skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In sports terms, if a penalty is committed, we give the other team some compensation. Like a pass interference penalty. Because it's not fair to make a team go for the same goal when they've gotten cheated...

In the US, we scream bloody murder at most attempts to even out those starting point disparities that our ancestors caused... when I was in school, one favorite trick to do instead was to stick Magnet programs in poor schools to import kids from the rest of the city to try to bring up some of the numbers, rather than focusing on the kids who weren't doing well in the first place.

It makes for a wonderful self-fulfilling "these people are worth less because they accomplish less so it's out of our hands so we have no need to try to make right our past wrongs" story.
Things are either redundant or they aren't. They can't be almost redundant, because then they wouldn't serve the purpose of being redundant.

Now we have word salad out of the way, I can say that it is absolutely possible to game the way people see the world to make them buy things they don't need or want and that GPT-3 has shown us it's possible to do that with a neural network which is basically pitting it against your average human's ability to resist it. This could be a type of addiction and corporations peddle that shit all day long as we well know.
I'm dying to know what you think is close.

Most of the big successes have been involved "reading" brain signals and using them to control things like the modular prosthetic limb or speech synthesis.

In contrast, it seems like most of the "write" stuff has been comparatively crude (e.g., phosphenes in visual areas), though the somatosensory stuff (also for the modular limb) is pretty neat. Have I missed something?
In theory you could do interferometry with a lot of orbiting radio telescopes. I'm no radio astronomy expert, but I can see a lot of practical problems with this idea.

For one thing, if you want the same signal-collecting power as the Arecibo observatory, you need dishes with the same total area. Since Arecibo is 1000 feet in diameter, if you put dishes on every one of the 12,000 satellites in the initial Starlink constellation, they would each have to be over 9 feet. That's about the same size as the chassis of the satellite itself.

In order to do anything useful with the collected data, the receivers need to have very precisely synchronized clocks, and their relative positions need to be known to within a small fraction of the wavelengths you're interested (which for Arecibo can be on the order of centimeters). I'm not sure whether GPS receivers alone would be enough to meet these requirements -- you might need to add atomic clocks to every satellite as well.

Now you have to think about how to aim the antennas. Presumably you can't just reorient the entire satellite, because its main job is to keep its ground-facing antennas aimed at the ground and its solar panels aimed at the sun. So you need to add a separate antenna pointing mechanism, with a fairly wide range of very accurate movement along multiple axes, so that all of the radio antennas can observe the same region of the sky simultaneously.

Presumably the Arecibo telescope itself is connected to fairly sensitive, low-noise, specialized signal processing equipment. You would have to take all of this equipment, design a space-rated version that can fit on a satellite, and then manufacture 12,000 of them. You also need to add enough solar panels to power it.

All of this would add a huge amount of mass to every satellite, which would make them way more expensive to launch. Note that this applies to to both the monetary cost and the opportunity cost of SpaceX's annual launch capacity.

Finally, the Starlink satellites have a roughly 5-year design lifetime, so it's not enough to build this colossally expensive telescope array once; you have to keep building and launching half a dozen replacements per day for as long as you want to continue using it. There's no way it would ever be cost-competitive with a ground-based observatory.
How to be Silicon Valley (2006)
In the painting, that room is much smaller than it's depicted I think, or maybe people were a lot smaller in those days
A lot of information in that article is outdated or just wrong.

>Applications (or GUI toolkits) must implement their own font antialiasing

This is wrong. Nearly everything uses freetype, and fontconfig has settings for how freetype should render fonts. If your app is not honoring these settings that's a different problem.

>Applications (or GUI toolkits) must implement their own DPI scaling.

In practice, implementing DPI scaling is trivial for applications that use a canvas. It only becomes a problem if your application renders raw pixels. If you're sending pixels and don't account for DPI scaling then you get a blurry window upscaled with nearest neighbor. That's how it works on windows and mac too, try running a non-DPI-aware application there and you'll see the same thing. It has nothing to do with the windowing system or the toolkit.

>forget about OpenGL pass-through, forget about raw compressed video pass-through ... forget about proper output rotation/scaling/ratio change

That won't ever be solved in Wayland because Wayland explicitly doesn't touch any of that. That's not to say they won't ever be solved: those things can be added but they probably need to happen at a different level of the stack.
Cool - let's write everthing in Assembly or Brainfuck! It is great for "complex code", right?
Doesn't that more than halve the single-thread performance?

2.4 GHz vs 5.0 GHz on the i9-9980HK and

2.3 GHz vs 4.8 GHz on the i9-9980H
Same thing was said about Reinhard Heydrich. I don't really understand the appeal of these rumors. Regardless of the origin of their motivations these guys were really messed up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Heydrich
Answering my own question. Found the bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+b...

Accountservice is actually changing its user ID rather than dropping capabilities which is where my confusion came from. It looks like there’s magic in the kernel to allow a process to switch back to the original user & some nuance about some ways of switching allowing you to send signals while other ways make your process act like a semi-hybrid of two user accounts (I.e. it technically looks owned by your user but you still don’t have permissions to do things with it). Security issues always lie in these kind of weird nuances.
OpenAI knows about Ol' Blue Eyes Mafia ties.
> Qualitative research doesn’t solve the problem of one group of people being really, really excited to share their opinions, while another group isn’t. As long as that bias exists, it’ll percolate down to whatever you do.

Pretty good TLDR from the end of the article.
A "hard" workout. A hard workout can send cortisol through the roof and there will be little sleep.
Can it be more than an escape valve?

What kind of patterns can channel or harness all that escaping energy?

Also feels like there are too many escape valves on the internet and too few patterns to harness all the potential energy.
Yes, by building the dev.go2go branch: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/dev.go2go/README.go2go.md
This is changing it from "they said to stop" to "they said it was wise to stop," and the distinction basically only matters if you want the Democrats to win. You're saying the same thing either way.
I use C# daily and most of the time the doc is fine. I agree that sometimes dotnet core docs are a bit messy and frustrating, but still quite good and useful.
I think actually op is referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_bias: "Participation bias or non-response bias is a phenomenon in which the results of elections, studies, polls, etc. become non-representative because the participants disproportionately possess certain traits which affect the outcome."

Confusing terminology, but I guess "response bias" is about a false response by the participant to a question, and "non-response bias" is about whether the selected participant responded (participated) at all.
> Rants that call other members names or that implicitly or explicitly suggest "This will be downvoted because you are all bad people" or similar is not how to do that.

That kind of polarization does not just happen for no reason; people reach that frustration after repeatedly seeing themselves and others being downvoted anyway, no matter how flowery and sugared their dissent is.

Downvoters don't care how polite someone is, if they're saying something they don't want to be seen. It's a zero cost action for them, and easily lets them control what opinions other readers see about a topic.

Example: In every thread about browsers, if most people say they dislike Edge, anyone simply saying "Hey I like Edge, it's not so bad" gets downvoted.

So after a while that Edge user will be preemptively defensive the next time they voice their opinion, if they even feel like participating anymore.
My Dad was a frequent business traveller in the 1980s and 90's and I remember him commenting on the MD-11 and saying that he hated them because they were noisy and had lot of vibrations at the back from the center engine.

He said that was the the reason airlines switched to using them as cargo planes.

I realise this is just an anecdote, though.
I don't know the details, but the manufacturing process is pretty different. Trying to have one process that's good at both DRAM and logic at the same time is hard, because they optimize for different things.
Okay, I’m on board with “very different experiences than the average American,” but that’s not what “elite” means.
This is fascinating. One thing that would be awesome to try would be doing this with the House of Representatives in the US.

Basically, one registered voter would be randomly chosen from each congressional district. They would be obligated to serve for the 2 year term and paid the current salary of a member of Congress ($174,000/year). They would never be part of the lottery again after 1 term.

I think this could have a lot of benefits in terms of reducing partisanship and reducing the effects of money in politics as you would have 1/3 of the US Government that was not dependent on campaign contributions.
GP is making a claim about the readership, not the orgs themselves.
I’m guessing this is the issue being referred to https://github.com/mono/linux-packaging-msbuild/issues/1
Overall the US has double the Covid infection rate and double the Covid death rate of Europe. Cherry picking doesn't matter because you could do the same with certain states.
Am I the only person here disappointed that they did not announce a new MacBook? MacBook is my favorite form factor: OK for a slow typist like me, big enough screen when I have a large USB-C monitor on my desk, and I especially like the light weight and small size.
Just FYI, in regards to your the 2nd point, while there was rampant speculation about delivery delays, I don’t think there’s any evidence that ballots were actually delayed due to USPS, and quite strong evidence in fact that ballots were not delayed by USPS.

Specifically, in PA where they were segregating late arriving ballots, only about 10,000 ballots arrived after 8pm on Election Day, and there’s no reason to believe those ballots weren’t delivered within the expected delivery timeframe and just mailed late.

The USPS wrote a letter months ago trying to urge states to be sure their mailing cutoff timelines corresponded with USPS’s physical delivery timelines (e.g. basically, don’t let someone request a mail in ballot within 4 days of the election) and there was a massive over-reaction. In the end there has been no incidence of ballots not being delivered on time that I’ve seen.
> It's somewhat common to install a graphical environment on server machines

It's really not that common. Yes there's the odd cases of servers that use enterprise software that have to have GUIs, but most linux boxes run headless. GUIs are just a waste of processing power and resources for the large majority of the things that servers are used for.

That said, I'm not happy that Canonical are entirely discounting the possibility that customers will have desktop environments installed on servers. It's not common, but it does happen.
I'm pretty polarizing. I am quite the magnet for controversy.

HN is a place I spend a lot of time because the culture here is reasonable.

To me, saying "Hey I like Edge, it's not so bad" is pointless shit-stirring. It's looking to start trouble for no real reason.

It's a low value comment. The guidelines actively discourage that, so it's not surprising that it would be downvoted, having nothing to do with "disagreeing" per se.

If you have something meaty and thoughtful to say that disagrees with the majority view, the HN crowd will give you a fair shake. Jumping into the midst of a discussion where everyone is saying "This is junk!" to say "Well, I like it!" isn't thoughtful or meaty.
Yeah there is a lot of freedom that comes from a smaller set of choices. Java is so vast and so many libraries it is overwhelming and solutions are usually over engineered. With Go its nice to just write some code.
The half-life of cortisol is very short (comparable to that of cocaine):

"The plasma clearance of cortisol is rapid, with a half-life of 66 min at normal hormone levels. With large steroid loads, however, the half-life increases to 120 min."

If you work out in the morning or afternoon, avoid working ~3-4 hours before bed, you should be able to sleep just fine.
Would complain that nothing is built well / to last any more... but was recommended a NUC, and now it's my new Mini. Absolutely love it.
The two-consonants-means-preceeding-vowel-is-short rule is pretty fundamental though.
Xi Jinping is fighting a new enemy – Genghis Khan
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No, that didn’t happen. You’re very confused about the events.
We had a course on it as part of my degree, I believe it was required for the course to be accredited by the BCS (British Computer Society), but I could be wrong on - this was over 25 years ago.
It's not really messing with anything fundamental about Git — in fact it's providing a very common workflow for Git users, just in a way that is confusing for people who mainly use Github.

Obviously if lots of people are getting confused something needs to be fixed, but I think this is fundamentally a minor UI wart.
I think it also depends on the audience and group you're with. If you're moving around a lot, you might end up in expat/international/diverse groups. Most people who move to several countries aren't moving to villages 4 hours from a city and speaking and blending in with the locals and really hearing what rural people think.

Growing up in a small town and moving between small towns across the US every year or so, I never had exposure to "liberals" until I started using the internet as a teen. Until then, everyone I was ever around talked about them like they were bogeymen.

In the country I live in now, I was initially exposed to much more "progressive" opinions from people. Now I'm seen as less "that foreign guy" and more of a local, and I hear what people would normally discuss with their friends and family. It's quite different.
Why were the errors only in one direction?
Choosing a random person from the population to be a representative is called sortition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
The new Apple chip has more cores, so faster performance doesn't necessarily mean faster single-core performance. Faster on a parallel benchmark doesn't necessarily translate into faster performance for most real-world scenarios. That is all. That being said, I do believe Apple has very competent chip designers.
Depressing how uncivilized and obnoxious people can be. We may want to reevaluate why we used to tech our children shame. It’s about mutual respect. Without that, we continue a downward spiral.
No, his statement, which was linked, was not in fact what the claim said.
What's your sample size?
iFixit tools in Apple's lab
My issue with it is that it's a fancy speech and nothing he's saying is necessarily wrong. He mostly correctly bashed a bunch of strawmen to great effect. Except they have more or less nothing to do with what he actually wants, which is his ability to continue to re-securitize loans he makes until he gets to the ludicrous self-fund rate of 1.6% on the loans and offloading most of the risk to the rest of society while getting most of the gains.

Nothing he complains about are infeasible with Basel III's reserve rate of 8%. Peer to peer lending, ML analysis on spending habits etc, none of his "innovations" are inhibited by regulation. The only thing it's affecting is the profit.
The title is very misleading. Huawei is only planning to divest its budget brand - Honor.

Huawei's flagship phones are sold under its own brand and they'll focus on those.
I didn't claim that this solves all issues someone might have with the touchbar. Just the specific "I keep triggering Siri" issue.
About the slider. You can tap-and-hold to quick access the slider.

But you can also do a quick swipe left/right on the button to a quick increase/decrease just like a tap.

I actually love the slider though. I hated it at first.
No point guessing here, either produce proper evidence or don't bother ostracizing the other group.
This is just so.. amateur. The message this sends to me as a developer is: don't waste your time with this unless you have no choice
More unwanted complexity in the base system :(

I wish I had a Linux distro that split the OS from the userland more neatly.

I want to boot into something minimal and static, and then add complexity from there. Maybe logging in to a local container instead of the actual OS?

Linux as an easily extendable building filled with rooms and workshops and entertainment areas, rather than Linux as a mere desktop.
i don't mean to be curt, but that sounds awful. in what sort of ideal world would any leader of anything be chosen this way? this is just some post-post-modern madness. you know what another equally reliable, and arguably more palatable, way to ensure 0 impact of campaign contributions? anarchy. just complete, absolute Hobbesian state of nature. at least then we would pick leaders that would help us survive...

randomness is good insurance against downside risk, especially when choosing a committee of people (e.g. a jury), but it has about as much upside as delegating everything to a random Youtube commenter.
Foundation for securing communications plane of CPS
Huh ... I wonder if that's going to come up in many of the legal proceedings in PA over their due process violations.
Yes, greater performance means greater density. That lets you do more with constant everything else. Look at the uses for HPC if you want ideas for applications.
They have a sections discussing the technology in their docs.

https://firejail.wordpress.com/documentation-2/basic-usage/#...

https://firejail.wordpress.com/documentation-2/seccomp-guide...
Like ad-blocking, ad-ignoring is unfortunately something of an arms race. The better people get at ignoring ads (e.g. "banner blindness") the harder advertisers work to make them hard to ignore, either by making them more "attention grabbing" (e.g. modal windows, auto-playing video, etc.) or baking them into the content (e.g. sponsored posts, advertorials, product placement, etc..)
You have to distinguish between resident keys and non-resident keys (that I'll just call "normal keys").

Resident keys are stored on the device, so today you can only have a limited number of RKs. This said it's a temp limitation. As usage will increase, devices will allow for more RKs. For example, if I'm not wrong, yubikeys support 25 RKs, solokeys 50. (But the only sites where you can use RKs are basically Microsoft or demos.)

For each account on a given site, you'll have an independent RK. (I don't believe you can have 2 RKs for the same account on the same device, but that's an implementation detail.)

Normal keys, instead, are generated on the fly. They are not stored, so a single device can support unlimited sites and accounts. When you enroll a device in, say, your primary Google account, trying to enroll the same device again produces the same cryptographic key. So, in fact, for each account you can only have one key per device. But you can have unlimited accounts times unlimited sites on a single device.

If you have 2 accounts on the same site on the same device, you're correct in saying that the site can't link the 2 accounts to the same device. In addition, on the device there's nothing stored, so even someone with access to the device (say, border control) can't see what sites you used the device with. Important: this is only for non-resident keys.

I can't predict the future, but my expectation is that we'll see adoption of RKs for username-less login, and non-RKs for 2FA. I personally don't particularly like RKs for privacy reasons, but the specs seem to prefer them (and the UX seems much better). See also this: https://twitter.com/0x0ece/status/1160627435668480000
In case someone else, like me, was expecting canine memes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge

> A doge was an elected lord and chief of state in several Italian city-states, notably Venice and Genoa, during the medieval and renaissance periods.
I know Trump voters who are extremely well educated, this is not an argument. Secondly, if by "educated" you mean holding a piece of paper, we already know that many colleges these days are infested by the far left, so again it is not an argument. What you care about are critical thinkers, and there's a much bigger disparity there. I'd argue that many college degree holders are not good critical thinkers.
Are they the Dominion machines?
They also suffered the same problem mentioned in this post.

Documentation pages that showed a method's signature with no explanation of the function or example usage. So many times I'd look something up only to find the method name parroted as a full sentence; and those method names were often obscure to the point of meaninglessness.
Edit: this is very snarky and not intended. I know the CEO of a failed GC company and his experience seemed neutral to positive; they’ve also bid on something where I knew the founder and generally came across very well also. Trying to discuss the fact pattern and underlying principles, not the specific people involved.

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This thread comes off as very tone deaf.

As a small minority shareholder the fees to receive a $800k wire round to zero. Plus it’s not $800k, it’s $800k plus whatever the preferred instrument yields on top.

This CEO seems super slimy and the story doesn’t add up. Much more likely he’s lying for some reason or other.
Quite the assumption that intelligent people would only vote liberal.
>The New York Times is as partisan

That article talks about the reader's partisanship, not the actual content or particular news org.