skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely agree. But the best progress made on how the brain works was to learn from people who received major brain damage/trauma. It's just slightly frowned upon to inflict brain damage to a healthy person for science. [Insert nazi or hydra joke here]. Jungle Book kids are the best study subjects without really crossing bad ethical lines. It's going to be difficult to convince well adjusted, loving humans to never speak to their offspring and teach them absolutely nothing. I'm sure there are some ethical issues there. Don't know exactly. But I know there has to be some ethical and legal problems there lol.

Just thought of this: Couldn't we argue that if it happened early enough and said "animal caretakers", I think one Ukrainian girl was literally raised by wolves, came in early enough, would the kid have psyche issues? Their frame of reference is so limited to knowing what's "normal" and what's not, that they could possibly not develop any actual psychological issues. Actually, them being taken out of that "Jungle Book" environment and integrated into human society would cause issues. Their "Jungle Book normal" was now disturbed greatly. If timeline is true, but they still have psyche issues, could possibly mean that the human brain is wired to a form of "normal" that can't deviate by some certain amount. Just spit-balling ideas.
Giuseppe Conte fails to form populist government in Italy
The Glass Bead Game.
The had the best cameraphones - the K800, K850 etc were way, way ahead of the game.

Then the iPhone came out and just being a phone wasn't good enough.

Now everyone else uses Sony's sensor anyway so what is their advantage? Lenses?
Surprised it's not mentioned yet -> "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho.

This book is pure gold, however one has to approach it with a right mindset. It's not the best literature, per se, you will ever read, but if you take a deeper look, it's very simple, yet very profound. It somehow reminds me of the quote from Charlie Munger (Warren Buffett long time associate, and one of the wisest man alive) - "Take a simple idea, and take it seriously"
You could use a one-hot encoding to represent the resizing operation that’s desired ([0, 0, 1] for horizontal shrink, [0, 1, 0] for vertical shrink, and [0, 1, 1] for shrinking both, then use first component of 1 for expansion).

The input to a CNN model could then be the input image and the one-hot encoded resize instruction. And the “label” could be the pixel map of the chosen seam-carving seam that produces the resize step.

The CNN output will be a softmax pixel map, optimized to reproduce the seam-carving result.

Then at runtime, you would just have to add a slight post-processing step that ensures the CNN’s predicted seam doesn’t violate any constraints for the intended output shape of the resize operation chosen.

You could use the existing seam carving algorithm to generate the training data, but would need to be careful the training set covers a huge variety of image statistics to avoid overfitting resizing to a particular subset of image features (or conversely, you could try to learn “better” than seam carving for specialized resizing on subclasses of images, like specialized for faces, cityscapes, etc.)
any suggestions on good trail cameras? most of the stuff that I've seen/used has been mass-made Chinese cameras, rebranded, with very little support that tend to break easily.

I'd love to be able to put something higher quality out, but am having trouble finding anything that detects motion, has infrared, and takes short videos, while still being high enough quality to not leak, not shut down randomly, and take pictures of empty space.
"childs" is, and always was uncommon, but seems to exists. Also saw it source code written by non-native speakers.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Children%2C+Ch...
The Laundry Files.
They are charged based on their amount used relative to their fair allocation.

If they use more than their fair allocation everyone else on the grid is subsidizing them so they get charged more to prevent a subsidy. If they use less than their fair allocation they subsidize other people so they're charged less to prevent subsidy.

The electric grid and the electricity that flows over it is a public utility not a commodity.

Edit: Is unpopular42 a throwaway account that you upvote with your main?
In the 1920s or so, black men were 24% self employed or had their own small business. Now it is a lot less than that. What exactly happened is up for debate but the results are certainly sad.
Indefinitely.

If you want a history of attempts to fix it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_refo...
> Take a look at what is happening in Venezuela with bitcoin

Is anybody actually using Bitcoin as a currency in Venezuela? I can only find references to people mining excessively there because the electricity is so subsidized.
When I opened this, I thought it was going to be about the camera inside the space shuttle Columbia. After the disaster, there were rumours that the footage from the shuttle’s inside camera – which had captured the crew’s horrific final moments – had survived the crash, but of course this footage would never be disclosed to the general public.
I am a classical musicianby profession (principal bassoon in Norrköping Symphony orchestra if that tells anyone anything). I have used the techniques in the inner game of tennis daily for about as long as I can remember. A teacher of mine noticed I had a very uneven level and made me read it. One of the most important books in my professional career.
Performance Win: load your SPA’s required data while your app loads in parallel
Your counterclaim can as easily be said of acupuncture, homeopathy, mindfulness, etc. When a phenomenon that ought to be fairly straightforward to measure defeats repeated attempts to measure it, it is at a minimum fair to say that it probably doesn't exist.
That Village Voice article is well worth a read, thanks.

“They are working hard to get you to behave true to your statistical profile, and in doing so they reduce your spontaneity, your anomalous behavior, your human agency, as they try to get you to conform to the most marketable probable outcome.”
I feel like this was designed to be read on a smartphone. I find it uncomfortable reading this on my 15" laptop screen.
That aside, content looks interesting.
It doesn't really 'come from German', it's part of the common ancestry of Modern High German and English. Take a look at Cædmon's Hymn in Old English.
> all are caused my german.

It's not like German were "at fault". English grew out of a common ancestor with nowadays German.
Enjoy the lines at Disneyland? You'll love Elon Musk's idea for transit
perhaps https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/?
Far as I know, the only applicable laws by which the local govt. might intervene directly would be nuisance laws (noise and such) and zoning laws (trying to separate industrial uses from residential uses). Zoning laws in particular can be as varied as the colors of the rainbow, but the relevant passage would be whichever one tries to define what an industrial land-use activity is. Sometimes it's vague enough that it ends up being decided in court.
Layout is reasonable on my phone, but the type is so distracting...
> You cannot have movements involving millions of people fighting for justice and not have some of those people turn to violence. Demanding that such movements be completely non-violent means de facto endorsing the status quo.

Of course not, but it also doesn't mean that we suggest that violence is a positive thing or necessary for progress.

Resorting to violence in many cases minimizes your argument. You turn aggressors into victims and give them a reason to fight back. You deny those abusers the same thing you want (peace and safety), which distorts the argument. And demagogues will distort it.

This is ignoring the completely innocent victims that are often harmed in incidents like this. How can humanists support the maiming and death of innocents?

To use an example: Do you think that the Irish should've lived under the thumb of the British until such a time that it could've achieved independence in a way that did not involve violence or Catholic/Protestant animosity?

I don't know. I do know that progress, though slow, was being made without violence. The Irish were given Home Rule by the British HoC in the 1910s. Surely this kind of progress would have continued. In contrast, violence was avoided at other times (the UVF arming to reject Home Rule).

If in any of these incidents you say that violence was a given, necessary, or justified, you are very possibly making it so, and not only that, but starting conflict which may never end. Surely people are capable of progress without our most animal of instincts? Many people have believed that.

Violence is cowardly and brute. If you want to be a martyr, be a martyr as you've made that choice for yourself, but don't be a murderer.

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral; begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/paperbacktheology/2016/01/ten-g...
The lack of information density in a so called "web book" is irksome
West of house (2016)
Ask HN: Best mobile games that don't need Internet to run?
Top Mistakes and Learnings from My Startup: Postmortem Samsamia
The performance benefits are immediately obvious and this route removes the headache of http2 setup or service workers to get benefits as fast as possible
If I sell some gold, then use the proceeds to buy from Amazon, I haven't bought anything with gold from Amazon. Yes, you are using Bitcoin, but not to buy from Amazon--it's just another layer on top, it's just another (largely unnecessary) transaction in addition to the existing transaction.
No, those words are ancient, much older than any remotely modern German. They come from Proto-Germanic via Old English and have cognates in most Germanic languages. Kin words are usually among the most preserved and most rarely borrowed words in a language, as are words related to agriculture and animal husbandry.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_T610

Maybe not the first, damned close.
Funny how it doesn’t work for difficult things that will kill you, like cancer, but supposedly works great for stuff that usually goes away on its own anyway.

Proponents of homeopathy will say they’ve seen hundreds of successful cases too, despite the fact that the patients are receiving nothing but water.

If the stuff works, controlled studies will back it up.
Preparing the infrastructure for uses that it was never intended, and most people will never use, doesn't sound like a good thing to me -- it sounds like a waste of money.
Netflix for hypebeast clothes
Meta comment: I was trying to remember what the name of that subreddit was!
That's right. People also seem to come up with the point that the manager can make a huge difference to the company, but they forget that can also mean a huge negative difference. Ordinary employees tend not to be able to destroy a company on their own.
Wild guess: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5599134

Counsyl is Pioneering A New Bioinformatics Wave (113 points by daslee on Apr 24, 2013 | 47 comments)

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/23/counsyl/
Nice article, more about code maintainability than documentation (like others pointed out).

Also not too focused on Swift, so useful also for other languages.
Yes, very true, that's even further back, but you miss out on the fun stuff like vowel mutations and changing in endings :)
I don't agree that keeping track of data processing operations, where you store data, creating an ability to delete user data and basic security hygiene is onerously burdensome on projects where you know about these requirements ahead of time. Yes it absolutely is a major pain in the butt for existing projects but that's a different argument and not a good reason not to improve consumer protections.

> Meanwhile all networked software is illegal by default unless its operator can prove that it stays within the defined GDPR exceptions.

This doesn't make sense to me. Can you please instruct me how I would go about suing the curl project? Please help me understand how this networked software is "illegal by default." I actually don't understand precisely what you mean by "networked software" so perhaps my misunderstanding lies there.

Overall I find statements like this "all networked software is illegal" to be FUD hogwash. It's just the same as when environmental regulations are going to "destroy the energy industry" and labor regulations are going to "destroy the service industry" etc.. Industry (represented here by tech entrepreneurs) is doing their typical disingenuous wringing of hands they always do when consumer/worker/environmental protections are brought forth.

Let's get rid of the GDPR, the EPA and the Paris climate accords while we're at it.
Wow, great timing. Around a week ago I spent an hour digging through my bookmarks for something I'd found via HN, and I must not have bookmarked.

I can't recall what the original post linked to, but in the comments someone discussed their preferred method of organizing their digital notes/journal. They linked to a forum post where someone described the system.

It involved using a single folder for all notes, with different categories, that were indicated in the file name. In fact the file name contained everything important. It also discussed never altering a file, but creating an index to refer to other related entries.

I think the person who wrote the forum post was a journalist of some sort? And they might have made reference to a Japanese system that was similar, but physical, which used lines on the top of index cards to indicate categories, and keeping the number of categories low (always 4?) was important.

I'd love to find that forum post again.
Depends on the market i suspect.

That said, they seem to do way less marketing than Samsung or Apple.

Even so, they have carved out a niche of making smaller Android phones (their Compact variants) that share internals with their larger brethren.
A few of these are really beautiful! I really love the dice example.
Frequently when I read a comment where Marx is quoted or referenced, I struggle to understand the point.

The article discusses a trend that has lasted longer than 6 centuries. Are you claiming this is due to 600 years of runaway inequality?

How does it make any sense to claim Marx predicted this since he was born more than 400 years later than the start of the trend described in the article?
Who Is Going to Make Money in AI?
Guide to Pacific Electric Transportation Heritage for Los Angeles Region
Doubtful.

Also, I think your "simpler" transcription is actually less phonologically accurate.

For instance, I would transcribe the "er" in "wonder" as [ɝ]. In some dialects, it would actually just be [ɜ] without any pronounced trace of the "r" like sound. In actuallity, I suspect that it is actually [ɜɹ] underlying, and the two sounds just coalesce into [ɝ] when you pronounce them.

That is to say, the "er" sound is viewed a variant of the vowel moreso than it is a variant of "r". I have the same complaint about "simplr" and "evr".

For "nglsh", I just do not see any motivation to remove the vowels. It is true that English allows "n" to act as a vowel, but in "English", there is a pretty clear [I] (as in Igloo) before the [n]. Similarly, [l] could act as a vowel, but there is also a pretty clear [I] following it.

Finally for "cach", I can't really complain about this being worse, as "ch" is our way of writing tsh ( /t͡ʃ/ ), but if we are simplifying English, it would be nice to clean up this too and show the relationship between that sound and the t sound.
Seems appropriate because it applies up the whole comment chain.

And if you're going to try and draw conclusions, then come out and say it instead of noncommittally leaving it up to our imagination.
That's a perfect illustration of my point. The US went to pretty great lengths to have specific bans on import / export from Cuba. German train companies build plenty of things that would not meet FRA standards in the US, the US does nothing about it. But Cuba is seen as a special case. So do you think GDPR and PII are more like Cuba and terrorism, or more like chemicals and transportation standards? I think the latter.
Sorry, poor english :) and yes that's true, but that common ancestor, west germanic, is they key point here, as it shows us why things are in English.
Seconded. I didn't enjoy reading it, but it made a tremendous impression on me nonetheless.
The original comment was a comparison of pointers in C and PEEKs and POKEs in BASIC. So making up stuff about how assembly has 'pointers' or trying to start some argument about C with a statement nobody made is not really much more directly related to what we're discussing than a comment about the music of the Pointer Sisters.
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Okay reading, it sounds like before Burnham and Anderson (2002) it was only known to be valid for nested models, but they were able to derive it from more fundamental assumptions to remove that restriction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akaike_information_criterion#H...

I wasn't aware of that update until now (despite being 16 years old), thank you!!
The 1975 HP 1607 Logic State Analyzer, one of the first logic analyzers [video]
Distracting type, and horrible font size. Really difficult to read on laptop.
I hate to be the one to comment on form instead of content...

But a body text of "2.5 em" is literally unreadable. Anyone trying to talk about web design, while using letters that are 2.5^2 = 6.25 times larger by area than normal, I can't take seriously enough to even begin to read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giri_%28Japanese%29
I disagree - charging for usage (even if most of your costs come from capacity) incentivises people to use less power, which means you need less grid capacity and reduces externalities (pollution due to generating). If I'm paying for 100A _regardless_, for the things I need to run at peak (say kettle+washing machine+hoover), there's little incentive to reduce my usage at other times (switching lights/devices off when they aren't in use); if I'm paying for usage, there's a very direct incentive to turn things off I'm not using (it's costing me money).
Very sure. If I had UBI I would’ve stayed home, played video games and jerked off.

That first job taught me the value of work, the value of my time, how to get others to give me what I needed in exchange of me giving them what they wanted. Taught me how the world works.

Finally it was a huge motivator to improve - through hard work.

No government-assured income would have been able to give me all that.
I read practical ethics by Peter Singer in a time of my life when I was struggling to justify my way of life. It pushed me down a path that I still follow today.

Gösta Berling's tale by Selma Lagerlöf was also very defining. It kept me away from the niilism that often strikes teenagers. Truly wonderful writing (Although I can't vouch for any translations).
Both are true. Wealth inequality will naturally lead to an overabundance of capital (rich people with more money who invest more than they spend) and weakening aggregate demand (poor people spend less because they have less money).
About 4 years ago, I saw a post about a startup, I think, that was going to revolutionise hiring top talent - or something similar. I think there was a Nigerian among the founders. I haven't been able to find the same again.
The matching problem was actually the first algorithm we discussed in my discrete math class
Structural Pattern Matching in Java
When it comes to public utilities, commonwealth, and natural resources, the more you use, the more you should pay per unit.
ORMs are extremely simple to implement. I've written them a few times in Java for simple things. Primarily you need something equivalent to reflection so you can read from and inject into any properties that an object might contain. Does Nim have this kind of feature set?
Appears even less - looking at the results, those slight bumps correspond to authors named Child, rather than its usage as plural.
I wanted to hire someone that worked for a local Japanese company to come and work at my startup. Just handed then an offer letter that was 2x their current pay package. Done. Still cheaper then US package. It is sad what very good sr. people get paid in Japan. Makes it much simpler to hire them away.
Slidefy: Create slides when you're in a hurry, but you want them to look good
It's not too bad if you zoom out a bit. I don't know why they made the type so large.
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[Here's a C# example](https://github.com/dyu/ffi-overhead/pull/10).
Same thing happens to pre-Italy at the beginning of the video.
The key difference is there is no BitInternet craze. In a funny way, there was the craze around PetSmart and other dotcom 'crap' which is very similar to the FOMO-naivety that goes on in this Bitcoin world...
> Society used to enforce that women could not attain social status ... except via a husband.

That is such as 21th century culture perspective when viewing history. Take any litterateur work of art and reduce all the women in it down to their husband and what you get is nothing like what is described. The classic definition from 19th century when we read about what they viewed as the most respectable upstanding woman of highest degree usually refereed to family attributes such as class, titles, blood line, heritage, honor, grace, and wealth. A husband and his family would add to that equation but social status would still combine the attributes of both families. A woman from a low class that married up was still seen as coming from a low class family, and I see this as a common trope in many old dramas. The common scene is that the new wife joins the other women in that social class and she instantly get put at the bottom of the social status because of her heritage regardless of her husband.

It could still be the egalitarianism event after the second world war when women got equal rights in regard to work, but then the data is not that clear cut. Sweden have had equal work force of both women and men for decades now but the trend of lower marriage rates, increased loneliness, increased disproportional amount of childless men, has not topped off and is still worsening. The question is why it then hasn't stopped when equal amount of both women and men are working and sustaining their own quality of life. Is it just culture moving slow or is it possible that something else is causing the change?