skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia is good at running wikipedia. They produce something incredible. If you want to exercise moral control over people who do jobs you don't understand, by all means keep your money. But it's not helpful for you to encourage others to do that.
Poor Steward -> Corruption
Gun owners are a minority in this country. The average american doesnt own one, let alone ten.

The minority just is lou.d as hell. The NRA used to be a reasonable organization with a reasonable mission. Then it went batshit crazy
Ah, whataboutism. It's not a magical word. You can't say "wingardium whatabousa", wave your wand, and make all your own hypocricies disappear.

To me - and this is my own standard, not a set of rules - whataboutism a fallacy is specifically used to avoid acknowledging a problem by derailing the discussion.

If a person fully and thoroughly acknowledges a problem, and does not minimize the importance of that problem, then it is not whataboutism to point out the hypocrisy of the other side during the analysis - especially if someone denies or minimizes the existence of bias from the other side.

In short, an article like this from The Atlantic (including a reference to an early pandemic NYTimes article that claimed advocating for travel bans was racist) is not whataboutism. These are not just reasonable but important observations:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/03/what-...

And lastly, while I agree with you about much of Trump and right wing media, I was pretty aghast with the times, WaPo, and other media outlets (this link also from The Atlantic). To be fair the National Review also got this wrong at first.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/media-must...

As an aside, The Atlantic is an interesting publication - it is a very left leaning, but has a number of writers who are absolutely willing to go straight at the left when they feel it is behaving hypocritically.
There is no single truth in the complex topics that politics considers. People will always approach problems with solutions grounded in their values.

For instance, say crime is a problem in an area. How do we address it? Do we encourage everyone to arm themselves in defense? Do we establish additional surveillance and arrest/detention ("broken windows" policing)? Do we address the root problems of crime?

The best that we can hope for is that we come to a shared understanding of the current reality: What is the crime rate? Who are the victims? Why is it happening?

Once there is a shared understanding (provided by science), then we can discuss solutions (guided by values/compromise).

The problem is that science is messy, and hard to synthesize for the general public. Just think of all the frustrations around mass media reporting of individual research results (Eggs are bad for you!, Eggs are good for you!). Results are often nuanced and resistant to becoming a meme or a headline. They are often themselves subject to bias and spin.

The best that we can hope for, and that we can strive towards in good faith, is being open to the evidence. "When the facts change, I change my mind." And hope that people in power appreciate this position as well.
Yup, FF is so much more pleasant for me on mobile than Chrome because of the ad blocking.
New Jersey: Images of the Garden State
Um, that statistic you just quoted says that the majority of new guns sold were to existing gun owners, so it's perfectly consistent with the thesis you are using it to contradict (and that's even before considering how many of those first-time buyers aren't first-time owners, but people raised in gun-owning families making their first independent purchase.)

The long term trend in gun ownership (both individually and by households) has been down for a long time (different data sources have different exact numbers, but the trend is consistent across them.)

The increase over time in guns per capita is the smaller share of gun owning households getting more guns each: more women in those households getting guns, more guns per adult owner, and kids in gun families getting real firearms younger.
We unfortunately get more scientific value out of a falling probe because you can get atmospheric composition from deployment all the way to the ground. Some quite strange phenomena may be happening closer to the ground. There is evidence that Venus' atmosphere is not uniformly mixed, which may be a result of the lower atmosphere being supercritical CO2[0]. The lower atmosphere is also hotter than the melting point of some metals, so it may be possible to find them in the air.

[0]https://www.sciencenews.org/article/unlike-earth-venus-gases...
Except for the part where the article mentions these little critters might be facing possible extinction already if it weren’t for protection laws for its native biodome.

Be a lot cooler if we didn’t hasten that just to put them in little glass boxes in our domiciles, forced breeding of domesticated canine and felines have already enough caused genetic problems with breathing and bone density among certain breeds-for example.

Let’s let these little fellas thrive unmolested, does anyone know where I (as a westerner) could learn more about the conservation efforts mentioned in the article?
uOPs are proprietary and undocumented: potentially changing between architectures even from the same company. So it's hard to generalize.

But it's my understanding that uOPs are constant sized. Having a variable length uOP seems counterproductive. If something is so complex that it won't fit in one uOP, then it's probably preferable to encode it as two separate uOPs.

We can get an idea of what is multiple uOPs by looking at the pipelines and latency charts. But even then: multiplication is likely one uOP despite taking multiple clock ticks of latency. So it's not exactly a precise science...
The head of Kuiper and most of the senior team led Starlink until Musk allegedly fired them for moving too slow and being too cautious. So Amazon being operationally behind isn't exactly surprising.

>Musk had fired at least seven members of the program's senior management team at the Redmond, Washington, office, the culmination of disagreements over the pace at which the team was developing and testing its Starlink satellites, according to the two SpaceX employees with direct knowledge of the situation.

https://www.businessinsider.com/r-musk-shakes-up-spacex-in-r...
My first thought was it's a bit ironic this was a medium post (especially one with obnoxious visuals as someone else pointed out). Why not post an audio file?
... no sh*t sherlock?!

To legally claim asylum in a schengen state which has no external border to non-schengen states you literally have to fall out of the sky or travel into the country on a tourist visa.

Guess what happens in the moment a crisis breaks out like it happened in Syria? Yes right, all the wealthy northern european states do not give out tourist visas anymore.
BoofCV ran a performance comparison: https://boofcv.org/index.php?title=Performance:OpenCV:BoofCV
And I have a feeling it's only getting started. I envision the 2020s as the crypto dot com bubble.

That said I still thing it's gonna be a chunk of the future of human civilization somehow.
Here's to hoping its some kind of newt. It would basically name itself!
Similarly, you'll see crazy high numbers in support of things like universal background checks, but as soon as you ask questions like "Do you believe a background check should be required to loan your roommate your gun to take to the range/loan your nextdoor neighbor a gun when her ex finds out where she lives/etc." the percentages plummet.
Certainly true. However, so much of what I view on my phone is just noise. A few phone calls and messages a day would be perfectly suited for audio-only. For the rest, I’d be better off on my laptop.
> some risks I have that are not covered by the standard are not mitigated or transferred

If you're compliant with a regulation or a standard, then you're not liable for failures of those standards.

I think there's an implicit assumption that the harm of a failure will fall on users/consumers/some other third party, rather than yourself. In this case, the "risk" is liability for damages, rather than actual damages. If you roll your own risk-management strategy, then you assume responsibility for its failures. If you follow a blessed external standard, then you transfer responsibility to the standard. So the risk of a failure is not fully mitigated, but your risk of being liable for that failure is. Which, to GP's point, disincentivizes exploring novel approaches that mitigate the risk of real failures.
Great write up!

I’m amused by your subdivision of space note, given Figure 1 :). There are clearly some problems and transforms that are better on N-spheres (N-balls?) and others on rectangles / N-cubes. Do you have a deeper intuition for which? (The x^2 example was simple and cute).

Years ago [1], we applied interval arithmetic to tracing groups of rays (and compared to geometric bounding via planes/frustums). I’d be curious to think through an equivalent with your midpoint ball arithmetic, but I feel like it would “need” to be parameterized as a ball of origins (easy) and then something else for the cone of directions —- maybe theta/phi clusters or “cluster of points on the unit sphere” (but converting back and forth is more expensive than the gains).

[1] http://graphics.stanford.edu/~boulos/papers/ia.pdf
maxnorm in 3-dimensions is not euclidean. It is however, a metric space (which is why they call them "balls"). Note that the following formula for vectors x and y over R is a valid metric (obeys triangle inequality) for _all_ n in _all_ dimensions, with n=2 being the usual euclidean metric:

d(x, y) = |sum_i((x_i - y_i)^n)|^(1/n)

The maxnorm is the limit as n -> infinity, and is also a proper metric space. (the collection of these spaces are called Lp spaces)

Of course in one dimension, all of these Lp metrics are identical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp_space
Once again on hackernews the bastion of online discourse and rational debate, merely mentioning Trump gets you downvoted without any counterargument regardless of argument. If you support him at least make a case

Edit: That's my point proven
If you have the cellular version, yes. However, I have found that the handoff from WiFi to Cellular is terrible. It takes a few minutes for the watch to realize it's not going to reconnect to WiFi soon, and in the meantime you're just sort of left waiting for when it decides to switch over to cellular.

This is especially annoying if you're listening to streaming radio (like NPR) and going for a walk. It will just drop. This has been the case since the very first version of the cellular watch, I suspect as a battery-saving feature.

The only way to really get around this is to force cellular mode before you leave. This is what I do, and it's embarrassingly un-Apple in experience:

(1) Put my iPhone in Airplane mode. I think I could accomplish the same thing just turning off BT, but I want to be really sure the phone and watch are cut off from each other.

(2) Turn WiFi off on my Apple Watch. Wait a few minutes(!) before I go for a walk -- make coffee, leash up my dog, etc

(3) Walk outside, and issue my Siri command to trigger music/radio

This usually works fine. But its annoying. If you're not especially dedicated to going phone-free (it drains the battery quickly) I really wouldn't bother.
I'm not a web designer, but I find the following to be easier to read: 1 2 3

I can't put my finger on it exactly, but I think it has to do with better use of white space and cutting content into more 'bite size' pieces. Perhaps split out the cirodown stuff from your general homepage stuff? This could make the super long table of contents a bit easier to scan. BTW, your (Numerous!) open source contributions should probably get a page of their own as well! :-)

Personally, I don't mind green on black - but its going to be too high a contrast for some people I think. I love the light blue link color.

Finally, as I said - I'm not a web designer. So maybe get some feedback from others too. Gotta be a web designer around here somewhere... :-)

1.) https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/

2.) https://asciidoctor.org/

3.) https://www.doxygen.nl/index.html
Cognition Augmentation Software (CAS)
Wut? Isaac Asimov’s The Foundation?

Practically got me started into machine learning and it’s abstraction thereof.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series
Is africans coming to europe some sort of human right owed to them by europeans?
It occurs to me that restricting access to guns is popular in a lot of countries. In a bigger perspective, I'm not sure that the US is unusual in this regard.
This is an awesome (pure?) Java library I already used for some of my projects (e.g. for a Multi-JPG to PDF converter with book edge and finger detection). It offers basic things like thresholding, sharpening and edge detection as well as more complex stuff (video object tracking, etc.).

It is pretty fast (although it is Java) and easy to use (well documented with examples). There is also a Demo android app in the play store, where you can take a good look at the features.
Well you must be onto something, because Californians are leaving for Texas in record numbers.
An F-117 pilot and the officer who shot him down meet, 15 years later  (2013)
Gotta move at Musk speed, makes sense.
> Gun-friendly people on the left like myself are basically unable to talk about the issue nowadays

Why not? because you might be shamed?

Not singling you out. Trying to do a Root Cause Analysis.

I think society's aversion to being shamed has actually caused the act of shaming to be even more overreactive, which is a positive feedback loop.
No kidding, it's hard to focus on the text because there's so many irrelevant animations firing all the time.
dang the moderator,

silenced many an internet hater,

but could not make men see,

if 'twas pronounced "dang" or "dan-gee"
There would need to be an incredible breakthrough in battery technology. Cellular radios just take up too much power for it to be a reasonable experience right now, unless you want to change watches mid-day.
The LTE bands are different.
You can see many brogrammers in so called the biggest security conference DEFCON. You'll soon find out that only top 5 percent actually know what they are doing and other 90 percent complete bullshit people who just claims themselves as security expert while not knowing how to exploit a program. It is one of the few political jobs you can get among computer science world.
All things being equal, smaller code is better[1]. Of course, if things are not equal, and loop is slower than building it yourself, then build it yourself except where you're size constrained.

Also, you really have to benchmark these things to know for sure, and it can change between processor generations and the author couldn't have tested Zen 3 in 2003; and we'll have a hard time testing Pentium M in 2021.

[1] Memory bandwidth is limited, cache sizes are limited, even though both are huge. Otoh, the quantum of useful savings is a cache line, 64 bytes on modern amd64 if I'm reading correctly. If you save some bytes, but not a cache line, it probably doesn't help anything. If you only save one cacheline, the difference will likely be hard to measure, but could be measurable depending on circumstances.
> My point is that you shouldn’t expect the taste pr texture of meat if you’re not eating meat.

This is completely ridiculous.

From your comments, and from other obvious vegetarians/vegans in this thread, there's a weird sense of "sour grapes" combined with some sort of martyr complex.

You're angry, because you've sacrificed to be vegetarian, and now terrible horrible meat-eating people like me can just swoop in, eat stuff that tastes like meat, and be vegetarian without any sacrifice! Without any hassle! Without any virtue signaling possibilities whatsoever! THE HORROR!

Look at this subthread. It's full of people who like meat and eat meat who are singing the praises of these new meat alternatives. And then there's you, and people like you, contrarians who complain that people "shouldn't" like these meat alternatives because "we're missing out on real delicious vegetarian food".

I'm not going to stop you from eating and enjoying your little salads, so why the hell do you have an opinion on what I should and should not eat? Other than the fact that you're losing your moral superiority that you're currently enjoying?

Why else would you encourage people who like meat to eat more meat? Because you want to keep feeling superior. That's what this is really about.
Thank you h_anna_h, I know you are getting downvoted but HN just isn't the same as it used to be. People get easily offended now and will downvote you if you dont agree with them. It's pathetic and sad.

Thanks for bringing up that thread. I have a lot of reservations about giving money away to such "non-profit" organizations before but I get an idea of whats going on behind the scenes now.

I certainly will no longer be donating to the EFF and Wiki organizations knowing non-profit organizations possibly funding parties and luxurious corporate life styles. I want the money I give them to stretch as much as possible. I'm not against parties either but when you spend millions citing conferences and travel (even some large for-profits dont spend this type of money) citing you are non-profit to mismanage my money then I simply won't stand for it.

My trust in local non-profit organizations were already pretty shaky but I somehow trusted these large organizations because I thought they would be more frugal and we would have more transparency. I was clearly wrong.

You simply have no idea how the money is being spent and its very difficult to dictate how they should better allocate resources either.

Apparently most people think that frugality would be the default in these organizations but once you give them a credit card, they won't think twice about over spending on stuff that has marginal benefits like luxury company cars, chartered planes, expensive dinners etc.

I will still donate to causes I believe in but I am going to now ask for receipts and will enforce strict frugality. Parties should be limited to the office with a dozen Dominos pizzas and everybody should bring their own soft drinks & cups from now on.
You don't get my point. It is not fulfilling to me to spend that much time passively watching someone else succeed or fail because of my city of birth.

My attention span is also very add. Only things like coding or math can hold my attention.

I played sports highschool, college and 9 years after. Sports are great when you are a competitor. To be good they have to consume a good portion of your life. Which is fine, you are exerting direct control on the world.

As a 45 year old sitting in a pub you have no impact on a team. Nor do you by angrily posting to internet forums or yelling at talk show hosts.

Spending 1-3 days a week 3 hours at a time getting very worked up about a thing you have little control over while gathering a side of mild alcoholism isn't great. Being sulky and short with your loved ones isn't either.

After college I started watching the nfl. My team was very good senior year, mediocre the next, and a fieldgoal away from greatness. The next year they were dog shit. I noticed I was short with my mom on Sundays which was our hangout time because of nfl. She watched sports so she'd have a thing to talk to us about. I had to step back. The team was purposefully rebuilding. I found new topics to talk to my mom about.

I get a lot of home repair, gardening, and side projects done while watching baseball or football in the background.

Sports fandom is best when they enrich your like not when they consume it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_mythological_fig... has been good for naming my workstations for decades. Dual-boot scenaria can use Roman/Greek names for the Mac/Windows or Win/Linux “personalities” of the same physical machine.
> The whole point of a bank is that they're loaning customers with other customers' money.

Ahh, you would think so, wouldn't you? In fact I bet that's how most people still think about banks. Sadly that's not been the case for a while now.

Check this blogpost: the first few sections explain the basics and the immediate consequences of this arrangement: https://www.lowimpact.org/why-the-banks-have-so-much-power-a... Then he gets into his proposed solution and it's a matter of agree or disagree.
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POWDER BROWS – DER NEUE TREND BEIM PERMANENT MAKE-UP:
DIE AUGENBRAUEN PUDERTECHNIK
Natürlichkeit ist auch bei den Augenbrauen gefragt und liegt voll im Trend. Die Technik der Augenbrauen Powder Brows unterstreicht Ihre Schönheit. Eine neue Technik, die Augenbrauen zu diesem Trend verhilft sind Puder Augenbrauen. Ein Unterschied zu klassischem, dekorativem Make-up, das täglich neu aufgetragen werden muss, ist bei dieser Technik von permanentem Make-up kaum zu unterscheiden. Es entstehen keine plakativen Linien, denn bei dieser Technik wird die obere Hautschicht durch kleine Punkte pigmentiert. Diese wirken wie aufgesprüht.
Bei herkömmlichem Permanent Make-up entstehen bei Puder Augenbrauen oft klare Ecken und Kanten und scharfe Konturen sind häufig erkennbar. Darüber hinaus sind zu dichte Farben zu erkennen. Dies ist bei Puder Augenbrauen nicht der Fall. Die Technik überzeugt durch eine weiche Textur, in welcher die Übergänge fließend sind. Das Resultat gleicht dem von herkömmlichem Make-up, das durch einen Augenbrauenstift oder mithilfe eines Lidschattens erzielt wurde.
The Great Suspender' Chrome Extension Contains Malware
>Software development and security are basically the same thing.

There is an entire universe worth of knowledge in the security space that has nothing to do with software development. I'd agree that 98% of the security world is "bullshit", but one of the reasons every company has such awful security is specifically because too many people think "software development" == "security", and this narrow mindedness means they end up failing to accomplish any of the security pillars that have nothing to do with software development.

There is a lot of overlap specifically with secure development and software development, but saying "software development and security are basically the same thing" is naive. I like to compare it to a company's legal team: if you're going to court over a technical topic, you definitely want some people on your legal team that have software experience and you definitely want your general counsel to be technically educated, but that doesn't mean you're just going to take a software developer and make them your general counsel. You still need an actual lawyer, because there is an entire universe of law-related knowledge that you need that a software developer doesn't know.
This is one of those concepts that sounds extreme, but does make you consider your own current defaults and norms.

I've noticed I'm wasting a lot more time checking my phone during the pandemic (trivial things, and, shock horror... even too much HN at times).

Anything with a "feed" can definitely be addictive. It's too easy for me to browse my RSS feeds, HN, and podcast feeds on my phone. And I'm doing it a lot.

Not sure I could go quite to the extreme of Watch-only but it has made me consider whether I could make more use of my Apple Watch instead of my phone to reduce distractions.
I've been slowly radicalising my circle of friends too ;)
Not exactly sure about the RF details here (probably very few people are), but, as a theoretical exercise, should we really allow the first mover to just grab what's available? Why?
Kate Bingham: Why the UK strategy on Covid vaccines has been a great success