skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is why it's just not possible (or at least super difficult) to replicate the look of a CRT on a modern LCD. On a CRT it's firing an electron gun at one point on the screen which burns searingly bright, while the rest of the screen is fading out and between the scanlines it's perpetually dark.

Your brain somehow turns that mess into a surprisingly coherent image, especially if it's animated, to the point I remember lots of people comparing 1080P LCD TVs in the store back when they came out to their old CRTs at home and asking, "is it really any better? I can't tell". (I still think they all needed glasses, but there were a LOT of people talking like that!)

Maybe someday we'll be able to emulate the whole effect with fast enough, bright enough, LED/LCD screens but right now even the photos of CRT screens viewed on an LCD screen don't really give the right idea.
This is a solid rebuttal to the idea that things were carefully crafted to the pixels. https://t.co/pGAxa87C1e

Odds are high that things were varied considerably. Such that it is tough to really claim too much.

Edit: as the follow-up shows. Down res and cleanup probably works better than folks are allowing in the conversations. With the major caveat that the "and cleanup" is tough to automate.
There are at least two possible ideas when you are something that doesn't show on the radar: 1. A technology so advanced it doesn't show up on sensors. 2. Light / condensation / ... effect which makes you think you're looking at a solid object where the isn't any.
Ask HN: Are non-Apple employees using Swift for numerical computing?
TL;DR: Are you working on a project (open or closed source) outside of Apple that does heavy number crunching with Swift? Let's chat!

I'm a grad student who has dabbled in HPC / ML / Stats who has taken an interest in Swift.

Swift looks like an interesting language, but I'm really confused about Swift for numerics.

- Swift for Tensorflow has come and gone[1]. It provided an enormous momentum for Swift into this domain, though.

- Apple released a numerics library[2].

- There is tons of functionality in Accelerate.framework which looks like it'd be great for making math-heavy code[3]. Looks like a super cool foundation for a project.

- People have had issues linking against Accelerate.framework[4]. Am I even linking against the same code as Apple engineers in these lower level libraries?

- There was a talk this year on Metal Compute for ML[5]. This kinda gives me the impression they want people to buy into this ecosystem.

Jeremy Howard from fast.ai was excited about this stuff in 2019[6]. I'm curious if he still thinks it has a future outside of Apple.

It seems like there aren't many tutorials / projects out there on:

- Rolling your own statistical ML libraries and using them in Swift Projects

- Using BNNS to make and train your own neural network.

I don't mind the fact that this stuff gets pretty difficult sometimes. Swift was never catered to this sort of work. Apple cares more about optimizing the developer UX of CoreML / Vision. I'm just trying to see through the mixed messages that Apple keeps sending to people like me. Do they want us working on this stuff or no?

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1: https://www.tensorflow.org/swift/guide/overview

2: https://github.com/apple/swift-numerics

3: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accelerate
/bnns#topics

4: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/7500

5: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc21/10152

6: https://www.fast.ai/2019/01/10/swift-numerics/
Numbers for illustrative purposes. A graduated tax is more fair from a purchasing power perspective.
Do you worry at all about taking kicks to the head or it damaging your body long term?
If you have that much excess power I wonder if you could solve the precision water problem with tanks that top up by wringing it out of atmosphere in humid climates.

Perhaps cooled coils:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_water_generator

Wind power to shake the water off
> the evidence seems to be accumulating, not diminishing

It really isn't. We have one good report, and a lot of conspiratorial dot connecting and string tying that is not good evidence and never was. It's enough to keep you guys going, but you're never going to win this at this rate. Consensus sits on the mechanism that produced a thousand other diseases.

And FWIW: of course it's desirable to reach a consensus. And it's decidedly undesirable for a handful of nuts deciding to have Their Own Truth in yet another area. Because the more you distrust experts in favor of your own thought leaders, the more likely this is to happen in the future.

To wit: Lab Leak Trutherism is of the same cloth as Big Lie election fraudurism, and climate denial, and 5G vaccine chipperism, and Storm Is Coming revisionism, and flat eartherism. It's one thing to investigate alternatives, it's quite another to keep flogging an unlikely theory because it fits your priors.
I second MSBuild as one of the best build systems I’ve had to work with. It absolutely has a learning curve but once you “get” how projects are evaluated and executed then you can start writing your own targets to do whatever you want.
there are lots, such as paper packaging, paper cups, bamboo (for disposable cutlery, packaging etc) there are lots of alternatives

i guess the hardest is plastic food packaging in grocery stores... that plastic is sterile, lightweight and lasts forever (which is good for shelflife, fuel usage etc)... i wonder what airtight alternatives there for that...
Typical China cheaters
> In reality, every monitor was a CRT. They just drew what looked good on their development devices.

Oh you don't even know the half of it, believe me! That was not how it went back in the day.

While every monitor was indeed a CRT, the difference between composite, EGA (later VGA), and RF cable, TV and computer monitors were in fact quite visible.

You could draw perfectly good pixel art on a nice, well calibrated 14" computer monitor only to see the same graphics look like a blend of mouse excrements and frog barf on a PAL TV via RF cable.

In fact, artists needed to make sure their palette and graphics worked reasonably well on both PAL and NTSC devices (different resolutions, slightly different colours, etc.).

Some companies made good ports that worked- and looked well on both PAL and NTSC, while many games had terrible PAL versions.
Its about who controls the company not who is on the record as owning. Did you read the part about the selection committees ?
Phoenix with Webpack 5 and TailwindCSS
Will Windows 11 use TPM 2.0 – now required – for TC / DRM?
This is one of the more interesting questions about the Windows 11 release that is not being discussed often enough. TPM 2.0, which is required for Windows 11, is the newest standard of a technology that was developed almost 20 years ago as a means for establishing "Trusted Computing" and enhancing DRM measures (see: http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A206552&dswid=-5253).

Pushing users to enable TPM by default will make it much easier to start marketing something like the Microsoft Store of being capable of TC-enhanced DRM. For example, a year or two after launch, an update could require you to be running Microsoft's hypothetical new DRM software in order to run any apps downloaded from the Microsoft Store - enforced using the TPM. The option to disable Trusted Computing might still exist, in this hypothetical, but would prevent you from using most / all licensed software. The TPM could also be used to force the devices owner to run certain software desired by the manufacturer or required by government regulation.

This would definitely help Windows market the Microsoft Store to 3rd parties, and is in direct alignment with their originally stated goals for Trusted Computing and DRM, and the original purpose of the TPM.

What does Hacker News think? Is this paranoia or is this a realistic direction for Windows to be moving?
Hey yinz . My second home is PGH also although I am not there now.

Such a thought provoking post. Thank you. So much to learn from this. I would expect no less from CMU.
Cool, so like Graal for Java. 2-3mb min file size is quite a bit smaller than the smallest Graal native images tho, I wonder what the difference is.
Yeah the syncing issue has been hitting me more. Not as bad as Slack though, but still enough that where I've answered something on my desktop it'll still ring my phone. It's better than Slack because this is at least <5 minutes apart (Slack will message my phone >10 minutes after I responded on desktop). I'll admit that I'm willing to give Signal more leeway than Slack because they're small. But these things hinder growth.

But the features I've seen since growth are: 1) group call (which happened during early growth), 2) screen share on desktop, 3) color hinting in chats removed (which now results me in messaging several people I didn't intend to because I've been trained for years to rely on colors for hinting and it takes longer to untrain users. Thank god delete exists...) 4) mobile coin.

I'm still waiting on 1) usernames 2) channels 3) easy access to community based stickers (or just an official repository!). Things that I don't care about but the community does: 1) backup of messages 2) transferring messages between phones. Honestly after these two things a lot of other stuff is "cool." But these make it more usable. A 20 minute interaction with Signal users outside the community forums will illustrate how important these things are to people (the community forums have a real group think that's a big disconnect from what most users want). I'm all for more UX devs and making the app prettier, but it's no longer "early 2021" and we still don't have them (and have been waiting for years). It feels like there's a larger disconnect between devs and us users than there was in the past. People wouldn't throw a fit about MOB if the rest of the platform was moving along steadily and would probably be treated as "cool, but I'm not going to use it and have reservations." I'd welcome cool stuff like that, or noise canceling (featured in this update), or any other stuff if the rest of the platform was moving along.

I'm losing faith in Signal. I fought so hard to get my friends on board (years!) and now that we have critical mass it feels things have slowed instead of accelerated. It isn't just us "hackers" and privacy conscious people anymore. To the devs reading this: I love you and appreciate the work you do, but help us out here. We don't understand why these weird decisions are being made and they feel like step backwards instead of forward.
PLA is biodegradable.
For the things I print, I usually smooth them with PVA as it's biodegradable. As far as pigments go, I have no clue what's in most commercial stuff I think they're the main caveat for truly biodegradable 3d printing.
Awesome! We'll gladly add this feature. On pricing, we've been deliberating on flexible tiers and we will have an announcement once done
In the same way you don't outsource sales at the start, you definitely don't want to outsource marketing.

Figure out what problems people are facing, explain how to solve those problems. Eventually you create processes for this, and can delegate.
(I'm mostly talking about Facebook here) You know what social media success is also driven by? Contact scraping, buying up your competition, stripping away all control from the users (why yes, engagement does go up when you make the product as addictive as possible and you stop allowing people to read their messages or do pretty much anything by email) - I'm not sure regulation is always the answer, but this shit is basically criminal and shame on them for 'growth hacking' their way to the top (and screwing everyone else in the process)
Being alert and steering to the right on time saved their lives, not Model 3.
Oh I was ready to accept the consequences.
> Group chats are not end to end encrypted.

End-to-end encrypted group chats are currently in the works.

Source - https://t.me/durovschat/518625
For observation, yes you're right. I'm not disagreeing there. We do that in nature all the time -- e.g. wildlife safaris with large telephoto lenses downwind lions/tigers/etc.

But when we experiment with dolphins, the beach ball has to be visible so we can see what the dolphin does with it (even if we're hidden behind two-way glass). If it is aliens (and I'm not suggesting it is) why can't it be that they're measuring our intelligence capacity? This is the proverbial, beach ball, as it were.
You were making a good rebuttal until "To wit: Lab Leak Trutherism is of the same cloth as Big Lie election fraudurism, and climate denial, ...".

I think we have nothing left to discuss.
My foolproof flowchart:

"Why are you cancelling?"

"I'm moving overseas."

"Where to?"

"I'd prefer not to say."
So nobody wants to consider the possibility that these may be time-travelling humans visiting us from the future?
Possibly - or symptomatic of more subsidies going to the fossil fuels industry than to bamboo forestry.
Sounds like early Buddhism: See "Four Noble Truths" at

https://www.uri.org/kids/world-religions/buddhist-beliefs

FTFA:

>"
- Human life has a lot of suffering.

- The cause of suffering is greed.

- There is an end to suffering.

- The way to end suffering is to follow the Middle Path.

... The 'Middle Way[ed.,Path]' meant not leading a life of luxury and indulgence but also not one of too much fasting and hardship. "<

Not bad advice.
"The building was constructed in 1981 ... building was sinking"

Sinking isn't always a problem - look at Venice! I studied Civ Eng at Plymouth Poly (now a university, Devon not MA) back in 1989ish. Back then concrete cancer was all the rage ... and gabions (but I digress.)

The failure of the building in Miami was catastrophic and not gradual. I don't think that monitoring would have worked but it is possible that stresses/strains built up over time - we'll have to wait and see. If it was gradual then there is a good argument in favour of fitting buildings like that with strain gauges as many bridges are. I do a lot of IoT stuff and I estimate that something like £20,000 would get you strain gauges and a monitoring system for a structure like that. It might be £10,000 or £100,000 but a building that size in Miami is worth quite a lot. I'll bet rent on a flat was something like $2,000pm or more.

Inspection of foundations is a tricky one. I am not a Civil Engineer but I trained for it but I don't have X ray eyes and nor do Miami's engineers. That's absolutely the wrong way to go about this sort of thing. I'm not even sure what an "inspection" even means.

There was a fundamental error made at the initial design stage in my opinion. I don't know what but probably relating to the parameters of the ground that was built on. By that I mean that the architects/struct engrs. were promised certain properties of the geotechnics/geophysics - that basically means they were told how the ground would work in holding their structure up.

When you design a structure, it needs to support itself and crucially, the thing it sits on needs to be able to support that structure. You also have to work to a timespan, so you use standard tables for wind strength, earthquake etc. You work to a 1 in n years events.

This building collapsed catastrophically in seconds without warning. I think this will become a real lesson for Civ Eng and not a simple "I told you so" thing and certainly not "shit concrete".
OR maybe it is just that the requried industrial layout is not in place yet to make those containers in such a scale. But I think that we need a replacement, and the less plastic we use, more alternatives will appear.
So, Holy crap?
You just defined what a monopoly is without using the word and proposed banning it after saying banning monopolies is outdated.
The focus here should really be on output signal, not CRT. Specifically, composite vs. RGB output.

And yes, at least in some cases, designers very carefully took into consideration how the art would look on a CRT via composite, in contrast to how they saw it on the high end monitors they were designing on via RGB.

Here are two of the designers of the original Sonic the Hedgehog games discussing the point:

https://twitter.com/MegaDriveShock/status/139046602041917849...
The community around Electron still has specific expectations. With an actual framework of their own they can safely make maintaining compatibility with the APIs their products use a top priority and also introduce questionable and Windows-specific things which probably aren't welcome in Electron.
You kidding? I loved this pandemic so much, i want to marry it and have children with it!

No pointless work "morale events"; no wasting hours a day on commute; ability to do something useful while a build is building, like putting in a load of laundry instead of just reading HN while waiting; and spending a lot more time with my GF as she is also WFHing.

I suspect you are speaking only about people who are unable/unwilling to put effort into the "life" part of "work-life balance" and thus depend on the "work" part to give them what "life" gives to all others: companionship/friendship/fun/purpose
I didn't think you were being confrontational. It's just not something I'm interested in discussing at this time.

I'm also not interested in a large number of people inferring I believe the opposite and then acting like I'm "lying" or "did an about face" on my opinion should I ever change my mind and decide I wish to discuss it.

People are really bad about making unfounded inferences no matter how carefully you talk about a thing and then hanging their baggage on you over what they imagined you believe when you never said anything about what you believe.

Government reports about unidentified aerial phenomena aren't motivated by a belief in aliens. Me reminding people of that fact is not motivated by a belief that "aliens don't exist."

Maybe "UFO" will stop getting used in titles and the new term UAP will get popular and these conversations will generally improve.

After I left my comment, the title was changed. That's a good thing and makes my reminder less pertinent. Maybe I will just stop leaving them entirely.
Benchmarking SOTA solutions is an interesting differentiator from Kaggle. Kaggle's community and scale is unparallelled though, which is actually what attracts very talented and competitive data scientists to its challenges.

AIcrowd(https://www.aicrowd.com/) in that sense is interesting, because it hosts research challenges like the ones that EvalAI does and it also hosts more attractive Kaggle-like challenges. It's also the most modular platform to accommodate unorthodox evaluation and submission formats.
It doesn't matter if the ownership percentage changed quickly throughout the year of 1999

These kinds of sanctions are based on the result by time of reporting or audit, not by their mere action

and as we’ve already gone over, he very well may have chosen to pay a self reported penalty if his accountant’s tax software just spit out that additional number of $2000
I don't see any such note and it's 8 days later. May be you should check your comment again? Also, while games aren't exactly regular applications performance-wise, I think they fall more under that than embedded or utmost control and while a 1ms delay won't be the end of the world, it'll likely hurt.
So this assumes that most of the the prospective component companies themselves are not very competent, and that their size and leverage from the dominant units is all that gives them market power.

That, I think, is probably a pessimistic view - Gmail being split off from Google Display Ads and Google Search wouldn't make me any less likely to use Gmail, say. But it would also open the door for US companies to replace them, not simply foreign ones. It's not like countries that crack down on the US services have produced many better companies good enough to compete in the US to date.

I'd accept the risk of some new dominant players from other countries in exchange for limiting the risk of misuse of market power and increasing the chance of new US competition to arise. Competition from inside or outside the US should make the encumbents better. Stagnation is what will let them be replaced by disruptive newcomers.

EDIT: I think a more likely risk is that we lose some money-losing "free" services that are basically loss-leaders, maybe even some vanity project ones. I would LOVE to replace some of those with paid products that a more healthy company could grow around, with better user-facing incentives.
Those conditions aren't realistic for an employee, since anyone working for someone else who feels that way is bound to be extremely frustrated.

The point that you missed, however, is that an employee should not accept the risk but should transfer the risk by notifying the employer. Otherwise, articles such as this are fodder for putting the blame of exploited vulnerabilities squarely on employees who knew of the risk and, according to some of the comments here, plotted not to tell their employers.
Definitely not to the same extent. EAC is part of an SDK now
This is exactly how science is supposed to work. People learn some new things and they update their opinions based on that new data. That's a good thing.

The idea that people aren't allowed 'second thoughts' is probably the worst thing to happen to general discourse.
> Accreditation for the modification of petty and trivial issues is a nice and decent gesture, but overall unworthy of a paper trail binding me to any random none-of-my-business project for such a drive-by PR.

I don't know about others, but before investing significant time in a project, my first action will be to read through the documentation, then the code (and accompanying comments), and then I'll make minor fixes along the way.

After this, I'll submit a PR with my changes. If a maintainer were to close my patch and then proceed to commit the exact same changes under their own name, I'd never contribute, use, or improve that project again. Why would I waste my time?

That kind of behavior displays an immense lack of respect for contributors.
It is biodegradable, that is correct, it just takes around 80 years to do so.

Can you justify it?
It's not normal. In fact there was a police officer from Florida if I recall correctly who was reprimanded for voting in their uniform. It's considered potential voter intimidation to have a police officer standing around at a polling place.
In the days of 8-bit and 16-bit home computing, monitors were an expensive luxury, and a lot of game developers will have used a TV connected by a composite or even RF connection.

They didn't have to 'think about how it'd look on a consumer TV', as that's probably what they were developing on.

During the era of 16-bit console development, the Amiga (with DPaint - which was never as good on PC) was still a popular pixel art tool. And even if you had a monitor, you could easily preview things on a TV too.
I assumed people generally thought the opposite was true - if you let them grow fat and bloated US tech monopolies will lose their ability to compete internationally.

Relative to its size, the highly consolidated US car industry isn't a great exporter, for example, and even required bailouts to survive.
Been reading up on DAOs and asnyc collaboration models and learning a little Solidity too.

Feels like there is potential for something interesting to emerge in the knowledge + social graph layer/squad/studio operating models.

Particularly with everyone moving around now and the increasingly fine lines between legal corporate entities, co-living, creative work, and intellectual property.

Open to any recommended readings on the topic, or just to chat about tangential spaces!
Oh apps are huge but at least they are upfront about the size - except when they start downloading and caching crap (Amazon app is particularly egregious). :)