skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If "being safe from another companies whims" means "my user hostile business model is no longer allowed" then those companies can get either adapt or get fucked.

Apple is making a choice, and I support it and will gladly move back to buying apple products if it means they are willing to fight facebook and google over user privacy.
Maybe that other company should have been upfront with how the user's data was being used in the first place.
Do you think more diligence being due would do?
Plastic of unknown provenance is worth nearly nothing.

Clean pure plastic chips that just got cut off of a block of new plastic can be made back into pellets and used for new stuff and is worth a little less than plastic pellets.
very well.

I forward exercised my options when i joined at a strike price of $.13. the stock is now over $20 in private markets and will IPO next year.
Some people view the protection of individual intrinsic rights (freedom from violence, protection of property, the right to move freely about) as a separate thing from regulation.

Government protecting people's rights, vs. government protecting people, or government prohibiting consensual business dealings.
I've seen these in at least two museums (Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA and the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in DC). They definitely make for good museum pieces, and you could probably pull enough parts together to get at least one working if you really wanted to pull this off.

Incidentally, a Cray-1 uses 115 kW of power when running. Would that be a new power consumption record for a device that's just running Doom?
Hi! I lead the development of this dataset. I'm delighted that it found its way onto Hacker News :D Anyway, we think this type of data could eventually be used for a wide range of tasks that people care about, e.g., photo re-lighting, virtual home remodeling, and safe indoor robot navigation. Note that these are my personal views as a computer vision researcher that works extensively with synthetic data.
If Joe Biden called you up now and demanded to know about some work you did 3 years ago, yet claimed to be someone high up your chain of command and gave a fake name, would you fall for it?

I don't think you would... The voice alone would give it away. There's no way the leader of the opposition isn't famous enough to be recognisable on the phone...
Thank you, I clicked around everywhere trying to find something with a written explanation.
Thinking that the need for social media must be met by a single monolithic corporation is a failure of imagination.

It's like being on AOL, blissfully aware of the wider Internet, and thinking the need for email must be met by a single monolithic corporation.

The cycle you're referring to isn't inevitable, we can do better and we must.

I happen to think Mastodon can be improved on architecturally, but if Twitter were to close up shop tomorrow, I reckon more people would move there than, say, Parler.
How the BBC World migrated 31M weekly readers to an isomorphic react app
They had people on him all the time. When you have full time coverage of the person and the authorities are on your side, it's only a matter of time when an opportunity opens when he is separated from his luggage and do the deed.
Casting is a massive pain in the ass. It's one of those cases where the difference is in all the sum of all the little things and refinements that only make sense at scale.
Seems like you got what you expected... Super Wings is the corporate side of the Government-Corporate complex.
There's no evidence for this in the job market. Most Ruby jobs are Rails jobs.
strstream was adopted into C++98 with conflicting implementations, so was deprecated at the outset. You are warned not to use the conflicting parts in code meant to be portable.

strstream has not been removed, yet, because spanstream is not in yet. Until that is in, there are certain things only strstream can do: specifically, attach to an existing buffer you need to parse things out of, or to format things into.
Hi! I lead the development of this dataset. I'm delighted that it found its way onto Hacker News :D I think GPU rendering would be cheaper if it was possible. See my post above.
The thing about a fork-bomb is that you do not need to be root to spawn one. I never had root on Netcom, but still manged to take the whole thing off-line for about 15 minutes.
The message is always heading in the same direction. The relevant variable is the movement between the machine and you. You should probably hope it’s red because if the machine is fast enough that the blue shift is perceivable to the human eye, it might be the last thing you see.
> I mostly mention this because I don't like that fact that popular science magazines (or at least their content that I see posted here!) has a bias towards "new and possibly exciting" or "controversial" research.

You'd rather have a homogenized science magazine that has predetermined what is and isn't correct?

You could alternatively not consume, purchase, or share any articles relating to the magazine. Having a bias isn't a problem. Having a bias and saying you don't is always a problem because no one, under any circumstance, is unbiased.
Do you have such an algorithm?

Netflix doesn't make money by showing people stuff they don't like.
Exactly! Consider how incredibly slow it is to take a photo on a phone. And how short the battery life is. And how few capabilities the phone photo editing has compared to desktop photo processing where CPU, RAM and battery life are not constraints.

Why would I ever want any of that in a DSLR?

A DSLR can go from sitting on the shelf to having taken a focused photo in less than a second. The battery life is measured in weeks (unless using built-in flash). No comparison how much better experience it is.
Yes, for decades in fact.

What the web has become since the rise of weaponized ad-tech is a tragedy.
You do not need death, just discount rate preferring near experience to far. Thinking about what if you only had 1 year to live just encourages short-term gains to long-term ones.
Sure, he says he was correct in not recommending them. Was he correct when he said that masks aren’t effective?
All my engineering teams are vastly smaller these days than earlier in my career. By a long shot. And we get way more done with fewer resources due to the fact that there's cloud computing, modern DevOps practices, etc. And then you take into account how many companies are using offshore resources (which typically are just expenses without options) at even lower prices.

However, I'm curious if the other side of the business has grown with all the growth hacking marketing, sales floors that now seem like boiler rooms, etc...
It's that secondary system that really should be transparent, not just the "stated price" which everyone knows is BS.
I'd love to see a text-only version. That would be fun to develop against and almost any FPGA should be able to run it. Might evolve into an interesting embedded platform over time.
Give it a few minutes :)
I think that by definition this is a tradeoff. Most times you talk to data scientists that want a fully automated end-2-end solution, that doesn't require they change anything about their current workflow, and that any future modifications to their workflow would be supported as well.

That is magical thinking. I prefer best of breed solutions that integrate nicely with other best of breed solutions every day. That way if a tool doesn't suit you tomorrow, you can relatively easily swap it out for something better
That's generally about how it goes. The medium isn't generally suited to learn anything about programming. Whenever I see a video demonstrating a software product or programming feature, I skip past it.
You're defining dark matter to be "however gravity looks" which is my point. That's not necessarily helpful. You can't be sure that by winnowing down the parameter space, you're aren't just making an equivalent statement saying like "we are fitting these points to a nth order polynomial and the derivative must be allowed to exceed this value instead of being constrained". In other words, constraining the properties of DM, especially in the direction of lowering the upper bound on it's granularity and lowering the upper bound on it's interaction with normal matter, could artificially increase its independent explanatory power.
Wow awesome! If Windows also has unzip, I can simplify the instructions! Thank you for pointing this out :D
But it's not a guarantee that as a mostly unqualified and unemployable high school kid that they can predict the economy and job market 4-5 years ahead of time and if they just take on a crushing amount of debt for an education that they will become financially prosperous or even qualified to work in a given field with just a bachelors. Oh, and we provide almost no social safety nets should they fail and the debt can't be discharged.

Yeah people roll these dice and win, but plenty of people roll the same dice and lose.
That doesn't really address my comment or the parent comment at all.
Does this have any advantage over Svelte + Sapper?
And I thought this was going to be an article on the obsession with printing the 3d "benchy". People print them over and over and over to evaluate how "tuned" in they've gotten their printers and then they show them off on 3d printing facebook groups.

The object is designed to test out various aspects like bridging, overhangs, holes, etc.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:763622
A dentist office is more comparable to an urgent care clinic than a hospital. And in many cases an urgent care clinic can tell you what simple procedures will cost. There are imaging services companies that can tell you upfront how much diagnostic tests are going to cost as well.

A broken tooth is a much less complex injury than a broken arm. In many cases you don't even need to be a dentist to diagnose it. Try walking into a dentist office with a more complex injury that could involve multiple different dental specialties and severe underlying complications. You aren't going to get an immediate upfront price.
First arsenal target signing in January that will make a change – Opera News
Ah - but that’s funny isn’t it? Some countries actually require local manufacturing as a condition for market access. So they don’t exactly have a free hand here. And Wistron is a fairly well known name and should have been a reliable partner in this enterprise with Apple.
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Lots of people use either Debian testing or significant amounts of backports on servers. I'm down with the idea that a non-enterprise distro with a contribution pathway is useful, and enterprise stability is mostly unnecessary.

But functionally, I don't think this helps resolve the issue. The issue is the business model, and RH will never make people happy while it attempts to charge for the OS. The basic thing people are after is RHEL itself, at no cost. That feels unreconcilable.
Lots of general dentists refer these extractions because they can't physically do them in a way that is safe for the patient. (It is an open question whether state board exams should exclude such practitioners from the profession entirely.) Introducing general anesthesia to the situation makes the procedure more, not less, dangerous. Especially in larger cities, there would be numerous dentists capable of safely performing an impacted third molar extraction under general anesthesia. Such dentists will charge for their expertise. Poor and rural patients will get local anesthesia.
Ask HN: I'm building an escape room for devs. Fancy a go?
https://www.dev-esc.com

Come and try to escape, and help me while doing so! I am seeking alpha testers.

* Fully remote; BYO video conf (works over Zoom, Skype, Teams, Google Meet - anything that enables screenshare + audio)

* Teams between 2 and 8 (although haven't tried different sizes much)

* You'll need to understand code, maybe write some code, hack a bit (needs a real computer, not a smart device)

* Currently planning a few manual test sessions, with me sitting in

Basic idea: for dev teams, coding together is something that is actually enjoyable.
Get some satisfaction and build some team cameraderie without, y'know, meetings and JIRA and,
well, clients/customers. Especially with covid-imposed remoteness, I see dev teams needing a bit of levity, a bit of (cringe) team building - I wanted to try a way that's not online drinking or a straight-up quiz.

Each player will be asked for a couple of things (player name, simple stuff), then the team is
dropped together into the escape room. Swarm over the puzzles, pair up or spread out (up to you) -
puzzle/code/hack your way out together, finish the endgame and then reflect on the fun
you had on the way. Heavily influenced by Advent of Code, Project Euler.

I would like to charge for this eventually. The main challenges as I see it are content and game dynamics. I would like to learn from the first few teams that play. Getting the puzzle difficulty right, making hints available to the players at the right times, witnessing first-hand how different teams handle and react to the UX. That kind of thing.

As soon as there is a self-serve option I might do a "Show HN". For now, I'd love to hear people's initial reactions, ideas and feedback.
I have some Libertarian minded friends and the go-to "solution" for just about every shortcoming in the healthcare system is for some other company to come along and "compete". In principle this would work (Libertarians are all about principles, by the way). But in practical terms there's too much money to be made using these dishonorable business practices and there is no viable competition.
Covid: Flights shut down as EU discusses UK virus threat
Depends, we could always create a cryptocurrency which renders and plays doom in a distributed manner. Reward people with "DoomCoins"
It’s not a home run for me, but I think Spotify recommendations are quite good. They clearly use some form of content based recommendation (extracting features from the music itself) blended with other methods. It seems to make an honest attempt at serendipity (songs/artists you may like but would otherwise be unlikely to discover).

I still think recommender engines should always enable some form of user tuning. If it doesn’t, then the recommender is a tool for services to control your behavior rather than the other way around.
To me, guytv’s perspectice is eye opening: live “as if” you only have one more year to live, with a hint that there’s probably more years to come.

It makes me feel like I need to be kind no matter what, not waste time (or at least, not tell myself that I’m wasting my time too many days in a row).
You lost me at public-private partnership for mass transit. Short of extortionist priced tickets and a captive market, user fees can't cover the construction cost of mass transit. Same for roadways, the public-private partnership model has been inefficient and produced poor results.
Certainly not, unless the consumer lens is covered in mud or made from tinted glass!

As for relative aperture adjusted for actual, measured light transmission, that's a T-stop, but these are typically only marked and specified for cine lenses, e.g.,

https://www.zeiss.com/consumer-products/int/cinematography/m...

(IIRC, the Master Primes are geometrically f/1.2 at T1.3)
Astrobe provides Oberon systems for embedded applications, there is currently a version using Wirth's RISC5 running on 7-series Xilinx FPGAs - https://www.astrobe.com/RISC5/

They also have a version for ARM Cortex-M controllers:
https://www.astrobe.com/Oberon.htm
I tried Pijul last weekend, on debian stable.

It installed successfully, I did "pijul init", I recorded some changes, but then "pijul log" did show nothing. I tried all the combinations of add/record, but pijul log stayed empty. I stopped to try because I didn't have much time.

It would be nice to have a better first experience, I'm not sure what I did wrong
That's not freedom of speech. That's authoritarian control - governments have no business in regulating the speech of private entities. By giving government power to "prevent censorship" you also give them power to create and enforce censorship. That's how powers work. If you have the power to tell private companies they can't remove content they pay for, then you also have the power to tell them to remove content. Don't advocate for authoritarian governments.
Reasons to work at a startup.

1. Level up your career / role flexibility.
2. Big companies suck (but [big] startups can suck too).
3. Burning idea you want to get done / tech is interesting.
4. Lottery tickets (options).
VHS has a similar horizontal resolution to VCD (VHS has 240 lines per picture height, or about 320 lines across the whole width, while VCD has 352 pixels across the whole width) but has double the vertical resolution (and since it's an interlaced format, that also means it has double the temporal resolution). Take some interlaced 60Hz sports footage and convert it to VCD, and if you can tell me with a straight face that the VCD looks better, then I'll tell you that you're blind.
The tobacco and social media industries actually share a lot in common in how they both studied how addictive and dangerous their products are and decided to look the other way.

This shouldn't be news to you if you frequent tech forums.
There's an entire infosec community with white hat hackers that would love to find holes in openssl and talk about them at conferences. Perhaps they gave up on openssl because it has been impenetrable for so long?
Have you done any measurements of capture-to-display latency?

I've been interested in why Discord feels more natural than Zoom and so far I think it comes down to latency. As far as I know Zoom targets 150 ms, but audio-only platforms can get closer to 25-50, which can make the difference between what feels like using walkie talkies versus a real face-to-face conversation.

Any plans on how you will monetize this if it takes off?
I was just thinking, turning this into a VSCode plugin would be awesome. Would save me from opening up the browser console every time I wanted to do some simple math.
Not except this is in React. So similar thing. Also Sapper as of recently is no longer a thing :).
"Here is why the consensus is _______" is not argument by authority, correct.

"The ________ theory/hypothesis is fringe, the consensus is ________" is argument by authority.

See the difference? Phrasing matters in this case. All too often it is phrased the second way. I don't expect someone to literally enumerate all the evidence for or against something, but there is a middle ground between that and just saying "well consensus is ______".
https://www.getmibo.com does something very similar.
Research strongly suggests Covid-19 virus enters the brain
> I'd like to zip all my personal files and store them with Fastmail, but I can't because the file size limit is too low.

You could split the zip archive into smaller sized volumes, e.g. 45MB, and store those, assuming it's something you don't access too often.
I'm actually ok with that salary as they have over 50B in revenue. However, I'm sure he and all the other execs receive exorbitant bonuses and stocks plans that make that salary look like peanuts.
It is sad how everything nowadays is expected to be curated by PMCs with degrees in social work because everyone else is considered too stupid to not be biased.
contrab -l > crontab.bak
Anti-social people are actually very social - they just do anti-social things to others.

Asocial people on other side are not social, but they don't do any anti-social things - because that would mean that they have to socialize and that is opposite to being asocial.

Autistic people are not anti-survivalists, as by definition they have hightened fight-flight response, so they want to survive, however they have to really depend on society(humans by definition are social animals) to provide them survivable environment, so they could invent. Hardly any invention can happen, if there is no fertile ground, as being among morons requires different goals and skills to survive and adapt - with creativity.

Autistic people also are no anti-reproduction either - modern society is in general against reproduction, as there is overpopulation on this planet.

There are no problems to reproduce, if female is autistic, as she has much higher chances to find a partner and produce autistic offsprings, but it is more complicated for autistic males to find a partner and without a partner there is no reproduction even if males are pro-reproduction.
>In 1977, state and local governments spent $105 billion on higher education (in 2017 inflation-adjusted dollars). In 2017, they spent $297 billion.

>Higher education spending has remained relatively constant as a share of total state and local spending over time. In both 1977 and 2017, 10 percent of direct state and local direct general expenditures went to higher education.

According to the source below, there are at least twice as many people attending higher education between 1977 and 2017, not including the ones who do not complete 4 or more years of college:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/184272/educational-attai...

There's obviously a ton of waste in the system, such as the college sports business that has nothing to do with education and is clearly a taxpayer subsidy for private interests. But it seems like taxpayer spending per student is down quite a bit (can't include taxpayer backed loans, of course).

And I definitely agree, there is no need for everyone to go to a 4 year liberal arts school.
You keep repeating this assertion... but of course you would. Your neural networks were programmed with the idea of humans as something special and unique in the universe. It feels good to fire in those potentiation patterns, right?

Is someone who has never had vision incapable of understanding vision? How do they learn about it, if not through symbols? Is someone who has never had hearing incapable of understanding hearing? Their experiences may not be exactly identical to yours, but they aren't meaningless.

It is, at present, impossible to know what is/isn't required for a neural network to be "intelligent". Maybe symbol processing is enough, maybe it isn't. Right now the obvious source of improvement is increasing the size of the network. Let's see what happens with GPT50. Even without vision, you can describe your clothes to it and see if it likes them.

You're also discounting incredible progress in the field. I talk to my house. Cars drive themselves better than some humans I know. War is being fought by drones. Compared to the world I grew up in, this is amazing - and I'm not even that old. Progress isn't happening as fast as you might like, but it is happening.
Then you are reading too much into my analysis.

My post was simply a discussion on the process of determining precautions, absent going to an extreme. It was not advocacy for the specific place on the spectrum where the line should be drawn. It was, in response to your comment, an observation that no matter where the line is drawn, there will be some who view it violates their freedom as too authoritarian, and others who believe it violates their freedom by allowing irresponsible decisions by others to impact them.

I won't go into the particulars of my own opinion on where the lines should be drawn except to say that I think some decisions have been bad, some have been okay, but that in general this is not a situation that lends itself to easy answers.
Music Transcription in the Wolfram Language
> It's default on Fedora because Fedora assumes it's users to have a use case no more advanced than browsing the internet and editing some text documents, and perhaps running a compiler.

And, you know, developing a complete desktop operating system. (Fedora's developers are its users, almost universally).
Show HN: PoJSon – Create, encode and deploy complex JavaScript payloads
Same here - I will invest a great deal of effort in not having to watch a video, which increasingly makes me feel at odds with a large swathe of the engineer community.

Principal Skinner: Am I so out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong.