skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this is the issue. Folks like you are fighting a (losing) battle to force people to wear uncomfortable N99 masks on flights.

Heads up, plenty of folks have masks off their nose, off their mouth while eating, are wearing surgical masks, cloth masks, bandanas and other stuff that does nearly nothing.

"it benefits everyone to insist that those masks not have valves."

False. I can wear an N95 with a valve for hours. As a cited, the risk to OTHERS is as low as any of the allowed alternatives. More importantly, compliance is much easier.

And N95 with valves despite your claim that it doesn't work against things like covid DOES in fact do a fantastic job protecting wearer. That is why the CDC itself had to do a total uturn here and now both recommends them and specifically suggests they should not be blocked.

There should be real push back against this totally backwards approach in public health which by the way is not working, which is to try and force places folks in places like Florida and Texas to comply with absolutely over the top requirements (hint, they wont) while at the same not allowing folks like myself who want to wear a high protection comfortable mask (N95 with exhalation) to do so.

The public health folks and scientists truly lost their minds on this. I can go into a resteraunt TODAY and see people with NO MASKS AT ALL. And yet my N95 with an exhalation valve is considered some high crime, despite no actual real science saying it doesn't work or that it increases others risks.

And the upside is comfort, which is real. Why do folks NOT want to wear masks? Public health folks don't stop to ask this. One major reason if you would stop and ask is COMFORT!
It only takes a few seconds to find a keyword in someones comment history: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
"Hey guys I've got a great idea, why don't you take your free thing that isn't patent-encumbered (AV1), which you're using SOLELY FOR THAT REASON, and go ahead and wrap that in our patented shit, and pay us?"

Yeah, no thanks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCEVC

LCEVC leverages a base video codec (e.g., AVC, HEVC, VP9, AV1, EVC or VVC) and employs an efficient low-complexity enhancement that adds up to two layers of encoded residuals, along with normative signalled up-sampling methods, that correct artefacts produced by the base video codec and add detail and sharpness for the final output video.

>> "There is Free of Fee License For Integration as Software Player (important for Open Source based OSes like Linux, and Video Players like VideoLan). 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝘀."
If you're talking about fig. 4, then it's some units scaled so that random performance is 0 and perfect performance is 100 (depending on task it may be accuracy or something else). Since the models are so large, good benchmarks are diverse, and different tasks require different metrics.
> assume that a dry approach necessarily leads to not understanding the context

If you never hear what the purpose and context is of something, you certainly won’t magically infer the details. You might be able to guess some parts in broad strokes, but that speculation is just as likely to be completely wrong. For instance, someone learning about set theory for the first time, even if they are some kind of genius, isn’t going to immediately guess that it was established after a crisis in analysis sparked by Fourier theory, which was itself invented to solve tricky partial differential equations arising in physics. (In case anyone wants to learn about this, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBcWRZMP6xs)

Which is not to say that the presentation of mathematical topics should be primarily historical, but only that the context in mathematics is fractally deep everywhere you look.

> I understood the context perfectly well,

This is not plausible for anyone’s first course. Even life-long experts don’t understand the context “perfectly well”. We are talking about a subject with infinite depth and interrelation, and centuries of history.
Thailand dreams of high-end cannabis tourism after marijuana is legalised
Wide and slow is expensive. Very expensive. That's why Apple can do it and nobody else is doing it (in mobile Qualcomm is _cutting_ cache from Arm reference designs and in servers Graviton and Ampere are also cutting cache). It is cheaper for a given performance level to clock your cores as far as they'll go and cheap out on the width of your core if you know your customers either won't or can't care about power efficiency (because they have no better alternatives).
> McDonald's works better because they have better quality IT than BK.

I'd rather take my chances with an app that's accidentally broken a lot than support one that's intentionally hostile to me. The McDonald's app tries to detect if your phone is rooted, and refuses to work at all if it is.
They wouldn't necessarily need to do 50 rounds per second to generate 50 Hz. There could be any number of poles on the generator. At least in theory... Not saying you're wrong about not being synced but just that they wouldn't need to do 50 rps...
I literally cite the CDC on masks with exhalation valves, and this is the "mental version of COVID".

I get it, I've been lectured to by folks like you repeatedly. And this is where public health credibility goes to die.

There seems to be a crazy desire of public health folks to preach and be surprior, put down others, even though their advice has been so wrong, and many of them are wrong on the actual science, the risks, the tradeoffs.
Is there really GPS radio in the transmitter, or are they using drone takeoff location? or GPS coordinates supplied by the phone used for video feed?

DJI drones use external GPS modules (separate pcb + ribbon connection), it would be trivial to make modchips spoofing current coordinates by offsetting them by some fixed vector.
This is another transfer of responsibility from the government to the citizen. Same as carbon footprint being used to guilt trip the individual who cannot stop global warming.

No matter how many engineers quit or refuse to apply to Amazon they will always have a replacement. The solution for both climate change and Amazon is government intervention. Be it subsidies for Solar or regulatory fines for Amazon.
Xanadu Hypertext System Data Structures
Or just disproving your statement. Depending on your mental capacity.

Or was your statement made such that only the right wing makes such headlines?

Or are you russian and just trying to sow division?

Which is it?

Also you still didn’t change what I said, just avoided it by trying to claim “whataboutism”. Fight it all you want, it’s not going to change the truth.
> Meanwhile almost all of the screen on my big screen car gets used every time I drive.

Which means your eyes were not on the road every single time you used this interface. Even if you had “wasted space” in your previous analog UI, none of that wasted space took your eyes off the road. The same cannot be said for the vast majority of touch screen user interface interaction.

Analog controls are superior for car user interfaces. Touch screens have a use case, but rarely in moving vehicles.

I’m not being obtuse. There is no argument that favors touch screen interfaces where human attention is the difference between life and death. Smart cars can have analog inputs. There is no need to choose between one or the other.
i was only talking about the decision not to go, i didn't mean to imply that it would not include a notice to the host.
This is by and large false, but it's somewhat less profoundly false than it was in 01984. Referring to copyrighted works has never been a right restricted by copyright, and in the US copyright system transformative use ("remixing") weighs heavily in favor of a finding of fair use, which makes copyright infringement legal. There are also a number of compulsory licensing provisions in the existing copyright law to, for example, permit covering a song you don't have copyright to, whether the copyright holder likes it or not.
But the housing is cheap, right - the Twitter thread was about housing for seniors

Also, if it’s cheap because there are no good jobs - then where there are good jobs it will be expensive

Throw in good weather, nice views, goods school- all of a sudden it’s really expensive

Note there is nothing in the twitter thread about jobs or amenities- it’s all about land and density
Ahoy Nuclear Fruit, https://youtu.be/15dxuAbTC0A

Just going to leave that here
While we are recommending, I’ve been very happy with my purchase of Dell’s docking station. “Dell WD19TB Thunderbolt Docking Station”, to be specific. Works well with MBP.

It has some Windows specific features that don’t work with Apple machines. So DYOR.
Something that helped me regain spirit was to just stop. Let the mourning happen. Got into gaming then movies then hiking then making videos. Stopped trying to reach somewhere just let things happen. Did whatever felt interested. And in a year I was happy again. Talked to old friends and visited local parks and museums as well. In time creativity came back, drive came back, and curiosity came back.
Consider also having to rebuild things from scratch. Say a solar flare knocked out all your electronics or you are at war with your only supplier of rare earth metals. How quickly can you replace missing generators and appliances with devices that may be less efficient or clean and may only supply a small fraction of current power levels, but will at least let you turn lights and fridges back on? If mechanical turbines can generate A/C without advanced electronics and mechanical motors can run on that, it's not a bad precaution to keep these around.
That's such a good article! The pain, suffering and mind-numbing boredom of SUCCESS ...
Right. They already have a system monitoring for spam comments. 99% of the time I make a valid, useful comment on a YouTube video it gets marked as spam and never shows up.

They basically need to do the exact opposite of whatever they are currently doing.
You won’t be able to buy Barnes and Noble ebooks on Android
Changelog:

Emacs 28.1 has a wide variety of new features, including:

- Native compilation of Lisp files

- Text shaping with HarfBuzz and drawing with Cairo

- Support for loading Secure Computing filters

- Much improved display of Emoji and Emoji sequences

- New system for documenting groups of functions

- A minor mode for context menus

- Mode-specific commands

- Emacs shows matching parentheses by default

- Many improvements and extensions to project.el
HP's business/corporate printers are still bulletproof. Just stay away from their consumer stuff.
Oh, fun story time…

At the absolute end of the Cold War we were on the ground crew for a demonstration jump for some Soviet generals. The wind was too high for a safe jump but, Soviets, so they jumped anyways.

Two arty cannons and a Sheridan tank burned in because they got swaying enough to collapse their shoots. Plus three chalks ended up in the trees also due to the high winds.

They (luckily I wasn’t on the hook and ladder crew) spent the rest of the day recovering the parachutes from the trees while we just tried to not draw attention to ourselves so we didn’t have to help with the recovery operation.

Only time I ever saw heavy drops go wrong and I was on ground crew many a time — there were a couple times we did have to scatter because one was landing right where we were standing but those things are easy to see even on a night jump.
AV1 likely is patent encumbered and a patent pool already exists for it.

It just hasn't been tested in the courts since its insignificant market share likely doesn't warrant the effort. And Google clearly doesn't have much confidence since they aren't willing to indemnify any users.
FAANGs are masters of accountability-laundering through software.
Not gonna be a popular response but few months ago I was really angry at myself because of two diverging realities

1. I think I am a fairly good developer, when I am in a flow state, I can accomplish a huge amount of work in 3-4 hours.

2. I am very rarely in a flow state.

I am always doing something else, watching some videos, reading books or Feedly, hoping around, etc.

Now comes the controversial part, recently I started using Ritalin. About 5 doses each week. There will probably be consequences (I am not sure), but it's magic. I reach a flow state in under 20 minutes and stay this way for 4h or so.

I decided to change my schedule and only work 4h/day because I constantly do a good amount of work.
This is a fair question. My process was to read the article and pull out the factual quotes, and ignore the title, innuendo, and dog whistles.

>In November 2021, Amazon convened a high-level meeting in which top executives discussed plans to create an internal social media program that would let employees recognize co-workers’ performance with posts called “Shout-Outs,”

>Shout-Outs would be part of a gamified rewards system in which employees are awarded virtual stars and badges for activities that “add direct business value,” documents state.

>“With free text, we risk people writing Shout-Outs that generate negative sentiments among the viewers and the receivers,” a document summarizing the program states. “We want to lean towards being restrictive on the content that can be posted to prevent a negative associate experience.”

To me this sounds exactly like the directed recognition at many tech companies and those I have used. You dump a thank you in a text box, and someone gets a notification their manager can see. It is not a place to talk about your kids, dog, or weekend plans. It is not a place to submit "constructive feedback" on your peers or company.
Israel might also be the aggressor. And Israel has nukes, in violation of the NPT.
I've turned down a bunch of jobs on moral grounds. I work for a charity organization now. I make less money but I'm much happier then I have been working in jobs with different / more shady objectives.
Marginal Utility
The marketing page here looks pretty great, and looks like an inventive approach. And yet, because it has MPEG's stamp on it, I'm terrified of the numerous licenses of which patent holders I would be beholden to in order to even use the darn thing at scale. My primary focus has been live independent creator sourced video for a few years now. You can certainly make up the licensing in volume for VOD content in the big player spaces, since you have a much better ratio of media to consumers, but in the market I'm the most interested in, this is practically a non-starter.
People often forget that part. Sure it is just as expensive as before, but it's also so so much better than the brick weed you were able to get before.
Goguardian is an chrome extension that is installed by a policy configuration of the district. It only works on chrome divides and not the chrome browser.
Nevertheless, that is the reason for its invention, and for its use, so LCEVC is completely counterproductive if the goal is to not pay for every device sold as a laptop/phone/gpu/cpu/etc maker
$50 for an 1/8th was also the price of good weed in the 90s. Seems like a sticky price.
> I wouldn't say that coders as an industry are destroying the road behind us

I agree, in fact I would argue the total opposite. Has any industry/skill group in history put so much effort in to getting more people involved than the software industry has?
> Great people, but too many were of the "everything should be a market" persuasion.

Hell, even our world's free digital encyclopedia was started by a guy who named his daughter after a fucking Ayn Rand character.

So the question should be: how did our world's burgeoning form of the web ever escape that persuasion in the first place?
I've read that Apple allows certain types of users, I think corporate users and some developers, to have a root of trust (cryptographic security root) other than Apple. Essentially it gives the customer full control of their own devices, at least from a security perspective.

Do I have that right and is it available with Business Essentials, does anyone know?
This makes me think of an interesting story from an article [0] about MIchael Bublé's latest album, and his work on it with Sir Paul McCartney.

> “It was a long day, we were playing live, and he was really calm and patient with me. He helped me to make sure that I told the story the right way. Less was more for him. I’m dramatic, so I have the urge to go over the top.

> “I was taking liberties, and he didn’t like that. He had to make a long walk from the control room to come down and put me right a few times.” When Bublé sang the line “I’m waiting on a sign”, McCartney called a halt and arrived in the booth.

> “Can you explain to me what you’re waiting on?” he asked. “Yes. I’m waiting on a sign,” trilled Bublé enthusiastically. “So are you actually on the sign, waiting?” asked McCartney, “or are you waiting for a sign?”

> Recounting the tale, Bublé hangs his head like a defeated schoolboy. “I’m waiting for a sign, Sir Paul.” He laughs. Bublé’s revived love for his craft is endearing.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20220404134753/https://www.teleg...
There is actually scanning over the network now under Linux without any special drivers. called eSCL
Try living in a German-speaking country for a little bit and you can be cured of your lateness and flakiness.
How about https://www.kolabtree.com/? Disclaimer: I have never tried it.
The war in Ukraine might had been been prevented if the West had made more serious efforts towards defusing the situation (like actually implementing Minsk II, for example). Instead, we let the shelling continue, allowed Azov to grow in influence, refused to budge on Ukraine joining NATO, etc. Saying "but that doesn't morally justify Russia's invasion" doesn't negate our responsibility to not do things that make war more likely.

World War II might have never happened if the Allies hadn't imposed devastating reparations on Germany post World War I. The reparations destroyed the German middle class, leading to huge resentment and anger which Hitler used to justify and support his evil

We'll never know the answer to the "what ifs". But it doesn't hurt to try to not repeat the same mistakes again
Last I checked that patent pool didn't actually declare which patents they believe are needed for AV1. It's FUD.
Ask HN: Any blogs/articles about stock market tech?
Anyone know of any resources of the “stock market tech stack”?

It processes a lot of trades everyday and has never, to my recollection, had an outage or major IT issue.
Drop the school and homeschool the shit out of him. Go off book and teach him solar panel installation, plants and anything you can find in prepper books.
Its history is irrelevant.

Right now it likely is patent encumbered and so not really all that different to HEVC only that it has seen minimal adoption amongst hardware/software vendors and content creators and so is infinitely less useful.
Cool, let me know how much the copper will cost you when you'll need to wire your entire household with at least 2 tons (and I am on low estimate here) of them, because you'll need them thick to drive the increased Ampere juice. Remember P (power) == U (voltage) x I (intensity). As you'll lower your voltage, your intensity will rise to meet the same power consumption. Meaning thick copper wires, at least 2cm diameter, not your current 3mm diameter you currently have.
Self-discipline is a skill you develop and maintain with practice. It applies to literally every aspect of life, including following through on projects you chose to start work on.

Amphetamines like Adderall are a popular option, which others have recommended here. But I'd like to note I've seen my fair share of devs dependent on ADHD meds lacking self-discipline who just ended up staring at their phone doomscrolling all day at their desk, with their legs visibly restless from the stimulant train they were riding.

Personally I treat all stimulants as simply performance-enhancing drugs. You still need at least a modicum of self-discipline to direct that focused energy at the intended tasks.

IME adopting even a simple daily exercise routine and refusing to miss it unless you're too sick/injured (which means you're also too sick/injured to work, self-imposed, this is self-discipline after all) is an effective means of establishing and maintaining self-discipline. Plus it's good for your health and fitness as a bonus.
And what if you aren’t?
> At this point, I don’t really know what to say. It honestly feels like no matter what you buy, you get more or less the same hardware, and you’re most likely getting a heavily overpriced product just because some company printed their logo on it. [...] However, I can’t help but feel a little bit cheated by companies just buying off-the-shelf products, slightly modifying the case layout, and then quadruple the price because it’s “from a reputable company”.

It's worth mentioning that buying the same hardware from a reputable company is not always pointless. At USB 3's data rate, power and signal integrity are a serious concern, stability of the hardware is often sensitive to PCB layout. There are numerous pitfalls to shoot yourself in the foot and they are often not obvious at all. Even with exactly the same chip, or even the same circuit connections, a tiny layout change can be a life-or-death issue.

For example, any change to the data line geometry, such as a connector or capacitor soldering pad, introduces unwanted impedance discontinuities to the transmission line and degrades signal integrity. The best design carefully adds or removes copper around these discontinuities to compensate for the impedance change, on the other hand, it may not be a problem if you are lucky. Nevertheless, to truly ensure the design is not just borderline working but has guaranteed stability, it must be verified by testing, using Time Domain Reflectometer, Vector Network Analyzer, and/or inspecting the actual signal on an oscilloscope using the eye diagram.

Similarly, an incorrectly-bypassed power supply may cause random crashes. Such a bad power supply is easily created. For example, if two capacitor values are combined, at some frequency, the parasitic inductance of the first capacitor resonates with the second capacitor, forming a parallel LC circuit and can create a huge spike in the power supply impedance. If this impedance peak happens to be close the operating frequency of a subcircuit, it creates a serious noise problem. A good design would take these into consideration and ensure the power supply impedance is always below the specified target impedance throughout the frequency spectrum. Again, it may not be a problem if you are lucky, but only proper testing can confirm that.

A reputable company is more likely to validate the design, run a full compliance test, and pass the product certification before start selling this device. Meanwhile a no-name vendor sells whatever that powers on, often without regards to signal integrity, especially when you consider that an oscilloscope capable for testing USB 3.2's eye diagrams need a 10 GHz+ real-time bandwidth and costs up to $10,000. I'm not saying that buying from a reputable company is foolproof - it is not, you see sloppy work from time to time, but the chance of getting a tested system is higher.
Important to know is that USB4 in alternate mode can now do DisplayPort 2.0 which is up to 80Gbit/s. Whereas Thunderbolt 4 itself only does 40Gbit/s. So my recommendation is using one dock for charging, Ethernet, USB. Then using a second cable in DP 2.0 mode for your monitor(s). The only problem is that with charging it can make docks also quite flakey.
My favourite is the language used to describe the moons orbit around the earth. I've had a great conversation about how it works if a rod extends through the earths core to the moon (libration aside) and how it differs from other rotations we describe.

Personally, I think it may be wrong to call this "rotating" when it is an orbit with a fixed face presented to the frame of reference in question.

Massive chops to anyone prepared to deal with loonies like me, and worse!