skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a subreddit for DIY in ear monitors. Pay close attention to the first post on this page in particular: https://www.reddit.com/r/DIEMs/comments/kfdwf5/made_my_first...

However, you do not need a 3D printer at all to make wonderful in ear monitors. Also, I prefer clear shells (as a color for the headphones) by far. It is also not difficult to make proper ear impressions, too. See this for example: http://static.speedwaymotors.com/pdf/910150509.pdf

However, this was my basic search technique to find this document about making your own ear impressions: "impressions" AND "ear" AND "bite block" AND "make" filetype:pdf

I made a post that is lower down on this thread that gives the 411 on everything you need to know including using them with a phone that does not have a 3.5 mm jack. This includes for microphone use, like making phone calls.
"Adversity gives life meaning" is a lie pushed by people who want to encourage those in adverse circumstances to know their place. If you want to feel like "nothing you do really matters", all you have to do is take a minimum wage job at any store or restaurant where management will constantly remind you that you're a replaceable cog, that if they could pay you less they would except that it would be illegal (so they'll settle for illegally garnishing wages and asking you to come in early or stay late off the clock), and where you'll realize that there's no way to keep doing this and make rent and healthcare - much less to get ahead.
In some shots yes but not in all, in others the extra wide shot could not be used because production elements could be seen or it drastically changed the framing of the scene so cropping was also extensively used.

You can see this in many other early 2000’s shows like TWW.
Link currently returning 502 Bad Gateway. Probably should've wrapped this in an archive.is link.
Occasionally, a child will die due to accidentally being left on a bus that overheats. This feels like a problem that could be solved with a camera or two on each bus plus some computer vision logic. This might almost be too “easy” of a project from a technical standpoint … but it is a real problem.

Examples:

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/07/6d6979264de4-japa...

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-settlement-auti...
Sting interpolation, aka f-string, pep 498. Uses the .format mini-language plus expressions. Python 3.6+
> One downside of both hierarchical and network (graph) models that is not mentioned either in the post or parent comment is, "access path dependence". Network model allows multiple paths but basically just forestalls the issue.

Yes. I think that this access path independence is an essential part of the relational query approach, (of which SQL is one example), being high-level. And once you have such a language, query optimization becomes essential.
I'm afraid that this is one of the expected outcomes of lowering and even outright eliminating preventative measures, such as mask mandates and social distancing, and placing all the chips on the current generation of Covid vaccines being sufficiently effective in lowering covid-related deaths.

If the virus is allowed to run rampant throughout the population then the odds that an unfortunate mutation happens is far higher, as it's proportional to the number of infected hosts, and there is also an evolutionary pressure in favour of strains that aren't effectively countered by the host's immune system and spread more efficiently. Consequently, it's only a matter of time before, just like the Delta variant showed, the wrong kind of strain is developed.
> Also not all language ecosystems support static linking at all, e.g .NET

The “language ecosystem” of .NET supports static linking via .NET Native, doesn't it?
Whatever the other failings of this redesign, the ampersand is a winner, a full-bodied, chewy soft pretzel of a thing. I want to bite into that ampersand and feel its warm, doughy goodness fill the spaces between my teeth.

I enjoyed this fun poke at television UX far more than I enjoy watching football. Thanks for sharing!
Apart from the other points mentioned, I want to add that funding could be a potential issue for studies based on human subjects. More expensive and time consuming compared to studying flies.

The general flow of such research is to test various hypothesis on animals and then move forward to human studies only for the most promising ones.
I guess just like the Panama papers, leading journalists will be killed, investigations stop being reported in mainstream media, and the world goes quiet again with nothing changing.
At some point, the graph is simplified to a tree.

The tree becomes lumber.

The lumber becomes a table.

At that point, the data on the table become is suitable for human consumption.
You're directionally correct, but the threshold is lower. In the US, banks will give you a low-interest loan for up to 50% of your holdings with them (public equities, etc.), starting at $300k. Having $600k+ in liquid investments is unquestionably above middle class, but this strategy is well within reach for many tech people.
A really simple way is to draw an element (a face, hand, dog, whatever but please don't start with vehicles, those were drawn more mechanically) by hand on vellum or tracing paper, then overlay on the original to compare as if getting feedback from the artist.

You can make initial tracings to make sure the two align. And you should typically enlarge the original art by 2.5x at least in order to work near the original size.

Comic art schools have been doing this for a long time but in the reverse, with professional artists drawing on your art afterward, instead of overlaying on their art. Joe Kubert's correspondence course was set up this way for example.

For pens, start with a stiff small nib brush pen by Zebra or Pilot, or a dip pen with a comic nib. Alternately the small-point sharpie nibs can be bent out of shape and give a nib effect.

For ligne claire IMO it can help to go straight to pen and skip pencil, at least for stylistic practice, because what you're looking for is the final line expression and characteristics.

Be sure to look at the artist's very early work so you don't miss out on the fact that this is not easy to nail right out of the gate. :-)

Inkscape is a great digital tool for practicing this look as well.
Ah, I knew I’d regret just making up a percentage that felt small enough. Oh well
> That's a straw man. The problem is tons of research and development won't happen without the state, but the main avenue the state funds development (as opposed to research) is the military.

The reason the op's comment is not actually a straw man (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man) is because the first governments were developed out of a necessity to ensure a unity of peoples, the functioning of essential systems, and the protection of said peoples and systems. It's also why (for instance) the very first sentence of the US constitution has multiple touch points with national security:

> We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, *establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty* to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

To summarize: defense is how so much of our monetarily non-viable societal advances take place because defense is primarily why governments exist at all. Even arpa-e (thanks for your edit—it's a good topic to bring up) exists to minimize our reliance on foreign energy, which is directly motivated by national security.
Exactly, but even if you can rebuild it, you don't want to under most circumstances. In principle with static binaries you can use dyninst, for instance, but in practice you may not be able to for various reasons.
Then as a system manager you'd like to have global profiling of what runs -- for various reasons, including putting the result for a program in front of a user. If it's all dynamically linked, you can hook in and do that by default, and with various levels of insistence, depending on the hooks.
Definitely that and not virtue signaling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_review_board
Another annoying way to 16:9ify The Simpsons is how it was done for broadcast/cable syndication originally. They did some kind of nonlinear scaling where the aspect ratio was unchanged at the center and increased as you moved to the sides.
America is preventing Russia from antagonizing Europe, all the while we foot the bill for maintaining a capable military.

China is a looming threat. If you don't see that, I don't know what I can say.

Take away America's military and see what happens.

Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Spratleys, 9-dash, water rights, Belt+Road indebtedness, Crimea, Ukraine...

The US has to be strong out of necessity, and we get treated like shit for it. America is far from perfect, but it's Democratic and celebrates individualism and free speech. And I'm not persecuted for being LGBT. I'd hate to be in Russia or China where I'm told I can't think my own thoughts or have my own preferences.

If we didn't have to pay so much for our military capabilities, maybe we'd all get to enjoy the same free health care and social programs that Europe, Canada, and other nations enjoy.

Europe needs to carry some of this weight.
> Industriousness is a measure of how satisfied you are doing nothing

Did you mean how unsatisfied you are doing nothing? Because industrious seems to mean "hard-working, diligent, devoted to success".
Next time someone asks if I've tried fasting

- Yeh, I'm doing overnight fasting
Yes, there are public montessori schools. larry went to a montessori school when he was younger. They are not prohibitively expensive. Sergey's parents were dissidents.

Any argument made that Larry or Sergey had exceptionally monetarily copious upbringings is merely false; they had fairly middle class upbringings by parents who idolized math and science. They both parleyed that through public colleges to positions at Stanford.
Replacing jQuery with Vanilla ES6
I would be a lot more willing if 1. I could do it without attaching my public real life identity and 2. I actually got something out of it. There’s no collaborative filtering or anything going on, just risk of a libel lawsuit.
and which people were those? rich people, that's who...

I agree that desperate times call for desperate measures, but there are fairer ways to fund this. Just inflating the money supply just hits asset-poor people hardest... this is the very definition of the Cantillon Effect...
there's brain anomalies in any sufficiently large sample of people, so the first thing would be to establish whether there's an usual amount of them, or you'll be fooled by randomness.

Also it would be pretty weird if people who have neurological symptoms don't have brain anomalies, given that this kind of goes hand-in-hand regardless of what the cause of either one is. Migraine patients often have neurological anomalies in the brain, doesn't mean someone caused them with a laser. People who experience Havana Syndrome style symptoms might be predisposed to overreact to, in this case apparently crickets, because they have some neurological issue to begin with.
My late professor used to lament quite a lot about work being redone. Not a week went by without one or two papers/submissions/talks/works being mentioned with an immediate followup like “this is the same as this paper from the 70/80/90” or “this is the same as this paper by that author”. I found it quite sad, both because of the apparent double work and because this whole catalogue of computer science material went unused because of the tirades instead of their being a constructive way to share it.

Although I very well can imagine the frustration, as I have seen the same things with libraries being reinvented, I think there is value in revisiting some problems in a different context. Maybe the problems are just not that of a big deal anymore in newer languages/eco systems even though they are fundamentally the same problem as in the 70s.
Where's the control for people getting tested in a different county than where they live?

Who reports the new case? The county in which the testing center operates? What about counties with poor testing coverage?

I'm finding too many hanging methodology questions here.
"It is also emerging that immunity derived from the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine may not be as strong as immunity acquired through recovery from the COVID-19 virus"
And the Paradise Papers as well.. but who knows - third time lucky?
> TRF 2826 ± 412.3 kcal/day, carbohydrates 53.2 ± 1.4 %, fat 24.7 ± 3.1 %, protein 22.1 ± 2.6 %

> ND 3007 ± 444.7 kcal/day, carbohydrates 54.7 ± 2.2 %, fat 23.9 ± 3.5 %, protein 21.4 ± 1.8)

Any ideas why the TRF group has less calories and more protein than the ND group in the linked study linked in the article [0]? _Maybe_ the TRF group has smaller humans than the ND group, but then why would TRF have a higher protein diet?

> Some studies have found that 16:8 can preferentially reduce fat mass while sparing muscle, but further research is still required to confirm this

Bro-Science Body Builders know that a high protein diet + calorie restrictions are perfect for cutting abdominal fat. I don't see what value IF provides here.

[0] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27737674/
This looks awesome!

Could you give an approximate cost of fine-tuning a model like Bert or even GAN given this system?

Just want to get a sense of cost of using the system.
we had have chaos theory. it indicates that we just can not predict things in too far future
Hopefully people don’t use TV news or newspapers as their only sources of information. Newspapers are good for getting a feeling for what’s currently going around in the world – but one also need to complement them with other publications. E.g. books, meta-studies, etc.

Let’s take an example: If I want to know what’s going on in Yemen this week, I’m probably better of reading The Economist than borrowing a book at the library. But if I want to get a deeper understanding on the situation in Yemen, I’m probably better off reading a book rather than a news article.
It’s almost like the way in which a society is described to you affects how engaged you are in their success… which is entirely the meta-textual point!
I did something similar for emulating Pipe Organs: openpipes.org
Well could you point to the downside of this? From teflon to internet and countless other things you use every day that came out of DARPA and other def. research, what would have changed if it was funded via different model?
The problem is that mobile banks have existed in Africa long before mobile cryptocurrency transactions have been possible. Is the problem is indeed with the banks specifically and not because they literally don't have anything to save? Because I don't think it's solvable with cryptocurrencies in this situation, mainly beacuse banks there have lowered the deposit requirements to the point that you can open an account easily. Surely if they can't do it despite these efforts, is there even a chance that cryptocurrency, specifically in those conditions, can survive?
DLL Hell ceased to be a practical concern over a decade ago, particularly given that Windows provides tight control over its dynamic linking search order.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dlls/dynamic-...

DLL Hell is not a linking problem, it's a packaging problem.
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On superficial reading, this story conflates tax minimization with cases of corruption.

Corruption means a politician becoming wealthy in an inappropriate way from their position of power. Even if they were to pay taxes this is still a huge negative for society. Wherhers it's the president of Azerbaijan or Nancy Pelosi, it's should rise to the level of criminal enrichment if properly investigated.

On the flip side are people who made their money legitimately and employ legal strategies available to them to minimize their tax bill. I have a hard time moralizing this because we all do it. Be it writing off donations, using tax loss harvesting, holding on to investments just long enough to not trigger capital gains taxes, etc - we all use strategies available to us to pay no more tax that we have to. I would expect nothing else from a more wealthy person. I would be totally fine if society made moves to close loopholes but I can't blame people for leveraging loopholes that exist because we should all do that.
// How can we have free markets when we don't even know who owns what?

Free markets exist regardless of how you choose to assign property to people. Be it violence or consensus. Ownership is to be decided by the parties involved in the exchange. 3rd partys are an easy solution.
Thanks for the feedback.
The biggest upside is, if you have a long running training(say hours, days) and the spot training is interrupted.
You probably don't want to manually monitor to check for the next available spot instance and kick start the training. SpotML takes care of that part.
Also optionally, you can configure it to resume with an onDemand instance on interruption until the next available spot instance.
In essence we try to do it make
i) creating buckets/EBS
ii) code to save to S3 in loop
iii) Monitor for interruptions and resume from checkpoint
parts easy.
How is a branch nicer than a subdirectory? Off the top of my head, it seems like backporting bugfixes might be easier using a branch (if you're lucky, you can just cherrypick the commit and it will work) - any other reasons?
Even though we never went with glass bottles we do like the feel and durability of wooden toys a lot. They seem to be longer lasting, both physically and entertainment wise. Aside from Duplo and Lego.
I actually returned my Airpods Pro because I simply could not get them to fit. iOS even tells you if they don't have a good seal and I could never make it happy.
> we already know that Chivo has more users than the banks have fiat accounts in El Salvador.[1]

We know no such thing. 2.7m users is flatly implausible. That is, in fact, the number of downloads.

Chivo has refused to release the number of actually signed-up users. The customer service call centres are ghost towns. The government small business advisory service is telling businesses to install one of the other wallets (Bitcoin Beach or Muun) so they can be technically in compliance with Art. 7 of the Bitcoin Law, to charge the unsubsidised fees to the customer and not hand over the goods until the transaction has gone through.

Local newspapers (Elsalvador.com, El Faro) have detailed at length public complaints about the failures and unreliability of the Chivo network. I urge you to talk to some non-coiner Salvadorans and keep track of local coverage of how it's gone. I've been following this story closely since June and have been doing so.

If you don't want to trust my opinions, read Marc Falzon, @marcfalzon on Twitter - an ardent libertarian bitcoiner who went to El Salvador to see how all of this was actually working out, and discovered an absolute shitshow.

edit: and Bukele just claimed 65,000 transactions in the air in the system every second. If each transaction takes "several seconds" as he says, that's still a claim that Chivo does more business than the entire worldwide Visa network. Someone's feeding him numbers that sound good to him, even though they fall apart under the slightest examination. https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1442624279028408321
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How Great Entrepreneurs See What Others Don't
Simd convinced me to take college courses in algorithms and to learn higher maths. Things like image decoding rely heavily on doing transformations, and you just have to know the math behind it to an exact point to be able to effectively turn scalar math to vector effectively.

Ontop of this you have to identify what can and cannot be vectorized and how it can be integrated.

Working in simd isn't too hard In itself once you get down to the assembly and toss out all the extra stuff compilers add. If you look at how ffmpeg does it, they just assemble the hand written assembly as the C function itself. Arm64 is very nice to do this in because it has an elegant way in defining vectors and instructions for them.
More history here: https://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/
I sorta think that static linking needs to die, but dynamic linking also needs to be a lot better.

More of the choices that get made during autoconf needs to be made lazily at link time. That would make executables and dynamic libraries more like containers or lego blocks that could be rearranged without compilation. Which would fix a lot of issues that people hate about package managers and bloated distros along the way.
Done: https://t.co/JxKKwYqrtt?amp=1
Is fish still considered alternative? The completions and suggestions still make it my go to. Thankfully it’s also started to bring its syntax inline with bash (e.g., by accepting `&&` in addition to `and;`)
Forget Digital Computing, You Need an Analog Computer
Just assume its technologists that wanted to trick Congress into giving them free money

You know you can get entire new agencies created for yourself by the same lobbying process that private sector uses for laws that benefit them
Alternative coverage.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58780465

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/pandora-papers-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/03/takeaways...
> It seems as if people with 'good genes' also work the hardest.

Sure, that happens sometimes, but not all the time or even most of the time. It seems our anecdotal experience doesn’t agree.
Depending on what you mean by "low-interest". At IBKR you only need $100k to get 1.06% interest rate. https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=46376
Hmm.. the article reads more like biased, sensationalism than unearthing some grand cosnpiracy. If there are some actual crimes mixed up in this they undercut the importance of those with foaming-at-the-mouth hype bits like "billionaire owns a $22mil home in france".. Are they saying it was purchased with tax payer money? or bribes? That is just one exmaple of the overwrought nature of the piece. I think they do justice a disservice by trying to imply (without explicitly calling _or_ substantiating) wrong-doing everywhere there may be wealth. Focus on the actual crimes..
Show HN: YeetDAO Brings Dynamic NFTs to Ethereum
Crypto prices aren't showing anything like stability - I don't see at all how you could claim that.

Denationalisation of Money was arguably disproven by the ICO boom - it turned out that actual users just treated the shitcoins as proxies for BTC and ETH, and BTC and ETH as proxies for dollars.