skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice! LeoLabs is doing some very cool stuff.

They're working on four additional radar installations for tracking space debris. Their current installations can track objects down to about a 10 cm diameter, but with their new installations they'll theoretically be able to track objects as small as 2 cm. In general, current radar systems tend to be limited on the lower end to objects in the 5-10 cm range. Systems like LeoLabs’ and the US Air Force’s upcoming Marshall Islands-based Space Fence will improve coverage, but still won’t see the 128 million objects from 1 mm to 1 cm. For perspective, a collision with a 10 cm object will likely completely destroy a satellite, a 1 cm object will likely disable it, and a 1 mm object may disable a subsystem. At closing velocities around 10 km/s, the kinetic energy of even an untrackable chip of paint is greater than the destructive power of an equivalent mass of stationary TNT. Whipple shields around the ISS’s crewed areas are built to absorb impacts with objects of up to around 1 cm. For anything bigger, an avoidance maneuver is used (if we see it coming).
Lync itself was a rebranding of Office Communicator, by the way.
Apologize publicly where 'decent people' can see and adjust their 'image' of you accordingly. I missed the public apology part, i think it was implied in your statment.
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Moral policing is a far older struggle than a recent US-centric partisan squabble. I’m with you in that I wish more people held liberal values, but reducing a complex, entrenched cultural phenomenon present throughout human history to such a myopic view of the present isn’t likely to improve the situation you’re concerned about.
The genius part about this is your two "monitors" look the same. This is literally a significant part of why I've never purchased an iMac. Now you've given me an idea...

Frustratingly this was a native iMac feature "Target Display Mode" in 2009-2014 but they dropped it from the 5K model: https://applerepairstation.co.uk/Technical%20Desk/use-your-i...
To me, "man" sounds like "lan", but "looks" sounds correct.

I actually listened to the Lyra version first, and thought the speaker said "when a lad looks for something beyond his reach"
I won a physical copy of this way back in the day in a little entry level demo compo. Such good times.
"My wife will kill me" indicates he was sexualizing the people he was reporting on. If his wife would actually take offense that is something he needs to work out with her and not let it affect his work.

Anyone who doesn't get this should seriously do some reading now, as this is basic stuff.
Firefox puts Google in its own container just like Facebook. It also block third party cookies and is way better at avoiding fingerprinting than chrome.
How are those different from American concentration camps, such as Guantanamo?
There is an old Science Fiction concept - slow glass(SG).
1/8 inch of SG could be formulated so it delayed light by 12 hours. So pieces were left in the sunlight to light houses at night. They even conceived of glass with a 1 year delay - that they made into bombs and artillery shells. Formulaic changes could give you years even. A fully charged piece had the energy of a year stored in it before it came out the other side, To make a bomb, a small charge would shatter it, releasing the energy stored in in a light beam of 1 kilowatt per square meter x one year is stored in a square meter piece. Quite an energy release on shattering. There were many other technical inventions that used this SG - if only. Many materials pass light at less than light speed, but is a small effect in the real world.
Putting aside the bad analogy that the other comment covers, the overall point I was making also covers doing the optimization before game release, but after the game is more or less complete. Rockstar optimizing during the final few months of playtest wouldn't be premature optimization.

Premature optimization is about trying to optimize the micro (a given function), while you don't yet have the macro (the game itself). If the function accounts for 0.1% of the performance of the final game, it doesn't matter if you make it 5x faster since that will only make the game 0.08% faster. You could've spent that time optimizing a different function that accounts for 10% of the performance, and even optimizing that function by 5% would make the game 0.5% faster, which is more impactful.
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Maybe some of the problems today are because of the ability to fix code after release much more easily. If you wanted to ship something on a set of floppies or a CD you had to be pretty confident it worked unless you wanted to deal with a costly patching process.

Now you can push a hot fix or day 1 patch almost immediately, and in the case of some software like games, actually prevent people from using the old version, leading to software being released that has known issues. Obviously with web based applications the fix deployment is completely transparent to the users, making the cost of deploying a fix almost zero.
So, after reading all this (and boy, I understand it's to provide context, but it is a slog), my general takeaway is that Donald was making good and accurate points, but perhaps for this audience probably should have considered and measured his words a bit more.

I do believe that if you actually understand the situations, there is most definitely no malice or harmful intent in anything he said/did, but I can also see how in the current climate where nuance is irrelevant that things he said and did could be perceived as offensive to people who are hypersensitive to these things.

What concerned me more was that, at least based upon this narrative, the collective failure of The Times to perhaps underline from the outset that the issue was spreading within the newsroom and how serious it was, and that the Times provided next to no support for the situation beyond having legal proofread statements and more or less left Donald to hang in the wind. It really seems to me that the Times more or less gave up on Donald from the outset and let things snowball as an excuse to get rid of him to avoid bad PR.

And the real kicker is that they still left him up to get a pulitzer for his reporting at their publication while throwing him under the bus. Talk about having your cake and eating it too.
"Deepfakes require a lot of data to produce."

Are you sure? https://www.myheritage.com/deep-nostalgia

The result is not perfect but it could be with a few more photos.

And realistic synthetic voice generation is not so far away in the future.
Cloudflare are kindly hosting [1] a free HTTP gateway for the IPFS [2] network. So I can host an image myself on a server with IPFS, and Cloudflare will cache it for me. This is better than Imgur because the latter has been redirecting users to annoying "social" pages with ads instead of showing them the actual image, at least in some cases. I also can't be sure whether Imgur recompresses your uploads or not - I assume they usually do.

It's also more generally useful because I can host other files too, not just images.

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And information was transacted digitally before the internet.

If that is a sincere comment, you’re missing the point.
The issue at hand, though, is that the consequences being levied are nowhere near commensurate with the word being used. The Times's own coverage stated explicitly that the word was used in reference. The notional that being fired is the social consequence for uttering the n-word in any context, even in reference, falls well out of line of what most people think.

I'm 27 and this is appalling even to me. Conflating saying a word in reference, and using it as a pejorative is willful ignorance, I and my classmates were taught this explicitly in high school. I doubt this is a generational thing, unless it's a very recent phenomenon. I suspect it's more about gaining prestige and recognition in "outing" purported racists.
The witches in a witch hunt are "guilty" of making their communities uncomfortable, but we are perfectly comfortable pointing our fingers at the intolerance of the communities rather than the idiosyncrasies of the witches.
Providers just don't seem to care. My internet connection is a hundred times faster than it was in 2004 but I'm still playing games with the same 50ms-60ms of lag. Sure the speed of electrical signals in wire is a good chunk of it but there's still so much room for improvement.
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What you described is known as a "Token Bus". The one developed by General Motors became an IEEE standard (802.4) for a while as an alternative to Ethernet (802.3) and the Token Ring (802.5) but was quickly forgotten.

A more popular token bus was the Arcnet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARCNET

While IBM's Token Ring was the most famous one there were others:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Ring_(computer_netwo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_Distributed_Data_Interfa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Coherent_Interface
Why?! What is the threat that you are protecting from? If someone has enough access to be able to run sudo on your Mac they already own you.
How is it that the smartest and most effective programmer that I've worked with was a boot camp grad? How is it that I've worked with programmers that have master's degrees from reputable universities that simply can't code? I think it's true that salaries definitely have had an effect, but there's also the fact that the industry has grown exponentially, and the employees have to come from somewhere. Make the pool bigger and you're going to have more bad programmers among the good ones.

Currently I'm working with a team and it's a mixed bag, some of the guys are good and some are terrible but they're all well-educated.
Video Speed Controller is one, works on HTML5 Video (including YouTube, but not limited to it).

For FireFox: https://github.com/codebicycle/videospeed

I think, forked from Chrome: https://github.com/igrigorik/videospeed
Chrome is popular on HN so you are wrong, sadly.
nor should it. privacy settings should be up to user not the site.
> Our period is defined by greater political divergence on the basis of age than ever before seen since we started taking polls on this sort of thing.

> Why the aren't democratic politics more effective?

these two I feel are related. Democracy is a kind of movement of masses but newcomers & outsider don't have any presence other than what they carve out for themselves. there's no onboarding, no enfranchisement, other than the major parties bothering to take notice & trying to recruit new voters into their big tent.

it's bloody not enough. there need to be better on-roads to participate, to become a part of the system, to get to see & touch & become part of the democratic system, beyond being a voter. the system is too big & too busy to make room for the youth, & to a degree, the non-mainstreams. ibecause of this it keeps stratifying, bringing in only dedicated & already pre-disposed. the vibrant blood of diversity & the arena of ideals fails.

I guess see also, "How to fix democracy: move beyond the two party system."[1] but I don't think that's enough either. we need to bring the youth in. we need to make power accessible. more parties helps in that there's hopefully more vibrant need for participants & ideas but ultimately I don't think it's directly creating the more pro-active, engaged, enabling democracy, that yearns to give new bloods tries & exposure, that we need to keep from becoming frail & gerantocratic & saturated by old money & influences.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26309330
It's easy to write because it doesn't run noticably slowly on smaller data, and it's easy to accidently introduce quadratic behaviour in some systems. Obviously if someone tested this on 10MB of JSON and saw it took minutes and thought that was reasonable, that's a bit ridiculous, but I doubt at the time the code was written anyone expected it to be fed such a large JSON object.
Like a viola organista, perhaps?

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The main flaw of Diplomacy is in the "metagame" problem that for some of the players the game ends a few hours earlier than the others, so they don't get to spend the potential evening gaming with friends as expected and are bored - so this motivates people to choose some other game where everyone will be involved through all or most of it.
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I didn't grow up being poor (not rich either, solid middle class), but I did witness extreme poverty. I was a young boy when many Vietnamese refugees came to the U.S. at the end of the Vietnam War. A number of families came to my small town and some of them came to my school. These families had nothing (no food, no money, no clothes) and to make it many times worse, they couldn't speak the language and it was a foreign culture for them. The local churches helped them with housing and some basic necessities. What they did have though was strong family ties (they stuck together) and the will to survive (and later thrive).

Many of them eventually established successful businesses, learned to speak English quite well, and their children were educated. I have great respect and admiration for their accomplishments in the face of such incredible adversity.
The LG Ultrafine looks and feels like the same cheap shells that every monitor vendor uses, and doesn't fit the Mac aesthetic. It's really weird that Apple finds that fine to sell, but then again desktops at the low end don't seem to be their biggest thing these days.

I have legitimately considered just buying the Pro XDR because I want a monitor that looks good on my desk. I'd have pulled the triggers but the rumors about the new iMacs started, and I want to see where they go - I didn't buy an older iMac as I refuse to buy an Intel Mac at this point.
Ahh, yes for volunteers actually working with children, I'm fine with more strict background checks.
> I find it rather dubious that a large number of people panicked and thought there's an actual alien invasion rather than just assuming it's another show.

One thing might make a difference here, War of the Worlds was structured as a news broadcast rather than a narrative.
What? Mobo/RAM compatibility has never been better.
Oh, I definitely believe that. I'm just saying that the ability to push back varies more than it should in a just society.
hardening-runtime modifies the Linux kernel command line (as well as the sysctl config), hence the need to reboot.
No, of course life is not fair. But in the limited time we have, we can either discuss how to make the world more fair, or succeed despite unfairness.

Each discussion has its place. We shouldn't derail every success story with comments about how "privileged" someone is for having an aunt.
> They all question whether math instruction is racist; that seems like a question worth answering!

The problem here is that this question is impossible to answer rigorously without treading into areas that are career suicide.

It is extremely clear that mathematical ability is directly correlated to general intelligence. Low general intelligence is going to make it harder for you to be really good at math; higher general intelligence is going to make it more possible.

Instruction factors into this, but if we want to actually determine the impact of instruction, we need to have a controlled experiment - and this means necessarily controlling for intelligence, and then evaluating to determine if the supposed racist bias is as prevalent and as worrisome as commentators like yourself allege.

IQ is the closest measure of general intelligence we have, and the science of psychometrics has been improving steadily over the past hundred years to be less racially biased and more independent of background and prior knowledge. However, IQ remains highly problematic, because any demographic analysis of IQ is going to reveal trends that match exactly the kinds of outcomes we see in math achievement to a tee. This has been consistent for as long as we have been measuring, and does not show any promise of disappearing any time soon.

What do you do with this? Fundamentally, you have a choice: deny the IQ numbers, deny the science behind IQ research itself, continue to claim that IQ measurement itself is racist despite decades of genuine attempts to remove culture as a factor, or lastly - actually accept that the numbers are what they say they are, and stop pretending otherwise.

In general, the world of academia has chosen the first option: denying the validity of the demographic information entirely, and doing everything possible to make it difficult to collect this information, study it, draw conclusions from it, or cite it in anything else. Trying to use it to form any kind of policy decision is impossible.

Only the last option is honest, and only honesty can actually result in anything approaching a productive way of addressing issues in society. If you want to remove racial bias from instruction, first, it is incumbent upon you to prove that it is present; this in turn stems from honesty about what we should actually expect out of everyone.
Discussed a few days ago [1] Copying my comment here

Even 3G AMR, I think that was pre 2000 Speech Codec started at 5Kbps. With a latency of only ~20ms. If I am reading correctly the encode due to ML nature would take at least 40ms and up to 90ms for Lyra.

I am sure there are some specific usage that would be a great use case. But for most consumer consumption I cant think of one on top of my head. One should also be aware of the current roadmap in 5G and the on going work in 6G. We still have a long way to go in maximising bandwidth / transfer per capita. i.e More bandwidth for everybody.

It seems to be the case with ML they want to take these speech codec to new low bitrate. While it is fun doing it as a research, I much rather they push the envelop of at least 6 / 8Kbps if not even higher closer to perfection with even lower latency ( 10ms if not lower ).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26279891
Using pihole is effective but don't try blocking a Chromecast like this. I did and even using two piholes the network got killed by these hundreds of DNS requests per second to Google.
No - he refers to what it's about, and if you already know the story you are able to understand immediately. But it doesn't say he got fired. It doesn't even say his departure from the NYT was because of the article in the Beast. On a blank slate, it's possible the article in the Beast leaked his recent terminal diagnosis.
You memoized some of the computation.

"Think rate is fixed" glosses over activities with compounding returns. Learning!

Better abstractions and heuristics can have an enormous impact on problem solving efficiency.

First-principles thinking is a powerful hammer, but it's expensive. Over-use it and you'll get nothing done. Under-use it, and you'll do nothing original. Knowing where to use it is the trick, and that's _also_ a skill that can be improved over time.
Good. If you don’t want to deal with the state of recipe blogs, go buy a cookbook.
I'm more asking that we take dramatic, drastic, and gigantic efforts to 'fight' the 'last battle' on climate change if you will take this thread metaphor lol

i agree with you on the nitty gritty for a general audience. mostly i dont think bogging down the public with research helps and it's way too often used in bad faith to do the opposite by industry and certain political groups acting in their own interest

on the other hand

on the other hand if like half the country experiencing some weather catastrophe in the last 5 years doesnt do it im not sure ;( so i do think we need more fear and for sure a lot more alarm, but yeah probably not alarmism in the sense i think you are probably referring to

i do love HN though for a higher level discussion
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NYT: "We do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent."

Also NYT: As President Barack Obama said of racism in 2015: “We are not cured of it. And it’s not just a matter of it not being polite to say ‘[n-word]’ in public.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/17/opinion/sunday/n-word-tap...

(They print the actual word)
Circumstances where using smart pointers affects performance are vanishingly rare. Where performance matters, on any critical path no allocation or deallocation is done, so a smart pointer can have no effect. On other paths, any difference is swamped by overhead in malloc and free.

So, in actual practice, no.
The Rover is not connected to the internet.

Do you know what subset of C NASA limits itself to? Or hw architecture? The rigour of their testing? Should all C developers follow the same restrictions as NASA?
By “vanished from the mainstream” you mean their 2003 album still went 6x platinum, and then their 2007 album went 2x platinum and won 5 Grammys?
> What I think is happening is that (like almost everything) it comes down to group membership signaling.

This reminds me of something I've observed on Tiktok. The site has trends where they put an audio clip over a video of the poster and then different people perform the same trend to the same audio.

A hugely disproportionate number of the audio clips, something like half, contain the N-word. They're not just random snips from random rap songs, but the specific songs that contain the word and that specific section of the song.

Now I'm thinking it's virtue signaling. They choose that clip specifically because it contains the word and they can demonstrate themselves not saying it when they say the rest of the clip.

Or, if you want to go the other way, that the Tiktok algorithm is promoting those clips because they're owned by China and trying to sow discord or promote signaling mistakes by future leaders which can then be used to cancel them at will.
I doubt there is major difference. And if anything, AMD caught up to Nvidia in other areas. CUDA isn't used because Nvidia hardware is better. If it was about hardware, Nvidia wouldn't have used lock-in.
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> and Survey monkey gives me the same USD price in Euros.

European prices usually include VAT, while US prices don't include state taxes, since they are applied at checkout based on your location. That ends up being the same price in the end.
This is just extrinsic discipline & motivation.
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