skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would move the spotlight from the regions certain researchers have spent their careers and would result in some future funding opportunities being reallocated to focus on the new region
If I wake up early with my 3m old son and hit the livingroom switch, various christmas lights turn on.

Before that I will have turned on a dim salt lamp in our bedroom with a small butten I have near the bed, as to not wake my gf. I turn it off with the wall switch while leaving the room.

The light in the hallway is dim because it is still early. Since he didn't poop I only need a dim light in the changing area operated by my foot.

Various lights in the house turn on automatically by movement or door opening. Lights near the front door go on dinly just before subset and get brighter with movement. The wall switch in the kitchen turns on multiple lights including cabinet downlighting.

These things and more, and the fact I can change them relatively easily and wihtout rewiring, I find convenient and that brings me value.

You don't have to understand though, we both can like different things.
Western kit is designed to have a long list of feature checkboxes and complex requirements, yet breaks down easily, is difficult to operate and service, and is produced only in small batches with high unit costs.

In other words, it's designed to win contracts by a program administrator comparing checkboxes, but it's not designed to win wars.

To win wars you need huge quantities of munitions and solid delivery platforms that can be rapidly produced, are easy to use, robust in the field, simple to service, and extremely reliable. It doesn't matter if they don't have all the features, what matters is that you can rapidly bring them to bear in superior numbers against your enemy, who is constantly trying to disrupt your supply lines and is bringing their weapons to bear against you. Think of why the Kalashnikov was successful -- it was dead simple to produce, extremely durable, with fantastic price/performance ratios. You could literally flood the world with Kalashnikovs. Even child soldiers can use them. Another example is western artillery, which simply can't handle the fire rate of Russian artillery and must be taken offline. Why? Because in order to have the best specs, we fire heavier shells at higher pressures even if it means we can only fire substantially fewer rounds per piece and have higher failure rates. Similarly our tanks are also much heavier than Russian tanks with a lot more features, but they break down often, require much more fuel per mile, take much longer to service, much harder to transport (due to added size/weight), take much longer to produce, and we have a fraction of them. Yet despite all that, they don't have any real armor advantage.

The idea of planning for sustained conflicts - meaning multi-year conflicts with hundreds of thousands or millions of well armed troops on both sides that need to be constantly resupplied and equipped with massive flows of arms -- this is something NATO doesn't do, since it assumes massive air superiority and short police actions against undeveloped opponents. I'm not sure whether this is due to a philosophy that has decided that there will be no more big wars, and so there's no need to equip for them, or whether it's just administrative drift, but right when the world is heating up, NATO is completely unprepared for a major conflict. Despite spending trillions.
> USB HID supports 6-key rollover only

I don't understand why. In USB HID the report size is practically unlimited. Is there a limit on popular OSes that would be the reason for this ?
So a panel that looks like Vanta Black, but also at non-optical wavelengths? Better efficiency is being pursued but the engineering behind real products will always be the result of balancing design constraints:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar-cell_efficiency
Gah these articles and comment sections should come with a trigger warning for armchair speculation. I swear it's as frustrating as talking to flat earthers.

Estimation is actually well understood in academic project management. There is (Nobel Prize winning!) research about what, actually, are the problems inherent to estimation, and how to produce specific and accurate estimates despite them. This academic field is almost 50 years old, and no one who complains about estimation in blog posts or comments is aware of it.

Stop navel gazing and actually go READ about the subject. I know it's hard for us engineers to take in anything that doesn't come from StackExchange, but please try, BEFORE you write about your shitty experience with estimates and generalize to the entire problem space.

Here's what the research says:

- Humans are ALL bad at time estimation. Even the ones who consider themselves good at it, estimating tasks with which they are very familiar, "only" underestimate by 30% at best.

- humans are pretty good at estimating non-time attributes of work, even those with a direct correlation to time. Like effort, complexity, or "cups of coffee."

- if you estimate something with a time corellation (e.g. complexity) in a consistent way and measure the average throughput over time, you can very precisely and accurately estimate time to completion. This is the Law of Large Numbers, which is how casinos stay profitable when dealing with much more randomness than exists in software projects. It also makes your estimates include unexpected complexity, personal issues, illness, windows updates, etc. It's a statistical law.

- the accuracy of average time estimates is proportional to the time left on the project. It runs opposite to the uncertainty of distant features. I.e. this method does not predict how much you can build in a week; you're better off with your relatively intimate knowledge of the feature at that point in time and a gut check. Rather it predicts how much you will build over 12 weeks, with extraordinary accuracy.

- estimates are more.understandable when presented with a confidence interval, e.g. "the work as we understand it today will take 8 weeks, with a 95% confidence."

What I HAVEN'T seen in the research, but which is undoubtedly true, is that most teams violate these fundamentals and then complain that estimates are useless.

Asking your team to estimate in time units IS useless. Adding up those time estimates to create a long term plan is doubly useless. Cracking the whip on them when their estimates prove inaccurate is triply useless. And complaining about it on the Internet because you've never read any of the grown up work on the subject... well that's Hacker News.
I've had good experiences with Google Cloud Scheduler. https://cloud.google.com/scheduler
The complexity of the process of causing loss to another does not absolve you from it.
It doesn’t mean it’s Python’s fault, but it fosters a culture where Python developers who regularly follow the language and are some of the ecosystem’s biggest authors are enticed to trying out the fancy new features (even if the old way still works) because “this is cleaner, this is how I want to do things from now on”.
No, ER misdiagnoses are not killing 250k per year
If QR codes are such a big UX plus then i hate to break it to you but all bank apps in my country read and create QR and people use it all the time. SEPA included.

Its quite lovely on invoices i must say.

Whats probably not there is that not every EU country uses this but that is matter of time. The banks are international, popular features spread. It will probably become standard very soon.
What is AWS/Azure supposed to do if you run out of funds? Delete your resources? Storage costs money too, simply shutting down the services won't quite cut it. VPS consumption is relatively easy to predict, complex cloud services are not.
Rice cookers are great. But they don't roast the rice.

The roasting gives another flavor dimension, just as roasting spices changes their flavor.

Each approach has its place.
> even if the link goes to Spotify, they do a ton of things to siphon listeners that came for my music away from listening to my music, including NOT playing more of my music after the intended song plays

If always playing songs from the same artists is what people wanted (e.g. lead to more overall listening time), Spotify would 100% do that.
You can't pick what a radio station plays next after starting one of your songs, likewise Spotify gets to pick what their users prefer (visibly: not always songs from the exact same artist).
Yeah I dunno. I mostly don't interact with LW, I mostly interact with people who are part of the in-person core of the community, so maybe the people online just have less realistic hopes than the core does.
> drowning in the sea of nostalgia

# I LIKE BIG BUTTS AND I CANNOT LIE / YOU OTHA BROTHAS CAN'T DENY...

You can't just sit here in the dark listening to classical music, Fry.
I had a similar experience to yours. Lurker for 90% of the time, only comment here and there and never spammed linked unless they were pertinent to the discussion I was commenting on.

At some point I got shadowbanned and I only noticed because no one ever replied or interacted with any of my comments.

It was easily solved with an email to dang asking if there was a reason why that happened. If I broke a rule, I obviously want to know because I do care about following guidelines here.

It got quickly resolved and that was a very pleasing experience. But that's because I was able to ask questions to a human and a human took time to answer them.

I still think shadowbanning is a good tool and a necessary one when it comes to moderation, especially because contrary to the real world, here and on most online comunities, anyone can join.

IRL no random person can just join your friends circle and become part of the conversation. This is an almost exlusively online issue and all the various forms of banning are the only tools at our disposal to deal with the issue.

And letting people think they're part of the comunity while preventing them to do harm is a good compromise.

I'll wait for the day when a clever dev decides to use GPT to make a bot whose sole purpose is to engage with shadowbanned account.
Why even go that far? Why hasn't nature spread them on its own?

Honestly this whole topic reeks of social hierarchies (which are entirely malleable) being applied to other aspects of life. After all, when you are convinced of a social hierarchy, you are going to try to find or manufacture evidence and if it can be explained by genes you have the ultimate excuse for racism.
The flaw in your theory being that it would take you equally as long to slow down as it would to reach that speed. So you would age out on the deceleration.

I suppose you could accelerate in an orbit around earth to maintain contact. But my understanding of relativity is poor
And of course the “Master’s” degree.
I run my cronjobs on OpenWRT router. It's turned on all the time anyway, so it's for free :)
My point was not to assume that cloud providers would write off the cost of errors or security issues.
Yes, just a small nuance:

> always come down to a 50.001% majority

It's not a person-vote-majority, but some sort of aggregate. Due to the aggregation scheme it becomes even easier to manipulate/game with "key counties" and "key states". A party does not even need to convince the general population anymore, but just focus on a tiny fraction.
> So by induction, perhaps someone makes sure they don't.

Yikes! That's a scary conspiracy theory!

(Note that I don't agree it would cause a breakdown in society.)
The whole post was made in "humorous irony" ;)

However, successfully producing a relativistic spaceship is probably more possible right now than successfully creating and reviving human corpsicles... just sayin' ;)
Know your hierarchy of oppression. That's sexist. Clearly it would be code for
His Girl Friday.
same thing it does when you dont pay. all goes down. databases readonly mode. Eventually it all gets deleted if you dont pay for a another month or so.
Removes the cost of the frame, reduces efficiency. Presumably whether it's a net gain depends upon the site, eg terrain shape, latitude, need for passive cooling, wind-blown dirt, local fauna, etc.
Making vegan leather from waste flowers
This is the page of the manufacturer:

https://www.spinq.cn/products-solutions/Triangulum

As they wrote:
"This product contains a powerful permanent magnet .
The distance for 5 Gauss (0.5 mT) is 50 cm from this product.
Keep a distance of at least 50 cm from cardiac pacemakers and other implanted electronic devices. Also, keep away from other electronic devices and magnetic media (credit cards, etc.)"
>For everything else, micromachined electrodes/meshes are the superior alternative IMHO.

>1. Neither Synchron nor Neuralink have adopted anything resembling this in their R&D stack

The current story with Neuralink monkey deaths calls into question how superior that tech is.
As the pharaohs already discovered, an immortality plan that depends on generations of low-paid underlings to maintain the dead elite's physical bodies is fundamentally flawed.
Twitter: Links to Mastodon are possible again
> Some of these terms were even popularized by the same movement with similar motivations and reasoning in the past few years. How many of the "Consider using" suggestions will be considered "harmful language to be eradicated" in another few years? Feels like we're getting to a place where even a person who is honestly and carefully choosing their words to be non-offensive will be chastised because they missed the memo this year.

Yeah, many of these feel extremely "fashionable" to me, in the sense that there was already a term intended to be thoughtful and compassionate, and the latest "preferred alternative" is driven by the latest academic framework to achieve popularity rather than any change in values or the preferences of the people being addressed.

In addition to "survivor", as you highlighted, I know and know of people who would certainly prefer "sex worker" to "prostitute" but would roll their eyes at "person who engages in sex work" - and point out that it actually carries more of an assumption of stigma, since nobody would say "person who engages in office work".
You're talking to someone that has hold NeXT manuals for an university porting project, and in fact the very first editions of Apple documentation have exactly the very same manual, rebranded for Apple.

And just not to be a random dude in the Internet, here are the NeXT documents straight out of 1993, page 173.

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/next/Release_3_Nov93/Object-Ori...

Page 31 on "Developing business applications with OpenStep"

https://archive.org/details/developingbusine00gerv/page/n7/m...

Finally, from the language authors themselves, chapter 15, Objective-C++ (1989-1990)

"The Origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and Its Evolution at NeXT"

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3386332
Always two of them there are. Time and space. Spatial separation has the great benefit that it frees you from separation in time, which is technically and mentally more challenging. If you want or need that anything can happen at any time on either side, you end up copying (and ideally closing the door after). Very much like Erlang does with the Beam.
If you aren’t happy with Flake8, Pylint, and isort (or maybe if you are!), I recommend checking out Ruff:

https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff

It’s literally 100 times faster, with comparable coverage to Flake8 plus dozens of plugins, automatic fixes, and very active development.
> It seems to me that most of the professors are fully on board with this program.

I wonder. Could be that they don't want to be ostracised.

This happens in companies as well. In mine, we have a similar list of words to avoid. I'm pretty sure 95% of my colleagues think it's bullshit but we never discuss it openly. Mostly it's a thing from the US youth, some of them seem to be actively tracking anything that could be remotely considered unfair to minorities and are very vocal about it.
Definitely not all. Thylacosmilus was, Smilodon was not nor was Homotherium.
Nah, we are arguing that when C dudes get pointed out that C also required extensions to be usable outside UNIX and PDP-11, the outcome is always this two weights, two measures kind of hand waving.
As someone who already interpolates media with SVP4, I remain unconvinced by those arguments. My media looks amazing running at 120 hz, I don't get headaches by jarring panning shots that look closer to a slideshow than a movie.

I recently watched Avatar 2 in IMAX 3D with 48 FPS, and it looked incredible. If only all media in the future could let go of the arbitrary 24 frame limit, which was made a hundred years ago because filmmakers wanted to conserve their film usage.
The video quality is generally fine, but the quality of the apps is vast.

Anything that doesn't use system-provided UI elements is simply constitutionally bad. It's incredible that things that can't scroll smoothly pass basic QC.
This is one of the primary reasons I bought a Steam Deck. I happen to run Arch Linux on a zen 3 and RDNA 2 desktop, and quite like the idea of a team of engineers being paid to keep things running smoothly. Indeed, I've been actively following a freedesktop.org issue ticket tracking AMDGPU suspend/resume driver issues, and one of these developers found a regression while testing the next Steam OS Deck release.

I've also been enjoying using the Deck. I'm currently playing through L.A. Noire, graphics settings maxed out. It's great being able to pick it up and start playing within seconds, the game running while suspended.
I’m sorry to hear this, this is a tough situation.

Microsoft might, but are unlikely, to help you out.

Similar situation with your bank. Neither face a legal obligation to help you, just potential bad PR if they don’t.

Your best bet may be bankruptcy. It sounds terrible, but assuming you have an LLC/Ltd company, you can clear out your coffers, wind up, pay them pennies on the dollar, if anything, and start a new business. You may need to go through an lawyer or administrator depending on bankruptcy laws where you are.

I’ve taken a client through this, after a similar situation - they ended up with a vast bill to a supplier brought about by someone else using their credentials, and the supplier not being willing to budge. It cost about a week of time and about $2k in legal fees.

I’ve also been on the receiving end, where I presented a legitimate invoice and rather than pay the client reincorporated and kept the IP - which sucks, but Microsoft will be insured against insolvencies, so I wouldn’t feel bad about it. You’re just allowing their insurer to help everyone out.
Depends on how good your spacecraft is at speeding up and slowing down, really. There are many designs which could probably do this relatively (heh) quickly.

I'm sure producing one of these things is more possible right now than freezing/thawing/reviving a human.

Alternatively, to compensate for how long it would take to speed up and slow down, just have our intrepid time-o-naut climb into their suspended animatio--- oh heck ;)
There are a bunch of physical reasons why you can't have a ~100% efficient solar cell – obviously thermodynamics chief among them, but also effects like the fact that the bandgap is finite (yet the sun's black-body spectrum has energy radiated below it) and the fact that solar cells themselves will heat up and re-radiate photons they absorb.

For a long time, solar cell efficiency was around ~10-20%. There's actually a theoretical upper limit, the Shockley–Queisser limit, of a bit less than 34% for a single p-n junction photocell. [1] This is a tandem cell – for which higher efficiencies are possible but costs go up. The thermodynamic limit is reached if you have an infinite number of layers.

Obligatory plot of progress vs time: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Best-res...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley%E2%80%93Queisser_limi...
Though the video is fairly long, it's a genuinely interesting exploration on the murky history of video games and gambling. This is part two of a video series, I highly recommend watching both.

Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQIHqkudgNY
That is true for some switches made by fly-by-night Silicon Valley companies. Especially the ones that need a Wifi connection to work.

The ones I use are made by Lutron, who has a long history of making conventional light switches. They act just like normal switches, and I could sell my house without the home automation system, and it would be perfectly functional for the new owner.

Having carefully designs home automation brings lots of little conveniences. When I walk into a room when it is dark, the light automatically turns on. When it becomes cloudy during the day, lights in the darker living areas turn on. When I go to bed, I press one button, and all the lights in the house turn off, and the motion sensors are disabled. Another button press in the morning re-enables the sensors and turns on the lights in all the "morning activity" areas of the house.

Bottom line is that I seldom have to press a light switch. I always automagically have light when and where I need it.
Although true today, that's definitely not the original reason. Unicode was invented after C
Is that an educated preference - you have looked up your chances of survival in an armed response vs a negotiated one, or an instinct?
Granted for immersive gaming experiences (I were a PC gamer who bought a VGA card and Roland LAPC-1 soundcard back then just to enjoy the full experience of Origin's Wing Commander) but definitely not for Zoom or spending time with friends.

AR glasses perhaps will work - less cumbersome and intrusive than a headset.
Thank you for posting a different view on this topic. The comment section here feels very one-sided and makes me believe that people aren’t here to critically discuss all views. Honestly I feel very intimidated to write any comments that challenge the opinions here because of the imbalance.
And then we graciously disregarded the trouble of 'obsolete' hardware that is not supported anymore by the 'brand new improved and with most super revolutionary functionality in the universe' version of the software.

I am fed up with phone apps already because of that, nearly no month or several week goes by without one warning me: UPDATE! NOW!

And then when you update its behaviour is altered, many times functionalities you liked are gone. The whole thing is more like a nuisance than genuine help.

Exposing myself potentially to the same kind of problems concerning my whole home?! No thank you!

(recently, after long deliberation and consultation with my keen wife, I gave up the idea of robotic vacums. some are excluded due to shameless price or physical configuration, but many due to the inability to operate without a phone app. i will do my vacuuming without connecting to home wifi, thanks)
It certainly mitigates it. I have many years of experience with AWS and installed Databricks, an off the shelf product through their SaaS portal.

I certainly feel less responsible and more aggrieved when that situation costs me a lot of money than in the $200 wine example.
Yup. There's another framework called 'Feature-wise Linear Modulate' (FiLM), also related to video, but otherwise unrelated (note the lowercase 'i'); and thanks to Hasbro, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) is surprisingly difficult to search (but Hasbro was first, so NeRF not a great choice).

I've seen 2-3 other examples of insane name duplication in CV research in the last couple of months.
This was wonderful to read. Informative, well explained, and humorous (the reference to "a pixel is not a little square" took me by surprise and made me laugh).

I feel like I've gotten a better understanding of things I thought I knew already. The only question left in my mind is "why does he always need to write new subpixel-accurate line drawers?!"