skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, the neural network encodes within itself probability distributions of the various image patches it has seen. This is sort of like AI.

Approaches in the past used heuristics (like finding edges and upsampling them, etc). Those were fragile systems. In this approach, the system learns what's appropriate on its own.
So Henry Thoreau and Richard Nixon were terrorists?

I'd really prefer more specific (and disrespectful) terms like "violent troll". "Terrorist" helps feed the phenomenon it's naming.
Some lessons, based on the fact that as you get older your testosterone levels decrease:

- Based on your testosterone levels and genetics there is a max amount of muscle you can put on per year (without drugs) so exercise and eating over that level doesn't make more muscle, just fat & injury. This varies per person, you have to try and find out.

- You need longer recovery time between heavy weight sessions

- Make sure you eat enough to grow muscle, but no more than necessary

- I've given up the bulk and cut methods i.e. I don't think it's healthy to put on lots of weight and then rapidly cut, it's better to go slow and make smaller adjustments, it will take longer to put on muscle but you will look better for more of the year

Good luck!
I agree with your general gist, but terrorism has an actual meaning - trying to push your political agenda through application of terror (it doesn't have to be murder per se)/

But yes, American political dialogue could do with more multi-polarity, and less us vs them dichotomy.
I find the idea that a technology should be replaced simply because it is old to be very irksome. Those developers out there blindly contributing to the trend of replacing "tried and true" with "new and shiny" really need to take a step back and gain some perspective.

Email works great for the vast, vast majority of users.
If nobody even TP'ed Jack Valenti's house for saying that the VCR was as dangerous to his industry as the Boston Strangler, I doubt Cary Sherman has much to worry about.
The number of systems we have created to try and move collaboration off of email is hilariously large.

Between email and lisp, is there any other system that you can find in any sufficiently large system?
People like to quote the "living in San Francisco at the time they most recently became homeless" numbers but they include people who were in subsidized housing or crashing on friends' couches. I believe we'd get much lower stats from a better survey that focused on how many of them had an effective plan to support themselves when they moved here.
.. but the compensations to fit the bill can be quite nice -- and the health care industry is about 10 years behind in tech standards (IMO).
I'm using an HP m401dn for about a year and a half that I am very satisfied with. Laptops running Linux and android phones have been able to print to it with no configuration. And while I admit to not doing a huge amount of printing I have yet to buy more toner for it.
I went to one of the greatest grad schools in the world- UCSF- and while there were lots of people who worked absurd hours, I can't say I found it was necessary. Some people in academia just overwork without it leading to greater productivity.

I don't mind once in a while having to start growing cells in the morning and hanging around for until evening to collect the results. The expectation that you should always be working that kind of hours... well, it doesn't make any sense to me.

The one that really bothered me is that some of the professors would come in on Saturday morning and call their students. It wasn't that they needed them. They were just bored and lonely.
Test scores are a strange definition of "it works" in the given context.
I've always thought of it as the economy will always take advantage of people who enjoy doing something like this. Ie, If you love science, you may be willing to take a lower wage. Eventually, it becomes very exploitative, with long hours and lower wages "just because" it's something you enjoy (even though it is quite beneficial to society).

I wonder if there is a term/concept for this in economics or sociology. I've been looking to nail down the idea a bit.
Small nitpick: BMR, by definition [0], is the amount of energy burned by a body at rest.

I'm not sure about the medical field, but, at least online, when one wants to calculate total energy use, one calculates Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE), defined as the sum of one's BMR and the calories burned from activity. (Usually one simply estimates activity, and then uses measured caloric intake and rate of weight change to infer the true value of one's TDEE and activity level.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_metabolic_rate
Yes, and it's almost ridiculous how well that can work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONZcjs1Pjmk
The important question is "How are they going to monetize?"

All the talk of "candid conversations" sure doesn't give me the warm-and-fuzzies when I consider that the only way to monetize this is abusing user metadata or scraping the video feeds for trending topics.
This looks really interesting, but I'm struggling to think of a practical application. Any ideas?
Please comment civilly on Hacker News. It's not OK put others down in order to advertise oneself here.
Not the best article. I fit everything this article described and didn't try drugs until college. On the other hand, if it had not been for the marjiuana, the loneliness would have consumed me long before I found real help.
I think it's worth adding, in the age of git sending patches by email is easier then ever - it definitely shows that git was developed by Linus with the kernel's development in mind. There is literally a `git format-patch` command which spits out a full formatted email (or emails) of your various commits, which can then be sent to a mail client to be edited and sent out. Or even easier, just use git to send the patches as email direct via `git send-email`.

The harder part is touched on in the article - email clients and email servers. All the patches sent to the mailing-list are plain text, and lots of clients or servers either mess with the plain text before sending or after receiving. And with that they also take some configuring to avoid sending attachments as base64 - which will be rejected by the kernel. Gmail thankfully doesn't mess anything up on the sever side, but the web client wraps your email to 80 characters per line making it unusable. Because of the above issues, using a separate mail client is essentially required, and setting them up can be annoying and there aren't really tons of them to choose from. I personally use `mutt`, but I can definitely understand why some wouldn't want to bother.
They are civilians... however, colloquially "civilian" can refer to a non-insider, someone outside the profession.

A group of boxers might say "yeah, civilians wouldn't understand why we love the sport".

In other words, it's not always used in the strict sense of military vs non-military.
The letter wasn't about results, it was merely about "being there". Similar to programmers being judged for sitting in front of the computer x hours per day instead of on their work. There was not even the slightest hint that the focus of the person writing the letter was the actual result of the work.
Automation is not DevOps
Young Elon Musk featured in documentary about millionaires (1999)
This building makes me think of the currently popular "Microservices Architecture" and wonder what many of the systems that have adopted it will look like in a few years.

Particularly, this paragraph: "There are dozens of tiny problems that contributed to its decline, each one of them minutely nudging utopia into the grot of reality. There’s no hot water. The capsules were initially lined with a three-centimeter layer of asbestos for insulation, but within a few years, the toxicity of that substance was a matter of public knowledge and as a result, the large ventilation systems taking up a significant chunk of each living space had to be permanently disabled. Rearranging the capsules turned out to be much more expensive than originally anticipated and very rarely happened. The promise that they could be upgraded or replaced over time was never fulfilled; the original and occasionally very shoddy materials are still in place. (For instance, the paper blinds that once decorated the tower’s portholes have mostly rotted away. Now, some residents paste newspaper to their windows to keep the light out.) But all these swarming problems just feed into the singular, large, incontrovertible one. The idea was beautiful but unworkable; it wasn’t at home in the world."
>We have Silicon Valley right up the road and we just think...

Silicon Valley is the wrong place to look for alternatives or for insight. Silicon Valley is all about gathering data --as much data as possible be it on their external "users" or even their internal workforce. Everything is solved with more data and more ways of collecting more useful data. Data gathering is in their blood.
Thanks!

I might try this approach to generate formal poetry -- it's something I've done by backtracking before, and I'd considered doing something like your ConvChain.
I don't think it's the home brewing equivalent that is the risk. It's more about the relative profits of corn vs marijuana in the midwest. If we were to fully legalize, I would expect that marijuana would have to get at least as cheap as alternative crops.
Do they know you're in on their conversations?
Probably not for curls, but definitely for lower body. I'm still adding 7.5lbs to my squat every week (currently at 355x5x3) and 15lbs to my deadlift (current at 395x5x1).
So I get and agree with what he's saying about how GitHub duplicated email, but as a millennial who uses Vim, I find GitHub much more intuitive and useful than sending patches via email. In general, I disagree with the issues he has with GitHub - most of them are wishy washy disagreements that could easily be solved by adding things to GitHub or using a chrome extension.

IMO the only real, logical reason they need to keep using email is "Email works just as well as GitHub, and we've already been using email, so we might as well continue using it." Which is a good reason on it's own - there's no reason to try and come up with problems with GitHub. (Again, not saying GitHub is perfect, but I don't think the reasons he gave were particularly valid.)
While I agree, the opposite is also an issue. Developers which either look down upon anything new as "pointless" or in some cases actively try to stop improvements.

Looking at the kernel dev system, it works great, but it has its share of problems. I've never even thought about contributing to the kernel because of the work involved to just submit a patch, that process can be improved.

Making it easier for newcomers, and updating some of the workflow to be more aligned with current tools could really help.
Virtualize Linux and FreeBSD Workloads on Hyper-V and Azure
In 2011, a startup I was consulting with standardized on Dropbox (gratis at the time) to sync design files. Even back then, I was wary of Dropbox's ability to sync files at the level of the Finder/OS with badged folders.

To me, the Finder integration was straight up spooky, suggesting an extraordinarily high risk profile.

When my consulting gig was up, I uninstalled Dropbox precisely because of the Finder integration, and I have advocated against using Dropbox as a file-sharing solution in all subsequent consulting arrangements.

I've also avoided using it as part of my day job, even though some of my teammates used it.
* Brother HL-5140 b/w laser printer. Purchased new in November 2004 and has been a trouble free workhorse the whole time I've owned it.

According to the printer's status sheet it's printed 7298 pages so far and jammed just nine times.

The printer is still running on its original fuser and drum units and it's on its second toner cartridge. I think it cost me GBP150.00.

It's connected directly to my Windows 10 workstation via USB and is "shared". Fairly certain I could get some sort of WiFi arrangement rigged up, but this PC is rarely switched off.

* Canon MG5500

Got this as a freebie. I use it now and again as a scanner and to print high quality Hubble pics onto high quality printer paper. It's set up over WiFi which was ridiculously easy to do. It even scans over WiFi which gave me a certain sense of wow that's clever even though it shouldn't have :)

In parting, I'd say that the economics of a half decent laser printer are a bit of a no-brainer if its mostly b/w printing you do.

[edit] Forgot to mention that both printers happily talk to Fedora.
Brother HL-3170CDW color LED printer. Bought within the last year.
Have you ever lived with someone with a mental illness? I definitely see the relationship with terrorism. Terrorism thrives on fear - "will they attack today?", "Will they use some horrible method of attack?", "Will I be able to handle it?", etc.

Living with someone with mental illness can strike fear into a person. "When I get home from work, will I get normal spouse, or lunatic spouse?", "Will I need to take my children away from this situation, or will we have a nice normal meal?", "Will I get fired for constantly having to leave work to deal with this shit, or will it calm down for long enough that I can accomplish some of my life goals?"

It can be very terrifying dealing with something like this, and frankly, I find the metaphor extremely apt. I understand your distaste of how the word is used in the media, but please understand that not all of us use these words lightly. These diseases really can be literally terrifying to the people around the disabled. It can literally feel like someone or something is torturing your loved ones when you see what happens to them.
Outlook loves messing with messages. "Detecting and removing" extra line breaks is one of its features
Meet the Airbnb police
This problem is very much prevalent in physics too. The mentioned article https://psmag.com/the-real-science-gap-f00edae57ba1#.tlnbcqb... is well worth reading.

I am currently transitioning from academia to industry, having just recently finished a PhD in high energy physics (looking for a job in data science). When I mention the lack of a job market in academia as a reason I am transitioning, people don't understand and look at me funny. If anyone is young and thinking of going into high energy physics, do yourself a favor and just don't. The glut of postdocs needed by the LHC, combined with the terrible failure of the SSC, has created a particularly terrible job market for high energy physicists in the US.
I use sshfs (FUSE on mac) with a mount point on a small instance that has mounted my S3 bucket. Files get transferred to the server and eventually make it to s3.

If you have a little time, you don't need Dropbox at all. And you can't get much cheaper than raw S3.
> that could easily be solved by adding things to GitHub or using a chrome extension

I don't believe "adding things to GitHub" is easy unless you're the GitHub product manager. Also requiring some extensions would mean auto-verifying all the requirements on submitted PRs and half of them ending up with "redo it our way and submit again".

Not impossible, but likely annoying to contributors and spammy for anyone receiving PRs.
My friend and I have a crazy idea that in the future, all songs will be binary executable code running in a sandbox similar to Vx32 or NaCl. This would allow you to edit parameters and change the song to fit the rest of your playlist.

The next step is to keep the binary locked away on a server and stream only the resulting audio to the client, and suddenly you have a major piracy disincentive.
But for most people, there is no "work permit" to be had. If you're an El Salvadoran national who wants to come to work in the US - good luck. Unless you are married to a US national, there isn't really a path to "come work here legally". If we were to create such a path, then the people who are coming here illegally would compete with random foreign nationals who would love to come and work in the US for sub-par wages in exchange for a chance at a better children for their future. We have a problem with illegal immigration from our southern border because it's porous. Are we going to create two standards - one for people who can manage to get here by crossing the Rio Grande, and a different one for a textile worker from Laos who has no ability to get here physically so that he can become "legal"?
And this may be one of the more immediate reasons for the change ... the control and behavior of the servers. The servers and what the servers do beyond their traditional/current roles under ICANN. The architecture and operational functions can be changed/controlled so as leverage being a focal point to gather and control beyond being a url/address gateway.
Reiterating what others have already said ... Obama and other despotic players on the world stage are no friend to liberty and freedom. Freedom where the least of which is freedom of speech, association, movement and private property.
If you were willing to be paid commission I would think your sales experience could easily earn that.
My only problem with syncthing is how much CPU it eats up when you have a lot of files under sync, regardless of if you use file watch or not. Is there a way to reduce its tickrate so it isn't constantly checking files for changes?
Except if they create social connections that last, because social connections are a better predictor of success than raw academics.
I was more trying to say that - to my knowledge - they had never done this with a fly-by-wire fighter. The QF-4 (previous aerial target system) was all hydraulic / analog systems.
Why is that? I think that the revenue stream from distribution has degraded so much that the 20th century journalism business model is not sustainable. Technology disrupted this business model. Instead of a media utopia where gate keepers and media companies were replaced with innumerable citizen journalists, each with their own cheap distribution platforms, we've seen the rise of click bait, echo chambers and fringe ideas seeping into the mainstream (birtherism and anti-vaxxers anyone?). How does technology fix journalism?
https://docs.rs/libc/0.2.16/libc/fn.stat.html

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(Which is how stuff like https://docs.rs/libc/0.2.16/libc/fn.stat.html is built)
If you ignore the CLI then uou ignore most of the benefits of Linux in the first place.
A Bolivian Subway in the Sky
An opinion from a non American: This is what you get when you focus on tactics without focussing on strategy. Reactive vs proactive. By splitting the American police into many many different layered jurisdictions with no overall plans or even goals, there will never be a coordinated strategic view of anything.

The US military is far more centralised and (despite its many faults) aware of planning for wider strategic issues.

Many police depts don't seem to want to face up to the fact that the tactical problems they have now have root causes in their own short sighted policies, incentives and behaviour. If they carry on like they are, these problems will only get worse.

Other western countries with more centralised police hierarchies seem to put more effort into community relations and other more strategic stuff, even if it means less 'effective' tactics ie less control, arrests and convictions etc.
How do they discover that your friends downloaded a particular file?
DUCK: The Debian Url ChecKer
I never liked going to gym and doing the scripted set of weight lifting. For me, compound exercises are the best.

Lately I have been "greasing the groove" by doing low-rep pull-ups (and push-ups). You do it every day and there is no "training to failure." See https://breakingmuscle.com/strength-conditioning/greasing-th...

The cute thing about bodyweight fitness is that you can do it anywhere without any special equipment.
This scanner works out of the box on any distro with xsane too.
A Day in the Life of a Windows Developer
>Webassembly right now is useful for cases where high perf is really needed (games, cpu intensive tasks, ...), but there is no access to the dom.

Just want to point out that asm.js is useful for the same thing. The initial version will be roughly equivalent to asm.js anyway. Just with more consistent optimizations across browsers, faster startup and shorter downloads.
Morally, I agree with you. DRM is an exercise in futility. But you aren't really comparing apples to apples here.

I radio ripped my share of music too when I was a kid. It was a pain. I had no little control and often no warning about when a song I wanted would play. The dj would often talk over the start or end of the song. A song I wanted would sometimes fade transition with a song I didn't want. Reception sometimes stunk. If everything went right, the overall quality of the recording was still inferior to what you'd get if the single or album were just bought outright.

In the 80s, DRM was naturally built into the inconveniences of the technologies of the time. Now that technology has solved for those inconveniences, we find ourselves in a fundamentally different situation for both consumers and business.
Trump Tax Records Reveal He Could Have Avoided Paying Taxes for Two Decades
Except that it is in no way involuntary. It's never against your will, and its generally not for no pay. It's just long hours for low pay.

It's hard to see what you mean by involuntary here. It's a work for education arrangement, and the amount of work is large, but people are free to leave. It's a bad deal in a bad system, but its hardly involuntary.
>And thus why the CA system is broken in a nutshell.

I wouldn't call it broken. From what I see on Linux and Windows, Chrom[e|ium] relies on the system's trusted certificates. You always have the last says on who's in and who's out.

EDIT: Just checked, the Chromium-specific trusted CAs can be revoked through its configuration interface, doesn't just rely on system certs. Important detail, but still, user has the last word.
Here's some competition: http://sumve.com/slack/sumbot/sumbot11.html
Follow your dreams. The harder it is to listen to music, the more likely I am to listen to a file from a kid who held a microphone to a speaker. Or not even bother.

Make the experience easier than file sharing and you win. I don't mind paying for music, but if I'm paying, I don't want any stupid hoops.
Some reality please...

Robin Williams, by his own admission, was a life-long drink and drug user. If he wasn't on the class 'A' drugs then he was drinking to excess. If he was 'cold turkey' in re-hab then he was on other prescription drugs, none of them needed by normal people on a day to day basis.

I am sure that with each hangover and come-down there was something telling Robin Williams that some part of his brain was being fried, even if he would prefer to look for another drink rather than dwell on the negatives.

I do know people in their late teens and early twenties that drink 'Robin Williams style' and I fully imagine they will have fully scrambled brains by the time they get to middle age, if they get that far. I don't have much influence over them, however, those people with 'stardust' on them do. Therefore it would be better if the unvarnished truth were told through true stories, i.e. 'drink and drugs will kill you, look what happened to so-and-so rock/movie star' rather than pretend that some evil tooth fairy randomly gave our great hero some cruel disease.

Why do some people take drink/drugs? Why do some people need to be funny? What traumatic things happen to a child to make them a comedy genius? Why isn't that enough and a fall into drink/drug abuse practically certain?

Instead of these questions we have 'the terrorist inside my husband's brain' as the viewpoint.
Any suggestions/advice on how that might work for an online/part-time arrangement?

I've only ever been in legitimate quota carrying roles as a consultant.