skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same talents for low-level coding are necessary for distributed systems and stuff like making a properly usable API for a web site/service. The latter needs more experience because you don't have immediate feedback from mistakes, but the aptitude it requires is the same (or the same kind, but moreso).
Ask HN: What are some good deep-art (style transfer) generators?
I'm looking for a deep art generator[0] that takes an image and applies an artistic style (e.g. Van Gogh, Monet, ...) to it. It should be a free online tool or app, but I'm willing to pay a few dollars for high quality and high resolution output.

Is this[1] is state-of-the-art, and would be worth my while to run this code myself as opposed to using an online tool or app which may have lower efficacy? I would also need the appropriate rights to use the output image for my own purposes.

[0] Example: https://deepart.io

[1] https://github.com/luanfujun/deep-photo-styletransfer
KaiOS forked FirefoxOS back in ~2016. I wonder how closely they've tracked security fixes from Mozilla's upstream Gecko over the last two years. Mozilla removed a lot of B2G code from Gecko, so merging fixes will require more work than just applying patches.
Is the “Queen Bee” phenomenon a myth?
>No, the tool works like a brainwallet.

Are you saying that is a good thing? It's well known that brainwallet is a footgun.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Brainwallet

>An early old-style brainwallet was created by by memorization of a passphrase and converting it a private key with a hashing or key derivation algorithm (example: SHA256). That private key is then used to compute a Bitcoin address. This method was found to be very insecure and should not be used. Humans are not a good source of entropy.
It’s not all or nothing. Selling 25% probably makes sense. Selling 100% probably doesn’t. The right balance depends on what % of your total net worth that $1M represents.

I also think it highly depends on your answer to “how excited are you about the company’s roadmap for the next few years?” and “do you feel like you / the company have more to do on the topic?”
"parts of the UI stayed closed source"

If anything is closed, except drivers they'd likely be forced to accept binaries for, I wouldn't even consider the OS. Who do they think their target audience is? I imagine most people looking into an alternative mobile OS are well aware of the slippery cliff that is proprietary software. It's the whole point of looking around. I'm looking for full control so I don't get stuck with someone elses bad choices yet again.
If you're going to count that, you'll also have to figure out the costs for negative externalities like congestion, pollution, accidents, social services for drivers (health care, retirement, food stamps, etc), bankruptcies, and regulation.

The medallion system had its issues, but there were reasons it existed. City after city decided it didn't want infinite unregulated taxis in circulation.
Intel SPI Flash Flaw Lets Attackers Alter or Delete BIOS/UEFI Firmware
The article doesn't seem to address the question in the title. Why would they be mutually exclusive?
I was never able to get TurboTax to fix errors, either; I switched to olt.com and they respond to my emails right away.
The President Is Not Above the Law
Note that the "source" here is an ad for an "AI-enhanced" network monitor. There's no information to vet their claims, and a little weird that their client would happily subject themselves to public embarassment like that.
I had the opportunity to attend a series of private classes at a local air museum. One of the sessions covered the engines in the planes and how they are maintained today. The class format included a lecture and a hands-on exercise. The hands-on exercise that night was a cam and rocker arm "replacement" on the museum's Merlin engine. Someone else got to tear it down but I got the chance to reinstall the cam and rocker arms. It was on a cutaway display engine so it will never fly of course but still, it was a wonderful experience. I can honestly say that I have installed the cam and rocker arms on a Merlin. Not many people can do the same :)
Another reason to boycott Getty!
And simtower?
YouTube only will go after "covers" if there's a copyright holder complaint, and allows many cover bands to exist.
Facebook is a mirror in the same way meth is a mirror.

That everyone has self destructive tendencies is pretty clear, it's only when you get a reward for following through with them that you have a problem.

That the reward is likes or drugs is pretty immaterial.
The short version is: retain a competent wealth manager to advise you.

EDIT: not all wealth managers are scam artists. If you suddenly earn lots of money and don't know what to do with it, find a professional paid by the hour to advise you. Do not listen to the people telling you that anyone charging you for advice is automatically a scammer. Also don't listen to people telling you that it's "not that hard" without any context on your experience and understanding of finance. They have nothing to lose by looking smart and confident on the internet while discussing your money.

It depends on your overall net worth. If the stock represents the majority of your net worth, you might want to diversify across different types of assets - your newly introduced tech stock being on the high-risk end of that spectrum. If on the other hand you have "enough" of your savings in lower-risk assets, then it can make sense to keep all your stock.
> These guys averaged a ~9% return over the last few years.

Who are "these guys"? The funds discussed in the article have average annual returns well above 9%.
The ease of love acquisition you speak of with respect to dogs does not apply to the Shiba Inu (as pictured in the article), just for the record.. :)
I don't really understand the down votes to your comment. It truly is difficult to be black in America lately
There's the Amazon Prime / Apple iCloud whatever model: you pay a single monthly fee and you get access to a wide range of services. Amazon even has their Appstore whatsitcalled library where 3rd party apps are no-added-cost and they pay the app publishers on some kind of spotify like pay-per-use model.
Supervised learning requires labels. Unsupervised doesn't. Self driving cars use elements of both. This is why companies like Cruise and Tesla are rushing to get basic self driving cars out there. They need driving data.
I propose one year in prison for anyone caught believing fake news.
外国人 in simplified.

To be fair, I've seen a Taiwanese person with the English "spice girl" as a tattoo, which is a reverse-poor-translation, because it sounds like a singular member of a defunct pop band. Makes more sense in Chinese.
I've read dozens if not hundreds of threads (on HN) about the benefits of decentralization. Can some of you give me the run down on the benefits of centralization?

I think that discussion needs to happen as well for both discussions to be valid.
Yes, the first time I watched it (aged about 19) I was amazed to note that of the last 10 lines of the film, something like 9 of them are movie cliches. All those hills of beans and beautiful friendships made an impact - maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but someday and for the rest of its life.
The purpose of the example isn't to be a realistic or useful application of a smart contract, but merely to show that smart and traditional contracts can in principle have different effects on the real world, even if the law treats them as having identical effects on parties' legal duties.
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Interesting. Do you know how selenium does that?
In my limited experience, depends on the topic for pricing. The more detailed or technical, the higher the price per word. The more writing experience the individual has the higher the price. Also, the amount of research and any reference sources will add to the rate in my experience.

The last writer I hired for several 2000+ word legal related articles I paid approximately $.22 per word. For this I also received a 1 paragraph summary and 4-5 sources.

On the flip side, I paid a writer approximately $0.10 per word for similar article. The overall quality of the work was poor and when I ran it through Copyscape several parts came up as practically copied word for word from other articles.

I have heard people paying anywhere from $0.20-0.35 per word for good quality. I do think a lot depends on how detailed/technical the article needs to be though.
The ReactOS kernel is their own, clean room reverse engineered to be compatible with the NT kernel.

Also just a side note, Linux isn't exactly a UNIX fork either. Linux was developed from scratch on a MINIX host, which in turn was another OS designed to be UNIX-compatible but did not actually use any UNIX code. To put it another way, it's Unix-like two generations removed, but definitely not something you could call a fork. That might seem like a small detail to you but SCO vs IBM says otherwise.
"Bad money pushes out good money." Since you can't prove privacy, customers have to assume no-privacy and vendors must exploit that or else get outcompeted by someone who does. Same for any quality that customers want but can't verify, such as quickly long-life or organic ingredients or treatment of workers and animals.
Modern monetary theory (2015)
Any chance you’ve got a link you could share?
At the highest level there are broad approaches which are kept secret in the financial industry, but the reason that's peculiar is because their efficacy is inherently antagonistic to publicity. Tech firms (mostly) don't lose utility of their trade secrets if they're exposed, they just lose first mover advantages on those techniques. But if everyone is aware of your techniques in finance, your techniques cease to have an edge.

Like I said in the original comment: this isn't (to my knowledge at least) pure mathematics that's being kept secret. But there are absolutely families of techniques and algorithms whose applications to finance are nontrivial, non-incremental and very well guarded.
I love D3 but my biggest complaint is that many of the examples floating around appear to have been coded by people who don't care about reusability (and in some cases, ability for others to understand the code).

Nowadays if I need to do interactive visualisations I typically end up using Mobx + SVG.js. It works really well and I rarely get other developers asking me to explain how it works so that's a HUGE plus.
I'm pro-decentralization for a lot of things, but one big benefit of centralization is speed. It's a lot easier for one "node" to change something than a whole system.

A real-world analog would be like a dictatorship vs a democracy. The dictatorship can make faster decisions but the democracy often makes better decisions.
Ah, i missed the program downloader while poking around.

I'll take another look.
We also believe pair programming is "continuous code-review", but we have found that's not enough on its own. We swap pairs frequently--every week or two to ensure that knowledge isn't siloed in pairs. We also have frequent discussions in varying-sized groups prior to introducing a new service or significant function as well as retros for larger completed units after being in production for a while.
Google isn't invulnerable in search because of a network effect, which is about your product becoming more valuable because you connect your users to your users (e.g., the Bell System or Facebook). Google is invulnerable in search because search has a very long tail, requiring massive investment to reach adequacy for most users. Google's advantage is economy of scale.

Self-driving cars definitely don't have a network effect. They also don't have the came kind of economy of scale as Google. A person who learns to drive in one, specific part of the US is able to drive, with minor additional learning, in any part of the US. Yes, there's some minimum size necessary to get the data for self-driving cars. But unlike with search, where the minimum size is generally "the whole web", the minimum size for self-driving cars is much smaller. That's why we're seeing many different companies work on it.
If you had $1MM in cash, how much of it would you use to buy the company's stock?
"clearly wrong" means nothing if you can't win a law suit against megacorp's carefully worded legalese. "We use this information to improve the Service" means game over.
This is an ad. Bike computers are just really expensive single purpose smartphones.
Ask HN: Anyone run hobby CNC’s? Which ones? Experiences?
A Simple Chart to Prioritize My Crazy Busy Work Life
How do you establish fair market value except by negotiating until you close a deal?
re: "I don't think the author is talking about simple advertising, I think he is talking about the power to influence the public on a mass scale."

Isn't that what mass advertisers do? Do you think Coca Cola doesn't want to influence the public?

Maybe it's not about the power to do this, but rather what it's used for? Use advertising to sell a good product, and all is forgiven. It might even be considered positive in the case of a public health campaign.

Sell a defective, dangerous product, or outright scam, and they will complain about the advertising.

(These days, many people are looking at soda rather skeptically.)
100% of people die from being born. If this data is not segregated by age, it is pretty much meaningless. People don't die of "natural causes" or "old age" any more because the doctors are required to list something previously diagnosed on the death certificate (or else the doctor is looking at a lawsuit.) And the family member who happens to be there at the time of death is in no mood to put up an argument. No one wants to do an autopsy and invasive tests for a frail failing elderly patient are even worse.
Minor nitpick: GPS doesn't enable adventure. If anything, having constant GPS guidance takes away from the adventure. Many of my best memories while biking have happened because I got a bit lost and stumbled upon something neat in a place I wasn't expecting to go. Same goes for road trips.

But that's just me being a Luddite. For now I think I'll stick to my phone's GPS if I need a map.
Pretty good. The one thing in this article I found off was the notion that regulation by "the community" was preferable to regulation by, well, regulation. That is a fundamental mistake. "The community" is a bunch of businesses that follow this system because if they didn't, someone else would, and get market share. This lack of privacy is just capitalism at work. The problem to excesses in capitalism is government regulation. True that, for child labor, pollution, whatevs. "The community" is just mouthwash.
right, but at that point it is only git commit -a
It's really weird that supposedly open source Android runtime is so hard to actually run on proper Linux.
Rtcl: embeds an R interpreter into Tcl
There is a PBS Spacetime episode describing this. The host is very talented:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v3hd3AI2CAA
Isn’t that what the appeals process is for?
I bet in 20 years no one will know what ReactJS even is, but ReactOS very much will preserve NT regardless of Microsoft’s successes.

ReactOS is a usable Windows NT 6+ clone, with kernel ABI ( driver ) compat, that runs real software. What are you comparing it to, to be able to qualify the speed of its development?
Tim Draper: “Everybody Wants to Leave California”
What I like about merges it that it shows you how the conflicts were resolved. You can see the two versions and the resolved and you can validate it was resolved properly. With a rebase workflow you see the resolutions as if nothing else existed, you can't tell the difference between an intentional change and a bad resolution...
Do you have a source on this? It seems like an exceptional claim.

The GT40 was a bespoke race car built to settle a grudge. Henry Ford II wanted to beat Enzo Ferrari at his own game after the sale of Ferrari to Ford fell through. Ford failed to beat Ferrari in their early attempts with the GT40 and the entire car went through several revisions to reach the LeMans winning form. These were not typical parts and I would be surprised if they were widely available.

Also, domestic US engine displacements were given in cubic inches. In this case a Ford 7 liter engine is 427 (whole) cubic inches. A period is not prefixed because it is not a fractional measure.
Overdeck and Seigel.

“The firm’s biggest fund, Spectrum, has earned an annual average return of 9.4% net of fees since 2004.”

The S&P 500 has averaged 9% for 80 years. Joe Blow can buy index fund and do just as well as the quant clients. Sure, these guys are averaging 14% before fees, and it’s a great way to get rich. But after fees the client might as well just passively invest.
Network effects are not limited to products that connect users. A network effect is when more usage increases the value of the product [1]. More Google users means more click data, which means better search ranking.

But yes, Google also has scale economies.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
> There isn't really a similar way of doing this for French and Spanish. You can't just take a Spanish work, pronounce it using a French pronunciation, and then voila have a French work. It's not even entirely clear for all words what "pronouncing it with a French pronunciation" means.

Maybe Bokmål is similar in this regard? The Wikipedia page says it's "Norwegianized variety of Danish": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokmål
Stupid clickbait.
> More relevant: Does it matter if human brains renew their neurons?

Yes, on a lot of fronts, but strokes, in particular, would be a lot easier to fix if the brain could renew itself. Fixing brain problems becomes much harder if the brain never regenerates.

> With 100 billion neurons we seem fine with what we have. The bigger question seems to be how to protect these 100 billion cells from degenerating.

Maybe. But we also know that those who age well seem to recruit cells from a different layer of the brain as they age. This would seem to indicate that the brain is having to "make do" for some reason which we do not understand.

In addition, what is "part of the brain"? Are the optic nerve or your olfactory nerve part of the brain? What about your spinal column? The computer scientist in me says "Of course" given how strongly linked they are with the processing.
I agree with he sentiment as an outsider, but let's build 5 bar charts and talk about this stuff again :-)
The music part of Elysian is really cool since they wrote a synthesizer and a tool allowing them to make music in Ableton Live (a very popular music production application) and convert it back to code for their demos. Ferris (the guy who wrote most of it) has a video on YouTube explaining how it works and I was absolutely blown away by it.
Did you watch all of Hadley's video? You might get the title more if you saw/see the whole talk :)
Decentralized systems allow you to formalize market dynamics. Eg how selling/providing works. Through this you can create marketplaces to which everyone can connect to but nobody can leverage their own position to change the rules.

A (naive [in details] weak) example i regularly use is electricity:

Imagine you own solar roof panels and produce more electricity than you need. You want to sell it back. But you want to sell it at the highest possible price to the best payer.

The centralized concept is that you sell it to your main provider and hope they pay the best price (or that your are able to move cheaply/quickly enough). Or that you sell it to a intermediary (or price-comparison service) that hopefully has the lowest rate (or that your are able to move cheaply/quickly enough).

The decentralized approach to this is to announce the sale on the network/market and pick the best offer.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5443717/
The problem, besides the condescending tone towards everyone around him, is that he doesn't present an understanding of the actual state of the field of AI and deep learning, and what's worse, he cites bad science essays that will misinform more people about how a brain works.

There's a meme going round about how the best way to refute an argument is to 'steelman' it: present the best arguments of the opposing side before refuting them. He doesn't do that here, which is one of the reasons I found it frustrating.

I agree that the way the venture raising market works today rightfully deserves some fair criticism.
> The short version is: retain a competent wealth manager to advise you.

This is not good advice. "Wealth managers" are totally useless and exist just to charge you fees and create complexity. I really like mgummelt's comment above; it doesn't have to be more complicated than that!
How to Prepare for the Google Speed Update
The entire article seems to be a longer version of the discussion of the same issue in the book for non scientists, The Selfish Gene, except for the discussion about the genetic formula/hypothesis used to explain the social insects being unprovable or may be even tautological.
It's not. But local governments don't hire a lot of deep sea fishermen, so they don't get hazard pay that affects local budgets.
One day when Windows drifts too far away from its golden age functionality, it will be great if ReactOS can fill the gap. However, I feel like MS could one-up them overnight by providing a sandboxed 32-bit XP VM as part of current windows. We’d get back DOS support and compatibility with old programs would be better. Call it Windows Subsystem for Windows or whatever. That would also pave the way to removing a lot of Win32 cruft from the main codebase, which MS seems very itchy to do.
Prices haven’t changed much in the US but Uber has divested some of its most expensive investments around the world (China, Russia, APAC).
I'm not a Windows licensing expert, but this is basically how it works:

1. You can't use the OEM license with retail installation media.

2. You don't get OEM installation media because the license is tied to the hardware.

3. The OEM recovery media can't be restored to different hardware.

4. The OEM license key can't be used to install a retail Windows install on a different computer.
Fwiw, not all Buddhist monasteries or organizations do anything like this. I've been to retreats at a Shambala center and at one of the monasteries in Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village network and they were very secular.
I normally use ridewithGPS and a cheap head unit for brevets -- but i carry cue sheets, too.
Jolla had some profitable months last year and started issuing refunds to people who backed its tablet on Indiegogo. The company won't say how many are left, however. "It's not that many," Pienimäki claims. "Some of them are a bit noisy, but it's not really that many anymore." Jolla has promised to issue more refunds every time it has a profitable month. These, Pienimäki hopes, will happen at a "steady pace" by the end of the year. The company, however, is not profitable on a fiscal year basis, and continues to burn through investor cash.

It all sounds grim, and describing people you failed as “s bit noisy” isn’t great PR. It just sounds like people in way over their heads to me.
Facebook shouldn’t block you from finding friends on competitors
You mean apart from thousand years of history/records and billions of users?