skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the artist impression has a lot more value than a highly realistic generated face. If you see an artistic impression, you will see the facial features that were noticeable. Such as a mole, the shape of the nose, or the thickness of the eyebrows. Then you have a template that your brain uses to match those features with any face that you see.
However, if I show you a highly realistic face, your brain will take a different impression. Your brain is trained on faces for thousands of years. It will try to match the face perfectly.

An artist impression tells the audience that it is inaccurate. A realistic photo tells the audience that this is _exactly_ who we are looking for.
Jibes with my own experience.

It infuriates me to no end that (bad) leaders would rather go by their own feeling of control, rather than look at the numbers.
Is there something in the paper that you’re critiquing?

This would be the equivalent of a quasi-random experiment where say Pirate Bay went down in <county x> and you observed a change of Y% in sales. (It’s not equivalent to just pulling a number out of the air for what you think the drop in sales is).

As in, it’s not trying to infer causation from correlation, or substitute one thing for another, it’s using a natural/random discontinuity as a stand-in for an intervention.
I definitely agree that showing a progress bar makes a slow operation feel faster, I've seen this work many times.

I think I disagree about the constant speed vs stuttering progress bar example though -
Progress bars which progress smoothly are great if they are accurate. But because sometimes a UI will show a fake progress bar smoothly filling that will empty after filling and fill again, I've been trained to become skeptical of them. I don't think I've ever seen a stuttery progress bar that was "fake" in that way.
I think you're right; it could be either.

In this example, if their fear of dogs causes them to misperceive a dog's excitement as anger, then it's closer to the scenario in the article. But if their paranoia is such that they perceive the dog is acting friendly but interpret that as the dog luring them into a sense of safety to bite them later, then it's more like the conspiracy theory case.
So, is the Economist any good? I'm thinking HN is a better source and it's free.
If it's recent, you don't know whether it will fail next week.
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They don’t. Tesla tried and stopped after a short time. It’s just not worth it as charging has got much better.

Charging scales better than any other new load we’ve added to the grid (such as air conditioning) as the vast majority of charging will be flexible within roughly 24 hours. After doubling like once a decade or so for a century, electricity demand has been constant or even falling for the last 5-10 years, which has been a major strain on utility finances. The extra flexible demand from electric cars is going to be hugely important for funding the maintenance and upgrading of our electric grid.
Thanks, I think I'll remember next time. In my mother tongue we use the same word for glasses and goggles.
The grocery store uses trucks to transport goods because doing it by bicycle/foot simply does not scale.

But just because that part of the logistic chain involves ICE vehicles does not mean that every part has to involve ICE vehicles nor does it mean that people not using a car to do their shopping are "outsourcing" anything: The large-scale logistics happen regardless of how people get to the grocer, people getting there by foot/bicycle/public transport have literally zero influence on that end of the logistics.
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There is never a perfect, a Picture or a Video say's more than thousand words. But yeah, your right it's already honed to near perfection.
My first paragraph mentions Markdown. My first link leads to https://type.commonform.org/.

Markdown first. Then Mustache on top of Markdown.
I used to program Intel 8031 (the ROMless version of the original MCS-51) in assembly language. Really low level, like the exact right number of NOP instructions to get a loop to run at 38KHz to generate a (modulated!) infrared carrier in software. And I got more functionality out of that primitive part than most modern Arduino programs get out of a microcontroller that's about 10x better.

And I don't care! A few years ago I got an Arduino starter kit at a garage sale. I have kids now and not much geek time. I finally plugged the thing in, and literally 5 minutes later I was running code on it. Who cares that it's inefficient. It makes the difference between a project built and one not built. I already posted my most recent one the other day, but why not again...

https://github.com/MarkusWandel/battery-tester

The code is right there. It's simple, it's readable, anyone could understand it in half an hour and change it. Not as heroic as my biggest MCS-51 assembly language project, whose source code is here:

http://wandel.ca/homepage/rom.asm.html

But tell me which of these is going to get someone over the "I can do this!" threshold?
The article is referring to automatic expiry of license keys though. Still seems like a rather naive question, I agree.
I dont think you mean for floating point, but for mechanical tolerances. Many times, you dont want to pay an extra $50,000 for the 5 digits of precision... but sometimes you do. Shitty system if it automatically messed up all your part tolerances.
Thanks! It is not a template, I designed it from scratch.
I have no reason to doubt your result for one specific electrical kettle and one specific gas stove.
There's hopefully an addon to block all stupid cookie dialogs
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Hey smt1, looks like your account is dead and has been for a while.
Nah. High frequency trading on L1 is too expensive, especially long term as state grows.

Biggest threat is L2 exchanges. CEX-style speed and convenience and DEX-style non-custodiality. My money is on Nash since they went the legal path plus fiat on-ramping, i.e. actually competes with Coinbase's main source of profit.
I hope such photos are submitted as camera takes them. With our without this new feature, photoshopping a photo before presenting it to court must be illegal.
Well, among the many answers you might get to this question, the one that sticks out the most to me is Excel spreadsheets do not have a built in REST API and Websocket service out of the box.

Sure you can pay up for Access or Sharepoint, or whatever offerings Microsoft has that do give REST APIs (I’m honestly not familiar with them). But this is free and open source, and anyone can put it on a web server and start jamming :)
This is perceptual/creative enhance. Not Blade Runner enhance.
Is it? Where I went to High School they stopped offering drivers education in the 1980s, for budget reasons. Everyone now takes private drivers training courses, or just learns from their parents.
I have tons of research on the topic and I sorted through it all to find the few pieces I thought would be most relevant. So HTH:

1) This first piece is by Richard Lazazzera of A Better Lemonade Stand. I think he actually works/always worked for Shopify. No big issues there...they appear to be using a content-first growth strategy.

https://www.abetterlemonadestand.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-s...

2) This is a link to Sourcify.com. They help people navigate Alibaba and the entire process. I haven't used them yet, but I hope to in future.

HTH
He was a "convert" to Christianity, so neither Jews nor Christians were likely to trust him.
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Also Aegis supports Steam OTP. In a little hacky way, but it allows me to not have the Steam app installed.
> Some people should never have power, like nazis.

That's exactly what I'm arguing against. That's just your opinion and you treat it like some universal axiom. Same way you treat 'Holocaust deniers' as some kind of monstrous apparitions. You may not agree, that's all.

It's people like you that inspire me to counteract this trend with full force.
It depends a little bit on how you are going self host it. There are updating instructions at the bottom of https://baserow.io/docs/guides/installation/install-on-ubunt... and https://baserow.io/docs/guides/installation/install-on-cloud... We are going to make it much easier to self host and update in the future.
Thanks! I did some nonograms years ago, and I saw the similarity but couldn't remember the name of that type of puzzle.

I think I saw at least 3 places where that technique could be used, probably more.
You know (probably) that the binary you download and self host will always run. You can avoid updates, and avoid future paid requirements too.

It’s more work, but if you host something on LAN you eschew many security concerns. You can more easily track what it’s pinging and who it talks to. If it’s open source, you can audit and adjust the code too.

It’s all about priorities.
This is a sad reminder of the masses of invisible labor (unpaid and paid) that hold up our world. Social scientists have been studying how labor becomes visible (or invisible) for a while without finding obvious solutions to "the situation."

How can we build a world where an infinite procession specialists like Roy can get the care they need and also find and train successors in their important work? Not just because we will all die, but also because we might all want to retire or go on long vacations or, even if we are good at it, change careers.
Roy has been an incredibly helpful and dedicated maintainer, always helping people use it. Its the best dhcp client I know of too. Very best wishes in a difficult situation.
Ask HN: How to be more productive?
Every day I list a long list of tasks I've to do on that day without scheduling. Just list of things I have to do. After that, I try to do the tasks during the day. These tasks are included a wide range of things, from studying for my college to exercise ,learning programming or learning English. At the end of the day, I usually measure my functionality by seeing how many of the tasks are done.This process usually doesn't have my desirable outcome. Many tasks are left undone. I'm not sure what's wrong. Is it better to schedule my to-do list? to know what to do on what time?
Recently I read about micro-actions or micro-habits. Set a very small and easy-to-do task for a month. Example exercise 5 minutes per day. And try to do that all days of month. After that, this would be one of my habits and I can develop it. For example from 5 minutes a day, to 10 minutes. My second question is that, do micro-actions can lead me to do all of my tasks I've to do in a day?
I know I've asked multiple questions and maybe their not so clear for readers. But after all, I appreciate any advice or suggestion to be more productive in a day.
I second removing sealed (and final) from all languages (except maybe for embedded/microcontroller work where implementation details matter).

This issue might not seem relevant in your own projects, where maybe you want to seal a class so a junior developer doesn't break something.

But it's disastrous for library and framework development. Here's an open question of mine related to this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65852139/listen-for-chan...

In that case, I'm trying to write a script that people can attach to a game object to rebuild metadata after a mesh is changed. I need the metadata for my shader, since it needs info about neighboring vertices, which would only be available in geometry shaders (which have fallen out of fashion since they run at the wrong stage of the rendering pipeline).

That way my shader would "just work" without making the user have to remember to set a flag or send an event when something changes (which is not future-proof).

Normally I would just inherit from the Mesh class, override/extend methods like Mesh.SetVertices(), and then explain how to use my class in the readme. Better yet, I would use something like inversion of control (IOC) to replace the project's global Mesh class with my own (this is how frameworks like Laravel work, or try to work). In fact, there are half a dozen ways of accomplishing this, perhaps more.

But with sealed and final, I'm just done. There is no workaround, by design. Because C# inherited this kind of opinionated thinking (anti-pattern) from Java. And Unity uses C#, so unwittingly fell into this trap since so many of their classes are sealed. Which all reduces languages like C# and Java to being toy languages, at least for someone like me working from first principles under some approximation of computer science.

Maybe I should write to Unity and explain that all of this happened during the very first interesting thing I tried to do. Or maybe we could get rid of this concept altogether and avoid the problem in the first place.

Even the gospel of Martin Fowler tends to agree with my stance on this:

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/Seal.html
> If you believe "flat-Earth advocates don't actually care about whether the Earth is flat or not, they just want to prevent space exploration to keep us trapped on Earth" , this would pose difficulty for changing the belief "the earth isn't flat".

I’m not sure why. The normal simple tests to distinguish between a flat Earth and a ball-shaped Earth ought to still work independent of what flat-Earth advocates believe.
With subscription, even continuing to pay increasing amounts isn't a guarantee than the product will remain available once the vendor decides to cancel it. And, piracy isn't an option for developing countries where the software price is over a year's average wage.
From my personal experience the problem of already having a working display right in front of you but it being no longer (reasonable) to use.

You can set up something like mouse without borders or something that uses it as a over the network display or buy these controllers and make a custom case/mount/stand but in the end you're probably better off accepting you're better off buying a new monitor even though this one works great you "just" need to detach it from the laptop.

For as many that say "but I did and it works great" you don't really see many people going out of their way to get a laptop screen instead of a monitor prior to the cost already being sunk. That being said sometimes it's useful when you explicitly set out to build a budget custom video wall (11520x6480 52" can be had for cheaper than one might imagine) but usually you're buying specific panels at that point not finding yourself in possession of 9 of the same model laptop display by accident.
You update the software. If they start charging, you don't care, because you can keep your free copy. I don't know about the "huge overhead cost" of running an update now and then.

...but, the data is yours, the software is yours, the solution built on it is yours. Noone can raise the prices, noone can give unrealistic/stupid limits (eg. how many queries can you do per month in your paid/free package,...), and noone can take your data away.
> As somebody who missed out on that, I ended up paying around $400 as an adult for 6 hours of private lessons (yes, that was it), plus a $60 fee for the driver's license and a $9 fee for the driving test.

Never happened for me either. A few years ago I payed a similar amount for a handful of very short courses that didn’t leave me confident enough to take the test. The consequences are big degradation of QoL. Now looking at probably 1 or 2 grand for significantly longer courses which I’m not even sure will be enough, along with the fact that these sort of places are not compatible with a working adults schedule.
The usual joke: Respond by giving your mangler (and maybe his mangler) two copies of The Mythical Man-Month.
COBOL is another one. COBOL programs written decades ago are still running unchanged on mainframes today. (Not that it was ever used for scientific computing.)
The original fragments of this text are no longer available after it was denounced as a hoax over 150 years ago. This researcher’s claims are mainly based on the content of the text, which he says are echoed by later texts and have multiple coincidences. The article says that the researchers who focus on Biblical text origins are more convinced and the ones focused on physical details of the documents are less convinced as they “contain all the hallmarks of a modern forgery.” The response is that the transcriptions may not be accurate representations of the actual fragment.

It all seems very difficult to prove and the implications, a version of the Torah with most of the laws removed, just a little too convenient. Seems like healthy skepticism is warranted here.
> These aren't so different from our own brains, which remember what we thought we saw, rather than the light that reached our retinas.

Never mind memories; there are parts of our eyes that aren’t responsive to light at all. We’re always hallucinating.
You've got quite a lot wrong. That's understandable: the UK press frequently prints misinformation about trans people.

Tavistock and Portman is hated by transphobes simply because it provides healthcare to trans children.

It's hated by trans people for a number of reasons. The wait list is over two years. The care is not very good. (the latest CQC inspection is concerning. It's likely Tavi will lose the contract at some point, we're just waiting to find out when that will be). There is excessive and intrusive psychological screening - that's supposed to be supportive but children often describe it as aggressively denying their transness.. They delay access to puberty blockers.

Here's the CQC report: https://api.cqc.org.uk/public/v1/reports/7ecf93b7-2b14-45ea-...

> Hormone blocking seems to be the main course of treatment in children while in therapy (that last part also seems very key)

No, absolutely not. The vast majority of children with gender incongruence get counselling and psycho-social support. Sometimes the child's gender incongruence subsides. Sometimes it doesn't, and the child is supported to go through a social transition. This doesn't involve any meds, it just means the child "lives as their acquired gender". For a very small number of children this isn't enough, and that tiny number of children go onto puberty blockers. 60 million people in the UK, 13 million age 16 or under. Fewer than 200 children prescribed PBs.

The court case you linked to is being appealed. It's an unusual decision. In England if someone is over 18 they can make their own medical decisions unless they lack capacity to do so. If they're 16 or 17 they can consent to treatment, but cannot decline life-saving medical treatment. If they're under 16 they're checked to see if they're competent to make decisions, and then they can consent to treatment but can't refuse life saving treatment. All of this can happen without the involvement of their parents. If the child can't consent their parents can consent on their behalf.

Tavistock's process was more complex. The child had to have capacity to consent, and had to consent. But also the parent had to consent. And the Tavistock psychiatrists and psychologist had to agree. And, finally, the endocrinologists had to agree. If any one of these parties didn't agree the treatment was blocked.

The court said that this rigorous consent process was not enough. This is more a reflection of how widespread transphobic attitudes are in the UK than it is of medical science.
> So in a world where there are SUVs driving around, buying an SUV for yourself instead of a car is a safer move.

That sounds like the same kind of circular reasoning that's often cited to oppose any gun regulation: "When everybody has a gun, you also need a gun to stay safe!".
I'm not sure a GC really helps that much. Yes, there's a few memory unsafety bugs from ownership issues fixed, but you still need to forcibly forget about any references you had to the data being passed along the channel so you don't access it concurrently (which is the case where go's memory safety guarantees start breaking down too, concurrent access to mutable pointers).
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A few years ago there were many Airtables articles on HN and it seemed to me it was promoted as a table/database management of some sort for non-technical people.

But now I see Airtable is used a lot in marketing departments and I caught a glimpse of a screen the other day and my marketing colleague's Airtable dashboard looked like a mix between Trello and messaging.

Can someone explain to me how Airtable is being used by non-technical people ?

And can Baserow fill that role too or is it a database thingy first and foremost ?

edit: does it have anything to do with templates ?
Comparing Twitter Bitcoin Hodlers to a cult is like comparing Covid lockdowns to the Holocaust.
Your fix is appreciated. It's much nicer not to have to ignore the label highlighting across the top when clicking in rows below the middle.
I recall reading on HN a while back that a modern z/OS mainframe can run unmodified System/360 binaries.
How can it near ATH while it is crashing?

Just HODL!
I'm torn about using the password manager for OTP. All the eggs in a single basket. But I've seen some security people recommend it...
Has Bayesian verbiage become a form of virtue signaling?

Don't get me wrong. I took statistics in college, and we covered Bayesian methods. They can't be controversial because Bayes' Theorem is a theorem, meaning it's proven. But the attempt to apply its terminology to lengthy but "soft" arguments seems like pure clutter.
nice project.. Will add it to my open-source alternatives list gourav.io/clone-wars
ps: any particular reason for not choosing GitHub?
Yes, but if Banksy himself advertises the auction and provides the proof that the NFT is issue by him, then there is no confusion. Imagine if Banksy interviews with CNN and advertises his auction. Or Youtube or in person in an event.

Beeple did just that.

But, I get what you're saying. There is a verification process to traditional art as well. You cannot simply impersonate Banksy and call Sotheby's, they need to verify you are actually Banksy.
Lol, thankfully it was just a dream and my screen is still flawless! I did stop bothering to put protective glass on it after that cracked a few months ago.

The only thing I read obsessively on my phone these days is hacker news. :-) I stopped using most social media 6 or 7 years ago.
"I don't know about the "huge overhead cost" of running an update now and then."

Clearly you've never had to go to hours and hours of change management meetings for a minor release.
Make sure your eyes are dark-adapted. I.e. you've spent at least 20 minutes in pitch darkness, with no sources of light other than the sky. And no Moon.

Altitude is not relevant in most cases.
If you get manufacturing in China, you are supporting a criminal regime (aka the CCP) that commits genocide and undermines democracy at every opportunity.

This is your freedom you would ultimately be undermining.
Because "why don't the tools learn me" describes a perfect world, a fantastical end state worth working toward, but which we just don't live in yet. It's akin to questioning why we still bother with locks on doors when burglary and theft are solved problems in a post-scarcity society.

I'd love better design, UX, and discoverability in all software tools everywhere, but the grim reality is that this just isn't the case and won't be for many years. Until then, I can say again from personal experience that it was well worth it for me to Google the keyboard shortcuts for terminal cursor movements, greatly reducing friction between me and my filesystem. Similarly, occasionally bringing up the VSCode or RStudio keyboard shortcuts reference windows is well worth it to reduce the friction between my thoughts and my results. It's like going from hunt-and-peck typing ("why can't the input device just learn how to understand my speech?") to touch-typing faster than you can write by hand.

Come to think of it, resistance to plentiful keyboard shortcuts is not something I would have expected to read on HN of all places, yet here we are!

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