skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How dangerous is it to watch a solar eclipse without proper dark glasses? I recall a Feynman story where he watched the first nuclear bomb test without eye protection, just through the window of a truck. Under the theory that normal glass filters most UV light.
Is there a reason it doesn't generate images as pretty as the samples on the news page? (http://make.girls.moe/news-img/samples.jpg)

By the way, the Getchu and illustration2vec links on the news page are broken.

Edit: This part from the Tips page might be why it initially didn't generate great images:

The input of the model consists of two parts, the random noise part and the condition part. If you generate a good image, you could try to fix the noise part and use random conditions to get more good images. We have observed that a good random noise is important for the better generation.

Edit 2: Actually, no. According to the news page, if the noise is fixed, the generated pictures would be all similar.
Even in totality, the coolest part for me (1999 eclipse) wasn't the visuals - it was the way you could feel the cold/shadow set in during the eclipse.
> In my experience, thread pools introduce latency.

The headline uses a the word "performance" which is rather ambiguous.

Performance has many aspects: Latency, through-put, resource-usage (doing more with less), etc etc.

A more specific headline wouldn't hurt.
- complains about people being told to use a different tool

- goes on to tell people to use a different tool
>does not belong to the US

It's a US-based TLD, the authority being Verisign. The point is that GoDaddy can tell them to take it elsewhere, but as far as the registry is concerned it's not going to be seized and it's not going to be revoked. Not unless you have a court order. And, lacking any real criminality, there's really shaky first amendment/jurisdiction issues. Not even getting into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
Well, "make.girls.moe" is the URL and name of the tool.

According to the technical report [1], they used character portraits from Getchu [2] for training data. A cursory glance shows that the overwhelming majority of the characters are female. As a result, the characters the tool generates are likely to appear female to our eyes.

After the code is open sourced, perhaps someone should try to create make.boys.moe using character portraits from otome games [3].

[1]: 12.8 MB PDF, http://make.girls.moe/technical_report.pdf

[2]: example from report (possibly NSFW?), http://www.getchu.com/soft.phtml?id=933144

[3]: games with a female protagonist and many male characters, https://vndb.org/g542
It's not journalism, though, in the sense of an article meant to factually cover what's happened. It's not representing facts. It's representing an interpretation of a situation and that by an author interested in and highly critical of Silicon Valley in general.
This will be of interest: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/07/02/beyond-p... - talks about numerous approaches beyond a single all-or-nothing key
I've been writing an llvm-lite in haskell to show of the main optimisation ideas of LLVM [here](https://github.com/bollu/tiny-optimising-compiler). Thought someone maybe interested :)
Let me be perfectly clear: You most likely have a real medical condition of some kind. I do not question or demean your experience in any way.

With that said... no one has ever shown actual EMR sensitivity in double-blinded trials. Never. Not even once. When you hide the devices behind a curtain people who claim EMR sensitivity can't tell if the thing is on or off. Trials have been done out in the woods, inside faraday cages, and under all kinds of crazy conditions. It never matters. We can definitively say medical science has ruled out EMR sensitivity as a real thing.

You may very well have a nerve degeneration condition. It is even possible that fish oil helps this condition. You may be sensitive to electronic whine from power transformers which is a purely audible phenomenon; plugging in the power brick without the PS2 drawing any power wouldn't induce the same whine.

You might also have a form of epilepsy or similar condition triggered by 3D graphics. It could also be a form of motion sickness that some people get (typically much worse with VR rigs).

Here's the thing: our bodies are evolutionarily tuned to be wary of anything that might be dangerous. Any ancestors without that instinct were killed off long ago. If you hear something better to imagine it is a ghost and run. If it's just the wind, no harm done. If it was a predator sneaking up on you then that reaction might save your life. If you've ever gotten the flu after eating a certain food then felt repulsed by that food for months or even years afterwards: that's the same mechanism at work. Your lizard brain just knows "that food == sick". You can understand all the rational arguments in the world but your lizard brain still says "nope, not taking any chances: barf time". For our ancestors living in the wild this is a sensible reaction. Maybe those berries are poisonous, maybe you just happened to pickup a virus around the same time. Better safe than sorry.

Because you had a bad experience you attributed to EMR (specifically the PS2) your brain now induces those symptoms when you are around a powered-up PS2 even though EMR itself isn't real. I stress again that this is a real physical condition that you have little control over. I have zero doubt that it feels absolutely real to you and causes you huge amounts of stress. Just know that there are therapists who can help. You can learn to overcome that reaction.

I know this will offend some people but we have to face the truth. Eyewitness testimony isn't reliable. Anecdotes aren't data. Just because someone honestly believes EMR is real doesn't mean it is.
Perl5 string and hash performance was always top notch.
I once took for granted that that was in Amzn's best interests and thus their goal, but it really just seems like they're hoping to bank on consumar ignorance/apathy and being the biggest game in town.

It sucks because I recently picked up an amzn gift card from a change conversion machine (my bank now requires you roll your change yourself and I discovered those machines are fee-free if you use them for a giftcard), but I've fewer and fewer needs from Amzn now.
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I just seem to end up generating pictures that look like smashed crabs: http://imgur.com/4PbYuEt
After more than three years, still no F# support for .NET Native and UWP
Perl 6 is defined by a test suite, not an implementation. So more like oranges & lemons.
Don't (E/A)LBs support http2 now? It's at over 80% client coverage globally, right? Seems pretty safe to IE6 the stragglers and stop worrying about their optimized experience, imo.

Also, http2 push is VERY interesting for application servers.
Maybe you had different requirements than other developers. Or maybe you've got a lower bar for considering something "usable".
For something that has no clocks, it sure has a lot of gears like atp synthase https://youtu.be/b_cp8MsnZFA
While I appreciate your comment in being fairly correct, I still think there is a lot of value in trying to understand the human body as a molecular machine that runs on top of reality and generates sub environments that have "clocks" to synchronise processes. After all a clock signal doesn't measure the day, it measures discrete intervals.
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I've been reading the stuff folks have recommended here. I can explain comonads to a teenager but even I thin that these programming models are pretty intense.
Because no question is asked.
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MacOS users don't need to document macOS as a volunteer project.
http://www.bagswalletsit.com/hermes/scarves.html
And as we all know, Walmart is a paragon of valuing quality over cost
I think that it is incumbent upon an entrepreneur to apply they same magnitude of rigor (if not more) when conducting due diligence on investors as investors do when deciding whether to invest. This is, sadly, something that most entrepreneurs overlook due to eagerness to take up financing.
I must admit that getting text to flow around images has always lead to cascading nightmares for me in LaTeX too.
Well if he has a lot of nights out, neither will his liver, but developer employers, like our livers, are fairly tolerant.
> one of the practical benefits is that multiple queries from client to server can be merged into one, thus saving bandwidth and improving performance.

Sure, but if we're doing that by dragging the API implementer over every possible permutation of queries, optimizing whatever you could possibly ask for, I'm not convinced this is LESS work than me shipping BTO API requests.

> I'm sure certain types of projects will benefit more from the pros than cons of GraphQL.

My sneaking suspicion is that it's the kind of projects where their data model is small and isolated and doesn't offer much sharing between queries. Which is great when you can get it.
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Note that the second is specific to isoflavones.

A newer study I came across this afternoon in an endocrinology journal came to the same conclusion about soy isoflavones.
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Hey, We have a school project called Spotwire which is an app which broadcast your live photos and videos in your city but due to the fewer users the post can be been seen around the world, for now, so now people who are using hackers news can see from where others are from and explore their cities.
We need few users for testing for feedbacks.

The app may have some bugs but it will be updated soon

The app is in IOS only.

App link: https://appsto.re/in/dOC9ib.i

Let us know the review so we can make improvements to make a better project.

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It seems quite similar to libuv's work queue [1]

[1] http://docs.libuv.org/en/v1.x/guide/threads.html#id1
A much needed step back!
> Instead of complicating the server to make things a little easier for the client, it simplifies the server by removing knowledge of the client's ui. I'm not sure what you mean by every api endpoint, because graphql should pretty much only have one.

Well I've yet to work with a set of server-side tools that actually deliver on this promise. I really don't like the tools I have.

I'm now attempting to synthesize and optimize SQL queries in python. Messy business. Way more defect-prone.

> DataLoader

I'm a haskell programmer and even I think that programming model is pretty brutal.
> A developer who charges $0 for his work product must, therefore, be making up that value elsewhere._

No, even assuming that they're "rational", they must have expected to make up that value elsewhere. It's entirely possible to write something useful, in the expectation of some amount of praise and recognition, and get nothing but a lot of whining in return for it.
Do you know this kind of calculation for cloud expenses?
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> Why is 418 the particular target?

Because Mark Nottingham (co-chair of the HTTP WG) first tried to get libraries/stdlibs to remove support for 418 (as part of builtins, since it's not a formally standardised code, he had no issue with application-specific support, everyone is free to return whatever status codes they wish) and faced some pushback, he switched to the alternate tack of getting it into a standard.
OK, how about the concept of censorship?

It certainly has a lot to do with that.

And it is important to oppose censorship no matter who is doing it.
Not only are they ugly, but setting the time with NTP seems strange if you want atomic clock level of accuracy.
As a comparison to the counterfeits, I took some pictures of my 'real' Soluna glasses, which I ordered a couple weeks ago from Amazon (and didn't get an email.) Also they pass the manufacturer's tests for verifying real glasses. 100 W equivalent CFL is very dimly visible.

http://imgur.com/a/5hMfu
You could say that a lot of the social profiles involved (i.e. the influencers) are already "works of fiction". It's "The Truman Show" on a planetary level, only this time is all voluntary.
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> how about a 24-bit representation

Because 24-bit integers are not a thing on x86?
PostgreSQL issues three security patches, apply them asap
Right, which is why nobody ever used qsort. Or, wait. It's been widely used for a long time...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_C_Compiler
I was making a joke...
If, like me, you wondered how Mediakix came up with the size of the influencer market size, there is an outline of their methodology in a previous post [1].

Essentially they looked at how many posts were tagged with one of a group of hashtags, used a $10 CPM, and extrapolated from there.

[1]: http://mediakix.com/2017/03/instagram-influencer-marketing-i...
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Worthless trivia time! Diaereses are very popular in the Dutch language, because the language is full of consecutive vowels, which have a distinct sound. We're just not trained t guessing where to break syllables without help. If "cooperative" was a Dutch word and spelled like that, we'd say coo-perative, get confused, backtrack, oh wait co-operative ahyeah.

For example, "ie" in "fiets" (bike) is pronounced like English "ee". But now imagine you're a sixteen year old deejay with big ambitions and you want a name people can remember you by. You come up with "Tiesto" which sounds cool, but all your friends would pronounce it "Teesto". Ok no biggie, "DJ Tiësto" it is.

Another public favourite is the plural of sea (zee): zeeën. Leaving the dots, "zeeen" would make people very nervous - is it "ze-een" (she one) or "zee-en" (seas)?
This right here. It's a fine line. I feel like the parent comment is implying like it's an easily exploited line but that's my personal intuition so I'll defend it in isolation. Put simply, if Michael Jordan, Shaq, or any other signature memeber of the NBA told me how to dunk better, I'd probably listen because their real world reputation has already informed me that they're skilled at the thing they're advertising about. I trust them, not because I admire them but because they are proven craftsmen of the thing they are discussing. They might be discussing it for profit in this instance, but in the real world they have shown themselves to be above average men of skill and for that reason I am interested in their knowledge.

If Thor and the Avengers discover how to beat Thanos because they used a search engine on iOS instead of android I might get pretty hyped because I really like that franchise, but I know at a fundamental level that they're fake people achieving fake success against a fake villain. The same cannot be said about professional athletes, chefs, academics, or others who compete in a competitive BUT ALSO REAL environment.
> This is likely untrue. Unless you fetch data only from one single database, so that you can perform an atomic transition

I do! I find it odd that anyone would do anything else...
IMHO, Airbnb did the right thing and as for your what-ifs, capitalism can take care of that. If the Nazi-uber and hate-van mentioned in the article actually become profitable businesses, then there is something to feel concerned about. Not right now, not with this.

> When they come for you and your soon-to-be-declared radical beliefs

Airbnb is a business. Not the government. They can't come for me. I go to them and if tomorrow they declare my beliefs radical, I will not go to them.
Why focus on Israel, when this is an endemic problem everywhere?

History is being taught by whoever is getting to control the education systems. As noted by Fragskope, critical thinking no longer has a place in our education systems, not at primary school, not at second school, not at colleges or universities.
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Goldeneye 007 explosions on N64.
Even cardiologist's jobs are not safe:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15007208
In the benchmarks reported in the article, both through-put and latency were significantly improved by the new thread pool system.
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Let us do more than hope not. The more I learn, the less stable I realize is the earth.
What about the servers you deploy to? What about the toolchain used by the upstream platform developers you depend on? What about the software powering their CI-systems?

Whatever free software they depend on, you indirectly depend on too.
But the software companies that build influencer marketing software do care because it's a differentiating factor when deciding what software to use.
German law against Pro-Nazi stuff would be an obvious example.
Then child pornography.
'Normal porn' in some cultures...

the thing is law requirements do not generally allow you just to clear your cache of the offending content, the company is not allowed to show it.
Being specific about the area being improved (blocking operations with the example of file reads) could be nice.
> Across all genres, it has become normal to believe that louder is better. (One reason that Adele is such a big star is because her voice is so big.)

It must be something else than just "louder" because we have amplifiers these days.
Trick is that nginx uses thread pools for non-blocking reading on the "fast" devices - you can't use coroutines/fibers, because on Linux is not reliably possible to read the regular file in a non-blocking way, as far as I'm aware, so that means that `read` in a single fiber would block entire thread until the data is fetched from the disk.

In the storage engine I'm developing/maintaining, I've been using fibers, for both network and disk IO, until people started noticing that, if number of the client grows, and if they ask a lot of data (generating a lot of disk traffic), the performance drops severely. I've moved to the thread pools, dispatching my disk IO operations there (although it's much problematic for the reads, as writes would be performed by kernel anyway, `fsync` and `close` would be operations that you still want to do in the separate thread): https://github.com/sociomantic-tsunami/dlsnode/blob/master/s...

edit: used right link for the freshly opensourced repo.
This line from the article best summarizes it for me:

Perl 6: The Ruby on Rails of command-line tools.
Perhaps the one he wrote?

Walter Bright is the creator and first implementer of the D programming language... http://www.walterbright.com/
>Do you feel that the Jewish genocide of 1940s is special in some way

Yes.
There's also a pulsar clock, which is interesting for a whole host of reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar_clock#cite_note-Pulsar_...
the size of a credit card, but not a credit card.
Well, I didn't say "worst case".

If qsort only provided a constant ratio time improvement over bubble sort in the average case, then it wouldn't have been so popular.
The remaining 10% are non-white but still heterosexual males.
I actually use the 418 code in a simple API we use for IOT devices. I wrote a small program that runs on Raspberry Pis that checks a HTTP endpoint and turns power on and off to a room depending on whether the room is booked out. I wanted a status code on the API that could only possibly be generated on purpose, so if it receives a 418 response it knows to turn off the power; any other response, failure etc turns the power on (so we don't have a room out of use if it breaks).

Also it's fun :)
That margin is huge. I've worked with rST, and it's just not fun to write in the way that Markdown is; even a little friction makes a huge difference to the writing experience.
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Hey, I used to get a minimum of 10 unwanted/promotional emails a day, even if I set up the username+RAND@gmail.com method in my email.

My way of cancelling my subscription is by pressing the "Report Spam" button in the Gmail web client.

Why? Because i read somewhere that they have been recording the unsubscription email accounts and marking it as "Active" and using it for other activities. However i used to unsubscribe if the link leads somewhere like http://.us.list-manage.com for obvious reasons.

What are your methods of unsubscribing? Is there any other tools to issue a Bounce response, based on some filters?
Neither the quote nor the article said that the games need to give up mastery, that's apparently your misunderstanding.

I'm also not your "bro", just for your information.
I hope crypto currencies will eventually enable people and companies to more easily donate with micro payments to free software developers without the need for the greedy/stealing paypal or other banks.

I have dozens of free/open-source projects that make me 0 dollars while some of them are being used quite a bit. I currently cannot find spare time to improve on those projects because I need to work for a company to pay the bills..

I would love to have some income out of it, but I refuse to use paypal. First they take a proportional part of the sum as fee, second they take another proportional part by making up their own exchange rates for converting currencies. I refuse to support those companies and I truly hope crypto currencies will nullify them.
The reason is we did not test carefully on Edge, may have some problems we don't know!
Well, I don't agree with the author of the article in that I do think that Latex does offer an advantage in many of the use cases. In any case, any student in STEM is supposed to write some reports, and LaTeX is the only choice that makes sense, since there are not many other options with the same support for mathematical typesetting.

However, you're twisting his words a bit. He says that it's not good to learn a new tool if you have an old one which can do the job. Not that you should avoid things for which you need new tools.

I'm all for learning new skills and ideas. However, I hate learning new tools. The ideas in web development are not hard at all. However, there is an idiotic amount of trendy tools and programming languages, and that is something I would object to, because it costs a lot of people a lot of effort.
IIRC the accelerometers are way to imprecise to correctly detect starts and stops. Errors compound so quickly that any kind of useful accuracy for dead reckoning is a long ways out.
Thanks, sorry for that bad English :)
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IMO, the format is meant to do two things:

* By having a premise, it forces you to question its validity up front (before any development work is done), getting rid of ambiguities early and having a shared understanding between business and technical team members (rather than the developer implementing what they think is a better solution, the product owner being unhappy with the outcome & only finding this out at the end).

* Using the format of "As a <type of user>, I want to <use a feature>, so that I can <achieve some value>" forces you to think about what user (customer/website editor/back office) gets what specific value (faster/cheaper/less error prone) from implementing some feature. By following the same pattern it makes it easier to compare unrelated areas.

I don't think the format is sacrosanct, but it's like any constraint you put on yourself (e.g. coding conventions) — if you find it hard to make a story work in that format, it's an indication that it may not be properly understood it really bringing value.
How does it test the fact that glasses block UV part of the spectrum? That is where the damage is coming from not from the the visible part.
they will find out soon that they are fine on their own without Elsevier...