skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh sure. "Good enough". Because "most things" are crap. But you're prioritising "conveniently find" way over "coffee quality". I'll go an hour out of my way to find great coffee. Even when I travel I'll spend significant time researching the best coffee in the places I'm going.

If you're not plugged into the specialty coffee world, you'll think places like Peets are "excellent". Next time you go to SF, try Ritual and Blue Bottle and Sightglass (and my last visit there was 5-ish years back, so I'm certainly out of date with newer recommendations, and I seem to recall Blue Bottle "sold out" and may not be genuinely specialty grade coffee any more...)

25-30% of my rss feed is coffee-related, probably 20% of my Youtube subscriptions are coffee-related. The far end of the excellent coffee bell curve isn't _that_ hard to find, but here in Sydney, for example, many of the top 10-20 places are good enough that they're coffee destinations in their own right, and are not paying for high foot traffic locations in city centers. I've got four great roasters fairly nearby, all pretty much in the middle of light industrial hell. They're in between nondescript warehouses and bearing shops and panel beaters and down the street from new loft conversions selling the "hipster scene" they've partly created (along with the breweries and live music venue and motorcycle workshops nearby). People get in their cars or get a cab/Uber to go there because Hazel and Claire roast there, or because Dan is the head barista, or because Sasa trains everyone personally, or because Reuben sources all the green beans himself.

Go find _those_ places in your city, then tell us what you think of Peets and Starbucks... And maybe you won't care. Not eveybody does, and that's fine. Maybe it'll ruin you for life, and you'll never be able to drink mediocre coffee again - and you might think that's wonderful of you might hate me for it... But go find out...
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[...] it is possible to perform kernel-like operations without actually writing your own GPU kernels:
a = CUDA.zeros(1024)
b = CUDA.ones(1024)
a.^2 .+ sin.(b)
""" [https://juliagpu.gitlab.io/CUDA.jl/usage/overview/#The-CuArr...]

As far as I know, that example code creates an ad-hoc kernel that performs the computation in a single pass.

I honestly don't know if that is possible in other frameworks.
I disagree completely. Perhaps you wanted to refer to weighting culpability of people being accused, but that isn't a contradiction.
Frequentism vs. bayesianism – The AI paradigm war
Living Planet Report 2020: Our relationship with nature is broken
> I've often wondered how much of my opinion I could chalk up to translation.

I think I understand your point, but I reckon a good translation is far from hearsay. That said, I have never taken a single book, and read multiple translations of it. Perhaps someone has, and can determine how big a difference an individual translator has on the work of the original author...

But I've read a handful of Murakami books now, and this post made me think about that. Most recently, I'd read 'Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki', as translated by Phillip Gabriel, and 'Norwegian Wood', translated by Jay Rubin.

Now every book is different of course, but while the stories are different, all the Murakami books tend to rely on a number of tropes, which seem to appear in all his books (at least the one's I've read), no matter who translates them... Strong female characters, especially supporting characters. Explicit, but not overt, references to sex. Fleeting, but highly edifying references to classical music. Numerous references to drink...

It felt like I was reading the same author, for sure.

Hard Boiled Wonderland was my first Murakami... The odd conjoined narrative made me think of Final Fantasy 8 a lot for some reason (which also had a strange twin narrative). I thought the book was at it's best when he was trying to work out what was happening to him...
Germany conducts first nationwide emergency warning day in decades
FIFO systems can have starvation when dealing with time bound things like web requests - slow request handlers can cause other (waiting) requests to timeout.

In a thread-per-request or process-per-request model where you run say 4 * cpu workers the operating system scheduler is able to interrupt stuff that's hogging the CPU but that isn't the case in a typical 1 * cpu worker async model.

When there's little cpu load this is not a real threat but when there is material load you can easily run into problems.
Decorative images should be in your style sheet, not the html document. I know this purity isn't always possible with every design, but if you care about blind readers you'll change your design, I guess.
Thank you! When I asked the original question I didn’t imagine I’d get the help I needed right here in the thread. I didn’t quite realize it myself but knowing what’s the minimum set of tools I need to have had indeed been among the biggest obstacles.
There are things called empathy and humanity. Yes children should be the top priority, not only mine but everyone's. I don't ask you to compensate my hours because I have a child, I ask to try to find the best solutions to an exceptional problem, by being adults and open to discussion. The fact that you think there would be a power play is because YOU consider it to be a matter of power. It's not about power, it's not about the fact that what you have to do is more important or not. It's children (or family, or humans, or living animals), nothing is more important. We don't talk about free time here, we talk about being there for people that completely depend on us. And of course it's exceptional, situation would probably smoothen out after a few days or weeks, where we could find solutions that better suit everyone.
The reality is that you're not paying the 30% cut for nothing. Companies actually thought hard about how much they should charge and what they provide in return.

Consoles will become more expensive but games will cost $60. Payment processing fees have to be passed onto the customer. Your $0.99 game with 30% cut is now a $1.30 game because of credit card fees. No more Steam cards at retailers.
> I feel like this is something where AI can actually shine: generating descriptions of images and video for blind people.

That's exactly what you don't want in the majority of cases. The alt attribute is for an alternative to the image, not a description of the image. For decorative images, the alternative is the empty string, no matter what the image contains. "Laughing group of people" might be a correct description of a stock image, but completely wrong as alt text. For, e.g. a red arrow pointing out a required field, the alternative is "Required", not "Red arrow pointing right".
I found the idea of letting some people know they were not welcome at the funeral very powerful. There's no simple way to communicate this while alive, and no way to police it while dead. But this works. In my last days I might appreciate knowing that if two-faced rival X dared to show up they would be chased out of town AND that those I loved knew it was important to me. This is for the living and the dead.
Depending on your.NET knowledge, Concurrency in .NET uses F# alongside C#, showing functional approaches to concurrency.

EDIT: https://www.manning.com/books/concurrency-in-dot-net
Valve introduced Steam machines and those flopped.
I like to mail from the Fastmail web interface. But I cannot set this as my default mail application anywhere.
Lawyer telling you he can indeed take your money? I am shocked, sir :)

US copyright law does not protect the mechanical
or utilitarian aspects of works. You can draw a logo (trademark) and a funny animal (copyright) in copper layer on your pcb and try that, but otherwise you are boned.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2337014
I wish it would quit treating two places with identical names as equally relevant no matter what their relative distances. Gee Google, did I want the one that's ten miles away or the one that's 186 miles away? Being able to say "take me to the Home Depot that's beside a Walmart" would also be nice.

My personal pet peeve, though, is the absolute and deliberate refusal of Google to voice-type the word "o'clock." It is bizarre, and I say it is deliberate because it's not confusing it for another word. No, you can stand there and say o'clock over and over again, and the circle will keep pulsing indicating it's listening to you, but it will type nothing. It's infuriating because it stops you from being specific. You say "start at four-fifteen" and Google knows to type "start at 4:15". But if you say "start at four o'clock" you just get "start at 4" and there's not a damned thing you can do about it. You can say "We'll go at one o'clock, two o'clock, four o'clock, five o'clock" and it just types "we'll go at 1245"

Why?!
I'd like to note that the burden of proof lies on the one making an assertion. You can't blame anyone for failing to find evidence for your thesis.
I'm more cynical and believe that the amount of risk involved means a serious degree of risk aversion towards 'proven models' - which means boring or at best 'fun and chipper' but not 'great cinema' - like Avengers.

The 'lowest common denominator' on planet earth is actually significantly lower than merely just a US audience.

Stories have to be simple and stupid (think Transformers) in order to make a run in theaters.

They have to work across cultures.

Something like 'The Joker' can work - but that was relatively low budget - and still risky.

Avengers are basically the perfect format for today because they are fun characters, a big fanbase, and with some 'smart writing' all they need then is 'good production'. That's it. It doesn't have to be great.

Star Wars and Star Trek should fit this model but they screwed it up.

Dune and many other stories are just 'out of bounds' given the risk involved.

A lot of actors are lamenting this, and it's why we are only seeing 'remakes'. Comedies, RomComs - dying.

I think the only hope is Netflix, Disney+ etc..

Unless the theatre model changes.
Google Scanned Objects by GoogleResearch
> Additionally the first amendment seems to only apply in this context if it pertains to freedom of the press.

That wasn't my understanding. I thought that SCOTUS had repeatedly ruled that you had absolutely no expectation of privacy when in a public location? It seems weird to me to have a legally protected right to make recordings that doesn't extend to their use (at least for personal purposes).

Even so, I suppose the ordinance might be legal because I've never heard of a "right to use of facial recognition technology" or anything that would otherwise imply that. That being said, I find the idea a bit disquieting. I value privacy highly and have serious concerns about the current state of affairs, but specific algorithms being disallowed on the level of an individual person is highly concerning to me.

Isn't it only large actors (ie corporations and governments) where abuse becomes a serious concern due to their geographic reach and available resources?
This looks fantastic - any chance of an OSX 10.14 version though?
Tension in Europe is real. This was planned well ahead of pandemics and possibility of war is finally on the table.
I'll do that, thank you!
Here we have a network card which normally pretends to be a disk, but here it's a network card pretending to be a scanner pretending to be a network card.

Top-tier stuff.
people who aren't self-absorbed enough to think that their preferred newssite is the center of all activity in their industry?
I bet the surge pricing on Uber chariots was astronomical during the Vesuvius eruption.
Same thing with putting the hand clap emoji between words to add extra smugness to a tweet – it's horrible for screen readers:

https://twitter.com/aardrian/status/1159066496540319744
Vulkan is only supported on the Switch, in what concerns game consoles.

And even there one can choose GL 4.5 and NVN as well.

Most native titles end up going with NVN.
In production systems, you don't use coroutines alone. You have several processes, some may contain several threads, some thread may contain an event loop.

In fact, it's already the case with WSGI setups: you may have async nginx on front, multi-process gunicorn behind, and a thread pool for you db connections. And asyncio already provides API for sending tasks to process pools and threads and getting them back as async Future as a convenience. It's turtles all the way down.

Bottom line, async, threads or processes are not silver bullets, and you should use the right tool for the right job.

Just like when Go users realized that spawning goroutines for everything actually didn't work at scale, throwing awaits everywhere is not a magical solution.

Having asyncio at your disposal make some tasks easier, like websockets, crawling your network, etc. It opened the door for new architectures, and maybe new features (live settings, task queues that feeds the results back to you, etc.).

But it's been oversold, as with anything new and shiny.
Also single dad with 2 young kids in the UK. Got divorced last year, so this year has been a challenge for the same reasons you mentioned! Grateful to have work and spend lots of time with the kids although they are back at school now. I'm 44 so my skills are even more out of date!
Simplicity of core language and syntax does not necessarily translate into simplicity of the language, see Common Lisp.
The current stream interface is still somewhat awkward. Apart from the question whether the reader and writer really need to separate objects, there's also the problem that the write and close methods are synchronous—in order to use them correctly, it's necessary to throw in asynchronous calls to drain and wait_closed.

There was a plan to fix this in Python 3.8, but that never went anywhere.
Digression that might be interesting for the HN crowd: The healthcheck for Apache ZooKeeper is simply sending it `ruok` and receiving `imok` if it's healthy:

$ echo ruok | nc 127.0.0.1 5111
imok
nRF52810 is plenty cheap too
In Firefox, you can prevent videos from auto-playing by going to the "about:config" page, then searching for "autoplay.block", then setting the results to "true".
High Expectation as Dune Movie Trailer Released
Av3ry – An AI Musician
Txt-Web: A Simple Engine for a Plain-Text Internet
On Windows, that standardized API would be the IAccessible2 interface. If you need a cross-platform solution it's probably going to be more difficult, at least I'm not aware of any cross-platform abstraction layer for accessibility APIs apart from Qt, which of course does a whole lot more than just accessibility.
So just to clarify, the new-meter would be smaller if judging solely by the extent in space? But not compared to any other physical object since they are all kept together by forces that are constant regardless of space?
Blue Bottle is majority owned by Nestle and seems OK but not particularly special.
I know, "land of the free, home of the brave"...right?
There was a English politician who committed crimes with a partner, and then feuded with him.

He wrote a book describing their joint activities, and had his son publish it after his passing, so as to embarrass the former friend.

When he died, this politician was greatly respected. After the book came out, it made him seem so crass, petty and vengeful, that his reputation was completely shattered.

It was so bad that another famous man - I think Churchill - said that this was the first case he knew of a man committing suicide posthumously.

If anyone can give names, would appreciate it. But I bet a service like this will offer many more the ability to accidentally destroy themselves after their death.
There are things I would build many of if they cost $2 instead of $20. Say a medium-resolution 3D volumetric mapping of temperature and humidity in my house becomes reasonable at $2/node, but not at $20/node. I think scale still applies at this level, but fewer hackers are thinking in terms of swarms. There are transformative applications at scale that could be interesting even to individual hackers, but scale is its own niche, just as IoT in general is a niche.
When I visited Pompei and Herculaneum my first thought is I couldn't help but to think how stupid humans are for rebuilding those towns in exactly the same place, and even closer to the volcano than the ancient destroyed towns.

Farms, I get it -- fertile soil -- but why cities? Did people not learn from the historical records of their time, to draw lines around the boundaries of destruction and not build again within those lines?
Would also be interesting for me in German - and on android. Or you skip Google's and Apples price fist and also create a web-only version.
If you can, be brave and try and talk to people. Even a chance encounter at work, in a cafe, or in the park can make you feel good. I've recently discovered the more you express kindness and empathy or even a basic interaction with others it makes you feel good. It may seem obvious to some, it's quite selfish in a way, but hopefully a win-win.

Good luck with your journey.
It wouldn't be hard for people to be fooled by this kind of trickery again in the right context.

Pretend someone wrote that program but instead we do a 21st century mechanical turk; an elaborate brain-like device is made with glowing parts, in a glass box, about 8 feet high. There's dozens of wires probing into it and going to these two brushed metal cabinets with noisy fans and blinking lights etc, but it's all just for show.

Inside there's a simple raspberry pi running our program (the turk) and there's a keyboard and monitor hooked up to this theater piece for people to interact.

I would place real money on a very large percentage of people believing it's hard AI, some true breakthrough of science, a heralding of a new age, even though it's just a 40 year old program.

Kinda like how War of the Worlds seems to continually lead to perpetual mass panic when it's just superficially updated and played out as a radio drama - presentation emotes more than content
What dependency hell looks like, and how to avoid it
I believe the term is delayed-onset adolescence
Eliminating path loss has always been relatively easy if both ends never move. I’m assuming they mean negligible spread over the distance tested instead of no spread.
Maybe? But that's the whole LTSE schtick, right?
Very few ISPs publish service area maps, never mind accurate coverage maps. The only public data about broadband availability is based on FCC 477 forms, which is notoriously inaccurate. It's so bad that the FCC recently had to walk back claims of broadband coverage for 63 million households. The FCC data is so terrible that you can only use it to rule out coverage areas.

To get any kind of reliable data you'd have to manually try to collect information scattered all over the web. Go over ISP websites, the list of muni broadband networks, carrier portals,...

Even so, ISPs can and will readily deny service, even if they at first say that there is coverage. The only way to make sure is to order service and see if they deliver.

If you have the budget for it, you could consider using commercial services like Fiberlocator, but they mainly cater for the commercial and wholesale markets. I don't know if they cover FTTH. They may, if the network in question also offers business service. They have an API, but that's probably not included in the yearly subscription fee of just under four grand.
Or you could buy a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 for 50¢ (STM32F0 series)
A lot of the comments here seem conflicting, to say the least. The article has:

> use by private entities in public accommodations

Which still doesn't fully explain it for me. In an HN comment someone linked what appears to be the ordinance in question: (https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5967c18bff7c50a0244ff...)

That says (§34.10.020 D) that a place of public accommodation is a "place or service" offering various things. I'm not quite sure how to interpret the wording "advantages, facilities, or privileges" though. In addition to public businesses, I'm assuming that would include city parks (they seem like facilities), but what about roads and sidewalks? I guess those offer "advantages" and "privileges", at least?

But regarding the context of the earlier comments in this chain, it seems like intent would be the key factor. Recording video with the intent to run facial recognition against it, whether it was to be done by you or someone else, would presumably qualify as a violation.

So what about recording large quantities of video without intending to run facial recognition, for example a dash cam, but then later running it against a specific segment in response to an incident?
The difference is that here we have the freedom to criticize and organize against it. One of the presidential candidates wants to tear down all the stuff you pointed out.

I can say that the surveillance doesn't affect me because it's almost unheard of for Americans to get arrested with evidence that the NSA collected. The NSA is not a law enforcement agency. In China arresting people based on data from surveillance is the norm.
The very first Computer Science course in college. It was all downhill from there.
I highly recommend having one! Based on analytics, I know it has contributed to me getting all of my best job offers, from a PhD position to industry gigs. Interviewers have commented positively on the style (in my case "hackerish") and brought up some of the projects.

Basically, it lets you control what people see when they Google search your name -- and it can give you a professional non-Gmail email too.

Here is mine: http://danwilhelm.com (Unfortunately, I haven't updated it much since college!)
I have used a bunch of jsonnet and was in your position. I picked up https://jkcfg.github.io and have been very happy. You get TypeScript with (some) hermeticity guarantees.
That would be a hillarious discovery.
I'll just leave this here: https://youtu.be/5dhSN9aEljg
I tested everyone in my family with an online test of facial recognition (probably it was https://facetest.psy.unsw.edu.au/). The results from the online test did not correlate with our real-life experience: a person who is very bad at recognising people in real life got a slightly better score on the online test than a person who is very good at recognising people in real life.
Microwave ovens operate at 2.45 GHz because of frequency management issues - we just can't afford to have jammers all around the spectrum. The first water absorption peak is actually at 22ish GHz.
I finally read SICP half way through my career, but at that point it was too much old news to keep me interested, even if I recognized that it was a really well written book. So I actually stopped half way.

Does anyone know of a good summary or alternate text of all the knowledge in it?
Assange Hearing Day 8
Don't get me wrong, I'm not necessarily in favor of any of these foreign interventions. I just don't accept that the US gets so much blame just for being involved at some level in a conflict that they have some strategic interest in.
That's sad. I hope some people got rich selling to Nestle - that place was _amazing_ 20 years ago.