skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone here caring for relatives with brain injury, PLEASE don’t underestimate or don’t forget to try the visual keyboard solution:

Just draw letters on a big board and let the patient point at them. When it’s a possible solution, it is surprisingly efficient as you can guess orally and he “thumbs up” so he doesn’t have to spell everything out, and after a few tries you can tell stories. You can add bonus pictograms for ideas that repeat.

Thoughts to a fiend I cared for, a few days per week during his last months. After one night playing guitar, he never woke up, and I realized he went to sleep while we were singing him his own songs. What an enemy he was during life, he would have killed me if he knew my political opinions, but once he became weak and harmless and alone, no-one deserves to go alone. If only such people didn’t fight so much against the white christian male ceo archetype during their life… I hate life.
Yeah, they seem to be rediscovering lots of the reasons for regs :-) The whole DAO fiasco and the resulting fork was especially interesting to read about.

I think that it's much more of an internet-native payment system than anything we've seen before, so I have some hope that it won't just be useful for skirting regulation. It feels like a much better match. But we'll see.

My biggest issue is that Bitcoin (and all proof of work) is still a bit of an environmental disaster. Hopefully the carbon generation doesn't scale with transaction volume.
That's true. Something I wish they would fix but I think now it is tech debt.
You mean people haven't been holding the leaning tower of Pisa all this time. I am shocked!

I've seen some strange things from stitching photos for panoramic, it isn't a huge leap of logic to think some compression or interpolation algorithm went wrong.

Glad to know it was a problem of perspective.
You're confusing energy with electricity again. Please don't do that. Furthermore, it's also a number that is completely irrelevant for the climate perspective, since it doesn't matter if your imports are low if that means you're drilling massive amounts of gas yourself like the US or the UK -- the planet doesn't care if the fuel crossed the borders or not. And, as your own article notes, German decarbonization plans include the elimination of these imports anyway.
This actually dates back to 1998 when Schröder was chancellor and made the “Atomausstieg” a key topic for federal elections back then - agreed upon by the government and energy corps in 2000.

Momentum really was gained after fukushima.

Again, my personal opinion, this is a reactionary and short sighted approach answering emotional sentiments not scientific data and facts.
I'm sure the FBI would go into hysterics if there was a publicly accessible facial recognition database of all FBI employees and all FBI informants - but is there really a problem with that? Why should secretive police organiziations - which have a notorious history related to the establishment of totalitarian states - be subject to different rules about data privacy then the general public is? Why shouldn't citizens have access to an app that allows them to easily identify undercover police seeking to infiltrate peaceful protest movements via facial recognition, for example?

The counterargument (authoritarian) is that police spies are necessary to combat various forms of crime in which all parties to the criminal activity have no interest in reporting said criminal activity - for example, illegal drug transactions. The counter-counterargument (libertarian) is that such forms of crime are actually victimless and the solution is to legalize and regulate all such drug transactions, to move them into the same sphere as alcohol sales.

It would be a very curious world, however, in which anyone could point their phone at anyone else and get an immediate background report on them (which is apparently what the government agencies like the FBI want to be able to do), including their home address, phone number, credit history, educational background, criminal records if any, online browsing habits, family and business relationships, medical history, travel patterns... that would be a very creepy world indeed. It already seems to exist for the secret police, however, with tools like Palantir coupled to this facial recognition system. The potential for gross abuse is pretty obvious.

Government regulation banning all such facial recognition software and data collection and aggregation is the only realistic option if we want to prevent such a dystopian future. People should have a right to privacy, even if this destroys the business model of Google, Facebook, and other personal data-based targeted advertising platforms, and so what if it makes the job of law enforcement harder? Read the Bill of Rights, about half of it is all about making it harder for law enforcement to snoop on citizens.
Well, our sun will eventually explode, which will certainly chew up the biosphere.
> Coupled with the prospect of dealing with unruly passengers, many pilots and cabin crew are even forgoing overtime incentives.

I doubt their union had much to do with this beyond saying "yes" and passing on the good news. Spirit did this because they're desperate to not cancel more flights.
The sun will make Earth uninhabitable in a billion years, give or take several hundred million, and depending on how long extremophiles can hold on.
Just 500 liters of yamok sauce.
> screaming slurs and threats of violence at passers-by, and see how long it takes before the community "censors" you.

In developing and developed countries I've had (ostensibly) mentally ill people shouting epithets at passerbys and they're just ignored. So I think this is more about cultural norms.

Moreover, the case you mention is simple. If a spammer joins a forum and starts spamming, there's usually broad support to kick them out. Once the argument becomes ideological, that's when sentiment is a lot more mixed
I don’t think you read what I wrote, so I’ll say it again: claiming some image processing AI introduced an entire branch, twig, leaf construct in place of a face is comical, especially when the image so clearly depicts that.

I’m much more likely to interpret this thing as anti-capitalist sentiment being expressed in a ridiculous fashion than an actual good faith argument there could be a bug so rare but so profound that people’s faces are mistaken for the background and the AI’s post hoc justification is that there is a branch and leaf there so it’ll output that. It doesn’t even make sense what is being claimed here, your links don’t really change that

Edit: I see a leaf in the foreground, and the situation was a highly (digitally) zoomed picture with a tree in the foreground. This has nothing to do with color perception like you imply; the fact that a bunch of people - whose perception was previously influenced to believe in AI error - don’t think it shows the exact literal situation it correctly shows hardly makes it a relevant discussion

Edit 2: what I see might not be relevant, but the camera software showed the situation correctly, and you’re still arguing because the digital zoom produced artifacts that the entire branch / twig / leaf that was literally there might NOT have literally been there and could have been added by some magic unexplained AI replacement.

It doesn’t even make sense. There is no room for human perception here. If the software was rendering leaves instead of faces, it wouldn’t be a single guy finding that scenario, and especially not when the argument the leaves didn’t exist in the first place was based on compressed video. Comical stuff. This is literally conspiracy theory argumentation from you
Gluten isn't really a problem for most people, only those who are specifically intolerant of it. Or has that thinking changed?
The technology of brain links is well established. Many people have received surgeries that allow them control things (e.g. robot arms) and feel things (e.g. force feedback on said robot arms). However, these systems require a ton of training and feedback to use. It’s not clear how someone could learn to use the system if they can’t talk. And once you have a chip in someone’s brain, they’re never getting an MRI again.

Neurallink is a fantasy in terms of form factor, ease of use, and that specific teams ability to make something like this. The underlying technology exists but probably isn’t going to be ready for an application like this.
It's peculiar that left leaning people profess that supply/demand based systems work only in circumstances that line up with their preset beliefs (or more accurately, the narrative they are to express); almost certainly a cognitive dissonance avoidance strategy.

Eg:
Shortage of Y increases prices of Y and higher prices of Y drive consumers to substitute Y with X

but not

XY get paid more than XX for same work, and higher price for XY drive employers to substitute XY with XX
This seems like an overly simplistic way of looking at poker, and I feel is not a fair judgement of the game. The game is not just about deception.

To play poker (and win) you need many skills:

- mastery over your own body, specifically the ability to restrain outward displays of emotion related to the hand you were dealt or the cards being drawn

- the ability to calculate probabilities, because you have limited information and do not know the cards others have, you must assess the current situation and attempt to make decisions using a probabilistic model

- budgeting resources. Your chips are a finite resource and wasting them or not betting enough will affect your future hands

- psychology. You have to learn the way your opponents think. You learn their tells, behavior, and strategies, and have to practice empathy to determine their behavior in a given scenario

That being said, its fine that your friends don't like the game, to each their own! I just personally don't think it's fair to view it through such a narrow lens.

*Edited for formatting
The trouble with excessive secrecy is that it's really expensive. For bidding purposes, in my aerospace days we estimated that a SECRET requirement doubled the cost, and a TOP SECRET requirement increased it by far more. You spend a lot of time tracking documents, signing things in and out, opening and closing safes, operating separate systems at different security levels, and having people doing make-work jobs while their clearance is being processed. Plus the guards, fences, RF-tight metal rooms, and such.

There's a people cost. The people working on highly classified projects become experts in narrow areas but are cut off from the mainstream. They stagnate in place.

Classically, the US has had three attitudes towards security - military, intel, and nuclear.
The military types see security as time-sensitive. "Where the ship is now is secret. Where the ship was yesterday is confidential. Where the ship was last week is unclassified. Where the ship will be tomorrow is top secret." The military needs to keep the lid on only until the enemy finds out the hard way when and where the attack is happening.

Intel types obsess over "do they know that we know?" and "do they know how we know?", and the tail chasing "do they know that we know that they know?" This leads to a desire to keep sources and methods secret for a very long time. This was very cold war, when finding out even basic info about the USSR was hard. Don't know what it's like now.

Don't know about the nuclear side.
Betty White holds the Guinness Book of World Records for “Longest TV Career for a Female Entertainer.”:

https://mymodernmet.com/betty-white-world-record/

Quite impressive.
This isn't the whole story.

Just look at the picture: https://twitter.com/mitchcohen/status/1476351601862483968/ph...

Imagine what a person's head would look like in relation to the size of the body. Where has the head gone? What's the nebulous dark stuff textured like leaves where the person's hair should be?

I am happy that the iPhone didn't invent the leaf, but it has pretty obviously done something weird with it.
2021: Year in review
Do you think I can make this without Docker? I afraid to use docker I don't get it. Why not just systemctrl restart webserivce1 or 2 ?
First one: yes, though good UI should prevent it from happening unless the user really intended it (for example I have ~/Documents symlinked into Dropbox, so ~/documents could be local-only documents)

Second one: no, emails are not filenames, and more generally distinguishability is more important for identifiers. In cases where identifiers like emails need to be mapped to filenames, like caches, they should be normalized.
Nope, the result was 52 newsletters. I picked one thing out of each of them, and ignored all articles, so it’s less than 10% :)
Exactly my case. My peak load costs are way less than their "idle". Storage expansion if needed is even simpler to handle. Those cloudy people like to create problems where none exists.
(not an engineer) I watched the video - smartbolts seem a lot more time & labor efficient and can be tested visually?
Your second paragraph definitely is a nail on the head moment. It is something I try and look past often but am hyper aware of it when I'm with my parents and they call to "talk". I'll have to ask them about who their trustee is. Thanks!
I used to drink socially. But every time it turned into a binge episode. And as it turns out, stopping drinking before the first one is the solution that works for me.

Sadly this did cause some social life problems. I had to mostly replace the people I hang out with.
Using FreeBSD jails you can easily host hundreds if not thousands of web applications and services on a single server having the specs mentioned by the OP. This practice isn't even noteworthy in FreeBSD land as it is so common.
I use and pay for https://anonaddy.com/ its also FOSS and can be self hosted.
I read the parent's comment differently from your reading.

I read the parent's comment to say that there was stuff that was barely possible for the best students to solve precisely in the time given, but that there were obviously-acceptable approximations thereof. And that either was a path to full credit.

The professor's goal was to get the students to realize when to use approximations.
But once you have, it feels "easy" (and might even look easy to someone who doesn't know the work that was put into learning it)
I have done a lot of Win32 as well, and recently started a new project after a long haitus. The problem is there are some very occasional things that use char*, and so you have to keep that in mind: for example, some parameters in wWinMain, many cross-platform libraries that I want to link to, or some of the C++ library functions mentioned in that article. Converting between char* and wchar_t requires being a bit careful not to cause a buffer overflow. It's a lot of mental overhead to deal with it all, but you're right that if you're mainly just calling Win32, then sticking with the wide version of functions and strings will mostly be fine. Microsoft could certainly make this easier by offering a "wWin32" project that only has the wide version of libraries and documentation to prevent mistakes.
Artists and content creators don't need to worry about piracy and distribution, all they have to worry about is correct metadata (and blockchain entries) on all their media so they can collect 100% of all tips. A tipping culture.

I am definitely a contrarian... great to see.

The blockchain entries can also point to a place to get the media for free... eg a P2P network or download page.

Maybe a streaming network could be created as well that actually allowed downloads.
Get them out more instead of staring at screens. Toddlers as farm hands feeding animals. Or hiking. This is the age to get their senses going and stimulate muscles & bones.
Sure but at some point you might want to create a file and frequently using user input or filter files using some user provided query string, the kind of use cases that unicode normalization was invented for. So the whole "opaque blob of bytes" filesystem handling is nice if all you want is to not silently corrupt files, but it is very obviously not even covering 10% of normal use cases. Rust isn't being super smart, it just has its hands thrown up in the air.
The overall radioactive waste in the environment will go down if coal plants in EU get replaced with nuclear plants in France, even if there would be future accidents at a similar rate per TW/h produced. Even more so if the coal mines get closed down, as those mines also tend to release a lot of radioactive waste into the environment.

Nuclear plants can in some way be seen as fossil fuel plants that store all the waste produced and only release anything if there is an accident. The fossil fueled plants do the opposite, constantly releasing a steady stream into the surrounding area with no risk of an single accident that release a large stored amount in a single instant.
The internet has shown that free speech simply doesn't work if literally anyone has the power to broadcast whatever they want to thousands of algorithmically selected users.

Comparing "speech" pre and post social media is like comparing "weaponry" between knives and nuclear weapons.
Keep in mind, balloting the US is based on place of residence. You’ll have a different set of elections to vote in from municipality to municipality (or ward to ward).

So you need to have a specific address in the US.

This makes sense. You shouldn’t be able to vote for an alder person in a different ward. But it requires a specific, “in US” residence.

If you don’t have a specific address in the US, (you’re permanently residing outside the country) your last state of residence should be able to provide you with “President Only” ballots.

I’ve never heard of this actually happening though.

The US embassy has no involvement in any of this whatsoever. They will refer you to the clerk of courts (or whatever).

Realistically, do everything you can in the US (including absentee voting if possible).

Edit: keep in mind, many places have over a dozen distinct election events over a 4-year cycle. Presidential, presidential primary, mid-term, mid-term primary, non-partisan, non partisan primary, local school board, etc.

Some states combine this into as few elections as possible, some as many elections as possible.

I once tried to vote in every election. Lack of publicity made this impossible. For many minor elections, there was no public info on the candidates for, say, clerk of court primary elections.
Don't see anything more misleading about lock free than about anything else involving parallelism. Lock freedom has to do with guarantees about scheduling, you can be lock free and still have contention but a lock free algorithm is guaranteed to make progress within a bounded amount of time. A blocking algorithm is not guaranteed to make any kind of progress within a bounded amount of time.

If you're working on a real time system, and I don't mean the colloquial meaning of that word, but rather a system that must guarantee that a side effect is produced no later than a given period of time, then you must use a lock free algorithm, there is no alternative. Avionics, DSP, high frequency trading, these are all domains where lock free algorithms are necessary. Making a fast lock free algorithm is great and generally the goal of any kind of parallelism is performance, but fast is not an unambiguous term, it can mean low latency or high bandwidth and it's very unlikely to write an algorithm that is both.

Lock free algorithms are great when you need low latency and guaranteed throughput. If you don't need that then it's possible to trade those properties for much higher bandwidth and use blocking algorithms.
I really wish people wouldn't use terms like 200%. 2x (or 3x) is far less ambiguous.
It’s not recommended in US but apparently it’s big in Thailand, some 80% of the population making use of it as a part of traditional medicine (Hatha Yoga) - Thailand was famously doing very well for the first year (low case rates), but apparently they have since caught up.

One article with lots of interesting stats (get your Adblock ready): https://www.indiatoday.in/news-analysis/story/did-nasal-rins...

General details on the practice: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neti_(Hatha_Yoga)
When you use one too many buzzwords you let on that you don't know what they mean.

None of those resources operate peer to peer, none of them operate in anything resembling a mesh network. DDG is absolutely stoppable and centralized.

Not that I don't love all those projects and all of those qualities.
As far as I can tell, it became a law in 2002. I'm not sure how "momentum really was gained after Fukushima" when the phase-out procedures had to be followed ever since 2002. The whole thing has been in motion for almost twenty years.
Thank you for this, my phone feels 2x faster now!
>APFS removed this feature.

And then brought it back. It normalizes now.
> Yes, I'd argue that "literacy" that doesn't allow one to use a spell-checker is a bullshit stat that should not be relevant to college admissions.

Your focus on your own 'experience' appears to be blinding you to the topic at hand, which does not involve spell checkers. Perhaps does not cover the area of literacy and how it is assessed?
Telegram is just spyware. Whatsapp is better. Signal is the best
Is there a reason people don’t self-host on a small home server? $85/mo is a lot of money if you aren’t making any money off what you’re hosting. If you mostly run CRUD APIs and sites, is there any downside to a low bandwidth home connection? Multiple family members already stream Plex content from my measly 20mbit upstream. Why not run a whole site or multiples?
Is that desirable? Maybe joy makes the suffering worthwhile. At least for some of us. Maybe even most.
Half normal isn't normal. That said, I personally try to avoid unicode in filenames (and caps too) for similar reasons.
> public conversation
Is there a verifiable record somewhere? I think there's no outrage because this is unknown to laypeople. However, I've very confident this would be a unifying issue for far left and right internet-outrage machines.
Thank you very much for your thoughtful reply.
It's an interesting market because the job was historically glamorous, requires minimal skills (HS diploma) and training (10 weeks?), and has the perk of free travel. That's a recipe for low wages, and the reality is the job can be a slog, and the perks are only good if you're with a major carrier.
By “proprietary variant” you mean “publicly documented variant” which IIRC is just the normalization tables frozen in time from an early version of Unicode (the idea being that updating your OS shouldn’t change the rules about what filenames are valid).

As for APFS, it ~~doesn’t~~didn’t normalize but I believe it still requires UTF-8. And the OS will normalize filenames at a higher level. EDIT: they added native normalization. At least for iOS, I didn’t dig enough to check it macOS is doing native normalizing or is just normalization-insensitive.
Can anyone elucidate whether the new UTF-8 codepage allows working with filenames that aren’t valid UTF-16 (i.e. containing mismatched surrogate code points)?

In general I think it’s best to stick with the native "W" functions and/or wchar_t on Windows.
Thanks! That's kind to say.

I shared some notes on crypto issues more recently in another post above, but I would concede its generally more battle tested than the first version released at this point. The choice to start with home rolled crypto at all continues to concern me, but more importantly the fact that it's not default is now my biggest sticking point if I'm honest.

I think WhatsApp comes with an asterisk in that I'd certainly recommend signal over it, but most non-technical people have never heard of signal so given the choice between WhatsApp and Telegram I'd personally opt for WhatsApp based on their e2e encryption by default, but I could understand if someone personally gave more weight to a distrust of Meta (even if encrypted) than they do to Telegram and made use of Telegram's secret chats.