skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A cardboard car does not function as a car does.

That's exactly the point. It is contrasting the appearance of the thing vs the structural & functional organization (logos) of the thing. Without the second, it is not the thing. One cannot establish an identity relationship just based on appearances. That is why you can't equivocate the appearance of a virtue with being virtuous.

> It sounds almost like you are saying something but you never explain exactly what’s wrong with performative virtue.

"Performative" virtue, a more accurate designation would be "demonstrative virtue", is an oxymoron. You cannot be virtuous without conforming to the structural & functional organization of the thing, i.e. without really being virtuous. Real virtue is a participatory endeavor. A display of virtuosity is like the cardboard car, it doesn't function as a virtue. Making people take down content for narcissistic reasons does not make the world a better place, because it is devoid of at least two core properties that is rationality and proportionality.

> But you have to define what is virtuous before you can claim that performative virtue is “fake”.

This topic is systematically discussed since Aristotle, and you would appreciate the absurdity of trying to give an exhaustive definition in this forum. But I've given you two properties of it that narcissistic censoring violates.
>if you're thirsty enough nobody really minds crunchy water

Nature can fuck up the water by itself. Such as dead and rotting animals in the waterways, which is very common. So I would say a persons' preferences is not too relevant here.
I used to do colo, but surprisingly it’s usually a better deal to pay monthly for an unmanaged server, with standard hardware replacement warranty.
Thanks. This brings in a whole new perspective on the topic.
Also apparently J Epstein told everyone he wanted to impress about all the illegal things he did. He even bamboozled a a greedy bamboozler out of 100MM[1] by telling him how they would make more illegal money and then J Epstein made it disappear from where it would not be retrieved and now this guy is still in jail for all kinds of financial crimes.

[1]https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/jeffre...
A side note: foreign propaganda is not worse than domestic propaganda. Swarms of dedicated activists using rioting and other violence to achieve political goals (the dictionary definition of terrorism), in collusion with a sympathetic tech industry that suppresses any dissenting thought, is propaganda and it does influence elections. When these companies do things like ban Trump, they are illegally making a campaign contribution without abiding by the laws of campaign finance. When they do things like censor discussions of the lab leak theory, they propagandize the entire world by freeing the CCP of the bare minimum for accountability.
Lousy lenses?
i was expecting to read about obese flying dinosaurs
I've already posted the link to the original news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27818357
In a sense that may be true, but how is that different from a bar owner asking people to leave if they are causing a disturbance by being confrontational with other patrons? The bar owner doesn't want a fight that can damage property. He doesn't want people to avoid the bar because someone is picking fights, when most of his clientele just want to kick back and socialize with their friends.

Maybe the bar owner isn't trying to "protect" the rest of his customers, he's just trying to maintain a profitable business. Protecting his pockets.

You could apply the same logic to dang, who helps keep HN a pleasant place by doing the same things the bar owner is doing. Yes I imagine he is paid a salary, by the management of YCombinator who see HN as one part of their strategy to make a profit, and therefore his motives are equally cynical.

Ok. Honestly, you can probably reduce all human behavior to such simplistic motives if you want. What I see as someone being kind, you might see as a purely Darwinian strategy to get their genes in future generations.

I'm not all that sure that is a helpful perspective, at least not most of the time.
Nice Problems to Have (2020)
> Yes, this is the dream. We're definitely not there yet.

So kind of like, the "Netlify" of edge dynamic app-hosting?
Yes and no.

If the Germans had some well-fortified position only to see a T-72B3 fitted with explosive reactive armor and an active protection system roll in? Yes, in that case, the Germans are toast. In practical terms they would not be able to damage the tank.

It isn't invincible, though. The tracks on any tank are vulnerable and the engine is (relatively) fragile. A lucky HEAT shot or a well-placed anti-tank mine could disable it, though I don't they could score an outright kill.
Just tested the (example?) website mymercury.surge.sh . I do not have any experience in web development, or in browser development, so please be gentle.
What I intentend to test was, if the browser requests any permission to run these service workers. As it appears, it does not.

Does this open up my browsers to execute code in the background, even after closing the tab?
Does it imply an additional threat to my personal privacy?

Nice work presenting this feature, though!
My small business manufactures the product in the link below and sells it on Amazon. It has over 1000 reviews and on my honor I have never purchased or posted a fake review anywhere including Amazon.

Out of curiosity can one or two readers with the Fakespot App go to my product page and see what the App reports. Preferably two people, just to see if there is randomness to the result. This assumes you can still use an app that has been removed from the App store. Or is it automatically deleted from your phone ?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MCV1QZF/
I find that they're almost garbage.

So as long as everyone is OK with massive muting and disabling of 98% of the issues. There is the 2% which actually helps to find bugs and improves code readability.

The problem is with making sure management don't take those things as "gospel" as you said. Sometimes they don't have a choice, I worked on projects where the client contract actually included a requirement for zero style and quality warnings (DoD).
The same way we regulate any business and mandate they abide by regulation. Or the same way we force phone companies to be regulated as common carriers. The same way your power utility cannot cut you off based on your political opinion. All it takes is political will.
>If people believe that it’s wrong for you to be subjected to that, those who do this to you will pay for it.

Are you referring to vigilante justice or just trusting the system? (What Americans refer to as the "democratic process" and the "justice system")

Because if it's the former, it takes a lot for people to raise a hand against others outside self-defense.

If it's the latter...the system usually fails. And saying "yeah well eventually, once there's enough political pressure, it won't fail" isn't any consolation to those who are now having to spend thousands of dollars on a therapist to recover from the trauma they've suffered (because American health insurance typically has crap mental health coverage).
Megaconstellation satellites pose potential collision risk to airliners
The subtle difference you’re pointing out is significant. Equality under the law is moral and ethical. Forced equality of outcomes is immoral and unethical, and is just collectivist Marxism rebranded.
1789 called, they want their naive interpretation of the Constitution back.

Congress has the power to delegate regulatory authority to federal agencies. This precedent was established by the 2nd law Congress ever passed.
Presumably “Snell” > “FreeSnell” > “Fresnel”.
> … "and are looking to change to a better career."

Lotta folks done or are in process of exactly that. I know folks who learned or improved various computer skills during the lockdown time and now have zero plans of goin' back to their crappy job from before.
Would slowing the spread through measures give it more opportunities to accumulate mutations that help it break through immunity and vaccines? I'm somewhat worried prevention efforts led to delta. The virus would have naturally spread fairly quickly, and alternate universe delta would have had to adapt to reinfect people who already have immunity. The delta we have was selected to spread, and now it's facing populations with no immunity.
Apple iPad, Apple Pencil, and Notability App.

A paper notebook, mechanical pencil, and eraser.

A large whiteboard sheet pinned to wall, colored markers, and whiteboard eraser.

Each has it's own use case. There is no one tool that applies in every situation.
The bonus shit cherry on top: they claim they require your address, GPS coordinates, passwords, browsing history, purchase history, and personal information
under "GDPR Legitimate Interest" in the privacy policy.

They process no payments and have no fraud to speak of, because it's not a thing.

This company should not exist.
> About one in three people has some degree of astigmatism.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/8576-astigmat...
Customers Reaction on AI Chatbots?
If you have textured surfaces, you can also "just" use a camera that you move around the scene.
Turns out, most surfaces have sufficient texture if you go close-up.

There are DIY gantrys for the line-laser type of scanner.

The software tends to be significantly more complicated. Here's a link to something fairly modern, yet not dependent on ML [0], project page here [1].

The code is open-source, but it has/had some issues when running on Linux, the critical ones I fixed in my GH fork.

[0]: https://www.gcc.tu-darmstadt.de/media/gcc/papers/Aroudj-2017...

[1]: https://www.gcc.tu-darmstadt.de/home/proj/tsr/tsr.en.jsp
Hong Kong is literally a relic of colonialism.
He hated fake phoney food?? Like plastic food??
With the extension, you get an A on one and a ? on another.

I don't believe Fakespot's ratings are useful, though, because for other sites I've gotten for a negative-feedback seller "seller is RELIABLE and APPROVED BY FAKESPOT" when the API response consists entirely of "Seller has a return policy" and nothing else.

If you go on eBay for example, any seller that says "accepts returns" will automatically be flagged trustworthy.
Star Trek shows that hedonism can work for everyone
I for one hope they get a strong talking-to. What a meanie tech giant!
Oh I agree. I meant moreso that it would be awesome to see a zen4 + rdna3 option one day, if we don’t get zen canceled. If the performance increase from zen 2 to zen 3 could be repeated for zen 4… what a powerful little gamepad that would be!
Bureaucratic cynicism aside, if recalling correctly the 1GB symmetrical fiber in Oakland is largely courtesy of a CA gov bid that Sonic won. As is the case widely across CA fiber installations, micro-trenching and otherwise.
What's odd is that detection of headphone jack worked in every distro and DE I've ever used (currently Arch Linux with pulseaudio and Gnome 3 on Wayland)

Gnome 3 on Wayland, by the way, was the only one that got fractional scaling right in my tests, with perfectly crisp fonts, after fiddling with gsettings

Well, at least for Wayland apps (XWayland gets blurry, unfortunately). I've heard people say that KDE on Xorg is okay, but, it feels a bit blurry still (or maybe it's because it has another default fonts), specially in browsers.
Welcome to Iran, UK of 17xx technology of 20xx regarding online monitoring and censorship
I suspect they would be invincible for sure. Keep in mind that modern main battle tanks are typically heavier than WW2 tanks, carry guns that are almost twice in diameter (76mm for the late war Sherman's vs 120mm for M1A1/2/3 Abrams) are much faster, have vastly improved electronics and night vision, counter measures, etc.
I’m interested to see what breaks first. I’m mainly hoping it’s not the switch or the power supply.
Huh, it looks like usage has shifted over time to mean this. I recall Arab as referring to a Semitic ethnic group but it appears today we use it to refer to speakers of Arabic. Well, TIL.
The site had intermittent 503's for me even before I posted it to HN, but yeah HN front page certainly wouldn't help the matter..
context problem can be solved by letting the AI build analogy about itself, then do transfer learning.

Here is the design.

A computer, all hardware documentation, all books about computer, this AI ,and an interface between you and the AI.
Annoying that you are getting down voted for what seems to be a very reasonable comment.

I have very few friends “in tech” and this is the view that basically all of them hold, this is the view that most of my family hold. Across the 100-150 people that spans the full (European) political spectrum and many different backgrounds and life experiences from growing up extremely wealthy, finding wealth through hard work (and luck) and success and borderline surviving - do not “SV tech circles”.

Basically it’s a view point that is able to accept nuance and grey. People who work in absolutes dominate headlines so it’s all we hear, in reality the majourity of people live in the middle.
I've never used the app or extension, but someone in this thread mentioned they have a web version:

https://www.fakespot.com/product/garagemate-open-your-garage...

It gives an A rating.
Grab a joint/vaporize some loose leaf herb; I don't know why people don't give cannabis to their disoriented, chronically disengaged elders more.
But "performative virtue" is--definitionally--fake. If it were real, it would just be "virtue". (And similarly, "political correctness" is something not quite correct--otherwise it would just be "correctness"!)

It's an actor "performing" as a character for a few hours, and then reverting back to their original personality.

> But you have to define what is virtuous before you can claim that performative virtue is “fake”.

No, strictly speaking you don't have to define anything. Whatever virtue is, it's consistently that. "Performative virtue" is inconsistent, often hypocritical, and therefore inauthentic.

> The young people of today are no less virtuous than their elders...

I can't speak to virtue in general, but with regards to duplicity it does seem like there's increasingly more of it:

1) young people still have access to whatever methods of duplicity old generations had, and can additionally virtue signal on social media on an unprecedented scale.

2) it seems like it's simply becoming acceptable to lie. Politicians will directly contradict their own video evidence, multiple times a day, and everyone shrugs and moves on. We've given up on norms of discourse and civility. To be clear, I'm not surprised that lies are being told; I'm surprised that there appears to be zero interest or any repercussions.

3) objective truth itself is under attack. It's becoming normalized that anyone can say whatever they feel at that moment and that they have "their truth" and I have "my truth". This is incredibly dangerous.
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A decade ago, there were more MP3 player choices with low cost and good quality, even supporting open-source firmware. Now there is low cost/quality and high cost/quality. This thread has more details, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26870648

There was a time when laptops had 4:3 screens. Then the market changed because of demand for HD-video screen ratios. Today, the only portable option for 13" 4:3 screens (vertical real estate for text editing) is iPad Pro.

Hyperscaler cloud vendors can now order custom CPUs that are simply unavailable to retail. There's an endless list of markets which have been altered as demand volume shifts from one segment to another.
when I worked in Zurich, I purposely hung out in the "bad" neighbourhood. Always more fun than the "business district." Didn't even smell pot anywhere. I was quite surprised.

Where I live, if there is a bar around, you'll smell pot outside. Wherever people congregate with smoke, there you will also find joints. This has been the case even well before we federally legalized it.
SQ4 was my first adventure game. I don't think I understood half the references when I played the first time and should reply the series at some point.

As a warning, some of the Sierra approach may seem obtuse or rough today. IIRC several of their games have actions that look like they do something, but make the game unwinnable later on, with no immediate signal or later explanation of what you did wrong.

But there is the internet for this, and they should run on several platforms via either dosbox/scummvm? The SQ collections are on sale on both gog and steam right now, around $6 for the whole series.
Full Throttle is the only LucasArts / Lucasfilm Games adventure game that I never bothered to finish.
See also: https://www.forbes.com/sites/elvaramirez/2021/06/01/study-no...
Interesting changes you made. I liked it.
Playing the Numbers with Interviews
No, no exploitable vulnerabilities will occur.

A computer machine, an operating system, this AI, some documentation about operating system and you.

It will build analogies and learn about the computer, and itself.

you can have this design isolated from internet, and sandboxed.
CT works when the scanned object is partially transparent to the light. In linked slides I was scanning a beer glass. I used father’s LP record player to have rotation at a fixed speed. Source of light was an LCD screen showing white picture in fullscreen.
Fixed record player rotational speed + fixed camera framerate gave me accurate angles to run backprojection. The backprojection algorithm I used for this CT proof of concept is rather unsophisticated. You simply “extrude” each 2D photo in the direction camera is looking at. Then you add up all these volumes from different photos and you’re done. Almost. You can get sophisticated and try to correct for various imperfections of this crude method.

Here are slides in Slovene with photos of my garage CT scanner https://drola.si/demos/ct_prezentacija.pdf

I believe photogrammetry is computationally vastly more complicated than CT but I haven’t gone deep into it yet.
Well, it’s mostly about the fact that he’s got an erection but anyway he’s got it going to his second rib. That distance is two iPhone X lengths on me, so about 11.1 inches.

Mate, maybe you came here to brag about how big your dick is but that’s a couple standard deviations above median. It is hardly “interesting” anyone’s remarking on it.
Europe had them in the middle ages too: Italy's seafaring republics (Venice, Genoa, Amalfi, Pisa et al) where (nominal) democracies, practically owned the Mediterranean sea and lasted a thousand years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_republics
The Unix CLI skills that I learned in the late 90’s in university have had the longest staying power of anything in my career. They have extended their usefulness to Mac and now Windows with WSL. Pretty cool.
This is sort of the motivation behind fanned fret electric bass guitars. The low b string on a fanned fret can gain 2-3" of extra length which makes quite the difference in string tension. It's no where near the fundamental note like the piano but increases the playability
740,000 cases out of 7.8 billion people, or less than 1 case per 7,800 people.

That’s not all that surprising to me.
Yep. I just signed up for a paid email service too.

Time to migrate everything off of google services.
Even so its still fun to think about!
They could trade with the rest of the world, and certainly did.
Makes sense.

I once read if humans were biologically immortal, everyone would basically get cancer if they lived to be 2,000 years old.

It's just inevitable.

Hopefully it comes later in life, rather than sooner.
> In the real world, if no one wants to host you and your group, the standard answer is to acquire money and buy your own land, your own broadcasting, etc. On the internet, this is much harder for 'normal' people to do, requiring them to use services like Google.

If anything, it's easier since you can own a small plot of land and host a few servers in a building you throw together, instead of having to feed a bunch of people, buy large tracts, build a temple, etc.

Get a metro-e connection, and it doesn't matter how repulsive your legal content is - this isn't some residential connection bringing in <$100/month, they won't drop you until you become a liability (which is basically when the FBI comes knocking) because they make so much money on dedicated lines. (Plus, there's early termination clauses, and the last thing Comcast is going to do is pay that to appease a Twitter mob - what are you gonna do, switch ISPs? This is America, if you're using Comcast, it's probably because the next best thing is DSL.)
Zara tops pre-pandemic levels
While the introduction section was informative somewhat, this is really written to promote a commercial service at the end. And it's badly out of place.
This is a cool idea, and I was really interested to see it be done, but I wouldn’t actually do this. There are a lot of parts to this just to have cheap colo, and I would be worried about failure of the components like the usb hubs taking down the cluster. you can get a Mac Mini colocated for $54/mo with 24/7 remote hands, a dedicated ip, remote power management, and gigabit uncapped bandwidth, which is much better hosting than that $30/mo offering, so you’re not paying more for nothing. An M1 Mac mini with 16 gb of ram and a 1 tb SSD is $1300 not on sale. From a cursory google of benchmarks, an M1 on geek bench is about 11x more powerful than a raspberry pi 4b, so you are getting much more compute. Also, the 16 gb of ram is directly integrated with the processor, there is no need to manage multiple nodes, the hardware is battle-tested, it has true gigabit Ethernet, and the people at the data center also understand the setup and can repair it for you easily.

I guess what I’m saying is - super cool that you did this (and I have a cluster of pis at home as well to play with, I love them) but if I was going to pay for colo, I would just colo a Mac mini.
If you're interested in this topic more in depth, I recommend "fluid concepts and creative analogies", which Melanie Mitchell coauthored. I think the systems described are definitely worth a revisit in the age of gradient descent machine learning.

About a decade ago I cold-emailed them asking to do a postdoc with them to specifically fuse these concepts but it didn't really work out.
in reality, this is irrelevant in this case. all of the on/off ramps, applications, wallets, etc will point to the consensus chain. in the case where miner rewards are completely removed (ie the switch to PoS), then there are definitely some issues, and those issues are being worked on.
This is wrong, obviously.
A History of SmarterChild
The average price of a new vehicle in the USA now starts at ~$40k, so your comparison isn't particularly relevant
Freedom Phone reminds me of this:
https://youtu.be/dR6eUOf5_nE
Yup. When they get too hot, they are absolutely unbearable. I'm sure that wrecks your lungs more than the raunchiest tobacco ever would. It doesn't even taste or smell good then.
> What's odd is that detection of headphone jack worked in every distro and DE I've ever used (currently Arch Linux with pulseaudio and Gnome 3 on Wayland)

This needs the kernel driver to get it right. It doesn't depend so much on what userspace audio server you use. In the end they all use ALSA.
This was explored before in an excellent blog post.

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metad...
> "This includes information about public voting procedures, political candidate eligibility based on age / birthplace, election results, or census participation that contradicts official government records."

Google going full Russia/China now. Democracy and free speech certainly declined in value when you are not allowed to document and host alleged voter fraud anymore.

In Europe this would easily be rejected in court.