skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's probably important with Connery just to accept him as the man and actor that he was, rather than worrying about his range - whether he was playing Bond, or King Arthur in the execrable "First Knight", or a Russian submarine commander, he was always the same handsome, suave man with an unmistakable Scottish accent: that, in itself, was his great achievement. But he definitely wasn't a method actor or particularly dynamic.
DAT has no influence on how CD rate was choosen, because DAT came after CDs (but at least early DAT recorders indeed didn't allow digital sources to be recorded at 44,1 kHz due to music industry pressure, and later copy protection mechanisms were added)
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I get that. We can criticize that aspect surely. However, if you like the performance like it. Disconnect the person from the performance and from the larger context (his movies were complicit in sexism).

Look, consensual people can engage in degrading stuff, but we don’t come down on that because we believe that’s a private matter between consenting adults.
Maybe I got that impression when I was walking from my flat to Pittsburgh university on one of the main roads with plenty of shops left and right, a car stopped and a naked black woman was thrown out of the car and landed 10 meters in front of me on the pavement. Maybe I got that impression when at the same corner my San Francisco dorm flat was, somebody got shot and bled out right there. Maybe I got that impression when I was crossing the street and the driver who was clearly seeing me accelerated and I saved myself by jumping to the side.
how do you select the features for a model like this?
Systems without a CoC are just as authoritarian, but the rules just are unwritten and favor the privileged.
My galaxy s10( which was the flagship device at the time) seemed to have an issue with spurious edge taps from holding the phone. Samsung claimed it wasn't a problem, and the workaround online was to use a different keyboard. Except no keyboards other than Samsung's own work with samsung knox, and because samsung knox was preinstalled, I couldn't use the "work profile" feature in the version of Android that was installed.

Fitbit claimed to be fully android compatible, except when I contacted support it turns out they support fitbit pay, not Android pay, which isn't the same thing. And it doesn't work when used with Samsung Pay.

> Pure Android you don't even require Google, you can buy Android one mobile.

If your advice to people is to avoid the largest manufacturerd of premium handsets, don't you think that says a lot about the state of the ecosystem?
Thank you for some discussion.

> My more controversial opinion is that this behavior drives some people to the far right.

Extreme begets extreme. If I claimed I knew who went extreme first, it wouldn't matter and only lead to arguments without furthering the discussion. I will say though, that I think the left feels pushed to more extremes by how SCOTUS has gone down since 2015.

> Notably, if I’m right about the dynamics, the best way to combat the far right is by moderating the left.

I agree, but I also understand when the left claims their moderation has let them get run over.

I don't know what the fix is, but I've watched family and friendships torn apart over this. It's a very sad situation.
Aside from many excellent developers being neither boys nor men, there are also plenty of challenges to be dealt with in the field of time-keeping without DST.

See, e.g. https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b...
I want an Amazon Echo skill to screen anyone before they come to my house :)

Seriously, this is incredibly and if this is verified to work could be a game changer. The real thing we need to do is all get tested at once on the same day at the same time. Then those who are positive need to isolate for 2-3 weeks until they are negative again. That would completely reset us back to nearly zero. Then do this again 2-3 times and we could shove this demon back into the bottle.
Please read the sites rules about downvotes.
Yep, my partner has a P20 and I'm much happier using that than my pixel 3. Unfortunately they don't do google services on their new devices which my employer mandates on their devices for 2fa, so my choices are carry two smartphones, or don't use huawei. Similarly my bank(s) don't support huawei phones last time I checked.
People don't want empathy. They want solutions that fix the existing and long-standing problems. Lacking a better solution, CoCs are here to stay. So if you really oppose CoCs, the burden of creating a better solution is on you.
Some VST instruments support alternate tunings. Here's a list:

https://en.xen.wiki/w/List_of_Microtonal_Software_Plugins
They are mixing up their priorities. SwiftUI is catering to the mediocre webdev demographic, with a lot of opaque magic and language-level (!) hacks only for the sake of a “friendly” React-like API. In terms of features and performance it’s way behind UIKit, yet Apple is pushing it for the new iOS 14 home screen widgets.

It’s basically the usual story with post-Jobs Apple: catering for the masses while neglecting the pros - but this time it’s about developers instead of consumers.
Is the trick here that the driver is responsible in case of accident? That would be evil genius.
I'm not letting my email deliverability suffer just because you have an unearned martyr complex.
The price of those phones don't follow their cost. They are purely down how high they can market them.
This is exactly how tech demos for all sorts of AI have gone for decades: initial impression is "wow, I can't believe it's doing so well!" But the positive impression quickly disipates as there's real world use of the product.

Tech demos have a way of setting good impressions that are not realistic. I have a feeling that's exactly what is going on right now, but a few more close calls with crashes and the shine wears off.
One day we'll reinvent email again too
I think I get less interested in self-driving cars the closer we seem to get to them. It honestly just stresses me out. Driving is something I enjoy doing. I’m not sure I will ever feel comfortable taking my hands off the wheel. This has little to do with how well the tech works in tests or anecdotally; I think I just don’t want this.
Any living person can hold a reprehensible point of view, and as much as I may disagree with it, I really can't stand this attitude of writing people off because of a flawed perspective. That doesn't mean I support spousal abuse by association, it means I recognise he has a shitty point of view amongst all of his other flaws, as well as his qualities.

There isn't a single person in history that can meet this standard of 'goodness'. Not you, nor I, nor anyone. So yeah, let's acknowledge people for all that they are, good and bad, but let's not reduce people to a two dimensional caricature of themselves based purely on what is now considered unacceptable.
Can't they use the data from people they test to further improve the model?
> Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013' (2007)

The very article you link points out that scientific consensus is 2040-2100, and the author of the paper is quoted as saying that, because of the variance in his own model, 2030 is a more reasonable estimate.

> the other two

Refer to time of action, not time of consequence. There's a ~30-40 year delay between greenhouse gas emissions and fully realized warming. A ton of gas released today doesn't cause warming tomorrow. Because these targets haven't been met, even if all emissions stopped today, enough ice would melt over the next century that the Solomons, Marshalls, Maldives, and other low-lying island nations will be swamped.
They're selling safety statistics. I find that unethical. You don't say to a widow "but think about how many times I could have killed someone and didn't".

Also note the double speak of Musk on the topic.. he was the first to talk (even boast) about how the structural design made the car the safest of all .. but now safety is not as essential, it's ok to have some accidents. And it will improve their machine learning data set right ! /s
My thought on beginning to solve this was always:

- open forums

- smaller class sizes

- mostly peer to peer with a handful of expert instructors

- with project-based learning
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I'm happy that so many phones are waterproof these days, because now I can clean the thing more thoroughly.

Of course there the issue of water getting into the charging port, but I've found that the air blown out of a laptop compiling a Node.js project works brilliantly here.
I would be astonished if a majority of people on HN have Tesla stock, for what it's worth.
Battery storage has got way cheaper. 4x cheaper per kWh since 2013, according to [0].

They're still not cheap enough to make solar + batteries price-competitive in most markets, but their cost absolutely has been decreasing fast.

[0] https://cleantechnica.com/2019/12/04/powering-the-ev-revolut...
You’re right, it has never been an issue either way as far as I know, the Turks being more interested in the Kurds living in Paris than in the Armenians.

But it is still more likely to happen in France, just because there are more Armenians there.
The concepts of threads and concurrent data access is simple enough for any decent programmer to comprehend. There is no hell here. Sure there are some complex cases but complex cases will arise in many situations when programming things.

And achieving concurrency without shared memory is impossible in general case. Sure it is possible to isolate such access to a separate layer and make it transparent for the rest of the program but someone still has to program such layer.
It is natural that work is shifted towards the morning and people have time after work in the evening for personal matters. People do what is most important in the morning, because we can focus better.

Therefore worktimes need to follow the sunrise, especially beyond 45° latitudes where the sunrise shifts by more than 3 hrs between winter and summer.
> Instead, because Wyoming has more Electoral ballots per person than larger states like California and Florida, a vote cast in Wyoming is "worth" about three times as much as one cast in those larger states.

Anyone truly irked by this arrangement is free to move to Wyoming.
For dense urban areas (low speed, lots of stopping) I could see waymo tiny wheelhubs working. A tiny taxi bubble.
A few caveats...

1. They trained and tested on a balanced dataset, which is very unlike the data distribution this algorithm would see “in the wild”. Under real world prescreening conditions the data would likely be extremely unbalanced toward the negative class, and also be subject to drift over time.

2. They seem to have identified positive subjects through a questionnaire not via clinical chemistry diagnostics; so (a) it is unclear whether their training labels are correct, and (b) they may have completely missed the asymptomatic population.

3. As mentioned in another comment ca. 5000 patients and 250K samples is not a lot considering the size and diversity of the population(s) where this would be deployed.

Disclaimer: I gave the article the brief high level scan treatment so I could be wrong about any or all of these. Please correct me if I am mistaken.
This is absolutely not a good idea. It's very easy to scrape someone's entire database or crash their server this way.
Ballot access is 99.9% meaningless without an alternative voting method (like Ranked Choice).

Single vote first-past-the-post guarantees a 2-party system.
Ah yes, blaming the customer for making an uninformed choice when the information about whether my choice is informed or not isn't available.

If repairability was top of my list, I'd be using 4-5 year old device that's proven repairable. Silly me, I tried to be "reliable" and choose a samsung - you know the largest manufacturer of Android phones, and when that didn't work out for me I tried Google - the people who make the software. If your advice to people is to avoid all of the premier manufacturers, I think that shows that the ecosystem has major problems, no?
The site this is hosted on, The Eye, is basically one giant copyright violation. This pile of games is just the tip of the iceberg.
You have to continue to leave your hands on the wheel and pay attention.
This was done to save electricity. More direct sun, less light and heating.

Historically in France the saving was equivalent to the whole consumption of the city of Paris over the day (maybe 10-20% of the whole country).

It seems people don't care about energy anymore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I have always loved the idea that the same person that wrote the Narnia stories created a dystopian neo-Arthurian fantasy involving mad scientists, lesbian Nazi police chiefs torturing Christians and interplanetary travel. There is a very good late-80s BBC Radio 4 dramatization.
Vendor discretion whether something is in warranty is a pain point, I've seen people bitten from all vendors. If they don't respond to pressure (for example, finding other people with the same problem for a united voice), it might be a minor problem. If you don't want to take it apart yourself (don't blame you) you could find a local authorized dealer who could hopefully fix it for not much money. I wish they would just offer hardware like this on a subscription.

I don't mean to avoid Samsung (or any other Android) devices altogether, just don't use anything that takes away your portability within the Android ecosystem (which, granted, has various lines in the sand when you rely on Google, outside going no-identity, which is impossible on iPhone). It was easy enough to do when I had my Note2, there are many people within user communities who care about things like this and make sure it's possible without much effort; for example by putting pressure on vendors to enable choice for what apps are used for what purposes. In my experience, Samsung offers its own App Store, I just ignored it, I used Google's calendar instead of Samsung's default enhanced one, etc.

There are some cases, per your examples, where there's a distinct branch in what's supported. Samsung and Huawei are really competitors to Apple more than Google in this case. I can only say that like repairability is the best answer to some questions, interoperability is the best answer to others. Being locked in to any ecosystem, especially over time as our digital lives become linked to health and wealth, is bad for everyone.

My last comment, about "cheap" perceptions, was intended for another comment in the thread, sorry about the confusion.
> Engaging in the political dialogue is not wasted energy.

As it is practised in the internet it's horrible destructive energy in the internet.

Actual political work is much better.

>Sane politicians

Yes. Politicians. They also do actual political work. Public that spends hours in political internet and does not engage outside it goes insane.
>> You spend a day being really cautious and you get another test to confirm,

It depends whether there's a casual reason for detecting the same person as positive.
Bet it's only named "Full Self-Driving" to get out of their obligations to customers who bought that package.
I agree because those changes actually improve for a lot more people, not just the disabled. I wouldn't even call speech to text a disability feature.

But what if hypothetically the changes is strictly only benefit small subset of disabled people? That I wouldn't do.
After decades of research into the cellular basis of chronic pain, McNaughton believes he has discovered the fundamentals of a drug that might eradicate it https://archive.is/e1W1X
“Everybody is a genius” quote is falsely credited to Albert Einstein
When Elon Musk said real world testing was needed, I assumed it would be Tesla test cars with trained ‘drivers’ not beta testing guineapigs.

Given that there’s regular stories of people playing phone games and crashing whilst using the current lane assist tech, are we safe?

‘Real-world testing was needed to uncover what would be a "long tail" of problems, he added.’

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53349313
Thousands of people die each year because of stupid mistakes by human drivers. From a utilitarian perspective, pushing for self driving as fast as possible - in a manner that some might even judge to be reckless - is a net positive.
>We did implement checks for what seemed to us as more common failure scenarios, but the devil here was that this one first appeared during the run and we did not cover it at the analytical analysis stage.

Sounds like the kind of stage where you might wonder if analytical uncertainty is being multiplied.

>And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why self-driving is hard.

That's not all, computer programming on its own can be pretty hard to do as outstandingly as average people drive their cars to begin with.

And that's just average and that's not good enough either.

Not to mention the hopelessly dangerous drivers. Some reckless in addition, just for the hell of it.

Might even be driving an 18-wheeler with some _interesting_ scenery painted in realistic scale on the trailer. That's always distracting but I don't think a machine will be processing this type of distraction very much like an ordinary person any time soon.

There will always be occasional vehicles rapidly assuming trajectory in a way completely unpredictable by either human or machine.

Perhaps also beyond the capability of either to avoid a tragic outcome.

Perhaps not, and what's the difference might be even more difficult to yield a predictable outcome.
You cant go "woah" for 10 years. SD cars are not delivering. One more death and people will be calling to burn them.

One should do sentiment analysis on these discussions threads over the years to see how the attitudes have changed.

A much less dangerous version of this was the VR hype train
I will need to check if you’re right.

edit

just judged on dependencies of the deb package, it looks like a native app. But, I will check the actual app.

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/204206269-Installi...
I always liked this review because it reads like a diff between _That Hideous Strength_ and _1984_ (not yet written). I like the book itself as a sort of spiritual prequel. If 1984 is the dystopia realized, THS is the dystopia as it is born.

It's an interesting work. It's flawed, as Orwell notes, but it stands at the crossroads between the prewar and postwar worlds, at the very beginning, perhaps, of what we would recognize as Modernity. To the best of my knowledge, it is the last work of pre-atomic sci-fi. The work itself is as transitional as the time period.

In more concrete terms, it provides a frame on the notion of Progress, and how easily Progress (and those in charge of calling their work Progress) can turn a blind eye to the merits of what is being replaced, with contemptuous disdain for those it leaves behind. (Today we may be more likely to call this sort of thing "Disruption," and while there are real differences in the dynamic, there are similarities too.)

Finally, there's just one small piece of very good advice I extracted from an incidental note in the first chapter — if you write a letter to a committee of some sort, complaining, it will be much stronger and go over better if you limit yourself to a single complaint.
> get away with [...] products that can kill people

if your moral premise is saving lives, your conclusion does not follow. vehicles are a leading cause of death and injury, so this omelette is worth breaking a few eggs, no?

AV has the potential to save a lot of lives. of course, there will be effects in other markets like insurance, new car sales, road repair, junk/salvage yards, tow trucks, etc. what the net economic effect will be is up for debate.
"However, by the standard of the novels appearing nowadays this is a book worth reading."
Ouch.
I once helped Mr. Connery print something.

I was staying at the Beverly Hills Hilton in 2004 during Oscars week. I was in the business center on the Internet (this was the dark ages before ubiquitous hotel WiFi and personal devices.)

Someone comes in, and then a few minutes later says in a completely unmistakable voice

“Excuse me, do you know how to print this?”

I immediately jumped into parental IT support mode, it was a pretty easy thing to do, he said, Thanks, and (this is the awkward thing) continued to stay in there on the computer while I had to do the whole “pretend to be normal around Sean freaking Connery” for the next 20 minutes. I couldn’t even bring up the courage to mention my childhood favorite, Darby O’Gill and the Little People …

PS the reason I was there was to film an episode of Jeopardy, and I told Alex what had transpired (he loves those skits) and he was pretty pumped, he asked if I’d pop him in the mouth and tell him “that’s from Trebek” if I saw him again.

RIP Sean Connery, a great actor!
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I don't think that would change anything.

Maybe a portion of university-trained musicians might know it from their music history classes (or maybe they're Adam Neely viewers), but I believe most professional and amateur musicians have no idea about just intonation or equal temperament.
It's human nature. People like to offer solutions, particularly if they frequently see a loved one vent. Venting isn't free. So like you, I learned to stop sharing my pain in most cases.
If I'm buying for an adult, the flagship cameras / imaging software makes a difference.
is there a textbook you'd recommend for learning the content of this course...for those of us who can't go to CMU to take it?
Social issues aside, the software perspective of keeping up with DST is very costly.

Every time any government entity anywhere on Earth changes its mind about what zone they're in and when, the IANA needs to reissue the TZDB. Then every OS and platform vendor needs to patch up to a new TZDB. Just for laughs, Java seems to have its own TZDB so in general your OS and application layer might disagree about zones.

This is all okay for most users who just get an automated OS push, but some vendors operating national networks that need to do some things in localtime need to upgrade their platforms and do acceptance testing every time.

And then there's bugs.

Just for example about the variations, here's a recent TZDB change, seems Fiji is rejiggering their dates only a month away. See the archives for many more.

https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2020-October/0000...

https://www.iana.org/time-zones