skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brilliant, though the metalness maps seem more like low-threshold specular maps (you can see metallic spot readings on the strictly dielectric material [bakelite?] on that handle).†

The way to correctly detect metalness would also involve checking for coloration of the reflected light (which is not present with specular dielectric materials [but may be confused with subsurface scatter coloration]).

Update: † Looks like he knows this, and just hasn't gotten around to implementing it yet.
I disagree. I've grown up with people from both rich and poor ends. The poor struggle with trying to pay their bills. The rich may be running an operation that makes $20,000 a day, paying $17,000 in daily operating costs. They don't sleep at night, worried about when these costs get too high. While they don't worry about starving, they carry heavy burdens. They can go on more expensive vacations, but they may be too stressed to even start.

And the more power you hold, the more people want it. Competitors, colleagues, employees, spouses and children. I have seen many rich people have their wealth ripped apart with years of family squabbling.

The optimum to tweak for is freedom, not wealth. You want the freedom to not work, but with great power comes great responsibility. The optimum may be a little less than being a millionaire. Billionaires possibly push far beyond the optimum. Many wake at 4, lacking the freedom to have a lazy Sunday or to just diss Zuckerberg on Twitter without it being sensationalized.
The fact that I don’t have a Mac.
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The whitepaper linked in the upper-right is highly informative: https://www.shutterstock.com/labs/compositionsearch/static/c...
Those people who point out absurdities that almost everyone wants desperately to ignore?
that's because SQL is perfect obviously /kids
Do people in the US have the same feeling for what area is 'local' as they did when districts were drawn up ?
> Reincorporating in Delaware happens when companies are large enough to hire someone to handle the paperwork.

right, all $200/yr worth of work.

anyway, Europe is full of little hamlets that offer convenient incorporation services.
Or just add more districts...
Also 34, and wouldn't even be able to tell you what games I finished back then, let alone the time it took. Except for Link to the Past... I remember being quite happy beating that.
I haven't really used SQLAlchemy in anger since about 2009. I remember it being fine but I can't really say much else about it. That said, I haven't run into any limitations of the Django ORM that have driven me to look at other ones.
Hi HN, We are providing a simple to use service to validate the user email addresses at the web doorway for the businesses. We validate the email addresses for more than just the syntax. The goals are three folds, First, give another chance to the real users if they made a typo mistake with their email. Second, Filters the people from entering spam emails with correct syntax. Last, as business/website owner you will have less fake users to chase and waste the monetary and time resources

The service is free to use for the trial period. Thought has been put into making it simple enough to integrate. Integration does not requires any programming skills. We would really appreciate the feedback from the HN community on how we can improve this and make it more usable.
Sometimes it's impossible to have a conversation without generalization. While my post may have discredited my knowledge of Africa, the continent is a small hobby of mine, and I periodically read and watch movies about it. I'm even considering traveling there if I save enough money. To see and feel how it's like with my own eyes.

The disclaimer wasn't meant to spread magic dust over my post, just to show I realize my knowledge has blank spots.

I'm not looking forward to 54 separate conversations, and that's the the other extreme you're suggesting ? I also read many of Ryszard Kapuściński's books, I know sometimes you can have more than 50 languages on a single street. I also know about de-colonization and how many countries are still abused by the old colonial powers, it's just the form of abuse that changed (like economical exploitation or dumping e-waste).

Okay, I over-emphasized warlords. My fault. I should have said instead that Africa has a potential to have a lot of money, but is highly dysfunctional.

From what I read in Kapuściński's books, the corrupt officials may be small fry but they make exploitation by foreign powers possible. They are often put into power by foreign powers too.

According to Basil Davidson ("Black Mother"), the consequences of slave trade are much more devastating and lasting to this day than is generally thought. For some 300 years societies and kingdoms were rotting from inside and men were turned against each other. Wars were started to get more slaves. He listed many examples (like in the delta of Congo) where Africans fought against Europeans to get them out and stop the slave trade, but it was bloody hard to do. If you refused to trade in slaves, European ships arrived at your neighbors, sold guns to them and your neighbors could raid you. To completely stop it, it would require African kingdoms along the west coast at least to ally and cooperate. That was a hard problem. So another thing they tried was only selling a slave for a musket. Later, armed to the teeth, they could repel Europeans.

Africans were smart enough to realize the importance of seafaring ships. They (for example mani-kongo, the ruler of Congo) tried to buy them and pay for the technology. They were repeatedly refused.

What I'm trying to say is that it's very unfair to repeat the old propaganda of slave traders and say Europeans brought order to Africa. Africans had order and powerful, civilized kingdoms. At first Europeans were just thrown out by strong armies and diseases.
Fun fact: Africa had feudalism, just not on the scale dim Portuguese could comprehend. It had a feudalism of peoples. Tribe A is a vassal of tribe B, tribe C is a vassal of tribe B.

Europeans systematically destroyed Africa using corruption (slave trade). They mostly didn't come and kidnap slaves, they bought them until kingoms were thouroughly rotten and a foothold could be gained. This lasted for 300 years. Don't underestimate the power of 300 year old corruption on society.
I'd heard that speculation too, but do not have any actual knowledge of what Glacier uses. I don't deal with truly cold, offline storage at all.
How does a buyer know that there are no hidden liabilities in your GmbH? Does it come with your personal representations and warranties securing that?
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Not exactly like that, but yeah, the same sort of idea I'm sure would work.
I couldn't read your vignette without seeing a superman logo on the shirt. I'm kicking around ideas like this:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/OePJOQocUAnvzwbt1 (click to zoom out, Google?)
Old Games say they have a version that'll run on Windows 10 [0], but I've got no idea how legal that is, what with copyright age, and companies disappearing.

[0] http://www.old-games.com/download/5142/civil-war-generals-2 ("Easy setup")
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Time taken by Twitter to remove the accidental tweet which got deleted instantly
People often accidentally tweet from someone's account thinking it was their's. How much time does it take for twitter to remove it? Accidental tweets might look like an interesting topic, the doer might suffer some panic attacks!
Never been to CO personally, but friends say if you aren't into outdoor activities/slow lifestyle, it can be dull. A lot of social groups are centered around what you do outside.
Looks good. Guess this is the first library I heard dealing with streaming in Python.
They're smart enough to know your numbers are wrong.
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Purchasing power, more or less.
I drove an SUV from NYC to SFO in April 2011, alone with two dogs. It isn't a particularly bad drive but it's extremely boring.

If the weather is clear, I80 is fine across PA, otherwise I'd take 76 (wider, ploughed more often, better rest areas). 80/90 is fine across OH, IN and IL assuming routine winter weather. 80 is flat across IA and NE, but you may start running into plains winter storms. WY is a steady climb "up" into the Rockies but from what I recall never truly felt mountainous. You hit a bit of curvy winding interstate descending into Salt Lake and then it's flat again (mostly) until you hit the NV/CA state line. When I hit CA in late April the roads were dry but the snowbanks were still quite high on either side of the road.

I hit one major storm in the high plateaus of Wyoming. I ended up pulling over for an hour in a rest area until it blew through.

Assuming you have AWD or 4WD and there are no major winter storms you should be fine. Be advised that CA requires chains in the Sierras (basically Reno to Sacramento) under winter storm conditions.

If you're skilled at winter driving in the Northeast then routine storms should be ok. But pack some emergency gear and rations for yourself and your pet.

If you aren't skilled at winter driving, I'd suggest a longer route through NM, AZ and up I5 or US101 in CA.

And keep in mind, the worst part of driving cross-country isn't your driving, it's the rest of us drivers who are trying to figure out what that notification on our phone was and take our eyes off the road.

Also beware Brooklyn, IA where the state police have a propensity for pulling over Black SUVs with Black tinted windows and East Coast plates. In my cases, the officers seemed genuinely shocked to find a pudgy middle aged guy with two dogs.

If your pet is small enough you might consider getting a roomette on an Amtrak train. Wasn't practical for me.
I think they mean a cross between a bug and a person. Sure wish I lived near some bug people.
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Easier still, do it online in Estonia.
It's not just funding. It's supplying with weapons and bombs and intelligence.
As an avid user of Toutiao, I am super impressed by Toutiao. It is super easy to use and shows the content I am mostly interested in. I use it daily to get information. I am a little bit worried that I would not get broad views if Toutiao only shows articles I am interested in.
Something that you can do is something like we have here in Sweden - we have a district setup with some places for each district that is proportionally distributed.

But that create inefficiencies as that heavily favour some parties. So we have a chunk of undistricted delegates that are given out to even out the overall proportionality. This get you pretty good results as long as the amount of parties stay within reasonable boundaries[].

[] Which they of course haven't - we currently have 8 parties in the Riksdag.
Odd. It's surprising to me that this example runs out of memory. What would be a possible solution?

Admittedly I don't know that much about the inner-workings of git, but off the top of my head, perhaps something with traversing the tree depth-first and releasing resources as you hit the bottom?
That makes sense. I do appreciate that they went to the effort of putting intended use cases on their website, and I wouldn't mind explicitly encountering some of them (I would gladly mine some cryptocurrency to help support video creators I enjoy rather than watching or seeing ads). I just worry that "morally objectionable" and "PR disaster" aren't enough to stop JS miners from being used without the user's consent on sites--to me it feels somewhat comparable to ad tracking behavior.
Is anybody trying to have a healthier relationship with mobiles?
> The precariousness also inhibits the formation of stable IRL (as opposed to chat group based) friend groups.

Also what does this even mean?
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Shorter alternate take: Don't check your NYC metro area street smarts when you get in the car, drive defensively, be prepared for winter storms and possibly getting stuck in the car for a couple of days in a worst case scenario, and you should be fine.

I also found it helpful to have two cell phones on completely different mobile networks (VZ and AT&T) as coverage gets spotty in the rural parts of NE, WY, UT and NV.
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I suppose, you don't eat fruits or uncooked vegetables? Transmission isn't just limited to using dirty water.
Personally, I don't remember all of those experiences, but Aladdin was one that stood out. Mostly because of the crushing disappointment of playing the Genesis version at a friend's house then begging to get the SNES version ... which I'd assumed would be the same.
How does that help if you aren't compiling?
Probably remembers it because he spent so little time on it. If he paid full price for it, that was probably a big disappointment.
What I don't like about this analysis is that it enshrines the notion of political parties. It makes individuals into automata that simply vote for whatever candidate is thrown at them.

The ideal is that candidates can rest on their own merits, with the party mechanic existing to provide support to candidates who nominally align with the party's interests. People vote for candidates, not parties.

Even the reality is that people are not determined by their party affiliation; New York City, for example, has repeatedly elected Republican mayors despite being overwhelmingly Democratic in state and national elections. This has even been used in a derogatory sense, as "Rockefeller Republicans" or "New York Republicans"; people affiliated with the national party but who skew to the preferences of voters in their region.

In your hypothetical state, once you created the districts, then the competition inside that district is between candidates who try to align themselves with that region; people who, for example, can be a "green-republican" to draw voters from both blocks, or just a person who speaks to the needs of voters in that district, regardless of party affiliation.

Using some sort of state-wide rank-preferential or approval system means that we remove a lot of the strategizing on the part of voters, which is a positive, but the strategizing on the part of political parties and individuals seeking office become much more complex, and not in a way that serves to present candidates that appeal to issues confronted by groups of people regardless of their party affiliation. Geography is just a heuristic for this, but not the worst one you could think of.
I'm not sure how interleaved tables help you with multi-tenancy, but I'd be curious to find out.
If, by multi-tenancy, you mean sharing a CRDB cluster between different applications or different instances of the same application, or different organizations all-together (say, in a hosted cluster that 3rd parties get access to), we don't have particular support for any of these. If each client is configurable with a user and a database, you can created different users/databases for each one and set the appropriate permissions. You can even set different placement options for the different databases if you want some in Asia and some in Africa.
When it comes to usage accounting, resource isolation, specific monitoring, there's nothing built-in at the moment.
For #6, are you storing checklists in Evernote as well? Just reading through GTD right now, is this to replace the "Weekly Review" concept in the book so it is automated?

I'm looking to implement a GTD-like system myself, and any automation is helpful.
Thanks for your words and insight. Yes, proportional voting would be great! Your state gets 5 house seats? Let's have priority-voting where a voter picks choices 1-5 for representation. Jane is first choice, then Miyoko, Sofia, Leben, and Pierre. Jane may not get all the "first place" votes but she could get enough to end up in one of the five house seats our state gets.

Reading up on the 14th amendment, it does ensure that every male over 21 is able to vote (assuming they did not lose the right through crime, also a big issue today as a third of our populous is disenfranchised). It does not, however, say anything about how voting for reps is done at the state level, and I wonder if this becomes a States' matter as soon as we part from the 14th amendment. Pardon my gap-riddled knowledge of such important affairs
So now all anyone needs to do is watch your clipboard? I'm not arguing your approach as I use Keepass in the same way, but I also know it'd be pretty straightforward to snarf my creds if you were able to watch my clipboard.
This because kidney stones are composed of oxalate + calcium, and is really hard to avoid calcium, but some people have trouble w/ oxalate. Its present in beans, dark green leaves like spinach, many fruits, etc
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The goal is to erode TF user base. Too little, too late: PyTorch is already very effectively eroding the TF user base.
Some colleagues of mine also did a short feasibility assessment of the original white paper, and came to some similar conclusions. The propulsion system also made some assumptions about compressor performance that seemed too optimistic compared to existing turbomachinery.

That said, I have not followed closely enough to know if the hyperloop startups out there are following the original conception or if it has significantly evolved or not. I hear that they've ditched the compressor altogether, but that's got to have a pretty big impact on expected speeds.
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I clicked on this and saw that there is a man that bears a striking resemblance to Obergruppenführer John Smith from "Man in the High Castle."
read my post again carefully. my point is actually that _no_ non-white american people would be shocked.

i'm not really talking about white people at all, because obviously there are some who would be and wouldn't be shocked at widespread racism by white people.

this is a subtle point that you are missing, which is ironic because you are 25% asian, i imagine you have seen quite a bit of anti-asian racism (it's just a joke bro! don't you love being the butt of jokes? who doesn't love that!) from white people because they have no idea you have asian family.

and i'll just pre-empt your next point: i'm not saying only white poeple can be racist, that's obviously not the case if you've ever been overseas, and anti-white racism also happens a lot in america.

i'll generalize my point for you, so that you may understand:

no person of a minority race would be shocked that the majority race harbors a not-insignificant subpopulation with vehement racist views against other races. if every single majority race were to spend a week as a minority, that would likely dispel any notions they had of the contrary.

^ this works for all races.
Hmm. That definitely seems sketchy. I'll redirect my love elsewhere.
Sure, when you've got an incredibly paranoid sociopath like Stalin, who sees traitors and enemies of the revolution in every shadow, you're going to have serious problems. Xi does not strike me as one. (But I could, of course, be proven wrong.)
I'm not sure why you're so obsessed with Washington DC in particular. If you live there, you probably know much more about it than I do.

But my general interest is how this whole event will play out in the greater scope of the country. I don't believe any US State with more than 1 Representative has an 80/20 split.

Perhaps Washington DC really is an edge case that needs to be thought out more. But I don't think its representative of the problems of Gerrymandering that exist in multiple states right now. (In particular, what this Gill v Whitford Supreme Court case is bringing up in Wisconsin)
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Median house value in Boulder proper is like $900k or something insane. You can still find cheap housing but it likely won't last due to high population growth. If you want to rent, bring a check for the deposit when touring so you can lock it down right away, otherwise you'll lose it.

Other than that, I'm not sure. Everywhere except Colorado Springs is pretty liberal, which not everyone loves. We've also gotten a lot more homeless people since weed was legalized.
It's true. Good luck getting investment if you're not in a Tier 1 city. There are plenty of companies that start in smaller cities/towns that end up moving to NYC/Chicago/LA/SF,etc because investors don't bother considering them if they're not from a big city
Districts are always redrawn every Census, as it has been for hundreds of years.
The 6x investment needed to move from 16bit to 32bit, in the author's estimation and experience, makes me understand the trend toward 8-bit retro games a little better. Even if no modern "8-bit" games are that in anything but name and some graphics only.

I've been hoping in vain for a couple years that the trend toward faux "8-bit" would pass as a fad, but it seems to really have become a niche with staying power.

Is there something I'm missing that's driving this trend? Or am I alone in preferring line art or other styles over "8-bit" graphics?
Agreed, not sure what this gives over redux-promise-middleware, which lets you write things like:

function myAction () {
return {
type: 'MY_ACTION',
payload: someApiCall(),
}
}

And that will dispatch `MY_ACTION_PENDING`, then `MY_ACTION_FULFILLED` or `MY_ACTION_REJECTED`. Soon you'll be able to write your payload as an `async function`:

function myAction () {
return {
type: 'MY_ACTION',
async payload (dispatch) {
const apiResult = await someApiCall()

dispatch(anotherActionCauseWhyNot(apiResult))

return apiResult
}
}
}

I'm sure there's more to redux-saga, but this article doesn't do a great job of presenting that.
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Why would atmospheric pressure be lower underground?
I have never bought one but I liked the idea behind this company. Steelframe furniture that bolts together, so its durable yet easy to move.

Not quite like building your own wood furniture but I would be more keen to buy this then a $1k+ sofa that is impossible to move and will not last that long.

Edit: https://www.campaignliving.com/products/the-sofa?variant=389...
Ranked choice ballots! Yes, that is a winning term.
This entire article hinges on the "Bloomberg Brain Concentration Index", which does not seem to be defined.