skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Us average car mileage for new cars is on the order of 15-20,000 a year. So 3 years would be 80,000km which checks out.
That's true. And how much hp/torque did the Model T have? Probably not much, and I am sure it could do a respectable 30 mph.
> A _modern_ tool for blah blah.

I generally parse this as half-baked, not battle-tested, and difficult to use.
There aren't any videos mentioned in quotes, which makes me think that it's likely a mistake on the reporter's part. This paragraph seems to conflate the two.

> The videos were analyzed, and detectives were able to determine they were “deepfakes” — digitally altered but realistic-looking images — created by mapping the girls’ social media photos onto other images, the Philly Inquirer reported.
Where are the institutions that are supposed to protect us from corruption that we pay dearly in taxes? This is just so wrong. Strong towards the weak, weak towards the strong...
Not quite Aphyr but I found it witty and funny nonetheless. It was a fun read.
I greatly enjoyed that, thank you. It's much easier to follow Chomsky @ 1.25x speed, lol. I found his assertion and explanation during the questions section about the meaninglessness of "the physical" to be rather illuminating.
Is it really that these cities are poorly managed or just that everyone feels entitled to live in the most expensive and desirable places? I don’t get the point of building up more - it’s just going to induce more demand (a common argument used by urbanists when it comes to road infrastructure). The real fix is that people need to spread out, and stop feeling like there are only two places to live in across such a large land. But no one wants to hear that they’re not entitled to have the exact job/city/pricing/conditions they feel they deserve.
Resorting to whataboutism instead of directly addressing the point I made indicates you are not interested in discussing this in good faith.
unrelated but cheerleading is such a sexist "sport".
s/deepfake videos/photoshopped images
Those games can often be ported by bundling them with (a tested version of) WINE.
Show HN: Discflow – long-form posts for discord
A stubborn refusal to adapt the work practices to a completely new scenario and take advantage from such scenario would be the major factor here, not working from home itself.

One has to ask the actual goal of anyone who refuses to adapt - do they want to perpetuate the current status quo at any cost, or do they actually want to achieve results for the company?
I haven't tried the new Edge, but the old Edge used to get into states where button presses on the controls would be queued. That's not great for performance perception. (Incidentally, firefox on Android sometimes gets there too, especially after viewing npr org, hmm)
I noticed that many of my discord servers have a number of pins to various pastebins, password protected google docs and forum posts. Discflow aims to provide a seamless experience for long-form text posts by linking authentication to the users' discord account and providing a familiar ui.
> Java tried to fix that

Nope, Java picked the idea from CLU, Modual-3 and C++, in what seemed the way forward to declare exceptions.

It does provide both checked and unckecked exceptions, unfortunely it suffers from bad learnings and quick hacks to shut the compiler instead of thinking it through when designing class libraries (yes even the std suffers from this).
She was dumb enough to upload the photos directly, exposing her IP address. I doubt she's smart enough to make deepfakes. This is most definitely a Photoshop story.
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I don't think a life sentence was appropriate, but I don't think you're concern here is really what happened.

judges have some discretion when it comes to which end of the minimum/maximum end of the scale to sentence someone convicted of a particular crime, and using facts entered into evidence and never contested when exercising that is pretty standard.
This isn't necessarily related to the discussion at hand, but it reminded me:

I got a huge crack (https://ibb.co/1mPxC6C) in my smartphone's screen right around New Year's. One of my goals was to use my phone less (less social media). The crack is a big, ~.25in black diagonal line across the screen, but the touch still works. Because it's a diagonal crack, I can still read whole text messages/emails/etc, I just have to scroll the right way.

It's now March and I still haven't fixed my screen, mostly out of laziness since I'm home all the time, but also because it's done wonders to my smartphone use. I practically don't idly scroll anymore, just because it's really annoying to do so, and I don't miss it at all. Everyone thinks I'm nuts, but I haven't read twitter in like 3 months so who's the crazy one?

I'd say, don't bother upgrading! Enjoy that the addictive quality of your smartphone is diminished.
If you have the luxury of space to load up a rack and some dumbbells - but it doesn't sound realistic for most people. Plus gyms are everywhere these days - it's easy to slide them into work commute so you don't have the time overhead of going there/back.
It is mentioned in the article. Dershowitz feared he might be considered a crackpot until he had all the evidence together, organized, and presentable at once. Revealing partial research before he completed everything would make a less persuasive case.
Propaganda works already perfectly without deepfakes.
Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer
It's so nice to see this article, and wonder what Apple was thinking when they were deciding what material to use for the insulation on their Lightning and (old) MagSafe cables.

Original Apple cables seem to suffer from the insulation flaking over time — and Genius Bars all around the world (I've tried, many times) refuse to acknowledge that it's a manufacturing defect.
That’s not a meaningful way to discuss counterfactuals.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfactual_conditional
If your pipeline uses only “classic” ml models, then this won’t make too much sense. It’s mostly applicable to NNs.
Because of the ".*" on either end, it's just having a sequence of 8 somewhere that are mirrored, could be the first 8 or last 8, not strictly the middle 8.
> If a function can fail I want to see it right there on the return type and be forced to handle it on the spot.

Checked exceptions solve this problem. Checked exceptions vs. result sum types aren’t a black and white dichotomy, however. They are rather two points on a design spectrum, where one design axis is how you want to syntactically handle error escalation up the call chain, another axis is how you want to handle destructuring/restructuring of the results, etc.

Unchecked exceptions are still useful for notifying bugs (e.g. precondition violations) instead of aborting the OS process on failed assertions.
On the topic of reading too much into things, note that I didn’t say anything about force or it not being a personal decision either.
If you like this kind of stuff, also feel free to play around with a realtime complex-valued expression->glsl version I made a while back. I like the one here a lot as well since it probably runs everywhere even without webgl

http://brandonpelfrey.github.io/complex-function-plot/?expre...
Again, it sounds like you've come full circle here. You aren't making much of a case if your argument is "it works fine if you know what you're doing", because that is also the status quo on Linux. We could continue to argue about how we've both misconfigured our respective systems, but that's missing the forest for the trees. Your point is moot.
Not Kotlin, AFAIK Loom is about the JVM.
You know, I read the article, found your comment, upvoted it because I would have been interested in the details of how she got caught, and then saw it's the same article. This does not go into the details of how she got caught; that is dealt with only in this single sentence:

> The videos were analyzed, and detectives were able to determine they were “deepfakes” — digitally altered but realistic-looking images — created by mapping the girls’ social media photos onto other images, the Philly Inquirer reported.

I'm glad we can undo upvotes now, I guess.
Cryptographic chain of custody from CCD to MPG, with public keys for video recording HW burned in at the factory. I don't know if that's at all feasible. Possibly only for security cameras.
Off-topic, maybe you have an answer to this: How do the Japanese work so much? I read that they have naps in the office, but still - I think I would burn out super quick.
Yeah, their own cloud only. Sample URL: https://cln.sh/WjTbfF

I never use it though, because I take screenshot with CleanShot and then share directly in Slack / etc.
It failed because, based on the evidence I have submitted to the national authority for data protection (the national entity enforcing the gdpr), they were not able to rule in my favor. In the e-mail exchange between me and Blizzard, they declared they store process data anonymized, but I don't believe it, since based on that data they decide to ban real game accounts (which are linked to real personal data). Going to trial just to try to prove a point wasn't worth it for me, but at least I have seen the national authority for data protection actualy reading the documents I have submitted, fundamenting their ruling with quotes from them.
> More work gets done in a dedicated space for work, surrounded by other people engaged in related work, and this is especially true if some of the team members are young and inexperienced.

More work gets done when you're tired from being up early for your commute, then the commute itself, and surrounded by distracting coworkers? Not for me, not ever again if I can help it.
Yes, writing distributed systems since 1999.

What was done in C, C++ and Tcl, I nowadays use Java and .NET languages.

If we really need something low level that either Java or .NET cannot offer, a native library for a specific component will do, no need to throw the whole thing away and do one of those rewrite blog posts.
For a small road trip to Chicago my family member rent a 8 person fan a huge car and off course I offered to be the driver.

Once we arrived in Chicago I kind of started to sweat because I'm used to European city parking spots. How many times will have to retry to park this huge car, but to my surprise the parking spaces are also huge.
You left out the part where Google changed their minds and decided to pay for news in Australia. The whole "Ok. We'll comply with the law, forgo those benefits and stop sending traffic." bit was an empty threat.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/business/media/australia-...
Glad someone appreciated it :D
You should get out of your bubble more?
I see a lot of dashboards now where I work, in fact I sponsor the development of them as well.

For me they have to have an actionable element to them E.g. these clients are at risk of churning and here's why.

Without it it's just some data with fancy charts which was cool a year or so ago but doesn't cut it now.
Did you honestly create a new account just to spread FUD about gaming on Linux?
How do you go about gathering data and training a model for hundreds of hours and not question that what you're doing is wrong?
This has a big impact for me. I'll go on some hikes on the local trails but other than that I'm not doing much. No longer trips, no seeing friends, not going out to eat, no travel, etc. My job is pretty interesting and I can work on various longer term interesting projects so I'll do that if I feel like it while I otherwise might have done non-work stuff.
I agree on most of your points.

To expand a bit on some of the "tweaks" that must be endured....

To play War Thunder you must use the launcher to set it in a window at native screen resolution then start the game. Then you move the game to your desired monitor and Layer>Always on top, and Undecorate the window.

Boom. War Thunder works.
I’ll also add that it’s more convenient than I expected - the three credit bureaus all let you unlock your file temporarily up until a specified date, after which it will re-lock without you having to log back in.
> I feel much more productive at home as I don't have to listen to all the conversations surrounding me

I know this isn't a problem for most people, but this is such a huge issue for me. If you are talking in my vicinity, my brain locks on to your speech and prevents me from thinking about anything else. Unless I am listening to someone else speaking that is closer to me / louder there is no way to mentally block this out. If I'm trying to program and someone is talking near me, my productivity drops by maybe 80%. I either put on noise cancelling headphones, ask people to talk elsewhere (which irritates people who don't understand), or get nothing done.
Use of an acronym requires a prior use of a relevant definition (spell out), which is the term. The expression "Fully-assisted Self Driving" is no less incorrect / ambiguous than the original one. Therefore, Tesla would continue violating the same principle of truth and clarity in advertising as well as, perhaps, some policies and/or laws.
Edge Legacy would be deprecated this year, along with IE, AFAIK.
> They're getting free money from the government? I think I'm gonna raise their rent in order to get some of that action!

Yes, after all these years landlords finally have their chance to raise the rent
command + a select all shortcut doesn't work on the text search field.
I think https://neocities.org has some of these same vibes, except neocities also has hosting.
I love my daughter, and did just as much when she was a youngster, but I think many dedicated spaces are a benefit because they allow for greater focus, because the kids (or spouse or parent or...) are not there. I have seen no data on it, but I have the impression that experienced workers with no dependents do better in a WFH environment, than either new hires or people with family at home.
Simula(67) definitely was the original concept/implementation of OO. Smalltalk, C++, Java, etc all derived different aspects of it.

- Main abstraction are classes (of objects).

- Concept of self-initializing data/procedure objects
Internal ("concrete") view of an object vs an external ("abstract")

- Differentiated between object instances and the class

- Class/subclass facility made it possible to define generalized object classes, which could be specialized by defining subclasses containing additional declared properties

- Different subclasses could contain different virtual procedure declarations

- Domain specific language dialects
Skateboarders, rock climbers, mathematics, tractor enthusiasts, Britney Spears fanclubs (hence Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm), book clubs, permaculture, meteorologists, bobbin lacers, et cetera. The world is not as toxic when profit isn't involved.
Factors affecting my WFH experience, using the factors from the article:

- Telecommunication environment: a quiet dedicated room.

- Requirements by rules and regulations that some tasks must be conducted in the office: N/A

- Types of work that cannot be completed at home: None

- Distractions from family: Not more than the distractions from people at the office (coffee walks, casual talk, loud conversations outside meeting rooms). I much rather be distracted by my family than some random dude asking about my weekend.

- Private room for work: check

- Loss of face to face communication: Yes, please.

- Lack of pressure from boss, colleagues and subordinates: N/A. I still have the same goals and the same deadlines.

- Interaction with customers: Over zoom.

- Other reasons: N/A
>>Toronto is often ranked near the top of least affordable cities.

When the only factor is home ownership, which is the focus of URI's study, this is absolutely correct. But then I think back to how absolutely unaffordable housing was across the GTA in the late 80s, after which point people were able to buy back in again when the housing market corrected 40% in most of the GTA, with certain areas of Toronto (not the GTA) dropping by over 50%.

Homeowners generally want housing prices to rise indefinitely, but this is in direct opposition to younger cohorts wanting affordable entry points to home ownership.

The URI study also doesn't mention anything about renting. There are rumbles that Toronto developers have built too many properties (condos primarily), so perhaps an oversupply will benefit both renters and potential homebuyers if/when property prices correct.
I was working from home two days a week at one company, and my immediate manager pressed me to reduce it to one day. I mentioned that he'd lose an hour and a half of my productivity to the commute, and he just nodded.

Rarely saw him in the office. He wanted the concept of me being there.
Exactly, it makes it particularly difficult to do something new that requires creativity or intense thought.
There Should Be No Computer Art (1971) [pdf]
I think this quote suggests you are right:

> The videos were analyzed, and detectives were able to determine they were “deepfakes” — digitally altered but realistic-looking images — created by mapping the girls’ social media photos onto other images...

Both this article (and the Inquirer article it is based and basically plagiarizes - https://www.inquirer.com/news/bucks-county-raffaela-spone-cy...) seem to be confused about the difference between photos and videos and seem to imply that they are interchangeable. It would be interesting to read the actual affidavit and see if it contains the same confusion, or if this is something caused by the Inquirer's reporting.
What’s behind the Tether/Bitfinex affair, Part #2
"First of all, Tether is used by various exchanges, not just Bitfinex. However, only considering the latter, we know that the value of bitcoins in its cold wallet is about $1 billion and then there are all the hot wallet addresses. Given that the market capitalization and Bitcoin volumes are less than 1/3 of the total cryptocurrencies, we could hypothesize that Bitfinex has in reserve users’ cryptocurrencies for a countervalue which, on the whole, is twice its Bitcoin reserves in cold wallet, let’s say $2 billion. At this point, do the 2.2 billion tether dollars still seem so many? And to the reserves and volumes of Bitfinex, we still have to add all the other exchanges that use Tether. It takes little to understand that we arrive at really considerable figures."
Author here. Yes, some people did not like the title, I didn't realize that it necessary means Fortran was dead. I meant it in the way of "rejuvenate". Fortran was not dead.
Could you share a link? I'd be surprised if well founded criticism was downvoted.
What should they do instead to combat hacks?
There's so much hate towards Bitcoiners, even with all the ,,Google is bad'' stuff happening around, an Alphabet investor is not getting that amount of hate and shaming.

All the information is out there, and I am always downvoted here on HN anyways when I try to defent Bitcoin. In short:

Have fun staying poor :)
At least they split it out and show different productivity for different fields.
> How do you go about gathering data and training a model for hundreds of hours and not question that what you're doing is wrong?

Technical competence is not a proxy for ethical behavior.
Why is it stupid? Vector fonts should render smoothly at all scales.
Yeah, sounds like a normal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-Gauss_lens from BK7 or so should do the trick.
You'd have significant chromatic abberation, but with monochromatic illumination that's not a problem.

This would just be 4 normal lenses, afaik. And you should be able to reach around 100 mm image circle I guess with the low NA you get away with at that relatively low resolution.
I have done that before, and it worked well. Not completely without downsides, but definitely the best of both worlds (for programmers, anyway).
The meme is good, but calling flameshot "somewhat working basic screenshot support" is an enormous understatement.
Why do people still use imgur after all the antipatterns they've pushed? When I tap the direct image links in this thread I get greeted with an extremely slow infinite scrolling page, social media features galore, and intrusive requests to install the app.

I like postimages.org.
No direct experience with working in Japan, but in Taiwan people rested their heads on a pillow on the work desk to nap for an hour after lunch. So essentially shifting some of the sleep time at home towards sleep time at work.

Never quite understood the thinking behind that. My hunch is that I'm not understanding "face" properly.
Google Glass tried that. Even with an obvious indicator of recording, some people still believed that anyone wearing Google Glass was recording 24/7. There's no way that'd fly in modern society.
LFortran is not ready yet for production usage, but I've been developing it on M1 Macs, everything works (both compiling of LFortran itself, as well as LFortran compiling other codes and interactive usage in Jupyter). It compiles really fast and I really enjoy the experience of M1.
I dont think you’re alone in this at all, as evidenced by the prevalence of headphones in open plan areas.
How do we create a search engine which looks into hand crafted sites only? Back to the roots!
Yeah we have a dashboard product as part of our offering and the main problem is that it’s just a mess of data thrown at the user to dig through. Our big initiative is to turn it into actionable information or guided experiences so that users can accomplish some specific goal.
I could not be bothered watching the video after reading the rant that basically seems to distil down to:

"javascript is bad because Google"

"usenet is bad because Google"

"Firefox is bad because Google".

If Firefox is "rapidly becoming useless and user-hostile", you must be using a different version of Firefox than me. If you don't like Firefox because Google gives Mozilla a lot of money to keep anti-trust inspectors away then feel free to contribute yourself either financially or via pull requests. Mozilla accepts both.
Russia deploys giant space telescope in Lake Baikal
Because it’s going to crush the markets and the institutions. If you watch the media, there’s a serious panic going on. There is a serious chance this will cause a sort of financial Armageddon.
It was unfair for Google to reap benefits from:
(1) Copying story summaries from AU media sites, putting them on a Google site, capturing visitor data from that site
(2) Sending traffic to AU media sites

It's more (1) than (2)
Indeed. Intel Fortran is generally considered one of the best. It was not cheap, but it is now available for free. In general I think there is a huge opportunity for new compilers, and I have started one such effort myself: https://lfortran.org.
It's not that uncommon in HPC codes. I.e. one of the places where speed matters.
It might legitimately be a bug in the app, if you're on the UI team. It's stupid because it was reported to the security team, and it has no security implications whatever. Nobody pays UI bounties.
So much judgement. Just like with programming, The way to write good fiction is to first write a lot of bad fiction. Its not a matter of being a 'technical type'. Its practice.

Andy Weir (author of The Martian) is a 'technical type' and The Martian was fantastic because of his nerdy mind. His book drops with his love of STEM and all the research he put into it.

The world needs more fiction by programmers; not less.
Here's the URL, since finding it via search is hard: https://krypt.co/
I recently had to sign an agreement where I had to fill my name 3 times within the agreement. It's only then that I realized that good lawyers know variables: "This agreement is signed between ... henceforth called Employee and ... henceforth called Employer."