skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Octopods: Shape matters for light-activated nanocatalysts
A decade is quite a while, I've only experienced the shift it can produce about 1.5/2 years months ago and have taken it regularly since December '19, I might still be honeymooning. I believe my life would've taken a very different trajectory had I known about it a decade ago.

I've actually thought about being hooked up to a computer and not deal with this failing body that has annoying quirks and issues and makes me see doctors. I'd love to try at the very least. But I'm self-employed and like what I do - not sure how I'd feel about it if productivity gains didn't translate into income gains very directly, which translates to financial security, which helps deal with anxieties.

Do you struggle with side effects that make the experience not overwhelmingly positive?
It does not. The host can only mute you, not unmute.
Because it did. I'm sure they made tests and decided it worked good enough.
It wasn't made only for faces/persons especially not for images with 2 faced far apart. It also never was meant to decide between 2 possibly "image centers". Its not biased because you can craft an image where it procedure unwanted results. The only persons biased are the people who see a bias in everything.
If this interests you, check out: https://factorcode.org/

It’s seriously impressive in my opinion.
Might as well get them all done at once?
No PCs are reliable? That's just ignorance speaking there are tons of great PC models out that meet and exceed anything that apple does. You've got to be kidding, tongue in cheek, right?
For most analog knobs you can pull the knobs off and throw them in the dishwasher.
> trampling on WeChat's first amendment rights

As a non-American, my question is why does WeChat have first amendment rights? It's not an American company.
I met someone who was riding the busses and the tube for free until he got caught so he can use the fine letter as proof of address. I don't know if he succeeded but I think the country you are from also matters, there was a French girl who managed to get her account using an Amazon shipment.

Rent contracts don't work unless the renter is a some giant institution. GSM package shipment would't work(people tried GiffGaff envelopes). A letter from the employer works only if the employer is a large institution(Virgin would work, McDonalds would work, a small company with 5-10 employees may work if the banker had good sex last night, smaller companies unlikely to work). The first company I worked for was a small one and got like 10 letters from them and went around branches and one branch finally accepted the letter. I think it was around Christmas and the employee was in a festive mood that day.

That said, I think the situation is easier these days thanks to Monzo or Revolut.
Anything that goes into or comes out of the computer needs a physical kill switch. I have no idea why this is even a question.

Best I can come up with, the changes were so incremental and advertised as features. There was no natural stopping point, so vendors kept going.
Dials are so much better. Ovens with those membrane buttons always crack and wear out too soon.
2 of 3 Gson maintaners say: "use Moshi". Source: Jake Wharton (1 of 3 Gson maintainers)
> Do you stretch your knee fabric like a balloon when you apply pressure onto it to the ground?

When you kneel? Yeah it can be subject to a lot of stress as it's drawn taught over your knee. And if you had a heavy pack on it could be taking 150 kg.

If all you do in your Gore-Tex is stand still in the rain it's probably not a valid test - if you're using it for outdoors work then it is.
What are the alternatives? As soon as these tombs found you can either open them now or set up 24/7 security around. The latter will be difficult to justify economically.
> How long is China going to put on the mantle of victimhood over events 160 years in the past?!

160 years in the past?

The Chinese reparations, totalling $US 61 billion is today's dollar equivalents, were only completed in 1940. Then China sided with the Allies in WWII. 15 million Chinese lost their lives in that war.

But I wouldn't characterise Chinese trade policy as victimhood. Chinese entrepreneurs don't rely on any such arguments. They just make products that western consumers want to buy.
Definitely a good read.

But too few optimistic notes under too many cynical notes.

But he's damn right on many accounts...
> Nobody knew what the hell all the icons meant, and nobody cleaned the milk siphon so it went moldy and was thrown out after two weeks.

What’s the takeaway here?

A group of spoiled adults couldn’t be bothered to read an instruction manual or clean something?
The most notable thing about WL Gore is that they have a flat management structure. Everyone’s title is ‘associate’ in a way that’d be laughable at Walmart, they rank each other to distribute compensation, and they own the company.

https://www.managementexchange.com/story/innovation-democrac...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1984/04/30/g...
Banks are constantly being whacked with sticks, but that will never prevent a tiny percentage of millions of bank employees from accepting bribes to subvert their banks controls.

This price is entirely one sided and ignorant of the damage those regulations inflict on honest bank customers. The hundreds of thousands who’ve had accounts closed, or funds seized, without explanation or recourse.

When professional journalists write a one sided advocacy piece ignorant of the damage the course they advocates causes, they are also advocating more aggressive account seizure and system lockout for innocent customers, whether they realize it or not.
Even trivially a 4k@120hz monitor is 108x the pixels as a 630x480@30hz monitor and you can clearly render much more complex scenes per pixel. It seems trivial to me to see 100x the speed without relying on benchmarks.

That said, speed as a derivative of how long the user waits has not changed simply because humans have not changed what they consider acceptable wait times.
What could go wrong opening them in 2020
Since the user is complaining about the way Mac OS handles the audio buttons, I'm surprised that he doesn't mention the problems with HDMI.

I don't understand why the OS disables the audio controls of HDMI outputs. If I press the volume down button, I want the volume to go down. Instead, I get a "I can't let you do that" warning!

This is particularly bad if I have my headphones connected to the display (I have both my desktop and laptop connected to the same display, keyboard and mouse, being able to share the same headphones would be pretty convenient).
> removing Dictators from power

One way to remove dictators from power is to disrupt their money flows, so tighter banking regulations to prevent fraud and money laundering.

> simply because they have 10x-100x more employees

There are plenty of large banks who do not have this issue. Considering Deustche on its own has had more sketchy money than pretty much all other banks combined (according to the article) speaks volumes.
One a month spread around different individuals in the country with over 700,000 cops and a total of over 50 million interactions a year, which includes dealing with all of the violent criminals who usually don’t want to go to go willingly and are often armed, then yes, one a month is incredibly low and indicates that this isn’t a pattern.

Even basic statistics knowledge should make this obvious.

It doesn’t matter that people are rioting. It turns out they routinely lie about events until there is footage too. Crowds riot about dumb/wrong things all the time. Sports games come to mind.

You just linked to an example where a wanted violent criminal was reported to police for violating a restraining order against a woman he previously allegedly raped, who then disregarded the cops orders, decided to fight with them and put them in a headlock, refused to comply again after being shot with tasers, refused to comply again when the gun was drawn, and instead reached for a deadly weapon while in lethal striking distance of an officer. I think you proved my point, not yours.
Different data source, but a while ago I made a command to help explain other commands: https://www.mankier.com/blog/explaining-shell-commands-in-th...
Tensorflow can work with ROCM which is equivalent to Nvidia's CUDA.
Yeah, there are applications that are very common, but still exploits against them won’t be as universally applicable as Windows ones. You’re likely to find a Linux server with either Samba or nginx or some VNC software but all at once is less common, and there’s a lot of variety with web and VNC servers.
Getting the story right is ultimately a combination of good copy, segmentation, psychology (as in understanding who your target actually is), A/B testing and so on. It touches on so many different fields and that's what makes it hard
Interesting comments on that page.
That's not what they mean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming
Tracing the NYC Trip in “The Warriors” (2006)
I don't mind cooking on induction but I like to manage the heat by moving the actual pan i.e. if I am cooking bacon I will hold the pan edge up to catch the oil and concentrate the heat up
Can someone shed some light on why one might use tarsnap over another service? The tarsnap pricing model seems wild ($0.25/gb/month) considering you can do the exact same thing for 10% the price with something like Borg for deduping/encryption [0] + Rclone for syncing to the cloud [1] + S3 (which is what tarsnap uses on the backend). And this is only one of many different toolsets that can do the same dedupe/encryption/sync. And you can do it for even cheaper using something like Backblaze B2 instead of S3. Despite this, I see tarsnap recommended a lot amongst the tech crowd, but don't understand why. What am I missing?

0: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

1: https://rclone.org/
Wrong about what? It is a fact that vast majority of cases are asymptomatic or only have mild symptoms.

What about million people suffering due to lockdown? To you they should just endure it right?

How about you, how much low is low to you ? 0 death ? 1 death ?

How much is lockdown suffering is acceptable to you ?
My work coffee maker has a touch screen and the interface is so laggy it's insane. The manufacturer controls every aspect of the hardware and software so it makes no sense -- either make the hardware more powerful or make the software simpler!
Possibly, but we don't seem to see a race to the bottom, at least not yet. It appears that some people who want to push extra hard take it, and a lot of people who want to get to some level they consider normal and attainable. I've experienced very positive results, and anecdotally so have others I've recommended it to. Not "wow, I can work 10 times as much now", but rather "I have a choice how much I work now, I'm not hard-capped at an hour or two".
You can do this by default with Plasma Desktop on Linux.
For my personal machines I've been using Veeam's free version. It's not as full featured as what I'd like (I have it set for nightly backups), but it seems to do the job alright. It offers to make a bootable flash drive for you at installation to make full restoration easier. I have it backing up over SMB to a FreeNAS box, but it doesn't look like the backup images are easily readable (the look to be some Veeam-specific format, but I didn't look to hard at them).
The appropriate E visa[1].

[1] https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrat...
Here is another one with Danske Bank's money laundering case. It seems there is fresh development on the case:

https://finans.dk/erhverv/ECE12426633/medier-haardkogte-krim...
(use google translate, Danish to English is pretty much spot on)

As for the how to prevent this, as many have stated, punishment should fit the crime and it should work as prevention to people who wield extraordinary amounts of power.
If the crime is "to knowingly and deliberately, for the sake of acquiring wealth, empower a criminal or terorist organization by using one of the societies (or economies) most important institutions" then the punishment should definitely fit the crime and I think we all know what it needs to be.
It's much more of an issue without headphones. Anyone who ever their laptop start playing audio in a meeting knows.
Even when you have a supportive (non-exploitative) employer it's an unbelievably precarious position (personal story time!).

In order to renew an H1b visa [1], immigrants have to go to a US consulate, which do not exist within the borders of the United States so leaving the country is required. For the vast majority, this is a day trip to Canada or Mexico or a small vacation to visit family in their home country so it's not really an issue. However, sometimes, the consulate will pull shit like a "State Department Security Check" because the subjects worked in an institute that happens to have a research nuclear reactor - nevermind that it's one of the largest scientific institutes in the world or that their fields of expertise have nothing to do with nuclear.

The immigrants, if they chose to go to Canada or Mexico (as most do due to cost), are likely at this point stuck for months as undocumented immigrants in their new host country - unable to work with existing mortgages/apartments/cars/obligations to pay for in their old life, hotels and living expenses to pay for in their new life, and barely a month worth of sick time and vacation. Bonus: most of the things they could do to mitigate the disaster could jeopardize their permanent residency application. As far as I know, these standoffs usually end when the employers sue over the renewal or dump the employee completely in which case their entire lives have to be packed up and moved but they can't enter the United States to do so. Bonus #2: if both parents are working, they likely have separate H1b visas that won't clear together - family separation time!

As you can imagine, going through this series of events is devastating, especially for children who have zero insight or control into the process. Cruel is an understatement.

Edit: [1] See comment below, this applies to applications going through consular processing, which is a crucial detail
Beeping appliances is one thing I can't stand. They're always too loud and rarely offer any adjustment or mute functionality.

I got a new microwave recently. It beeped on every button press, 5 beeps after a cook cycle, no way to mute (yeah, I checked). Within a day of owning it I took it apart and ripped the beeper off the board. Problem solved.
> Nursing homes should be able to practice basic infection control; after all, they have flu season to manage every year.

What is seems more important than what should be.

Also, applying science, logic, and epistemology at the layer where decisions are made that affect multiple downstream organizations (who may not have the in-house expertise to make optimum decisions) seems like a sub-optimal approach to me.

If nursing homes "should" be able to make such decisions competently, is it not fair to ask that those higher up the chain should be able to do the same? What is the best way to manage risk in scenarios such as this?

Noteworthy is the wide variability of reporting in the media about the degree to which Cuomo did a good job on covid.
Using tarsnap for my dotfiles, which are ~17mb in total and costs ~$0.0001 daily (lol). Will worth every penny, once you reach it!
Taiwan would never allow that to happen.
But it does mean that the threat of China retaliating in kind is irrelevant, because that's already part of their MO.
It’s not inflation, the level never made sense when it started. Maybe $1M, but even the basis of this reporting makes little sense.

Go deposit $9,000 in cash at your bank. Later in the same day deposit $1,000. You just committed a federal crime called structuring.
Can someone please go to prison this time, and I mean a CEO not some mid level fall guy.
I'm sorry, have you actually read the article? I ask because rudimentary maths skills and reading comprehension should have prevented you from opening with:

"Banks are constantly being whacked with sticks, but that will never prevent a tiny percentage of millions of bank employees from accepting bribes to subvert their banks controls."
I never said the anecdotal evidence is "wrong" I said its a "false evidence" the conclusion can still be correct. The evidence remains false/not valid if it is anecdotal.
Bootstrapping vs VC Route
Why do you need to short it? Just move the wires from "on" to "high impedance" (similar to what a pair of scissors would do when applied to the cable).
I love my cuisinart ddc-1200 coffee maker. Has two knobs and an old fashion toggle switch. I realize it's not a pure mechanical switch but at least they're still using a physical switch.

https://www.cuisinart.com/shopping/appliances/coffee_makers/...
They could use something like an AS5048A for 14-bit (effectively analog to humans) magnetic position sensing instead of a potentiometer or variable inductor.

Considering they already need digital control circuitry to interface to a touch screen it shouldn't be significantly cost-prohibitive to use that to make knobs that are immune to oxidization.
The Bose Companion 20 multimedia speaker system for computers has a desktop control pod to plug in your headphones that is for volume control and an on/off button.
The guy doesn't seem to take a lunch break, ever.
Can't you switch the bias voltage off?
One thing that is hurting Java today is memory usage. Conventional JVMs use a lot of memory relative to essentially everything else and this is drives up cloud bills. There are alternative JVMs and other tools, some of which is embryonic at this point, but what the world wants and what Java really needs to continue thriving is efficient memory use by the bog standard JVMs that work with everything.
It's not actually obvious in "Economics 101" that wages are depressed by the best and the brightest coming to the US.

What you're not taking into account is the relative efficiencies of scale. When there's more talent in a particular geography than somewhere else, high value global companies can grow in a way they can't elsewhere. A precondition of that is lots of raw material - people - who can be repurposed by the highest bidder. Limit the raw material, and the industry might not even be located on the West Coast.

If supply was enough to depress wages, the US would have the world's lowest cost developers. In fact, it has the most expensive, because of the valuable companies that are able to grow in SV, which each bid up wages.

Economics teaches us about winner effects. The best attract outsize rewards, far larger than their proportional increment in ability or effort. SV attracts the best of the best because it's the best place for such people to be rewarded. It's a virtuous circle in multiple, compounding dimensions.

People are a fixed cost in the economics of software development. That means scale is king; it's the divisor on those costs. Scale isn't just on the sales side, though; it's on the talent side too.

Reducing skilled immigration is the kind of shortsighted approach that kills the golden goose in the long term.
Here's a fun one — my (foreign) girlfriend graduated from a US undergrad, and stayed in the country over the summer to begin her US PhD. She was legally covered as being able to stay in the country in both directions by the grace period after/before her undergrad/grad school respectively. When going to the embassy to renew her Visa, she was told she was staying in the country illegally, and the idiots there wouldn't renew the Visa on those grounds. They are literally legally incorrect, but there's nothing you can do with these absolute buffoons, these insipid recipients of a national work plan who are too unpleasant and immovably stupid to contribute to a real workforce.
In the camp, we can add a UDDT to reduce the amount of sewage and to help the recycling process.
This will not have a big cost.
other recycling methods could also be used.
But his job is ... to communicate?
Even then he could tone it down outside business hours.

Most HNers' job is to write code :)
Private equity managers make highly exaggerated claims; should be banned (SEC)
That's the exactly same thing I said: you need to be on H1b (or other non-immigrant visa but allows dual-intention, for example L1) and wait for maybe years or decades (based on your birth country) to get that.

Here's the current queue size: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/v.... For immigrants born in mainland China, E2's current queue is 4.5 years, for immigrants born in India E2's current queue is 11 years.
> If concurrency isn't an issue, then the massive amount of libraries can help you a lot.

Can you point to another language that has anything remotely comparable to `java.util.concurrent`? Also, Java is getting green threads by means of Project Loom.
tarsnap is simple. The rest of the stuff you mention requires me to set things up and write scripts to wrap it all and sign up for AWS and monitor it and ....

Also your method might be much cheaper, but tarsnap is still inexpensive for most use cases. So how much actual money is saved vs. the effort level put in?
Few years ago we were in the market for a new oven. The main criteria was the absence of any "smarts". Ended up getting Smeg gas oven (SF6341GVX if anyone's interested). So simple, so intuitive, and most importantly, so dumb that there's very few thing that could go wrong with it.
I’m totally amazed: at my Dpt. people (windows) have to print using a specific driver because otherwise they “cannot”. Their prints get logged (uid).

I just lpr and that is it. Log: “user”.... It is a postscript printer.

Sometimes they cannot print because the authentication server is down...
I have heard so. (I have never lived there, so I can't say authoritatively.)

But they actually have a case. Honest question: Which city do you think is greater than New York? Is it clearly greater, or is it fuzzy and subjective? And if it's clear, what makes it clear?

I have absolutely no desire to ever live in New York. But I can see how they can make a case.
You’re expecting Tesla or Apple to have to sell their assets on a firesale?
I wouldn't call the RCP piece "reporting", it is an op-ed where one of the authors works at a conservative think tank. Neither of the authors has written more than 2 pieces for RCP. And obviously as you point out, they are not faithfully representing the facts.
Which gives better performance; VirtualBox or QEMU?
I mean, when I say what I really think my comments get buried. Or just ignored.
> What ports would that be?

Anything in Bosnia or Croatia, and then through the Serbian parts of Bosnia up to Serbia itself.
This is sort of normal for any FIA standing start. Green light comes on at a pre start chosen, fixed interval between 0.2 to 3 seconds after last red light goes.

F1 has its own dedicated specific rules not seen in any other circuit racing.

Rolling start involves green light coming on at about 50m from the start / finish line and if stays red, start is aborted.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24532973
Interesting. I was wondering since I've felt cold in almost every Gore-tex jacket I have worn. Also it would seem to me that using a really thin layer of the aerogel stuff could prevent overheating, keep warm while being stupidly thin and impressive.
According to the article, banks were indeed able to command higher premiums/margins on cash flows subverting Iranian sanctions.
L-Theanine and caffeine
A mathematical approach to the question of god
Fancy touch screens could potentially tell users how/when to clean stuff?
What alternative model would you suggest? Green threads still introduce bugs (race conditions), and fight over resources (DB connections, filesystem, etc.)
>the original name was taken over by someone

it was taken over by the same people behind "AdBlockPlus" which is a shakedown operation. They're allowing ads to be unblocked if advertisers pay them money.

Some history; https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/32ory7/ublock_is_ba...