skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually haven't tripped the same place twice yet, so my pseudoscience anecdotal arguments is probably wrong.

It's certainly possible that it's a new/warped/different filter on top but for now i like the other idea better. Especially because of Deep Dream. To me it would make sense that the brain would try and find patterns(faces, animals, familiar shapes etc.) everywhere and then end up with a final image where all bad candidates have been pruned. I wouldn't call it "more real" just more unfiltered and thereby "less real" since you are sometimes seeing stuff that should have been filtered out. My favorites for illusion/hallucinations would everything organic it's just god damn fascinating. Also any type of display(tv, phone) is just mind blowing to look at.
I have seen it in Pakistani Punjab, from an employee of the PTDC office in Lahore
Some previous examples of "effective" megapixels:

- The Nikon D1x had about 6 million rectangular photon wells on the sensor. But by doubling them up in processing (to make square final pixels), Nikon claimed about 10 million effective pixels. Needless to say, when actual 10 MP sensors debuted (sensors with 10 million photon wells), everyone stopped using their D1x's.

- Fuji used a diagonal array of photon wells on the sensor in the Finepix S2 camera, and claimed that through interpolation, this provided 12 megapixels of effective resolution. Again, once actual 12 MP sensors debuted, the difference was obvious.

- Sigma used a Foveon sensor with about 3.5 million photon wells in their S9, but because each photon well independently sensed red, green, and blue wavelengths (at different depths in the well), Sigma claimed a "3x factor" that allowed their software to produce about 10 million effective pixels in the final image. How'd that go... you guessed it, the vast majority of people preferred sensors with 10 million photon wells.

In short, there are plenty of examples of using computer processing to produce a high number of "effective" pixels, but that doesn't mean the final image will meet user expectations. I predict a pretty obvious difference between an "effective" 48 MP image from this stacked sensor array, vs. an image from, say, a Nikon D850.

That said, even though it's a compromise... compromises sometimes make sense. A D850 is very heavy and very expensive.

EDIT to add: The D1x was good enough to convince National Geographic to use that camera for their first all-digital photo story. I went to the live event at Nat Geo headquarters where they had some 20x30 prints on display, and they did look amazing. I believe they took the D1x 10MP image and sized it up using Genuine Fractals.

http://www.robgalbraith.com/multi_pageff3f.html?cid=7-6450-6...
+1 for discoverability. I haven’t used the McDonald’s kiosks, but I’ve ordered many times using the Chick-Fil-A app, and it’s great. I discovered all sorts of options I didn’t even know existed. I can get pepper jack cheese on my spicy chicken sandwich? Hell yes, please. And so many sauces I didn’t know about. You can order an Arnold Palmer too, with either sweet or unsweetened tea. Very flexible.

If done right, this could definitely be an improvement. On the other hand, they implemented a not so great kiosk-based system at my office cafeteria, and that transition wasn’t exactly smooth. The menu selections on the kiosks were much too rigid, and did not offer enough flexibility for customization.
Can't it be both? It's pretty obvious that a rising minimum wage would increase McDonalds costs. As min wage rises, at some point, assuming the average customer is indifferent to how their order is taken, it will make sense to have fewer cashiers and more kiosks. You're making an assumption that everyone just prefers a computer to a person. I personally always go to the cashier and can't stand the kiosks.
I'm not sure why you were downvoted, this isn't entirely incorrect per se.

In political dialog, too often "socialism" and "communism" are equated together in this country incorrectly. Venezuela and Sweden usually aren't directly compared together, but what happens is that failed authoritarian central-planned nations like Venezuela are often used as boogeymen against "socialism" in general, including socialist policies (like, say, a universal healthcare -- which is not socialist per se, but has some elements if there is large central planning) that have nothing to do with why Venezuela failed, and are implemented with some decent success in other countries.

Heck our own current president even used Venezuela as a boogeyman against "socialism" in general fairly recently. (https://www.newsweek.com/trump-was-laughed-world-leaders-dis...)
> _immediately move money to a bank account or you are dead_

So the "bank account" you are refering to is (or is a practically automatic gateway too) one of those "more stable financial assets" you mention above.

The fact that the banks can be trusted to do that is a sign of some kind of orderliness. I wonder if such an option exists in Venezuela right now.
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I can't stand the kiosk either. It's much faster to say "Egg McMuffin and a large coffee" then to go fumbling around through screens and menus. If there's much of a line I just leave. The food's not that good to be worth waiting for.
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>I attended this talk at IJCAI, and I must say that the whole system 1 / system 2 analogy rubbed me the wrong way.

It immediately rubs me in the wrong way because dual process theories of the brain are wrong and outmoded and need to die out of the public consciousness now!

I am muttering angrily in cognitive science!
Then maybe another state could sue and possibly get make it so all states could get a waiver (since it sounds at least a little like the ports betting law):

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/us/politics/supreme-court...
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At some level:

Alice: “Computers aren’t doing real intelligence, because they don’t think the way we theorize we think.”

Bob: “Computers are doing real intelligence, because we don’t think the way we theorize we think.”
It's not cherry-picked, actually; the historical standard in the UK is three years. However, it's not common to do any qualifying exams or courses in a three year program. There's a new trend of so-called "Centres for Doctoral Training" where students take four years, and get a year or courses and qualifying exams at the start.

Consequently, UK PhDs are often quite a bit more junior than US PhDs -- although it works brilliantly if you're an academic high-flier, as you show up and start doing research on day one, leaving with a doctorate three years later.
Seems to me a lot of people who support a regulation will be doing what the regulation calls for anyway - so they'll be subject to it, but it'll have no impact.

If I support banning alcohol, I probably don't drink alcohol myself. Hell, it'd be pretty hypocritical if I did.

(There are exceptions, of course - if I supported changing the side of the road we drive on, I'd wait for a change of law before acting on my beliefs!)
To me, a fundamental question is "is this a problem?"

Humans have similar problems too. Our intelligence is trained by experience and evolution to operate within certain parameters. More concerning to me is the fact that a human can conceptualize "couch" from a single example. ML algorithims needs to see thousands of couches before they can classify them.
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I don't see how companies can overlook language support in any kiosk. I live in Canada on the border between Ontario and Quebec and nearly all interactive procedures start with choosing "English" or "French" as a step 1 to progressing to anything else. Choosing a language or making it obvious to change the language from the default would be standard I imagine.

I should be able to fly to China and order a meal with very little difficulty, if any.
Larger sensors allow for shallower depth of field and higher resolution + dynamic range but generally slower readout.

Faster lenses help up to a point but since f stops of under 1 aren't really a thing, you're not going to replicate a large sensor with a fast lense with a smaller sensor.
Another potential solution during rush hour would be route splitting - each alternating bus on the route is assigned to stop at even/odd stops (e.g. bus 1 stops at 1/3/5.., bus 2 stop at 2/4/6.., 3 at 1/3/5..). This assumes that the extra walking distance between stops isn't too unacceptable (and has some issues for people with disabilities).

Socialising the idea to the passengers is also probably difficult.
Two mathematicians are in a bar. The first one says to the second that the average person knows very little about basic mathematics. The second one disagrees, and claims that most people can cope with a reasonable amount of mathematics.

The first mathematician goes off to the washroom, and in his absence the second calls over the waitress. He tells her that in a few minutes, after his friend has returned, he will call her over and ask her a question. All she has to do is answer “one third x cubed.”

She repeats “one thir — dex cue”?

He repeats, “one third x cubed”.

She asks, “one thir dex cubed?”

“Yes, that’s right,” he says.

So she agrees, and goes off mumbling to herself,
“one thir dex cubed…”.

The first guy returns and the second proposes a bet to prove his point, that most people do know something
about basic mathematics. He says he will ask the blonde waitress an integral, and the first laughingly agrees. The second man calls over the waitress and asks “what is the integral of x squared?”.

The waitress says “one third x cubed” and whilst walking away,
turns back and says over her shoulder “plus a constant!”

https://simonsingh.net/books/fermats-last-theorem/mathematic...
"There is a duality between zero and infinity, expressed in the elementary identity 1/0 = ∞ . If one side of the duality does not occur in nature, also the other side ought not to."

It wasn't clear to me that the second sentence was sufficiently proved. At first glance it seems reasonable, but the authors went a bit too fast past that claim for me.
Hi HN! I'm a high school developer who just went through the college admissions process. Along with my Common Application, I submitted this website to Stanford to show them a little bit of what I've done with technology over my high school career. The site was built over three months last summer with Webpack and React.

It's among one of the best websites I've built to date, and even though they were unfortunately unable to offer me a place in their class of 2022, I thought you guys would be interested.

I hope you like it, and please feel free to leave any comments or questions -- I just recently added a mobile version as a result of feedback on my previous submission, and I'm always looking for ways to make it better.
That may not be true that people used to have less time. For example this article: http://www.businessinsider.fr/us/american-worker-less-vacati... state that medieval peasant had more free time than actual american worker. Did they use this time to take drug is another topic though.
Given the fact that you lack any Indian cultural references, and given that your interpretation seems to differ from those suggested in the article, what makes you think that your interpretation is anything other than something in your own head?
> Note I said delete or anonymise. The point is that the information shouldn't be personally identifiable once the person has asked to be forgotten (within reason of course - you still have to hold as much info as the law mandates whether that person likes it or not).

> You're welcome to keep the anonymised data and do whatever ML or other analytics with it.

Oh yeah, I saw the or, but one of the major points of collecting data is to better target ads to the person that created these data, and with this, this use case is eliminated. Yes, in some cases, it'd work, but I'm sure that there are many free services that depend on data about the person, not data in general. I agree that people should be informed, but if I build a service that is paid with data, the data should be mine. If I record you on camera while shopping in my shop, I should be free to do whatever I want with that. Given that you've been informed about recording before entering the shop, you had a choice to not use my services.

About FB/Google tracking on other sites - I think this should be responsibility of the site owner (ensuring you're informed), but other than that, it's the same - you are providing data to the site owner and the site owner is sending them to others; if you don't like it, you don't have to use their services.

We could've spent 10% of what we spent on GDPR on education about tracking and the result (if the goal was to reduce tracking) would be much better. Right now people are tracked more, from my personal experience.
That university is ranked as 21st in the world on the ranking least favourable to it and in the top ten globally on all others. Its system of graduate education is comparable to other U.K. universities, like Manchester, Imperial, Edinburgh or Durham. You are expected to get a doctorate in three or four years, you generally start research immediately but there are exceptions that will have taught courses and you need a great Bachelor’s or a good Master’s to be admitted.

The only real difference between the British system and that in mainland Europe is that you will find it difficult to impossible to get onto a doctoral programme without a Master’s. You’ll still be expected to finish within at absolute most four years and to start researching from the word go.

As far as different tracks for graduate students go, same as in the US. North Florida State and Harvard both award doctorates, ditto for Anglia Ruskin and Cambridge.
They do have an app, although it's based on GPS + selecting a location rather than iBeacons.

It's actually one of the more interesting challenges of beacon (and QR) adoption; most of the obvious/easy to implement use cases are already well supported by GPS
Oh wow. Thats totally tangental, but I will look up that chapter. Interesting.
usefulness is a pragmatic attribute, it does not by itself say that something really exist in reality, unless you believe that everything that is useful exists. I think the OP do not believe that everything that is useful exists in physical reality, therefore seeing four tables does not mean that fours exists in physical reality separated from tables or other objects. So you are probably using different metaphysics..

But sure, since the days of William of Occam pragmatic metaphysics have been popular, but again popularity does not necessary prove something is right. Just explaining both sides of the argument here and trying to resolve the potential missunderstandings
The frontpage of Mastodon seems to have a lot of overlap with the former frontpage of Craiglist Adult Services.
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Awesome.. I'm just reading Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. This is pretty much the technology that that they use to cool their 300KW sci-fi computers :)
"you get a bigger and more effective state that can offer advanced services reliably"...are you kidding? The healthcare system in the UK is in danger of collapse and likely to be bankrupt in another decade or so. A "bigger and more effective state" sounds like an oxymoron to me. Many of those countries that have high tax burdens also have a culture that values working and as such, they do not as many social parasites as we have in the US.
This isn't really germane to any point I made, but I presume this is the standard point in the discussion where you lob this particular bombshell ("I did so NOT see it coming that the guy who writes 'GNU/Linux' everywhere is a Free Software purist").

Whatever I wrote about the limits of "FOSS" software can be multiplied by a solid order of magnitude for "free only".
You're absolutely right... I was just trying to keep my comment short, and saying $3500 implied a similar level lens as well.

Also, and I think we agree on this, "better lens" doesn't need to mean "expensive", I can get very similar results from a cheap 40mm f/2.8 vs. and a 10x cost 50mm f/1.2 when the lighting is difficult and I can use a very high ISO.

As for the video part of your comment, let's agree to disagree.

I was trying to say that I get people commenting on how good my videos are because they're used to seeing video shot on mobile phones.

However, I'll take Canon color and 1.74x crop 4k over a 2x crop any day...shit 500mbps Canon codec be dammed.
There's that as well. I hadn't thought about that when I posted.
How did kids learn before McDonalds?
> Some calls asking for money are completely legitimate, and if you don't act, bad things will happen.

Have you got some examples? I don't think I ever got a call asking me for money. Or at least not one that I needed to act on immediately - a call from letting agency to check my rent payment would be the closest, but it was both verified and done outside of the call.
In theory? Maybe. In the real world those traits have been present every time.
I think the article is wrong, he assumes 100% automation. I'm not sure the marginal gain from completely eliminating all serving jobs will be worth it for a long time given that there's probably quite a long tail of quite complex interactions when things go wrong (and hey, redundancy is important as well in case the kiosks go down!). Though obviously the number of cashiers is going to end up significantly lower than it was at the start of this decade.
It is my understanding that this is due to having the wrong kinds of sensors.
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Would love to have something like this in some kind of portable vest. So long as the cooling unit and battery pack are reasonably small, I could wear it anytime I leave my house (it's 35+C here in Tokyo and uncomfortable)
>"It's also tremendously more efficient to tap your finger on the plugged in USB than it is to wait for a code to be sent to your phone or go find it on an app to type in."

But with regular TOTP and a software device on a smart phone I can print out backup codes in case you lose your phone. This allows one to log in and reset their 2FA token. What happens if you lose your Yubikey or similar? I guess this doesn't matter as much in an enterprise setting where there is a dedicated IT department but for for individual use outside of the enterprise doesn't TOTP and a software device have a better story in case of loss of the 2FA device?
This so much. I switched away cca year ago from trying to lift as much as possible during every session simply because it's stupid. I was walking on the edge of serious injury for no good enough reason. Anyway most people I know don't go to gym for bodybuilding, but rather getting/keeping in shape and looking good.

So unless you are a professional (then you already know about this more than I do), lower the weight and stick rather with 15-20 reps. If you feel that given excercise is too easy during set, just another 5 reps and try to do perfect movements. YOu can get the same famous 'burn' in the muscles. This also builds stamina, which is much more beneficial in real life compared to pure power for few seconds.

Needless to say, since I switched, i didn't have a single injury, not even minor stretches. Even if I am totally exhausted, I can handle the loads I use to put them down/to the rack safely.
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I've just started developing my first mobile app, and experience tells me that developing the app is just a small part of the journey.

Got any recommendations for mobile app development blogs (specific posts would be great) for those just getting into this area?
They must have needed huge batteries - or could the bus engine power a large enough inverter to power all the 486s?
Those things are also present in lots of places that are not at all communist.

Correlation does not imply causation. It also doesn't mean they are literally the same thing.

Consider zimbabwe or libya or syria - they all have these things and I don't imagine you consider them all communist.
I would assume that cause and effect is one of the few things that a baby does understand.

One one level: It might be that the baby does not understand cause and effect, but it certainly acts in relation to it.

"I cry cause i know that will cause me to feel better."

The baby don't understand the sub components of why one thing causes the other. (On a deep level neither do we, but as adults we do have a richer collections of models that explain things, like crying causes other people to give me attention)
That's deliberate. It's the Switter posts, like Twitter, but, well, you get it.
Clicking the link with no prior context, I read this as being purely an economics lesson. And as an econ lesson, none of it makes any sense because most government debts are owned by banks and citizens, not other governments.

From the link to the journal article in the post:
>Aim. To give students experience of researching important data and to conduct a policy-relevant negotiation exercise.

The blog post isn't bad because of the author isn't informed on economics. The author is a professor in the subject. The real problem is that the post never states its purpose, and misleads everyone to think this is an econ lesson. In actuality, it is a classroom exercise about international negotiation, and the toy economic model isn't supposed to have real world utility.
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Am I the only one who is utterly confused by what I am looking at?
Few people end up taking it habitually. That's not to say none do.

I had it when I was a late teen, enjoyed it, took it again a number of times (7/8?) into my early 20s, but by the last time I just found it boring. I think most people have some fun with it and move on.
Nope - no idea
I attended the Stanford Linear Accelerator computer meetup in 1976. A guy had programmed a surplus PDP-1 to play music by entering the code through the dip switches on the front panel. It created various pitch notesby timing loops.

PS This meetup was also called the Silicon Valley Homebrew Computer Club.
> First of all, do you think the US would do anything about anything, out of the goodness of their heart?

No, they would do it because there is massive money to be made. The Venezuelan people and oil reserves are a great untapped resource, no use letting an entire country go to waste.

> the only conclusion I can draw is that you view the Venezuelans as somehow incapable of making the right decisions and ruling themselves.

Isn't that blindingly obvious by now? What more evidence do you need in support?

> I won't comment on this one, because I cannot even fathom the train if thought here.

I never mentioned anything about "ransacking". Multinational companies are ultra-efficient and very beneficial to their employees and partners. Let them freely do what they do best, and they will generate great wealth in Venezuela. Everybody wins. The communists lose. What's not to like?
This doesn't look like ReactOS was involved in any capacity other than its logo.