skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A cereal box face is still two triangles (or a quad). It's simple geometry, but still geometry. If you can do two triangles, you could do 12. If you kept it simple, you could get away with image planes and occlusion masks, I guess.

I'm guessing this would dovetail nicely with up-converting 2-D movies to work with VR rigs. If you can reconstruct a scene well enough to fake some depth, it wouldn't be difficult to insert extra models into it.

The dystopic endgame would be to automatically generate the models from the 2-D video and randomly fill some of the volumes that don't interfere with the existing scene with advertising models.
Out of the major, popular sports, racquet sports (tennis, badminton, table tennis) and golf are the only ones that don't carry significant risk of horrific injuries (head injury or compound fractures). Most contact sports and non-contact sports using hard balls (e.g. baseball, cricket) have some amount of risk, and removing the risk factors would change those sports fundamentally. Strength and power are significant factors in even highly technical contact sports such as soccer or basketball - reducing them would probably reduce the appeal of those sports in my opinion.
I've developed quota systems. It's not that dire. Under performers receive coaching.

"Regression to the mean" occurs when there are no incentives for over-performers.

Lazy management will simply raise quota without assessing downside risk (higher turnover, more injury, more sick days).

Good management will constantly adjust a balanced quota using a gaussian distribution.
Unfortunately (or fortunately) I don't live in the countries where this happens, however I only eat meat maybe once or twice a week anymore, rest is vegetarian or fish.

Not that our (Norwegian) farmed fish industry is much better.

In any case, this has a negative impact on the whole world if a new bacteria that is resistant grows from these farms, that's why I was suggesting the big guns.
Which in turn reminds me of Richard Feynman describing the Mayan Calendar in his famous lectures on quantum mechanics, as an example of how the Mayans understood how the planets moved by looking, that they even figured out a number of patterns and predictions, but that they still did not know why the planets moved as they did, his point being that current understanding of quantum mechanics is very similar to this[0].

At the end, he tangentially mentions that we only know about this calendar because it is described in one of the three surviving books of their culture, out of thousands[1]

> "Just imagine our civilization reduced to three books, just the particular ones left by accident, which ones... So eh.. anyway, I get off the subject..."

The genocide of Native Americans is of course horrible by itself, but somehow this remark made me realize what "genocide" means beyond people being killed en masse. So much culture and knowledge was lost.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdZMXWmlp9g&t=25m28s

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdZMXWmlp9g&t=32m26s
If the problem is government meddling then we would expect those things to be much more expensive in other OECD countries, where the government has a much larger role and the system is much farther from a "free market" than the US. And yet that is not the case.
Pretty sure `???` on line 2 is `KWH` or kilowatt-hours
I was under the impression that the issue stems from sub-concussive blows which occur every snap between offensive and defensive lines as they rush toward each other. Otherwise, it wouldn't make sense for CTE to appear in defensive/offensive linemen, as they are rarely the ones taking/making big hits, but rather taking/making small hits far more frequently throughout a career, even just a game.
That's nothing. Look at the prices for hospitalization.
Is this comment directed at me? I did provide a counter argument, and I didn't downvote or flag anyone.
My complaint is that it should be self evident that we're over using the planet's resources, and that we should take steps to reduce that.

But people don't care, or are even actively working against it. Because it doesn't inconvenience them right here, right now.

When it does, it'll be too late.
People already care very-little about this problem enough to convince their governments to do something about it. That applies to the Indian populace, as well as other countries that aren't currently pressuring/sanctioning/bombing India to prevent a biological disaster (so we're told).

So I don't really see how your criticism against Libertarianism applies here because governments are letting it happen right now. It's only you, and what appears to be a minority of individuals, that cares about it. If it were a majority, then Democracy would be fixing it right now, right?

And, to answer your actual question: I can't answer it for every single person out there. That's how non-government solutions look like. Each individual voting, acting and caring about each specific problem in his or her own way. Libertarianism is the ultimate form of Democracy in that regard.
Here is a recent example in the Canadian news.[1] Two friends, one in Canada, one is the US. The one in the US got the latest cancer treatment and is in remission. The one in Canada is stuck with old drugs because the gov't hasn't decided whether to pay for the new drug.

"It's crazy that I live in Canada, but now I'm looking at having to sell my house for coverage of my medication."

People act like a single payer system is a panacea for all the US's problems, but there are also trade offs involved.

[1]http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/a-tale-of-2-f...
Posting here rather than the blog because I don't have a google account:

What about adding sshd to the minimal install? If the purpose of this is minimal installs of containers and cloud servers and such, that seems like quite an omission.
The Book of Mormon never claims that everyone died in the Americas at AD ~400. Nor does it claim that its account of the peoples there is comprehensive. In fact, it says the opposite: that splinter groups settled elsewhere, that there were other bands of people in the land, and that after the destruction of the Nephites, the millions of remaining Lamanites continued to sprawl over the land.
> I'm not very familiar with Telegram, but I think the issue here is that by default on a fresh install there are public channels that could contain "obscene content".

Correct. Telegram has public channels and groups, many of which are used to distribute porn. Earlier versions of Telegram for iOS prevented users from joining (and possibly even viewing?) these channels -- this feature was inadvertently lost in the "Telegram X" rewrite, which led to Apple's temporary removal of the app.
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> Providing cost effective healthcare is the best way to treat more people.

*Providing free healthcare is the best way to treat more people.

> If you make it more expensive, people will get less service

All countries with free healthcare also have way tighter regulation on the pharma/medical industry than say, the US, so they can't just go and rise the price of medications whenever they want.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying we should throw money by the windows and not count what we are paying. We should definitely try to optimize the healthcare system so it costs as little as possible, but having a non-profitable healthcare system is not the end of the world, and is definitely better than what is currently in place in the US.
Note that this only establishes an no-arbitrage ceiling on BTC valuation, not a target or a floor.

Hand-knitting a sweater takes about 30 hours. So if you can readily hire people to knit at $20/hour and sell the sweater for over $600, an arbitrage opportunity exists and we should expect prices to fall as new knitter-hirers appear to reap the free money.

But this does not imply that the price of hand-knit sweaters must always be at, or even near, $600. In fact, with a readily-available cheaper substitute that most people find acceptable, the price can be arbitrarily low. If the demand for hand-knit sweaters at $600 doesn't exist, then the market can simply evaporate.
Swedes did not agree, hence losing the following election.

State can of course buy stock. State owned companies can work just fine.

But there is a difference in intent. Intent here was union controlled ownership of all major companies. Creator of idea explicitly quoted Marx.

It think also we got bit sidetracked in this discussion with the word buy that I misused, it was not buying at the stock market, it was "buying" with legislation, exchanging profits for stock.
Player positions with more high speed impacts aren't necessarily linked to greater lifetime CTE risks because they might have fewer total impacts during their career. Linemen might even be worse off with many more "lesser" impacts. The big high speed hits from a safety draw attention, but they're pretty infrequent. A lineman is pretty much guaranteed a consistent head impact every play.

https://www.inverse.com/article/37934-nfl-funded-study-brain...
My point was not that we need to build something, but that if we would need to build it , we build it in the same locations.
I guess I'll just have to study up on the tech. IIRC there was a fairly quick LIDAR demo put on by a team at MIT that scanned the campus and surrounding areas in a relatively brief amount of time using a drone, I think.

My ignorance on the subject of LIDAR has me wondering why we can't use a faster traveling vehicle, or would it be possible to do perform scans with something like a fleet of balloons that stream the data back vs one static device.
I imagine that for the kind of person who does not have health insurance $100 is a pretty substantial out-of-pocket expense.
Depends on what you do with the 'saved' medication.

If you get 5 day subscription stop on day 3, then take the rest next week that's bad.
> Setting up single-payer in California would end up being unnaturally more expensive because of the tradeoff with some federal benefits.

How so? Are you just referring to the overlap with Medicaid (a state benefit with federal standards) and Medicare? You'd need to get federal permission to do it, but you could conceivably formally do it by expanding Medi-Cal (the states Medicaid program) to cover the entire population, with those not eligible federally being an optional state-funded population (California already does that with some populations, but obviously not as broadly) and simultaneously make it (or a carve out within it) a Medicare Managed Care Plan (there are, again, Medi-Cal/Medicare joint managed care plans in the state already.) There'd be some administrstive and compliance costs for this, and some coverage and other mandated limiting (but not eliminating) flexibility particularly on the Medicare side.

The Administration’s plan to block-grant Medicaid would, while it's likely to be horrible for CA financially in any case, both reduce the administrative burden and federal involvement here, and reduce the marginal cost of a single payer system.

> Also, in the current national political environment, there is very little chance that if implementation of such a plan were to actually go forward, that the federal government wouldn't start coming up with punitive measures (because fuck those rich elitist Hollywood liberals).

That's a valid concern, though even the pretense of a facially-neutrsl policy reason may be hard to come up with. OTOH, that assumes the political composition of the present federal government, with undivided Republican control, survived long enough to effect any single-payer program.
You could probably get an appointment with an NP or something.
I was expecting the “banana trick” to be the case where dropping the leading 9 from the item code will ring up organic produce as the cheaper regular version (9nnnn vs nnnn).
Internet is turning into giant algorithmic propaganda and dopamine dripping machine.

Small online communities are thriving in quality but all the business models are gearing on communities becoming huge and exploitable with a content for the average. I.e small communities on reddit have high quality content when they are small and they start looking all the same as they grow, attracting trolls, propaganda and disguised advertising by power users.

-so we have content quality issues due to misalignment of incentives of consumers, creators and gatekeepers.

Here is the thing: Other countries will follow China's model and the current internet giants like Facebook and Google will lose their status of global giants. Even USA has strong anti-globalist movement and a president who is preaching it.

-so we have political landslide towards geographic compartmentalisation.

Bitcoin and other blockchain projects are reaction to the current direction of the internet. Transfer of value, distribution of value and guaranteeing identity are the pillars of the movement.

In my opinion, investing in bitcoin or altcoins with reasonable projects is a better long-term investment than investing in Facebook or Google.
To me, fears of overpopulation have less to do with how much of the earth serves as living space, but how much human activity currently impacts nearly every corner of the planet. I think it's plausible that we can lessen human impact without actually decreasing population. Not sure it's likely, though.
Looks to me like the Swedish people did, in fact, come to the conclusion their socialist policy didn't work and reversed it via the normal political process. According to the wiki, the Social Democrats retook power three years later and didn't attempt to reintroduce it.

That looks to me like pretty compelling historical evidence against the hypothesis that socialist experiments must necessarily slide down the slippery slope to full-on communism.
> Using other people's visage without their permission is gross. It's immoral and unethical.

This seems a bit extreme to me. In my view, the line is crossed when it’s used for fraud, i.e. misrepresenting the truth (for whatever purpose).

Face-swapping Daniel Craig’s face onto my body, and showing it to my friends, is neither immoral nor unethical — it’s actually kind of funny.
A discussion happening 3 years ago in 2015 shouldn't prevent a new discussion today. A few weeks ago, perhaps. But not 3 years ago.
I agree with you.

- Use uBlock Origin when browsing the interwebs

- Use GoAccess instead of Google Analytics

- Use the incognito/private tab
good theory!
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Leading a hit with the head, even wrapped in a helmet, is violently concussive. Rugby is awesome, as is Aussie rules football. [I'm American born]
Today it's being used to swap faces; arguably you can do that with PS, but this tech goes way beyond a simple still-image face swap.

The swap is a "reconstruction" of the face at multiple different angles, taking on the characteristics of the original facial movements, tilt of the head, etc. In a video - way beyond what would be easily possible using PS or other "manual technology".

But today - it's just a face. However, nothing says that an entire person's body couldn't be swapped in the future. Nor that the system couldn't "dream" new scenarios for the background, etc.

Or that it could be done real-time, with full-on voicing in the other person's voice, etc - looking, doing, and saying things they never said - perhaps even in a place they've never been.

In the future, you could easily take someone else's entire person, and have them do jumping jacks in your living room while singing Jingle Bells - and it would likely look like an original video.

The only reason it's not being done now is the amount of processing power that would be needed to do it; gobs more than what most people can afford (along with the time and power needs - just note that for some of those facial swaps it takes hours of processing on a decent system for just a few seconds of video).

I'm not saying this tech is evil or should be banned, however; I think the tech is very neat and can open up some exciting possibilities for future products and uses. To that end, it's exactly like Adobe Photoshop, which is why it should be explored and played with, rather than banned.
Well, I live in the UK (am American), had stage IIIb melanoma last year, and will never be able to say enough how happy I was with my treatment. Granted, I was lucky - it hadn't metastasized and Norfolk has the best in terms of skin cancer related everything. It can be a bit postcode lottery, I know, and if you have any sort of complicated or extensive cancer, I can see there might be some issues with regard to treatment options - for the individual, a no holds barred any cure at all grasping at straws attitude is expected, but is it good policy to indulge such people on the public dime?

No, it isn't. The recent case over the terminally ill baby at Great Ormond was appalling - those parents, while understandably upset, were little more than pawns for the right-to-lifers from the US. That was a total fiasco that could have been avoided. An attitude of every-last-measure-possible-to-save-a-life is disrespectful to life.

So your blanket condemnation is unfair. There are a lot of factors involved in trying to chart the --wisest-- course about what to do with the sick and infirm and the US is completely screwed up.

I'm also diabetic and have saved at least $60k over the years due to that being subsidized. In return, the UK gets my economic output - I read recently insulin in the US has gone from about $20 a bottle (when I left) to over $200 (for brand name stuff). I am smart enough to understand how to manage things with 'generic' insulin, unlike those who think they must buy exactly what the doctor prescribes, but $200 for a bottle is appalling and there have been a few stories about people dying due to rationing their insulin and etc.

And I've had a few minor operations as well that have saved me a good $50k or so - before I moved, I was an contractor and I couldn't get health insurance by myself thanks to the diabetes unless I worked for a large enough company / could be absorbed into a pool without the insurance company considering me a problem. Living in CA let me get onto a state run plan for people like me that was a bit pricey (but my only option) - if I'd lived almost anywhere else, I would not have had insurance. I moved before ObamaCare, but I wasn't that impressed with what I read - Obama .. well, don't get me started. Nor on HMOs.

And now Trump et al have ripped everything to shreds. It is articles like this that make me so glad I moved. The NHS has its problems, but it sure as heck isn't the US and whatever "extra" taxes I might pay for socialized medicine is worth it.
OLGA was heaven. I still have the print-outs of Metallica tabs I made all those years ago. My first experience of bitterly hating the 'thorities... Iirc there was a torrent which had hundreds of thousands of tabs saved in plaintext from OLGA.
It looks like the average 4-year degree is worth less than the average NFL earnings - the two figures I found Googling were $2.1M for lifetime earnings from a 4-year degree, and $4M for career earnings for an NFL player.

On the other hand, engineering degrees tended to hover around $4M for average lifetime earnings, and some engineering fields (petroleum engineer, SV software engineer) averaged ~$6.5M in lifetime earnings.
Cognitive training helps regain a younger-working brain
> The opaqueness with which care is paid means that consumers receiving care have little incentive to shop around for prices, quality, value, etc., which means providers can basically charge whatever...

This opaqueness problem can never be completely solved for healthcare at the consumer level. A significant fraction of healthcare consumption occurs in urgent or outright emergency settings where "shopping around" cannot reasonably occur.
I'd be terribly interested in a link to the paper you mentioned. I've never seen anything credible which indicated real estate was as profitable as equities over time (but I've been focused on the United States).

I'm not sure how or why Case-Shiller would involve rent or imputed rent. Are you thinking more of commercial real estate?
Should add your time to the tally as well.
The boat is a fleet and they are currently docked.
Or when you say, "Alexa, order me a Chromecast" and it ships you a firestick instead.
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> It's definitely a problem that pricing is opaque and disconnected, but have you considered that maybe healthcare isn't a good candidate for a market solution?

Do you really think all healthcare - supplements, eye drops, family doctor visits, LASIK eye surgery - should be centrally controlled instead of using free market principles?

That's quite a claim to make. Cutting the entire healthcare industry off from the free market would only happen through government force.
I was surprised by your comment on soccer, but it does seem concerning: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/nov/01/footba... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088761770...
For non-emergency services they require payment upfront if you don't have insurance.
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The last thing I want to hear is one of computing history's most harmful patent holders complaining about a lack of competition.
>This issue is not prevalent at all in Rugby

Concussions are the most common injury in the England professional rugby league so I would be surprised if Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is not an issue. CTE injuries in American Football are more common because because defensive players (primarily) use their helmet as projectiles when making tackles either intentionally or by accident.
I think it's on a right track to be quite something, which is why I wanted to try it out & mention that on HN.

It's interesting to note that on the "classic" Ruby, there is work ongoing in 2.6 to accelerate it quite a bit (MJIT). The current PR for this is there:

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/1782

Even before that, Ruby is getting faster, you'll get running times from 2.0.0 to 2.5.0 for a little benchmark I made here:

https://github.com/thbar/kiba-ruby-benchmarks
Limits and timeouts were added to Kestrel in 2.0 that enable it to be supported for use as an Internet facing web server (we made that announcement then too). Reverse proxies are still advised for defense in depth of course.
Develop a chronic illness and you will quickly lose faith in modern medicine.

Especially if you have good insurance, you'll get to experience getting passed around from specialist to specialist who will take great joy in milking you and your insurance company for unnecessary and pointless tests.
Uhm, they would cheer even if they knew. Most people know boxers get brain damage, nobody gives a shit.
Anecdotal evidence from someone who's been through some of the worst digestive issues possible (stops in involuntary peristalsis/motility, food not digesting) due to "bad" bacteria being continuously introduced from infection elsewhere: yogurt.

Specifically kefir/filmjölk. Buy a bottle, take a serving in the morning, and at night if you like/can afford.

I've turned my life around. Friends have stopped proton pump inhibitors/antacids like Prilosec/Omeprezole, etc, because of this simple lifestyle switch (one serving per day). I take many more.
I’m Geneva that costs a few million dollars. Not much by billionaire standards but not cheap either.
And if you have a set of well-defined roles, why not create tags for them, and replace all the divs? Seems a lot simpler.
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