skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was my reaction. It seems very similar (which makes sense, they're all using grammar of graphics style).

Vega Lite is very close to R's ggplot2, so we use it for our online science visualizations. The built in downloading svg/pngs built in is pretty awesome.

Vega-Lite it gets us 90% of the way there easily, the remaining 10% is always a struggle. Its well documented but sometimes lacks examples (In a side by side bar graph, how do I move the column heading to the bottom. (column->header->labelOrient: Bottom..)

We plot single cell experiment data (lots of points) and we find vegalite, very performant.

But We'll give this a look. The Javascript transforms seem nice.
> Maybe someone could start a company that made the equivalent of a battery with wheels for very cheap.

Those cars exist in India and China, but for some reason Americans don't want to buy them. It could be that outside of the techie bubble, nobody cares very much about this problem, and within the techie bubble, most people stop caring the moment that they can be the first person on their street to own a Tesla.
> "Android Studio 4.2 includes all the major features and updates found in IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2020.2"

And yet IntelliJ is at 2021.1. Does Android Studio always lag the IntelliJ releases like that?
The pattern I have seen is enjoying your 20s, then deciding to have a family, but not having a suitable partner, which leads to undesirable outcomes (desperate decisions, never finding a partner, disappointment of not engine up with kids, difficulty conceiving). This goes for men and women.

Another pattern is seeing people in their thirties finding it harder to adjust to the necessary changes because they have got accustomed to a lifestyle.
NOAA unveils new U.S. climate ‘normals’ that are warmer than ever
Some of it is lack of antitrust enforcement. Something that isn't mentioned much, though, is that business IT technology reached the point that planetary-scale companies work well. Until the 1980s or so, big companies had scaling problems. Big companies developed huge internal paperwork operations, huge headquarters staffs, too much middle management, and were choking on their own operating problems. There were inherent limits on bigness, beyond those imposed by the cost of transportation. The classic example was General Motors, which had a long history of management problems from sheer scale.

That's been fixed. Amazon, Google, WalMart, Alibaba, etc. have worldwide operations without major scaling problems. Those companies can adapt and change reasonably rapidly. The knowledge of how to do this is widespread. This is new. An inherent limit on bigness has been eliminated.
There's lack of supply of some rare blood types[1]. Also relevant to point out, if you go donating blood don't just go after some disaster hits. It's a common occurrence that tons of people show up for blood donations after some tragedy hits but blood can only be stored a limited amount of time and it tends to be wasted. If you want to donate, go regularly.

[1]https://www.blood.co.uk/news-and-campaigns/the-donor-magazin...
What is the strawman? What is the whataboutism? I'm talking directly about your statement:

"No one sane opposes racial equality, conservative or liberal."

Tucker Carlson, one of the most popular "conservatives", opposes racial equality and promotes white supremacy. You can call him "not sane" if you want, but he has millions of viewers every day and his views are absolutely mainstream Republicanism in 2021. There are zero Republican voters or public figures who disagree with Carlson or condemn him.

So which is it, are almost all Republicans actually "insane", or are almost all Republicans against racial equality?
> why practically I would prefer this over a computational solution?

The camera lens has a bunch more information to work with in terms of depth. Along the same lines, an iPhone can fake bokeh by applying a filter masked by depth information, but it's not really in the same league as the real optical effect you get from a real lens in the field. (In terms of responsiveness and the quality of detail that's captured.)

OTOH, as much as I think legitimate optical effects can be useful/special at capture time, I have limited use for computational effects at capture time. As long as the 'digital negative' has all the information, I'd much rather be able to apply the computational effect later. (This is an advantage of digital techniques - you can adjust them later.)
‘Mother Trees’ Are Intelligent: They Learn and Remember
Your reading would be an unreasonable stretch, as I explicitly acknowledge in my comment that for a random person,

> it may or may not be true that being in a (good) relationship would make them happier.

I don't know if person XYZ would be happier single in a relationship, and I don't have an opinion on it. Everyone should be free to do what they want, whether or not it makes them happy, and I don't care either way. What I was disagreeing with were your implications that (1) just because some people are single and unhappy, nobody can talk about how good and happy relationships can be, and (2) talking about being in a happy relationship is "dogpiling" on unhappy, single people. To take your wording, there's no reason to use unhappiness as a reason to shut down conversation
Granted, but also haven’t we done this: https://corephotonics.com/products/digital-bokeh/
Maybe on full moons?
Jetpack Compose subsumes many of those and in a very elegant, coherent way, much like Swift UI, but IMHO better because it's based on pure composable functions.
The UML was designed to be a language for just visualizing and reasoning
Especially with the shit microcontrollers they put into the toyota mid range cars and their lack of responsiveness. Really forces you to look at the screen when you fidget with it.
> The world feels totally dead, so it doesn't scratch any itch of mine like a GTA game does. The world is pretty, yes, but it doesn't feel alive, and the poor mechanics make it hard to cover that gap. If they'd nailed the gameplay loop I would at very least approach it like the way I approach most Assassin's creed games, basically a historical-experience to wander around in.

I must have missed the GTA game where the world "feels alive" in a way CP77's doesn't. They obviously have more fleshed-out systems (more interesting NPC drivers, wanted levels, etc.)—and they'd better, since they've been making open-world city games for over two decades IIRC—but for me those worlds always failed to feel lived-in. I actually remember remarking to a friend how much more alive and lived-in the CP77 world felt to me than GTA games, which I put down to the level of detail in the art.

I guess I'm over being impressed by scripted NPC activities (e.g. coach robberies in RDR) because they don't do anything for me narratively and in interacting with them they tend to draw attention to just how shallow the game world is compared to the real thing. CP77 is definitely light on this sort of thing, and that's a fair criticism, but it's also not one everybody is going to care about.

It also helps if you don't constantly butt your head up against the limitations of the game. I can't read the incessant whining about the wanted system being underdeveloped without rolling my eyes and thinking dude, it is what it is, enjoy the game for its strengths or put it down and walk away.

This is, of course, subjective. Different people like different things about games. But I see these same complaints echoed ad nauseam in pretty much the exact same form that I can't help but think there's an echo chamber effect at work.

> I was excited at the beginnings of the story, specifically I was interested in a depiction of the corpo side of things, but this was not to be.

See also: not being interested in the kind of game it is.

Given the general standards of modern AAA video game storytelling, I don't really know how else to read this. I didn't go in with any particular expectations, but I wasn't disappointed.

> As an RPG? Fallout New Vegas set the bar 11 years ago now.

Yes, 11 years ago, and I think people look back on it with rose-tinted glasses. It is not the next-gen paradigm shift people seem to have been expecting out of CP77. CDPR was obviously trying to balance a lot of competing ambitions, and the result of that is a game that's necessarily quite different from New Vegas.

People who want to play New Vegas forever should go play New Vegas forever. I hear it has an active modding community.
It's the same for iOS. But, I'm also guilty, most users configure their bluetooth while leaving the parking lot. If you're reading the request you aren't looking at the road, and vice versa. I've been quick to press OK before fully reading what the car is asking simply because the car and the phone are asking similar questions.
Had a chuckle that the local Asda (owned by Walmart until late last year) might be considered upmarket!

They have cod goujons, and they are indeed respectably artful in their irregular shape.
"Deleting" is probably not good enough in modern devices with cheap copious storage.
> Everyone should be able to find the "joy" of math.

There's the key difference in approach. Everyone should be able to, but not everyone will. Some people find joy in it, some people find it deathly boring. Some people are fabulous at it, some couldn't do it literally when their livelyhoods - and sometimes lives - depend on it. One approach is to enable those who benefit from it - and give those who do not something else, more fit to them. Each person get their equal sets of chances, but not everyone would take them, and not everyone will succeed.

Another - the "equity" - approach says everybody should have exactly the same result, whatever it costs. If somebody would benefit from a very deep math education, but others would not - nobody gets a deep math education, in order for nobody to be "left behind". Under the guise of "diversity and inclusion", the actual diversity - diversity of interests, capabilities and skills - gets suppressed, while enforced equality of the lowest common denominator replaces it.

The results of it would be disastrous. Lowest common denominator would never enable students that don't like math, but it would disable ones that could.
Go work somewhere else
My work is in IP cameras so I'm aware of these tradeoffs.

I guess what I didn't expect is that Google could design their own encoder IP to beat the current offerings with a big factor at the task of general video coding. I guessed that Google actually built an ASIC with customised IPs from some other vendor.

But maybe Google did do just that?
Because the governance structures of DAOs will be open source smart contracts they will be, in theory, easier to iterate upon and improve.
Every country does that because there's a big circle around power plants that is in danger if something goes wrong. So as much as possible of that area preferably either be the sea or someone elses territory.
Those rules are radically different depending on state or country (dunno if non-US countries mess with automotive rules depending on region).
There were some firms like IBM who, I'm told, had massive competitive analysis teams including doing tear-downs, etc. We were actually a fairly large company (Data General) and we still didn't do a lot beyond talking with analysts who had mostly never touched the physical product--and customers of course. This was also a period when people went to events like Comdex and returned with literally a box (or boxes) full of paper.
I'm about to start a project to move off of webflow. Here are my complaints, do with them what you will :)

Something got pushed to production a while back that should very much not have been on the production website because of a broken workflow I had with a contractor. I didn't realize it did and it ended up blowing up in my face badly. I want to remove his ability to push to his work out or have me be a final approver, bu that's not possible. In fact, there are no levels of permission and anyone will always publish all changes not matter what. I want to be able to colab in real-time, publish per change, and manage users permissions to do things on the platform.

Another thing, that would actually solve the first thing, is integration to Github. If I could have my designer push a PR to GH I would be able to see the changes he was making and accept or reject them, right now I have no idea what changes are being made. He could point me to one thing and have changed a bunch of others. I also don't love the webflow hosting, it's not that performant. I'd much rather have a colab tool and manage my own infra. I know there is a code download feature, but downloading a zip, adding it to git every time is a heavy lift. I like being able to make little changes here and there.

I'd like to be able to write more custom code and add JS libs (looks like you have this one already, so cheers). I saw someone suggesting you host your own JS on a CDN and then call it in the header, but I don't like introducing outside dependencies unless I absolutely have to, I would rather host all of my JS with my other static content.

One last thing. I want markdown support for the blog. Our blog is technical and I've had to do some very hacky things to get code blocks in there.
Multitasking adds more stress and in my experience also leads to burnout a lot quicker. It also makes more errors which makes it counter-productive in a lot of cases.
Will i be able to buy Manhattan soon?
And referrals for top management do the same. Why are we talking about something applicable to maybe 0.00001% of candidates out there?
In my experience (granted, that is limited to a dozen or so districts in two states), they used to focus on the top end students because a) they were well-connected compared to their peers, b) they came from the higher income (and therefore higher property-tax) portions of the district and were therefore more well connected to local funding source, and c) had parents that were savvy enough of systems such as education to advocate strongly for their children.

>ideally, every student should have a roughly equal amount of attention and dollars allocated to them and if a school is underfunded, everyone suffers until the problem is remediated.

The problem is that this is sort of what happens right now, and it's not great. The current funding scheme relies disproportionately on local property taxes, which only serves to exacerbate the effects of inequality. The current system is a warehouse for student bodies, with oversize classes, underfunded supplies, underpaid teachers, and too many unfunded mandates.

Ideally, we figure out funding (that's way above my pay grade), and then we can move on to cross-ability grouping. Seriously, it's just a fact that high achievers learn much better when they are left to (roughly) their own devices, with guidance and outlines for progress as appropriate. Low achievers learn better when they are led through the process by someone who can put the language in terms they can understand; ideally with support outside of the teacher, such as from peers (look up supplemental instruction for a model in there). Middle achievers will consistently live up to the exact expectation you place on them; so they need a system and environment that places increasingly more strenuous expectations on them, both socially and educationally.

Combine all of that, and you have a wonderful cross-age, cross-ability classroom focused on social development as well as academics. The ability to specialize for various fields such as STEM, art, or technical education is just built in, as well!

If anyone is interested in funding my charter school idea - it's a neighborhood based one-room-schoolhouse model where education and learning are led by the abilities and desires of the students. Much free time, much outdoor time, and incorporating everything in the above paragraph. Completely unrealistic for public schooling in the united states due to the inordinate per pupil cost. But just a lovely idea.
And yet, hitting 'next track' on the bluetooth audio still takes 1-2 seconds to register?
I'm really enjoying caddy lately. So simple and elegant to work with.
Why do some Muslim-majority countries support China’s crackdown on Muslims?
I assume that was the whole reason for wording the title like that
Did you even read the article because it literally listed point by point. All the shady shit the Gates and Melinda Foundation do. I guess you think its ok for for a giant foundation to pay off journalists and control pharmaceutical patents? Or fund private businesses breaking into foreign countries?
Damn, I wanted to link Lytro's website but they shut down ? :(
wow, thank you! I did not know this. It will be very useful!
> restoring whales population to their pre-industrial levels could have the same effect as planting several billion trees.

I would like to see the maths on that :D Whales usually don't create their own microclimate or provide a habit for a number of species. They also don't rebuild and support topsoil, can't be harvested for fibres and are not very suitable as building materials.

In other words, trees are more versatile than whales.
Isn't gym class already at the end-point of removing rigor?
It's generally not separated into tracks by ability, it's widely regarded as easy filler, and anybody with any serious interest in athletics does their real training outside of class. It's less "Why stop at math?" than "Please stop at gym!"
Not so much. OSI actually sucked. You had to pay to read the specs. Their stream protocol (CLNS) was a straight copy of TCP. There was no defined API (see: BSD Sockets). The layers were arbitrary, following Conway's Law vs the number of committees in the ISO organization. In addition as you note there was no interop and production deployment was rare.
I saw the gatekeeper comment as being more related to the natural processes of diamorphic species. Take for example your statement below. This very much implies a "gate" and that women are making choices to keep that gate closed for some men. Just because a person is not entitled to what is behind that gate, doesn't make that gate less real. If anything, it enforces the analogy in the fact that gates do exist in real life to keep out those who are not entitled to what lies beyond them.

"Incels mistakenly think that the bedroom is one of these places, and that they are entitled to an equal amount of sexual attention as some other man."
It's Microsoft Access for the web.
1. Buy two of those lenses, modify one to cause this effect. 2. Take tens of thousands (possibly orders of magnitude more, possibly less) of photographs of the exact same scene with near identical lighting conditions.
3. Use both sets to train a deep learning algorithm to take input photographs and produce the same output.
4. Grow dataset until reached desired look for general input photograph.
You joke but thats what happened with Tensorflow at Google. Everyone wanted a "contributed to tensorflow" on their resume
Does it work natively on Apple M1?
I don't see a reason to think that Ethereum is definitely like tcp/ip rather than e.g. like operating systems, social networks, browsers, programming languages etc.

Ethereum is the best bet for the leader in the space (it already is) but some of the competitors bet on having different paradigms with different advantages rather than just lower fees e.g. ADA or SOL, and I don't see a reason for certainty that there'd be only 1 big success even if it's possible.
Are there companies hiring software devs outside their own country?
I live in a small country with relatively few prospects for developers with 3+ yrs experience. Employers here rather take advantage of the situation to create some pretty toxic workplaces.

So I'm looking for a job working remotely for a US or European company but I'm seeing a lot of remote jobs advertised solely for specific countries, which is fair enough. I get that the tax and employment situation must be pretty hairy if they venture outside their borders.

Does anyone know of reputable companies hiring contractors from overseas?

Any other words of advice that occur to people would be appreciated too.
How we managed to directly swap EUR with BTC using Atomic Swaps/HTLCs
The new U.S. Climate Normals are here
I've been using D3 for charts for a while. I'm not a power-user by any means, but I understand it enough to make basic plots.

When would I use this instead of straight D3?
It's not from a single image.
Doesn't this just imply that the cost function is over simplistic rather than there is "no single absolute optimum"? E.g., maybe a more appropriate cost function factors in both resilience and efficiency.

It reminds me of working a scheduling problem that failed to factor in union concerns. It was a bad solution because it didn't factor in all the dimensions of the actual problem and only originally concerned itself with "management's" cost concerns, not the "union's" cost concerns.

Tbf, I never finished "Antifragile" as I felt like it just kept going over the same concept from different angles without introducing anything new after the first 50 or so pages.
Which movie clip via what media? I'd maybe believe you if it was on DVD/Bluray or such, but not when it were online somewhere/somehow, because everything there is subject to change without notice.
> > Jewelry that is neither expensive nor rare stops being jewelry.
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> Costume jewelry is usually neither expensive nor rare, and yet it remains popular with certain demographics.

Okay, let me clarify: Jewelry that is neither expensive nor rare stops being jewelry, it becomes costume jewelry.
"Imply knowledge of personally identifiable or sensitive information" That's golden. It's perfectly okay to track users and collect their personally identifiable or sensitive information, and to serve them targeted ads based on it, but you must never let them know you're doing so.
"Fine jewelry" and "fashion jewelry" are the category names, typically.
Does rr work on AMD (Zen 1/2/3) CPUs yet? I remember that being a major issue the last time I looked at it.

edit - only very recently (sep. 2020), and it's still experimental: https://github.com/rr-debugger/rr/wiki/Zen
This is actually probably more useful for video. Many story lines contain a dream outer world sequence. Or just a romantic interlude of a flower. Lots of applications, this could be use to create a certain feelings and emotions.
The DAO Apple would vote to make iPhones with replaceable batteries, which as we all know, is what the market actually wants.
It is an interesting question, but what would outperforming Apple look like? and on what timescale?

Is it being more profitable? Having happier workers? Making the sleekest shiny things? And are we thinking for the next year or the next hundred years?

Decentralized organisations seem (to me) to be prioritising resilience over efficiency. This seems like a long game.
But perhaps shared ownership and pseudonymous employment will appeal to people. And perhaps sourcing workers anywhere in the world will lead to quick contacts building and fast deployment too. Or it could get caught up in bureaucracy, but then we can just fork the daos and vampire attack them!

There is a lot a vague murkyness in national law as to who is responsible/where is tax payed/what is it, but the idea of being able to click a button and i have a borderless organisation with voting systems and memberships all ready to go to anyone who wants to join in is pretty exciting. Think of the crazy possibilities of collisions happening, people to meet, ideas to be generated. If we increase the speed at which people, ideas, and capital can come together that can be explosive (and that could be good or bad). We can have groups of strangers round the world seeding startups of anonymous teenagers writing code after school, before the university lecturers and vcs ever get to them. Thats radical and revolutionary.
DAOs are the most exciting thing going in crypto imo.