skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Model-View-Controller (Massive-View-Controller) pattern is a basic concept. You have usually a huge UIViewController subclass that controls all the views and collects every model that needed to be displayed for the end user. For example you call an API endpoint using URLSession or Alamofire from the controller, do the response data validation and formatting then you implement your table or collection view delegates on the view controller, so basically all the application logic goes inside that single overstuffed miserable view controller class. Does this ring a bell for you?"

No, that's not actually what MVC is. First learn MVC, then speak why it's good or bad.
I roll them up in a sticky note and store it in my passport holder.
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"Nothing stops people from forking GIMP, implementing whatever fixes they want, distributing, and even selling it. Refusing pull requests is not a crime."

To put that up as the solution is to be fully divorced from reality.
Honestly, large-scale composites are actually cheaper per unit dry mass than metal 3D printed parts. Composites may be more finicky, but they're not necessarily more expensive in aerospace!

Carbon fiber composites are more expensive than stamped metal parts like automobile bodies, but if you're talking CNC machined or 3D printed metal parts, then carbon fiber can indeed be cheaper.
> still potentially going to appear

...and if I were a betting man, "not going to appear."

Zuckerburg's strength is not PR or public conversations. It makes zero sense to me why he would represent Facebook to US Congress.
People bother with watermarks so their images aren't stolen and used for profit: https://petapixel.com/2017/11/27/netflix-stole-vhs-cassette-...
Any online based computer game. GTA Online and Rocket League are two that spring to mind. The stuff we could create with that data!
The Oforth Programming Language
in deep learning, they presented high quality hand optimized building blocks way before anybody else did (CuDNN). An effect of that is that the libraries were built around cuda and cudnn, and now amd is still trying to catch up. Intel just hasn't delivered a fast enough, flexible enough, cheap enough gpu or gpu alternative afaik
Monica Lewinsky blasts digital news: 'The more shame, the more clicks'
This is still a GAN, right? It's running an adversarial system at a level higher than pixel-poking.
We don't know the real number. Might be 100,000, might be 100 million. Honestly, both estimates are valid, IMO. I think 1 million could be doable, especially with some technology development.

A country like the US is not even self-sufficient, although we could be. The consequence would be a reduction in productivity and quality of life. Now, Mars also has much higher living costs, although the costs are definitely prone to economies of scale. So a smaller population would have to work more and have a lower quality of life to allow life on Mars. At some point, you just can't keep up with the life support and maintenance required to live on Mars, so the population below some point cannot be self-sustaining (even if you have all the tools). You want as many people as possible to allow economies of scale and productivity improvements from specialization to take hold.
Bzzt. They're cited. By me. In this thread.

The 2018 decision is not the same as the 2014 decision or the 2012 decision.
> No. Implicitly yielding and getting scheduled back is exactly what synchronous sequence is.

Your asynchronous system can be descheduled by the OS on top of the stuff it does on its own if it runs on a preemptive multitasking OS or hypervisor, which more or less all of them do.

> And it cannot ever be faster than asynchronous, because asynchronous doesn't yield.

The asynchronous system yields doubly, it yields to its own userland scheduler/event loop and it's de-scheduled by the preemptive multitasking OS it runs on top of.
This isn't remotely near the state of the art for raw image generation; that would be something like ProGAN or pixel-CNN, which don't involve any reinforcement learning or paintbrushes, and already do photorealistic synthesis. Horse, barn.

The point of OP is that you're learning to generate little images in a much more difficult setup: you have to control some complex blackbox system (like a paintbrush robot) to try to generate an image with only crude success/failure feedback at the end of the sequence of actions. The hope is that by going through this intermediate environment, instead of generating an entire image in a single shot via convolutions, it'll be learning more abstract structure about what makes up a face etc, so hypothetically it could do things like rotate faces in 3D (whereas something like ProGAN only sees faces as 2D blobs so it can do things like add/subtract sunglasses or change hair color, but 3D transformations are beyond it). And, with this more abstract deeper understanding, it should be able to speed up learning in settings like robotics etc (instead of paintings, imagine they are videos of humans controlling pick-and-place robot arms); you can see this as one way of approaching unsupervised learning and providing primitives which a higher-level agent can learn faster from (somewhat like the GAIL architecture uses GANs for semi-supervised learning).
> This is one of the things that turns me off Hacker News, an overly strong bias in defense of white men.

Really? I feel the exact opposite. HN is full of articles like this, singling out white men, and claiming they are somehow either toxic or the beneficiaries of privilege.

I detest gender/identity politics, and don't think claims should be leveled against an entire group based on unrelated physical traits. This is the only reason I jump to defend "white men". If an article was posted making the same claims about another race/gender I would mount the same defense. However, those kinds of articles never show up here, because the are more obviously racist.
Fake news is one thing. Targeted ads are another thing. I don't think that targeted ads can change that much. Fake news I agree, can be brainwashing, but fb does all it can to combat fake news.
This would be a really good question to get a Congresscritter to ask a Facebook rep under oath. Maybe it doesn't matter and they'll lie. But I'd still like to get an answer: if a U.S. citizen deletes individual data, or the entire account, is the data retained in any sense? how does this differ for an E.U. citizen?
There are two or three hubs between Europe and America,
terminating the big under sea cables and a few internet backbones. It's not as if you had point connections to every IP. Rather, you go through one single IP to your provider in the general case. Somehow "decentral" lacks a proper graph theoretic definition.

By the way, the sun is decentralized, its center of gravity does not coincide with the galaxy's center of gravity!

Good comment anyway. I didn't even think of e-mail.
> If I arrive independently at the same thing, then I didn't copy your work and therefore didn't violate your copyright.

That's not how it works for copyright. Beyond that, how do you independently arrive at an API that you are trying to have an exact copy of? Photography is not programming. I cannot run a bunch of words through a program until it prints out some book I want and then say I arrived at it independently. You honestly need to read the copyright laws as you are missing some information.

[edit: the original premise of all this thread is IBM didn't try to copyright the BIOS API]
Why have you chosen to mingle the verbatim copying of function implementations (range check) with the API definition copying? You say google "admitted it" which is a loaded term and you use that to say "This isn't a cleanroom implementation". Google conceded the direct copying of one function implementation and thought it not relevant - IIRC the jury awarded Oracle $1 for that. The rest of the function implementation ARE clean room implementation, and the API definitions are claimed by most of the industry to not be copyrightable.

If this holds up, every programming language that was not originally produced under a suitable open source license will need to be dropped because all software written in those languages will be infringing an API copyright.
Yes, that’s what the OP is saying. Consumers fought against DRM so the business model became “never give them the software and you’ll never need to force DRM on them.”
Can you please share a list of companies with strong morals and are above criticism?
Unless you're AMC.
This is exactly the pain we are trying to help in the lab -- your story is all too common!

It is crazy to me that we are the first lab automation company to bring best practices of consumer tech UX and engineering to the wet lab, but its true. We're the first to use continuous integration / delivery, Agile development, usability testing, easy APIs / DSLs -- the list goes on. Would love to work with you and restore your faith in what lab automation can be!
https://github.com/theswiftdev/viperb/issues/1
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Looks like I'd need a few down payments to invest in rental properties as well as raising my debts. Unless I'd pay these rental properties cash. Which means I have to touch the principal in that scenario. I'd pay income tax on those gains so I better nail that one down.

Investing in crypto means converting some of that principal into money I could afford to lose. So 'technically' speaking there would be no income from that.

Savings account don't give much, we're talking pennies here.

Seems that bonds is the most stable, reliable source of lazy/passive income, but it's very small compared to the average cost of living in the US. So, ultimately I'd go back to my principal to cover some expenses...
And I believe I've been here long enough to know that is not a very good assumption to make. Allowances such as yours are usually given in defense of white men, but hardly ever given for other groups.
Reference: I maintain the semver library. I’m on my phone, so I can’t link you to the docs right now. I’ll add a link tomorrow.
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> aggressively prosecute unlawful speech

What country are you from? I hope you are not from USA. No matter where you are from, I have to tell you that you are on a path that will lead to the slaughter of millions, if you achieve your goals. I am sorry your history teachers hid from you, the examples of when and how this occurred in the recent past. I can only tell you that you and your age cohort have been ill served by the school system and I hope to protect my family from the consequences of that failure, somehow.
I haven't used Ionic so far, but for what I am seeing they are doing a great work with these new projects and with their vision.

With Stencil they are moving away from Angular and towards web standards, giving the freedom to use other frameworks to develop apps and avoiding a framework lock-in. Stencil is also a standalone library that can be used to build web components everywhere.

With Capacitor they are providing a way to build a real universal app, that can be run on mobile, web, and desktop, using the same codebase
Newfound 'Organ' Had Been Missed by Standard Method for Visualizing Anatomy
Why “amazing”? They’re arms dealers, selling your privacy to both sides. It ensures the product is in demand, and makes it more desirable.
The video camera doesn't have the same vision as a human. A human would have seen something sooner and so would have had more reaction time.

You also mis-cite your numbers. Reaction time to braking in that study was 2.2 seconds, but steering is 1.6 seconds, and beginning to slow is 1.0-1.3 s. Those numbers are also from a study environment; it's plausible to me that people would be more relaxed in a test than if they see a live human appear in front them.
Cool. So if I just make a Mickey Mouse cartoon from scratch I should be good.
> I don't understand why everyone wants to live in these horrible suburbs...

Money. Lack of.

In lots of US metro areas, the suburbs are the only route for working and middle classes to own property and hopefully pay it off before or by retirement, and only have to worry about property taxes (capped for over-65 homeowners in some states) and maintenance thereafter.

Where in-town living is not more expensive than suburbs, city politics driving assessments plus millage rates and aging building maintenance of generally crappy US construction practices make for a much more volatile financial picture long-term for retired urban dwellers.

In a suburb, on their own lot, it feels like they have more control because they don't have to negotiate as part of a group or even participate within a group for basic maintenance, and property taxes are generally not as high per unit area. Even crappy construction practices in SFH's can be remedied for all but the most egregious cases. When a contractor screws up a boiler installation in a high-rise condo, it's a massive capital investment and logistical headache for all the residents when that boiler calls it quits early, especially if replacement requires some demo to get at and extract the boiler, DIY is not an option, and pipefitters are not cheap. A home hot water heater replacement isn't a financial picnic for working and middle class homeowners, but it is still within the DIY realm for those willing to put in the time to save precious capital.

The operating environment looking forward for the next few decades in the US is most of the population is scarce on capital but have time (for example, retired working and middle class), a substantial portion are scarce on capital and time (for example, households with children), and any solutions (like moving more people into urban areas) that involve capital they don't have are non-starters. Yes, we should be encouraging people to move into urban areas in the US, because the per capita energy expenditures are much lower, environmental impact per capita are lower, people are given greater opportunities to form and maintain communities, etc., but the way incentives are currently structured in the US prevent that from starting.

Just by participating on HN statistically makes it likely you and I are in a rarefied environment where we don't have our noses rubbed into that reality I described above every single day, but we're a tiny, tiny fraction of the US, not to mention humanity, and moving the needle to make a difference in the world requires that we figure out solutions that sit on the other side of that fraction.
It is fun to mismatch voices/languages to hear some hilariously stereotypical accents
It seems to me like many of the computer-generated MNIST digits involved retracing the same contours multiple times.

Is it possible to (a) filter out these duplicate strokes, (b) convert them to heavier-weight single strokes, or (c) change the training regime to not produce duplicate strokes?

I can see that being useful for e.g. a real robot with a limited amount of ink or lead (or time to draw each character).
But Oracle vs. Google is the citation. Google previously won based on Fair Use. By definition, that court considered APIs to be copyrightable. If they weren't, the case would have been adjudicated on those grounds instead of the provisions of copyright law that govern fair use.
That's not weird, either. What would have been weird is a finding that they're not copyrightable, given that it would have been completely at odds with the statutes and case law we have concerning copyright.

The point is, nuance matters. If you're physically attacked and defend yourself in a way where you end up killing the guy, you claim that your actions were justified. You don't go to court claiming that killing people is just not a problem.

Here's how this case should go:

0. Oracle sues Google for copyright infringement.

1. Courts find that the design of APIs is an expression resulting from substantial creative decisions far above the low bar we already have for precedent, and therefore they're copyrightable.

2. Google defends themselves on the claim that, creativity notwithstanding, merely implementing a public API should not subject an implementor to the consequences of copyright infringement, and that there are no damages owed here.

And by every indication, we're right on track.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10949839

And it looks like you're moving the goalposts and shitting out two-second replies, anyway, so I'm done commenting further here.
haha! good one
This is BS and you know it.

An abuse victim cannot fail to notice when they receive a punch in the gut, unless they were already unconscious from a series of previous punches. Most FB users have no idea their data is sold down the river. From the ones who are iin the know, a significant majority just found out in the previous week or two.

Even in the techie community, who ought to have known better, the amount of people that have spend the last decade in denial is staggering. I'd bet dollars to dougnuts that the percentage of IT people that actually took steps to protect their privacy from social media and/or smartphone platforms is in the single digits.

I am willing to believe there are other professions that took this issue more seriously (lawyers and journalists come to mind), but only if said professions do face real world consequences when they fuck up. Even in those cases, I see no evidence that point of a single demography where what you claim is the norm rather than the exception (well, maybe NSA agents and organized crime types do care, but how would we know, anyways?).
I wonder if simply a cheap Android phone would suffice?
Maybe. Per Article 7(3) (in particular the last sentence)[0]:

>The data subject shall have the right to withdraw his or her consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. Prior to giving consent, the data subject shall be informed thereof. It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent.

As I read it, if you're going to annoy your no-consent-given-(yet)-users with a "convenient" popup every time asking whether they consent... Then you also have to annoy your consent-already-given-users with an equally "convenient" popup every time asking whether they still consent. Break the anti-pattern by forcing the developers to pull it all the way through.

At any rate, it gets rid of the "Aha! given at last! now you can never revoke it!"-part of the ratchet.

[0] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE... (page 37)
It's pretty simple and there is ample scientific evidence and writing on the topic: at current CO2 levels, plants are starving. There is even satellite-based measurements of vegetation by NASA that demonstrate a global greening of the planet in tune with atmospheric CO2 increases over the recent decades. You are denying scientific facts.
What prevents other vendors from making CUDA compliant hardware? I thought the result of Oracle v. Google is that APIs can’t be copyrighted?
Sure, Cannes can do whatever they want, but it hardly makes me feel like they are an institution whose opinions are likely to have much relevance to my experience.

Their recommendations get colored by their pettiness, sort of like how the Academy's presentations tend to feel disingenuous. It feels like the quality of the work often isn't what is being judged, so...who cares?
> Why would they want to be in the messy business of running a carrier

Does Fi run the carrier? I thought it used existing carriers and just supported seamless transition between them (and wifi). Regardless, the motivation would be to get that market they're missing that doesn't use one of the big 4. Granted Apple has never catered to that market, so not sure why they would now (it'd actually be detrimental to them IMO).

EDIT: Oh, and to the GP's point, seamless international use of your phone is a premium feature that might be valuable to customers. You could easily say "why do ____, they are already considered first class" for any new feature.
Don't get pregnant then? Does that just happen without any decisions? Or maybe you should go tell that woman that nothing in her life is her fault.
> I'm frankly surprised that Sheryl Sandberg isn't being sent to the UK if Zuckerberg is testifying in the US (although I don't see why he can't do both). The whole angle at the time of her hiring was that she would be "the grown up in the room".

Arguably, that perception is exactly why he has to send a clear subordinate if he isn't going himself, and not someone perceived to be his babysitter.
I can believe they have claimed that, but as we see in the link I posted, having an area fully mapped does not equal 100% knowledge of where it's safe to drive.
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." - Henry Ford

s/banking/data

s/monetary system/psychology

Power is the corrupter that turns people against people.

Thiel would tell you it's government, but that's just people with power. We like to focus on the abstraction in those cases; makes it easier to hide the truth.

Let's let a rando billionaire test drugs in uncontrolled experiments. Cause there's no chance some random side-effect could see it mutate into a human killing oopsie.

They're a rando billionaire, and have been emotionally captured by the nonsense notion he's somehow earned special privilege outside the financial and tech business contexts.
How do you close the wage gap? Is it just bulk monetary transfer to people who identify as women?
A piece of tape works fine.
Thanks! Through user research we learned that most labs dont have robots today because 1. they are too expensive and 2. they dont have space in their lab for the huge machines currently available. Thats why we focused on low-cost and compact; the OT-2 is designed to fit on 1/2 of a standard lab bench so biologists can work alongside their robot.

OT-One was deff for the DIY crowd and there are lots of great hacks folks have done on it with our open API and hardware like plasmotron.org or this Alexa integration: https://youtu.be/s4WgCs-tH3o

On the other hand, the OT-2 is designed for the mainstream biologist, the folks that dont want to have to write code or hack hardware, just want something plug-and-play to do their pipetting for them. So far in our usability tests and for beta users, its working! :)
Congrats!

Are the newer machines still using Smoothieware?
The problem is not white men, the problem is that our society has many (but not all) systemic biases that benefits them, at the expense of others. Many of these biases are so ingrained, they are invisible.

As a white man, I don't have to deal with many categories of bullshit that people of color and women are subjected to. I do have to deal with a few things that they don't, but there aren't many of them.
It's a neural network trained in an adversarial manner which generates things, so yes.
Thanks for sharing this video! This has definitely widened my perspective.
What you watch at home is `video`. What you watch in a movie theater is `cinéma`.
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The HN guidelines[0] encourage users to assume good faith in interpreting the comments of others, and I think that applies well here.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Wow, today I learned about netem. Thanks! :)
Google did clean room implementation of almost all functions. They copied 9 lines of implementation code verbatim - out of thousands of lines. It does raise a question in my mind as to how that one function got copies, but it's also possible that it was re-implemented and happened to be done exactly the same without looking at the original - I honestly don't know but Google conceded it was a duplicate either way. 9 Lines. Not a wholesale infringement - seems pretty straightforward.