skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you really have the button? I saw this headline and tried to update the Macs I have that are waiting for this update, but none of them see it in the App Store.

And the page linked still says, "Available 9.25".
I think the interesting part would be example based audio synthesis. Could you replace a synthesizer with a neural network which, when fed examples, would allow you to generate sounds / explore some latent space between the examples.

For example an approach similar to https://gauthamzz.github.io/2017/09/23/AudioStyleTransfer/ but then using the methods described in the PixelNN paper.
> You fundamentally can't get back information that has been destroyed/or never captured in the first place.

I love this cliché. I've seen it thousands of times, and probably written it myself a few times. We all repeat stuff like that ad nauseam, without ever thinking.

Because it's fundamentally flawed, especially in the context that it has usually been applied to, namely criticising the CSI:XYZ trope of "enhancing images".

The truth is that there is a lot more information in a low-res image than meets the eye.

Even if you can't read the letters on a license plate, it can be recovered by an algorithm. If the Empire State Building is in the background, it's likely to be a US license plate. Maybe only some letters would result in the photo's low-res pattern. If you only see part of a letter, knowing the font may allow you to rule out many letters or numbers etc...

It's similar to that guy who used Photoshop's swirl effect to hide his face, not knowing that the effect is deterministic, and can easily be undone.

The error mostly appears to be in assuming that the information has been destroyed, when in reality it's often just obscured. And Neural Nets are excellent in squeezing all the information out noisy data.
That's Guitar Hero 3, released in 2007, so yes, 10 years old. The original Guitar Hero is a couple of years older (released in 2005).
For how long are Chromebooks supported again? I can use a PC for more than 10 years if I want. Do Chromebooks approach that level of support? Or are they the "Android phones" of PCs?
And you can't even be sure that the author was using the exact emoji that is shown in your rendering of their work. Maybe they used a different font themselves...
> If open-offices are so remarkably detrimental,

Assume they aren't. This place may of course be a bit biased - but among developers the opinion is at least appears to be very clear on that open offices suck. I'd even dare argue that many developers would either not work at a company with open offices, or would at least factor it in and weigh it against compensation.

Now if this is the case, then regardless of whether there are tangible benefits of having private offices, companies would either lose out on talent, or need to compensate them more than they otherwise would. See the point isn't only whether developers are less happy or less productive in open offices - the point is also whether they believe they are less happy and less productive in open offices. And that is much easier to test/prove than whether they actually are.
General animation things because of Metal 2. APFS is awesome when copy pasting (instant), Safari's faster, and general performance increase (subjective of course).

There are tons of small changes here and there!
> Not entirely clear why

Might have something to do with the fact that APFS was designed explicitly with SSDs in mind.
Clic 5 time on yr team icon to see Slack's source code
I've been running it since dev preview 1, no Homebrew issues whatsoever over the past 2+ months.
The tourists have more sway as consumers than the citizens do. There's more of them, they're more likely to use a ride-sharing service, and they're more likely to choose Uber of Lyft over a local brand just from the name recognition.
> No remotely relevant app is only ever IO-bound.

A lot of microservices that these apps could be split to certainly are.
And all of that security goes out of the window when Google stores all of your data on their servers, and it gets hacked. From what I've noticed hackers increasingly prefer going after major companies to steal user data now, because it's much easier to get millions of accounts in one go this way. Google may not be Equifax, but the more data it stores on us, the more juicier of a target it becomes, especially for nation states. Local national governments will also keep changing their laws to allow themselves to get more data from Google, too.
Plus there's obvious rendering problems with the site's nav on Chrome. Made obvious when you click that little bag icon at the very right of the nav.

I'm convinced they don't bother to visit the site on anything but Safari anymore.
Noone I know does this.
There was a desire for globalization, people to people connection and one world fantasy that a whole generation was brought up on that early tech companies leveraged.

But a lot of this is coming from the post 60-70 generation and events have completely discredited the idea of globalism.

Nation states, politics and parochialism is as alive and kicking and far from uniting people our companies are just a way to exercise unilateral power and further national interests.

No county can afford to be dependent on others for food, it's always used against them. It's the same for technology, both software and hardware and this will lead to a more divided splintered world and limit US opportunities but also increase local opportunities.

Until globalism is a social and political reality based on mutual respect and humanity and not exploitation and capitalism this can't change.
On the other hand, this is what the brain does all the time.
I’ve got a spare machine and will run it on first. I don’t do any dev on the box; it’s all remote. I use git client and macvim to update some markdown docs occasionally but that’s about it. Rest of it is on the end of SSH and via web.
Is the purpose of encapsulation to wrap all data fields in functions offering mutable references to data? I thought it was the exact opposite.
I know what you mean. I don't know how often I've read "I prefer python/ruby/etc. because its not as bloated and slow as Java"...sigh
Well, to configure ntpd as a basic client, the general workflow is the natural workflow of any daemon launched by init.

1) Install the package

2) Modify the configuration file if needed

3) Enable the service

Taken alone timesyncd can be considered simpler to configure (no package to install, short configuration file), but it follows its own workflow, specially the command to enable or disable it (timedatectl set-ntp true), and to a lesser extent the location of its configuration file.

For me it makes it harder to configure because, now, I must remember precisely all the steps where I could only remember a loss pattern, common with all other services, for ntpd.

As itself, it's not that bad, it's a few commands, I can remember them, but it would definitely suck if every single service had its own pattern.
Good for them. So do you think that when Google will make billions of dollars in profit a year from the hardware it sells, it will stop tracking user behavior on those same machines?
> Why does Hillary get better treatment than Bryan H. Nishimura?

The cases aren't comparable. One was a wilful mishandling of classified documents; the other was a widely accepted way of dealing with email.

> since the emails were found, there was no law broken?

A Senate committee said "[T]his subversion of the justice system has included lying, misleading, stonewalling and ignoring the Congress in our attempts to find out precisely what happened." That sounds like they broke the law.

> "the other side is doing it, too."

Not really - it's more that "Oh, look, the female candidate is getting slammed for things that everyone in USGOV has done, is doing, and will do whilst the male candidates and aides ... do not."

> And I would feel the same way if it were a male republican we were talking about.

Then presumably you are now calling for Kushner's indictment?
My instincts about International Charity / NGOs are the same as yours. However I'm not willing to easily accept that instinct since it is potentially self-serving. I think that we have to consider if a book written in 1989 can still be considered useful information and we also have to consider the writer's commitment to intellectual and factual rigour.
Obviously just 1 data point, but I've been on High Sierra since the GM candidate came out. Smooth transition - everything just worked. Nothing about my development setup had to change.
It doesn't, it only touches the drive you perform it on (meaning your Mac HD). I literally did a fresh install yesterday with an existing bootcamp partition, and no problems.

One thing though, if you relied on some thing like Paragon or whatever to read your HFS drive, that will obviously not work anymore (not personally a problem, but could be a deal breaker for some).
Yeah, this page isn't the best example, but they're still killing it with the product pages https://www.apple.com/iphone-x/ https://www.apple.com/iphone-8/
Thanks. That was two years ago. I wonder how much has changed since then?
And it only took a few lawsuits and anti-trust cases against Google to do that. How generous of them.
I'm not sure I'd want that kind of money... I mean I would but I wonder what kind of expectations you could put on someone who makes $1M at a "normal" desk job?

Would it be expected that I had a wife that didn't work so I wouldn't have to take care of sick kids all the time? Would it be ok to work 9-5?

I'd be happy to take the money but it feels a bit like there are hidden assumptions about what you are actually compensated for, once you get into these obscene levels of compensation.
Typos happen. I fixed /bug/big/ (I guess at the same time you responded), but didn't see "nothing" until after my edit link went away. You are correct in your interpretation.
Well, technically traits dispatch based on type and not on value. As long as you aren't wrapping everything into trait objects that is much closer to functional programming. Seems like a mostly semantical difference, though.

I guess there is a philosophical difference in whether you pass a large struct into a function or select the needed data at the call side and only pass that, though. Former might be easier to extend, latter is probably easier to test?
Why would you buy an OS that has built-in advertising?
I do experience lagging even on basic stuff like writing SMS or other-text inputs... (waiting 2-3 seconds for the soft keyboard to response). I'l have to do some Option->Reset when I find time... [iPhone 6+] Not good when you can't trust the device... once my iphone freezed for X seconds, then I realized that random social post were posted to FB, while I tried to touch the display... :) And that scares me :) I have to give a try to the "Reset" options :)
"Metal 2" Is that a new thing or just an incremental update? What is their position on Vulkan?
Hugo 0.28 with fast native syntax highlighting
> From the consumers perspective, there is little indication as to the quality of soil something has been grown in. But there must be an effect on the plant itself if it is grown in poor soil in the form of lower macro, trace minerals and other indicators of plant health detectable within the plant.

The thing with putting everything in complex chains of economy is that important indicators can be easily masked, and stay invisible until it's too late. In this case, low soil quality will primarily affect yield. Which, between farming methods, subsidies, futures and other forms of economic magic, is completely invisible to the customer.

> You've hit the problem on its head, but the solution is not to try and change people's behaviour on a large scale, but to incentivise based on the self-interest you've mentioned.

Indeed. Unfortunately, the same problems extend on the meta-level. You need to incentivize important actors to incentivize people, based on the formers' self-interest. Like:

> If plants were tested after production for indicators of plant health and labels could be put on vegetables indicating quality

Try doing that, and you'll find plenty of opposition from actors who earn money on production not being evaluated for quality. Also, even if you set this up, you'll likely face an increase in food costs for the transition period in which the producers readjust. And that is a political no-go.
Read this:

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/
You can try some tricks from here https://appletoolbox.com/2016/11/macos-app-store-updates-not....

Namely, try going to System Preferences -> App Store and press Check Now.
the point about Norfolk four course rotation is that, like the article suggests, it keeps the ground covered in plants at all times so preventing the dustbowl.
One of my guys ran into https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues/8788 - it was hellish trying to figure out what was happening.
The biggest change I’m hoping for (but not expecting) is the ability to sort shared iCloud albums by time taken, not time added to the album. Currently they’re all but useless for something like a shared album from a vacation, because it groups photos by when family members upload them. I tend to upload photos at the end of each day, but other family members who were shooting on a normal camera waited until the end of the trip to upload their photos. The end result is that photos that should be appearing next to each other instead show up at opposite ends of the album. Infuriating.
> The catch is that you need to know that the target image comes from roughly the same distribution as the training set.

When humans think about "enhance", they imagine extracting subtle details that were not obvious from the original, which implies that they know very little about what distribution the original image comes from. If they did, they wouldn't have a need for "enhance" 99% of the time -- the remaining 1% is for artistic purposes, which this is indeed suited for.

It'll be interesting to see how society copes with the removal of the "photographs = evidence" prior.

> when enhancing celebrity images, if the model is able to figure out who is in the picture this massively decreases the set of plausible outputs.

This is an excellent insight.
> Mr. Damore, frustrated after another diversity training, wrote a memo that he posted to an internal Google message board. In it, he argued that maybe women were not equally represented in tech because they were biologically less capable of engineering. Google fired him last month..

Didn't the memo focus at least as heavily on differing preferences, as opposed to differing abilities?
Pluralsight has a new feature called Paths which I think is pretty good, I would recommend working through their HTML5 path - https://www.pluralsight.com/paths/html5
Might be of interest: https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/

It's a project to evaluate and rank NGOs based on how effective they really are. They have managed funds based on topics of interest as well.
To me, that's mostly because the things we need to monitor are scattered around our planet.
You should be more than good to go then! Git and vim/neovim/macvim runs like normal. This has been one of the least dev burdensome updates in a while.
They still have that janky scrolling which degrades the experience, for me.
I experience lagging on iOS 11 on both iPhone 7 and the 10.5 inch iPad Pro.

There was no lagging on iOS 10.

Basic things like swiping across home screens lags and feel jittery. Also when you unlock and the apps come into view it's annoying laggy.
Congrats on launching!

My first impression was extremely positive: the look of the landing page is really professional, but then disappointingly the text content was really unprofessional.

Here's two specific examples of what you could improve:

> ethx.in is the favourite place in India to store, buy and sell ether.

You are on invite-only limited beta -- saying that you are "favourite place in India" is not credible.

> Secure | Ease of use | Amazing Usability

Your three selling points are totally boring, the second and third point are largely duplicates, and they all are written different grammatical forms.

Compared to the overall complexity of operating an exchange, fixing these superficial things takes no effort.

Best of luck!
I am excited about the new Photos, I am hoping I can stop having to use Lightroom and other tools aimed at real pro's to manage and edit my hobbyist photo collection.
> The working time wasn't a full 8-hour day, as the animals would both tire and needed to forage. I believe ~4 hours was more typical.

This was actually one of the most surprising takeaways of doing farm work with a horse, needing to take frequent breaks to let the horse and the farmer rest for a while. Of course I knew there was going to be breaks, but their frequency and duration surprised me. It was much harder work for the horse than I had anticipated (but it's good exercise and not harmful to the animal).

And it was perhaps what made it so much more enjoyable than working with machines. Even though it's hard physical labor, you take a break for oats, drinks and scratchies for a while and bond with the animal and the rest of the crew. It wasn't the least bit monotonous or boring the same way as doing 2x4h stints in the cabin of a tractor or in front of a computer.
I'm not sure that true. As in - not true at all, unless you really want to believe it to be true.

No, 70% of foreign aid is not 'stolen off the top'
http://www.politifact.com/global-news/statements/2017/jan/17...

How Much Aid is Really Lost to Corruption?
https://www.cgdev.org/blog/how-much-aid-really-lost-corrupti...

Where does aid money really go -- and what is it spent on?
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/09/opinion/where-does-aid-mon...

While there are large issues on the way foreign aid is distributed, including corruption and more recently local NGOs being sidelined, it's nowhere near close to your "perhaps $0.1" estimate of reaching locals. The idea that almost all the assistance is wasted is not only untrue, but harmful.
> This is why I don't donate to charities. I believe for every dollar I would donate perhaps $0.1 would actually reach the destination and be spent on helping people. I'd rather donate directly to people in need after I meet them and can see that they are legit and there aren't several layers of middlemen leaching off the donated money.

Sorry to pick on one point but isn't that throwing the baby out with the bath water?

Let's Encrypt, Liberty, Khan Academy, Wikipedia, Seed Bank are a few of the charities I regularly donate to. I can understand not volunteering for humanitarian relief which is supposed to end up halfway across the world in some poorly governed LEDC but there are a lot of worthy causes which are well run.
It is actually a good strategy - the faster you get the MVP, the faster you realize that you're not building a good product and the faster you can change it or scrap it completely.

Coming from gamedev, software architecture that focuses not on runtime performance, but on development speed and ease of iteration and modification has tremendous effect on overall quality.
Nikon and Canon should have gotten into the licensing game with smartphone manufacturers. And by that I don't mean suing their asses off "because patents". They should've started making camera modules and lenses and sensors for smartphones 4-5 years ago. Now it may already be too late. In 5 years, even amateur photographers won't be using DSLRs, at the rate smartphone computational photography is improving.

Just look at these cropped images over a span of 4 years:

https://cdn.dxomark.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/asian_old...

They got disrupted and like most incumbents, they failed to capitalize on the disruption "because it could eat their margins" or whatever their reason for not getting into the smartphone market was.
VCTs are generally high risk, though. You might not want to make investments that way, even if you're on £1m a year. Same applies to SEIS and EIS.

And while putting £20k a year in your pension pot is nice, it's hardly a massive saving on £1m.
The same thing can be said about spam. It could be good to be able to send useful information to users right to their inbox while avoiding being detected as "spam".

In reality it's mostly just dark pattern marketing.
.NET does have the module level directive "InternalsVisibleTo" that declares another assembly as a friend assembly that can use internal API's from the first assembly. So if you have e.g MyLib.Core and then two impls on top say MyLib.Windows and MyLib.OSX, where everyone would only use one of the impl libs but always the core lib (which is why it was split - then you could make internal API in the core lib visible ONLY to the Windows/OSX libs by using InternalsVisibleTo, and users of the library could not see that internal API.
Not yet. I assume it won't appear until this evening for me. I like to think ahead :)
I don't experience input lag, but I definitely experience general UI lag. Everything is so jittery compared to iOS 10. Swipes, transitions, everything lags.
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My understanding was that recent versions of Mac OS have an upgrade process that works a bit like this anyway — i.e., behind the scenes it's doing a fresh install, then copying your files back across. But I could be wrong.
Fair enough. But since your instincts are same would you not consider donating money directly to selected people in need you meet in real life or while traveling? Or going to do charity directly yourself to actually make a real change?

I have friends who quit their jobs and went to third world countries and worked for charities on the ground for 6 months or so. This seems way better than giving money to some organization which claims it will spend it to help those people.

Not sure if Occam's razor applies here but given how much money is being funneled to charities and foreign aid and how little has been actually achieved it seems likely to me that the money is being wasted, probably ending up in hands of corrupt local officials and strongmen most likely.
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Thanks for the heads up. I was considering using vagrant on this box. I'm currently RDP'ing into a windows box in the office and using that for vagrant most of the time at the moment.
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We’re in the phase where low contrast and fuzz is hip again, just give it 18 months
Data driven businesses will win
The purpose was to show that something lifetime-bound to a part of a struct becomes lifetime-bound to the whole struct when returned from a function.

Using mutable references is the minimal way to get this.
I'll settle for when shared iCloud albums support a decent size and resolution.

iCloud Photos is frustratingly bad, but I don't want to buy into other cloud ecosystem, like Google's. Does anybody know if it's possible to replicate the integration with Photos on both iOS and macOS, so I could write my own sync thing?