skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So far, at least from this outside perspective, it looks like Azure, Azure DevOps, and GitHub all seem to be talking to each other and where there seems to be external redundancy there seems to be internal reuse/recycling/consistency (some of which not always apparent). CodeSpaces for instance looks like it shares a lot of infrastructure no matter how you launch it (from GitHub or from Azure). GitHub Actions supposedly shares a core and a lot of code with Azure DevOps Pipelines.

Microsoft still seems to be quite coy on what the actual long term plan is, but from at least some appearances there seems to be one in this case. (I've heard lots of rumors but no easy to find reputable sources that Azure DevOps eventually gets eaten as a brand by the GitHub brand and an eventual (auto-)migration. I still don't know if I can trust those rumors, but that seems like one of the better options to me.) At the moment in the short/medium term it seems like Microsoft is trying to dual brand the same products to target different customer types.
"the people who use the transporter don't feel like they're longer themselves. They just feel like they've moved."

Well, the people going in the transporter would be killed, so they wouldn't be feeling anything after that. The people coming out of the transporter might feel like they just appeared in a new place, but that is immaterial to the people who were killed by the transporter.

Similarly, a mother could have grounds for rejecting a teleported child, for the one who came out of the teleporter was not physically the one she gave birth to.

Incidentally, the philosophical concept that episode explores goes back long, long before Star Trek, to the Ship of Theseus[1] thought experiment from Ancient Greece (and I wouldn't be surprised if this was considered even before then in ancient India or China).

The Ship of Theseus problem asks: if a ship's parts are progressively replaced with new parts, until all the parts have been replaced, is it still the same ship?

The cells in our bodies are being progressively replaced. A materialist, naturalist, or physicalist would have trouble explaining how someone could retain their original identity if nothing of them was left after this process.

The brain upload, teleporter, and transporter questions are variations on these.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
Again, you're playing to the audience you wish you had instead of the one you actually have. As we have been unable to get people to stay inside, there's no good that will come of continuing to tell people to stay inside while we know they won't. We need to figure out how to minimize harm given what we now know. You're basically arguing for the war on drugs.
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As someone who is most definitely not a gamer but with coworkers and friends that get big into high cost gaming systems, here’s where I see the biggest deltas between real life and the screen:

- Hair. Up until very recently hair was downright awful. Nowadays it’s acceptable-ish, but there’s still lots of room for improvement, in particular in natural motion of long hair.

- Water. I spend a big chunk of my time on the water, so I’m probably more attuned to how it moves than most. Games just don’t have it down. In particular, I think a lot could be gained by embracing it’s fractal nature: in my experience, at every human scale (mm to dam and everything in between) very similar wave patterns exist, but games tend to have just a small fixed number of “wave-layers” at various scales stacked together.

- Clouds. I can easily spend hours just observing clouds, looking at things like their shape, overall motion, internal motion, composition, edge behaviors, etc, and how they change over time. Game clouds are lacking in all these regards, particularly the time-sensitive nature of a cloud.

- Foliage. In games I’ve seen, individual plants/etc. in isolation generally look really quite decent. But the second an physical object interacts with them, they very clearly don’t respond in the right ways. There’s a lot about how branches bend and leaves rustle and more that is lost. Additionally, in groups of plants it’s often clear that some small number of models are being reused, possibly with some generated randomness added. But the variety doesn’t come close to matching what one would really see.

- Human faces and expressions. These are generally really bad, especially in normal gameplay (cut-scenes are sometimes better)

Again, this is probably all just really weird stuff I notice because I spend the vast majority of my time outdoors and only see “HiFi” games being played very infrequently. I don’t think games are worse for not implementing these, but I am very interested in what they’ll look like 10-20 years down the road.
A small thing that I haven't seen mentioned yet, but these cards have native hardware decoding for AV1. With chrome just launching support for AVIF this last week it seems like more and more platforms are getting out of the box support for it. Nvidia is also working with a lot of partners[1] on it it seems. I'm currently working on a social video platform, and having a unified next-gen codec that works everywhere for both images and video would be SO helpful. Hopefully this trend progresses - would love to be able to do some extremely high quality streaming.

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-30-series-av1-...
A decent non-fiction book, Teleportation: The Impossible Leap, by David Darling, that I read some years ago, tackled these sort of ethical/philosophical questions neatly.

I think you'd find a whole lot of people unwilling to use a Teleporter, even over multiple generations.
That could indeed be a lucrative niche!
The relative share of people attending college from 1970-2020 has increased dramatically.

So spending per-student may be down, but spending overall certainly is not.

... is one of many complicating factors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_...
How do you think SENS is doing, sorry to go off topic.

I like them, and they give me hope, but i am not sure where they are.
In German, it's "Luftlinie", which literally means "air line" (while airline is "Fluglinie" ("flight line") or "Fluggesellschaft" ("flight company")).
> practically speaking, the people who use the transporter don't feel like they're longer themselves. They just feel like they've moved.

That's begging the question, isn't it? If the destroy-and-copy view is right, then the people who use the transporter are dead, and replaced by the transporter with people who have the memory of having safely used the transporter.

I agree, though, that after a while society would just adapt and no one would care whether they'll survive the transport.
I noticed the other day that various chatbots (as in, a single service shared across multiple websites) call me "The University of Texas at Austin", presumably because I have a housemate who works there.

I tried various VPN servers and got called by other company names[0]. It was a good reminder about how we're tracked, and our information may be shared, even with other users.

[0] https://twitter.com/lkbm/status/1299408670325964802
How did the left shift from what people have in common to what they have apart?

The left has always talked about existing divisions, ever since the late 1800s. Is making the distinction between owner and worker known not highlighting differences?

And of course, once those differences are well known, the left pushes to fix them.
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This makes a ton of sense and I appreciate the response. I think what people aren't recognizing is that cloud services make you pay for performance, so doing things like relaunching containers which have slow warmup time literally costs extra money. While it's certainly important to design systems such that the containers can be tossed aside easily, that doesn't mean there isn't value in reducing how often that tossing aside occurs.
> it's pretty rare to even see an object-oriented one

That's not even vaguely true. OO is the dominant paradigm in many areas of commercial programming, including web backends, phone client code, desktop applications using GUI frameworks, written in Python, Java, C#, Objective C, Ruby, etc. Think about Java -- that basically mandates OO.
I saw a set of junior devs implementing this thinking it was encryption, and not understanding the difference. I feel like the main JWT page needs a big warning that says “this is not encryption, but a way to verify the contents have not been modified by anyone but you”
Care to give examples? US Democrats aren't leftists, they are just normal neoliberals.
unpaid? then you're not hiring, you're begging.
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Your argument doesn’t sound very convincing. People declare bankruptcy now all the time; it’s quite easy actually if you really have no assets and don’t mind your credit ruined for 7 years or less.

You haven’t actually stated under what conditions you would be allowed to discharge your debt, you’re just trying to convince me that it wouldn’t be abused and also that we really need this to happen. Again, not very convincing.

There’s a reason student debt was made undischargeable right around the same time that the government started guaranteeing loans.
A couple of years ago there was bad weather just before the oshkosh air show. Which is the largest in the USA.

When the weather cleared, EVERYONE flew in. It was chaos.

I am unable to find the recording, but ATC was like "high wing, low wing, if you have a wing, turn left"

https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/910sge/the_adsb_at_...
Based on usage of DDG, bing and wolfram alpha, I would think Apple can improve a great deal. I'm not saying it can necessarily achieve that, but I do think there is a lot of space to improve (indexing, ranking, UX)
Not really. The big question mark in my mind is how important the surrounding biochemistry really is to the brain's function. We already know from the study of mental illnesses that altering the biochemistry can significantly affect a person's state of consciousness and mental abilities. What is less clear is what happens if you remove the biochemistry completely. Does the brain even still function? Does a person go insane? Totally unknown.
This looks very cool! Your blog is 500ing: https://histre.com/blog/enhance-websites/
Well, there's also ddccontrol: https://github.com/ddccontrol/ddccontrol that has an optional GUI. I think that's the one I've used in the past.

Pretty much all monitor settings are exposed.
Well I appreciate the good-faith discussion. And fair enough, I didn't intend to put words in your mouth, I was interpreting "not in any egalitarian or progressive way" as meaning "not in any positive way". But I can see how you might not have been making that strong of a claim.
I wandered around the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow a couple of decades ago, thinking, at so many of the technology exhibits, "that looks reeeeeeaaally familiar".
>theoretically perfect design

We have no metric to use to quantitatively score one design as something unequivocally better than another design.

This is the first thing you will need before you can prove one "design" is "better" than the other. Until than we are doomed to go in circles and have endless debates.

I believe even if we do find some quantitative measure on program "designs" it won't be rating something as "better" or "worse" it will likely be metrics on many dimensions measuring tradeoffs.
I understand keys take time to travel, but you can press them faster if you want. On the other hand I've never understood debounce as a justification for button latency. Surely a properly designed debounce circuit would add zero latency.
That doesn’t really answer my question.... rephrased: all I do with high-powered GPU’s is Remote-SSH into hosted Linux machines and run ML jobs. Does this wayland thing have any impact there?
This is good to hear, and makes sense to me. I'll also admit that, now that I've thought it over, I'm doing a bit of apples-to-oranges comparison, given the $4/mo is not just "for 2 gigs of storage," since it also includes Actions minutes and I think a few other bonus features (private wikis?). At that point, it's more fair to compare it to what e.g. GitLab offers, than what you'd get from Azure Container Registry or similar.

I'm not sure the Container Registry on its own will necessarily be attractive to people just looking for commodity-priced container storage, but GH Actions + Container Registry does make for a pretty compelling CI/CD story, I have to admit.
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Well blogs still exist and many of them have higher quality than few years ago because they resisted all this time, the same can be said about RSS.
Although I completely understand what you wrote. I also feel the recent boom of podcasts is also somehow replacing blogs.
Crummy human behavior online has been a thing since before those algorithms. The theft of a gun in the first game online, eternal september, the behavior of people on game forums, 4chan - none of that was impacted by algorithms.

Emotions have been used to manipulate people since time immemorial. The platforms and their ideals were were simply naive. I held them too, so I include myself in that group.

The internet by its very existence was going to help spread conspiracy theories. The algorithms were also simply a natural evolutionary force.
> I've used a hard real time OS for a desktop

Which one?
Having gone through some hellish months on a 5700xt, AMD isn't any better than Nvidia on the Linux front, though since late January it was relatively stable (on beta linux kernel, which meant I couldn't use KVM/Virtualbox reasonably).

Personally, looking at the RTX 3070, for 1440p, but I'm not doing anything other than some casual gaming.
When I was younger, I supported full legalisation of sex work because I thought that to disallow it would be to remove the agency of sex workers who had chosen that path as their profession.

Then I got older and read accounts of sex workers trafficked to European countries where prostitution is legal I realised that some (but not all) sex workers are actually participating in "legal" transactions under duress. In my mind that invalidates the necessary consent required when the activity involves sex work of some kind, making it unethical from the buyer to acquire such a service despite it being legal locally. While trafficking is of course still illegal, I am unclear about the laws protecting trafficking victims from their "buyers" in non-consenting transactions.

Since it is practically impossible to confirm if a given sex worker is participating under duress or not, especially when it occurs "remotely" as in this OnlyFans situation, I would say it is always unethical to purchase such services.

In addition, what I would consider "under duress" is fairly broad, not only under threat of violence from traffickers, but also including economic duress where an individual feels that it is the only way to earn an income to put food on the table. In this vein, I would consider sex tourism to poorer countries a form of exploitation and thus unethical, even though one could argue the individuals from the poorer countries selling such services do so "willingly".

This article writes that one of these women feels that she must engage in sex work through OnlyFans because it is "the only way she can support her family...". It leaves a bad taste as I would not consider that she is participating in the transaction without duress, and thus actually consenting in the transaction. Would you be okay with it if you knew that the woman you were buying lingerie pictures "had" to do it? How would that not be a form of exploitation?

However, one can extend this argument to any type of work. "She says her _____ work is the only way she can support her family...", replace with an arbitrary line of work and activity (woodcutting/marketing/basketweaving). Is there any thing that makes sex work special (apart from some puritanical opinion which are not actually applicable), that would make such a transaction inherently more unethical than say being forced to work at McDonalds because it's the only way to make ends meet? Why would the latter more "ethical" than the former, when an individual is still "forced" to sell their labor to survive, what ever form that labor is?
I agree that censorship is a short-sighted solution, but imo the bigger risk comes from the fact that social networks operate in a way that enables the loudest voices, increases polarisation/bias, thus creating a platform for misinformation and harm. It's a known (and well researched) phenomenon.

If anything, we're moving away from progress by wasting our brain power on giving voices to ideas that are proven to be harmful (think: M. Gove saying that "Britain has had enough experts", I'll skip the US president for the sake of brevity, or 5G, Covid conspiracies, it's tiresome). We need rebels, not idiots. Of course, it's not new.

> We fought a revolution to have the ability to think for ourselves.

When you say "we", who do you mean, specifically?
Who does "we" refer to and what would you mean by "them"? How old are you?

In almost every imaginable way you or I share more with an Iranian mullah or a fisherman living in Wuhan than the people who lived in Northern America at the end of the XVIII century.
Listening to the recording, this is something pilots saw on 10 mile final approach at ~3000 feet. There is not going to be any airport video of this.
NVidia has always been a headache for me. I run ATI on Linux. I use xmonad as a window manager, and NVidia's proprietary drivers just didn't handle multiple screens correctly. I switched to free drivers, and they did one fewer monitor than I was driving. I switched to ATI, and then things just worked.

What's more surprising is that ATI doesn't take this opening.
The correct term for this measure of the geodesic is orthodromic distance and is guaranteed to get confused looks from people, which is often my intention.

You may then proceed to explain this refers to the distance by camel.
Pretty sure his actions were actually illegal.

https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/em...

> Supervisors and managers cannot spy on you (or make it appear that they are doing so), coercively question you, threaten you or bribe you regarding your union activity or the union activities of your co-workers. You can't be fired, disciplined, demoted, or penalized in any way for engaging in these activities.
> Have you ever wondered how does NumPy perform its complex computations so fast? The secret is that it uses lower level programming language — C.

I thought NumPy used the LAPACK libraries at its core, which are written in Fortran:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAPACK?wprov=sfla1
Out of curiosity, what laptop models + distros have you tried to set up?

On Acer Nitro 5 with Nvidia GTX-1060Ti and i5, stock Ubuntu 20.04 loaded no problems, and even DisplayLink driver for dual monitor, one through regular HDMI + other through USB -> HDMI adapter worked (though I couldn't get it to rotate display vertically).

The bugs I did have were with it constantly re-disovering network printers that I had to disable, and changing the default wifi power-saving settings because something was funky with it.

On Asus TUF A15 with Nvidia RTX-2060/AMD Renoir + AMD Ryzen 7 4800h absolutely no distro worked out-of-the-box and I needed mainline kernel + latest Nvidia drivers. But after fixing that myself Pop_OS picks up everything perfectly and no problems.

Both of them have CUDA working IIRC (at least running "nvidia-smi" says it does).
Your merit is the minimum amount an employer can get away with. If you had more merit, some other employer would steal you away by offering that much.

Your output determines your merit and thus your pay, subject to random inaccuracies.
I guess it depends on what the condition and treatment is. Herbal cough drops to sooth a sore throat, sure. Vitamin C to cure cancer, not so much.
You might want to click some of the links or read other content on the site to get more of that supposedly missing context.
Isn’t a postal code about 50-100 houses? It really narrows things down.

That particular variable really reduces things.
I suppose that makes sense, but literally everything a camera sensor (+ image processing chain) does affects the final output in some way or another. The CFA, the demosaicing algorithm affects color, the optical low-pass filter that's designed to remove aliasing from high-frequency artifacts ends up reducing sharpness in some situations, things like dark-current suppression affect the image, etc, etc, etc. Every camera brand bakes in tons of processing.

But those features are designed to be beneficial in most cases, and this article is about the edge cases where some faint stars, in some photographs might look a little different if you examine the image at 1:1. Its an interesting article from a technical standpoint, but I'd say the feature does more good than harm in the vast vast majority of situations.

Also, most dedicated astro folks, especially the ones doing deep space imaging (i.e. beyond just capturing the mikly way) are probably using dedicated astro cameras.
You can enable experimental support for TLS 1.3 on Internet Explorer for Windows 10 (not for older Windows) in the advanced options tab. You should also disable third party add-ons and enable enhanced protected mode. If you also disable jscript.dll[1] you will get all the benefits of the IE shell that was posted here without having to download anything.

[1] https://borncity.com/win/2020/01/18/warning-0-day-vulnerabil...
Here is an unpopular opinion:

Phones are hard, maybe the FOSS world should put more effort into the pine tablet for now.

Because the core system of not ready yet much less the telephony stuff, and yet here we are doing distro hoping and pretending our apps are touch friendly.
Does the "para" stand for parasitic? lol
You could use droppable skids or wheels for takeoff, if you don't mind enduring flight at, what, 60 knots at least, in ground effect, with your nose about a foot away from the runway. I can't imagine any sane person doing that, but this guy would probably have had the time of his life.