skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest value of ML here would likely be to create a more useful energy function. This could be informed either by object detection data or hand drawn "energy" masks.

The other big change that could be useful would be to go with a non-greedy approach. Say you want to scale down a crowd of people - how do you remove, say, one person from the crowd instead of removing "low-energy" strips from multiple people. The people in the crosswalk image sort of demonstrates the difficulty of using basic energy metrics there.

One interesting idea would be to use GANs - come up with some parameterized seam removal function (with number of seams a input) such that the resulting image is still highly probable under the data distribution. So you can't cut objects into weird shapes since there aren't images like that in the dataset.
An amateur investigator's hunt for the Zodiac killer
Crypto is really, really easy to screw up. If you screw it up in production software, the consequences can be anything from "fifteen million people get their credit cards stolen" to "a teenager in Saudi Arabia gets beheaded for treason".

People have every right to learn about and experiment with crypto, but it's just too important to treat as a plaything. If you're marketing your software as "cryptographically secure", you're asking users to place their trust in you to keep their secrets safe. That's a tremendous responsibility and we should treat it with the utmost seriousness. People who should know better keep shipping software with utterly broken DIY crypto, so we need to keep hammering home the message that you should never, ever roll your own crypto in production software.

If someone asked questions on StackOverflow about how to perform brain surgery with kitchen implements, we might want to indulge their curiosity, but we have a moral obligation to say definitely don't do this, because performing brain surgery in your kitchen is an outstandingly terrible idea and someone will probably die. Right now, the software industry is suffering from an epidemic of kitchen brain surgery and it urgently needs to stop.
I think there were multiple ways Nazism could have been prevented or dealt with. It's just regrettable that it ended in so much violence. Probably what happened was neither the best nor the worst conceivable outcome.
Google's Toronto city built 'from the internet up'
While we're certainly seeing the rather horrible destruction of human kind's common heritage, I don't the "tragedy of the commons" model/metaphor [1 ]is at all adequate for describing this situation, which is driven by uniquely powerful and influential forces within our society rather than mere atomistic uncaring of the great masses (which is a factor but not the "driving factor").

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
>The aims of the American War of Independence and the Civil War almost certainly could have been achieved without firing a shot.

Maybe? I mean, the war of independence is a little different... clearly, we were not a real threat to the British; we just needed to be seen to be resisting, without getting crushed, until the war with France heated up enough that the British couldn't spare the troops to keep us down. from that perspective? it was almost a minimal violence kind of war. The "Fabian strategy" - which only worked against an army as good at logistics as the British because they were also fighting a serious war with France at the time. Really, we needed to remain a threat, but except for proving that we could inflict such damage, one could argue that the actual violence wasn't super necessary.

The ACW, on the other hand, I... kinda don't think there was a peaceful resolution there. I mean, it wasn't like the southerners were arguing for a British style 'emancipation with compensation to the former owners' and the war was just haggling over the price. The Confederacy pretty much immediately rebelled after it was clear that we'd have an abolitionist-leaning president... long before any actual abolitionistic action was taken, long before it was clear that such action would be taken.

I kinda don't see how the ACW could have been avoided or made less violent. By advanced nation standards of the time, we were pretty far behind on the abolition schedule already, and while the slaughter of the ACW was shocking, so was slavery.
I don't *know
Titty streamers are a real phenomena. Obviously they earn their money off of their sexual prowess. It's possible to acknowledge that and be respectful.
It may be a natural cycle, but full warfare between nuclear powers these days could end human life (and hence, further innovation) on Earth.
Sales factors (discounts) and vendor lock in's/preferences (with good reason or not).

Oddly some of the same stuff happens with drugs! https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/pg7ez9/pharma-reps-are-...
That's not a particularly high salary for a senior SW engineer in Israel (where the cost of living is lower than in Japan)
Lebanon LGBT scene empowered despite crackdown
Yes atlas is good.

For small, dense n you're not going to beat the cubic algorithm. This is the most common case in a lot of applications.

For sparse n, use a sparse version of the cubic algorithm. For large dense n, those sub-cubic algorithms might be better. Here n would have to be so large that you'd have to factor in the cost of doing it out of core.
I occasionally dabble in the spoken-out-loud “glassen” and “panten”. I should do it more.
This looks about similar quality to what I tend to get with mine. Good enough to have fun but probably not award winning :-)
Violence can certainly bring about short term gains for the perpetrators. I'm personally interested in changing the cycle of violence itself, more than replacing one violent actor by another.
A reminder to yourself and acdha, the original assertion was:

>Cryptocurrencies have been around for 9+ years, and there has been literally 0 use for it apart from conning rubes on the internet.

So...

>Yes, you are using Bitcoin

Yes, I am. I don't understand why you two are so angrily and bitterly agreeing with me.
From a mobile perspective, this site is beautiful.
1) renders beautifully, easy font size to read
2) offline access, so I can read it whenever
3) gave me the option to add to home screen, which when selected, opens in its own native app.

Can't speak for the content yet, but the experience so far is amazing.
Unreadable for me on a MacPro and an iPad. It's not Apple related.
To put space launch into perspective: the fraction of a satellite's cost that is the launch ranges from 1/10 to 1/3, and only a small amount of that is launch profit. Meanwhile, cheaper launches means there's cheaper consumer prices for satellite Internet and more satellite TV channels, in addition to more earth observation satellites. And more earth observation satellites means we have better weather and climate prediction, better disaster recovery, more safety for boats and planes, and less inexpensive communications in rural areas. All of these are excellent things for humans, and all of these get a little better as launch costs fall.
Ask HN: How to 'repair' knowledge?
I find myself at a point where I want to solidify the foundations of my knowledge in many areas that are weak (because of classes I had to cram through in university when overloaded, domains I learned "on the job" as fast as possible, etc).

Does anyone have good methods for patching up this knowledge? I find that I am bored by restarting courses of study I know 60-80% of already and even if I slog through, I don't feel that I'm using my time efficiently. For instance, in linear algebra I'm comfortable with the basics and have intuitions about more complex topics (such as computability of various operations) but I would really like a deeper understanding of the entire field. However, I can never find the right "intermediate" places to begin study, or good self-assessment metrics.
Too late. It now redirects to http://www.usatoday.com with lots of cookie trackers.
I don't know -- if you listen to his response video he's pretty straightforward / reasonable in his contention. This streamer keeps coming at him, he keeps criticizing her use of copyright for censorship purposes, being a sensitive hypocrite, and then trying to play the victim while not accepting his apology. Both parties benefit from drama, but one of them is being rational about how to handle it.
This chip has been a boon to SDRs. It moves the challenge of building an SDR to the filter banks and power amplifiers (the input and output conditioning circuits). Although these days most of the new transceivers have a low end in the 300Mhz range. It is somewhat easier to mix up the low frequencies into the 300+ Mhz range to cover them.
The only reason I even know who the dude is, is because of breathless media reports about what whacky thing he did this time that turns out to be...eh, not quite worthy of the fainting couch.

My first experience with such phenomena was around 1976, as I began to hear reports of the next youth-corruptor: The Sex Pistols. One might imagine the musical album that next rose to the top of my “must obtain at any cost” list.
I didn't downvote you, but it would be reasonable to downvote you simply because your original sentence doesn't express a full idea. You could have added another sentence or two to explain what the advantage of the stock market is. However, your follow up also seems inaccurate:

"interest rates on T-bills"

The article covers a period of 700 years, so clearly more than T-bills are under discussion.
It's tens of millions, not hundreds of millions. See: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2016/09/08/24547979/mayor-e...
Not with Google .. but 20 years ago internet porn was easy to find, eg via Usenet. But lower bandwidth would mean even images loaded slowly.

I hypothesise oestrogen mimicking chemicals in toiletries, and maybe plastics?, probably have some part in this.
It's funny that serialization is noted as a "horrible mistake" from 1997 but no mention of RMI, the even worse mistake. I guess Java has a lot of bad mistakes. I wish Oracle would end Java so I could move on to something else.

Or maybe I'll just move on to something else anyways as I'm really rather sick of writing these syntactically crippled lambdas. The streaming stuff is almost good.
If we're acknowledging that they get paid for being softcore camgirls, why is THOT such a scathing phrase to throw around?
>suing the curl project

Any server you curl is processing your personal data by addressing the HTTP response to your IP address. Curl itself arguably fails "privacy by design" test in that there is no Tor, etc. enabled by default, although I admit that's a stretch. The entire HTTP protocol design of obtaining documents by interacting directly with their publishers is similarly careless from a privacy perspective.

>"all networked software is illegal"

It's not always illegal. It's illegal by default, and up to you to demonstrate that it falls within one of the defined exceptions.

>"destroy the energy industry"

I'm quite happy that only serious and well-capitalized entities can surmount the regulatory hurdles to running a smoke-billowing power plant. I'm not happy that we're doing the same things to websites.
Platform for building structured apps
Awesome recursion schemes
Aren't taxes and cost of living much higher though?
Not the OP, but a 45,000 yen apartment in a city centre is likely to be quite small (essentially a studio apartment). It really depends on the city, though. You might be able to get a 1 bedroom for that in an older building.

Apartments in Japan tend to be small and having lived in various places in the world, I'm going to say that it is not really comparable. For example, no matter what you rent, you are going to get a stupidly small kitchen: probably a single sink, 0.5 meter counter top and a place to put a konro (2 burner gas range with a fish grill).

Apart from the kitchen (which takes a lot of practice to get used to), the bath room/wash rooms tend to make very efficient use of space. If you are living in Japanese style, you also put your futons away in the closet during the day and can live in what would be your bedroom.

I live in a rural area and since I work remotely, I wanted an office in the apartment. We tried to get a 3 bedroom apartment (so we would have a guest room as well), but it was just impossible. Nobody could even understand why a childless couple could possibly use that much space.

So it's more a matter of culture than price. In large centres you actually have a lot more choice. For example when I visit Tokyo, I often see advertisements for 4 bedroom luxury apartments. They are about the same price as you would pay in any other metropolitan centre in the world. However, things like that just aren't available in a lot of smaller places. You pretty much have to buy a house.
Not to mention not generalise from that.
Android Kotlin – 7 reason why using Kotlin is better idea over Java
I find complaints about "big font" bizarro. It's made so that a reasonable amount of letters/words fits on each row, the same as its the norm for ages in print and elsewhere.

Obviously the bigger you can get the font AND keep that property, the better.
That valuation is a total joke. How are they ever going to grow a 1 billion dollar business based on a server engine for videogames? The market for MMO server engines is tiny. So either they must sell it for millions per customer or their real goal is realtime HPC simulations. Even if they do find customers they are still at risk of google or amazon commoditizing SpatialOS.
Python’s For - Else
I think that the point is that direction is more important than velocity. After all if you travel away from the target then the faster you go the more time you lose.
Accepting everything at the same time is very nice in theory, but in the optimal case, the library should be able to mimic at least some established conventions.

Extreme flexibility becomes a burden after a certain point if it lacks adaptability.

Standards are built for these reasons.
I see the word datum often in code
Venezuelan immigrants turn to ride-hailing services across Latin America
I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just trying to be objective rather than judge the two models based on my opinion. My opinion would be that the US system is the result of Friedman free market capitalism trumping civil rights over decades. And in Europe I'd consider myself libertarian.
Happy to see this mentioned here. While I can't claim that it was "lifechanging" for me, I still maintain it to be one of the best SciFi novels I've ever read.
There's also the Null Hypothesis: that it isn't what was (seen to be) "working".

I went so far as to use quotes, because, how do we even know what "not working" would have looked like? If the Null Hypothesis were false, might he population actually have been, overall, healthier without all this "medicine"?
This is absolutely not true. If you choose a career wisely, make room in your budget for savings, by the time you are in your 50’s, you absolutely will be wealthy 9/10 times. Maybe not superyacht wealthy, but not worrying about retirement, buying a new car, or unexpected costs, type wealthy.
"Alternatively—and more likely—Americans must wait for another of the political realignments that ended previous spells of intense partisanship, including the antebellum rivalry that stirred Abraham Lincoln’s appeal to “the better angels of our nature”. The civil war, which led to one such rearrangement, started the following month."

Is it just me or has war fever begun to seep its tendrils into our more reputable and even-headed publications? It doesn't seem to be a thing that people are willing to talk about directly. Not that I blame them, war is scary.
Anecdotally, I have a close friend who works at a U.S.-based high end manufacturing facility which used to be owned and managed by a Japanese company.

It was sold to a U.S. company, and everything about management and corporate culture has gotten worse. People are less happy and feel they have less job security, which translates into poorer performance and reduced commitment. Japanese companies have their issues, but a lot of Americans have much to learn from them about making employees want to stay.
And in the UK, Lego.
>The very essence of "whataboutism" is to deflect criticism by directing it at an unrelated party.

The whole idea is that no party is "unrelated" and anything only makes sense when contrasted and compared, not on its own, on some absolute scale.

Even in the original Cold War meaning, the two parties weren't unrelated at all -- they were engaged in a Cold War, and one was criticizing the other. The accusation of whataboutism was then used to suss one side and keep the discussion one sided.

The whole point of accusations of whataboutism is to prevent the conversation to expand -- it's literally a thought-stopper.

>Perspective is about seeing the same thing from different angles. "But what about Zuckerberg" is not a difference in perspective, it's two completely different subjects.

That's not even a cop out. Perspective is about seeing a thing in general context -- how it measures, and how important it is related to others. Not merely seeing two aspects of it.

"Verb. put something into perspective. (idiomatic) To compare something with a similar thing to give a clearer, more accurate idea. You can put your worries into perspective when you realise how many people in the world are so much worse off than you."
Move to a phonetic alphabet. E.g. Arabic.
In dutch, you would say kippen for multiple chickens, and jongeren for young people/children (dare I say young'ens?)
Be careful, though. From the spec:

> The sequences ‘ . ’ and ‘. .’ are required to cause a causality paradox in all conforming implementations. As such, there are no conforming implementations.
Speakers of my Irish-border dialect do sometimes use "childer" instead of "children", you're correct. I suppose many remnants of old English (and equally other languages) are preserved in random local dialects.
[Remember to post the youtube.com version because the youtu.be version is autokilled.]
Pranayama is a specific set of asanas in yoga. That is to say these are Yogic methods, in addition to physical activities, and further philosophical activities that are encompassed within the Yoga system/school of thought.
1) It's an opinion article, written by a neuroscientist who does link to studies to back up his support. His main point is that there are dangers, and he is surprised people are not talking about it more.
2) His anecdote in no way claims that weed always leads to harder drugs, but simply that he happened to follow the pattern. It's a way to connect his past usage to his current occupation. He isn't trying to say "weed is a gateway" drug, but only that it was for him.
3) Editors write titles, not authors.
4) Ugh, I don't care.
If your particular matrix problem has special properties that aren't covered by blas, you can wring out an apparently impossible improvement. I once found a matrix problem (periodic cubic splines) which turned out to have a solution in O(N) - the matrix columns were related such that it could be replaced by a vector.
Very cool but it's a shame that bits of North Africa (Egypt) and Asia (Judea / Palestine) are excluded. Not Europe technically but parts of the Mediterranean organically
Depends on what you mean by wrong.

The point of NaNs and infinities is that sometimes it is easier/faster/cleaner to just let those things propagate through the calculation than to do conditional logic that in the end just tends to just simulate the same effect.

True, that consideration is more valid for element-by-element operations rather than things like matrix multiplications. But depending on the operation it might make sense to rely on NaN propagation rather than trying to prescan you matrix for NaNs.
Are you sure that app is native? Sounds more like a PWA and since they have a Service Worker [1] I am convinced that what you are seeing is not a 'native' app, but if it feels like one thats just fine :D

From a desktop user perspective (1920x1080) I think the font-size would be better readable at about 60%.

[1]: https://resilientwebdesign.com/serviceworker.js
But that hypothesis fails to apply to ice cream vendors case. If the hypothesis from Hotelling's Law already presents an explanation, why come up with a special hypothesis to describe this scenario?
This gives me an idea on how to improve a cgo call: have a pool of C-stacks, preallocated and managed by Go.

brb time to bench
Have you seen the New Glenn? It looks phallic as hell! More so than most rockets!

I love Jeff but sometimes it seems like he's compensating for something...
Ask HN: What is the one quote that you carry around in your head all the time?
Mine for some reason is "By relieving the brain of all unecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race"
In my experience, the people who leave comments like yours are the ones who don't often have to solve real performance problems. The compiler can't do it all (and, specifically, won't help you in the case the article discusses), and those who write code used in performance sensitive applications and/or libs used by literally millions of people have to know this stuff. Where do those people learn when they're starting out if everyone tells them to "stop thinking stupid, your compiler is smarter than you"?

I for one am glad they spend a lot of time thinking about it so that you don't have to and can instead spend your time opining on forums about premature optimization.
In Australia, is the singular of darta "dartum"? (Genuine question for any Aussies)
I don't understand how the author managed to write this, post it, and not realize how absurd it is.

Many booby streamers depend entirely on presenting a hyper-sexualized image of themselves. It allows them to extract revenue from an audience that has a very skewed, unhealthy view of women; this audience will pay large amounts of money because they feel as if it entitles them to female attention, and booby streamers will often enable these beliefs as long as things don't get unreasonable. There's a reason they go out of their way to attract negative attention (some will do this to the point of self parody, eg Kaceytron). There's a reason they go out of their way to encourage inappropriate attitudes. It's not a coincidence; it's their bottom line. Not that it's justified, or ever OK, but they attract abuse mostly because they generate low quality content and encourage inappropriate behavior, not because the Twitch viewerbase has some universal, misogynistic bent.
For the uninitiated: That's highly speculative

for reference

cold https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...

call, cry, (yell?) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/child from PIE g(')elt- (“womb”)

from Proto-Indo-European gel- (“to ball up, amass”). according to the PGmc page https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic...

but

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dolphin

says from δελφύς (delphús, “womb”), which says from

From Proto-Indo-European gʷelbʰ- (“womb”)

I'd offer German "Quälgeister" as modified reflex of the latter. Also "Quell" is synonym for off-spring. Well, spring is a direct translation of "Quelle", i.e. source. Coincidence? Cry fits in, too.

I do not believe the dolphin theory, though. I guess tail-fish is more likely. they have a penis after all, which is way funnier in general, perhaps to funny for low brow scribe type doctors. Ancient Greek δελφίς (delphís) lends itself for φίς (phís) > fish. cf. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fin IMHO

any questions?
I guess it's worth asking, if it weren't for a few key religious issues and the obvious corruption of one of the parties, how differently would they stand ideologically?