skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you have a reference for that claim?

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

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/people-c...

As one might expect, when people have their vision restored while still young children, they do OK. The older they are, the worse they do. For adults, it's basically nothing except the crudest things like brightness and vague large objects.

> I am somewhat skeptical if only because of an analogy with cochlear implants - deaf people can start hearing once the signal starts!

I don't think this is right. Again, kids can do ok, and the younger they are, the better. But my impression is that adults who get cochlear implants having been deaf since birth are not able to interpret almost anything. Like, they can sense there are louder or quieter noises, but they can't understand speech, match up sounds to objects, get directionality, or anything like that.

Let me know if you have cites to the contrary.
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Shepherd is one of those things that put me off a little bit when I first started using Guix (just because I wasn't used to it yet), but I've really grown to appreciate it.

The other init systems I'm most familiar with are systemd and sysvinit. Systemd is nice and easy from a user's perspective, but it's not all that flexible if you want to do something systemd doesn't already support. Sysvinit on the other hand is minimal and flexible, but I have no desire to write a classic init script at all.

Shepherd is somewhere in between. It's extremely flexible (for example Guix added a containerization feature to use in Shepherd services, and due to Shepherd's design that's just a module within Guix; it doesn't have to go in upstream Shepherd) and yet writing services is pretty simple.
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> He has also represented Romania at the United Nations for many years.

No, he did not. Please provide proof of that.
I've been liking the Firefox autofill on Android, not sure if that fits your needs.
Perhaps LLMs can solve this somewhat? Not for email summarization - but to intelligently strip away all the HTML fluff and return a plain text version of the contents.
You're on point.

A good exercise anyone can do is to question why X or Y artists became a reference at a certain time.

You end up finding out it was about: the historical context, cultural disruption, influence during or after their life, consistency in pursuing their artistic expression... the list goes on.

In some cases the final outcome, the artifact, is "cool" on its own without the context, but in all cases, it's the artist that makes their body of work valuable and "cool".

Technology at the service of artists has played its role in new media and different ways to work with it, but it's mainly as a tool.
QwQ gets it wrong, Gemini gets it wrong. o1 gets it right, R1 gets a pretty good not originally intended set of 4... tempted to give it partial credit. 4o gets it wrong. Will update with claude once my usage limits are up lol.
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Experimenting with timbre and the nature of sound itself is absolutely musical. That's a big reason why people love to listen to many different kinds of electronic music in the first place (or things like heavily distorted guitars).

Music is not just about combining 12TET pitches in different ways. Everything about the experience of music is open game for creative expression.
It's not about the stag show anymore, it's about the midway games that spew out tickets. A literal children's casino.
as in: "Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting." ?

i'm not sure Nietzsche was referring to his 'rope' as something to be crossed, but something to _be_, as in we all are constantly between animal and superman at all times

if we start somewhere with the goal of ending somewhere, that meshes less along their (and my personal, so this may be a judgement) lines of 'personal determinism'

the next lines: "What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going."

might help us with an opinion from a native speaker of Nietzsche
I often want to comment individual array values to give more context or describe provenance. I don't think I've ever wanted to add a comment in the middle of a keyword.
On my (Pixel based) LineageOS ROM, you can disable enough power saving settings to make Termux work well again. Unfortunately, many vendors remove half the settings from their interfaces and make their app killers extra aggressive (just to spite people, it seems, because battery life doesn't seem affected in my experience).

If your phone's manufacturer disabled the necessary power saving settings, I doubt they'll enable them for the Android 15 terminal.
I guess there's differing definitions. One definition was deciding you're going to quit, but not putting in any notice, and basically trying to delay getting fired as long as possible to collect a paycheck. Potentially even getting another job on top (overemployed), which sounds like it could be fraud.
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> But if the algorithm responds equally well to highly engaging posts from team A and team B, then ultimately the algorithm is fair, there's a level playing field.

If only individuals of Team A see content from Team A and only individuals of Team B see content from Team B, regardless how equally Teams A and B get promoted as a whole on the platform, it's not really democratized.

You merely have separate Team A and Team B platforms, except they're hosted on the same hardware and exposed via the same web address. The separation is entirely virtual and intentionally hidden from users.

It's little different to a Team A member than if all of Team B was shadow-banned or to a Team B member than if all of Team A was shadow-banned.
This looks good.... but I don't get the importance of it. What can this do that termux openssh can't?

Can I mount remote filesystems at the system level via sshfs?
It would also be consistent (everything beginning with a "_" is a comment)
I do think it's unfair to discount Nvidia's success as "having gotten lucky." On the other hand, I also think the back-to-back 1-2 punch of crypto and LLMs was probably hard to foresee as something way more important than a handful of high-end gamers and maybe some commercial linear algebra applications.
It could but I don't think it does. Has anyone built a gait recognition system? It would be tricky because it also varies simply depending on your shoes, if you're wearing a heavy backpack, if you're rolling a suitcase, etc.

It's also actually really easy to change your gait if you want. Just watch someone, and then copy how they walk. Start by paying attention to whether the hold their more fixed "center" of movement in their chest, abdomen, or waist (or where in between), then match their degree of stiffness or sway, and you're most of the way there. It's a pretty common acting exercise.
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Solana validators do not perform cryptocurrency mining.
"Large tech companies and overvalued startups" describes the employers for hundreds of thousands of people. There certainly are coasters in that group, even though I don't think it's a useful point of discussion.

Tech jobs on the whole are broadly easier than other industries like medical or legal. Even accounting for familiarity bias, I'm confident that my job is significantly easier than my doctor's or my vet's despite us being in similar income brackets. That doesn't make it easy, just closer to a sane workload.
I believe you can set those to pass through mode and put a router/firewLl behind it without any kind of double NAT. Other than some kind of MITM, you have at least minimized the likelihood of someone using it as an entry point to your network.
The phrase “All my hats are green” implicitly carries the premise “I have hats” in conversational language. Thus, if this statement were to be expressed as a logical proposition, it should be: “I have hats, and all my hats are green.”

This means there are two potential falsehoods in the statement:
1. “I have hats.”
2. “All my hats are green.”

Therefore, what we can deduce is:
• He might not have any hats.
• If he does have hats, at least one of them is not green.

However, considering the options provided by the author, it is clear they did not take into account the implicitly stated proposition (1) in conversational language. Instead, the author assumes that if he has no hats, then “All my hats are green” is true.

This interpretation, however, is conversationally unreasonable; otherwise, one could claim something equally absurd, such as “All my houses are worth over 100 million dollars” but actually has no house.
No: while there are some notable (and maybe critical) differences surrounding how group chats are handled, by and large WhatsApp literally uses Signal's protocol.
If they didn't fortify breakfast cereals then they'd be about as nutritious as the box they came in.
That's not an issue, that's accurately reflecting reality. If I'm paying the same $10/month just to listen to $OBSCURE_ARTIST for 10 plays per month, then each play of that _is_ worth more to Spotify than each play from a 10-year old listening to the same track of $SUPERSTAR one thousand times in a month.

In one case, 10 plays brought in $10 of revenue to Spotify, and those 10 plays should get $PERCENT of that $10.

In the other case, 1000 plays brought in $10 of revenue to Spotify, and those 1000 plays should also get the same $PERCENT of that $10.
Generative AI will become a tool like gradients or object creation. Complex things to do by hand, that can be done algorithmically.

The details of how it works mostly won't matter unless you're trying to get really specific with how a plugin works. For a filter in Photoshop, you don't find many tutorials on the underlying algorithms, you usually find guidance on when and why to move the slider.
It is, in a way. The whole point of distributions is to extend the space of functions to one where more operations are permitted.

The limit of the Gaussian function as variance goes to 0 is not a function, but it is a distribution, the Dirac distribution.

Some distributions appear in intermediate steps while solving differential equations, and then disappear in the final solution. This is analogous to complex numbers sometimes appearing while computing the roots of a cubic function, but not being present in the roots themselves.
I think OP's plan wasn't to help Disney, but to hurt Funko?

But I agree this is most probably futile :)
I'm pretty sure Funko used their service in good faith and didn't know it's based on over-aggressive AI bullshit. They're still on the hook for picking a bad company to partner with, but I don't think they intended to take down the entire domain.
What I think happened is that the big investors gave Pat some years, and maybe extended for once, but he didn't manage to turn the ship around (i.e. making enough $$). I think the next step is to figure out if there is a buyer or a group of buyers. Intel might have a future if we are not living in the late Capitalism, but realistically it's better to break it down and send the engineers to other companies that can better take care of them. I think that was the thought of the big investors. People might blame the board but essentially they can't fight the investors.
No, I would do the same thing in your situation. I apologize if it came across as critical to you. I was trying to criticize the situation.

My wife’s a lawyer, and she did a trial nine months pregnant with our second. When we had our third, something clicked and she wanted nothing more than to stay home with him. My mom has a master’s degree in chemistry back in old country, then stayed home to raise us when we were young, then after we were teenagers was very successful selling furniture. Many women in my wife’s extended family, where most folks aren’t college graduates and don’t have exciting career options, would love to be able to quit their jobs.

If you’re trying to do everything you can’t do anything. It shouldn’t be taboo to recognize that raising children is a socially valuable function. Nor should it be taboo to recognize that society’s devaluation of that social rule particularly hurts women.
I had a house full of a variety of switches I just moved out of - some Lutron, inovelli, and Leviton.

For zwave, the best actual physical control was with Leviton - they have a rocker switch for dimming and are therefore easier to use than most. They don’t support multi-press scenes or anything like that but I found that to be a bit of a gimmick anyway, and dedicated buttons are a better option.

Inovelli had the most features, but aren’t precisely colour matched to other brands - they are kind of whiter than the standard white colour so stand out if you put them in a bank with others or against certain face plates.

In my new house I have a few zooz switches for special cases alongside Lutron for everything else and Zooz work fine.

Inovelli and Zooz dimming controls are both done by holding down the on/off paddles which isn’t intuitive for visitors, and it’s hard to fine adjust without resorting to app control.

Of everything my favourite is Lutron Diva for hands down the best looking and easiest to use actual physical control but these use a proprietary (albeit easy to integrate) hub.
What about just a prosthetic nose that it's a bit wider and longer? Blending it in with makeup. I always assumed that's the easiest thing to change that would definitively mess with the metrics.
Don't forget the bar + arcade. There's usually overlap with other types of arcades, but it's more like the arcade is a draw to sell beer instead of pizza.

The "pay for entry" model is also a way to get around offering pirated games or other games that normally would be not legal to accept quarters for.
My first thought was that this language was named in reference to Lord Acton and his most famous quote "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
I think we need 24/7 camera feeds of what these people do and say, for their own safety!

I don't mind the idea that everything I do is watched - provided I get to watch you back.
I don't understand how this is a deficiency.
Yeah I had the same question. Why would I prefer this?
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A golem carved out of butter playing a trombone, an animated blue telephone, a puppy stealing toilet paper, Boddingtons.

Same vibes, different details.
Very cool! I like the simplistic design.

Would it make sense to have a short time limit on the answer to avoid people quickly popping over to wikipedia?
I think nostalgia is tinged with "things were better back then" which I don't have.
we long ago figured out that queues, price caps, and shortages are a very bad system of delivering resources to people. i don’t understand the insistence that we do the same for the most life saving resources of all.

regardless, we have moved on to this argument because the original point is absolutely true: public systems intrinsically make it illegal to seek care out of the system.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10118619/bc-cancer-agency-wait-ti...
If we're comparing the Pi board to the N100 computer, maybe.

But add case, cooling, M2 board, M2 drive, power supply, mini-hdmi to hdmi and it's close.
You can get most out of it by using it as a "sidecar" next to your native Rust application. That way you get access to the full power of Rust by triggering "native actions" from flawless through http. And you can still use flawless for code that you think is more important and you want to always complete and never silently drop/fail mid-execution.

This is also very useful if you have a micro-service architecture and you need to call multiple micro-services to end up in a consistent state. It's a way to reliably implement the saga pattern: https://microservices.io/patterns/data/saga.html
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indent it with 2+ spaces

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I disagree that the WAF situation is comparable.

The curl report (incorrectly) describes missing bounds checks leading to buffer overflows.

If the curl project said "buffer overflows are ok because our code gets compiled with ASLR and NX", then that would be comparable to saying SQLi and XSS are non-issues due to a WAF. Fortunately, that's not what they said.
Personally, I always had this mindset: I'm paid for 8 hours a day and when the day is over, the 8 hours are gone and absolutely nothing will bring them back.

So why don't I use them to do the absolute best I can as a software engineer because doing great work will improve my skills in the future. I'm losing nothing because 8 hours are 8 hours and doing nothing instead does not gain me anything either.

But by god this behavior is not rewarded by higher-ups. They just tended to see me as an loyal useful idiot even when that's not the case.
We could write a whole book on this. If you're VC backed and aiming to grow the usual 10x-20x per year, you'll end up changing everything drastically all the time. You end up with a different company every 6-18 months. I've had 5 direct manager switches on the last 3 years. The more complex your business, the more painful these reorgs will be.

Scaling isn't usually about making numbers grow. It's about complexity. Complexity goes up exponentially with verticals you're in. Every product has its own user channels. You sell the same thing in Phillipines and you need to use Viber. You go to Colombia and you need to cater to some specific Colombian law. One vertical across different countries is hard enough.

Once you start hiring people, you need to keep them. Ideally a person manages 5-7 people, after which they stop being a manager and become an observer. More people mean more managers. How are you tracking public holidays across countries? How are you handling internal comms? Tax? Legally mandated hiring laws? How are you scaling HR for this?

If you mix B2B and B2C, these are usually completely different engines. B2B may focus on sales and demand gen, B2C would be marketing and branding/positioning. You double the headcount but halve the leader's focus.

Companies like Google scale because they keep to a few verticals e.g. search and ads. WhatsApp and YouTube had massive enviable exits with few staff because they didn't really bother figuring out the business model, they just scaled it up incomplete and unstable.

If I had a tip, I'd say don't do it unless the gains are also exponential or necessary. You're either building towards economy of scale (lower unit price), economy of scope (lower marketing cost), or innovation (speed of product). An additional product should play into one of the above.

Sometimes it is necessary, e.g. if you're Google and you can't get acquired, you have to build ads.
Yes. So we will apply logic, but assume the people making the statements are otherwise ordinary people and do not do strange things like defining ‘all’ to include ’none’.
The Academy's standard seems reasonable to me, speaking as a complete outsider.
I agree. You may get things done and learn some things from a solo project, but in industry software engineering is much more about maintaining and extending code you haven't written. You can't emulate that by yourself.
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This kind of system is now required by law in UK schools, meaning that we have to MITM all student traffic even on their own devices, and some of the alerts are really really vague since they're just matching anything in search terms (my favourite being an alert for the word "gang" because "river ganges" was searched on Google)
I'm not super invested in this debate one way or the other but arguing a comment should be part of your data rather than documenting what data is contained is a bizarre take on the question. Either be of the opinion it's a data format and comments are just out of scope (and using JSON for e.g. config is just a bad choice), or agree that allowing comments in JSON should be part of the spec since right or wrong it is used for config and other human edited use cases. JSON5's adoption seems to imply people are mostly on the latter side of the fence.
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Hey all. I'm the CEO of Invoke - appreciate everyone who has mentioned us in the thread.

To OP -- We work with professional artists regularly, and I'm seeing things pick up as more begin to understand the potential for creative control. Artists mainly want to be afforded creative flexibility and control, and need an interface that feels natural for their workflow.

Invoke is OSS, we release continued training/education on a weekly basis (free, on YT) and we'll be releasing a simplified installer soon.
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No. But that is the premise. People redefining ‘all’ to include ‘none’ is not.
The programme is there for the convenience of the airlines. If someone arrives in the US and is denied entry, the airline is on the hook to fly them back. It's much better for them for the traveler to be denied before even boarding.
One of the classics and must-reads in music technology.

I read it over and over again when I was building: https://glicol.org/

One of the motivations for building Glicol is to quickly let more people understand sound synthesis and music programming in the browser.

also recommand:

Designing Audio Effect Plugins in C++ by Will Pirkle

Audio Effects Theory, Implementation and Application By Joshua Reiss, Andrew McPherson

And all the books by JULIUS O. SMITH III
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It would be nice if python would show types in the documentation. Not only do I need that all the time, it would show python was taking type safety serious.

For example, knowing the return type of a function is Union[DataFrame,Series] rather than simply DataFrame would save a lot of bad errors.
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