skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any chance of Adobe licensing this tech out? I can see it making one hell of a difference when it comes to zoomed-in pictures on phones.
Society does accept some level of car accident otherwise there would be no car on the road at all.

Safety regulations is good but too much safety regulation is bad.

As individual I accept some level risk, I accept that there is some level of risk that I will be in accident, the trade off of 0 risk are too much.
Common to have unique SN in a processor. Let the SW vendors do copy protection too. E.g. at Sonos we used them to associate with the software signed certificate such that you couldn't run a given Players software on another Player without the same SN. When making products via contract manufactures, especially in China, it was a wise procedure.
> I'll trade a chicken for bitcoin when the state allows me to pay my taxes in bitcoin.

Apropos of nothing:

https://www.coindesk.com/switzerlands-crypto-valley-has-star...

https://www.newsweek.com/miami-passes-resolution-allow-payin...
Are there any issues getting games off of the carts?
Web Components at Work
> Of course it is. Have you never heard of honor killings? Crimes of passion or revenge? Something can be a social consequence and also be a crime. No one is arguing that all social consequences must be legal, or should always be tolerable.

I understand your point, but I'm assuming that when people say "free speech doesn't mean freedom from Social Consequences", they're not talking about honor killings, and if they are that really takes the moral wind out of their sails.

> This is why I should stop trying to have political conversations on Hacker News, in the end, everyone just makes it personal.

Not making it personal; just following the logical breadcrumbs.

> I'm actually opposed to at-will employment and I support free speech, albeit not the absolutist definition of free speech that Hacker News seems to believe in.

It's not free speech if it's threatening, coercive, harassing, etc. If you're intimidating people into silence by showing that you can get people fired for wrongthink, that's inherently threatening and harassment. Cancel culture is decidedly not free speech.

It would be free speech if we strengthened employment protections such that the mob can "petition" your employer all they want, but your employment will remain secure. In that case, there's no threat or coercion, only persuasion. Of course, then cancel culture would go away because it was never actually about speech in the first place.

> And that's the rub - everyone wants to abridge the free speech rights of the "twitter mob" because of politics, but no one wants to address the fact that the only real power in "cancel culture" lies with the employer.

Raises hand. I don't want to abridge the free speech rights of the Twitter mob; I want to prevent employers from terminating people on account of Twitter mobs.
except Jews don't accept him. so you are the one that looks foolish.
Yeah, that one on polymathy, is my all-time favorite!
> business logic shouldn't be handling FileNotFoundException that was thrown 6 layers away

No, that's the job of whoever requests a file to be read. But what they may do in reaction to this, or discovering the file is empty, or has malformed data, is to throw a DataUnavailable exception, a subtype of RequestError. This is something appropriate places of the business logic up the stack may be interested in. Maybe some code few layers up the call stack can recover from DataUnavailable by attempting to pull from an alternate data source. Maybe not. Maybe that too will fail. Further up still, something else will intercept RequestError and report a problem to the user.

But, unlike with Result types, only those three places in this piece of business logic have to ever care about some file not being read. Everything else can just assume the operation succeeded.

Exception types follow the same rules as "regular" user-defined types: they're relevant in a subsection of a program, and shouldn't propagate beyond that subsection.
I love Airtable but not the monthly invoice that comes with it. Signed up for your email newsletter so please do remind me when you get further along. Things like csv export and all of the pending field types are a necessity before I could even consider switching even my most basic bases.
The problem is that way too much of stdlib declared no checked exceptions, which forced any useful code to smuggle them out wrapped, or just give up and stop declaring any. Generic types in particular need exception lists; I should be able to take a Function<T, R, X1, X2, ...> arg and imply that I throw whatever it throws.

Though nowadays I think maybe language support for monadic Result<T, X> is the way to go.
Australia has free education as well, and optional private education. University is paid but fairly reasonable, and there's a loan system, though it could be better imho.
i mean, even within institutions, it's usually just some person hacking away behind the scene. what else would it be?
How to Manifest Anything You Want and See Results Almost Overnight
Okay, but if I do this everywhere, then I de facto don't have memory safety. Why, then should I use Rust and pretend like I am getting memory safety? Why wouldn't I use a lower-friction language with a faster compiler?
It looks to me like the Rust community has this weird way of wanting to have its cake, and eat it too, about memory. Y'all want to advertise how important memory safety is, how great it is to have, and so forth. Then in cases like this, it's always "oh but you just use unsafe, it's fine". These stories are mutually inconsistent. Either you have memory safety or you don't. Paying the cost that Rust makes programmers pay for memory safety, and then not actually getting memory safety, is the worst of both worlds.

Then when you guys say I am making nonsense claims because of course you can have your cake and also eat it as long as you use the Rust programming language, well, it's just pretty weird at that point.
To me it seems like such a long period of time that it starts infringing on the employee's freedom.

What's the limit? Can you sign somebody up for 50 years of labor?
Nadia Eghbal's work and writing about this subject was eye opening for me.
Not sure. I already had an account.
I was hoping my caveat would cover exactly this. The parent comments were talking about Germany and Sweden, and I can promise they are not the only countries with decent driving.
many more people say the same thing about cocaine...

funny thing: cocaine is the better environmental choice among the two.

in its basic form it also naturally grows on planet Earth

factor in how much energy you burnt and you should be in jail for crimes against humanity
The software development world isn't dominated by fashions and fads.

The segment of the market that chases fashions and fads is dominated by fashions and fads. Most development is just using something old and boring like Postgres or MySQL or MSSQL or Oracle.

The problem for RethinkDB is that when you take out the fashions and fads segment and the old and boring segment, there's not much left.
Relevant: http://ccs.mit.edu/papers/CCSWP197/CCSWP197.html

Postel picked up the role of number coordinator because it needed to be done.
Optimism also isn't rent seeking with their own coin. All gas is still paid in ETH.
Today I came again across this poem ("Do not go gentle into that good night", by Dylan Thomas) that is relevant here -- it gives you a sense of the perspective of the opposite side from yours: https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night
It would allow flexibility for those who can manage their money successfully, and aren’t horribly unlucky. Unfortunately that population is relatively sparse - the monthly stipend is going to be funneled into the pockets of unscrupulous lenders as fast as you can say, “easy credit”. If it weren’t the US, with our habit of lifestyle inflation and tremendous consumer and educational debt, I’d be much more optimistic about it.

Would it be better than what we have now? Possibly! I’m fairly confident a real social safety net would be better. Or tight regulations around all that liquidity in the market, presumably pulled from elsewhere in the public coffers. At the end of the day it still sounds like wealth redistribution away from properly funded public works.
I see two main problems with the way the lesswrong-type people try to do Bayesianism as a life philosophy. The first is that claiming to be rational* and having "priors" and "updating" them instead of "beliefs" and "changing" them is humblebragging and doesn't admit that you have beliefs that might be wrong. Even if the original idea was to make you more humble, it's dangerous when it spreads to people like young male VCs and Elon Musk who already have the world's biggest egos.

The second is there's no way to set priors for silly ideas and they won't admit some things just ain't gonna happen, which means they've accidentally started a religion by refusing to not believe in various logic traps they call "existential risks" like Roko's basilisk, evil AI gods enslaving them, and so on.

* for some reason they call themselves rationalist which implies being "rational", aka "always right", even though they are explicitly not rationalist, but empiricist!
Right, I don't mean to downplay the severity of COVID at all. It's just interesting that we generally don't hear a lot about HIV/AIDS anymore, even though there were still 690,000 deaths associated with it in 2019.

I also realize that probably depends largely on where you live.
Presumably Jon Postel, who co-authored many RFCs foundational to the internet such as TCP, IP and DNS. As a single person he was very involved in the internet's architecture.
Despite shipping native Linux versions of quite a few titles, the GOG Galaxy client is still not supported on Linux (and both the client and API are closed, so no community port any time soon). That means no achievements, multiplayer matchmaking, cloud saves, update rollbacks, or game update notifications for Linux users (although the last one is do-able with the Lutris runner or Minigalaxy).
Work-from-Anywhere: The Productivity Effects of Geographic Flexibility [pdf]
>millions of people having such problems with motivation

Presumably the clicks are why such pointless articles continue to be written.
From his experiences i can see how he comes to his position but I think he could have come to other positions too.

He's right about kicking racists in the nuts. No qualification, just give them what they have coming.
Something like 65%. Locating and coordinating all entrepreneurs (thousands dispersed and not broadcasting a location) to attack the network would be highly unlikely and a bit of a tin foil hat scenario. If a 51% attack occurred it would need to be sustained and in the end would likely result in a fork of the chain.
I suggest to read the Adobe blogpost at https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2021/03/10/from-the-acr-te... instead. It has sample images side-by-side with bicubic upsampling.

Even better comparisons are in the blog post for a competing product: https://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2019/12/17/all-about-the-new... (likely the same algorithm, but using a different training set, so results will be different from what Adobes product does).

It has comparisons with nearest neighbor, bilinear and Lanczos filters and uses a slider to make it easier to see the difference.

Papers on this task: https://paperswithcode.com/task/image-super-resolution
It's the first time we have mRNA vaccines available, which makes it much easier to update / mix different variations of the virus than earlier technologies. The mass production is still not optimized, but at least the incentives are huge at this point.
They did all that before: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06840, but they could only fit a model with 13B weights on a single V100.
Anyone can harass your employer into firing you if you offend them because we have at-will employment (or more precisely, because we don't legally protect one's employment from cancel culture). Those aren't rival claims...

> Cancel culture is also a bad term because it isn't a culture.

No argument here, but I'm going to keep using it for lack of a more precise, widely-agreed-upon term.
The Memeatic Economy – a mimetic and meme driven market
Looking at how the economies are becoming both more memeatic and mimetic in herd internet behaviour.
I’m shocked they even settled. Probably they felt it was the cheapest action, but such a lawsuit feels quite predatory. An important legal concept is harms done, and as this Forbes article points out, there really weren’t any material harms done.

Now Tesla on the other hand, absolutely falls into the realm of material harms done…
>not broadcasting a location

How many ASICs are located in places that use a trivial amount of electricity that cannot be deduced to be a part of a mining operation?
Yeah, we use the kettle all the time, for quickly bringing water to the boil. Always for pasta. Sometimes for potatoes (though they are probably better gradually heated from cold).

A power boil option would be a decent alternative.

I'm probably just impatient, to be fair.
Maybe he has more urging matter than claiming this ? Thought about the paperwork and taxes handling ? Could you do that for him ?
Many government all of the word chose lockdown, thats prime example of not weighing cost benefit analysis.
Interesting. Mutations have their uses, but not all.

The increasing rates of Autism now are most likely the result of increasingly advanced maternal age for pregnancies.

Healthy BMI, cardiovascular fitness, and youth are some of the key factors to a healthy pregnancy.

Edit: I didn't mean to say that advanced maternal age is the "only" reason for autism. I was just quoting what I was taught to be one of the main factors for the increasing rates of autism. Some can argue it's increased testing, etc.
Ah yeah, makes sense. I would also imagine it needs unsafe, yeah.
There's always a relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/2347/
“Self-driving cars are already much safer than human-driven cars.”

Citation sorely needed. The few self driving cars currently on the road either require active human supervision or only operate in the absolute best circumstances so can’t be compared to human drivers who operate in all conditions and all types of vehicles.
+1 for what you said. I also think it's a reasonable opinion piece worth to be discussed. But, I think it may got flagged simply because it's (or part of it) kind of off-topic for HN.

What is more bizarre is that some comments here got down voted without answers even though they are relevant to the post. It's becoming a bit harder to talk about Bitcoin while we need to discuss it more than before. And these fanatic energies from Bitcoin lovers and haters don't help.
> So is Ethereum not going to PoS if miners say no?

Correct

> Every soft fork was voted on by miners. Developers provide the code, but it only activates with miner consent.

Again, it's the same process with Ethereum.

Not sure if this is just a misunderstanding or if you're reading something that says this isn't the case, but if it's the latter then I suggest taking a good hard look at continuing to use this source for information.
Workers not having a say regarding working conditions? Sounds like a recipe for poor morale and productivity.
The problem is getting those 5000/month accounts if nobody wants to use your product before they get there.
Systemd 248 RC3: systemd-oomd is now considered fully supported
This is very sad to hear.

Roy talked about the cancer in January: https://roy.marples.name/blog/posts/cancer/
I do not entirely understand how it works, but I think they allocated coins to users on GitHub based on certain metrics, and also reserved names in their system for the top 100k sites on Alexa.

It seems to be mostly automated/algorithmic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22504592
The choice isn’t between a touchscreen and a thousand knobs.

My current car, a random 5 year old sedan has about 4-5 knobs on the console I use- volume, heated seats, ac mode, temperature, and nav knob that rotates, pushes in, and pushed in 4 directions.

I can do all this without taking my eyes off the road.

I also have an 8 inch touchscreen that I never use because it’s too hard while driving.
Also see RFC 2468, written in remembrance of Jon Postel.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2468
If this was the intended use case Google would present it as a tool to enter a news article and it would show you all articles it believed were equivalent coverage. (i.e. what is now hidden behind "View Full Coverage" and without judgement about "Top Coverage" etc.)

Instead it is structured almost exactly like a newspaper front page, right down to the damn weather report.
I have only had issues with changing workspaces ("alt-tabbing" in other WMs) with games running through WINE. I've never experienced that with Proton.
I would just write "coming soon" and make it very clear. a tiny legend is going to be only marginally better, when it should be clear at the expense of slightly fancy looking.
Because literally the only step that's been taken in that direction is that Ethereum exists?
Convoluted, but comprehensible.
CA let landowners legislatively lock real estate(RE) revenue down with Prop13, even as the economy grew behind tech, AND steeper-than-avg regulation slowed construction. Choked supply and growing demand exploded prices. RE became a no-brainer for speculators. LOTS of CA land is held OUT of development ... likely because development is riskier than cashing in on the RE bidding wars. NO family sells CA land because _renting_ it is so profitable with demand insanely outstripping supply. Scott Weiner has repeatedly tried to get the legislature to a) relieve the economic stress on families, b) help the environment, by building greener, ESPECIALLY near public transit, to pay back the public investment in transit, and c) to densify, for the myriad of benefits. But the same right-wing segment who gave us Warren, and Reagan has protected the RE windfall to landowners even as exploding RE prices and the salary inflation that demands has pushed many hi-tech firms out of the state.

LOCAL construction costs, and the cost of everything else not easily transported, get pushed up by the RE cost hitting _everyone_ but the land OWNERS.

Complaints of complex, costly regulations are real; but the factors noted seem bigger.
AND ... factory-built processes reduce the per/unit cost of regulation by letting regulators approve factory PROCESSES instead of individual homes.
Nope,

https://hackaday.com/2018/08/07/even-the-playstation-2-cant-...
No, older hardware revisions of Switch have an unpatchable exploit that ensures games could be dumped using those no matter what Nintendo changes.
Trains solved this ages ago. More US cities should be investing in mass transit. Self-driving is a long tail problem because the number of things that can go wrong is infinite. Keeping the cars on tracks reduces the complexity substantially.
> the immune system has an array of other defenses... including antibodies that attack other parts of the virus, and, importantly, T-cells that attack the infected cells the virus hijacks in order to replicate. “What we’re seeing is that these variants don’t seem to affect T-cell immunity all that much and they [the T-cells] seem to be as effective in recognizing these variants as they do the original virus”

People with healthy immune systems, who have been exposed to SARS1 and other coronaviruses, have active T-cell defenses which recognize SARS-Cov-2 even without a vaccine.

> SARS-CoV-2 induces robust memory T cell responses in antibody-seronegative and antibody-seropositive individuals with asymptomatic or mild COVID-19, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.29.174888v1.... (June 2020)

> ..some people who have not been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 have preexisting reactivity to SARS-CoV-2 sequences ..previous exposure to widely circulating common cold coronaviruses might be involved .. preexisting reactivity against SARS-CoV-2 comes from memory T cells and that cross-reactive T cells can specifically recognize a SARS-CoV-2 epitope as well as the homologous epitope from a common cold coronavirus, https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6512/89 (Oct 2020)

Prior HN discussion on T-cells: https://hn.algolia.com/?prefix=true&query=t-cell
Agreed. Sometimes, it is exceedingly difficult to step outside your immediate emotional state to make rational decisions.

As a retired EMT, I have spent a lot of time helping people in extreme situations to elevate their consciousness above the immediate flood of input. I was not always successful, but the capability of the human brain to filter input is rather astounding.
A tool that requires "discipline" from its users is strictly worse than a tool that doesn't.

I want to be able to write code without having to be "disciplined" about how I access memory. Means I can be more "disciplined" about business logic.
for an 8 hour trip you might budget an hour lunchbreak anyways. so an hour full recharge time is manageable. if you are almost there already, you won't need a full charge to make it.
Sorry, what kind of machine learning is always-learning?

That can be how regular programming works (using live statistics), but ML is all about very expensive offline training, the model doesn't change as you execute it.
Some like to feel very superior about their tools.

But there's a huge variety of programmer personalities; different programmers like different things about programming. We tend to gravitate towards tools that fit our own personality.

The problem is thinking because you found the tool that's the perfect fit for you, and what you're trying to accomplish, that it's a superior tool in general.

I understand why some developers love LISP and think it's the greatest programming language ever. They wonder why nobody else would use a tool so powerful. But it's really not for me -- it's just not what I like about programming. I feel the same about pure functional languages. I've used them enough to understand the appeal. But for me, I find it constrains my creativity. I found the same with Test-driven-development. I can't just can't work by building the tests first -- and I tried. But I can imagine other programmer personality types find that TDD helps their creativity.
Its amazing the game we are going through just to avoid fixing the pension system (ie. reducing pension payments and increasing retirement ages to sustainable levels).
Yeah, you're right. The backup codes are a big pain, and kill the security of the account. (Like many others, I don't print those out... they're just in my password manager.) OTP backup is no less secure than that, and is a strong usability improvement.

Things would be way better if people just implemented WebAuthn, though. It's more secure than OTPs, and it's so transparent and easy to use that people think it's less secure. Passwords and OTPs should go away, and it's only a few lines of Javascript to make them go away. Sigh!
Isn't Google famous for long work hours and providing amenities to keep people at work longer?
I would think any workplace that had a standard 50+ hour work week is going to see a drop in productivity when moving to WFH. Left to their own devices, most people in that situation are going to work less.
Most things in life are subjective and cannot be reduced to graphs and other "empirical data". I learned this later in life than I should have, and since then I've spent time and effort building some of the mental circuits required to evaluate subjective experiences and arguments. Perhaps doing so may be useful to you as well.
Typically used to mean "sending you everything", e.g. the Twitter firehose used to be an API that sent you all of Twitter live. I suppose this would just mean your analytics get every news view.