skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I meant for the data - they can use the Camera on the mac to capture the facial features of the user ... daily or weekly captures of the face can certainly help to improve and reach the goals of FaceID:

> Face ID automatically adapts to changes in your appearance, such as wearing cosmetic makeup or growing facial hair ... Face ID is designed to work with hats, scarves, glasses, contact lenses, and many sunglasses. Furthermore, it's designed to work indoors, outdoors, and even in total darkness.

And to improve features like:

> Even if you don’t enroll in Face ID, the TrueDepth camera intelligently activates to support attention aware features, like dimming the display if you aren't looking at your device or lowering the volume of alerts if you're looking at your device. For example, when using Safari, your device checks to determine if you're looking at your device and turns the screen off if you aren’t. If you don’t want to use these features, you can open Settings > Face ID & Passcode and disable Attention Aware Features.

( https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT208108 ).

It can also help to improve facial recognition in photos which Apple has been featuring for some time now in their Photos app.
it's not. South Korea has fabs as well and Japan too in Asia. China is also making progress in developing the own nodes (with TSMC's help for older nodes), and Europe and the US have significant capacity at higher nm nodes. TSMC is getting a lot of press because they manufacture the leading edge nodes at the moment, that are used in high profile products.
You seem to be mass replying to everything I've said

I would like to stop interacting with you, because you announced to a third party that I thought they were subhuman over a lower case letter, and won't stop telling me about your religion

Please stop canvassing me now
Really great books and resources!
I had some hard time deciphering the gesture from still images, but I have to say it's pretty accurate and I am surprised by how I am used to using them when I speak Italian, and how I unconsciously avoid them when speaking English. I never thought about it.

Now that I live abroad, I wonder if I'm slowly losing that "body language", and making myself harder to understand to other Italian speakers, entering some uncanny valley where I sound fluent, but something's missing. As a trilingual person, this is certainly would not be the first time. (The first language I've learned was French, I have perfect pronunciation but I've never practiced it and it became very rusty over the years, so it's now in that uncanny limbo and I actively avoid speaking it)
Ask HN: Anyone tried development using an Oculus?
A few months ago I bought an Oculus Quest 2 with the vague idea that I'm going to set up a development environment inside it.

It is a bit heavier than I expected, and while I had some fun with Beat Saber, I have not used the thing for work.

I mostly do web development - Nuxt on the frontend, Rails on the backend. My standard development environment is Visual Studio Code.

I'm curious if anyone found a place for the Quest in their work processes.
>For someone "neither interested nor disinterested", you're making a lot of posts about this subject matter.

Your statement was "If you're not interested in the legal minutia", and I replied that I'm neither interested nor disinterested, *in the legal minutia*.

I'm mildly interested in the outcome of case itself, namely my preferred outcome is that of Twitter losing as much value as possible and its users lose as much of their time and peace of mind as possible. I don't particualrly care how much Musk loses or wins.

This still doesn't need to imply I need to be interested in legalities. You can perfectly well be interested in your health without being interested in medicine and biology, you're interested in the 'what', not the 'how'; in the ends, not the means. I'm interested in a prticular outcome for a legal case, but not interested (and not necessarily disinterested either) in the legal intricacies of a country I don't live in when I'm not a lawyer.

>that you should at very least _PRETEND_ to have interest in this case

I don't need to pretend, I *am* interested in a very narrow thing about that case, namely that of twitter losing or signficantly suffering damage at least. I don't have to be interested in every single thing about that case to participate in the discussion, I mostly care about 1 thing and stated it very clearly all of my comments.

>All I'm asking is for you to be interested enough to seek the truth in the case before you write up a post.

I did read up 1 expert talk about Musk's legal chances posted here about 2 weeks ago, and he did give Musk low chances of winning according to several reasons I found convincing, but - like a true expert - he also acknowledged that he is (1) Not Musk's legal team or any one of them (2) Not in possesion of the full facts since he is not a party of the dispute or the judge (3) That there is enough stake on the matter, billions of dollars and reputation, that the judge can significantly hesitate and not be as straightforward as her history implies.

So that's enough for me to still have reasonable hopes that my preferred outcome is going to happen.
A good horse only jumps as high as necessary
Coarse or Lazy?
Our mission is to solve the problem of underinvestment in BIPOC
> concern troll

That's a little rude and uncalled for isn't it?
As someone who lives in a part of the world where a lot of people cycle in general, I have mixed feelings about ebikes. When human-powered, speed correlates highly with proficiency and experience. With ebikes, that's no longer true, and many unskilled & inexperienced cyclists are now among the fastest on the streets. This is especially problematic with people using "speed pedelecs" at speeds up to 45kph. They're essentially mopeds with thinner wheels. I feel very uncomfortable cycling when they are around. They're mostly inaudible and it can be very scary when they suddenly overtake you, especially on narrow paths (which is pretty much every bike path in Belgium).

On the other hand, ebikes are a lot better than cars, so I'm willing to be more tolerant of them than I'd like. I'd just feel a lot better about them if infrastructure would keep pace...
The Orange Order marches?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_walk

I'm not sure they can be described as "anti Irish".
Actually iirc bourbon predates scotch as we know it. Scotch is and always has been made using old bourbon barrels.
By all means, if you think you can come up with any issues or concerns that don't involve the typical political talking points then please, do so.
SRE Bytes: The Four Golden Signals of Monitoring
Not in the same order of magnitude but this is how I bought my IBM Model M keyboard for 50 cents from a pile of those crappy "multimedia keyboards".
There are plenty of FOSS serverless options

https://knative.dev/docs/

https://krustlet.dev

https://www.openfaas.com/
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32354394
> The "real" compiler authors spend months working on linkage, calling conventions, runtimes, symbol mangling, allocators, and debuginfo

Don't worry: targeting high-level languages gives you a different, equally-frustrating set of problems! Actually, many of them have equivalents to the low-level ones: you also have to worry about calling conventions, name mangling, runtimes… they just look quite different.

Especially you want to support any kind of dynamic functionality, there are many uncomfortable trade-offs involved.
Exploring the Feasibility of Using 3DXPoint as an InMemory Computing Accelerator
I honestly don't even know what subset of automotive rules apply to e-bikes. Do they have to follow signs for one way streets? Do they go on sidewalks and co-exist with walkers? Do they follow traffic lights? I just moved to Germany and electric scooters are seemingly in the same regulatory grey space. There was a scooter in the bike lane, blew through a red light, and then went up the wrong way on a divided street.

Personally, I would like bikes/e-bikes/scooters to just be predictable and predictability means laws and regulations.
> then goes on to claim "In the grander catalogue of neighborhood dangers, getting hit by an e-bike is far from the deadliest" which is outright ridiculous, do these neighborhoods not have cars, that are way more dangerous?

"... e-bike is far from the deadliest" means that there are things that are much deadlier than e-bikes, like cars. So you seem to be in agreement with (this part of) the article.
>"I think I've forgotten how I lived without a constant stream of information. I'm seriously tempted to get a dumb phone to remove temptation to browse when I have a few minutes to spare."

Up until few month ago my phone did not even have data plan. I ordered it now but purely for business needs. I use my phone strictly for phone calls and as GPS (I have offline maps). I use another phone to control gizmos like drone. For everything else I use PC and since I spend enough time doing various physical activities I consider my life balanced.
Can I use that in VSCode?
A chemist explains why the claims of 'structured water' is nonsense
> Little Boy actually fired a 38.5kg cylinder onto a stationary 25.6kg plug. Each half of the pit would have been supercritical, if they were spherical.

I’d forgotten that, if I ever knew it. Super interesting.
Lots of speculation about who Satoshi was; some code wasn't so brilliant, the idea was, etc. looking at the question today the smartest action he took was maintaining anonymity (no small task then) and the second smartest was bailing out before the predators began to use his work.

I am convinced (with no evidence to offer others) that there are several people who know how the original bitcoin work came together and became public; probably not all of them were involved. Those who were not involved directly have Snowden as an example of "why we don't talk about that."
People forget that in 1997 Microsoft was in the midst of being targeted for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. The Apple deal not only helped a competitor (It's argued that Apple was a hardware company and Microsoft a Software company) but it also resolved the lawsuits at the time that Microsoft had infringed on Apples GUI.

Not only that it gave Microsoft inroads into OSX though Office and Internet Explorer. The deal had Bill Gates fingerprints all over it and it could have turned out very differently had Apple not innovated itself out of it's poor financial position.

Who knows what would have happened if Apple hadn't recovered, I think this was much less of a lifeline rather than Bill wanting his software on Mac hardware.
You can still go into separate rooms when you need to talk to other people.
We need a copilot for the command line. For the bazillion times I have to look up stack-overflow for doing anything unusual with git, like undoing things etc. And not just git. Maybe some day there will be an oh-my-zsh plugin for copilot.
There are lots. This is one: https://knative.dev/docs/
Well, given that it is musk, I propose he debates the bots in stead.
Write a script that builds the repo from scratch. (Perhaps by applying diffs against the previous directory.)

Then you just need to update an rerun the scripts (or one of the files/diffs it depends on.)

Keep this script and its helper files in a separate repo.
The impact is so noticeable no tests were required. Who cares about the numbers when it is the effect that is desired? How do we know those tests are conclusive on their own? I am big on science, but bigger on results.

If you need an anti-immflammatory then try it, if it doesn't work then don't use it. There seems to be almost zero possible downside, so why not.

It seems really only effective for soft tissue swelling and inflammation.

I had an American guy in Bali who owned the chalets in Ulawatu where we stayed who had an ongoing back injury and was needing sometimes to be on some strong medication that put him out of it. I gave him our stash of circumin to try and it was so effective that when we left his Balinese wife was in tears thanking us for introducing him to it because it was more effective and no cognitive impacts.

Guy at work was on twice daily voltaren for his shoulder and hadn't played golf for three years. Started the circumin and three days later played a round.

Not conclusive, but just two of about twenty stories I could tell you after I found out about it from my sister in law and told others.
Can you say more about the dietary change itself?
Yeah, absolutely true, I misread that part. Thanks for clarifying to my tired brain :)
> This also means that the Appalachians have some of the oldest rivers

In the case of the New River (unsure about the others), it is the other way around: the river is not old because the mountains are old, but the mountains are old because the river is older. The New River predates the mountains that surround it.
I don't pay for SO but I do contribute both questions and answers. Asking a question is often as important as answering one. I actually think SO is how the internet should be: take little, give a little.
I tend to pick up the accent spoken around me (I'm not a native English speaker). Not quite sure to what extent it borders native speaker's accent, but it happens without any training.

On a separate note, if you feel you need to change your accent to fit in, perhaps the people you feel would appreciate hearing you speak in a different accent are not worth the effort of fitting in with?
Experiments indicate that bees have surprisingly rich inner worlds
From the question:

> I'd love to have a perfect west coast American accent when I speak english
The (detachable) cord on mine started to fray on the computer end almost immediately. Progress, sort of.
The difference is that the costs of solar are hidden behind flowery language.

Until people become honest that solar without batteries is impossible and we don't have the technology to store a days worth of energy then any comparison is misleading at best and a disaster at worst. Germany is looking at a winter where people may well freeze to death if Putin decides they should.

Nuclear might sound bad when you know all the details about it. Renewables are just propaganda until their downsides are aired just as publicly.

We don't live in a world where we get everything we want. Nuclear accidents are the only way we can have a first world life style with current technology without killing billions in 30 years from climate change. The longer we keep lying about this the more people will die.
> I just checked the Firefox download page which doesn’t have any FreeBSD specific instructions (although it does for linux)

It's a Browser, you don't need "specific" instructions for the base-os.
Bicycles really need dedicated infrastructure. Too fast for pedestrians on the sidewalk, too slow for most roads.

(I know they are legally allowed on the road; in practice though, it doesn't work out very well.)
I pay for a lot of services, ranging from YouTube Premium to Duolingo or Apple One. Also, I support a few independent content creators on Patreon.

The fact that there is a community where membership is free / ad-supported and is prominent in the developer community does not mean the paid access model does not work.

I wouldn't worry too much about content being stolen either. I could easily torrent any of the movies I watch on Netflix, but it's just not worth the hassle - and I live in Central Europe, not California or whatnot.

If your company is not doing well it might be because of more fundamental reasons.
> I honestly don't even know what subset of automotive rules apply to e-bikes

Same as any other bike. Go in the bike-lane and if there is none, go on the road meant for vehicles. Yes, bikes need to follow signs for one way streets. If you have to travel on sidewalks, jump of your bike and lead it until you get to a proper road. Yes, if you're on a bike, you need to follow traffic lights.
I wonder what would happen if the pilot did an immediate 90 degree roll to put the good engine under the centreline and then went full throttle?
This is an example of why kolgomorov complexity theory is an intellectual tarpit right up there with the EPR experiment.

Digits of pi are straightforward to compute with a simple formula but if you are presented with something like that it is by no means obvious which formula to use.

Barring an algorithm which is that smart I’d say pi has more entropy in that it it has log2 10 worth of bits per character whereas English text is maybe 1 bit per character although that is better than any current compressor.
There are some interesting search results for [accent training app]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=accent+training+app&atb=v279-1__&i...

I'm a native English speaker, but have modified my accent for teaching international students, to be better understood. I did it by interacting with small classes and individuals, and paying attention to their level of confusion/understanding. I had been explaining the same subject matter to native speakers for years, so could have a reasonable guess at whether confusion was caused by language or content.
My Thinkpad, depending on BIOS revision, will trickle charge from a 5V1A charger. Not great, but not horrible.

I know Vaio used to advertise that as a feature.
> (I know they are legally allowed on the road; in practice though, it doesn't work out very well.)

Not just legally allowed, legally required to travel by road, just because it's not safe to travel with a vehicle together on the same place as pedestrians. Then that the US has a problem with focusing only on cars, is a separate issue.
Nice! For browsing I usually use palemoon, a maintained fork of an old firefox version, which supports uBlock Origin.

Gentoo packages the links web browser, which is very minimal (own rendering system) and not useful for modern browsing, but useful for reading articles (also HN works).

There used to be a package repository for Debian for ungoogled-chromium, but that recently stopped being updated, so I uninstalled it. I never managed to build it on Gentoo, it took multiple days and I never had the patience.

Badwolf looks interesting but unfortunately doesn't have any ad-blocking programs.
That works for the car in:

> https://www.mathsisfun.com/measure/estimate-distance.html

But how about the tree?

Also, let's say you are walking towards a city and you see its skyline. You don't know anything about the buildings (how tall or wide they are). How far away is the city?
You’d get the added benefit of gas savings for the vehicles parked under then not having to cool down with AC. Maybe not a huge difference.
> do these neighborhoods not have cars, that are way more dangerous?

only because there are more, but cars have to actually follow safety guidelines when they are designed to reduce risks for pedestrians being hit.

that's why most of them looks the same.

bikes don't and e-bikes in particular run much faster than regular bikes and are used much more by incompetent bikers, given they are basically a non-taxed non-regulated non-plated moped (mopeds are quite dangerous for pedestrians)

> Instead of putting the blame on e-bikes, blame your local city government

one way roads are a way the local government address the issue, sidewalks are another way to protect pedestrians, if people on e-bikes (see above why e-bikes more than regular bikes) don't follow rules (they usually don't, everybody knows that, unless we are playing the hypocrisy game) I'm all in for arresting them and destroying the vehicle to build anti bikes protection on sidewalks.

Problem is local government would never do that.

I can tell you all about the city where I live where they spent millions to build bike lanes all over the city, after people and local fad-of-the-moment political groups protested, rallied, involved - and probably paid - influencers to ask for them!, and bikes (e-bikes more than others, riders more than regular folks) ride on the sidewalk because "It's safer, the bike lane runs side by side with the car lane"

Welcome to the realm of reality, where people are usually shit.

I say don't give the the tools to be shittier: ban e-bikes and force owners to get a permit to ride them in a city.

At least we know who they ate in case of accident (they usually run!)
Yeah. Used to be a very happy KDE user too. Now I use i3, it's changed the way I use computers forever.
Have you ever thought of making Instagram 'sliw' sometimes?

Might be unethical or it might help her to get away from it?

Perhaps talk to a therapist about how to approach it?
Harnessing public entrepreneurship
At least in the US, they are to be treated as any other vehicle on the road, and are supposed to follow the same rules. Aside from restrictions on highways and freeways because of slowness, there is no "subset".
>>> If I got an email that was JUST "hello" I'd just ignore it.

I think I misunderstood this sentence in your previous email. I understood that if the if the email stars with "Hello" instead of "Dear Person" you would ignore it. But reading it again, you are saying that you ignore "empty" emails that only say "Hello".
I went through this process on my own. I grew up in India and my first language is Tamil which is very distant to the European languages. I now live in the midwest. I can't tell the differences between regional American accents except the very famous Bostonian "paak the car" but I've listed some tips on how I improved my pronunciation.

When I started doing stand up comedy 12 years ago I realized I needed to work on my accent[1].

Here are some tips,

Pronunciation of english sounds is influenced by your first language.

Understand phonetics.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/fohull/a_yea...

Follow the links to
Pronunciation: Basics, prosody and phonetics on the page above and understand how sounds are made.

If you don't understand the mechanics of tongue position, lip shapes, where the sound originates (front of the mouth or back of the throat) then you may not be able make the right sound.

If you can spend money get expert help (speech therapist, though I haven't done this personally).

Practice. Speaking involves physical muscles so practice those muscles.

Record yourself and listen ( after a few days). Observe pronunciations that need to be fixed and repeat.

In time, the mechanics of tongue position, lip shapes etc., will become subconscious and you will not have to worry about this consciously and you will speak naturally.

1. Most recent stand up comedy performance.
https://youtu.be/845a6wyO5h0
>human ingenuity and expertise may become far, far less relevant.

Human ingenuity produces the data and builds the blender.
And what if android charged a penny a year?
War in Ukraine can't be ended by ignoring Moscow
I found Indian culture by way of studying Sanskrit. I was homeless, I spent too much time in libraries, and I needed a hobby. So I put my nose into the "Teach Yourself" series and after learning enough to be dangerous, I dug into volumes of the Vedas, Panchatantra, and Panini. After some brief contact with ISKCON I reaffirmed my Catholic faith, but my fascination and respect for Hinduism and Indian history hasn't waned. I simply built on that by studying the St. Thomas Christians, the history of Goa and the Malabar Coast, and all the factions of "Malankara Church".

I have found a basic Sanskrit vocabulary to be useful, in terms of knowing what people's names or titles mean, or understanding what Buddhists are talking about. And it was even striking to me when identifying similarities with other Indo-European languages. And for me, India has a unique mix of exotic foreign-ness and British-Empire familiarity that I am inexorably attracted to it.

This is an important book. Being colonised and oppressed by the British can lead to the literal rewriting of history and the forgetting of a nation's past. So, kudos... I mean, namaste, to historians who put together research like this!