skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you consider that extinction events are cyclical and correlate with our solar system's oscillation through the galactic middle plane, you can bet life on this planet will get wiped out again and there's little we can do about it. The question is: how much time do we have left? (My guess is 20-30M years.)
I never understood what is so good about the track point. I tried it, I am 3 times slower than with the trackpad. I overshoot, or move to slow, or I need to do micro adjustments, what do you use it for?
> Final numbers could vary by up to 0.5% or more.
> But nobody knows why the issue occurs

Sure we do. Photography itself has a racial bias. [0] Different skin tones produce different levels of detail, and it has been an uphill battle to be able to capture those details since the advent of photography.

So long as facial recognition relies on photography, and photography is flawed, then every dataset is biased. Which will exacerbate the bias of the AI, which already has its own set of problems from where those datasets are formed.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/lens/sarah-lewis-racial-b...
Dev team watching QA test
...so does zsh with vim mode turned on :P
FDA Authorizes First Covid-19 Tests for Repeat, At-Home Screening
Everyone keeps saying, "There are so many good things about WFH". Ya, good for you. People who make these decisions don't care what's good for you. "But I'm more productive when I'm happy" you say. They don't care how productive you are. They care how profitable you are with is the ratio of how productive you are to how much you cost. If they can hire three miserable people to do what you do at one fifth the cost they'll do it. You being a happy is incidental to what they're doing.

"But they don't have to pay for office space". Sure, but you're totally discounting the amount of power that they gain by having control of your physical body. I get to tell you where to be, when to be there, and what to do. I have cameras and badges to verify you're there. You're also physically close so you're buying a house with a mortgage, putting your kids in school. If I fire you your only choice is something within a 100mi radius. I'm a member of local business groups so there's a good chance I know where you're going and maybe even play golf with the companies CEO. You better not burn any bridges on your way out or I might shake my head and make a face when I mention your name on the back nine.

I guarantee you that some people will be allowed to work from home. Others won't. Right now they're busily working to determine which ones those will be where it's best for them. The outcome will be you'll always get the worst deal. The ones that are fungible and I can cut costs to the bone? Sure work from home. The ones that I need a little more leverage with? You're coming into the office. I'll even buy a foosball table and put some snacks in the kitchen if it makes you feel better.

I don't really give a shit if you go across town. They take my people, I take yours. The point is your ours and we trade you as we see fit. Think I'm being dramatic. Think again https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/24/apple-goo...
fzf could in theory be used for this
If you don't enjoy haggling, you can just pay sticker price. Tesla eliminated haggling by simply not allowing you to pay anything different than sticker price, so I don't see how this is a plus.
Wow thanks for pointing out that no one is irreplaceable. That’s so deep.
"These suffice to let the speaker know how exactly to say the word unlike in English where it has to be learned case by case based on whatever is popular or acceptable pronunciation."

This is more due to how widespread English is, and how vowels/pronunciation have shifted over time. For example, The Great Vowel Shift. [0]

Korean has exactly the same issues, albeit to a smaller degree. There are plenty of words that aren't pronounced like how they're spelled, due to grammatical rules. 종로 as an example. Or cases where words sound exactly the same and you just need to know the context/spelling- 쫗다, 쫒다, 쫃다, 쫏다, 쫓다.

Then there's regional slang/pronunciation/dialect. Busan dialect is fairly different from 표준어, or the "official" standard language. This phenomenon is not unique to English in any way. Any language scaled up will develop these issues over time.

At least you can try to pronounce "cough" or "종로", instead of not being able to pronounce "願" at all because you don't already know the pronunciation.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
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>Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Continues to Advance Over-the Counter and Other Screening Test Development

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavi...
As I age, I realize the importance of it based on people I know.

I am pondering two things at the moment.

(1) how to introduce high contrast for important details. There is a lot of cosmetic noise in board games, and I'm looking at how to rendering JSON into an image. What annotations can guide this rendering such that important details are more obvious.

(2) of what I'm looking at, what is the (a) important stuff right now and (2) what happened. If I can make it easy to describe the picture with words, then not only can I solve the problem for blind people but I can bring home assistants into the picture.

For (2), I can solve (a) easy enough. For (b), I'm still sorting that out since I am playing with my hands behind my back. Like, I can describe things as "cards entered your hand" or "cards left your hand", but I'm struggling to figure out how to distinguish between "you got two cards from the deck" versus "you took a card from Zem into your hand". Similarly, I'm having the same problem as "you trashed a card" versus "you discarded a card", and I'm struggling with the in-between for animation. The core reason for this problem is that the client just sees an array changing in elements, and I don't know the origin or destination for those elements. My hope is that if I can solve this, then I get both the change-log and animation within a unified idea.
That's correct; what I mean is that in cases like these you are not allowed to sit on the fence. Orgs like FSF, Red Hat/IBM, GCC SC are under enormous pressure. They are being told that if they do nothing then it basically means they are supporting Stallman ("the defender of Epstein!" "pedophile apologist!"). So in a way they have no choice, they have to give in.

Frankly, I've seen in my life several "coups" like this. There is a great rage, people feel fed up and overthrow the leader. There is a moment of excitement, then the dust settles and what remains is a bland void. The enthusiasm disappears, it turns out that charisma is not easy to replace, and the whole projects slowly withers into total insignificance.
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The statistics link in a sibling comment says Danes consume most among the nordics.
A Wild Adventure with GPT-3
True. I was thinking in the context of software deployments where environment variables are commonly used as read-only configuration values once the deployment is made.
Holy false equivalences batman!

You can find 999 doctors who help and 1 bad apple who prescribes Oxy willy-nilly. That doesn't mean you trust them all equally, that means that trusting doctors works out pretty well 99.9% of the time, which are good odds and WAY better odds then every idiot out there trying to figure out medicine on their own and/or listening to random talking heads (which has a WAY lower hit rate).

Once you just focus on general policies that lead to better outcomes, and everyone stops thinking they are so exceptional that they can become an expert in all fields, then recognizing true expertise and following its advice becomes an obviously more generally optimal path.
Haha why? If you wife/kids care about like 4-5 days that's kinda ridic.
A) monitors do report physical size to the OS!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Display_Identificatio...
> 21 Horizontal screen size, in centimetres (range 1–255). If vertical screen size is 0, landscape aspect ratio (range 1.00–3.54), datavalue = (AR×100) − 99 (example: 16:9, 79; 4:3, 34.)
> 22 Vertical screen size, in centimetres. If horizontal screen size is 0, portrait aspect ratio (range 0.28–0.99), datavalue = (100/AR) − 99 (example: 9:16, 79; 3:4, 34.) If either byte is 0, screen size and aspect ratio are undefined (e.g. projector)

This is not perfect of course, may be defeated by cheap adapters, KVM switches, splitters that send image to 2 monitors, etc... And projectors can't know the projected size. More importantly, people sit far from a projector screen; absolute size is not very meaningful without knowing how far away people sit!

You're right that a window spanning multiple monitors has mixed physical size, but that's an edge case that doesn't invalidate taking physical size into account as a goal.
Some OSes do re-scale UI when a window fully moves into a monitor with different scaling.
I'm glad you had a good experience, but the one car I've bought from a dealer was the typical horrible sales experience -- long negotiation, then making me wait forever, then they put the wrong price on the contract and apologize for their "mistake" when I point it out.
This is probably the most stupid advice I can ever give someone so be warned. But for me it went away when I started to work with my laptop actually on my LAP, ut improved tons and just upright in a chair, no table whatsoever. Got a bit of neck pain in return but that was easier to deal with. My current theory is that it my arms were actually resting mostly on my knees with no actual kink in the wrist. the laptop a little further out on the knees tho. I have an air so its already pretty slim.

I dont use a mouse.

For me the arms where just in total relaxed position this way,
but its probably the opposite what people advice :|
VW has the ID.3 and ID.4 in Europe, which are fairly successful.
I can't speak for Svalbard specifically, but Norway in general has a long history of heavily taxing and regulating alcohol.

Alcohol stronger than beer can only be purchased at the state-run "wine monopoly", alcohol percentage stronger than 60% classified as narcotics and illegal, opening hours for alcohol sale (beer included) are mandated to be much shorter than for stores in general, no alcohol sales allowed on public holidays, Sundays or Saturdays after 3pm/6pm (wine+ and beer, respectively), etc.

Culturally, you can trace this back to the Protestant Christian heritage, where excessive alcohol consumption was considered both sinful and destructive. I'm certain there was something to the heavily negative view on the health- and socioeconomic effects of alcohol at the time (combined with poverty, hunger, cold, dark winters, isolation and the need for cooperating to thrive in such a climate), so I don't think it just boils down to unsubstantiated religious feelings.

There is still consensus that this is a good way of doing things, although the minority Christian conservative political wing are loudest about it.
Tom Nichols and his most of his expert friends advocated for the Iraq War and faced zero consequences for doing so. I think if we want to really understand waning trust in the ruling class we could do worse than start there.
I have a feeling the Mach-E sales will ramp up a lot more. The reviews are generally good and Ford EVs, for now, qualify for the tax credit.
A joint WHO-China study of Covid-19’s origins leaves much unclear
CIA plot to destroy open source software. Fake accusations will continue to be made by agents who are being paid to do so. Eventually when all the old guard has been removed everything will be corporatized and the GPL will be rescinded on all open source projects converting them to closed source capitalist piggy oink oink projects.
Put Down the Destructuring Hammer
Probably they mean spoken English, rather than written English. Written languages are traditionally considered secondary to spoken ones in linguistics, perhaps because they tend to be acquired several years later in childhood and several millennia† later in history. English is normally considered to have about 13–15 vowels, if we exclude the rhotics, depending on dialect: TRAP BATH PALM LOT CLOTH THOUGHT KIT DRESS STRUT FOOT FACE GOAT FLEECE GOOSE PRICE CHOICE MOUTH COMMA LETTER HAPPY, in Wells's standard lexical sets.

But, you say, that's 20 lexical sets, not 13–15? Well, no dialect distinguishes all 20. My idiolect (a slight variant of General American) realizes TRAP and BATH as [æ], PALM and LOT as [a], CLOTH and THOUGHT as [ɔ], KIT as [ɪ], DRESS as [ɛ], STRUT as [ʌ], FOOT as [ʊ], FACE as [ei], GOAT as [ʌu], FLEECE and HAPPY as [i], GOOSE as [u], PRICE as [ai], CHOICE as [ɔi], MOUTH as [æu], and COMMA as [ə]. That's 15, or 12 if you leave out PRICE, CHOICE, and MOUTH, which are diphthongs made of vowels that also occur isolated. (GOAT is debatable, usually analyzed as [oʊ] or [ou].)

Different dialects draw the boundaries in different places; for example, dialects with the "trap–bath split", such as RP, famously realize TRAP and BATH differently ([æ] and [a] in RP). Some dialects have fewer vowels; if we consider Indian English to be a single dialect, it may have more speakers than even GA, and most varieties of Indian English have fewer vowels than 12. I haven't found a good phonological analysis, but if you know any Indian English speakers and also know phonology, you know what I mean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_differences_and_diale... goes into some detail.

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† The historical gap might be much larger than this.
Sumerian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs date back about 5300 years, and they provide evidence that spoken language was considered to be universal among humans at the time—there is no suggestion of tribes that lacked language anywhere in the written record. Today there are still peoples without written language, and a few who only acquired written language within the last generation. So we have good evidence that it has taken at least 5300 years.
But Homo sapiens has been around for sixty times that long, over 300 millennia, and stone tools date back 2 million years. It strains credibility to imagine that the authors of the Lascaux cave paintings or the Denisovans who invented sewing were so unlike us as to lack speech; the origin of spoken language is usually dated to before 40kya. Unfortunately, no tape recorders have yet been found from that epoch, so the uncertainty of the antiquity of spoken language ranges over nearly a factor of 100. Maybe spoken language is a million years older than written language, or five million. Probably not ten million, though, or we'd be studying chimpanzee folklore.
I've actually looked in to IPA at one point. It is extremely useful when learning the basics of a new language. It would be very tedious to try to look up every new word you come across though. Alas, the worst part is that you don't know which words are pronounced differently than you assumed until you hear it or someone raises their eyebrows.
My wife has asked to replace the gas minivan with a Model Y (we have a model 3), and I've refused because I want the safety margin of a EV and a gasoline vehicle. That said, I really don't like driving the van, and it feels like a chore to be driving somewhere and not being able to click down twice and activate autopilot.
The problem is engineers look at this like engineers and make assumptions and decisions based on the objectives given and their toolkit. When you hire an ASHRAE certified engineer, he’s going to be all about HVAC, based on whatever the architect produced.

Usually that means a focus on less energy usage. That frequently doesn’t align with lower cost or optimal solution. For example, buying a 95% efficient boiler for my home would cost significantly more over its useful life when you account for capital costs, retrofit for exhaust, and operational/maintenance expense (efficient units require annual inspection and maintenance via service contract). 80% results in more fuel consumption, but significant lower TCO.

In commercial or larger buildings, the obsession with sealing windows introduces lots of waste. The cost of more heating efficiency is more A/C days.

Also, the practices around construction have changed, driven partially by “efficiency” to build boxes with no passive ventilation. If you go into a well-designed circa 1910 building like a school, office and other inhabited spaces had higher ceilings, higher windows, etc that permitted passive ventilation. My house in upstate NY is like this... we use air conditioning for <20 days a year, and our extra heating costs are negligible. My neighbor’s circa 1995 house is a modern series of interconnected boxes — they have to run AC from June-September because there is no effective ventilation.
Then proprietary software must surely be a pianola (a player piano that plays automatically): it plays alone, but it is always the same song and you cannot change a note.
yeah. you will see the first time you get fired from a job. they will surely give you a valid reason that make sense without any hidden agenda. Or maybe they will ask your colleagues and investigate to find anything they can use against you to remove you, call you toxic and make it a day
so they definitely happened concurrently

Do we know for sure that the volcanism in the Deccan traps wasn't caused/triggered by the asteroid impact? I know they're pretty much located at the opposite ends of the world, so could the shockwaves from the initial impact have created an amplified node at the other side?

(edit: wikipedia[0] says it's inconclusive:

> Although the Deccan Traps began erupting well before the impact, [..] the impact may have caused an increase in permeability that allowed magma to reach the surface and produced the most voluminous flows, accounting for around 70% of the volume

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_traps#Chicxulub_crater
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I also realized that I should have mention that I'm not sure you could always identify which tasks were the checks you were looking for

For that scenario you mentioned, you'd not get any more tasks, as projects have limits on how many tasks they send out to people with tasks in progress. If you tried to spoof a bunch of hosts, they would see a very suspicious account that has a ton of tasks in progress but almost none completed. If you were spoofing users, I think the project would notice that half of their tasks are running way longer than normal all of a sudden or at least creeping that way if done slowly. Projects could make the tasks deadlines tighter and then make it harder for someone to try to hoard tasks. As well if you were running in virtual machines or something like that, they could tell that suddenly they have way more VMs "running" tasks and limit and even abort tasks just for those. If you try to spoof as a real machine, then you can look at IP addresses, etc. Having to do all that ends up taking more and more work try to do. If you have actual hardware running it, well that's fairy similar to having a large amount of processing power, and they could still limit the deadlines and all. You'd still have to compete against the other tens of thousands of users getting tasks on the project meaning that the project would have to see a massive increase in hosts and users on the project.

As well, if you were trying to earn Gridcoin for all that and were spoofing users, you'd also have to be creating tens of thousands of beacons (tie BOINC accounts to Gridcoin rewards) which need for each user which cost 0.5 GRC each plus transaction fees, and those beacons take some time to verify which would give the projects a chance to stop it if they see it before you ever got any Gridcoin. You'd also have to stake on each account
which would take a while and likely require a really really high balance to try to pull anything like that off and earn much

Lastly some project have a literal either a very high number or some cases an infinite amount of tasks possible like some of the mathematical projects, so most of your tasks would not be the checks you'd be hoping to have
> Now downvote me, believers! I'll die before I adopt this racist godless faith

A very brave stance to take ... for a 22 minute old throwaway account.
For individuals, a lot of it comes down to how you value your time.

The snowblower was not free, you just paid in time rather than money.
tmux's keyboard copy is rather intuitive... If you know emacs.
Could mean users are mostly low IQ and will die early.
> I want the safety margin of a EV and a gasoline vehicle

If you have a moment, can you expand on that? My first thoughts when reading 'safety margin' here are either driving range or crash safety? Thanks!
> Volkswagen sold 134000 EVs in 2020

Does this number include all their plug in hybrids? I find it very hard to believe they sold that many E-trons and Golf-E's. Do they have other electric vehicles I don't know about?
I don't think this is fair. Other than after some updates FF opens a new tab talking about new features, I haven't seen much. Do we have different settings?
VW plans to produce 1.5 million EVs per year ~in their Zwickau plant~ worldwide from 2025 onwards. They are also evaluating more plants to switch to full EV production.

Tesla expects to make 500.000 cars per year in their German plant they are currently building.

Edit: 330.00 in Zwickau, 1.5 million world-wide.
I don't assume that it does, but the performance issues with Electron are widely acknowledged, as is the the fact that MS seems to have done a great job with VSC despite that.
please explain to us where it stops. For instance lets say I find it toxic to use comma in sentences. how many people do I need to find that agree with me on this before I can ban you from hacker news for toxicity?
Rock, Paper and Scissors Game in Python
This is true of your primary worry is nation states. If your primary worry is criminals/domestic partners/employers, this isn't the case. You can't give security advice without considering what you're protecting against.

Edit: your linked article says nothing about icloud