skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one thing these articles miss is that it isn't like Elon Musk himself is building the rockets. I'm not even sure that would be possible. Yes he is a smart guy, but that doesn't mean that he didn't do a lot of the work involved like engineering.
I've done a lot of day cycling as well as bike touring. There's certainly risk in touring but it's not easy to disengage it from cycling in general.

The practical problem in touring is you may end up on roads with (a) no shoulder, (b) heavy traffic, and (c) drivers who are not expecting to see bicycles. Oregon highway 140 from Klamath Falls to Medford was one of the scarier roads I've ever toured on. Stuff you might think is a death trap actually isn't. Logging trucks are terrifying for bicyclists, but by and large the drivers are really good and tend to pay close attention to the road. I'm more worried about the old fella driving his RV.
The ending of The Game, with Michael Douglas. From final climax to the final shot. Chef’s kiss.
This is so true, as soon as I started learning more music theory I felt that my creativity went down as I started recognizing chords/progressions and I feel slowly getting stuck trying to play by the rules.
Is this satire? I can't tell anymore and I'm starting to hate that these type of comments are becoming more common on here.
Odd, because that sounds extremely epic.
TenCent owns 40% and controls Epic’s access to the Chinese market. This is a lot more than an investor, and much more like a joint venture.
You can buy one, just don't look for a webcam. What you need is good camera and lenses. I'm using Sony A6400 with decent lenses and video quality is amazing, but this setup probably costs much more then most people would be willing to spend on a webcam.
If you go to YouTube and type in “FIBA gather step”, you’ll see a video released by the rules body showing legal 0 steps, the rule is being used exactly as intended, to the point where they want people to know it’s explicitly legal.

What you don’t notice is that the gather step is used for many more movements other than a euro step, but the euro step also has a change of direction and change of acceleration that combine to make the movement look illegal to someone who doesn’t understand the rules.
I was sure that I've also read that story. But I don't remember nor the author, nor title.

Started searching and found a thread on stackexchange. It looks like thaere are several stories with such a plot: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/74090/scientists-s...
Most importantly, if you ignore a couple of tax evasion issues he seems like an all-right guy.

Maradona was a drug addict and wife beater who fathered a dozen unrecognised children and was a horrible person overall. He became a national embarrassment for Argentina ever since he was kicked out of the world cup for doping.

In contrast, Messi's positive legacy will hopefully endure for longer.
Understanding Lens Field Curvature
I'm tired of whiny Europeans blaming everything on us. If one of your companies designs a shitty car that's your fault.
It is definitely doable. _Scarne on Dice_ (1945) details a number of methods for controlling dice throws. And Steve Forte's "Gambling Protection Series" videos show what the moves look like in action.

Mind you, none of these moves will fly in a modern casino.
> Discipline and motivation are not interchangeable things. They exist in a balance.

Motivation ignites, discipline inflames.
But uncertainty about ongoing support is a problem anyway because Apple could change the protocol.
This, although I would call it the 'enterprise' model.

This is how teams in the UK Gov are structured (infact we have more roles [52 at last count]) and its horrible. Aside from the lack of ownership and autonomy at an individual level you also end up with increadibly fragile teams as theres no depth of experience.

If you have 7 people and they all do different things you spend more time finding things for people to do than working on valuable problems - much better to find people with overlapping skillsets in the domain you want to solve a problem then let them get on with it. So if you want to build some software - hire people that can write code, if you want to provide information - hire some writers. Hire smart people and they can do the bits around the edges 'enterprises' think they need specialsists for.

"A jack of all trades is master of none, but often times better than a master of one"
Can you help yourself and look at the 2 examples I have given in the other comment. Thanks in advance.
WiFi direct - so long as the connecting devices support it and there's no requirement to be connected to the same WiFi network. Works a treat transferring from Android to Android or Windows 10 and it isn't proprietary.
I use int.company.com for my internal domains. company.com is a real domain that I registered. If you did similar, as opposed to making up your own domain, you wouldn't have a problem.
As far as recent video games go - Sekiro, DMC5 and Doom Eternal.
It's a lot easier to have loyalty to Chicago than Cleveland. MJ and Kobe would have done the same if they were drafted to a small market team (in fact Kobe made sure he wasn't drafted to a small market).

Lebron put in a long shift and went back to give them a title.
In my 20s, I self-taught myself drums, percussion, piano/keyboard, Ableton, DJ (live mixing and remixing in multihour sets using vinyl records, samplers, and other bits of gear - very much a kind of musical instrument - perhaps it’s more of a meta-instrument).

I play a lot of instruments (have been playing guitar, bass, woodwinds, and singing since age 10), and my practice routines on various instruments have a lovely way of informing my development and expression on others.
It is difficult to judge the airspeed of another flying object from an airplane unless you are going at approximately the same speed and direction. Is there any evidence in any sighting that these are not balloons?
$10 saved is $10 saved. That's how you increase margins, right?
>>I’ve spent some time thinking about why these Fantasy UIs are so fascinating despite the fact they seem not very user friendly.

Fantasy UIs are often flashed up as eye candy to communicate high complexity for power users that an outside observer (i.e. movie viewer) can only dream of properly mastering yet still able to grasp the "key message".
Because I didn't think her conclusions were right, and because her system is laid out logically enough that I could trace through and find out where I thought it went wrong.
Not quite. The stockpiles may be huge but the time they will last is still fairly short, something like twice the just-in-time schedule they had before. Not taking into account the extra needs of Christmas. We don’t know how long it’ll take to remake the slower import streams.
Seriously, per-domain javascript blocking in uBlock Origin (Firefox Mobile) is amazing.
From McCarthy ? I'd start with his Border Trilogy which is 3 books sold together. Or just All The Pretty Horses if you want to dip your toes to see if you like his writing.

I've also enjoyed Elmore Leonard quite a bit recently. More pulpy I suppose, but well written. Out of Sight is a good one with a somewhat faithful movie version as well.

Normal People by Sally Rooney is something I read recently that I liked.

Unless by literature you actually mean classic literature, in which case I'm really not qualified to recommend anything :-)
This reminds me of http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~det/phy2060/heavyboots.html. (TL;DR it is common for people to think that if you dropped a pen on the Moon, it would float away. When those people are asked how the APOLLO astronauts didn't float away the most common response is that they had heavy boots.)

People who think of a subject as random facts don't even try to build a mental model. And therefore they don't know the most obvious things that would come out of a mental model.
That doesn't break the advantage, it just mitigates it. The advantage is just small enough that it doesn't matter much even before the mitigation. The caller could still look at the coin before it's flipped and have a slight edge in calling it.

It's not terribly hard to influence the outcome of a die roll. You can roll it end over end like a wheel so two of the faces remain on the sides and can't be the result.
I don’t have a good answer to “what does underwater technological progression look like?” I just want to point out that we are under a heavy survivorship bias. Just because we are where we are does not mean there aren’t other plausible histories.
They may have a sense of their responsibilities but I know a lot of Googlers and they’re also extremely cavalier about collecting data and extremely certain in their ability to handle it properly. They don’t understand why I don’t like targeted ads and always respond when I complain with, “but don’t you want the ads you see to be relevant to your interests?”
This kind of public relations improves support for immigration, so the net effect on potential immigrants could still be positive.
> If all thoughts were made public, all human beings would look like monsters or mentally ill to each other.

Which is why privacy is about power and claiming our own territory for our thoughts. It's also about testing different ideas out before they're made public so that the ideas have been mulled over properly in a safe space, un-judged by the masses.
Ahh, thanks for clarifying. Yes, that's a good point.
There has been and there is still a lot of self-checking at Google...

The own health data of Google employees too is in danger if they do dumb things with it (as I suspect that, like anybody, these engineers enjoy health wearables), so it would absolutely not stay unchecked.
How is your reply teaching us anything? I explained how it works, and gave examples. Your turn to be convincing.
Any old skateboarders here on HN?

I remember when Lakai Fully Flared came out, it felt like a crescendo in skateboarding, and IMO lived up it. The Mike Mo switch kickflip + napalm explosion was seared into my 13 year old brain forever:

https://youtu.be/zIu8NfUGScc?t=242
For me in practice going to UK meant that I had to show my passport on the border, while nobody cares when I travel across Schengen. I don't know what would happen if they tried to hold me.

The biggest reason why Schengen Area is not equivalent with EU is that there are countries that are not part of EU, but are part of Schengen - Switzerland and Norway as well as there are countries that are part of EU but not yet part of Schengen like Bulgaria and Romania. I never was in Bulgaria and Romania, so I can't speak of practicalities.

And yes, Schengen countries have common visa policy.
Sam Altman: Employee equity (2014)
there's an argument to be made that understeer is probably the better failure mode for a poor driver.

anyways, most commuters are probably not approaching the limits of grip while accelerating through corners. most people I know have trouble remembering not to brake through turns. the implications of weight transfer during acceleration for a FWD vehicle are much more noticeable during daily driving. it's especially sad to see with all these 200+ hp hot hatches. they have pretty good power to weight ratios on paper but they just can't put it down. a moderately quick start at an intersection in anything other than ideal conditions results in wheel spin every time.
> Google doesn't even use Gmail data to target ads

...Anymore. They did exactly this from basically launch up to 2017, and they only stopped because it was scaring corporate customers away from buying GSuite. https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/23/15862492/google-gmail-adv...
How well do halftoning algorithms work in Oklab and other perceptual color spaces? E.g., would results of Floyd Steinberg look better when error diffusion is done in Oklab vs. the other or the raw color spaces?

Another question: When going back from Oklab to the device color space, some numbers may at times fall out of range (e.g., negative). Is there a recommended way to bring those back into range to perceptually close colors?

Thanks.
I didn't realise how much I had internalised the sound of cars until I found out how pleasantly silent Venice is at night.

All cities should be car-free. Noise, fumes, and bad use of city space are a disservice to humanity.
I was working on a music system for my brother, who is a music teacher, to allow for better music teaching than Zoom. I just don't have the bandwidth. But I do have some code for video interface with Jitsi and MIDI. I'd be more than happy to pass along with I got and some idea on how to get the music to synch.
The site agent is just the manager of the site. You're thinking of the clerk of works. But your point stands.
You ought to consider wearing shorts with pockets, then. Personally, as someone who spends at least half of every year traveling the world by bicycle, I find full-length expedition trousers like the Fjällräven Abisko to be the best clothing option. They are durable enough to withstand all the wear and tear of cycling all day and then walking through the bush to set up a campsite at day’s end. Plus they just protect you from the sun – wearing shorts while cycle-touring is way too much UV exposure.
So you are saying that octopus wasn't just punch some fish, but it was punching Jeff, that guy that won't stop doing that one thing.
Lower latency is a strong motivating reason to use a serial terminal over anything connected over usb/double buffered display.
New data-structure for collaborative text editing – Chronofold CRDT
I do research in imaging, so comparing images generated by algorithms consumes a lot of my time!

Side-by-side let me improve my understanding of the algorithms' trade-offs (think for example comparing different compression algorithms, inspecting artifacts). It would also help me debug my codes by comparing pixels values with a reference for example, and many other usages.

Of course, those are not the only requirements, but it would already spare me a lot of time to be able to open this kind of format by simply clicking on the file :)

The others operations I perform daily are frames' differences (|img1 - img2|) and display them using some colormap. We also frequently need to run several quality metrics like MS-PSNR, SSIM, etc.. to "objectively" evaluate what we see.

For the OpenEXR their lib is ok for opening images, I need this because several images I use have only one channel in 16bits, and it's one of the only formats capable of storing this kind of data.

While for YUV, the format is actually extremely simple! It's just a big array containing an intensity component (luma) and colors components (chroma) with some upscaling[1] and GPU's decoders can work with them if it's a performance issue [2] ;).

Both are standard in the professional video community! Think of them as "raw" video formats.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60729170/python-opencv-c...

[2] https://docs.nvidia.com/drive/drive_os_5.1.6.1L/nvvib_docs/i...
FBI and Europol Shut Down 'Bulletproof' VPN Service That Helped Criminals
Show HN: Functional Programming as a Scientific Revolution
This whole website and its entire commentariat are constantly participating in a neverending exercise of pretension one-upmanship and I implicate and debase myself by even pointing this out
easy come, easy goes. if you have Ripple since January, congrats, you're up 20%

https://finance.yahoo.com/chart/XRP-USD

if you entered for quick money, such reward had this risk, revalidate your thesis behind the intrinsic value of the asset and act accordingly
> Steeping minutes: Green at 3, black at 4, herbal at 5. Good tea is that simple!

It isn't though. Water temperature is just as important. Black and herbal teas typically do well with boiling water, but green and white teas need a lower temperature, between 140-175 depending on the tea.

Also, while 3 minutes is a fine general rule for green tea, I've found that some green and white teas taste best steeped for longer at lower temperatures.
That doesn't justify adding additional uncertainty about what BMW is going to do with their sunscriptions and software and for how long.

And anyway, confidence in Apple is justifiably higher.
Deepfake queen to deliver alternative Christmas message
The article tells a touching story but it leaves me trying to piece together_exactly_ how he died. 83lbs with money and food in the tent. Did he just selectively starve himself as a symptom of some form of depression?

I guess what I'm morbidly curious about is the ability to sit among food and starve yourself to death.

I apologize if this sounds insensitive. I don't intend it to be so.
I think COM headers on motherboards are common still, but no longer ubiquitous. For A520 ITX boards it seemed about 50:50 if they'd have a com port.
Provided that you have wide tires, appropriately low gearing on the bike, and no strict schedule, then you can choose unpaved routes across much of the world where you will almost never see other cars. Or, even if there are occasional cars, the terrain would force them to move at so slow a speed they don’t pose a danger.
Her is my all-time favorite movie UI. It's more familiar and less futuristic than the others but felt like where we're headed. There's also just enough emphasis on skeuomorphism to make it feel warmer and more inviting than the flat designs prevalent in 2013.

https://www.pushing-pixels.org/2018/04/05/screen-graphics-of...
Had those devices survived into the unicode era, that no doubt would have become a standard feature somewhere along the stty/termcap/terminfo/curses chain.

An absolutely mindbending amount of effort was expended back in the day trying to make terminal handling work in a portable way. People today think that having to support five different browsers is hard. Imagine a market populated by like 50+ different hardware terminals with only vaguely overlapping features and spotty standards compliance.
As a non-US citizen, I have 3 questions:

1. WTF

2. Is it even enforceable?

3. Does anybody know recent examples?
That's a good summary. There's something elitist about this paper that I couldn't quite put my finger on, and I think you got it. Perhaps obsessing too much about twitter polls and what constitutes "stupidity" is what chafed. When someone starts attempting to categories who is "stupid" (even though OP states "people are not stupid" at the end of the article), my BS detector starts going off. Especially when it is focused on minutia (parity of zero) and "good enough" knowledge (earth/sun). The earth and sun orbit each other, but the focal point is inside the sun (and every atom in the universe orbits each other in an N-dimensional space), why is that dismissed as "nitpicking" by the author, but parity of zero is somehow an important indicator of stupidity? smh.
"White supremacist" is just a media/propaganda term. Nobody calls themselves that. And not all National Socialists are white, although in the US I suppose most are.
interesting, i was talkig about deep sleep, duration without dream where we sort of cease to exist. In dream state you are again present, so it is more like real life than death.
Curious what you make of this:

I recently wrote a SPA (in React) that, in my opinion, would have been better suited as a server-side rendered site with a little vanilla js sprinkled on top. In terms of both performance and development effort.

The reason? The other part of the product is an app, which is written in React Native, so this kept a similar tech stack. The server component is node, for the same reason. And the app is React Native in order to be cross-platform. We have ended up sharing very little code between the two, but using the same tech everywhere has been nice, in a small org where everyone does everything.
What you got was a very expensive learning experience about the difference between speculating and investing.

But that's all it was. It wasn't the end of the world. It wasn't the death or illness of a loved one or yourself. It's just money. It stings now, but that'll help you remember the lesson. It's happened, it's just history now. Accept it, take the lesson to heart, and move on with your life.

I can't say whether it's better to sell or to hold on, it depends how much it's still worth and if you're willing to risk that amount on a chance that it will work out well in the end. I'd sell.
>Googlers are not that stupid, there would be huge internal strikes if the health data was sold to, say, health insurance companies.

So if any random set of employees at Google don't threaten to quit, that means that they're doing great? Also, why would any company sell the very thing that makes them money? :) They can make more money allowing companies to use the data by targeting certain users.

>By the past they have proven numerous time that they have a lot the sense of responsibilities -- as employees, as a whole.

What "sense of responsibility" does Google have? There is zero accountability here. They continue to spy on users and collect personal data, which now includes health data. A private company doing that for profit, makes it unethical in my view.
I wonder what it would take to get this idea to actually happen- that the proper response to some antitrust claims is not the incoherent "break them up" argument, but the "open them up" argument that prevents the actual abuses of monopoly that matter in information technology.
Sure. If you’re targeting a similar audience as Apple or other high end brands. My point is that there’s a different kind of audience for comic sans or its variants.
Agreed, it's interesting that there are this many databases exposed directly to the internet. Hasn't anyone heard of defense in depth and proxy servers?
There is WiFi Direct, a standard which is supported by both Android (since Android 4.0) and Windows 10 (dependent on the WiFi card).
It's more of a case for Apple to support it on their devices.
and Fitbug
And motorcycles.
Co-founder of Sun Microsystems guy.
Yay, just what we need, another Elon Musk hagiography.
> No ability for British firms to operate in other European countries with equivalent rights as a local company, will have to form subsidiaries instead in many cases.

This has never been the case.

To enjoy full rights, you have to have a local office. Tax forms e.g. Hungarian employment tax forms doesn't even accept the UK postcodes as administrative address, let alone grant application forms.
Alternative JSON parser for Go (10x times faster standard library)
If you think about ethical bias in a system that has no concept of ethics you are going to have a bad time.

You're essentially trying to fix reality by altering datasets which is a completely erroneous way of solving the problem.

It's playing God by determining what is right and what isn't all alone and without the input of society.
Facebook managers trash their own ad targeting in unsealed remarks
I hear "Ching Chong China virus" as clearly meaning to be offensive, "el cheapo" not at all.

Maybe I've been conditioned wrong.

Also "humbling" is not the word I would have used to describe the speaker — I don't think that is the same as "self-deprecating".
Instead of having all debates in one hellish town square, give each town its own
I'm largely with you on HP. Most impressive was how JKR was able to keep Snape's loyal/evil question unresolved to the very end and still come up with a plausible explanation for it all. Rereading the whole series shows little hints along the way. It was deftly done.

It was a great time, having midnight release parties for a book!
You want a Christmas tree version of xeyes?
Depends on the market. Uber makes money on rides in established urban areas, ie look at the NY or LA numbers.