible to solve this, but the fundamental optical features you want out of the depth part are the opposite of the features you need from the RGB part. You could address this by changing aperture between each depth/RGB capture, although you'd definitely have to use an electromagnetic aperture to avoid lifetime issues. You'd still end up with a slower framerate taking successive depth/RGB frames, but that's doable for many applications.
Well, I do that partially because I think that it's the core of the issue here. Saying "hey I think this makes it too easy to make mistakes" is a very different argument than "obviously this library is inherently unsound."
Does this also account for smaller objects we haven't observed yet? Like I have often wondered if deep space is full of everything between gas giants and specs of dust, how dense would it have to be to account for the missing mass
Unit Testing Embedded C
1 GB of 24/7 access to unrestricted internet is different than 1 GB of always down or censored internet.

They should consider that in the next "study".
Cool yep. Process change costs real money too ... observe the ETL phenomenon as an example. perl dies hard.
Thanks for your thorough discussion of this; as someone currently migrating to macOS, I found it very helpful :).
That's all well and good, but PhD students have zero incentive to do this, and the blog would likely go completely ignored anyway. Not only does a blog post not help you graduate but in order for anyone to care about the results posted on your blog you have to market it!
My experience is that Milan and Paris are great, and London is terrible as far as mobile coverage goes. None of the other cities I have visited were remarkable. The countryside is somewhat variable, mostly depending on terrain (there are few spots genuinely without coverage).

I never had issues in the US, but I never ventured into the countryside either. At least mobile plans tend to be much cheaper in Europe compared to the US.
The chart is potentially misleading because it only focuses upon the dimension of transfer when markets can be based upon speed. South Korea oftentimes has tiers of data based around speed rather than a cap or aportionment, which is part of why its cheapest 1 GB is less than 1/4 of what it is in the US but seems comparable. My point is mostly that level of service is another dimension that is hidden from the chart that should be quantified to better understand the underlying trends.
I can't find osm go! on the play store. Have you got a link?
The inability to take advantage of large numbers of cpu cores is my biggest disappointment from a technical perspective. I don't know why you'd rewrite the game and fail to design it for modern core counts.

The micro stutter is very much real (AMD gpu here, Ryzen CPU), and annoying. I have tried to do some tracing to see what's going on. The fact sitting idle in the menu takes gpu usage to 100% doesn't inspire me with confidence. Frame pacing seems to be causing the stutters but I haven't managed to link it to an IO delay or similar yet.

My fear is the developers will focus on fixing functionality and never really optimise performance - I suspect getting good usage of 8 core CPUs (16 vcore) would require another full rewrite, which doesn't feel too likely.