skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://tweetsverse.blogspot.com/2018/06/welcome-to-new-foru...
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Perhaps I was naive about the state of the art. After the now-dead reply I received, I searched, and found a couple of papers like this

https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04590 - "Frame-Recurrent Video Super-Resolution"

but if you look at p. 8, I think many of the algorithms still wouldn't end up with readable text. This paper is from this year, so it is an area of active research.

I wrote a quick mail to the authors to see if they would put the video through their setup (since the last paper update was just 3 months ago) and share their results.

2. Trying it myself...

After my downvotes I tried this small piece of software:

http://www.infognition.com/VideoEnhancer/

Which shows a before/after. Here is their page on their super-resolution algorithm:

http://www.infognition.com/articles/what_is_super_resolution...

I used their plugin on virtualdub on a sample of the video. The results weren't useable. Here is a picture which shows the before and after:

https://imgur.com/a/0rhy7q7

(The diagonal lines are a watermark because I didn't pay to register video enhancer.) Also note that though it might look like a sharpen mask was applied, in fact it was not: this is just the superresolution that video enhancer came up with.

Now granted I don't think that this particular site uses state of the art algorithms (its references on the page I linked are decades old) but it's the first one I found.

The site also has a page explaining when it doesn't work:

http://www.infognition.com/articles/when_super_resolution_do...

It specifically calls out "If your video is compressed to a low bitrate, in many cases this is very bad for super-resolution."

This certainly seems to be the case here. On my comparison picture above you can see that it certainly is an improvement, it is just not enough. I still can't read most of the lines. I think this also doesn't use as many keyframes as it could. (Which makes sense - it is rare that a rare static image is up for, in this case, 25 full seconds!)

There are at least 14 full keyframes there so I think there is more detail to be extracted, but it would, obviously, take longer analysis. I'll let you know if I find anything better or get an answer from the paper authors.
Ask HN: What approach would you suggest for Text classification?
Hey everyone!

We are trying to solve a problem where we need to classify the articles into the right categories.

Currently, using a FastText to train a model with 100,000 articles categorized into 600 categories. The loss seems to be converging but the precision is not going up, another thing that requires clarification is that can we use pre-trained Wikipedia English embeddings to categorize text.

What would you recommend using FastText or some other algorithm/approach towards this problem?

Any suggestion/ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks.
I don't know if that can be generalised. I lived in GR and went to Grand Valley. I saw few churches with rainbow flag raised on them. Grand Valley is also very big on protecting LGBTQ. Had gay friends knew gay bars. For an immigrant like me, GR has been nothing but warm and nice. Sorry to hear about your experience.
Sounds like it. The T commands are text related and rg and k are setting colour in RGB and CMYK. You may be able to figure it out by changing a colour, then looking at what is suddenly bright red or whatever you set. Or by changing the string preceding Tj. When editing, make sure you don't change the length of any objects (use space to pad) as there are hardcoded offsets in a table, usually at the end.

The PDF specification, while long, is pretty readable for this kind of thing. You can download the 1.7 version free from Adobe. Appendix A has a table of commands.
Yeah, I love it too. The band name followed on the musical inspiration for the band, which was to play "What the future used to sound like". I'm inspired by the grand history of science fiction themed music - early electronic soundtracks like Forbidden Planet, Afrofuturist sounds like Parliament-Funkadelic and 1970s Miles Davis, Ziggy-era Bowie, Blade Runner, huge swaths of prog-rock... And here we are, living in that future, and it doesn't sound a damn bit like what we were told it would sound like.

I'm also writing some songs that are actually science fiction short stories, set to music. It's an interesting challenge.
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> Nobody in America with a job is poor enough to be hungry.

That's an absurdly out-of-touch statement.
But you'd never have to fear being kicked out or deported, I think that would be better at this juncture in history than having a higher tax rate.

GOP'ers claim they hate immigrants because they don't pay their fair share, or will take their jobs. If they paid more than their share of taxes then it would get rid of that entire argument, and is the basis for my idea.

There could be tiers perhaps.. Citizen, ALmost a Citizen, Visiting w/ Work Visa temporarily, No documentation. W/ the last segment having the highest tax bracket. I mean no offense, but you'd then just need to choose does living in America = worth it by paying the extra taxes. At least you wouldn't be pushed out..

Maybe they could have another level Not-citizen but has voting privileges (of course that might come with a higher tax bracket in exchange for the privilege to vote..this would be up for debate obviously... ).
Just because "a structured low entropy process that dissipates energy faster than diffusion" will win out every-time doesn't answer the question about how a self-replicating structured low entropy process will form in the first place. Once life starts then it will explode, but the problem is how to get life actually started.
Made the front page recently, but strangely few comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17362475
Thanks! This was cool info.
I was searching, on and off, for a specific motorcycle model for 3-4 years without finding one. Recently I found a small but active group dedicated to this particular model and within 4 weeks there was a post about some for sale.
Really great, thanks for posting.
Having used both DC/OS (mesos & marathon) and kubernetes in production.

The one thing DC/OS had absolutely nailed was the web interface and bootstrap. The DC/OS interface is brilliant as it allows you to explore all the possibilities and actually have a overview of what is happening.

Also, it was a lot easier to reason about because everything is contained in a single marathon job. No need to split everything up in deployments / services / ingresses. A single JSON file is all you need for DC/OS. Less to think about.

The downside of all this is that DC/OS feels like a solution for a theoretical problem, while kubernetes is the solution to practical problems.
It is needed for future proofing because the idea is not that every single IPv6 address is used.

To simplify routing, only a small fraction of the address space will be used.

At least that's how I understand it. Think of it like this - GPS coordinates are longer than post codes and less efficient for storing the location of people. But as a bonus finding someone's location using coordinates doesn't require a huge database of post codes.

Similarly, coordinates have a huge address space - every location on the planet, but we don't expect people to actually live at every location - in the ocean etc.
Yes. See birth rates declining and marriages happening later and later in life. Lots of studies on that. Women share the top men in casual relationships. Basically we are reverting to the days of the past prior to monogamous enforced by religion where men had multiple women. See studies on that which show most men didn’t reproduce while most women did.
The article is a meandering and muddles

I agree... so I was surprised to read at the bottom: "John Herrman is a technology reporter for The Times."
Yeah. Also the successful advanced civilizations might not even be emitting any signals at all.
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People aren't going to die from 3 days without food, but it will be very uncomfortable. People have died in wealthy countries due to dehydration after natural disasters, it happened in Katrina. People were without fresh water for up to 5 days in that case.

As I said, you should expect to fend for yourself for 3 days. If you have no food or water or medical supplies ready, how do you expect to aid and assist people who need help?

My experiences from New Zealand have led me to believe that if there's a magnitude 8 earthquake under a major city, which is entirely possible, that unless you are seriously injured you will be expected to look after yourself for several days.
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It’s all google’able. I’m on my mobile so it’s rather hard for me. The stats released by dating sites are pretty damning for most men.

Read this https://labs.la.utexas.edu/buss/files/2013/02/The-Mate-Switc...
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Surely Skype's license doesn't disallow redistributing its unmodified binaries?

I can only see this relevant clause in the ToS, and the repo wasn't reselling:

>6.6 No Reselling. The Software and Products are for your individual use. You shall not resell or commercialise the Software and/or Products to any third party.
Considering that it is easier to send robots into space, that might suggest that we are more likely to stumble upon a robot civilization.
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Trump trying to balance the US government budget..
Not refuting your theory, but in all probability, you (like most others in the industry) have friends ("friends"?) that simply relay info to recruiters from these two companies. Poaching is often done that way.

Also, at least in my case, both Google and Facebook periodically reach out, years after our last formal interaction.

Had a recruiter working for one of my clients for a few years. They later left the company and joined the competition. Recruiter's past "success stories" all got contacted, not a week after.
The fundamental forces are a starting point, but it's not right to assign special significance to EM. The great majority of mass in the universe does not feel electromagnetism. It's dark matter.

Humanity's expertise in electromagnetism is driven by our biologically EM-sensitive eyes, our physical size, the energy levels that permit classical chemistry, and the timeframe in which we live our lives.

Perhaps aliens exist with much larger physical forms, communicating with neutrinos over vast distances and larger time scales. Humanity would be completely blind to these signals.
I think it's beneath the lawn, buried in the ground.
So you can tell which applications were built by software? I was always hesitant to attempt automating job applications
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Please, human beings are the same regardless where and when they they have been working.

It was the same in the court of Julius Caesar its the same in Google.
I emailed the mods.
Not sure if you're being tongue-in-cheek or not, but your trope resembles, variously, vapourware, Potempkin Village, or end-of-the-world cult.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village

Trigger: TVTropes:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SecondComing

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ApocalypseCult
"Here [1]"...link please?
I think I heard recently on NPR that an American making minimum wage earns enough to buy 100k kcal per day. (Sorry, no source)

If you compare that to countries where people actually starve you should be able to see the difference
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Thank you! The LE site is terrific (as is LE itself). Because it is open-source, I essentially cloned it for a professional association. https://casinoanalytics.org
Credit to LE is on the FAQ page. Thanks again.
I would say no on the wealth part initially. But I think (being on the road to) success is a major part of what attracted her to him initially.

They were already together for a few years when he almost went under with one of his companies, on the verge of losing millions of euros (and most of his capital at the time), and she helped turn it around by helping out as much as she could.

Wealth however does make it possible to keep your lifestyle "fun" -- they travel frequently to interesting locations (a long trip every 3-4 months, sometimes with and sometimes without the kids)

As far as true love goes, it sure seems like that is what they have.
Note that the DMCA notice was sent over six years ago, on 2012-05-01.

Has the repository been taken down just now? Or is this all six year old news?
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Businesses would pay sales tax, using the same local systems they use now to pay their local sales tax. The sales tax system would then split out what belongs to local govs and which to federal and divvy it out equally. Then we'd expand the sales tax reqs to other areas/expenditures that it normally doesn't apply like wages, dividends, land/home purchases, etc.

GBI wouldn't cost a fortune, if we get rid of existing handout programs, and streamline a lot of systems, also having a sales tax that we could alternate yearly to easily keep money 'balanced' would help with rolling out new features and testing scenarios to make sure we can afford something like gbi or universal healthare.

A lot of the systems can be automated, IRS does a lot of audits on citizens to make sure they're paying income taxes - we wouldn't do that anymore, we might still need a small agency to enforce that businesses are all in compliance, or that could just be on local/states to figure out.

The fact that there's no tax rebates/refunds would mean everyone pays taxes including the formerly in poverty now collecting GBI. GBI would essentially be their reimbursement/help. But it makes everyone a contributing actor, and if we need to raise sales tax to 15% before we can afford reasonable GBI, that makes sure everyone has a roof over their head, then it would still be worth it.

I think from a technical standpoint we also need to cut/streamline government in a lot of places. Healthcare, omnibuses, etc.. One thing I'd like is a github like format for bills, where you commit smaller bills, that are repealable, so big huge omnibuses are outlawed. It doesn't make sense that to get one small piece you as a senator want you have to vote for 10 pieces you don't want. Everything needs to be in smaller pieces so if something works we can keep it, if it fails we can revert the change like we would a bad commit on git.

The problem is the systems we use all require thousands of people to run, when they don't really have to, we could automate tons of stuff in the government but we don't because of all the jobs that would be lost. W/ gbi that wouldn't be a concern. I can't wait for robots/ai to take away 50%+ of jobs over the next decade freeing up mankind for more creative endeavors.
How to Bridge Generational Divide in Technology-Driven Industries
> uncontrolled immigration from poor countries bringing crime and causing social distrust

This is not a thing that exists. First, immigration into the US, from poor countries or otherwise is not uncontrolled by any stretch of the imagination. Notably, immigration rates are far far from their historical heights. Second, bringing crime is a bold-face lie: immigrants commit crimes both petty and violent at lower rates than native born Americans. And, of course, crime rates are also at or near historical lows no matter what stat one looks at. Third, "social distrust" is pretty odd thing to try to pin on immigration: while there is some research that indicates that a non-assimilated minority undermines social trust, the US as a whole certainly doesn't have a migration rate of non-assimilated minorities at anywhere close to those rates, those migration rates have not increased, and the demographic "Bowling Alone" type studies indicate that the non-dynamic communities where immigrants aren't settling are the ones having issues.

As for "people moving around like cattle", internal migration rates (people moving out of state/county) have fallen steadily over the last thirty years or so. And since when is the movement of people towards opportunity a bad thing? What if towns in which it's "impossible to create good economies" have simply outlived their usefulness as going concerns?

Predictably, this comment rules out moving to opportunity or a social safety net or investment (collective action to solve problems such as "few companies [with] a lot of bargaining power" is spooky) and believes that a well-connected society can only happen when "good economies in towns" are first brought into being by magic as opposed to anything that can actually work.

And, of course, the NYTimes isn't doing all that much to promote policies or politicians aiming to "destroy socities [sic]". Come on now.
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> People who lose their job become less happy, and do not recover until they get a job again.

This is just scratching the surface. Why do people that lose their job become less happy?

I think it's much more likely a combination of stigmatization, uncertain access to basic needs, and social isolation (friends and family are probably working after all). That the job itself is the sole, or even the main, purpose provider doesn't seem to hold up imo. I think that furthering the skin deep idea of job = purpose isn't helpful in societies obsessed with work.
You can set it up so that the user doesn't have to type sudo docker. But they still effectively have root access via docker.

I guess it gives some social pressure not to do superuser things?
Misery and suicide have existed in countries with more and less Socialist economies than ours. The fact that Thomas thinks the solution to these suicides happens to be some utopia version of the DSA platform isn't all that interesting. Just another predictable, the ideology I am opposed to is at fault for all of this.
@Ryan this was interesting: "When you uses classes in JavaScript, you are not sidestepping prototypal inheritance. You are simply using more familiar keywords to interact with the prototype" — that's something I've been wondering a bit about.

Actually, I've written about 40k lines of Typescript code in a web app of mine, and ... Never used prototypes & classes myself more than maybe once in a plugin to something else :-) .... I only use prototypes... indirectly via React.js, though.

@medntech & @Ryan: maybe Talkyard would look aesthetically better, demo: https://www.kajmagnus.blog/new-embedded-comments/ & https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments (I'm developing it)
Sure, most of the things you list are not good. However I don't see anything on the list that has had a drastic change. If you want to know why people commit more suicides now, it would be useful to try to point the what has changed like the article does.
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I downvoted you, then upvoted you, then unvoted. I think yours and the parent's statement are somehow both mostly correct. I also think there is a bigger point missing, but I'm not sure what it is.
What does it mean for something to be at a right angle to something else?

There's a euclidean geometric answer to that statement, but it's hardly the only correct answer.

When people use it to mean that they're speaking of two issues that have a range of independent possibilities, it's not wrong to invoke linearly independent bases.
Anyone who is criticizing this experiment I challenge to go undercover as a prison guard or go work for ICE. In fact many journalists have done this in the past.

Dehumanization of the other mixed in with a bit of fear and poof civilization is out the window. Hello Colonel Kurtz.
I want to be able to play Skyrim on the toilet.
If you assume that a storm put together a Boeing 707 randomly, and there are many storms in the Universe, then yes there will be a good chance for there being Boeings all over.

Not to creatroll the discussion, but the probability of occurrence for each individual independent event that led up to what is life on Earth, in each branch of the tree of life, on each evolutionary path, is so low that number of planets in the Universe multiplied by all the milliseconds in the history of the Universe will not get very far toward reasonable chances. Take, for instance, a protein of 100 aminoacids. 23^100 possibilities, to put it naively, yields a quite low probability. And there a many types of proteins needed for life.

IF one knows of any study that touches seriously on this topic, I'd happily want to know and be corrected!
There is a much more neutral way to write it.

>Thiel who is known for funding a lawsuit against Gawker and his conservative politics.

Still, I think those, while visible, are rather minor notes compared to starting a billion dollar defense contractor.
Unless your job is actually filing patents, I'm sure you'd still live a relatively comfortable life without filing them. You must not be that opposed to patents if you are willing to go against your own beliefs for some small bonuses.
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There is not direct lineage.

In WW2 the Japanese sent a captured American Jeep to Toyota for them to copy. This was the Toyota J. The J was redesigned into the 40. The 40 was redesigned into the 70.

Other than the overall 4WD front engine body-on-frame design, I do not believe that there are any carryover components nor unique design features of the Willeys in the 70.
Really, I do use it a lot, however I am astounded by the fact some people literally keep their faces at it all the time

When walking (pay attention to the traffic!). When riding the bus. When doing pretty much anything.

It does get boring after a while, to me at least. And looking at nature or other stuff is good.

But no, some people want to stay plugged 100% of the time in some silly freemium game.
Folks with entirely different lives and world views should not be lumped together. This is what the Islamic folks are doing wrong as well.
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I had the same experience, but just waited for my item, and it arrived. It was an obscure old bike part, quite rare and just what I needed, so I decided it was worth the wait.
That argument has always felt like it came out of economics 101. Maybe in a world where everyone is a rational economic actor motivated only by maximizing profits, people wouldn't make anything new without a patent.

In the real world, open source and open research communities have no shortage of innovation, even without being able to place artificial blocks on the competition. It turns out, creator's motivations are more complicated than making money alone.

In my opinion, innovation might move a bit slower without the money injections from VCs who can be confident they can get patents and a safe ROI, but I think we'd be better off in the long run if we allowed creators to build off past ideas without the fear of being sued.
Good point, forgot about that. tbh, nothing changed after the spin off. eBay still seem to have direct control over how your paypal account gets/loses funds.
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The place where I observed a lot of tiger parented people running out of nice standardized road was either (a) at the very most preliminary steps towards research (Honours thesis in the British/Australian system or MSc coursework or masters in the US) or (b) having to independently conjure up project ideas in a company (i.e. moving out of junior development roles).

It's not exactly Isaac Newton territory.