skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More like "is it released after all those years". I've been very interested in the concept, but that's the last I've heard from them in the last 3-4 years.
I am very fed up with standards lacking a free and open reference implementation. It's very easy to produce a specification for embedding 3D models into a browser, but who is going to follow up with and actual complying browser?

The big guys, that's who.

Google, Microsoft, Apple can just throw piles and piles of money at the problem; but what about everyone else? What about Firefox? What about Palemoon? What about Falkon?

When the AV1 codec came about one of the first thing provided was the reference implementation (AOMenc), same with Wayland. Not the most performant, not the lightest on resources, but at least it followed the protocol.

W3C and alike though don't seem to like this perspective. Why can't we have an average performing BSD-licensed W3C-compliant web browser? Just as a last resort if you just want to use something that is sure to work, or maybe the first browser you can port to a new architecture or OS to get things going.
Is tor traffic that easy to detect?
I have been exploring ways to avoid sending this data to them. To start: using an instance of Pi-Hole and running all your apps will remove some tracking from them.

Following this up with paying for your subscription but pirating all the shows might help remove you from the cycle completely.

I understand the second point is not realistic for the majority of people but I wonder if in the future we might have an easy to use version of Pi-Hole that most people can just flip on and strip a large chunk of tracking from the apps.
It's not unreasonable as there was no contract or established program. You did the work without any defined outcome guaranteed.

I would take this disclosure (depending on what it is and how it impacts) and use it to market yourself and further your industry credibility.

If it's a big impact I think some sort of bounty is great, but you can use it as a pivot point to encourage them to build a program.
> The irony is that there's no actual difference between a fake NFT (token pointed to a URL) and a real one (token pointed to the same URL).

I'm not sure what you mean. The difference is precisely the same as the difference between a real Picasso painting and a skilled counterfeit of a Picasso painting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id6q1q-r-Sw

The compilation starts briefly from the later jail incident. The part depicted in the article (edited) starts at 0:34.
Technical literacy among young people is so depressing. I'm 36 so I grew up in the last of the non-digital native cohort - I vaguely remember life before the internet. But growing up surrounded by computers and the internet, but seeing many of my peers miss out, I was certain that the next generation would be so much more tech savvy. As full digital natives they will learn to code, understand the protocols on which their primary communications are built and just be steeped in this stuff from birth.

How naive I was. No one actually cares. It was like assuming everyone born after 1908 would fully understand how cars work.
Yeah, what I don't like is the hypocrisy of that and the authorities who play along. (S)he plays the "oh but you can't find me ;)" card every time it needs to escape prosecution ... yet makes use of the same legal system when it goes on its favor. (i.e. tries to trademark its art, sues others who reproduce it [1]). Good thing the EU doesn't play along.

As for me, I just dislike charlatans, disregarding of how famous they may be.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/sep/17/banksy-...
3> equivalent or worse software

1. Krita is very good for picture editing
And id say more user friendly than photoshop
2. For video editing, Davinci Resolve is often more reputable and popular in studios than Adobe premiere
3. Editing docs tho , ye kinda sucks but you can use wine to run office suite , libreoffice exists but i get your point on that one

The rest are either equivalent or superior for almost every usecase scenario tho.
Without having read the link, one obvious answer is that colour vision helps us tell what plants are ripe, but detecting absolute frequencies probably has little survival value.
Throw some coal in them and away they go.

They weren’t always electric.
OP here!

Here are a few:

- Structure Core: https://structure.io/structure-core
Closest to RealSense in functionality that I've tried so far, but pricier. Software is in a private developer portal instead of a Git repo where everyone can submit issues and pull requests and comment, so it's not as easy to get help as RealSense when you run into issues.

- Mynt Eye: https://www.mynteye.com/ From my understanding the S models eat into your GPU and the D models have on-board processing, but the D models seem sold out.

- ZED: https://www.stereolabs.com/zed/ They eat into your GPU. No on-board processing.

I'd be very interested to know about others, especially if there are more that can do on-board processing, since I typically need my entire GPU for other tasks.
>"many well-known apps are not there"

Not Mac user but I guess it is the same as for Windows. I have some desktop products for Windows. The thought of releasing them to MS Store had never crossed my mind.
Ouch, really? Cyberduck was always one of my first installs simply due to how much I spited Finder, but I didn't know things were... that bad.
At work, yes.
The hype/buzzword driven development surrounding micro services/containerization has hit middle America and enterprises spend dumb amounts of money on related projects. I can see them spending more money on Docker Desktop with no difficulty, because the incentive is not to save money.
I would not be surprised if this wasn't the goal of design in the first place
Yeah but I don’t give a fuck about nature doing natural things. I give a lot of fucks about ensuring that eco diversity is preserved and right now that means hill climbing. I’m okay with local optima because I know mankind survived in one.
Thanks to everyone for reading - we are just starting to get our company writing and thoughts out in front of the world so it means a lot!
Certainly the OEMs (and retailers) have been having a field day with shareholders over this, but I think the obvious flaw with this conspiracy theory being the actual plan is that they could not have timed it worse. 2020 was one of the best years of PC sales (ever; one of the industries that did quite well with the shift in "safe at home" needs) and the OEMs weren't in that much need of another one just so soon. On top of that, the banner year of sales in 2020 created the largest semiconductor shortage in recent history, which we are still dealing with the repercussions of (the automobile industry almost entirely shut down and has huge stock of cars waiting for chips, for one big for instance; the continued lack of available supply of the Xbox Series X/S in stores despite Microsoft's promises to shareholders this year for another that should be obvious to Microsoft), and combined with the Great Logistics Crisis of 2021 every OEM should have a pretty good idea right now that Holiday sales are going to be extremely cramped right now in terms of possible supply.
Did you see where a GitHub project was forked, and the maintainer of the fork had people at his place of residence threatening physical violence? This shit sounds made up, but craycray is rampant on the internet.
The idea that armor increases injury risk is a fascinating case study of unintended consequences.

Similar “safety irony” claims I’ve heard include:

* Mandatory bike helmet laws increase total risk to life because having to wear a helmet deters people from cycling so they drive instead, and thus miss out on the increased cardio health they would have got from cycling.

* Trains are too safe, meaning they have to meet such stringent safety criteria that the costs are raised to the point that people drive instead, and driving is much more dangerous.

And my favorite personal anecdote: a ruined castle in Portugal which had a staircase leading up to a high ledge with no barrier. It was so obviously dangerous that everyone was taking a lot of care up there…
Well, I have to say, as someone who's not politically aligned with the sort of people who tend to be the loudest defenders of "controversial" ideas and the loudest opponents of deplatforming (because they somehow always come up with reasons that my controversial ideas don't count), that I am cautiously optimistic about what's being published here.

I was going to make some snarky comment about whether the "controversial" ideas here include the moral necessity of the proletariat revolution, the need to abolish and prosecute the police, a defense of open borders, etc. But in fact the articles in issue 1 (https://www.journalofcontroversialideas.org/volumes_issues/1... - click "Read more" -> "Full article" -> "View Full-text" on any of the articles to see them) include

- a defense of violent action to protect animals, as done by various animal-rights activists

- a rebuttal of a paper claiming that "women" are "adult human females" (by which I assume is meant "cis females"), which replies that the paper gives no reason to dispute that trans women are women

- a dive into the merits of blackface-ish traditions, which ends up concluding that the Dutch "Black Pete" character is not actually defensible (though others are)

- an argument in favor of "global enlightened despotism" to save the world from climate change

It isn't literally a call to guillotine every billionaire, but it's a whole lot closer than I expected it to be. Yes, there are also papers in here arguing that left-wing opponents of scientific racism are no better than young-earth creationists, that you shouldn't deplatform Steve Bannon, etc. But I came in expecting it to be only that and it isn't.

(I do agree with another commenter's point that, essentially, most of the ideas here - especially the counter-rebuttal by the original author of the "Are women adult human females" paper - are firmly within the Overton window of discourse, and so this journal is not strongly succeeding at widening the window.)
Human activity currently puts about a million species at risk of extinction [1]. I don't feel picking a few, coincidentally aesthetically pleasing species as winners really moves the needle in terms of the health of the global ecosystem.

Aggressively spraying poisons into the environment has decimated insect populations across the globe and, consequently is also thought to threaten bird populations which eat these insects. It is a short-sighted solution.

The harshness of the conditions for the humans choosing to do this task really has no bearing whatsoever on the task's impact on the global ecosystem. For someone so critical of feelings, that's quite an emotional appeal you have going there.

[1] https://www-nature-com.mines.idm.oclc.org/articles/d41586-01...
Would you say Benflourex is an outlier or the norm regarding the EUs stance?
You can also distinguish between a soprano singing vs. a baritone, or a flute playing vs. a saxophone.

It’s when you start trying to distinguish the same type of sound to the nearest semitone that it gets hard (unless trained, ideally from a young age).
Totally agree. I was excited by this journal's existence, and then disappointed when everything in the first issue was philosophical in nature, and not scientific. The 'papers' in there right now are basically just unusually formal blog comments.

Hopefully as they get more attention they'll attract more interesting controversial scientific takes.
Yes, phone books are murder.
You want Apple to pick 100 big apps and promote them?

That would take away from the smaller person's chance.

That list grows stale and complaints over who is on the list starts.
Thanks.

I meant it's my job to translate the subtitles, and it would be nice if CheckSub supported this use case better.
That's you explaining why this particular product is good. But something can be a synthesizer with terrible buttons and unhelpful behaviors, can't it?
Too busy prioritizing muslim outreach, who would expect a space agency to, ya know, prioritize going to space.
> (I work at Microsoft).

Just in case you didn't know, since the SolarWinds debacle from last year, Microsoft has completely blocked authorisation for corpnet and other tools on anything other than enrolled devices. And since they only support managed devices on Windows/MacOS, using Linux for day job is a no go. Last I checked, circa Jan, I couldn't use Teams/Office on a web browser in Linux (of course, this might have changed in the meantime).
Get an old coal one.
My preferred alternative would be something like Sabnzbd. It's a headless daemon/service that runs. If you go to it in the taskbar & click "Show interface", it opens a web browser pointed at localhost.

I see very little reason for 98% of electron apps to do anything other than this. Apps are no longer in the business of distributing their own virtual machine (the web browser) and there's less memory usage.

That said, plenty of great electron apps run at well under 300MB. I'd wager that browser runtime accounts for like a bit under 200MB of that usage. That's sizable but even on my 4GB laptop seems ridiculous to squabble about. Personally I think people complaining loudly about this level of usage are people who'se opinions should be marked as not important, that they're people who generate more stress for themselves & others than any of us should voluntarily opt to listen to. It's controversial to me that anyone would make such a stir & controversy about this. Personally I want online social defense tools to help me remember & be warded off from people for whom this is an issue. I'm sure many of them probably would like to be warded off from me in the future. There's so many more interesting places to go stake myself.
Distribution of gasoline doesn't seem like it should be a government role. Distribution of mail, especially to the last mile routes that aren't profitable, does.
Quantile estimators based on k order statistics, Part 4
NFTs are simply part of the high-end art market getting rid of the art, as it is an unnecessary distraction from what's actually going on in that part of the market.
It is worth remembering that we are barely 100 years from the time in which the notion of galaxies was not common. The textbook itself discusses Nebulae near the end, in all of 2--3 pages.[1]

From p. 199: It was consequently thought, at once, that all nebulae might be shown to be star clusters under sufficiently high powers of the telescope. But the spectrascope has shown that such an inference is untenable, as the spectra of the two things are quite different, and that the spectrum of a nebula contains a line which is found nowhere else, and which is attributed to some substance called nebulum, and which is totally unknown anywhere except in a nebula.

I propose we adopt neo-nebulum as a more neutral term than dark matter!!

[1] https://archive.org/details/cu31924031322203/page/n213/mode/...
Yeah, it’s quite sad, it’s just another business milking attention, controversy and art with an f.
Cooking food can be considered processing it. The problem is that the verb "processing" can mean nearly anything and isn't helpful for discussion. It often gets invoked as some kind of nonspecific boogeyman.
> write pages and pages on topics that they clearly aren't trained in at all?

Also known as "journalism".
> One should note that colours perception may also essentially differ from one individual to another.

Sure, but most people can reliably and predictably name some dozen colours.

> That skill is not that useful, including for trained musicians.

If people in general had had perfect pitch, music might have looked different from today. Absolute pitch would probably have been an important feature. The reason it isn't important is precisely because most people can't perceive it.
Hm, that's a shame. That seems to me to be just accidental, not essential complexity, too.
I don't think that it should, but I will say that people do tend to appreciate it. That said, as you said, nothing wrong with not doing it. With Rust, we just made a template for these sorts of posts that include a sentence explaining what Rust is right at the start, so no burden for us.
Totally agree with you.

In the 60's when I grew up, there was one mother on our street who had a "great" job, some mothers worked full time jobs, some worked out of the house (ironing, babysitting, etc), but most with younger kids did not work.

Each decade, women shifted more toward working outside the house, full time, and having good jobs on par with men. This has continued to where potential grandmothers also work, so cannot help with kids like they used to.

Working has given women a lot more options than they used to have since they are not as financially dependent on men, but somebody still has to take care of houses and raise kids, and now that both parents usually work, this is a lot more difficult.

We used to be able to have a decent family life on one income. Not so much a possibility now.
But is there something fundamental about Bitcoin that makes it unlikely to be usurped by something better?

I'm seeing a lot of blind confidence in your comment.
Project Hug is basically a bribe, rather than a discount: It's not offered to everyone. Just developers who are likely to strike out on their own. (EA and Activision both being companies who have bucked the Steam train before, demonstrating a willingness to launch outside of monopoly app platforms.)
From their perspective it might feel a bit like a hostage situation: "I found a way into your house. How much you going to pay me tell you how?"

From your perspective I would imagine that exploring the vulnerability, packaging and capturing the steps-to-reproduce are all work. Work should be paid for.

In summary, I don't think they can make demands of your time and effort by requiring you to package and share. But don't let it sound like a you have anything they have a right to or that you're holding anything hostage.
Congrats to Spenser, Curtis, and the whole team. From a YC pivot to a Nasdaq-listed company, bravo! Couldn't have happened to a more genuinely awesome group.
Recent and related:

Best RealSense replacements? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28225065 - Aug 2021 (80 comments)

Intel is giving up on its AI-powered RealSense cameras - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28218354 - Aug 2021 (14 comments)
Stay. Buy some land. Get enough to cover property taxes for N years... (remember, there is no such thing as 'owning' land while property tax can still be used to steal it back from you)

Build something sustainable on that land, in an area you wish to be - and have your forever home built out by the time youre ~30...

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Alternate, I worked with a guy who would work for 6 months as a contractor, then travel for 12 months. he had a niche skill though... so he was always able to comback to hardware engineering in spaces where few resources were available...

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Alternate: make a very nice travel bus and spend your 20s like we all would: travelling and exploring - get the fuck out of the cubicle.
Someone really needs to study this phenomenon. If someone said "I don't drive a Prius because I need to tow my boat" and five people immediately said "Hey I put a HEMI v8 diesel engine in my Prius, and it works great to tow my cart full of rocks! (But I haven't tried it on the open road)" you'd think "What are these people doing? Do they think that was helpful?" Do any academic papers touch on what is going on here?
It was free of charge.
Those things were printed at most once per year. Lots of information can change in a year. Online data can be as close to realtime as it gets. There's a large chasm of difference in MaBell's book and the internet. MaBell also would charge you to be unlisted, but you could provided fake names/info that would be printed in the book instead.
Measure the upside

Apart from the financials which you addressed, does deeper experience in the hustle open up opportunities for better lateral career moves should the hustle plateau or bust?

Measure the risk

Are you able to assess a runway for the hustle? Assuming that digging in would involve some non-time investment that would potentially eat into your savings, can you realistically compartmentalize "could vs should"?

Early 20s offers a lot of time to recover from any serious mis-step and you have a lot of opportunity in front of you.

Measure the counter-argument:

If you don't do it:
-What are you leaving on the table?
-Will you be okay with a FANG role, or would you miss the opportunity to learn firsthand?
-Will you be able to learn more with someone else footing the bill?
> Almost anybody can say "That was a violin" or "That was a female voice" or "That was a guitar" with basic training.

That's about timbre, not pitch.
I have a trick for that. I search up or down whistling from middle-C and count, that number modulo 12 is the pitch. Of course that only works for the range that I can whistle.
the difference is that this is public stock and so you can sell as soon as it vests. Different from private options/RSU that can only be sold on secondary market, which is not as easy.
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Hopefully this gets resolved in the future. If I had something particularly controversial to contribute in my field, I would happily.
In public or interacting with co workers? I would hope sex would be uncommon in those situations!
I've commented before on how using "teach-the-controversy" to describe this idea of letting people have the discussions they want embodies the view of the world as a classroom. This is already the second time ArsTechnica uses this description. Some headline editor there really thinks that this is a clever phrase. They really think of redditors as school children.
It was the opposite for me.

I ended up losing some pounds over pandemic. Nothing major, but enough that people who hadn't seen me in a while told me I looked like I was.

I definitely eat better at home.

Also, I wonder how much of it was the daily XL double double from Tim Hortons at 30g of sugar. Plus we often used to go grab another at lunch as a group. 60g sugar/day. Hadn't eaten food yet. Yikes!

Frankly, the sweetness in foods that aren't meant to be sweet is incredible. Since I've started working at home and brewing my own, I can barely get through one. Once you cut some of it out you start to notice it more.