skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Create Deep Fakes in Minutes with AI
great notes

didn't see anything obvious about messaging-style IPC like jms/0mq etc or more synchronous HPC mechanisms like MPI, which are also good/important topics to consider depending on the use case
I also recommend it, a little bit old because it doesn't cover new features but the fundamentals are strong, Brian Goetz really did a great job.
RIP. Awesome actor. Wonderful bond.
Mostly agree, except you shouldn't need multivitamins if you are eating a healthy diet.
That'd be "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Feathers -- which I now look fwd to reading; thanks for the rec!
People i know are plagued by jetlag for weeks.

Secondly the supposed benefits have never been backed by aby hard-evidence, it's all make-believe.
I'm surprised that people have this opinion, especially on HN out of all places. Seems like most people here are aware of how dangerous human drivers are and the vast possibilities of technology. Seems like you're just needlessly scared since you're arguing for killing people?
Without commenting on this particular technological advance, it did make me think of the early days of the automobile

https://amp.detroitnews.com/amp/26312107

My key takeaway is regulation of advanced technology lags waaaaaaay behind the disruption caused by the technology.
Oh please, oh please, oh please, oh please...
Well, to be frank, he did say farting was 24/7 - and not intermittent.
Hi! This is part 4 of my Python behind the scenes series. The goal of this post is to understand how the CPython VM executes Python bytecode. You'll learn:

- what is the evaluation loop and how it's implemented
- when and how a thread may stop executing the bytecode to
release the GIL
- how CPython computes things
- how CPython handles exceptions and implements statements
like try-except, try-finally and with

I appreciate your feedback! Thanks!
Most jobs require physical presence, synchronous communication, or both. IT requires neither despite what some managers say, so this is what sets us apart IMO. We're able to work detached from the rest of the society most of the time. There of course are owls among non-IT people, but they never have the freedom to break their sleep schedule like we do.
Well let's do that then where it makes sense, instead of a sudden arbitrary shift by an hour for all clocks, which is nowhere near enough for a 3 hour shift anyway.
You have to look at who is polluting the most. If country A represents 2x the emissions of country B, then it's twice as important to curb their pollution.

Country borders mean nothing to the planet in ecological terms. How about looking at emissions per square kilometer as a target, but focusing treaty efforts on the largest CO2 emitting countries (or coalitions of countries that can be dealt with as a block)?
If you read the Matt Taibbi piece about the resignation, there is additional email/slack evidence that shows he both described the piece accurately and he was raising concerns about the process.
I would guess that most people on here are cautiously optimistic. Given the progress that has been made over the past decade on all things AI my priors are telling me this will eventually work.

Note that it doesn’t mean I love it; I just expect that they will figure it out.
Also my grandmother's milkman for a while.
The best bond. I used to think it was a competition, but now I don't think it's even close.
Lol, of all things
I have a bad habit of constantly editing my replies (I think it helps me to think of how other people would read it after I've saved it). I tried to address your point about too much competition within Android in a later edit; that basically Android is a world unto itself, with multiple major players trying to distinguish themselves.

While Google tries to address this by centralizing everything to their services app (which is a nice Open Source solution since it can be swapped; we'll see what happens with Huawei), some vendors still want to claim their turf. I thought that has been getting better, but for the past few years I've found it best to buy Google's version of whichever product, and have been very happy with them (perhaps since I've become more conservative, the crazy pace of innovation lives on in the mainstream Android world, with Apple waiting to see what's sticks before they include it).

I don't "blame" people for buying iPhone, it's certainly a safe choice, but even though I'm not that demanding I just find iPhones to be too limiting (that is partially a Raskin vs Englebart thing). Oh yeah, and Google's on-device AI features are actually useful. However, in the long run Apple is developing a vast closed world akin to a monopoly that will create problems (and if I hear that cheesy default ring tone again or see another film/tv person pull out an Apple device which are the minority in use, I'm going to lose it).
Engineering education is designed to ensure you know better than risking lives for fun or profit.

It doesn't prevent you from trying to introduce new technology as long as risk is acceptable. Otherwise we'd still ride horse carriages (with special horses bred to be slow).
Why you write so much stuff? Isn’t there a one highlighted paragraph that describes what you do in there?
I think permanent DST makes more sense. The best hours of the day are in the evening. Folks are off from work, kids are home, the heat of the day is gone. It’s a great time to get out to a park or a stroll.
No, I didn't look at the link- you could have at least described what it contained.

I gave it a quick look, but frankly it would take me a lot of time to check if the model and assumptions make sense (it also seems to reply "job failed" whenever it doesn't have a cached answer). But I think real costs can be estimated only from working plants. Do we have, now, renewable energy plants that are capable of delivering a constant amount of energy by storing the excess production? How many have been built around the world? Why aren't we building more if they're so cheap?
> Since 8 hour jet lag requires only a night worst case two of sleep to adapt

Science says it's more like 1 day for every hour of shift. I agree that when I shift 12.5 hours to go to India the worst effects are over after a few days, but I don't get back to a normal pattern until two weeks later as I return home.
1) Human eyes are superior to any camera system in a Tesla. both in resolution and dynamic range. 2) The human visual system is backed by the equivalent of strong, general AI that intuits and understands the entire world around the vehicle and all objects interacting with it. It is in theory possible for a video-only system to work, but ML is nowhere near the level of development needed for that to be a reality.
It is far from a solved problem, in fact it is a problem that shows the simple solutions to be infeasible. Battery prices are several orders of magnitude above where they would need to be to provide true grid-scale storage and production capacity is a fraction of what would be required for same. Pumped storage is a dead-end solution because we have simply run out of places for effective hydro and are quire soon going to run out of places where we can turn existing hydro resources into pumped storage.

There is no level of investment that can magic away the storage problems of current renewables, which is why they continue to become a bigger and bigger problem as more and more production shifts in that direction.
Work schedules are often tied to all sorts of other schedules that limit flexibility -- things like school schedules, stock market or customer hours, published hours for retail or government offices, etc. If there's a practical benefit to schedule adjustment (and there is at certain latitudes), it can often only be realized by many if society as a whole shifts.
I recommend setting "show dead" in your HN settings.
The main problem is that Tesla autopilot uses pytorch which is a prototype and toying library designed by an intern as compared to tensor flow which was designed from ground up targeting realistic applications such as this one.
with teams split across US and Asia, the time overlap time they get i.e. US morning and Asia evening is very important to keep things going. This becomes very challenging especially in evenings where for developers sitting in Asia either you lose 1 hour of that time or sit late and mostly it is the latter what happens. So even without a country having DST, this is severely disruptive to a very large community of people and their quality of life across the world.
Ok, but how? I haven't noticed any problem yet.
Naive question: I package small and midsize Go projects as deb packages all the time and find it relatively easy. All you need is the binaries and some config. Cross-compilation is easy with Go, so what exactly is a problem with k8s? Isn't it just a bunch of executables for kubectl, kubelet and api-server?
> By your logic we’d have no medicine, have you ever read the side effects of some medicines.

You picked the worst example possible.

Medicine is one of the most tightly regulated fields in the world with huge upfront cost and approval processes spanning years or even decades. E.g. the research and approval process of a new antibiotic costs multiple billion dollars before it can be sold.

What you see now wrt the Covid-19 vaccine is an international effort that is fast-tracking everything. Regulators are willing to overlook a lot for it to come to market as fast as possible and it's still taking a year or more before it's approved for use on everybody.
Truly a versatile guy!
Bitcoin's white paper turns 12!

Dear Satoshi! Thanks for Bitcoin. If you read my comment, please reply me your advice.
I launched an ecomm store (https://berch.io/) on a whim earlier this year. Haven't had much time to spend on it, but thinking about spending a few hours before the holidays.

Are you charging enough? I'd imagine you're doing at least a small amount of work on each custom order. If you're spending anything on ads, I'd think each order is in the red.
I first heard of the Beatles in 1965 when my 4th grade classmates were talking about them and then heard I Want To Hold Your Hand shortly thereafter. I could never have envisioned that, 55 years later, I'd have all their albums on my iPhone, several of which are among the most listened of my entire music library.
What a ludicrous point of view. The world has a lot of good people in it. There is do defensible reason for celebrating unapologetic bad people.

Honest mistakes, sure. Character flaws, ok. Blatant endorsement of spousal abuse on a major news program with no retraction or apology ever? Get real.
I will be forced to modify my long running bad joke: "How did Sir Sean Connery use to shave? CTRL+Sh!". Rest in peace, sir.
I never had any pain or difficulty urinating when I had the pain symptoms. But what the article describes is interesting. If my pain comes back (fingers crossed it never does) I'll try to keep this possibility in mind.
Your pants do not protect your from someone else urinating on you but they definitely make it harder for you to do it to someone else, especially by accident. Sorry to be crude.
How does this compare with NoMachine?
Do you use managed Kubernetes or kubeadm?

I think if one uses a managed Kubernetes keeping it up-to-date is pretty easy. I did an AKS update in 10 minutes.
"Ah yes, I see it now, you've got his eyes."
I know it was a joke, but just in case: one grow-lamp turned on for an hour in the morning is unlikely to trigger alerts. Growers usually run several lamps, and they keep them on most of the day - long enough to be comfortably captured on thermal cameras, which police tend to use at night anyway.
Wrt insulation I really meant law, not standard. I hope there are no laws limiting the size of radiators? That would not make a lot of sense i.e. story sounds more like whoever was in charge of calculating the size completely messed up.
why? that sounds ridiculous... original files should suffice.
If you are intrigued by the idea that law can and will be represented as computer code / data, here are a few link to go deeper :

* British national act as a logic program (1982): the paper that is the based of most current effort in this domain https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234805335_The_Briti...

* Standford codex LSP initiative that try to standarize the format in which legal rule will be encoded https://law.stanford.edu/publications/developing-a-legal-spe... (as far as I know the initiative is still going, don't hesitate to contact oliver goodenough if you want to get involved)

* OECD recently publish (2 weeks a go) a full repport on current initiative in the domain https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/governance/cracking-the-code_3...

* There was a workshop at last ICAIL where a lot of people showed their progress on the topic (link to all demo video in this gdoc : https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1-7cJ0KsYzQ8IOY3L_bYX...)

* MIT started a journal on the topic ~1 year ago https://law.mit.edu/

If you want to work on this topic DM me :)
I think Just intonation, or an approximation to that, is what people are instinctively using, unless they are consciously tuning themselves to a piano.

It sounds much more "in tune" to the ear, because of the nice ratios.

It really wouldn't surprise me that raw recordings of many singers are in fact more just than equal temperament.
>> Only ~2% of the population are farmers, so even if they did all object the 98% wouldn't care and move forward anyway.

In Canada I think it's about 3% but they are a Very vocal political group and punch beyond their absolute numbers.
There was VGA Trek also.
What Lives Behind the Blue Screen-Halloween Special Narrated by Jack Rhysider
This is awesome. Definitely, the best showHN I ve seen this year! Keep it up ;)

As a developer, I want to ask which programming languages did you used to build this & why. I think you didn't open sourced the tool or am I wrong?
Despite what Logging Industry says, cutting down trees not stopping wildfires
Cool stuff. However, maybe the post could be titled "NASA WebGL of the galaxy", since it only seems to focus on the Milky Way.
Isn't this position tautologically the case of letting the perfect getting in the way of the good?

I'm not saying Tesla is making a good move here or maybe isn't being careful enough. I don't know yet & am not familiar with how the engineers feel about the development of the product & how bad the corners they cut during development are. That being said, the standard you've laid out is not a good world to live in. I don't know if the tech equipped in the car is sufficient.

A huge statistical difference in quality should be sufficient to go with automated cars even if they don't make the same mistakes as humans or sometimes make mistakes humans don't. "Statistical difference" isn't about a coarse level analysis either but situational. If they get into fewer road accidents but kill pedestrians at a larger rate, that's a problem. The problem is the news media only reports the top-line number because analysis is hard.
How to Make a Sundial
> I've heard that reading lips over video is difficult.

It is. Zoom, for example, supports a frame rate of up to 30 fps. If someone talks fast, a lip-reader will be screwed.
I wasn't aware of that, thanks for the info!
He was iconic as James Bond, but he had many great roles. My personal favorite: The Rock. He's just so good in this movie.
The West Bank has (had?) timezones that are based on ethnicity, not geographic location: https://www.972mag.com/the-worlds-only-ethnic-time-zone/
So the people we love get away with an implied critique (nudge nudge wink wink), but we hurl stones at anyone famous?

Changing makes us better. Virtue signaling does not. Assuming we're monotonously moving towards tolerance and treating people better is also extremely arrogant. The comments to this post demonstrates that with great clarity. Sean Connery isn't even cold and already people line up to piss on his grave.

Next time someone in your family dies, are you going to list their moral shortcomings? The "but" right after listing their accomplishments and good sides? "BUT...he didn't like Asian people, spoke ill of jews and objectified women and stared at Mrs Jenkins daughers tits whenever he could. He ate red meat and belonged to a religion that terrorized much of the world for a thousand years".

Of course not.

But then again, Sean Connery isn't a person to any of us. He is just a symbol of something it is okay to hate. So pissing on his grave is somehow permissible.

What annoys me isn't that people get upset about his views. What upsets me is that people have the absolutely disgusting idea that pissing on his grave makes them better. It doesn't. It just means they are a different kind of asshole.
I don't think that I get it. Could you explain?
Microsoft's Google Analytics Rival Can Record Your Screen on Web Pages
Wait what? Is the box supposed to trick your body's into thinking it's morning and going to sleep?!
Discussion on /r/MachineLearning with caveats here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/jkrzlt/d_a...
The OP is a link to an 8+ hour video. Skip to 7:00:52 for the start of the conversation.
I can see this as an argument for year-round DST. Now defend falling back one hour in the winter, when by your own admission a one hour shift will be insufficient to align with sunrise.
> I don’t know how someone ever could think this is a good idea

Why is that? Whether or not it’s still a good idea, lots of people have thought so in the past. You don’t see the fact that governments have implemented it as evidence that there has been consensus and something legitimate there you might have missed?

I honestly don’t care if daylight saving is abolished, but when I was younger, I used to think like you do that daylight savings was nonsense and should be ditched. But since then I’ve looked at the sunrise charts and realized what happens in the summer without daylight savings, and I changed my mind, I like what happens. Without daylight savings, summer nights are short and summer mornings the sun comes up at 4am and I sleep through some of the usable sunlight. Daylight savings is an attempt to normalize sunrise time. What, exactly, is “evil” about that?

Take a look at the annual sunrise times where you live and check out what happens with and without daylight savings https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/san-francisco
A better way to put it is that it reduces the comorbidities, which generally improves chances of prevention or asymptomatic infection depending on the disease, better treatment outcomes, and increased survival, especially in the case of covid but also in many other infections (there are exceptions). So it's not so much about prevention itself but about improving the overall patient outcome.

If you also include things like washing your hands and using PPE, then lifestyle can have a tremendous impact on prevention. Take condoms and HIV for example. The efficacy of this theory of lifestyle and infectious disease prevention will vary from example to example, but should not be categorically discounted as BS.
Do you think agriculture hasn't moved into a post-industrial age? Modern farms are tightly integrated into a global supply chain from imputs to product and definitely need to work on the same standardized schedule as the rest of the world.
Interesting idea. Some complications are that most laws are written as updates, or change sets, to existing laws. Then there's the agency administrative rules that clarify what the laws are supposed to do, and the administrative law rulings about the rules, and the civil law rulings about the administrative law rulings, etc.
Fair enough. But on the other hand, if our headlines we're like this:

> OOOOH MY GOOOOSH! - Data scientist REACTS to possible DATA BREACH by HAXORS

... I doubt it would help highlight the need for security. On a more general level, I personally don't think it's worth to trade reputation for attention via clickbait. But it might be the better option, I honestly don't know.
> I've never heard of somebody

> getting mocked at work ...

> getting paid less ...

I have!

I was the lowest paid member of my team, yet a subject matter expert who the rest of the team frequently sought advice on a plethora of issues.

But because I turned up 10-15 minutes late most days (I woke up 30-40 minutes prior) I was considered to be "lacking" in performance reviews.

My bonus and my wage was tied to those performance reviews.

I'm not going to argue it was the sole reason (it wasn't), but it definitely was a factor.

Also there were a lot of jokes made about my time keeping in a large open plan office. Which was.... Uncomfortable.

Have I ever been beaten for turning up late? No.

Has someone somewhere in the world, in the last year, been beaten for not showing up to work on time? I'd probably bet £10 on that one.

Edit...

just to clarify, I don't agree with the original parent comment's comparisons to sexuality etc.

But I also appreciate that sleep issues are a problem in our society that we are yet to deal with.
> Please please please please stop trivializing misogyny and homophobia with these ridiculous and narcissistic comparisons. “No different” - reeeeeaaaalllllly? Things are more difficult socially and professionally for people with DPSD.

Yeah, they are different. But not completely different. It is hard to be understanding to a social norm, when that social norms are responsible for a life full of mornings when I want to sleep, but instead I drag myself out of the bed and kick myself to keep awake.

I mean, it is happened already, there is no way to undid damage done. It is happening now, and forgotmypw17 shows us the expected reaction to a proposition to find another way to make some people to conform with social norms even when their physiology doesn't want it. I'm not saying that his attitude is constructive, rational, or the best possible, or even acceptable, but you'll get a lot of it, if you keep saying to people "we'll find a way to make you normal".

(It is mine reaction also: who do you think you are, to believe that you are more normal than me?! To write social norms ignoring my needs? To force me to conform to that stupid social norms? To make me think that I'm lazy because I cannot wake up in the morning, I have no will because I'm sleepy till 11:00, or in some other ways inferior? It is hard to not speak my mind in that style, because I hate those norms from the school. Now I'm 40, and my hate stewed for decades.).

> Society didn’t make the day 24 hours long.

It did. Maybe 200 years ago 24 hours long day was not a society's fault, but now it is. We have electricity now and electrical lights. One could be perfectly well and functioning even at night. Just some people think that if their sleep cycle aligned with Earth's rotations, it makes them special and superior.
I don’t use video at work, and this is not giving my company my own voice recording, but Microsoft.

> Are you concerned about privacy on a video chat platform?

Is this some kind of cynical belittling sarcasm?
> Humans aren't designed to monitor something that requires no action for a long time and then suddenly requires attention

Isn't that exactly the definition of cruise control ?

I'm sorry but I won't be driving a car without cruise control anymore: cruise control saves oil and is much more comfortable.
it's all part of the author's "lot of big plans".
Using Windows Explorer as a Git IDE
It isn’t a negotiation over how much to change. It is a debate as to whether it should change at all. And no one seems to be arguing that it should still change. This is just lack of political will to push the legislation.
For Java at least, the Java Concurrency API is preferred.