skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It gets computationally more expensive.

At the moment, if you have some random laptop, yes, surely, only low-res is possible. If you have an A100 or something like that, mich higher resolution. It's just getting ever more computationally expensive, with a caveat.

The caveat is that you can use ML to upscale a low-res image to a higher-res one. This is computationally expensive as well, but less so than the deep-fake.

So the answer is , with increasing compute, no. Higher resolutions very much possible, given you have high quality training data.
Immigration is not one-stop solution to fix GDP because integration is huge cost that is rarely taken into account. And of course it doesn't at all address the real problem, that men and women no longer creates families.

This is typical of todays debate in the West, not solve the real issue, instead offer some sort of band aid solution and completely ignore the real issue.

Japanese is a population of about 126 million living on size of Norway, a country of 5.4 million inhabitants.
Uhm.. It certainly affects MY performance if I have colleagues who act like that towards me or others.

I absolutely believe in understanding and practice forgiveness towards colleagues who have aspergers, going through personal issues or whatever. But there is a limit to what one should tolerate, for ones own mental health.
Linux users are humans too. They typically don't like jumping through hoops.
Uh, no. Guns are really, really loud. Much louder than you get from TV and movies, which after all can't play sounds loud enough to damage your hearing.

Source: have fired a fair number of guns.
Might sound like hyperbole but it isn't entirely untrue depending on what you believe should be the State role in supporting its society. The US is just really weird when looking through the lens of other Western developed countries...

And I say that coming from a society that's completely influenced by the American Way Of Life™ (Brazil), visiting the US multiple times and then moving to Sweden has really opened my eyes on how damn bizarre the US can be. It's more similar to Brazilian society (conservatism, sexism, violence, car-centric, so on and so forth) than to any other peer country to the US.
Lots of great advice in here.

I am curious about: Turn on the lights to 100% 30 minutes before waking up.

Has anyone actually tried that? I do have Hue lights in my room so I could set it up. But I'm really sensitive to light (even the barest light shining through a crack in a window will wake me up). I think this would just wake me up 30 minutes earlier and it sounds pretty awful.
Mostly unregistered/stolen, hardly homemade. AK-47s might be an exception since there are kits available online, official ones mostly from the US, but given how easily they're obtained in certain areas of the world I imagine there are loads of them smuggled by less official sellers from around the world.
Was an automated system even being used when the accident happened?
That is what I proposed above, but very few seem to have understood it. Thanks for a different way of phrasing. Much appreciated.
There is a signed grub bootloader out there that can be exploited through a crafted configuration file to do basically anything. Trusting the third party certificate is essentially trusting anything, you may as well disable it.

This is part of the design problem of secure boot, it only works if everyone updates their trusted key sets and motherboard manufacturers aren't exactly known for their plentiful, easy to install, reliable updates.

Microsoft should obsiously add a setting to enable normal secure boot ("Windows only", "allow Linux", "off") but it's not as if secure boot is much of a safety system for your average Linux user. You can configure a whole secure boot chain in Linux but enforcing that requires a lot of work that's not easily accessible. You'll also need to ensure you hook into the right update functions so your nvidia/AMD proprietary drivers are signed correctly or you won't be able to boot with a working display.
The traditional vermin hunting essential : AR-15

/smh
Apparently "less than ten gun deaths nationwide every year", for a country of 125m people. It's generally a low crime country.
Abe did that. It's very easy to immigrate to Japan. The reason this succeeded is that nobody in the country noticed, which is why you don't know about it.

It's not that attractive to Westerners if only because wages are low so you can't pay off those student loans.

(Immigrate as in get into the country on a work visa, not as in get permanent residency - that's doable on a "highly skilled professional" visa though.)
> The first thing that pops into my mind is "Abenomics":

I don't think you get assassinated for economic policies (unless you really impoverish a large section of the population). I think it's more likely he got assassinated for some fairly random loony reason by someone unhinged or for his non-economy related right wing policies (e.g. on defense and foreign policy).
It is a common pitfall to attribute both the good stuff and the bad stuff to whoever is in power at the time. We like to forget that success and failure are to large extent dependent on current context (economical, societal and so on).

This is why, for example, CCP and Putin enjoy popular support: if people’s quality of life has improved, they must be onto something!

Improving %metric% thanks to general development and despite the dictator in power is very much a thing, just as declining %metric% could have been the best possible outcome.
Scary Git commands you'll eventually have use for
>This might finally bring him down, not all the scandals.

Didn't he resigned yesterday because of the scandals????
Hmm, aren't there low hanging bars at bumper level on the side and end of the trailer, so that crumpling zones come into effect instead of decapitating the car with no chance of energy absorbtion through deformation (which seemed to not have been happening there)

I recall in Europe these became mandatory decades ago when a similar crash happened, killing one person, the family of which fought a long battle to have these bars become mandatory (which a couple of years later saved my father's life when he launched to overtake a truck, that suddenly decided to brake hard and turn left without notice at the last second).

edit: seems like in 2015, 2% were killed this way in Germany (where it's been mandatory for decades) vs 16% in the US https://www.dekra-roadsafety.com/fr/protection-anti-encastre...
This is another example of something that should be opt-in (ex business laptops), not opt-out.
> So, we're literally at the point where we have to disable parts of chip (the Device Guard / Secure Core / Pluton) part in order to boot _any_ non-OS scenario, and you are still claiming that this is scaremongering ?

Yes, because the same way you have to enable booting from an USB stick.

> At which point it stops being a "tinfoil" discussion ?

See my last sentence in my previous comment.

> Not to mention of the unfair advantage MS has since their OSes will still boot transparently on these hardware, no matter what the firmware settings,

Making a fresh install of Windows is equal in complexity, but it is preinstalled more often certainly.

> Removing this key and relenting on this promise (which actually they have already done several times) means that there is NO WAY for a non-MS operating system to transparently boot on Secure Boot hardware.

That's not a case with Secure Boot alone, it's a case with Device Guard. Device Guard you can disable. It's a toggle like all the rest, no promises broken.

> I have already claimed that MS revoking a distro's signatures is basically a death sentence for that distro. Here we have an article about a manufacturer revoking _all_ distro's signatures, and you claim that "this is not a conductive discussion" ?

Yes, because what you've said is not correct.
Economics for skilled workers, which are pretty much the only people getting into Japan via work, isn't the issue. Quality of life is very similar for skilled workers in most of Europe and Japan.

The problem is still the immigration process itself, the (work) culture, and the language. Japan still hasn't made the process as easy as pre-COVID, and it wasn't that easy to begin with pre-COVID.
WET -> Write Everything Twice (before premature factorization).
Systems have been shipping for years without any untrusted DMA-capable buses (source: I audited a bunch of this in a large enterprise). Anyone who's currently shipping systems with the 3rd Party UEFI CA disabled by default who isn't disabling untrusted DMA-capable buses is selling snakeoil, and the ones who do aren't obtaining meaningful additional security by doing so.
Every article about SOC2 should be illustrated with a Hieronymus Bosch-like hellscape.
nim is a nice language. but the lack of consensus amongst small languages is why they never get adopted. and people wonder why stick with c++ ? because c++ comes with a kitchen sink of features and you pick what suits you and never worry about adoption cz it works everywhere
Inequality is low in Japan but the people in general are not that rich these days and are getting poorer; it's a big problem. On the other hand, unemployment is significantly better than in 2010 - most of the cultural things you used to hear about Japan like crazy fashion were because all the young people were unemployed and had nothing better to do than stand around in Harajuku. And the famously low birth rate is up again and higher than other Asian countries. A lot of that is due to Abe's policies. (The last one gets all the memes.)

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/japans-living-standards-ar...
As with any question, it depends! I personally think it is OK to job hop a little, but it is important to take the macro view of your career when deciding to stay or go. The question should be "am I learning and growing enough here or should I move on to somewhere else?". Because honestly even working at the same company you should be taking on new challenges too!

Some factors which help with job hopping resumes:

- Earlier in career

- Showing growth

- Demonstrates impact at each stop

- Unavoidable events (in my case my company was acquired, in a different case my project cancelled, etc)

At some point you should probably slow down though :)
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At a former company (very large and well known in Scala community), I had a friend reprimanded and warned for answering a question about guns in a way that showed he was knowledgeable. He was a competitive shooter for his hobby.
Kinda cool to see it in action, but I'm struggling to see a use-case.. From experience developing remotely has always been a bit hit/miss. This seems like just another way to hit/miss.
There are other solutions of course, like automation. With technology we can do more work on less time, and that is something we have done since the industrial revolution. It is a bit bizarre that on technology forum this is not go-to answer.
This murder has destabilizing consequences, but Japan’s democracy and freedom of press has suffered a lot more from Abe’s administration and policies.
He's still Prime Minister until he's replaced. Which is probably inevitable, but like in all horror movies you need to make sure the monster is actually dead before your relax.
they should really put more effort into describing what they built
A former work computer of mine (a Lenovo, too!) wouldn't boot one day. After some time trying to figure out the issue I discovered I'd left a (non-bootable) USB drive attached to the machine. Removed the drive and it booted fine.

Having said all that, this comment is all anecdotal, much like yours.
Violence in Japan is so low, something like that is just outside their normal reality. It's more likely to see some malfunctioning tech, than experience a real gun fired. And with all the smoke, that's what people probably thought at first, that some tech went haywire.
That is more or less what happened to the first attempt to remove him by the 1922 ctte, though.
To add to the rarity of gun violence, there is sismic risk and people try to ubderstand what's the current danger before reacting.

For instance if the smoke came from something bursting because of a starting earthquake, avoiding the surrounding building and regrouping in a clear zone would be the right course of action.
Perhaps someone can make a comparison to lightning or firework shells, which are relatively common detonations of similar loudness. Difficult to characterize in words an explosion, though. In all cases, higher frequencies attenuate faster, so one nearby tends to 'crack' and one distant, 'boom'.
> Systems have been shipping for years without any untrusted DMA-capable buses (source: I audited a bunch of this in a large enterprise)

That's your mistake here, you saw it in a large enterprise, the context is "average user".

> 3rd Party UEFI CA disabled by default who isn't disabling untrusted DMA-capable buses is selling snakeoil, and the ones who do aren't obtaining meaningful additional security by doing so.

Some of the buses that haven't been whitelisted are only internal, so technically not snakeoil, just won't let you auto-enable encryption.
I disagree. Just having FB in your public CV makes you an interested party already. Given you were sec lead at a FB project it is even conceivable you hold FB stock, which would make you a very interested party.

I advise you to add a COI statement if you make future posts/comments about Facebook/meta/Zuckerberg. It is just good practice.
Japan has a rather long history of political violence.

"levels of gun crime" is an irrelevant metric here. It was not even an actual gun (which probably illustrates how hard it must be to find a firearm in Japan).
Life expectancy is counted from birth, not age 40.
There is no good reason for kids to have tablets and smartphones, and parents who give those devices to their kids are bad parents. Those parents also make it hard or impossible to make that choice myself as a parent, because I also don't want my kids to be the odd ones out or social pariahs.

There is also practically no good reason for adults to own such things, as they are designed to fritter away your attention on the cheapest content possible (generally old, re-hashed "community generated" content).

In my opinion.
I will wait to know more about the assassin motivations, but i am afraid the the situation right now might become worse worse than the situation during "Les années de plomb" (Leaden times? I don't know if this translate well in English, from a German movie i think).
> m a working-class, autistic, openly bisexual atheist and the child of an interracial marriage

Better keep out this litany of intersectional crossings if you really want to 'keep your head low', this looks more like waving a bunch of flags to me. Also, 'keep your ammo dry' sounds just like those Republicans with their Gadsden flags and as such is probably proof of the horseshoe theory [1] of political extremism.

[1] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
Although if your bank has no foreign transaction fees and rebates you on ATM fees, you should be fine to use them, so long as you always decline the conversion that they offer (on all the euronets that I've seen it straight up says that there is a 13% markup involved, you can also compare with visa or mastercards conversion rate on their respective websites)
The attacker may entice the user to do the “jam a random fob into your laptop” step for them, for example by giving away USB drives at a conference.

If so, they need not come close to your laptop at all, certainly not close enough to change BIOS settings.
Coal is more like CH on average.
> No, very few models sold auto-encrypt because most have the very least one untrusted DMA-capable bus.

This is a malicious thing to say considering the context (the same problem would affect MS OSes too), and for all practically purposes: since Windows 8 _all laptops_ that I have been able to buy had Bitlocker enabled out of the box (to my annoyance), not to mention that it was practically standard IT police for any large Windows shop.
Who are the Western dictators?
It's actually in decline and lower than in the US.
Actually yes. There are parts of the US that behave like the developed world with gun crime rates comparable to commonwealth countries and Western Europe. The parts with high gun crime rates are full of people who for whatever reason can't handle guns. Usually guns are illegal in these parts of the country to try to help them, although it doesn't really work.

EDIT: Yes, there is actually a slight negative correlation between gun ownership and gun violence by state if you run the data (rather than just eyeballing it.) Gun violence highly correlates with a different trait in the population.
It seems obvious that firearms deaths are a multi-cause issue. If you have a highly developed country (Finland, Iceland, Switzerland...) you can also have lots of firearms without fearing also massive killings. But if half your society is born and raised under violence (El Salvador, Venezuela, Honduras...) + easy firearms + raging black markets operating freely, it's a recipe for disaster. I wouldn't expect less deaths in Brazil by getting more guns in the streets and encouraging resistance: Venezuela is already there (more than twice the guns of Brazil, handguns and semiautomatic are more or less allowed, you only need a license), and their death rates are the worst in the world.
> If you had an auto scaling kubernetes cluster with multiple redundancies using rust and 3 JS frameworks outages like this wouldn't surprise your users anymore.

FTFY
In which mjg finds out this was the plan all along, only now when the parade floats have stopped dead in their tracks and opened up to reveal the tanks inside:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5u1u5IuLec&t=1m10s
It could also be the culture is unaccustomed to random gun violence so the people realized it was a targeted hit that posed little to no danger to themselves.

I imagine ordinary people (even most police) aren't legally able to carry a gun in Japan. Simply watching and recording is about all they can do in that scenario.
Opposition MP Jo Cox was murdered a week before the Brexit referendum. As a result the Remain side suspended campaigning briefly while some of the Leave side, especially online campaigns, continued.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_European_U...
At 9000 pounds you need a truck driving licence in EU to drive such a beast.
Scaling nuclear to power the world would also likely require extensive use of breeder reactors.
>don't have experience with culture outside of their own and their local/national mainstream news.

Isn't this true of most Americans democrat or otherwise.
Thanks for reminding me of http://drunkmenworkhere.org/200
I also had a blog there.
I'm hypothesizing here, but it's possible that the policy was introduced so that the teams who work on moderation of apps (including the open-source-derived junk/spam ones) have a documented policy that they can use when justifying each removal - removals that are likely based on user-based flagging of problems.

If that's the case, Krita would probably remain listed; it's unlikely to be reported as spam and is genuinely useful software, so the moderation team are unlikely to consider (letalone apply) this policy in relation to it.

That said, the policy is clearly not worded ideally if it puts a valid, legitimate app into violation. So it's good that the SF Conservancy are raising a concern about this (which it seems like the Krita developers have read[1], incidentally).

The metaproblem seems to be that we want people to install "the good, safe software" and not "the bad, harmful software" -- and especially not to pay for and incentivize creation of the latter.

Is that best achieved using moderation and written policies after-the-fact? Does the presence of absence of paid apps and in-app payments affect the alignment of incentives? Is there eventual, informed and communicated consensus from users about the best and safest apps to use?

I feel like we may be trapped in a local minima at the moment where a bunch of conditions around app stores are non-ideal.

[1] - https://twitter.com/Krita_Painting/status/154524168859936768...
Yeah, I'm really envious of US citizens with all their hands on experience with active shooters. /sarcasm

I'd much rather be in a low-gun apocalypse than a high-gun one. Because I can run away from a guy with a knive, but not from a gun.

Also, what I never understood: no matter how many guns I carry, I still die to a single bullet in the back. So why should I feel saver in a high-gun environment?
This is what I'm getting: https://imgur.com/a/C7NNXCr

It won't boot from USB if the internal drive boots, or unless I manually change boot order.
Note that the other people are also wearing a mask. Wearing masks during flu season was already a thing prior to the pandemic in many East Asian countries, especially Japan. Also note that he's wearing it incorrectly (his nose isn't covered), refuting whatever point you think you're making.
Aren't speakers the limitation here? I'm not sure in what way movies or TV aren't realistic, but I'm pretty sure your speaker has less of a punch than a gun.
> What motivation is there to kill an ex prime minister?

Apparently he was "dissatisfied" with Abe and wanted to kill him.

"Earlier, it was reported that the suspect decided to kill Abe because he disagreed with his policies.

According to the NHK, the police now say that Yamagami told investigators he had a grudge against Abe and decided to kill him."

https://www.jantakareporter.com/entertainment/who-is-shinzo-...
What are you comparing with? Wages are not that low relative to the remainder of the developed world and student loans aren't that high outside the US. The US is the main outlier here, not the other way around.
The user terminals have a GPS receiver in them and would be able to determine where they are in the world with attendant precision. This would allow SpaceX to enforce fine-grained availability restrictions.
Even with chrome on mobile it says mobile device not supported
I want to snidely remark in an HN thread that if you make a thing that generates visual output, you should show some examples of that output.
Can we stop describing every activity as a "science" or an "art"?

are you really this insecure about your endeavors that you have to attach these signifiers to make it look palatable and convince strangers it's not a waste of time?
There is a large mantle of responsibility.
> since Windows 8 _all laptops_ that I have been able to buy had Bitlocker enabled out of the box, not to mention that it was practically standard IT police for any large Windows shop.

Please, the current context is "average user" not an "average enterprise". In the latter case I agree with your assessment.
I find it works fine with 6 and 4. You just need to modify the rules so that the captain can’t rapidly make moves on their own. Needing a second person to affirm their decision is critical. Otherwise they’ll inevitably focus on one task too much.
Disposing ? They just trow it in the ocean like they do with plastic.
The economic problem Japan faces is temporary while the demographic change from immigration would be permanent. It makes sense that the Japanese are avoiding it.
Twitter lays off 30% of its talent acquisition team
It would be interesting to see the calculations for it though (with the different twilights too)

When doez civil twilight start - is it when the centre of the sun drops below horizon, or a minuteish later when the last part of the sun drops?
The matrix.org server is slow.
There’s an A.C.Clarke short story right there.
This site is endless fascinating. A minor point on the interface -- the response to trackpad actions within the dot cloud is confusing, although the time controller at the bottom is very easy to use.