skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When taking portrait photos ideally you want the eyes to be perfectly in focus, and the nose and ears very slightly out of focus.

I doubt a small sensor auto-focus camera will achieve that though.
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It is not at all clear that the size of the metaphorical pie is as fixed as you claim.

Ideally gigabit internet will come "instead of" a few extra pounds of profit in the pockets of the builders. More likely, gigabit internet will come "instead of" a few extra pounds remaining in the pockets of the home-buyers. It's also possible that this will just prompt companies already installing equipment for new neighborhoods to install the reasonable piece of kit, rather than the cheapest piece of kit possible, at an added extra expense of nearly zero.
I recall that Google had a project to compile Python to LLVM (Unladen Swallow @ https://code.google.com/archive/p/unladen-swallow/), but work stopped on it a long time ago.

If I recall it really wasn't that much faster than CPython given the overhead, but it's been a long time; if it was faster I assume it wouldn't have been abandoned.
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I agree, an electric CX5/CX50/CX60 would be ideal
Yes. The ceiling is the floor.

The limitation is inherent in the core design. There is no overcoming. This is not a hurdle or a wall. It's a design flaw.

Is it totally useless to everyone? No. Not completely. It's like a coherent search engine: a way to find data that is close to other data. But "close to" in this case is only "semantically", and never "logically", so that's that.

Is it going to get any less useless than it is? Only slightly. "It" will never get better. The only better version of "it" is a completely new ground-up redesign that doesn't resemble "it" at all.
> the ban prevents me from discussing the matter further

Hi ddevault, FWIW, in May 2022 on that #44577 issue [0] you had opened, it looks like someone on the core Go team commented there [1] recommending that you email the golang-dev mailing list or email them directly.

Separately, it looks like in July 2022, in one of the issues tracking the new friendlier -reuse flag, there was a mention [2] of the #44577 issue you had opened. In the normal course, that would have triggered an automatic update on your #44577 issue... but I suspect because that #44577 issue had been locked by one of the community gardeners as "too heated", that automatic update didn't happen. (Edit: It looks like it was locked due to a series of rapid comments from people unrelated to Sourcehut, including about “scummy behavior”).

Of course, communication on large / sprawling open source projects is never quite perfect, but that's a little extra color...

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-11378...

[2] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/53644#issuecomment-11751...
I hear you. My entire stove had to be replaced because the control board for the digital display overheated (hello, it's an oven!) and stopped working. Everything else was fine, except you couldn't operate the thing without that control panel. So I looked a long time to find something completely manual with real metal knobs and actual switches.

For coffee, I love my Aeropress... it's a manual plastic coffee press that you can easily travel with.
Yet, it is a utility by now. Who could live or work without it? A country cripples its economy in the long run if they do not realize that.
So, we still save 20 billion a year? Assuming similar operating costs.
This loses all the benefits of storing all state in the url, which is that it's inspectable by the client. Using a URL shortener still makes all the data stored somewhere in the server
The model that I think the OP is talking about has 3.4/5 stars on Keurig's own website. That's a horrible rating.

Maybe there's a different lesson to be learned here?
economies are complex. it may be "instead of spending 3x as much to retrofit all these new houses in 10 years when everyone else has gigabit".

Sometimes the "economic" decision right now is just punting significantly higher cost of rework down the road.
Hasbro is working overtime to alienate the game communities they purchased.
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You can feel both slighted by and indebted to the same individual.

Regardless of whether or not McGee feels like he deserved to have been better compensated by id software for his contributions, he feels personally indebted to John Carmack for the money he borrowed.

And in the case of feeling slighted, while he could justify never paying Carmack back by saying that since Carmack was one of the founder/owners of the company that slighted him, this was just money Carmack owed him, he has not taken that tack.

It is possible to compartmentalize.
I just updated knotend to use the hashmark, see my comment above!
Indented blocks for code is Markdown. The original Markdown language used +4 indentation for code blocks. GitHub later added support for `~~~` fenced code blocks and those became more popular.
It’s extremely challenging advocating for this in the USA because most people have no idea the difference between upload and download, and how data caps play into it.

You can get gigabit 5G in many areas but it’s manifestly a different animal than symmetrical gigabit fiber internet without caps.
to be precise: monopoly is peak laissez-faire capitalism; regulation is what makes this local maximum easy to get out of instead of dealing with an East India Company situation.
No, Americans have seen their real take home pay stagnate for fifty years while the major costs of being alive have significantly increased, and thus are stuck using the same pile of money to attempt to pay for and obtain necessary and desirable things for less than they would have previously.

They don't prefer cheaper, they can't afford not cheaper

"They don't make it like they used to" is like a society wide exclamation that you can't buy high quality stuff anymore because nobody can afford to buy high quality stuff so nobody can afford to make high quality stuff.

This lower basket of income also means americans can't afford to pay the going rates for labor to fix their stuff, meaning something being repairable isn't useful or beneficial in any way, so everything becomes disposable.

Small towns used to have niche repair businesses, but who can afford to spend $100 on getting a boot repaired, especially when a new boot is $80 at walmart. So now the cobbler has to shutter his business and he can't afford good stuff anymore either, so now if you DO buy the expensive boots and need them repaired to make them worth their price, you have to seek out a much more expensive specialist or do it yourself which most people cannot do. Money was basically shipped out of local economies into giant megacorps.

A lot of stuff isn't even significantly less repairable then it used to be. Flatscreen TVs are super reliable now that they are solid state, with the one exception of the AC power circuitry. Anyone with $20 and a multimeter and youtube and a little confidence can watch tutorials to debug and fix a blown cap on the power supply, but nobody could really run a business on charging $100 to repair $200 flat panel TVs because people can't afford that.

Meanwhile "Electronics repair" used to be a common small town business.
This is the latest classic home version of that, I have one:

https://us.moccamaster.com/products/kbgv-select

Good coffee, compact, looks good, easily fixable if a piece breaks since the movable parts are all individually purchasable (e.g. carafe top). Definitely expensive though. The 8-cup OXO is another good option.
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It just seemed like a good license to use to allow others to build on their games. Just like it's not just the FSF distributing original software under the GPL.
Yes this calculation was for taking 4 million cars off the road, leaving room for a million cars.
Perhaps a bit more optimistic than the NYC case
So no need for a law then...
Are APIs copyrightable?
$4.99 for enough filters from Target to last me a year (350). Quite the money making scheme they have!
If something seems unbelievable, it probably is. How can anyone not question how a 90% reduction was possible without proof?

That said it looks like the company did save money for a few months so the 50 grand was worth it although hard to maintain indefinitely and of course against ToSes and morally questionable.
Apple added contacts, notes, calendars, photos, videos, podcasts, and games over subsequent revisions. From day 1 you could use it as a FireWire drive in addition to a music player (5GB when USB flash drives were still measured in megabytes and likely going over a 1.1 bus instead of a 2.0 bus). It might have had a game or two at launch but I can’t honestly remember at this point, but either way games for iPods were also sold through iTunes in a later revision.

iPods were best used as music players but they were pretty much always multi-function devices. In a world where Apple didn’t follow it up with iPhones: music phones and camera phones were finally starting to converge in a way that would have eventually eaten the iPod’s and point-and-shoot camera market’s lunches.
> Vote with your feet, and your wallet.

Sure, how do I cast my vote for a non-smart TV? Where do I go to watch my shows via DRM free downloads? How can I find a washing machine that will last for 20 years?

Beyond that, how do I even compare products and find what I want to "vote" for when everything is named something like Sony XP-3000-ZXS Pro that is exactly like the XP-300ZXS Pro+ except one has a water-proof coating and the other comes with patented GB-Free technology (you guess which is which). And to make it harder to compare, the models are subtly different between countries (Oh, you are in Israel? You only get the XP-300ZXS-B Pro+ which is different from the regular Pro+ but we won't tell you how, better look for some local reviews to be sure).

It is obvious that most companies go out of their way to frustrate the customer's attempts to "vote with their wallet". It must be cheaper to just drill a brand name into their heads via ad spending then to actually produce a good product (definitely more scalable if you already have the money to spend on ads...).

...

Apologies, rant over.
Trevor Noah squandered the opportunity that was "The Daily Show"
We don't have region/geo locked or infrastructure locked providers. If you have fibre to your home then any supplier in the UK that supports it can be your ISP.

Caveat: fibre is telco infrastructure and is not limited, cable can still be limited ie only virgin media on virgin cable infra
I don’t think that explains it at all. So garbage floats (more or less), so can be modeled as a 2D plane. But why do patches form? Why isn’t the garbage distributed uniformly across the plane? And why doesn’t that same mechanism apply in 3D?
I mentioned this above, but the Aeropress is a great solution for French press simplicity and taste without the grounds ending up in your cup. It has tiny round paper filters and it's pretty much self-cleaning. After using it (all manual), you just unscrew the filter and eject the coffee grounds.
Not sure, but it seems like from a usability perspective it's easier for apps to 'just connect' people in your contacts via the phone number. From a privacy perspective, though, it's much better what Threema does.

That's also why I use Tutanota, one of the very few mail providers that you can use without a phone number.
> Does second hand smoke play into this statistic?

second hand smoke is a known risk factor.

still it doesn't explain the difference, which is rather large.

the most probable explanation is that women are more exposed or more susceptible to some other risk factor than men.

A wild guess, for example, could be: women are in charge of cooking and are exposed to the fireplace wood smoke. There are studies associating fireplace wood smoke to an increase of breast cancer. [1]

Indoor pollution is also thought to be harmful for respiratory system health.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5744698/
How did you find meaning in life after “making it”?
Hi all,
After working my butt off for a decade, I recently had a windfall. Nothing crazy but enough that I never have to work again.

That was about a year ago and I find that that life is generally just pretty "meh." On the one hand, it's great not to worry about basic life needs, but on the other, I haven't found a substitute for the startup grind (and no, it's not something I'm looking to do again).

I'm in my mid-thirties, committed relationship, no kids if that's helpful.

Any advice from people who've been through similar? How did you find your purpose?
I gave my brother a Trezor and with approximately $1.5k USD worth of bitcoin on it as repayment for money he lent me. I'm fairly certain he hasn't touched it and has lost the pin/seed.

I think I have his seed written down somewhere, I certainly gave him a written copy when I gave him the trezor, but if I can't find it his BTC will be lost.
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Given that the parent was claiming that you're not even allowed to take a photo of somebody in public in Germany, I think the salient point here is "you actually can, unless you publish it", and it's less relevant that you can also publish it in many of these cases.
> Connection costs will be capped at £2,000 per home, and developers must still install gigabit-ready infrastructure (including ducts, chambers, and termination points) and the fastest-available connection if they’re unable to secure a gigabit connection within the cost cap.

This approach makes a lot of sense. In my county in Maryland, building a new house involves at least $20,000 in fees for sewer and water hookups: https://www.aacounty.org/departments/inspections-and-permits.... Building out fiber to the house is much cheaper in comparison. It seems like a drop in the bucket to integrate a couple of thousand in additional fees for a fiber hookup.
This is awesome...
question though:
```pub fn HyperLogLog(comptime p: u8) type {
return struct {
dense: [1<<p]u6;

const Self = @This();
pub fn init() Self {
var s = Self{};
for (s.dense) |*x| x.* = 0;
return s;
}
}
}```

doesn't this allocate 1<<p upfront though. If yes then the HLL of size 16384 bytes upfront which kinda beats the purpose of having a sparse representation no?
I agree with the broad thrust of your argument, but I cannot emphasize enough how useful DnDBeyond is for character creation, rule/item lookups, shared campaign content, etc. Sure, you don't _need_ it, but it makes the experience so much easier and more pleasant, allowing you to spend your time on the bits of the hobby you actually enjoy rather than trawling through reference books (if trawling through reference books _is_ the bit that you enjoy, you are free to keep doing that :) )

It's not useful _enough_ to make me want to keep using it in this new climate, but still - don't undermine your (very correct!) argument by under-valuing the non-DLC aspects of RPG apps.
That's probably why they used the OGL, agreed. But it's crazy, right? Using a license designed by a direct business competitor? If you can do a major rules rewrite (and I understand Pathfinder is on the more complex/crunchy side of RPGs), surely you have the know-how to design your own license?

Even if all the actors in this dramedy are profit-driven businesses, I can't wrap my head around the OGL not being driven by a consortium. How on earth does WotC have final say?

In any case, they are probably regretting it now. I hope this sets a precedent.
Are you sure this is not just you painting meaning and intensions on the exchange because of the people involved and preconceived ideas about "exalted professors" snottily dismissing mere grad students etc?

I think I read the biggest part of the appendix in the linked article and it doesn't come across as what you say. It comes across as irrelevant and unnecessary. The passage was put in an appendix but it really belonged in a blog post, or a tweet, but certainly not in a scholarly article. But other than that, it wasn't even particularly vituperative, just indulgent, really.

It certainly wasn't "insult[ing]" as the parent claimed.

And then of course he removed it from the appendix with a note taking responsibility for it. Yet here we are, still talking about it, as if he stabbed someone in the face or ate babies alive, or anyway whatever a scientist's reputation can reasonably be expected to never recover from.
Can we maybe edit the title to say "UK" instead of "England"?

Also, we nearly had gigabit fibre to the home 40 years ago (before anything even needed to run at 1Gbit, or you could afford the transceivers, admittedly) because BT's vision for the future of telephony was to rip out all the copper and run fibre to every single house.

Then the right-wing extremist Thatcher government got wind of the idea and decided that this was too big a monopoly to be allowed to stand, so they stole the entire public property that was BT, smashed it to bits, and sold it off to private industry.

This put back everything by *decades*. Now it's a battle to work out wayleaves, interoperability, who's responsible for what physical plant, and all sorts of other messes. Thanks, Conservatives, fuck you very much.
The offer in [1] was to email the ML to ask for an exclusion, not to continue discussing the general issue which was still being discussed in the GH issue.

And given that they banned him for no reason, he is perfectly in the right to tell them that they should email him instead.
I did something similar using Racket's (nee PLT scheme) web programming module ( https://www2.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/hosc07-sk-mf.pdf ) back with an app that got on slashdot -- https://github.com/holdenk/web2.0collage

The theory was wonderful (yay! stateless load balancer etc.) but in practice browsers at the time were less than happy with trying to store that much state in the URL.
This is some old school microsoft shit, make everyone expand on your products & be dependant on them thinking they're safe by publishing an open license, then swap it under their feet forcing everyone to pay 25%.

That's like if Apple had decided overnight to start charging apps their infamous 30% fee
from that page listing the owners of Yamaha Motor Company:

> The Master Trust Bank of Japan (11.82%)
> Yamaha Corporation (9.91%)
> Toyota (3.58%)

I guess that ownership stake smooths some things out.
I read a research paper that proved that the branch prediction issues are non-issue with modern predictors (eg. TTAGE). It is of course true that register spills happen, but it's not bad enough to want to write hand-written assembly. Especially when you simulate AOT-compiled code (eg. RISC-V and WASM), you will already be 3-10x faster than Lua already. For my purposes of using this kind of emulator for scripting, it is already fine.

Throw instruction counting into the mix, and you can even be faster than LuaJIT, although I'm not sure how it manages to screw up the counting so badly. I wrote a little bit about it here: https://medium.com/@fwsgonzo/time-to-first-instruction-53a04...
Maybe I don’t fully understand how public copyright licenses work.

Do you need to apply for a license?

When OGL1.1 comes out does 1.0 die?

If somebody infringes on your license, do you get a free OGL lawyer or something to help your case?

In conclusion, it almost sounds like OGL is fucking useless in the first place if they can just upgrade it to be paid at scale but clearly I’m missing something
This technique goes back to the late 90s where Apple WebObjects (owned by NeXT at the time) pioneered this approach in their web framework.

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

Was quite revolutionary at the time and it also included the first (or one of the very earliest at least) SQL ORMs.
They're still building crappy homes with insufficient insulation and a lack of a proper ventilation strategy. This should have been stopped years ago and saved buyers of new builds the current high energy prices. Well done UK gov, obviously the building industry lobbyists know best.
I think what's being asked is if this is the best way to formulate a testable hypothesis.

It seems to pass a first scan here.
> The issue with the revocation of the OGL 1.0a license is that it affects all of those games.

How so, if they're not using WotC IP?

Honest question, it seems absurd to me that the can cancel a license and have it affect people who licensed their own IP under those conditions.
But Critical Role is also great advertisement. If Hasbro goes after them, Critical Role can just switch to another system and give them free advertisement instead. I guarantee that every single RPG creator would love for Critical Role to pick their system.
> For a game that happens inside your head, and that most people choose to play to do something other than staring at a screen? Has the world gone crazy?

I think the thing that happened is that D&D transitioned from being a game to a lifestyle brand. It's not actually about playing a game anymore, it's about collecting books and buying swag and watching Youtube shows.
V60 or French Press is enough. You can use it for decades without anything but basic cleaning. Machines like Keurig are a disease.
Is there any other country that loves commentators that come and shit on it’s citizens? I can’t imagine India paying Brits big money to crap all over them, but in America we have Trevor, Piers Morgan, John Oliver.

I never got the appeal frankly. Maybe we can listen to Noah and become more like the paradise that is South Africa.
I'm actually kinda surprised that's the case for links to the same origin. I suppose you could probably still get this working by using `window.opener` along with `postMessage` to request data from the opener, although you'd have to be very conscientious about checking the origin and verifying that the requested data is actually ok to share.
Z^iz^ek is the kind of person who is an anti-communist while living under Communism, an anti-capitalist while living under capitalism, an anti-Buddhist while living in Boulder, CO, and an anti-catholic while living in Poland.
Oh my God. This guys again...
You seem to be making an entirely different argument this time around?

You’ll be happy to know traffic accidents and fatalities have been on a much steeper decline in the Netherlands than in the US, ever since in the 70s they implemented their transit&bike-first policies and started demolishing freeways. Also, ever hear of roundabouts? :)
Review on an on demand basis.

The main concepts are matrix multiplication and derivatives and their significance. Then you can dig into the specifics and review or expand your knowledge as needed.
Not only have many players never heard of these systems, unfortunately many don't want to learn them once they do. I like Pathfinder, and Call of Cthulhu, and Mouseguard, and Fate; unfortunately, my players have little interest in picking up a new set of rules so that we can do the same thing, maybe just a little differently or cheaper.

And I get that! Learning the DnD rules to a point where you can roll up a character and take full advantage of the available actions and skills without a turn taking forever takes time. And once folks have done it once, they don't really care to do it again and again; that starts to feel like work, and this is supposed to be a game. For some, the tradeoffs aren't worth it.

It is a little disappointing, though, seeing all this change on the horizon and knowing that I would lose more than half of my players if I tried to get us into a different rule system.
The quality and quantity of blogs has increased so much that many books seem too cumbersome in comparison.

One thing I like about following good blogs is seeing ideas from authors develop week to week. I think this encourages a deeper understanding of the topic and makes some books seem immediately outdated in comparison.