skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may be due to policy activism on the side of governments.

I think asking service providers to use more E2EE is not the right approach. Governments' intelligence agencies do not shy away from infiltrating commercial vendors (from Yahoo! to the infamous Crypto AG - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG).

1. People should diversify across many, in particular smaller platform, so that surveillance cannot be done as it becomes a scale & long tail problem.

2. People should use P2P E2EE protocols and GPG-encrypted emails. The single biggest step forward would be easier ways to set up public key encrypted email part of e.g. Mozilla Thunderbird and other clients. But in parallel an attitude change is needed, for the receiving end needs to know how to open an encrypted email.
It's funny, I remember reading somewhere that research on Computer Graphics, rendering specifically, is 'solved' because photorealism had been accomplished.

What had been omitted though was that efficient photorealistic rendering, as well as the visual elements that human perception instantly picks up on such as material(s) translucency, lighting/shadows, and as you've already mentioned animations (and the bigger challenge of facial expressions!) is what everyone's after.

And what we have at the OP is indeed impressive work, which still looks artificial. Contrary to the critique of the comments so far, and outside the graphics research interpretation, this isn't something necessarily negative imo. I like video games that preserve a few elements of non-photorealism.
What stood out to me in the second video is that the walla (background noise/chatter) didn’t match the relatively low number of visible people, and also didn’t change when moving around (until the player entered the side alley). Realism isn’t just visual.
In gamedev many things are floats, and exactly 0.0f can mean basically "null". It's not uncommon to see x != 0.0f.
Other than 0.f, basically any other value if for some reason has to be compared, it's done with some margin of error like abs(x - y) < 0.0001f
A lot has happened since 2017. There's been enormous evolution in:

- solar and wind electricity generation: drastic cost reduction, massive scale-up

- interconnects: lower cost, strong growth, especially in the EU

- green hydrogen ecosystem: incredible cost reduction, massive scale-up

- battery storage: drastic cost reduction, massive scale-up

- pumped hydro storage: eking out the last bits

- other storage tech: liquid metal, compressed CO2, ...

- heat pumps: massive scale-up, incremental efficiency improvements, also large scale sea source like Helsinki

I'm especially hopeful when it comes to green hydrogen derivatives as energy carriers.

One of the more popular studies in this regard is https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2021.11.067 .
Genetic sequencing gives us the first-ever look at a Neanderthal clan
But programmers should be worried about every what-if scenario, regardless of language.
No, we know why: the people. The governments, the culture/desires.

And I don't mean only Africa or Asia, (before someone calls me racist). Any country has had this problem.

The simplest solution is to instate mandatory community service, preferably in lieu of military service, but it could be a sort of "Subotnik" as seen in the USSR, which would be used for... You guessed it, doing community/public service work. Then you have all the manpower and just need food (some compensation/thanks is good) tools and organization/training (can double as job training).

Not much to ask imo, but of course many people will cry about it. Mostly people from countries with a lot of homeless and unpaid internships, but it's not like most people want to do unpaid work much, either. On the bright side, most people won't raise much of a fuss about it, either.

So that's not happening. Government officials stealing foreign aid is happening. Local production is not happening. Wars are happening. Toilets are not. Etc.
Are you saying that he should've bought a lighter winch and a pair of wheels?
I'm sorry to sound negative, but what you are saying about this "clinic in Mexico" sounds too good to be true. And everybody knows that when something sounds too good to be true ...

More concretely, are you suggesting that US and European doctors are ignoring science about MS and just take the money? And the Mexican doctors at this clinic somehow magically have a cure which the rest of the world, at least the western world, ignores to ... enrich themselves?

Seriosly, this sounds very dubious. I'd caution the poster to get into fishy recommendations and blindly trust a stranger on the internet based on hope. Especially out of desperation.

And I find it deeply unethical to get the hopes up for somebody so desperate for a solution as the poster is. Their condition and outlook are bad enough, they don't need to be tricked on top of that. One of the huge red flags is the hush-hush "I'll send you a mail" Why this secrecy?

I urge you to either put evidence if your claims on the table or stop posting this kind of thing.
I have some geospatial algorithms in my geogeometry library. Unit testing those, you often need to compare coordinates. A good way to do that is by calculating their distance. Equality is really not that relevant with many of these algorithms. Almost everything that you do to those numbers has rounding errors.

If you think about it, people use 64 bit doubles for representing latitude and longitude. They don't have a lot of precision. A second of a degree is about 25-30 meters (depending on where you are. that's 1/3600th of a degree. So five decimal points gets you there. With 64 bit numbers, you can probably get to cm/mm level accuracy. Which is plenty considering GPS is not accurate to more than about 5 meter.

And distance algorithms are tricky too; they are not that exact. The earth isn't a perfect sphere.

So, you are dealing with an inexact representation of doubles that weren't very exact to begin with and the algorithms add more errors. The solution is to not compare equality but distance with some margin of error. So, subtract your expected and actual values and assert that their difference should be less than whatever margin of error is acceptable to you.
Ivory tower musing about why poor countries are corrupt and disorganized is not the key missing activity blocking them from prosperity.

The countries which are not poor and disorganized did not get there through the benevolent study by their betters.
EDIT: deleting this comment, too much negative feedback.

For cognitive benefits, try mental math apps.
USA is rich in universities. I wish people would focus less on the rankings and looking good credential aspect of college, and more on using it as an opportunity to learn / actually getting good at something. If we did the latter, we’d realize that people could go to pretty much any university (or coursera!) and get a high quality education here.
This looks like a 2002 Nintendo GameCube release called like “World Baby”

(Credit https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1559665074868031490)
> is FSD fraudulent, like the people working on it inside Tesla, or maybe just Elon, know it won’t ever work

They must know it would never have worked in the timeline they gave for it. Elon Musk got on stage and told people it would be fiscally irresponsible not to buy his cars because his cars would earn passive income as robo-taxis. There was simply no way that was going to happen and most people who weren't fanboys already thought it a risible claim. They aren't even close to level 5 and they knew it. Years later and they still aren't close to it.

Now, could you prove in court this was fraud and not just moronic optimism? Maybe, maybe not. That probably depends on what they were foolish enough to put in writing where legal discovery might find it. But personally I don't see a shred of reasonable doubt; it was fraud plain and simple. He knew these claims were bullshit but knew self driving cars were hype so he shamelessly exploited that hype to sell cars.
This article conflates too many things. No amount of gain or loss of women’s status, for example, will bring back “traditional lower education male roles” like factory work. The factories have gone elsewhere and robots have taken much of the jobs. It’s more ageism than feminism, as current jobs are fundamentally different than pre computer age jobs. And the older women’s works already disappeared when the pink collar career fields dies about the turn of the century.
Hard cap, but the principle behind why it's harmful is applicable to both. The latter is just a milder dose.
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You might research chlorine dioxide.
I drove by a small female in a large 1 ton dodge last year and she was still 2 or 3 feet taller than the cab of the truck. They're huuuuge!
TeX was designed even earlier (in 1977), and most of the weirdness is from people trying to do things inside TeX — the actual "writing math" part is still mostly fine. (E.g. people don't run into much of the weirdness when using MathJax/KaTeX, which are reimplementations of just the typical math typesetting concerns.)

My understanding, from reading some of the history, is that in the early 1980s when Lamport wrote the set of TeX macros that became LaTeX, already TeX had spread like wildfire among math/CS departments, and it so happened that TeX itself was a more widely available and reliable (see "trip test") programming "language"/platform than any actual programming language. (This was when C was yet to become available outside of a handful of labs and universities, and what most people had was a variety of mediocre Pascal compilers that supported differing sets of Pascal and extensions, which is why Knuth wrote TeX in a very tiny subset of Pascal extended with his own preprocessing system (WEB/tangle/weave) — and still it is said that compiling and testing TeX uncovered at least one bug in every Pascal compiler encountered.)

So at that time, it made sense to "do everything in TeX", and LaTeX's approach of hiding a lot of insane macro-hell complexity behind innocent-looking boxes, an approach since taken up by zillions of "packages" of varying quality, leads us to the situation we're in today.

But there's hope: with LuaTeX inside the TeX world, and things like markdown/pandoc outside of it, people are slowly beginning to get used to doing the programming part in an actual programming language (Lua or whatever), and using TeX merely for typesetting, in which area it is still good / a reasonable and not-too-weird piece of software.
The campaign in Call of Duty is not a open world campaign where you get to do whatever you want and the environment reacts appropriately in most situations. It's basically a interactive movie where you get to practice sneaking and shooting sometimes, in the style of a Michael Bay movie.

Expecting what you write about in the third paragraph is a misunderstanding of what the game is trying to be.
I was enjoying the beginning of this article so I wanted to save it as a PDF for review later when I would be off-grid BUT NOEP CANNOT so goodbye
If you feel that describing your painting to a blind person is beneath your dignity as an artist, to the point that you'd rather have left it unpainted, then truly I sit in awe of your principles.

But why you think that you can apply that sort of standard to yourself, but not see a level of absurdity in the EU commission trying to wrest phone design away from Apple of all companies is still a profound mystery even after all these posts. They have as much a "right" to design integrity as an artist does.
The Intellectual Freedom Amendment (2021)
Thanks for the reply. No, I don't believe her doctor has mentioned LDN (yet). I will ask.

She is trying to do as much as she can w/out getting more meds. For now, she has been managing her stress as best she can as well as going to a physical therapist to help with the dizziness, muscle soreness, etc. The therapy has helped quite a bit, but the issues still persist. We hope these conditions just go down over time...
I wouldn't be surprised to read this for Iraq, Russia, NK. But I would have thought China is more serious about and competent about projecting internal harmony. Surely, if there was some beef it'd be resolved off camera and not so public. The message seems to be for CCP insiders not the general public.
Try infrared light therapy. (sun, infrared heater or specialized light)

We recently found out that all of our mitochondria in our cells need infrared light to get rid of oxidative stress. Our modern environment is devoid of infrared light: create all sort of inflammation and autoimmune diseases.

I had similar symptoms(peripheral neuropathy, headache), heal myself and my eczema that I had every winter in the last 23 years with a few minutes per day in front of a infrared space heater.e

It’s this doctor that gave me the idea to try it out.
https://youtu.be/5YV_iKnzDRg

I also know someone who was dying of IBS in the hospital, at some point he say f*ck it if I am going to die it will be under the sun. He checked out of the hospital, whent to mexico (from Canada) and healed himself without medication.

I think a lot of our modern problems are caused by our environment (vit-d, infrared, and other things.)

I hope people try it out and that it help someone.
Check out the videos of Medcram, many research papers have been done on this.
Some crimes are trivial to commit. Walking away unscathed from committing the crime is far harder than one might think. Consequences are inevitable, one way or another.
I assume so that they can break the record again later on.
Comparing the photo and the game the other thing I’d say is that the game actually looks too clean in comparison to reality.
I wanted to tell you about Adam Smith's invisible hand [1]:

>the concept has been captured to mean that the pursuit of individual interest leads to the general good.

However, to my surprise, it seems to have been thought up as an argument against a global adjustment of income:

>Smith was worried that if the movement of capital and the movement of goods (imports) were both free, the British bourgeoisie would invest abroad, to the detriment of Britain. To this, Smith came up with an argument according to which the British bourgeois would be biased according to their place of residence and would therefore make investments in the home country guided by an "invisible hand".

Against this, I would like to argue that there is no need to help the poor beyond allowing them to access the global market. If you look at Fiverr and such, with internet access, everybody can participate in the global economy and take some of those sweet ad dollars.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand
It appears that the easiest way to making micro transactions work and be cost-effective is some kind of vending machine with coupons.
Lina was first introduced as an April Fools joke from marcan, but after the positive response from the audience he (or now she?) probably just decided to go why not and stick with the alternate identity. But as you’ve said, it really doesn’t matter.

(Kudos from marcan trying as much as possible to keep the illusion /s: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1582930401118806016?s=46...)
Play some soulsborne games. They look great (even if they aren't the very best graphics possible) and play great. Very rewarding. I just finished my first Elden Ring run @ 200 hours play time and I'm back playing Dark Souls 3 (yet again).
"we gave them the middle finger and created a jaded enemy that wants to be the ussr again because we treated them as the ussr"

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the US gave Russia a tremendous amount of money in hopes it would aid its transition to a modern democracy... much of that money just disappeared and the former Soviet elites stole or bought up much of what used to belong to the state in the newly privatized economy. Meanwhile the KGB and organized crime in Russia joined forces and turned the country in to a corrupt dictatorship, which had a chip on its shoulder against the West and looked backwards to the glory days of the empire of the Soviet Union.

While all this was going on, the US considered the Cold War over and actually changed its military strategy to focus on fighting many small urban conflicts and terrorists rather than facing the USSR in a world war. It also scaled down its nuclear capabilities tremendously.

The US wouldn't have done any of these things had it wanted to "give Russia the middle finger".
Simplify your life. Start with a purge, get rid of stuff that clutters your life (including digital clutter) and make room for deliberate experiences. Go on walks, day hikes and spend more time outdoors.
Yep, and worst of all. Her doctor seems quite hesitant to link (or even recognize) any of these after-affects from the COVID shots to MS. Very frustrating to say the least.
Almost always watching a screen this isn’t great. Technical problems small but still need to fight bear. Mr Miyagi San.
If it did matter there would be detail as to why. It doesn't. One of them was buggy, but again does not matter which one.

> or should I just "git gud"

The opposite. Just blindly click on one. If it works you are done, if not click on a different one.

You are really, really overcomplicating this for no reason.
This is a horrible user experience, ends up like iOS where there are great apple apps, and everything else is second class. The great thing of android is that you can choose a different dialer or different sms app, and it can be as good as the preinstalled one
Damn, I really hope my mum doesn't get worse :(

I have Tinnitus since I was quite young, I used to complain when going into the lounge cos the TV made it worse. Thankfully after having covid and 3 pfizer shots mine hasn't got worse.
Scrolling through online feeds is an addiction.

Best thing seems to be to go cold turkey. Instead you could do something meditative (e.g. taking walks, sports) or something that allows you to enter a flow state (e.g. reading a book).

Getting out of bed can be difficult, so it's best done out of habit and without thinking.

Some pointers

Anna Lembke On The Neuroscience of Addiction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jziP0CEgvOw

Implementation intentions to form new habits:
https://sites.google.com/site/unlvhowtolearn/implementation-...
In other words, price discovery happens at the margins. Most people don't realize this but it's true.

You can move the prices of all houses in a market by moving the sale price of less than 0.25%-0.5% of the total supply. Some people will learn this fact the hard way when prices go the other direction.
I used OTR, but I would not say that it was _more_ common, as that was just a layer over a non E2EE platform like the ones you listed.

Using OTR meant using a non-standard client, installing the plugins for it, and configuring it. Worse, all parties you wanted to chat with had to do it as well. Which means it was almost always a novelty feature among nerdy friends and no one else.

Because most people did not have it installed, having it auto negotiate always was a non-starter. It meant people who didn't have it would recieve cryptic messages from you at the start of each session and then complain to you.

So most of the time it was completely manual process of enabling it for _some_ chats, and this leaks a massive amount of data. It basically declares that for this particular chat sometime might have been interesting. Often the chat log would include a plain text message like "Let's switch to OTR".

Unlike you I could not get any non-technical friends to care about OTR enough to install it. I have difficulty even today getting people interested in Signal. I still hear arguments like "I'm not that interesting, they can look" and "I've got nothing to hide"
The ancestrors of #nafo #nofakemeds and so on.

May be next article will talk about the practice of Hasbara and Israel...

let's wait and see.
Is this an over-the-counter herb? Sounds like my wife and I need to do some research on this...

Edit: Yes, in fact, it is over the counter. Seems GNC, Walgreens, etc has this on the shelf. Thanks for recommending it!
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As I recall there was some with scarring from the initial spill, but don’t recall reports of dead gators—they tend to be pretty resilient. Fish were killed off, though. Basically the gators left the affected area for a few years. Probably because the food chain impact.
Thanks! This is helpful. We need to make some changes to our pricing/plans and every bit of input will shape that.
> Have you tried Ashwagandha?

Please only take medical advice from medical professionals.

See excerpt below:

“Ashwagandha is an herbal remedy often categorized as an adaptogen, and it is sometimes recommended for MS-related fatigue. This compound does stimulate some cells in the immune system, so it poses a theoretical risk in MS.”

https://www.va.gov/WHOLEHEALTHLIBRARY/tools/multiple-scleros...
> I don’t see anything super impressive that could be attributed to CoD developers. I think most of this really advances in hardware that allows more lighting, higher quality textures and more polygons.

Who do you think is making the lighting, textures, and polygons? Who do you think is coding the engine for it?
Why people still trust these ratings from Moody's, S&P, etc?

Did we forget what happened in 2008?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwdo17GT6sg
Thanks, and ouch. I have some follow-up questions/comments, if you have the time:

> these are predefined as `\@firstoftwo` and `\@secondoftwo`

I do wish LaTeX kernel commands (which I'm assuming these are) were more widely documented. As it stands, it's pretty hard to keep track of what already exists. Is there a nice reference for those?

> Also the Unicode bytes are already active so setting their catcode is useless.

This is true for LaTeX and not TeX, correct? Originally, I'd `\expandafter\let\expandafter\@firstoct\@firstoftwoλ`, but I decided not to assume that that character was already active.

> Also redefining the first octet breaks LaTeX's UTF-8 handling...

How so? (If the else case wasn't broken)

>...and the else case forms an infinite loop.

If `\Firstλ` was not an active character, would this still be true? Since I store `\Firstλ` in `\lambda@first@oct` before it's declared an active character.

> and it breaks other uses of `(` and `)` in the argument.

This is not a concern for the DSL, but...

> Changing the catcodes of `(` and `)` means that this command doesn't work in the arguments of other commands

...this is. Thanks.

> Instead you could do this as

Damn :)

Thanks for the nice feedback. I suppose I should read up on xparse. In any case I feel like it's not moot to try to achieve the same results with primitives, to have some idea of what's breaking when a given program doesn't compile (usually at that point the primitives surface).
At least the rust gui libraries get some polish. I tried iced and it’s an impressive piece of work but beauty can get some love
Double-Cross System
SDG is a limiting factor in science development, not a boosting one. Science is funding oriented and companies are much more interested in funding research that could lead to revenue growth.
It's funny to see how some people think their opinion is the "problem" other people's money should be used to resolve.
While it is true that Speedometer is developed by Apple, it feels misguided to just throw in "of course it will be performant". Even Google Chrome scores higher in Speedometer in M1 (184, vs 88 when ran on an Intel Mac) -- so it's not like Apple is just underhandedly making its own software score higher. To be fair though, it's not like you can test other browser engines on an iPhone since they're all just basically Webkit web views.

Also it's worth noting that on Basemark Web 3.0, the iPhone 14 Pro Max scores 1033.56 while the formidable Galaxy Z Fold 4 running the SD 8+ Gen 1 scores only 641.02, so it doesn't appear like Speedometer is just fluffing numbers for Apple.