skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to want life to appear in a likely condition, without some external power source.

Whatever condition there was, it could as well be some extremely rare one, and I really can't imagine how some molecules could start to reproduce without their environment being constantly changed by some external energy flux.

Besides, I'm no expert, but I don't think there were huge amounts of pure water running around on the early Earth. There were so much more stuff to use those hydrogen and oxygen atoms, and Earth's water wasn't all here since the beginning.
Yeah, would be nice. I've been thinking a bit about following up with that.

The generated dataset consists of a few thousand colors. The hue dataset is using 15 different hues only. Some more data there could definitely be useful.

I think the biggest problem is that there isn't that much experimental data overall, especially for wide gamut colors. The hue data is from experiments with sRGB displays if I remember correctly, and CIECAM I think has mostly been derived based on surface paints, which makes it fairly limited.

Comprehensive experiments done using modern calibrated wide gamut displays would be fantastic.

Thanks, will have a look at the typos!
mRNA and the vaccines that speedily came from it.
mRNA vaccines and big pharma in general. In a big, “we went to the moon” kind of way.
Jolt Cola, but not New Coke.
> you can just spawn threads, share data through channels or mutexes, use OS-provided async IO primitives to poll file descriptors and do event-driven programming […]
> I have to take an aspirin every time I need to dig into
async-heavy code.

I've seen that a lot on the internet and I guess it must depend where you come from, because I find async/await orders of magnitude easier to reason about than threads+channel (and I'm not even talking about using epoll manually, which is just inscrutable as soon as there is a little bit of complexity involved)
In reddit /r/piano there are a lot of similar questions, and as someone learning piano in their 50s is always amuses me.

I self-tought to about an ABRSM grade 1 level before getting a teacher, but I had done a little bit (less than a year) as a small kid.

Particularly the early stages are very hard and it takes a lot of practice to do seemlingly trivial things. It is a differnet skill from touch typing. I find the "Dozen a Day" books of studies really good for training your fingers to do what you want them to, instead of what they want to do.
Casablanca for me. Oddly I can't think of many stand-out moments in it. If you asked me why you would enjoy it, I couldn't say. But you would.
Node tries to parse random JSON files outside its own directory
It is PII under GDPR for sure.
The full title is "Why computers suck and how learning from OpenBSD can make them marginally less horrible" and it's from 2019 but that wouldn't all fit in the title section.
I also remember iTunes (despite it's fall from grace later on) to be miles ahead of any syncing app. The difference in just plugging your iPod in and choosing which music to sync vs. erasing/reformatting/error-handling transfers to your mp3 was lightyears. That was part of what did it for me.

Also, on the iPod you could browse your music in an organized fashion (e.g. by artist), whereas with other mp3 players it was just a long list of tracks.
Violin at ripe old age of 25. The key for me was enjoyment... playing with others, picking the kind of music I vibe with, not bothering with exercises that are devoid of emotion and joy. I slapped frets on my violin to make the learning curve easier, which made a few people raise an eyebrow, but... I don't care. I'm here to enjoy it, not to become a purist.

Can I real sheet music? Nope. Do I understand all the fancy words describing techniques? No. Am I good at this? Good enough that when I play, people dance. That counts as a success in my book.
BMW sprays the dashboards of their cars with testosteron and sweat of 18 years old virgin girls.
Hope this dude found what he was looking for. I think a lot of people can see themselves in this story. The desire to walk off and be alone and sure potentially to just give up and die somewhere. If he really just sat down and decided to starve or was so deeply depressed as to be unable to see he was slowly dying he had some deep issues that we'll probably never know the extent of.

Any time something like this comes out it reminds me, especially during the holiday to season, to reach out intentionally to people I care about and make sure they know I've got their back.

Just last week I did some sleuthing and found out an old friend had been incarcerated for 15 years for a drink driving crash that killed someone. I knew his family life was a mess and even though we hadn't talked in 10+ years I wrote him a letter to let him know someone was at least thinking about him.

Whatever happened to this guy his story reminds us to take care of each other.
In Houston’s Zoom court proceedings, decorum often gets muted
> if its unclear who has to pay for something,

It'll fall to the person with the least clout.
This article mentions "mycotoxins" as a potential accidental toxin in this type of tea: https://www.californiateahouse.com/tea-blog/hidden-danger-in...
This looks very similar to what I came up for pik, consequently used as main default colorspace of JPEG XL, i.e., XYB.

Also butteraugli's XYB has similar ideas, but is slightly more expensive to calculate due to the biased logarithm in the compression function (instead of cubic root), but possibly scales better for HDR (say above 200 nits).

JPEG XL's XYB includes more red and less green in S-receptor modeling (for the blue-yellow axis). If I look at literature of LMS receptor spectra, it makes me wonder why there is so much green in Oklab. When I optimized similar for XYB, the optimization would favor adding slightly more red for the S than green.

S component in JPEG XL XYB before non-linearity:

0.24 * R + 0.20 * G + 0.56 * B

S component in Oklab before non-linearity:

0.05 * R + 0.26 * G + 0.63 * B

Given the similarity of Oklab and XYB I suspect (but i'm not completely sure) that JPEG XL's format is powerful enough to model Oklab, too. Very very likely it can perfectly model the M1 matrix and the cubic root. I believe for M2 there may be some need for approximations. There JPEG XL can have local variations for M2 from chroma-from-luma fields, but likely luma needs to be slightly different from Oklab.
License plate is I guess PII. Something public doesn't stop it to be PII, like IP addresses.
I couldn't agree more. It's a shame, too, because BMW used to run some slick ads and seemed to have a sense of humour. In the mid- to late-90s I worked at an online newspaper and BMW ran banner ads on April 1 for a few years, touting fake features such as laser zappers to keep flies off your windscreen etc.

Not sure which ad agency they use now, but this live billboard thing is just damaging to the brand. Creepy, too.
I started learning the piano in my 20s, and now have been playing it for over 10 years.

The key for me was to forego all theory learning and just have fun with it. Eventually, I got into it enough to go through all the memorization bits.

If piano sounds appealing to you, I recommend using software like Synthesia to make the first few months as easy as possible, to get excited about it.

I have the impression that many people learning instruments, and sadly also many teachers, take an approach that kills motivation.
It seems to me that very few people want to become professionals, and that most just want to be able to play a few songs and have fun. For that you don't need perfect posture, or learn all the scales, sight read, etc.
Stephenson's ideas all needed some chemistry close to the surface if I remember it correctly.
Only if you don't take into account opportunity cost.

You assume here that they've actively worked to change default behavior, but it is probably a zero-work-required by product of the widget they used (that gives them other capabilities thet do want) and to (a) revert to plain HTML textareas would remove this, (b) to add the default behavior to their widget would take extra effort.
Factorio!!! (It wasn't really hyped, but if it was, it would have lived up to it.)

Actual video from the game doesn't qualify as hype! And the code is rock solid and wicked efficient.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR01YdFtWFI&ab_channel=Facto...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVvXv1Z6EY8&ab_channel=Facto...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqaAjgpsoW8&ab_channel=Facto...
Either BMW changed their mind or overstated what they’re doing, because they are on-record contradicting this story:

https://www.motoringresearch.com/car-news/bmw-targeted-warra...

BMW has told Motoring Research its targeted billboard warranty adverts – which are claimed to use number plate registration technology to tailor public adverts to BMW drivers – do not actually draw upon vehicle warranty status.

Rather, only publically available information is used. “There is no personalisation visible on the advert and no vehicle or customer data is stored or retained.”

“No personal identifiable information applicable to GDPR is used in the [Vehicle Detection Technology] process nor does VDT ever have access to any personal data.”
Two finales:

- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. When the seventh book came out in 2007 there was this fear among the fandom that JK Rowling couldn't deliver a great ending. I think most people agreed she did very well (even more than expected, considering the complexity of the story in the prior six books).

- Breaking Bad last season / last episode: there aren't many tv shows that can end in a high note (check Game of Thrones, for example). I think Breaking Bad - and in general, what separates the best tv shows from great tv shows - is that they are able to have a good ending.
Seems fine to me, to be honest
How can a movie be a fantastic movie if it requires background reading? That's a failure of storytelling.
A SaaS on SaaS.

The problem I have come across with a lot of these research is how far off the mark they can be on areas I know very well. So on areas I don’t know much about I am suspect about.

Of course, private markets are murky by definition, and many companies have an incentive to hide how profitable they are (not referring to the VC model driven startups) and how great the niche they have carved out is.
It's not taboo to criticize the cultural revolution in China.
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The "blocking statute" of 26 July 1968 (amended on 17 July 1980) prohibits any person, including French companies, subject to international treaties or agreements (in particular the Hague Convention of 18 March 1970) "from requesting, seeking or communicating, in writing, orally or in any other form, documents or information of an economic, commercial, industrial, financial or technical nature with a view to gathering evidence in or in connection with foreign judicial or administrative proceedings."

The prohibition, subject to a criminal penalty of six months’ imprisonment and a fine of €18,000, or approximately $20,200 (increased to €90,000, or approximately $100,900 for a legal entity), is designed to protect French companies against Anglo-Saxon discovery mechanism, which allows the litigant (who is sometimes an American competitor) or the US administration to request from the French company the disclosure of documents, including those that may have an economic value for the said company.
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If I were a french citizen I'd try to avoid getting a criminal record, a possible prison sentence and a fine. It could destroy my family.

The uk should negotiate a better treaty with france to allow these people to testify.
You know the old joke: what's the most depressing (least fulfilling) job? Installing turn signals in a BMW factory.
Your fantasy UI actually sounds very much like what Jef Raskin envisioned in his book The Humane Interface
This claim is also disputed lol.
Makes me want to get a trailer hitch and do some brake checks.
Heading in football might not exist in 10-15 years
1. It could have and still could be fixed. WSL commands and syntax are not yet integrated as an optional standard command shell. It’s separate and not equal.

2. Mutually compatible doesn’t solve all of the time wasted having to reformat as FAT32 or NTFS or to configure and support multiple filesystems like CIFS and NFS.

3. MS calls it Office. It’s neither the same team nor the same product. The macOS versions of the product are crippled with less configurability and fewer expected features. MacOS Remote Desktop provided by Microsoft is not equivalent to RDPing from Windows 10. And why shouldn’t you have the same product available for Linux? How do you know what those users want?

4. Another option would be to collaborate.

My point is not that anyone specifically dropped the ball, but that incompatibility and some kinds of changes waste time and resources.

Healthy competition is doing the best you can do, not tripping your opponent or excluding them from the race.
Such a study exists for Finland : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ijop.12642

You may find the full article on some Russian mirror website. I don't know whether HN allows us to name it.
SVN is also better at handling (large) repos with (large) binary files than GIT. So if you decide to store your scanned business documents in a version control system SVN is a better solution than GIT. So I use GIT for software projects and SVN for business documents.
Channel 4 will air an alternative ‘deepfake’ Queen's speech on Christmas Day
I don't think the plate itself is PII, like "158.32.44.25" isn't PII. Tying that to a person is what's PII.
A lot of people kicking off over this on social media. Personally, I think it's pretty cool.

It does, however, raise questions for future addresses not just from the queen but by politicians in general. The lines of reality are continuing to blur.
YouTube’s Copyright Filter Is Crushing Video Critique
Looking forward to the next two seasons to see if he catches MJ. The Lakers have a scary team again this season.
Breaking NEWS – Possible radio signal detected from the nearest
>We lost the Art of interface building and turned it into a complete science.

In the realm of VST/AU plugins (virtual music instruments and effects), the art of interface building is alive and kicking, and the different interfaces add (a) to the excitement, (b) to be able to differentiate quickly among dozens (or 100s) of different plugins you use, (c) helps test/create novel interaction ideas...

Here are example VST UIs:

https://www.pinterest.com/satyatunes/gui-for-vst-plugins/
The smooth scrolling is also very nice, but you'll lose that when you use a terminal multiplexer :(
I just googled "frying pan reddit" and this was the first result:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/4lnezr/best_option...

You have a point, but this "Reddit will tell you that cast iron is the only option." is not accurate.
> It can also be hard to find a really skilled person that cares about your home as much as you.

This is something I've found to be true.

We bought a house that we later found had some significant water damage issues. I hired a professional the first time we noticed it and he did little more than paper over the problem.

I ended up spending the next two years basically tearing the wall apart and redoing all the sheathing and insulation and house wrap.

Sure I could have hired someone and they would have eventually done all that for me, but I'm pretty confident it would have been in the tens of thousands of dollars by that point.

Caring about the end result will get you a long way.

But part of it is probably also that I come from a working class family and was immersed in the basics of that sort of work for my entire growing up time.
Free, secure, encrypted video conferencing (browser based, no logs)
Seems as though there ought to be a hosted distro-as-a-service system by now.
A nice old Range Rover or even better, a Lada Niva are probably great for that
It is very possible to write firmware in Rust, as long as the device is using a chip that’s supported.
I’m a big fan of Linux, and I’ve been thinking and wanting to go full Linux for a while, but there just doesn’t seem to be a single laptop in existence that only runs free software. Every thread I read just turns into an infinite rabbit hole.
I just started learning piano in the COVID lockdown. The best and cheapest way to learn is use an app: Simply Piano(android+ios), Piano Marvel(ios), etc and connect it to an el cheapo midi keyboard.

this allows you to spend the next 6 months learning without anyone getting disturbed..while the app gives you realtime feedback about which keys you are pressing.

you wont miss the lack of a teacher...especially during the lockdown.

dont buy an expensive piano. Dont buy books and methods. Learning this way is like playing a game...and arguably much better than Cyberpunk 2077 ;)
Agreed, sometimes you cannot. Hence my comment about being able to judge for yourself.

I am just railing against the (perceived) lack of consideration given to the all-in solution of not using services that are not satisfactory. I think people have way more agency in the matter than they appreciate.
Rotating the Compiler Team Leads
>> until you start branching and merging a lot

SVN has 3 way merge too so this isn’t the issue it was in other VCS’s

>> The problem is all the drawbacks of trunk based development

Those were all addressed reasonably well by about 2014, e.g. upsource (my preference by far) or crucible. TeamCity’s merge after private build feature etc.

Ironically these days i see a big push to use git in a way that would work pretty well in svn too.

The biggest hassle with svn was long lived branches. Back then we encouraged devs to branch and then somehow smoosh it all back together (painful). Then we said ok do it more frequently in atomic commits (i liked that model) then DVCS took off largely in the open source world and now major dev houses (well i guess except google with p4 - but they do provide a git interface) all have come along for the ride.

Ironically with products like Stash/Bitbucket and Github Enterprise, we’re back to an SVN like model.
I was checking the live results page more times an hour than is reasonable for someone who isn't American and doesn't live in the US.
How does this series relate to the film and other series that have previously been announced?

As far as I can tell, there is a movie by Yoozoo that was finished in 2015 but never released: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(film)

There is a Chinese produced series made by Tencent that (I think) is still in production: https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/china-t...

And there is also an animated series by Bilibili that is scheduled to come out in 2021: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-11/18/c_138564215.htm

Is the Netflix version additional, or a replacement for one of these?
BMW is on their way out. They have really lost their way. This is what happens when you move away from focusing on the product/craftsmanship and let bean counters in control.
The paper discusses more fundamental issues than just x86 architecture:

* Usermode drivers need to be formally verified to prevent malicious DMA. Adding IOMMU/SMMU to the microkernel will complicate the current proofs.

* All user processes that manage resources, like filesystem, network and memory management, must also be formally verified. These are currently unproven.
Lessons on How to Be Unique from a 1000-Year-Old Business and Bruce Lee
BMW is the most user-hostile car brand there is. They’re constantly seeking ways to squeeze revenue from their owners in slimy ways.

(They charge an annual fee for access to car play, for instance)
Finger fatigue suggests you're holding tension in your fingers and wrists. A good teacher can help you with that. You need to learn to keep your fingers and wrists as relaxed as possible - which is unbelievably hard to do when you're also trying to learn how to read music.

Watch some slow piano music being played by a concert pianist, and you'll see that - except for the odd flourish - they move fingers and wrists as little as possible. The hands float, they don't hover in a tense way.

It also depends on the keyboard you're using. There's a big difference between a soft and fast keyboard action and a piano action with real or simulated hammers. The latter is much harder on your fingers to start with, but gives you more control and stamina later.
You probably waived through all of that on GDPR consent page of your BMW app.
The OA, season 2.
I honestly didn't think we'd win. I'm still a little speechless we did.

EFF is one of only a few organizations I've ever donated money to, and clearly they deserve so again. This entire saga has made me a dyed-in-the-wool EFF fanboy (and I was always a fan.)
Drom – Cargo-like package manager for OCaml
I'm getting back into collecting and I think that's what I'm going to use for mobile play. And to think just a few years ago I was encoding with LAME...
I tried to learn guitar a couple of years ago. I wanted to learn something which required me to use my fingers differently than on a keyboard. But, as someone in their 50s with a lifetime of working on software I found it practically impossible to get my fingers to curve the way they needed to for the guitar. The physical pain eventually made me give up. If anyone has any tips to work around this limitation will be great to hear
There was nothing rude in the comment. It stated the problem: fish wasn't working in a VT220 (you have to read the title of the ticket to understand it). The rest of ddevault's comments were actually quite positive and friendly and there was zero entitlement. There was a lot of nostalgia.
That is an implementation detail, nothing prevents a future release of Nim compiler to directly generate machine code.
Fall Guys in that we all work as a team because its required for us to achieve our individual goals.
In my circle (relatively young and educated people in a 2nd world country) Tesla has completely supplanted BMW et al as 'the exclusive car brand'.
As a french, mostly left wing who understand right wing people: enconomy is not the only thing. migrants can (do) bring some part of their culture that may be unwanted.

Like the way they see / treat women to start with... People who want to be "nice" to migrants don't realize how bad that can be.
The ability to hire good junior engineers is one of the things that set a good senior engineer apart. So you might want to practise being an interviewer, even if you don't go into recruiting.
I think Citizen Kane stands alone. It can be understood as an architypal "power and wealth corrupts" narrative. But our appreciation of art benefits from an understanding of its context and the history of the genre/medium. Citizen Kane may be more meaningful to you if you are aware of Hearst and the related social history in the same way that Wagner's music is wonderful in its own terms, but possibly richer and more meaningful when you understand the philosophy, social context, theology, and mythology he was engaging with as well as the composers he was influenced by and their thinking.

All art is produced in a specific historical moment.
It should be PII, otherwise I can put cameras all over the city, log license plates, and sell service for you to query.

I think PII according to GDPR is something you can go back to identify a person.
Last time I brought a used car ( from a dealership) , and was immediately inundated with dozens of extended warranty sales calls.

I can't imagine this will be anything positive. Give it a decade and other advertisers will open the gate. File for divorce and dating ads will spam you at an intersection.
Debugging Geometry Shaders in SHADERed
>> What the country needs now might not be the same as 150 years ago.

Yeah, it seems now it needs to cage children to deter their pesky parents from seeking opportunities in the land of opportunity.
I'd like to think they are trying to balance the negative rep they've been getting from NSO in the media lately. Israeli are known to keep a firm grip on narratives.