skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minor correction: they started with VP8 and a PR campaign trying to spin it as better than H.264 but it took VP9 to actually deliver better results than H.264. Both VP9 and H.265 offer big improvements but with a corresponding jump in processor requirements.

And, yes, it was not Google's finest hour, especially when they strung Mozilla promising to disable H.264 in Chrome but never actually shipping it (remember https://brendaneich.com/2012/03/video-mobile-and-the-open-we...).
Revue is awesome! Thanks for making it.
And yet... make it plaid and put a belt and sporran on it... you've got a kilt, which is very masculine and likely more accepted (esp at formal events).

There's also the utilikilt...
But...FOMO...
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Like Bitcoin, this type of technology will be used for good and bad. How can we use this to our advantage?
I did see Vaunt! For someone who already wears prescription lenses, that looks fantastic. (And the camera was never a key perk of my Glass unit to me.) The biggest thing right now for me, is what software I can run on it, and how much control I have over that software.

I've been fiddling with a Vufine, which I can connect to pretty much any HDMI feed. Very cool, though it's a fair bit larger and bulkier than the state of the art.
What on earth, light by definition is the quantifiable (quanta) of energy levels between electron orbital states. This is such a nonsensical title, as the electron would be changing electron states based off the energy level of the laser - of course! Any suggestions on what the title should be changed to?
...they have, if you believe this (fairly convincing!) set of evidence showing perfect Andreev Reflection (robust to changes in gate potential), which should only be possible (in a way robust to changes in gate potential) in the presence of Majorana states (i.e. a type of non-abelian anyon):
https://quantumfrontiers.com/2017/11/21/majorana-update/
NYT coverage of the crypto-crime revolution and the fentanyl overdose revolution
Feb 6, 2018 front page article - print title: "A Rush To Track Digital Villainy - Crimes Unseen as Police Use Outdated Tools," but the online title: "An 'Iceberg' of Unseen Crimes: Many Cyber Offenses Go Unreported" -

http://archive.is/PaV1T

Then, from Jan 24, 2018 -

Online Sales of Illegal Opioids from China Surge in U.S. - Nearly $800 million worth of fentanyl pills were illegally sold to online customers in the United States over two years by Chinese distributors

http://archive.is/kVKHM

And one of the most-read articles right now, from Feb 5, 2018:

As Bitcoin Bubble Loses Air, Frauds and Flaws Rise to Surface

https://archive.is/s6U9S

And lastly, see the chart here, showing the increase in fatal overdoses:

http://archive.is/6cLWU
Here is an example. I dated a guy, divorced two daughters 4 & 6 and he wanted to get a motorcycle. As if anything could be comparably important to family or children for that matter because it can't, he was the CEO and founder of a tech startups (so to this point in the companies development, from my limited perspective though he shared a great deal with me about the business, we not one in which there would be a stable replacement for him and thus the company and 400 people's and their families that relied on this company for jobs) I was only dating him for four months but I told him he was being genuinely selfish for entertaining the idea of buying a motorcycle and his ego was getting the way of his priorities.

I never tried to control him or any part of his life, but I made it clear that I would not date him if he got a Ducati with two young daughters and I deemed it a selfish life decision. Needless to say, this ego bled into other areas of his life and our relationship that made it intolerable to date him.

I would imagine that this tenant relies somewhat on being in a place of responsibility where you have made it so that others people's well being relies on you somehow, and your lack of existence/leadership/consequences of your bad decisions affect other people than just yourself.
How many of those papers are actually necessary, or move the field forward, and how many are "publish or perish" noise?
Do you believe that the will of the Chinese Government is representative of the will of the Chinese citizenry?
This is not about the company so much as the street cred of having worked for them
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> trying to devalue their work by calling it games and toys.

I'm sorry; that's not what I meant to do. I only meant that I know it's not reasonable to expect developers of games and other software that's just for fun to go out of their way to implement accessibility. But for any software that might be used in a job, for education, for interacting with a company or government agency, or even for communication in general, accessibility is really important. I know a blind guy who almost lost his job because he couldn't use a specific piece of inaccessible software; he only kept his job because the company found something entirely different for him to do. And yes, a lot of important software is not accessible. We need to change that.

About AT-SPI and D-Bus, could you implement AT-SPI support as a plugin, so it's there for those who need it but doesn't add D-BUS as a hard dependency? That's what Qt does.
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> what's so different about mounting it on a police officer's head?

I'm not even mad at the implementation in general, the article implies that the officer first identifies a suspicious person and then engages the technology to make an identification. However, it's probably due to the fact that China is a country where your religion can get you arrested or kidnapped by the state.. so, it's still unsettling.
The free market already has one solution for this, imperfect as it may be. If an individual is the victim of criminal discrimination, they can seek legal council and determine if the case is prosecutable. I understand that this may not be economically viable for many; perhaps a collective focus on helping struggling individuals would help bolster support.

A one-size-fits-all approach to equalising the playing field is a fool's errand, as it comes with massive costs both seen and unseen. Beyond the constitutionally-enforced right to not be criminally discriminated against, the remaining standards that lead to ever-improving equality-of-opportunity ought to be enforced socially.
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It's not though; it's really a misconception. It's much more traceable than cash. Monero would be what a criminal would use.
This is how you answer an already answered question
The black-throated wind keeps on pouring in.
And it speaks of a life that passes like dew.
It's forced me to see that you've done better by me,
Better by me than I've done by you.

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The problem is that no one (myself included) wants to do the work for the measurement. You need to retime the machine in front of you, and once you do, you don't really have any need to make up the gauge... Also, this is probably going to need to be more accurate than I understand 3D printing to generally be. I probably don't need to use my set of Starrett Grade A gauge blocks, but I probably want more accurate than your average ruler.
"Grave mistake" is a hyperbolic criticism, considering your only arguments for calisthenics revolve around strength based on personal anecdotal evidence, and a personal, subjective view of aesthetics.

I've tried calisthenics and lacks in many areas. For starters, it woefully neglects the legs. Pistol squats and bridges are not nearly as taxing as barbell squats and deadlifts, though bridges have the added benefit of working flexibility. Push ups and pull ups quickly reach a plateau with 1 arm variations, and at that point you're no longer doing calisthenic movements but training like a gymnast.

Calisthenics seem to be most effective at building strength for the core (pikes, leg raises, planks) and the shoulders (if you have the coordination to do hand stand push ups).

Barbell training should not be avoided. I've also had serious injuries, such as a broken humerus as a child, where rotator cuff and deltoid muscles atrophied to an extreme level; and those joints are now stronger than ever because I weight trained in specific movement patterns that are difficult to replicate with calisthenics. And I say this as someone who has also been lifting weights for over a decade and has competed in both powerlifting and bodybuilding.
Eh, this seems to me to be in the vein of other articles that tend to fetishize cultures other than ours. As a New Yorker, I've heard constantly about how we're all aggressive, rude, direct, confrontational, etc. While, like most stereotypes, there might be a sliver of truth, my experience has been quite different. People will keep to themselves, avoid confrontation (even moving to a different subway car if they're bothered by something); it's more that less is said, such as callously shoving past someone on a crowded sidewalk, or being passive-aggressive. I know articles like these appeal to the HN crowd since they're techies who are deficient in social skills, and crusade against "PC culture" and other niceties. But in real life, being overly direct will quickly get you labeled as unpleasant. Small talk and the like actually do have a purpose.
I feel like you're misrepresenting things on both counts.

About (1) I would say that internationalism in the old socialism is not AT ALL about open borders. Rather it is about causing socialist revolutions within every country. The movement should cross borders, not people and certainly not goods. In fact, I believe they are against international trade except where absolutely necessary.

About (2) I can only say that I have. It has come to the point that you cannot say in leftist company even basic things like "illegal immigrants should not be allowed to remain". Talking about "immigration must be limited strictly to below the point where it destroys the labour market" is likely to get you banned. Is your experience different ?
What's interesting about topological quantum computing is that these Majorana pairs are resistant to disturbances for the same reason that Cooper pairs are in superconductors.
My rights begin where someone else's rights end. Freedom is not "free to do whatever you want".
Is that what this article is about? I read this article as being about a quantum phenomenon where the photon beam absorbed the momentum from an electron beam in a manner quite different from how they would interact at lower intensities.
Ahhh, that's the dream. I just let a friend use my mill to bore out and sleeve the cylinders in the brake calipers for his vintage Corvette rebuild.

On a side note, that's the sort of thing you generally don't know about a neighbor -- that they have a complete machine shop in their basement. I wonder occasionally what miraculous things people I don't know well do in their leisure time.
Yes and no.

By that I mean, I understand they don't have a political say. They don't get to "vote on the issues" like others might [the party makes those decisions]. At the same time, I would tend to think if you put the question to your Chinese on the street over there they will favor this technology (and its use) with a few conscientious objectors who will be few and far between.
https://reddit.com/r/nofap is a community dedicated for (2).
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Not if you deploy your code to environments you don’t fully control.
Ok, not even even about electrons in orbit. First couple paragraphs mention an electron beam.
Ooh hockey!

Curation with commentary can be very valuable. That's a lot of what Bill Bishop does with Sinocism (https://nb.sinocism.com/)

If you can do a roundup that lets people stay up to date in a way they find valuable, it could definitely be a good idea. I'd encourage you to try it as a free newsletter on Substack and see if you can get people reading it regulary!
Forgot something:

One benefit with marking tasks with a @@. I move the current project I'm working in wip.md to the top, so if I do a search from the top for @@, the first hit will be the task I am currently working on. I wrote a plugin in https://getbitbar.com to put that first (and thus current task) in my menubar. I get distracted easily.. so every bit helps :)

I have another BitBar plugin that scans my wip.md file and run the same script (which I run end of the day) to compute totals and then put it in my menu bar. Since I have something like this:

11:10 PM - 11:21 PM Mimic
12:10 PM

It can detect the start time of my current task or how long since I haven't worked and display them in green or red in the menu bar.
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Nothing to tell now / let the words be yours / I am done with mine.

A champion of freedom. RIP.
I personally do not believe the tech is as `high-tech` they say as it is. Its not easy to get someone's bio information just from a small camera. Edit: Think some of this might be BS fluff stuff.

More importantly, I do not think it would help to catch people that much other than further police's assumptions as to who is a criminal (if all they have is name, gender, address, ethnicity). Even putting that concern to the side, think about how many people a foot solder can "scan" on a crowded train station.
Ok. It has a lot of value. A lot is finite. Negative inf is still overpowering in that equation. That's the point OP made that you seem to be trying very hard to avoid addressing.
Thanks, love this. We think Ben Thompson is right about a lot of stuff, and he is definitely a big inspiration.
It sounds like you didn’t use gymnastic rings.

I agree it doesn’t target the legs as much, and that’s one area where weightlifting helps, but unless you are doing the most complicated version of many calisthenics exercises (i.e. human flags, v-sit, iron crosses, dragon flags...) then you are not quite at the plateau.

It’s easy to neglect other things with barbell training. You need to train your flexibility, you need to train under instability, you need to strengthen connective tissues. Also you need to work straight arm strength and straight leg strength, not just bent, and they are not interchangeable.
Thanks. Very emotional read.
+1 I bought a couple of Uniqlo active t-shirts. Man, are they good despite being cheap at 20$ a pop. Wear them for running, office or even under a blazer. Super convenient. Only downside - it's made of polyester, feels great on the skin but it isn't a natural fabric.
What company do the police get to tap my computer? That's not going to work well. Who do they get to tap my Amazon home assistant? Amazon!
I'm sure some people wear clothing to signal status, but that shouldn't be your primary reason for choosing one article of clothing over another. A man wearing pants and a button-up shirt looks objectively more appealing than a man in a t-shirt and shorts. Suits and business casual clothing are designed to accentuate the physical features of the person wearing them. The way the "V" of a button-up shirt opens up at the top - this frames the face and draws attention to it. A sport coat can broaden the shoulders and thin the waist. When a properly fitting suit or business casual outfit comes together in the right way, it makes the wearer look pleasing, not distracting, and not like they're trying to make some status statement. They just look nice.
>What interventions can be made to reduce this pay gap?

It would actually be pretty simple to eliminate this pay gap. All we would need to do is make it illegal to base the amount you pay someone on things like how much you actually valued their service.
Should have stopped 1/3rd of the way into the transcript. Thanks for sharing.
> I mean, doesn't London already have cameras at every street corner for instance ?

I'm concerned about things like these in the UK:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016#...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Economy_Act_2017#React...
Your question is too simple to have a correct answer.

You can represent any unit vector in a vector space with 2^n basis elements using only n qubits.

Constructing an arbitrary vector might not be more efficient than doing it on a classical computer, but constructing certain vectors that would probably be very large and/or unwieldy on a classical computer is possible. For example, it’s easy to represent any single standard basis vector in a vector space with size 2^64 on a classical computer; just use a list of (64-bit word to describe which basis vector you’re talking about and a weight). Now go ahead and try to use that same representation for a Fourier transform, and you’re out of luck. But this is no problem on a quantum computer. You just end up with a 64-qubit system that has a non-zero value for all of those 2^64 basis states (using only 64 qubits). You can also construct the circuit required to do the Fourier transform with ~64log(64) gates.

So for this problem, there’s definitely a space advantage. The trouble is that most of these advantages don’t generalize in any obvious way. Maybe there’s even a representation on classical computers that’s equally efficient and we just haven’t found it yet.

And as you mention below, this isn’t useful for arbitrary linear operations (many of them seem to be just as expensive on a quantum computer as on a classical computer) but there are certain known-to-be-useful linear operations that are extremely cheap to represent compared to what we know how to do on a classical computer.
If you want to learn more about the basics of strength training and eating healthy with more protein, you should watch this lecture from a doctor and strength coach who would agree with the ask from this article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tsTwcOb_0k
Most cameras in the U.K. are privately owned and operated with no central system.
Leading the way in totalitarianism! One thing I'm glad the West is not a leader in...

Just a http call away from "enemy of the state".
Would you accept someone who has already has a FT job and wants to make more $ by doing remote on the side?
Patagonia has some good t-shirts. They are just plain and boring, but are of great quality.

http://www.patagonia.com/product/mens-capilene-daily-long-sl...
All of these seem sensible except "Avoid the pursuit of happiness. Seek to define your mission and pursue that."

"Your mission" is simply a placeholder for what you believe will make you happy. It's very subject to change. I'd argue that a healthy respect for what makes you happy can help you avoid a mission that you'll later regret.
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One thing I've always wondered with patent grants in open source: it seems to say only that it's okay to use this library, nor necessarily to implement the patented algorithm yourself.

Probably open sourcing and including a patent grant signal that the owner is benevolent and isn't likely to sue you for re-implementing their algorithm, but I don't think that's spelled out anywhere.
TFA: "The app brings up the (scanned person's) vital
information, including name, ethnicity, gender and address (..), the address of the hotel where they are staying and information related to their internet usage."

Wow. So just by looking at you, they can see how often you visit Hacker News - or what else.

Scary as.
Is Google Analytics Compliant with GDPR?
When you're doing the financial paperwork --your implication is right though. At that point they are not technically "salespeople" but closers who are trying to get you to buy additional things.
Files don't overwrite each other the operation is forced. All of the OSs I've used will prompt you before overwriting.

I also like when an IDE detects and provides a warning when I have two variables with the same letters better different capitalization.

Different case is often a bug.
Also class 2A carcinogens are simply a class of things that probably increases your chance of cancer. That doesn't mean it gives you a huge chance of cancer most of the time the increased risk is trivial.

To give some context red meat is on the same list as:

Hairdresser or barber (occupational exposure as a)

Shift work that involves circadian disruption

Very hot beverages (more than 65℃)

High-temperature frying, emissions from

Household combustion of biomass fuel (primarily wood), indoor emissions from

Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IARC_Group_2A_carcinog...
In India, there's this brand called Beevee that makes some decent cargo pants, that lasts for around 6 months.

My relatives from USA got me cargos that was made by a brand called "Blue Rag", which I liked so much that I've been using for more than a year now. Next to perfect!

When I was 14, I'd bought a cargo from UCB, which was my 1st cargo pants, & I'd liked it a lot. I doubt if they make it anymore.

From which country are you?
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I wondered the same thing, but then acknowledged that adds a first step of formatting the disk / re-installing.
Oh i see, sorry about the misunderstanding then.

> About AT-SPI and D-Bus, could you implement AT-SPI support as a plugin, so it's there for those who need it but doesn't add D-BUS as a hard dependency? That's what Qt does.

I'll need to look into it, if i go into that route i'll most likely make it an optional build-time feature that is enabled by default if the relevant header files are found and try to load it dynamically instead of making it a plugin (the toolkit can be compiled as a static library to create self-contained executables). This is also what i'm doing with OpenGL support that may not always exist - the toolkit and application work, it just disables the OpenGL stuff.

But this is something i'll check in the future, at the moment the toolkit is barely usable even by people with perfect sight :-P.
Yeah also people have other things to spend money on now. Young people my age invest in fashion but also invest in experiences and food. The cost of clothing is going down as well so it's easier to acquire a fashionable wardrobe for cheap now and use the remainder on food experiences etc as far as free cash flow goes to spend on things outside of the required.

Also the internet, I can now even though it's freezing in NY, compare prices for a goosedown North face jacket from 5 different places and save $40 or so before I order one online. Competition drives price down. Clothing like so many other retail genres, is just apart of the retailpocolypse.
> You still have to buy crypto with real money

False. You can mine it, you can receive it for free from someone else, and you can exchange goods/services for it.
This applies not just to clothes, but shoes as well. Buy a good pair of shoes and they will last you a lifetime. 300$ for a pair of Allen Edmonds seems like a lot but they'll last for 3 years of daily wear at the very least, and then they can be resoled.
Do foreigners have to give biometric information such as finger prints, facial data to the Chinese airport authorities when they visit China? Anyone?