skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what they meant is that there is no built-in production-ready navigation library, which is honestly atrocious.
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Don't most browsers run one process per page/tab nowadays?
Excellent performance on all videos but one (Elephants Dream). That video hangs forever strangely reporting a total length of 10:50:04 in the lower left corner, that is, over 10 hours which is of course incorrect. Maybe a problem during upload?
All other videos start immediately even in full HD; so far I've watched a couple in their entirety with no glitches at all.
The four cornerstones of gangsta rap music (seemingly the dominant subset of it) are:

1)Prostitutes (And pimps and promiscuous sex and STDs that go along with that)

2)Guns (And you can bet those aren't being used for self-defense against wild animals when you travel to your remote cabin in the woods for a weekend)

3)Drugs (These are self-evidently bad, so no need to elaborate)

4)Money (Often obtained as a result of illegal use/exploitation of some or all of the above)

And even absent all that you can often hear lyrics about the performer singing about how he (or the song's protagonist) "couldn't make it in a white man's world": Afroman - Palmdale.

That type of depressive, often criminal culture seems to fit the description of "self-destruction".

> no one conflates the behavior of say redneck Americans or free love hippies with the self-destructive culture of white America.

Neither rednecks nor hippies have any significant influence on how an average white american behaves. Most people would struggle to name any names.

Yet it's trivial for people to name a few prominent gangsta rappers. Heck, those who achieved cult status were shot in mid 90s.
What does EU mean to you?

Does it mean you can move freely from country to country? (You can, it's Schengen)

How about goods? (They can, they're in the single market)

How about animals? Pets? (Switzerland accepts EU pet passports)

How about laws? Switzerland has many of the same EU laws.

How about judiciary? They're moving to accept the ECJ.

At what point does it matter if they're EU or not if all the other rules apply? If you didn't know, you'd probably wander around Switzerland thinking it was EU. That's my point. I'm not claiming they're a member state. I specifically said that, in the first line. What I am saying is that they're hardly independent of the EU, and that makes a big difference.
> native web dev

That has to be the strangest combination of terms I've seen this month.
There are a lot of unskilled workers who could get gainful employment if local governments have tax waivers to companies who dig trenches and run cable for the purpose of delivering last line competition.

Digging trechnes is expensive, boring and critical path for kickstarting diversity of ISP competition.
That's not entirely true, and it's not as simple as you surmise. The article says that this effect is not seen in some plants, like maize. It also mentions a case where protein, iron and zinc are lower, but Vitamin E is higher.

Calling this pseudoscience and biology 101 is a very poor choice of words and shows a poorer understanding of the contents of the article.
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Chrome does, Firefox does not (I've got 5 processes for a billion tabs.)
Mea culpa, looks like it's only on the wiki pages:
Page last modified on July 27, 2011, at 08:56 UTC

That, and the blog that was last updated four years ago.
Ah, my mistake, it should say "server-driven," which is more accurate. The view isn't actually rendered on the server, it just seems to be sent over in a declarative format, which the client then renders into a native view.
It is "like drawing on a canvas", in some cases like QtQuick it's even working with OpenGL directly.
Could it be a side effect of some part of the surgery procedure? Anesthesia perhaps?
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The hope for many, perhaps a vain one, is that negatively impacting technical organizations (open source projects or MIT's ability to host computer science course videos) will have a disproportionate effect on the developers of youtube who on average might care about about these sort of organizations more than others. It could hurt youtube developer morale and/or their ability to recruit.
Forgot link to video => https://youtu.be/nnJCYK2F2N0
I don't know about the USPS's implementation, but the UK's Royal Mail not only collects ID for this service, but sends an unredirectable letter to your old address saying 'we're starting a redirect, contact us if this is odd'. So it is possible to do sanely. Like Facebook, I suppose - require a scanned death certificate?
> Does the binary version of VS code send telemetry by default? I mean, that's an implication.

Does it matter? There are binary versions of open source and Free Software programs that send telemetry as well.

Open source only means that the source is available. Free Software only means that that the source must be provided to the user if you distribute a binary of the program. THAT'S IT. There are no other guarantees of privacy or freedoms from telemetry and data gathering. That's not what the licenses are about. People need to stop assuming that the licenses say something more than what they state.
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Reading a bit between the lines and keeping in mind that rumour that Facebook was removing RN from some of their projects…

Could it be true?
Does AirBNB see the writing on the wall somehow?

I know that RN is open source and people will continue to support it and everything will be great, but without Facebook behind it, I wonder how much traction it’ll have.
The phrase "WTF?!" comes to mind here.

US immigration policy under Obama was already horrid - he had the well-deserved nickname "Deporter-in-Chief".

Now it's just sadistic.

This isn't really about details. To quote the article:

> It’s the apparent underlying premise that makes this new effort so troublesome: the idea that America is under attack by malevolent immigrants who cause dangerous harm by finding ways to live here.

> ... The President calls immigrants “animals.” The Attorney General presumes that everyone crossing the border—or at least the southern border—is a criminal.

Throw justice and humanity out the window, and sure, a lie told to an immigration officer about one's homosexuality in the 1980s can become cause to denaturalize an American citizen in the 2010s.

That's putting the devil in charge of the detail.
Ask HN: What are your main issues with meetings?
I've read a lot of comments on HN with criticism for meetings of various forms - what are the main issues that people have with them? And have you ever been in a place where they've been done well (either remote or in person)?

- break of flow from "deep work"?
- waste of time with no outcomes?
- overtaken by "loudest person in the room"?
- politics etc...
- anything else?
Another approach to space efficiency would be to do away with the need for dual video streams entirely and just average the stereo images together to form a single monocular image. Then, send a disparity map along with the monocular video. Decode the mono video and use the disparity map to interpolate the view of either eye. You’ll have all the information you need for reconstruction and the disparity map can be efficiently compressed via normalization and perhaps even by sending just the vectors of the contours.

Another idea is to take advantage of the fact head motions are really just a translation vector of the camera. There’s no need to send pixels that have just transposed locations unless they have changed in time.

If I was designing such a system I’d try to take advantage of the fact there isn’t a lot changing fundamentally in the scene when you move your head, and maintain some sort of state and only request chunks of pixels that are actually needed. You wouldn’t even have to use a traditional video codec as the preservation of state would be far more efficient than thinking about things in terms of flat pixels and video.
Haven't the statistical already show this? Millions of miles of testing?
YouTube has a monopoly partially because social networking aspects like search, recommended, etc.

However, another reason competitors haven't cropped up is because copyright law in the US and elsewhere highly favors publishers over hosters or creators. Publishers will sue the crap out of you the moment you get big enough to make a difference. If Google hadn't dumped money into YouTube, they'd probably have gone under years ago when Viacom and others sued them for copyright infringement.

We need copyright reform.
I'm very curious how you plan to explain this to non technical folk in a way that they'll actually care enough to slough through any of that. Blech.
Huge, shockingly large numbers of (certain) people are killing themselves with opiates.

But fuck them, right?

Check out this extremely rare case of (certain, other) people who occasionally face the unending horror of doubtful doctors.
Fair.

On PAE, I think the 4GB memory limit on contemporary Windows desktop OSes is what I'm remembering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension#Mic...
Firefox process per tab is behind a feature flag as it’s in testing still
Agreed - I suppose the point I was getting at was that public transport's record in the US is very mixed, and as such, it is not unreasonable to be skeptical of proposed plans...
Can this be marked as 2008?

I am sure this seemed timely to the submitter but it isn't.
I think OP took the email and replaced the body with lyrics from Sabotage by the Beastie Boys.

https://genius.com/Beastie-boys-sabotage-lyrics
I wonder how large your dataset has to be for this to be useful. You can get by with small datasets in some fields (i.e. retraining the last layer of Mobilenet, you can get good results with 200 annotations), I'd be interested to see how useful this is there.
On the other side, a hyperthreaded CPU used to be about 10 - 30% gain, but in tests I've ran on recent hardware (HP DL380 Gen 10) hyperthreading gives around 70% more performance (the test I used was running pigz [parallel gzip] on a large file).
We're super familiar with CarMaker -- great for dynamics and some level 2 stuff but there are some big difference between autonomy levels (from simulation perspective at least). At higher levels, autonomy algo development is more like modern software development. CarMarker is a fantastic product (along with CarSim, dSpace ASM...etc) but they were built for a different use cases. A very crude analogy would be tools for J2MEE vs modern tools for iOS/Android. Our product is available, just not very public about our more detailed approaches because that is really where our IP is. Feel free to reach out if you want to chat. Obv, i'm super interested in the topic.
It also really helped a lot of folks in the game development community when Carmack published his thoughts on dealing with latency in QuakeWorld around that time, and the Valve guys working with the Quake3(?) engine published something a bit later that pretty good IIRC.
And that's already great!
Lets put a different spin on this.

You realize that "I also worry deeply about hypothetical situations" is something that many people can't or won't do.

Have you ever shared with someone one of your issues (maybe something more mundane) and they blew it off only to have exactly that outcome (and then had to bite your tongue instead of saying I told you so?) Maybe you thought of it and didn't say it and kicked yourself for NOT bringing it up.

If you can do this then you may have a skill (and one that is somewhat unique).

The worry part, and the fact that it is chronic and haunting is a problem.

For me, It stopped when I realized that I wasn't getting to enjoy things in my life due to the worry. I made a lot of changes on the way. I embraced the fact that I was going to die - and that it was out of my control - you could get hit by a bus staring at your phone one day... a jet engine could fall out of the sky and kill you. I had to embrace the fact that I could not change the world only my role in it. I had to embrace the fact that anything I paid for was replaceable. That I could always find another job - that if I had to I could live in a shelter or a trailer or my car - because it would only be temporary because I could make it better. It took a LONG time and a LOT of self talk. It took a few bad things happening that were easily avoidable but also less of a real problem then what I made them out to be.

IF you don't think you can do this, or it won't work for you, then seek professional help - it works for a lot of people and may work for you.
Please don't dig up my yard N times; one Internet is all I can handle.
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I'd love to learn more about this. Do you have any more info? Email is ryan [@] shea . cool
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Yes, just torture them a little bit. Then when they eventually serve their term and are let free (Amendment 8) we'll wonder how they ended up more violent and mentally broken. And when they recede we'll double down on the violence.
There is an awesome book written on this exact topic:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NCV2RIR/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
"How to stop worrying & start living" by Dale Carnegie

It has very actionable and simple advice. I've given the book to many people and they all have liked it.
Where is the (2008) in the title to denote that this is ten years old? Does anyone have access to any recent articles about the same subject?
> Most techies moved on

But techies are not necessarily where the money is.

A large number of financial execs have spotted the hype, and see it as their "contribution" to their bank. It gives them the chance to do something different, maybe run their own team, and make a name for themselves.

From the stories I've heard they are not all clueless about the real potential either; They just see that this is likely to eat up even more investment, and they want to be on the gravy train.

I've heard that several of the consultancies are into this area as well, though they really have no clue what they are doing. Some of them have zero experience but they can still sell projects on the strength of their brand.
is this why they keep making resolutions against Israel?
I think there are two issues in play here.

First, if you lie on your application for citizenship, and the country (doesn't matter which one) finds out that you lied after granting you citizenship, I don't see a problem with them un-granting your citizenship, since the basis on which it was granted was false. (The lie must be material for this logic to hold, that is, a lie where if you told the truth, citizenship would not have been granted.)

Second, though, I see that this could be a lovely way to harass and persecute naturalized citizens if someone in power had a grudge against them (either as an individual or as a group).
The internet was supposed to be about freedom. What happened?
zero rating is like Google putting its own content (or content of their partners) to the top of search results.

both are legal and both are harming competition
USPS sends the same letter and requires you to answer several questions before doing it
We should not be naive. The tech is already there, I don't expect such DBs won't be built as it's already doable. And accuracy can be improved as algorithms get better.
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> Instead we get the opposite.

because young people have less money, less opportunity to get money, and the expensive things are far more expensive.
Yes, and we're saying that that campaign has inadvertently made one the strongest extant demonstrations that torrenting is actively morally good.

And that's amusingly ironic.
Didn't they get in trouble doing this with their amazon competitor? I remember for a while searching for things would give me options to buy them from google.
Rice is a staple for more than half the human population in the world, and hence anything that affects its nutrition profile is bound to have a huge effect on several countries, their policies on healthcare, hunger alleviation and poverty alleviation. Enriching rice may not be easy to do at this scale across many countries.

The Wikipedia article on rice [1] says:

"Rice is the staple food of over half the world's population. It is the predominant dietary energy source for 17 countries in Asia and the Pacific, 9 countries in North and South America and 8 countries in Africa."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice
I agree that America has a massive cultural + media problem right now, but I'm skeptical that the problem is literal "lies," i.e. factually incorrect statements presented as facts. The real issue is in embellishments, misrepresentations, and generally mixing of fact and opinion.

The actual facts, i.e. verifiably accurate descriptions of events, would probably average less than 100 words per article. And yet every article is 800+ words. What are the other 700 words about? That, IMO, is the real issue with the content of media these days (ignoring the larger problem with the distribution of it, i.e. social media).

The other issue is lack of ability for the average reader to verify facts presented in the article. There is so much information on every topic, but we cannot be experts in every topic. So by nature, we must trust others to be experts and accurately interpret the facts. Not only does this inhibit us from verifying facts, it also makes it impossible to provably judge which facts are true, but embellished.

Before a false claim exists, there is a vacuum. It takes no energy to create false claim X. Anyone can post an article claiming X, with no real need to cite any authority. But for someone to then disprove X, it does require energy. They need to read the article, find motivation to disprove it, and finally write and publish a counter-article disproving the claim of X.

There will inevitably be a delay between the article claiming X and any article refuting it. Since there is a constant influx of new articles, there is a constant subset of articles that are provably false but have not been refuted. This comprises a certain percentage of news, which commands a percentage of daily eyeball time. In recent years, both these percentages have become way too high.

Interestingly, this seems like the same pattern of cat-and-mouse games that we see repeatedly in infosec. Perhaps there's something to be said for that analogy. False articles are like bugs in the global information system.
That was not the initial implication[0]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/implication-...
That's a great resource. I notice there's a 31% jump from 1997 to 1998. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Street_Bank_%26_Trust_Co....
There is no way for any toolkit that's doing its rendering in WebAssembly to match font rendering with your operating system. Keep in mind though that editor demo is just one of already existing Qt's examples shown working inside the browser. I don't think any author of Qt based text editor will get excited that it will now be able to run inside the browser. However, there are plenty of other use cases that can actually get one very excited - for me personally the biggest deal is having Qt Quick working in the browser.
> Democracy seems to be working out decently well

Doesn't seem to be working particularly well in the US.
Yes. Unfortunately, it's Hacker News.
The best books I ever read to challenge those worries was:

- The subtle art of not giving a F*

- The rational Male

- No more mr. nice guy
This will be a really hard relationship to properly measure because the answer is both to varying degrees - depending on the species. Plants absorb tons of nutrients from symbiotic colonies but they also regulate how much and how fast they absorb those nutrients using a variety of chemical and physical means. Figuring out those relationships is an intractable problem with current technology (which isn't even capable of isolating or identifying most bacteria)

This is really easy to demonstrate on the plant side with cannabis: start out with some clones in your choice of grow medium and grow them until you can seal a nonpermeable material over the top of the plant (around the stem but above the medium so that the flowers/lighting is separated from it). Then, control the CO2 in the cavity so that the leaves and most of the stem is in high-CO2 conditions and the medium in atmo. Compared with plants that grew entirely in high CO2 and entirely in regular conditions using the same lighting/nutrition/medium.

Once you've got a large enough sample size to weed out the noise, the effects are rather pronounced: high CO2 significantly increases the size of the buds, which increases the absolute amount of THC in the plant relative to its root network size, apparently depriving several other metabolic pathways of nutrients. The concentration of terpenes and other cannabinoids will be significantly lower in the high CO2 plants regardless of whether only the flowers were in high CO2 or everything was (at least, that was the result with a common Sour Diesel strain on a 200 plant sample size).

That's a lot of factors to control for but there is a lot of underground research into this very topic because the quality of cannabis can vary dramatically based on small changes in growing conditions. Figuring out the various relationships between timing/CO2/temperature/lighting/nutrients and the active ingredients in the final product is worth a ton of money so I'm hoping that industry will make some headway into this research field.
Two ideas to improve this:

Transparency. If Foo dies and Bar reports them as dead, then inform all of Foo's friends about what Bar did. Foo's friends have a right to know that Foo has died and that Bar wants Foo's data deleted. In the real world, this is basic human decency.

Appeal process. If X number/percent of Foo's friends say that he isn't really dead or that his profile shouldn't have been deleted, then ask all of Foo's friends what to do. Simple vote, majority wins. If someone is still unhappy with the result of this, then they can take it to the real world court system.
Ouch. Huge hit for performance.
Electron uses platform-native font rendering. It's just Chromium, and Chromium uses Uniscribe on Windows and CoreText on Mac. Compare Chrome on Windows and Mac, you'll see the difference in text rendering.
Lots of CSS hacks to make them work properly across all browser versions and OSes.
That's a great example of how hyperthreading's performance effects are extremely workload dependent.
Android's sharing system is morphing into an unpredictable mess
The "market" inevitably leads to conglomeration and monopolization.

It's the natural state for the bigger entities to devour the smaller weaker ones and grow.