skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are talking about the future here. Restrictions on our freedom will be added until it is no longer profitable or until people start to protest. And so far it has been immensely profitable and among the general public basically nobody complains, so more restrictions will likely continue to be added for a really long time.
That's not my expectation. As I said,

> Even at its best the algorithm seems to come up with something plausible but often wrong (exactly as expected)

So the expectation is that the algorithm is only as good, or slightly worse, than what a human would assume the original photograph looked like. SR3 meets that expectation, more or less.

That said, I would argue that there's no reason to assume that humans are equipped with maximally efficient upscaling / content-aware filling algorithms in our brains, either. It might certainly be possible to come up with a ML approach that was able to discover details in the image that were entirely lost on even highly trained human viewers.

I also wanted to point out in my comment that the approach is still pretty flawed in a lot of ways, even compared against the yardstick of human intuition. The woman's hair on page 16 of the paper doesn't pass a plausability test - it just looks like goo.

At the end of the day, what a lot of people (in this thread and elsewhere - see this previous Google research https://hific.github.io/) are interested in is a ML approach that can achieve image compression that is vastly superior to any current approach. That requires being able to recover the real details. My comment answers the question many people probably have - which is that this algorithm doesn't do that (at least with the sample images given).
Police encourage and facilitate crimes all the time in order to make arrests, and it's not entrapment.

This comic by a lawyer is a good primer on the subject
https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=633
Anecdotally, my closest acquaintance in NYC public housing lived there because she is disabled, unable to work, and has no one to take care of her due to age. She has lived in the same public apartment for decades because she is dependent on the state. Her son fled the apartment after living there his whole life, because he cooperated with NYPD on a murder investigation and was threatened by the local criminal gang. Her only roommate now is her orphaned teenage grandson who is vulnerable to the gangs and has ambitions beyond his immediate circumstances.
Besides miners and developers, exchanges are a major stakeholder. If exchanges declare that a particular chain is Bitcoin or Ethereum, others tend to agree.

Also see https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/03/23/legitimacy.html
I wonder if you read literally anything about this product before commenting on it. Because I immediately understood what it was and who it was for.

This is a portable PC with a built-in screen and game controls. It's much closer to a laptop than a "gaming thing".
I don't know anyone who got into programming who didn't do it on a computer they had for other reasons. Nobody buys their kid a $2000 device just in case they might want to be a programmer, especially since the kid isn't going to play with that device -- there won't be any games for it.

No, it's always a side-effect of using GPCs for other things. Even, or really, especially when it's inconvenient.

Anecdotally, it is indeed getting harder to hire good people. I don't know that we've reached 'peak programmer', but the count isn't growing as fast as it used to.
Defaults are designed for common users, who barely know how to copy and paste.

Their setup is really not working for me.

I want my desktop designed for me, from me. And if the OS thinks, it knows better than me, how to handle things and regulary rearanges or reconfigures, than screw this OS.
A valve employee literally said the internal storage isn't expandable. And why do you think it's non-expandable?

https://www.ign.com/articles/steam-deck-valve-faq-big-questi...
Yes. I am trading my privacy and time for use of their service.

Many people seem to disagree here but human expectations are a real phenomenon. Not to say these expectations are fair.

My personal reaction to the link was amusement. It was like finding a hamburger and fries on the menu of a fine dining restaurant.
Norway will learn only how to remain broke.
"Linear", in circuit terms, means that you get the same output from a circuit every time you put the corresponding input into the circuit.

It's not nearly as mystical as folks like to make it sound. A lot of the language around it dresses it up to appear more than it is in an effort to be rigorous.
Ancient Greece perhaps? Though not in medieval Europe, at least not that I'm aware off.
The Hunter Biden laptop scandal is maybe the worst case yet¹.

New York Post got hold of it, published some very damning articles in mid October.

So Facebook and Twitter promptly banned sharing the article as "misinformation". It has all since been confirmed, but now the election is over.

¹ Or maybe there are worse cases where the silencing was more effective.
I appreciate the info. I'm glad you found a way to deal with your migraines. Cheers.
It's why I go out of my way to teach people about networking and the protocols that underpin it.

Nothing once you get basic use of a computer dowm is more important than an understanding of networking.

Providers can cut you out, but if you know networking, it becomes much harder for you to be stopped or cut off.
Don't like Google Drive's policy? Use a different hosting service, or run your own. Seriously. It's a free country and a free market, and if they don't want to do business with you, they don't have to (and it's a two-way street). Deal with it.
Here's peak irony from Google's CEO just last week talking about "The free and open internet is under attack in countries around the world, Google boss Sundar Pichai has warned. He says many countries are restricting the flow of information, and the model is often taken for granted:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57763382
If that caused free speech restrictions to outlaw email service spam filters it would be like a utility hooking sewer into the fresh water supply.
I think you’re splitting hairs, and this is my point — you pulled one quote out of a many thousand word document. Not only that, you suggest dismissing all the actual data based on this quote. This is an introductory quote that has no bearing on literally _anything_ presented. The framing of the discussion, perhaps, but not the data or conclusions.

In terms of why I thought this was interesting, the key statement is:

> poor regulation of the possession and use of guns

Meaning, the regulation of possession (I.e. reduced number of guns in peoples hands, particularly of certain classes of people) and use of guns, i.e. when they can be used (open carry vs conceal vs home only, etc).

There’s no bad faith, this is literally what they said. I then expand and look at factors that should have correlations to the above.

What I did is look at the data we had. The data actually indicates the places with the strictest gun laws in the US have the highest firearm related homicides. This implies regulations aren’t the issue (enforcement perhaps?). Regardless, the rest of the thousands of words explain and explore the topic.
They ask you to install an extension but the web lookup is still available here:

https://www.fakespot.com/analyzer
You are basically correct but even today I can add a PHY 10/100MB Ethernet from a low spec microcontroller understand and compile a basic TCP/IP stack, and add some simple telnet or HTTP server on top, several of my projects do this and a lot of engineers have that basic understanding. Even humble AVRs and Casio calculators can run a basic TCP/IP stack but the difference between this and a gigabit ethernet on some massive multithreaded operating system is night and day and as you say well beyond most.
> based on US Census totals, shows that over all CA is one of only a few states that have a net Population LOSS over the last 10 years

Not only did it not lose population, its not even one of the five slowest-growing states.

“The five states with the slowest population growth, all under 2.5%, were: Connecticut, Michigan, Ohio, Wyoming, and Pennsylvania.”

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/04/2020-census-d...
Just holding the two Redis connections makes sense. I remember the Postgres post said something about modifying HTTP headers (a solution I liked), and I didn't know if this would be something similar.

Actually, I just looked back, and that was to solve the problem of only being able to write to a single postgres instance of the globally distributed cluster. For just caching, with every instance writeable, that probably wouldn't apply here.
Got it, thanks for the thorough response.

I guess that, regardless of this, there is still an ownership difference between the multiple levels in your example, and the ownership difference between a TLD and a SLD. In your example, nsw.gov.au controls the TLD and they could register dept2.nsw.gov.au without asking anyone else, they could even register a.b.c.d.dept2.nsw.gov.au, but they can't register nsw2.gov.au. I assume that's why the PSL is still useful for some use cases, but I agree this one is definitely not one.
Compare the NYPD crime map[0] with a map of the NYC Housing Authority's developments.[1]

[0] https://maps.nyc.gov/crime/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Housing_Authorit...
But the custodians have to choose just one chain because they only have enough assets to back one copy. They don't want a situation where there's, say, 50B USDCA and 50B USDCB backed by only $50B in assets. So if there's a fork, a custodian will decide that the USDC on one chain is redeemable and the USDC on all other chains is not redeemable (i.e. worth zero), then other DeFi assets on the losing chain will go to zero as well, and it snowballs.
https://www.steamdeck.com/en/tech

They added "All models use socketed 2230 m.2 modules (not intended for end-user replacement)"

Seems likely that internal storage may be unofficially supported.
Sorry, but as a candidate, I wouldn't take something called sookiestack seriously.
If you want to understand the fundamental principles of how op-amps and electric circuits work, I recommend learning the basic principles of elementary particles, electric charge, electric fields, and electromagnetic force, without diving into the mathematics behind them.

It's easier to understand analog circuits without knowing the above because you are dealing with concrete components that abstract a lot of details away from you.

What drove me down this path is when one day I asked myself what is voltage? Why do they use the water pressure example to explain it? We are familiar with V = IR but that doesn't explain what voltage is just like an apple falling on the ground doesn't explain gravitational force.

Don't be surprised if this journey takes you down to quantum mechanics.
Shopify Online Store 2.0
Correct, but I wanted to note that activating an ETH2 validator requires an exact 32 ETH deposit, no more and no less.
One really underrated component of EIP-1559 is how much more usable it makes the system. The complexity and uncertainty of how to set gas fees, stuck transactions, and the like is a major turnoff for new users.

Experienced users tend to gloss over this, because they've already taken the time to mentally model all the complexities related to the gas market. I predict that post-London, we'll see a huge wave of new users into a wide variety of applications in the ecosystem. I wouldn't be surprised if we see another order of magnitude increase in DeFi volume.
Just about every Presidents’ Day I’ll hear car deals with voice actors pretending to be Clinton or Bush and also on TV people dressed up as Lincoln… so I dunno.
Why the change of title?
Viscous rogues, the gelatin based lifeforms fighting in the shadows
Parent was not pretending to be said dead person, though.
Most pieces of technology create as many problems as they're meant to solve. The cost-benefit is always around whether or not the solved problems are worth the cost of the new problems. If latency is such a problem that you'd want to deploy servers and caches as close as possible to a user, you'd probably gladly pay for the reduction of that latency at the cost of the new class(es) of problem.

It was an interesting decision to make a SaaS out of this solution, though, as I think 99% of problems are not solved by having machines closer to their users.
>> Turns out, not even Apple is that messiah

> They were, just no longer the same under Tim Cook.

Steve "we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone" Jobs liked making devices for everyone but definitely not for everything they might want to do on them.
Be sure to zoom in on the guy's glasses in the video.

Aside from that this looks like real magic.
Shitty soil and earthquakes in combination is a bad combo.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/earthquake-expert-san-fra...
If the store is a small business, the profits are what the owner uses to afford rent and food. So, how is that morally dissimilar?

"Corporations" are just groups of people. They are not some amorphous, abstract thing that just preys on helpless humans.

> If a human can’t make enough money with their labor, they starve.

There is absolutely no reason a normal, healthy adult offering 40 hours per week of effort should not be able to produce far more than minimum wage levels of value. If there are not opportunities for them to do that, we should investigate why that is, and provide opportunities for them to create that value. That is better for everyone because there is more valuable work being done. Pretending that a job that only creates $7 per hour of value actually creates $15 or more is just a lie. It's spending a dime to get a nickel and it's ultimately unsustainable.

If there's an abundance of jobs paying well above minimum wage, then it doesn't matter what the minimum wage is because people will have better options and the market will determine what price people are willing to accept to do what work. We're already seeing this as people have better options and are refusing to do lower paid work.
If car salespeople do it, it should be fine. Is that the bar?
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Ah, yeah. $1100 will still buy you a significantly better gaming rig, and even better if you're willing to assemble it yourself.

I guess if you're holding out though, maybe the Deck will scratch the "buy new gaming shiny object" itch, and play games reasonable well at it's native resolutions, but if you have $1100 and it's not getting you what you want in a gaming rig, the Deck doesn't fill the gap.

Also I'm not confident that GPU cards will became easier and cheaper to find for a while. Someone that is related to the general chip industry told me 1.5 years. Until then constrained supply will probably make demand even more frantic.

Heck, just on cars alone: I just traded in a car for 2x the value it was listed at about 6 months ago. It was 12 years old and I knew I'd need a new car sometime in the next 1-3 years, and a new car today has massively more safety features (I have kids to worry about that for too) so I wasn't going to hold out and hope the used market went even higher.

And if car manufacturers whose electronics don't need the latest fab methods have these bottlenecks, I don't see the high end chip market getting much better, especially with Apple & Samsung eating any capacity TSMC can provide.
Using this line of reasoning, nothing really collapses, it just gradually morphs into something else and keeps going. But looking at everything through an entropic POV, isn’t very helpful.

Civilizations exist in the consensual system of abstractions we have created to define our reality, structure our thinking and guide our evolution. We can and should reason about that system, since we operate bound by its constraints, and not Out in the formless void.
Covid misinformation on Facebook is killing people – Biden
This is the thing that bothers me the most.

Absolutely zero dissent internally at Google. It's a bunch of employees that have exposure to Menlo Park, CA and not much else. Never seen hardship and never learned history, but they get to dictate how the world consumes information.

Hard NO. I will protest relentlessly.
>You're speaking on behalf of a dead person in objection to someone else speaking on behalf of that person.

The objection isn't to speaking on the behalf of the dead, it is to using phoney tactics to do so, playing them up for emotional value
It has to be scoured, otherwise it grows over (some day we're going to figure out how to discover overgrown figures and find a lot more in Southern England).

If it was too rude to write about, it was certainly too rude to maintain.
I don't understand, why is spinning metal not good enough? For the large amount of storage required it seems like it would be a good idea.
Good Omens is interesting to me for being a rewrite of an earlier book also by Terry Pratchett. Perhaps an early indicator of the observation that "every [scientific] paper will be published five times" moving into the realm of literature.
Measuring and Monitoring Reliability of Wireless Networks [pdf]
Nah, the one where blue is blurred still looks the sharpest. And you blurred them all very little so no surprise they look less different.
Absolutely, a junior professional can be risky based on employment opportunities and their desire to move around or even go back to their home state post college. College kids are going to more or less give you a solid year cycle and maybe up to 4 years. Major pluses if they are foreign and have rich parents. Young foreigners are more likely to stay in the same place if it’s safe and desirable, comfort is a good thing (I know I’d be this way if I was living in another country at college age).
The “ropen” of New Guinea – bats or pterodactyls?
They don't monitor it, you're right
Just like a broken clock analogies can be accurate some of the time.
> The Egyptians knew that there was a time when they were not Arabs.

They still aren't Arabs...?
It varies, for example I would say /tg/ is quite peaceful and its inhabitants are kind.
That implies that USDCblah is actually backed by traceable assets, 1:1. Have any of the so-called stable coins actually passed a complete third-party asset?
That's a good point but with Docker and WSL I think these days it doesn't matter much.
I wonder what's in it for Amazon. FS users would end up buying on Amazon anyway. It's just that they would choose another seller or alternative products. Why would Amazon want that gone?
"Rewrite" is not an option for large companies with a ton of legacy code, but any company whose business depends on C++ better be thinking about what their codebase should look like in 10 years and in 20 years.
> routinely censors

Do they routinely censor? As far as I can tell they do not 'routinely' do this. As a matter of course, they routinely do the opposite. There are only two examples I can think of where they have censored.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/cloudflares-ceo-...
. . . "currently Hezbollah has a stockpile of over 130,000 rockets in Palestine, more than the combined arsenal of all NATO countries, with the exception of the United States. This number includes long-range rockets and M-600 ballistic missiles, which carry a high payload and would be able to “wipe out a good chunk of Times Square and maim and kill people four football fields away from the point of impact,” Stern noted. Hezbollah also has approximately 100,000 short-range rockets".

If this is true I can't see anyway out for Israel other than a MASSIVE bloodbath of Palestinian civilian casualties in their counterattack, which will then further turn the world against Israel.
Amazon and Apple.
s/asse/audi/
Now you see why it worked. lol
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dense European cities have also issues created by AirBnB, mostly with flats going from long-term rental (for residents) to short-term rental (for tourists).
They’re only honored on one canonical chain. It’s not like
their supply would double in the event of a fork
I feel notably unfree on an Apple product, which amazes me because my reference is Google products. The thing which struck me was when I tried to watch a film I've had on my PC hard drive for what must be 5 years now, but Apple won't let VLC ship the codec.
Note that MA somewhat recently passed legislation that more tightly limits the power of non-compete agreement: https://www.laboremploymentlawblog.com/2018/08/articles/non-...
In think there's a subtle difference. A side effect of Bitcoin's rules is that people with more hashing power have a disproportionate amount of weight in deciding the future of the protocol. Eth solves this by putting a hard deadline on some replacement being chosen. This can be the current maintainer's updated fork, or it can be a fork someone made that's identical to eth today with the date pushed back a few more years.
Note that reviewmeta was recently sold to a new operator, so we'll see how trustworthy it continues to be. Some interesting data on financials and revenue models here:

https://storecoach.com/products/for-sale-reviewmeta
It does. But the majority of people who follow Ethereum closely view non-algorithmic stablecoins as generally an evil. Ideology means little to most people yet I think the decentralization ideology around Ethereum has had and does have an impact on enough people to sway the network in a certain direction. It's early. Fingers crossed.
There was evidence of the effectiveness of masks. They chose to diminish/ignore that evidence because it was inconvenient to protecting the supply of masks.

There were two studies circulating around that time. One of passengers of a bus and another of a restaurant. The bus one found that the passengers wearing masks did not catch the virus and many of those that did not wear masks did catch it. The restaurant one found that people in the flow of AC air caught it and those not in it did not. That meant that it was airborne and there was some evidence suggesting mask effectiveness.

Why should you listen to the CDC, WHO, etc… when there is a better predictor of reality?
Internet Speed World Record Obliterated by Engineers in Japan
Engineers are also notorious for having opinions about everything regardless of the depth of their expertise :)
To be fair, they wasn't expecting Hubble to last beyond the end of the service date. I recalled it was ~10~ 15 years? They have no way of knowing this beforehand.

Edit:saw the comment somewhere that it is 15 years.
Yeah, I think in the case where one tries to fork the chain state and expects the assets on the new chain automatically be redeemable for something doesn't really work out.

Though this may happen in reality because of bridges (centralized/decentralized + permission/less): one asset is locked in a smart contract (or many smart contracts) on one chain, then minted in equivalent amounts on another, people will trade as if holds the equivalent value modulo liquidity for the bridged asset (as long as the locking/minting assumptions with the bridges hold true).
They also took down the image CDN for TheDonald earlier last year.
Lots of doubt in the discussion here. I found this, and it’s not quite as elegant an explanation, but it seems to agree that it is due to chromatic aberration and the eye being tuned to focus on red and green light.

https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/why-ar...