skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adding my yea to the mix.

For one, anime enables storytelling on a level and scope that would ordinarily be too expensive for real film production for most stories told. As an aside I think we're about to see a whole new level of mind-bending "realism" afforded to lower budget productions with tools like UE4/5.

You could argue that "animation" in general does this, but the particular (myriad) stylization choices in Japanese animation carry a fairly unique appeal. I think this was borne of a long-existing cultural tradition of prolifically illustrative literature.

For my part I had family that liked DBZ and similar ilk. The over-the-top-ness blinded me to the appeal as it just felt blah to me. It wasn't until I encountered more serious, darker themes in GITS, SEL, and others that I really grew attracted to the artistic potential of the medium.

I personally feel that art, in whatever form, is validated by making the observer feel something. Even if it makes them feel disgusted, annoyed, inspired, becalmed, horrified, and so forth. Given this, I value anime (or storytelling in general) that knocks me over the head with the emotional intent of the storyteller. It's really hard to get right without being heavy-handed (thus diluting the effect).

Two amazing examples come to mind: "Grave of the Fireflies" and "Ghost Hound"

Grave of the Fireflies is semi-autobiographical and will mess you up for days afterwards. Kind of like Bjork's "Dancer in the Dark". Both do an excellent job of forcing you to take a perspective that most will (fortunately) never have to endure in real life.

Ghost Hound touches on frankly f'ed up themes that an adolescent is trying to cope with. It engages supernatural elements that honestly at times practically noped me out for the imagery and setting alone. Of course this is animated fiction but the way the viewer is pulled in to the story with the protagonist was so well done that you can forget the medium to a degree. Highly recommended.

(Don't read/watch anything about these before watching if you can avoid doing so. Best to come in unopinionated.)

On a side note, I found SEL polarization to be very telling. Some people absolutely hated Serial Experiments Lain, while others like me were drawn to the bizarre reality of the story. I think the fact that this medium can be so polarizing validates my claim that this is art.
It's not this change in particular, it's that you can get paid image registries with better customer support at a lower price point and higher availability. Docker needs to value add to their bare registry product otherwise they will be outcompeted by larger companies that can offer registries as part of a larger product suite.

Unfortunately, Docker's most valuable addition, developer environments, is only for two of the three OSes used most commonly by developers in a corporate environment. No company is going to adopt a feature that can only be used by two-thirds of its workforce.
I thought this Twitter thread by one of the Google WebGL folks and a response from an Apple Webkit engineer had some good perspectives:

https://twitter.com/Tojiro/status/1432382837735374855
At this point, I am ~90% convinced that Shiri's Scissor is real.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
This is going in the wrong direction. Government shouldn't be imposing regulations on monopolistic app stores when competition can naturally break the monopolies and bring them in line with developer and consumer needs. Let there be multiple app stores, charging developers competitive fees and implementing competitive security and convenience features. Don't let the platform favor any particular app store, or raise barriers to app mobility between stores. See how long 30% fees and hostile policies last when any developer can just upload their apps to another store with minimal modifications, and any consumer can easily use that store.
And still, making an honest living doing decent work you don't necessarily love, to support a family, is honorable and noble. Many have been beloved by their posterity for doing just that. And it is often necessary. And families are well worth it. :)
Questions I have: Why was 48GB chosen? Were 100GB uploads intended or has this been running 'fine' for the last 5 years?
The weird aspect about our perception of colors is how our brains interpret them relative to nearby colors (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion#/media/File:C...)
How is this limiting anything? I see this as adding options, and I'd like to see it adopted across the world.
I work in computer security and I see a lot of experts like Matt Blaze being inundated by crazy conspiracy theorists. These are people who have spent years working against the tide to improve voting technology -- primarily by advocating for paper trails in electronic voting systems. Now, having seen many of these goals achieved, these experts are being attacked on Twitter by conspiracy theorists who are attacking even voting machines with a paper record based on insane theories (involving the President of Venezuela). These positions have nothing to do with the security of voting machines, they're crazy nonsense. Much of which is being promoted by supporters of a candidate who refuses to accept that he lost.

To pretend that a bunch of people just "switched sides on the issue of voting machines" is totally counterfactual. It's perfectly reasonable to want to improve insecure DREs, and many people on all sides of the political spectrum wanted this. It is not reasonable to decide (en masse) that the family of Hugo Chavez owns a voting machine company, and that somehow they're conspiring to change votes in ways that can't be detected in the paper trail -- and moreover believing all of this insanity without the slightest shred of evidence.

I don't expect much from HN, but I do expect much, much better.
Besides what's already been brought up, what other problems do you think there are?
Catholic Church in Poland does not differ much.
Win 10 has a reset button in settings similar to mobile phones.
Labor is very expensive, I'd rather it be spent working on gcc-rs rather than making reports about working on gcc-rs more elaborate. I do think that it'd be reasonable to expect anyone who's somewhat interested in what this is about to investigate themselves. Having said that, I don't believe that this kind of a post is necessarily well suited for being posted on HN exactly because it's not aimed towards a more general audience but rather it's specifically targeted towards people who're already interested in the project.
Who says we can identify colours well?

Try learning to paint and you'll perhaps see that your perception of colour isn't as good as you think. I did and it certainly opened my eyes, pun intended.

As for recognizing pitches, it's a trainable skill. I learned to play guitar a while back and it was interesting to watch the skill unfold.

Some of the open chords started to appear to me almost as distinct as different people's voices.

The first time it happened I was listening to Paul McCartney's "band on the Run" and just knowing that he was playing C then FMaj7 (Well, the rain exploded with a mighty crash...)

I'm just ok at learning parts by ear, some people are on another level.

I think the most interesting thing that this points to is that there is probably a whole world of skills that one cannot even imagine until one begins to acquire them.

I remember wondering how my guitar teacher could transcribe songs so easily, but now that I am a 'stream enterer' for that skill, I can sort of see what that must be like.
That just gets us back to the topic way above: if we aren't giving that tracking data to TV producers, it's tough to complain when our favorite nerdy/intelligent shows get cancelled.

That's the deep weird irony that we live in a world where we could have the best possible numbers (directly tracked statistics), and yet TV Producers are still relying (for the most part) on Phone and Snail Mail Survey Results because they don't think they can trust streaming provider numbers. Pi-Holing those numbers just gives those Producers even more reason to feel that they are lies or wrong. At what point do you Pi-Hole too many telemetrics to oblivion and aren't allowed to complain when your favorite TV shows get canceled because "no one" was watching it?
I haven't used Prodfiler [yet] but I've been watching Thomas's updates on LinkedIn as their team has been building the product and I'm very curious to give it a shot to see how it goes soon. It seems they've been building up to this launch for a while.

The dashboard looks pretty slick from the screenshots!
So being able to get something after a wait is worse than not being able to access it at all by being priced out? That's a hot take.

Just because something is "priced" in a different quantity doesn't mean that it isn't cheaper or higher quality overall. That requires a more sophisticated argument than a simple observation that there's still some cost.
> This is what intersectionality is supposed to be about

Intersect enough and you start dealing with individuals

And no one has time for that
> It's the difference between emitted and reflected light

Wat?

Everyone who observed that optical illusion did so by observing it on an emitted light panel.

Color perception is entirely relative. There are countless images that demonstrate this. For example: http://www.optical-illusionist.com/illusions/same-color-illu...

When we perceive emitted light color we’re also perceiving RGB emissions that are blended. I love giant LED panels that when you get close you can clearly see the individual colors. It’s a trip.

Humans are horrible (incapable?) at evaluating absolute color. It’s entirely relative.
> I could not even get Windows 10 Build 1903 to boot with a newer GPU. I had to boot using the iGPU and update to 21H1, and then I could boot. Trying to install the driver on 1903, the installer said this version of Windows was not supported (!)

but this is a driver/software issue. you can pinpoint your software to higher versions.
As somebody who has used belief propagation a lot, before the current neural network renaissance, I'm not yet optimistic of that. (However, I have been wrong enough in the past to be somewhat humble about my ability to predict these things!)

As I see it, the current big machine learning models use data that can't fit well on a single machine, or training regimes that can't fit onto a single machine, but the end model still fits on a single GPU or box.

What I understand them to be advocating for here, is a model that is bigger than can fit on a single chip, that can use belief propagation to scale to that number of variables/size. I don't yet know what sort of applications that could address, so that's my primary point of skepticism about this sort of huge model being developed. BUT, my lack of imagination is not much of an argument on its own, it's merely the absence of an argument, not an actual argument against such large models being useful.
Could be nice to see something like that in music visualization.
Miss this feature in online music services..
Agreed. The last time Microsoft tried to run on underpowered hardware, we had vista. It was a solid platform but was a big resource jump from XP
Even on the same instrument, skilled people can often pick out what range it is being played in due to timbre changes. However, this is much more difficult if not nearly impossible when using pure tones like a tuner. These timbre changes can even differ between two semitones depending on the physical properties of the thing producing sound. A B on a trombone is going to sound different than a Bb since B is played in 7th position while Bb is played in 1st position.
But importantly, face-to-face doesn't do anything to mollify that, which is against what the GP says.
It's become very trendy these days to be hyper-pragmatic and dismiss attempts to push forward new big ideas or programming languages as frivolous.

"Shut up and give me another 500 lines of PHP, we have (made up) deadlines to meet!"
> Ask HN: Why don’t you use Linux as your daily driver OS?

Because, like it or not (I don't) DX11 outperforms OpenGL on my target hardware.

But on the plus-side, VS is incredibly comfy.
Your scenario had occurred to me, and it’s not wildly improbable. But I don’t think we should form public policy, especially if our adjustments might be disharmonious with the Constitution, on the basis of any scenarios that we can dream up. In this case the accused already knows where she lives, and any imagined affect on her security by publishing her address depends on supposition.
Several years ago I used a Tor Hidden Service in a professional capacity to expose an application from a Wireless network with properties that we wouldn't know ahead of time.

Worked like a charm, and no regrets. My favorite part was telling my employer "We're using TOR for this" eyebrows.
I know :)

That's the "Clueless" section of that essay.
Although I concede and agree with you on a basic level that base frequency is more like color than timbre, there are some other interesting factors.

One. Almost all instruments have different timbre depending on the pitch. At least at large scales, your voice's deepest note does not have the same timbre as your midrange, or your highest note. Similarly with pianos. I wonder if this is also true on a micro level between A and B on a piano?

Two. As I mentioned above, perfect pitch folks _don't recognize sine waves as well as piano notes_. Why? That's very curious.

In any case, I was also going to mention that musical notes are interesting because they loop. A is 440Hz and 880Hz. I was expecting to find something like 2x blue frequency = yellow, which would highlight a difference between color and sound. However, interestingly, that is not the case. The entire visible spectrum of light is within one "octave" of frequency. Fascinating... :)
WebGPU will enable next gen gaming in the browser
This seems like a relevant link:
https://medium.com/crowdbotics/a-complete-one-by-one-guide-t...
Short Tips on How to Deal with Technical Debt
All set, thanks!
> Young people (say under <20, those that actually don't use FB[1]) have no need for FB in the first place - they see their friends every day in school, in parascholar activities and social gatherings.

Yeah..2020 and the better part of 2021 might have something to say about that
> No, we have lots of long term information about nonstick cookware. People forget we've been using nonstick cookware since the 1950's.

That’s not a study.

> You won't be able to come up with a falsifiable hypothesis, because our PFC exposure via other routes is so high.

We’re so poisoned by these chemicals it’s impossible to run a study to figure out if one possible source of them specifically is measurably poisoning us. Maybe we should consider banning them, or just avoiding them in general.

> PFAS surfactants are used in the manufacture of the coatings, but it boils off when the coating is baked

See sibling comments.

> if you handle a water resistant jacket and then eat a sandwich, you'll ingest measureable quanities of PFAS

I try to avoid synthetic fabrics when I can, so in my case it’s not like your lifeguard scenario.

I also think the government should step in to limit the use of plastics generally.
Yeah. There needs to be a middle ground. Terrible things are happening around the world, and nobody has the time or energy to attend to all of them. On the other hand, if somebody is calling a co-worker some racist term, looking aside is pretty cowardly. Everybody should probably think this through for themselves and figure out what they can live with.
What is the value add for Docker Desktop?

In a world where podman exists, what's the point of docker on dev machines anyway?
>They recently stopped allowing skipping a release unless you pay, and then promptly shipped a point release with a showstopper bug.

Whoa, really? Is this written up somewhere?

My first "WTF" with docker was in Fall 2015 when we dockerized our app and had it nicely set up so we could tell employees "run this command and the app Just Works" ... and then they introduced a breaking change to the format of docker compose files so it just mysteriously stopped working in the middle of the day.
- Star Trek: Bridge Crew

- Space Nerds in Space (previously on HN)

- Thorium https://nova.thoriumsim.com

- Objects in Space (abandonware) https://store.steampowered.com/app/824070/Objects_in_Space/

There's also a hard-to-find book from 1978, "The Complete Star Ship: A Simulation Project" by Roger Garrett, that included a pseudocode implementation of a bridge simulator. https://www.biblio.com/9780918398109
> They recently stopped allowing skipping a release unless you pay

I honestly thought that's a bug. That is so ridiculous if that's intentional. I agree with your post and have similar experiences with Docker for Mac
You can now get 'cordless' (electric) irons. Like an electric kettle, they heat up while sitting in the (decidedly non-cordless) base, but you don't have to contend with the cord while actually doing the pressing. I am a bit doubtful about whether they are much of an improvement over the usual corded kind, but the one person I know who has one insists that she greatly prefers it.
> 3. Reliability around on/off/on/off/suspend operations like that of a laptop.

This is definitely caused by unsupported hardware. I'm using Linux for many years, suspend works 100% of the time on my Librem 15 and Lenovo.
I have to restart Docker for Mac multiple times a day. I'm surprised there hasn't been a community driven open source alternative yet
You can always join, work nights, and shift the hours over the first month or two. Probably worth it for a 2x pay increase.
Yeah, that's probably not gonna happen. At the scale Docker is operating at now, the reason the Mac app sucks, is because it's really hard. They already have the resources to throw at this problem now and this is the product we have.

This is purely a $$$ move (which is fine) but we shouldn't expect an order of magnitude more work going into the product as a result of this move, imo.
Thanks for listening, Justin. Looking forward to updates. I know it must be tough facing a lot of adversity from the community. I hope you guys continue playing to your strengths, improve customer support (number 1 in my book) and continue beefing out your product portfolio so companies like the one I work for can build healthy relationships with Docker, Inc.
The places where I worked there's an inverse relationship - the smaller the cost, the harder it is to justify with finances. ($4000 monthly AWS bill for "testing purposes"? No questions asked. $10 wireless mouse? Mission impossible!)
> The fact that Secundio was buried rather than cremated contradicts the long-held idea that Roman funeral rites were followed strictly for fear of incurring the wrath of the gods.

> Mount Vesuvius’ pyroclastic flows and poisonous fumes killed around 2,000 people in Pompeii and the neighboring city of Herculaneum.
No. Companies able to manage additional offshore complexity produce enough per engineer to not care for the savings, and the effort required to deal with that complexity can in many cases be more productively spent on growing revenues. Such companies go offshore for additional talent, not savings.
I played rugby and there is no way I'll let my children play. Spinal injuries from scrum collapses are way too common, and there is a view of scrum being a fundamental part of the sport so they only mitigate it by not pushing in scrum until a certain age, doing 3 against 3 scrums and so on. By the time the boys are 15 they like the game and start playing hard and getting hurt.
I'd rather have them row, run, play soccer, surf, and so many other options
I keep hearing about this project over and over again. Do you know what is the current status of that project?
LinkedIn is abandoning its Stories format
Anatomy of a Bigot
That’s assuming some kind soul in engineering management has the patience and leverage to guide this through 10 layers of purchasing, procurement, finance, legal etc…

Another likely outcome is that it’s “easier” for teams to switch to another tool (easier in that at least they’re not waiting on a third party for approval) and everyone loses a lot of time

Big corporations are not the most efficient beasts for this kind of situation
One of the things I’ve realized is that

- if you are in the habit of defending rights, you will necessarily spend a lot of time defending the worst kinds of people: Good, wholesome (non edge case) people typically do not behave in a way that conflicts with others, and if they do, they are unlikely to invoke “muh rights” as a defence.

- the same with social justice: Who else is going to require social justice advocacy other than people who are considered disgusting enough by society to be treated unjustly?

I felt the same sense of cautious optimism because this journal seems to be another manifestation of the two examples I just mentioned above. They are doing the grunt work of allowing people with coherent but unpopular arguments to air them, hopefully leading to a better society for the rest of us.
>Micropayments can never solve that most web content is worth 0 dollars and 0 cents.

The irony is that most of the actually valuable content is user generated. A site like Reddit could be actively curating all of the great content that people give away for free and people would pay for it. Then Reddit could actually pay their content creators. And -poof- we have high quality content that is worth paying for and people getting paid to generate it - all without the scourge of ads.
I have perfect pitch. Perfect pitch is basically rounding the frequency to the nearest pitch in your resolution. As a pianist, my resolution is more or less half of a semitone, so I can tell that a note is off, but it doesn't get really annoying until it's so off that it's close to rounding to the next note.

This resolution differs from person to person, mostly based on how they use it. I had a piano tuner visit my house yesterday as it so happens and his resolution was to about 10 cents. It was amazing.
Paywalled, but: https://theathletic.com/2755968/2021/08/09/cox-is-heading-ab...

The main suggestion is that heading could be banned outside the 2 penalty boxes.
> COVID Death Rate per 100,000, by State

For the point the article is trying to make, this is a useless metric.

Do death rate per 100,000 starting after vaccines were generally available and the partisanship lean will be much more apparent.
Why do you imagine that rural towns are all terrible suburban sprawl?

The issue is that we have allowed our built environment to become too centralized. In that sense the Boom Cities ARE the problem. Instead of one strip mall a dozen corner stores on an old school, "It's a wonderful life" small town main streets we have Times Square, and a bunch of overbuilt "new urbanist" attempts to mimic the magic that took 200 years to build.

Leon Krier has made this point visually here. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUX70P7UYAEchHS.jpg:large
https://news.ufl.edu/archive/2003/04/uf-study-remaining-chil...

https://ifstudies.org/blog/does-having-children-make-people-...

https://sciencenorway.no/ageing-childlessness-children/older...

https://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/enduringlove/sites/w...
Again, I disagree with the assertion that wider is any more true to human vision, primarily since distortions are immediately apparent as the focal length gets shorter than 24mm or even 28mm. Using very short focal lengths just compresses what would otherwise be peripheral vision towards the center. This isn't somehow "more true" to human vision.

In order for such short focal lengths to truly be representative of human vision, you'd have to abandon rectilinear optics and flat media; and you'd have to graduate the level of detail such that most of the resolution was concentrated in the center rather than the periphery. If you're not willing to do so, a "normal" focal length reproducing the central vision will always be truer to human vision due to having a more reasonable perspective.