skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean frequent saccades?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:This_shows_a_recording_of...

or the occasional look away? (for which there appears to be a feature for that)

> Look Away: enable_look_away helps create a more natural look by allowing the eyes to look away randomly from the camera when speaking

I expect both to be different: while saccades do happen when occasionally looking _away_ from a person, they also happen when looking _directly at_ one person because we don't constantly stare at a very specific unique and precise point on their face.

For the demo video, try enable_look_away = true, look_away_offset_max = 10, look_away_interval_min = 1 and look_away_interval_range = 1 (then submit), which from the result I got should really be the default for a more natural result.
What’s amazing is despite flawed science people keep believing it and insulting anyone who questions it.
The thing with eye contact, though, is that it is worthless if you are never able to look away. When it's artificial like this, it's worse than not being there at all. It's just creepy. It was the same with nvidia's implementation a couple of years ago. It was just weird.

I do appreciate that this is a problem worth solving though, and I spent a lot of my time during COVID worrying about the negative impact that normalising loss of eye contact would have on the social interactions of our younger generations.

Back in 2021, I took one of those £50 teleprompter mirrors that YouTubers use, put a 7in raspberry pi display in the slot where you're meant to put your phone, and made it my 'work calls display' for a couple of days. The interesting thing is that the only people that noticed without me pointing it out were completely non-technical, and when they did they complemented me on the quality of my webcam rather than the fact I was looking straight at them; they could tell something was better, but couldn't quite put their finger on it. Which is funny because I'm sure being stuck behind a cheap perspex one way mirror made my actual camera quality a bit worse.

I remember I got to the point where I started playing with cv2 trying to do realtime facial landmark detection on the incoming feed and having a helper process shift the incoming video window around the little screen so that it would keep the bridge of the other person's nose (the point I naturally made eye contact with) pinned to the bit of the screen that was directly in front of the webcam lens. Then one morning I walked into my office, saw this monstrosity on my desk, realised I was nerd sniping myself and gave up.

One thing I do remember though is how odd it felt looking at yourself in a mirror without your image being mirrored. Not sure my brain was ready for that one after thousands of years of looking at itself in mirrored surfaces.

Bit of a weird pic but the only one I can find: https://pasteboard.co/BXE6zhbpOD7E.jpg
I mean, I'm not even sure which way I'd vote for climate. Here's one take: "Things are clearly out of control. We need climate mitigations that can be done unilaterally. One promising and surprisingly-feasible approach is a sun-synchronous solar-shade swarm.[1] That needs very cheap and frequent launches to be feasible. The only option is SpaceX/Starship. Politically, to get that going as soon as possible, it may be beneficial to have a weaker FAA. Hence probably Trump."

If you think the "business-as-usual" climate mitigations will be insufficient, it may be worthwhile to go for high-variance approaches that leave humanity better able to react relatively quickly to unexpectedly large warming.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade#Lightweight_sol...
Sure there will be localized events, but on average, rising temperature and co2 will improve farming world-wide. Hence:

For the 2024-25 financial year, India has exported 2.2 lakh tonnes of coffee, up from 1.91 lakh tonnes in the same period last year, showcasing a 15 percent increase.

https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/money/indian-coffee-exp...
did they set a price yet? I love my kindle paperwhite, but color would be awesome. been waiting for that for like 15 years.
I think it's probably more about hedge funds etc where they will negotiate bespoke terms/pricing across the board (including assessing risk which at that level might partly be based on track record, identity of the underlying investors, strategy etc).
I'm not surprised; most deaths are attributed to unhealthy diet, lack of physical activity and alcohol consumption. [1, 2]

I'm not noticing people eating more healthily, so it only makes sense that life expectancy isn't going up anymore.

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/causes-of-death
[2]: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cardiovascu...
Shouldn't we start building hardware that have a builtin translation layer that makes them driveable by virtio drivers themselves? At least for the most capabilities?
it also leaks the audio of tabs before logging in.

Even though I had disabled all 'restore' applications features, macos sometimes decides to 'start' browsers BEFORE logging in after a restart AND those start auto-playing audio from whatever was paused before the reboot (or many days before).

Since then I went rather deep disabling that feature, but I never trusted it.
> communist china

Disclaimer: I don't give a fuck about China but you're objectively full of shit

China is only communist in the name, "state capitalism" describes it better. In some aspects it's very similar to how the US operated during war times, just milder. If you think China abolished private property and that Chinese people own the means of productions you probably haven't looked very hard... It's the second country in term of numbers of millionaires and they have hundred thousands of private companies

China is actually doing a lot in term of clean energy, if you (we) didn't use them as the world factory they'd pollute way less. It's both the first producer and the one that moves at the fastest pace. btw per capita China pollutes about 50% less than the US (and about as much as the EU average), while they manufacture and ship a huge part of what is consumed in the US/EU.

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

> China produced 31% of global renewable electricity, followed by the United States (11%), Brazil (6.4%), Canada (5.4%) and India (3.9%)

https://www.irena.org/Data/View-data-by-topic/Capacity-and-G...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...
Also frustrating when a company adds it after you register, e.g. Spotify allowed me to use spotify@ at one point, now I can't register anything with that word in .
Sorry, but I mean objectively it is not. Its a gimmick, not a UI defining feature. You are using the exact same tools I am: chromium.

Chromium but with more invasion of privacy.
> How often is it updated?

I plan to do 2 releases a month for now, goal is one a day.

> Does it include expired domains?

Yes.
Is the "--privileged" option ironic here? The project is very interesting, but it feels a bit pedantic, especially when emphasizing Rust's safety features while downplaying Linux. At the same time, it seems they're not fully applying those principles themselves, which makes it feel like they're not quite 'eating their own lunch'.
Lou Miller
IIRC, performance and cost of thread local store varies greatly between platforms.

You have to know what you're biting into, before you use that.
It's not just difficult, sometimes it's impossible to statically know a lifetime of a value, so you must dynamically track it. Arc is one of such tools.
> And for data processing I switched to miller.

Damn those far-too-common-word names! Betcha if I googled that, I'd get page after page of results pointing to actor Johnny Miller... Any link?

[EDIT:] Naah, sorry, just had to search for "miller language" (and remove the superfluous "academy" from "miller language academy" that Google "helpfully" added), and found: https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/miller-programming-l... . Thanks, interesting!
> but sometimes people with legitimately debilitating illneses slip through the cracks and have to aggressively advocate for themselves to get any real testing done

Sometimes they do, but by definition it's likely not you. It's important to think here that everyone thinks "they are the informed one" or that they are the one that "might have the rare one". Same reason why most people have bought a lottery ticket in their lives or why everyone is of above average intelligence.

I like being active in my medical treatments by doing my own research but I censor a lot of what I say to a doctor, it's usually more to make sure I understand what's going on and that I can double check things.
It's reportedly hard to get funding for ideas. Investors want to see a team that is strong enough to iterate through some ideas and pivots. It's not one perfect idea that becomes the product or the company. People actually are too focused on some magic initial milestone. They'll align it with the end of the funding, or the limit of their patience, or the limit of the patience of their support system. That's not how these things work. They're repeated marathons, not sprints. And being focused for nine months on finding a co-founder also seems like an oversized goal, that shouldn't take so much time. It's not uncommon to swap out key people later, including founder, painful as it may be.
I can’t think of anything I want less from a laptop than it playing sound when I open it… and yet apple bring it to me as though it’s a feature.
Words to be forever-tentatively employed by :)
TD Bank's "Historic Fine": Drugs, Bribes, Human Trafficking: A Calculated Risk
Concurrently, china also built the most coal power generation capacity last year than the rest of the world.
I was one of the people that were really enthusiastic about Scala. But back then even as an enthusiast I had to admit Scala had a lot of drawbacks. Every bad thing inherited from Java, to start, and the leaky abstractions that forced, as well as the learning curve. Maybe the worst part was how easy Scala made it to write completely unintelligible code. Scala could effortlessly tap into the Java ecosystem, though.

Rust is much easier to recommend than Scala ever was. Rust's ecosystem is a bit smaller than you'd typically like, but that's a temporary problem.
"Apple iPad Mini 2024: Specs and Price Revealed"
Nuclear power never became cheaper. As evidenced by it's continued languishing only supported by subsidies.

Hydro power did, and is famously called "geographically limited" because we in short order exploited near every single river globally.

France made the right choice in the 70s in the name of energy independence and nuclear weapons. They did not care the slightest about emissions.

The equivalent choice in 2024 to nuclear power in the 1970s is renewables.

"Hurr durr my cherry picked reactor!!!"

While completely ignoring all western projects. The facts are: Flamanville 3 still haven't entered commercial operation and the projected was started at about the same time as energiewende.

Flamanville, HPC, Olkiluoto 3 and Vogtle are the successful western projects. The unsuccessful get stuck in financing limbo like Sizewell C because the needed subsidies are truly stupid.

https://www.ft.com/content/2a5d9462-b921-4577-82c1-4eb508775...

You are proposing that Germany in 2024 should have emissions closer to Poland because you value building nuclear power above curbing emissions.

Lets do a thought experiment in which renewables somehow end up being wholly incapable of solving the last 20% of carbon emissions.

Scenario one: We push renewables hard, start phasing down fossil fuels linearly 4 years from now, a high estimate on project length, and reach 80% by 2045.

The remaining 20%, we can't economically phase out (remnant peaker plants).

Scenario two: We push nuclear power hard, start phasing down fossil fuels linearly in 10 years time, a low estimate on project length and reach 100% fossil free in 2060.

Do you know what this entails in terms of cumulative emissions?

Here's the graph: https://imgur.com/wKQnVGt

The nuclear option will overtake the renewable one in 2094. It means we have 60 years to solve the last 20 percent of renewables while having emitted less.

Do you still care about our cumulative emissions when any dollar spent on nuclear power increases them?
Does being in an El Niño period affect the average world temperature?
Cool, the next time I need to know how to configure my router, I'll just ask my cat.
> I was hired specifically to transition the company's platform from .net to .net core

I can see this being the case if the codebase wasn't in a good state which is a problem of its own. But with proper separation layers. There is not much you have to update in a net framework 472 library project to move it to a net core library project which should contain most of your logic and be tech agnostic anyway. Most of the work is likely to be in the technology dependent projects (web projects and that kind). The common language features remain virtually unchanged. In a front-end project this is much harder, as that kind of abstraction is much harder to come across as the language and technology are tightly coupled.

In an ideal world, your component logic is tech agnostic and should work unchanged in React, Angular, Vue, etc. But in real life, you write your logic using the relevant tech and then when that tech breaks some keyword or how to do x, your app breaks in 50 components and you have to go and make the change manually in all those 50 components.
They need to borrow the Julia repl's behavior and be able to run pip commands after hitting `]` in the repl

Also it would be great for a `?` directive to print docstrings please.
Touch grass my dude. You're trying to make the argument that hinges are bad and then calling other people angry over the internet.
I find quite interesting the consequence this failing coffee crops reality brought to us: the rise in aromated coffees. Caramel coffee, tiramisu coffee, dark chocolate with cherries coffee, anything works if it can salvage an otherwise bad crop.

PS coffee like many other plants can't be farmed "just 100km higher up" or something. There may be easier solutions for some crops, but the reality is, the climate is not simply shifting a few kilometers up, but just changes completely so finding another suitable spot - geographically politically and all, is a real challenge.
Moldova is a candidate to join the EU but is not part of it yet.
No, there are more options. In fact it’s rather impossible to choose „everybody is rioting“ in democratic countries, and very difficult in dictatorships.
#1 on the list⁰! (But I don't blame you)

⁰. https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b...
You mean the deniers' view.

There may have been skeptics 20 years ago, but now no one seriously doubts it.

I don't understand how technology people make decisions to deny a problem even if there is no 100% certainty. In my company, even if there is less than a 1% chance of something going wrong, we have to think of ways to mitigate it.
That's a good one, vote for the guy who's against EVs and thinks climate change is a hoax. Why not just steer an asteroid onto Earth. The sooner it gets obliterated, the sooner life can reemerge. /s
It makes sense that a very popular language would be being used to make one of the most popular projects.
Okay but counterpoint: it doesnt actually make any difference whatsoever. The fact that you dont make an actual argument proves it.
It's well known it was never an actual treasury; there's not much inside to it, and it's the first main "building" you see when entering through the canyon, designed to impress rather than store valuables. The name comes from rumour/legend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khazneh#Name. Most of the cliff structures are tombs.
Remember hardware != software. These PCBs may still be WIP.
What you call "Jewish DNA" evolved for millions of years before Abraham, mixing freely with other Mediterranean and Middle East people for most of this time.

I'm not against the use of taxa below species level for humans; Its use is widespread on life sciences, but we need to apply it wisely. Race was a poorly defined biological term kidnapped to justify doing evil things against other people. The term may be a lost cause at this moment.

If we take a look to a Wolof from Senegal near an Aboriginal from Camberra we can always say who is who. If we take a look to somebody from Israel and somebody from Palestine, we can't. At the naked eye, both are indistinguishable. At a physiological level, both breath air and work exactly in the same way. Genetic differences between both are smaller than current genetic variability among Jewish.

If Jewish are some kind of taxon below species level, we would have to include Palestinians (and a lot of other Middle East people) on that taxon. This is how Taxonomy works.

If the reason is because they were a closed group for some time; applying the same reasoning, the European monarchies should be also a race. Is also a reproductive closed group, showing high frequencies of some rare diseases and even developed an unique look as consequence (See a portrait of Charles II from Spain).

Anthropology books should talk about Africans, Caucasians, Asians, Jewish... and Kings.

Why stop here? Should Mormons be also their own human race? Are Amish a race? Are rednecks a new race of humans?

The obvious answer is not. Maybe in 65000 years, but not now.

That would introduce a lot of noise in Anthropology, just for fulfilling a wish of "but I feel special", and should be avoided. We all feel special.
cool I also like to send msft extra telemetry

/s
The difference between minimum and maximum demand is not that far from 100%.
I have to repost an earlier comment of mine (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27752798) on this topic:

I have a tip on finding a cofounder. I've been looking for the last 12 months and I tried a lot of things, but the thing that worked best is this:
Post a job ad.

That's it. My ad sounded like a normal job in every way, with a title like "Director of X". A couple of specific notes: 1) the first line said "cofounder" in it somewhere, and 2) it specified "part-time to full-time, heavy on equity compensation" somewhere else.

The result: Lots of inappropriate candidates applied. But also, my 2 job posts resulted in three extremely excellent team members: a equity-only cofounder, a mostly-equity cofounder/early hire, and an amazing advisor. I have been working with these folks for months and they are very solid.

I also recommend my vetting process: just like a job. That is, I did a phone screen, a multi-hour interview, a little take-home, and I winnowed down the candidates at each stage. With the chosen few, I kicked off a "let's do this" conversation. My pitch was, "I know it's ridiculous, but let's get business married, we'll set up an offsite and start working together full-time... and, if we really need to, we'll get an annulment". That's what vesting is for!

Hope that helps :)
> The hint of why this may be just slightly complicated is in that final phrase.

The hint is that they are putting the cart in front of the horse, have decided on an outcome, and now are busy working towards that outcome.

ssh isn't less secure, and yet you can just copy-paste the required files on your own, instead of relying on convoluted protocols for moving data between black boxes.

It reminds of of their "Data Transfer Initiative" which "let's people move their data around easier" but underneath it's just "well, some of data between Google Apple and some other third party services only": https://dtinit.org
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I find it hard to reconcile that the entire world is going to be going through cycles of drought and flooding over and over due to a moderate increase in temperature and co2. Where in earth's history is the basis for this? We have had far higher temperature and co2 levels during periods of great animal and plant growth.
Can't trust any VPN these days
If I cared that much about every online drama I wouldn't be able to use any technology or web service without going insane.

I'm against monopolies & ads and I don't need to watch every movie, so that's an easy choice.
sir, its a browser
The "cup" looks more like the top of a bottle.
Please stop counting taxes of super-rich in absolute terms. It simply doesn't matter. We need percentage-based taxes to get the real picture. Because those numbers seems a rounding error given their wealth.
We have a finite amount of carbon left. Each year we are already exceeding our share. This in itself means that future generations have less. At the same time, some people use more than others. It's not a matter if degrowth but about sharing ressources fairly.
Sounds like the awnings are very effective for their owners then.
Yup, that's a regression I caused last night - see https://github.com/klimeryk/dealwithit/issues/38. Should be fixed now.
Pebble bed reactors are not safe, they fail for different reasons than other reactor designs but they can still fail.

They don't need fanatical attention to active cooling, but they do instead need fanatical control of the atmosphere near the reactor to prevent fires, for example.

The first prototype was built in Germany in the 60s. It was closed in 1988, had to be bailed out by the German government in 2003 and has of course been a continuous money drain on German taxpayers ever since.

Nice summary here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR_reactor

From basic principles one might consider that anything that generates enormous amounts of power in a concentrated area can never be truly safe. All that energy is always a potential disaster.

Power plants that generate less power but are cheaper to make and can be distributed over a large area to ensure redundancy is a better strategy for both safety and reliability.
Edit: The app will now work without the openai API key. Feel free to test it to your hearts content :)
I suspect it varies by jurisdiction.

In the UK it's a normal private hire company, just less disreputable.
Because it will remove plenty of land https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12808-z and displace plenty of people
Would be funny if everyone on your screen gave a side eye to the bottom right corner where the currently speaking person is.

Jokes aside, I think you're absolutely right. Online interactions have dynamic geometry, so mounting a camera behind a screen will just not cut it, unless the entire screen is a camera. Also, some people might prefer projecting/receiving no eye contact at all, at times, in situations. And vice versa.

Philosophical stance here is purely traditionalist, it decides on behalf of people. What people would like to use, that should exist. "Videos are and will" is a strange claim, assuming its claimer has neither control over it nor any sort of affirmation that it is going to be true.
I feel this would be a non-issue if we all had a healthier relationship with nudity and sexuality...
Emscripten's default file system provider is memfs, in memory. Maybe there would be some challenges, some spec limitations using that, but I strongly expect it closer to a weekend or two of hacking to get some special weird mystic quirkiness that WAL relies on than some long ordeal that keeps going on endlessly (to get sqlite running with WAL). https://emscripten.org/docs/api_reference/Filesystem-API.htm...

OPFS is interesting tech but again a red herring misdirecting from what had been raised, using an in-memory filesystem like the default thing that emscripten (the default toolchain) does.