skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might be a true association but still not explain most of the cases of autism in kids being born today- DDT has been illegal in most countries for 30 years. There must be something else accounting for the more recent cases- perhaps another chemical having a similar effect.
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I think that's more a thing of personal preference. Many developers (me included) consider working on UIs a chore compared to implemented new features. And since they are free to do whatever they want, they stick to the features.
Commercial apps are usually pretty far from "unlimited funds". However, they know how important a good UI is for applications when you ask people to pay money for it, so they pay people to work on the UI and not on anything else. It's out of their hands, thus, it get's done.
> Try to replace ferraris with food and explain that during a famine, most people are simply not in the market for eating.

Makes sense to me. Famine suggests that someone goes hungry, so obviously not everyone is in the market. So it is either down those who can afford food get what food is available, and thus everyone else is not in the market to buy food. Or you resort to capping the price of food and rely on something like a lottery system, or first come, first serve to determine who ultimately gets the food. Only the latter would be described as a shortage of food.
> I wouldn’t say it isn’t already on par or more powerful than Photoshop.

Having just woken up, deprived of my morning caffeine, this sentence sent my brain for a real loop :)
Extremely important. As a junior developer, it was important for me to have people smarter or more experienced than me to bounce ideas off of and to help me understand concepts. Things like "Why use Git? SVN is perfectly fine!"

I don't know if this is true for everybody but there was a window of time where I got to work with senior developers before I became a tech/people manager. That was the time I worked at several different companies and learned from experienced developers before I got put in that position. You want to absorb as much as you can during that time because opportunities become slimmer down the road.
I think you misunderstood me.

I do not believe "you need to understand all these deep and hard concepts before you start to touch ML." That is a contortion of what I said.

First point: ML is not a young field- term was coined in 1959. Not to mention the ideas are much older. *

Second Point: ML/'AI' relies on a slew of various concepts in maths. Take any 1st year textbook -- i personally like Peter Norvig's. I find the breadth of the field quite astounding.

Third Point: Most PhDs are specialists-- aka, if I am getting a PhD in ML, i specialize in a concrete problem domain/subfield, so I can specialize in all subfields. For example, I work on event detection and action recognition in video models. Before being accepted into a PhD you must pass a Qual, which ensures you understand the foundations of the field. So comparing to this is a straw man argument.

If your definition of ML is taking a TF model and running it, then I believe we have diverging assumptions of what the point of a course in ML is. Imo the point of an undergraduate major is to become acquainted with the field and be able to perform reasonably well in it professionally.

The reason why so many companies (Google,FB,MS etc) are paying for this talent, is that it is not easy to learn and takes time to master. Most people who just touch ML have a surface level understanding.

I have seen people who excel at TF (applied to deep learning) without having an ML background, but even they have issues when it comes to understanding concepts in optimization, convergence, model capacity that have huge bearings on how their models perform.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning
*https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Modern-Approa...
when I'm looking up not-available-in-the-USA episodes of The Great British Bake Off? Usually Dailymotion, which even has chromecast pretty well integrated with their player.
Less energy loss?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_level#Biomass_transfer...
That's still a specific interpretation.

In fact those customers care about the interpretation a lot. They know they're going to get an exaggeratedly soothing and smooth version, and that's exactly what they're paying for.

The Sony/Google problem seems to be more that the AI is clever enough to recognise a piece, but neither Google's developers nor the AI were clever enough to understand that different interpretations are important.

This isn't artificial intelligence, it's artificial bureaucracy - the automation of procedure for corporate benefit without any understanding the domain.
This is the thing that the open source projects whose UIs I've been disappointed by always seem to tout: customization. I think it's great you can customize stuff, but I posit that the vast majority of people just want something that's ready to roll out of the gate. Something that's endlessly customizable isn't necessarily a "pro" to me; if people need to customize something a bunch to make it usable for them, you've built a framework instead of an application.
> by all accounts are as smart or smarter than whales

Any accounts in particular?

Intuition aside, I find it hard to imagine anybody has a reliable measure of the intelligence of whales.
What you described is more likely to happen in a society where citizens are used to high standards and these standards can't be maintained. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think most Chinese workers only eat, sleep and work. How would you get them to the point of violent protest? It doesn't matter how bad the inflation gets when you're already at the very bottom.

Western countries are actually starting to imitate that system, because it allows for a somewhat peaceful submission of society at low living standards.
> This is inverse censorship

Perhaps. but it's needed to keep local cultures alive, and I don't say that lightly. The cultural influence of the USA is massive. Unless your country is okay with losing its identity entirely you need to work to keep it intact.
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> ... will use the money to do much overdue hardware upgrade for the core team members and organize the next hackfest to bring the team together

$100k is a sizable donation. I would have hoped that it could do more for the project than update some hardware and organize a hackfest. That's not to say donations in general shouldn't be used for those things. I just would have assumed that a donation of this size would have been best utilised as salary/salaries, allowing contributors to focus a more significant portion of their time on GIMP, and be compensated accordingly.
In my experience these problems typically boil down to not having a "product manager" or "product owner" who has both the skills and the authority to drive the usability side of the product.
You'll have to use their "new" version of a URL.

Sounds like Google is becoming a bully ;p. They shouldn't reset standards of World Wide Web.
> However, the average life span of on animal shouldn't have any bearing on the matter.

True. Otherwise we’d all be eating veal, and I don’t see that happening ... ever!
When should you take a mental health day?
This press release links to the full study here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30111184

You can take that url and at the beginning add:

sci-hub.tw/

so that it is:

sci-hub.tw/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30111184

That url should give you the pdf.
>We thank both Handshake.org and GNOME Foundation for the generous donation and will use the money to do much overdue hardware upgrade for the core team members and organize the next hackfest to bring the team together, as well as sponsor the next instance of Libre Graphics Meeting.

I don't like this. The money should be used for paying a developer or a couple to develop full time a central feature, like the UI, not to buy new hardware or organize hackfests.
But holy cow how disposable do you view people to just up and remove them out of your life because of a disagreement

I’ve never de-friended anyone over a disagreement over particular policy but I have erased people from my life whose style of debate is just to shout personal insults at anyone who disagrees with them. There is unfortunately alot of that about these days. But I would still recommend it, you will be happier, and anyone who repeatedly called you “Nazi” or whatever at the drop of a hat probably didn’t take your friendship that seriously anyway.
>I want to collaborate on research ideas and want to do something.

Nobody will feed you because your proposition does not make sense for corporations or academy, so I have a one year plan that will hopefully put you on the right path: help yourself by browsing the 2018 arXiv.org literature in a CS domain you really like for the long term of your career, start reading some papers in detail and try implementations, slowly but steadily learn more and become an expert in that niche while interacting with its communities and conferences, finally produce a case study showing that you can make a contribution. If all goes well, this is like a remote MSc that might be enough to get your foot somewhere on your terms.
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Create news, hope GIMP can use that money to work out a better and intuitive design.

For example, currently, many Filters don't have previews (Or the preview window is too small), which make apply them become a slow try and error game.

Also, the Text in the picture can be hard to select, as sometime you mistakenly select the underlying layer instead of the text.

Also again, Filters cannot be directly applied to editable text. Sure, GIMP will convert the rasterized text back to editable text, but doing so will discard all the applied Filters.
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We build websites for small business, many biz owners:

- Do not know what or where the "address bar" is.

- To visit their website, they will "google" (the verb) their website address (or biz name) - which leads to newly launched website owners thinking their website isn't accessible/online.

Chrome and other browsers combining the address bar with the search box has only made this situation worse.
I'm sorry but I believe this a mistake in priorities. This is an image editing program. The UI is the core functionality. They could cut half their features and focus on a better UI and it would make it a better program.

There are web-based photoshop clones that offer better usability than GIMP. I shiver in disgust saying this out loud but it's true at this point. They're slow, more minimalist in terms of features but they don't have buttons that overlap or scroll bars popping up out of nowhere. The GIMP UI is an unusable mess. It's the UI equivalent of "programmer art".
Arstechnica isn't helping, the title and the article makes it seem like google owns the web and is in charge of the standards.
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In Europe (and I guess, the US too), $100K is not even enough to hire an engineer at an average rate for a year.

I'm not sure what you'd propose to do with it exactly?
The Python VSCode extension started out as an independent open source project. It independently reached a pretty high level of maturity - and helped VSCode get popular among Python developers - before, a bit under a year ago, Microsoft hired the maintainer.

Since then it's acquired a few new goodies, but most of what makes the extension great happened before Microsoft adopted it, so I shouldn't think there's anything stopping Ruby from doing the same.
I thought that Linux is secure against viruses, because it has a sane security model, unlike Windows which is insecure no matter what.
Agreed but it's harder than that. You could get a professional UI designer but their results are not objectively good or bad, they are subjective. The benefit of a larger UI-focussed organisation, e.g. Adobe or Apple, is that you have a large enough team of UI professionals so that work is peer-reviewed and controversial ideas have to be justified. I assume that the Gimp team would be too small to have that kind of group-based UI sign-off?
Plaster of Paris is a different cement than the Portland Cement mostly used in concrete.

A big difference is that it isn't waterproof.
Insurance still works even if insurer knows exactly how probable is given outcome and how much exactly will it cost and adjusts the fee to that. People don't insure themselves because it's a good deal. They do it because they know they won't be able to survive financial burden of some rare event that most likely won't happen but they need to be sure that in the case it happens they'll be covered. And they are willling to pay for that.

Risk is still pooled because payouts come from fees of the people that didn't (and won't) experience costly events themselves.

More information just makes the business more just and less random for insurer.
I think the appeal to evolution helps more than it harms, because it serves to point out the feelings against homosexuality can be classified as a reaction to anything that used to hamper your ability to reproduce, like a lack of physical strength, hunting skills, slow running speed, lower environment sensitivity, etc.

If a society has moved beyond the ‘natural’ impulse to shun members with some evolutionary disadvantages, it must consider that it cannot shun members with any of them.

Homosexuality is always a subconscious threat, because until recently if you were homosexual your bloodline died with you. If your child was homosexual that’s one possible family tree gone, and if it was an only child that’s your bloodline gone again. So if feels like there’s always going to be some opposition as long it’s still connected to reproduction.
So let the user whitelist those. That's part of what "fine-grained" implies.
Good points. You also may find yourself wanting to have more than one robot. And then you may want them to talk to each other.
That's really unfortunate. It seems like a big loss of privacy with weak arguments in favor.

(1) They could easily spoof one UA for mobile and one for desktop -- user chooses.

(2) Why are they worried about the experience of Google Docs over Tor??? More generally why focus on the use case where people enable all kinds of unsafe javascript to do fancy OS-specific things?

It's like advertising your lightweight speed-focused track racing bicycle, then putting massive tires on it because some users had trouble going off-road.
This is nice. Hope to see new functionality and better usability. :-)
I am somewhat embarrassed, but also relieved to admit that I switched from vim (nvim to be precise) to VSCode (OMG M$FT!) and am very happy about it. I still use vim bindings as much as I can, but I guess giving up a bit of ideology can benefit one a lot. Although, that is until I start running out of memory on my personal laptop, then it's back to the terminal!
> I don't like this.

Well, it's a good thing that you are not part of the project then.
Ideally, yes. But some constitutions end up being dumping grounds for laws where the amendment process was considered preferable to that of statutes (e.g. if a constitutional amendment requires approval by popular vote and therefore can't be repealed by legislators alone). The Alabama constitution is infamously over 40 times the length of the US constitution and contains 900+ amendments.
> methods and operations

Isn't a major part of the idea in the article that we can replace the "and operations" part with a system of pseudo-interfaces that encompass those basic operations?
Criminal more like it.
New approach for viewing cancer cells
They were also char based display at something like 320x240 resolution and maybe 16-256 colors.

Modern displays at 1920x1080 in millions of colors.

30 years ago a terminal was the whole display and nothing more. Now its a single window amid dozens of other windows including content ranging from high definition video to real-time rasterized 3D graphics.

Yes, that's progress.
I think what was meant is that the NoScript UX had a huge overhaul and it is difficult to use. I personally find the new NoScript interface difficult to use too.

> Noscript user experience is also broken, discouraging its use.
It seems that whale longevity is only a recent discovery. The whale itself was a valuable resource of meat and oil.

The sperm whale's oil was used for lighting, and then used for automatic transmissions through the 1960s. Until the 1970s, there was no good synthetic replacement for whale oil.
How long do you think $100k lasts with two full-time devs exactly?
I'm not him - but it's obviously something close, if not full NTS. Real implementations always differ from ideals, so it's always possible to take a divergence and say it makes the implementation antithetical to the ideal. That's the heart of the fallacy. To counter, you'd have to identify the heart of the Strong Towns idea, the 'spirit', and demonstrate how the implementation violates that spirit.
I think expertise is assessed not by just using, but building or fixing things that are broken. If a toy model/example are good enough for you then sure, use your LSTM / keras implementation. But if you're faced with your model not working in your usecase -- what do you do? To answer that question and create a plan to tackle that problem requires knowledge and experience
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It's taken about 15 years since legalization in the US for people to start being more accepting. Maybe it'll go faster in India.
> and all hydrogen goes back to the Big Bang.

No, it doesn't, at least not as hydrogen. Some hydrogen atoms are produced by neutron decay.
That's just the thing. IMO there isn't one best country as far as movies (or TV shows) go in the EU.

I would say the UK is a strong contender but mostly because BBC and Channel 4 produce pretty high quality straight-to-TV movies.
>I think the appeal to evolution helps more than it harms, because it serves to point out the feelings against homosexuality can be classified as a reaction to anything that used to hamper your ability to reproduce, like a lack of physical strength, hunting skills, slow running speed, lower environment sensitivity, etc.

It could be classified this way if there's scientific evidence to support that hypothesis. But throwing it out there as a speculation isn't helpful.

>like a lack of physical strength

Surely this shows how silly the argument is. Where are the cultures that criminalize having a lack of physical strength?

>Homosexuality is always a subconscious threat, because until recently if you were homosexual your bloodline died with you

No, because there's only a rough connection between sexuality and who you actually have sex with. Being gay doesn't stop you having sex with women, and you don't have to have sex many times in order to reproduce.
Beatboxers' and guitarists' brains react differently to hearing music
Maybe instead we can have little badges called "Googs" that'll direct you to the AMP version of a website. Obviously, you'll need to pay the Google for this privilege. They'll make the design open source, but since their browser and Firefox will only support the official "Googs" implementation, oss versions will be dead from the start.

Letting a commercial company define a breaking web standard change won't have any repercussions whatsoever.
I'll just quote myself:

> allowing contributors to focus a more significant portion of their time on GIMP

I never said anything about hiring full-time engineers.

Also, there are plenty of people willing to be paid a little less to work on something open-source, and something that they take great pride in. We have to be careful not to take advantage of such people, but some people are in a position where they can afford to earn a little less to do something they love.
> The problem with (b) is that you typically opt into a large ecosystem that was originally written for a very different environment. This was a big issue with GWT: people would pull Java libraries, but those libraries, amazing as many are, were not written for the web or with code size in mind. This meant using a common library like Guava required a lot of engineering effort to keep code size in check. This also applies to WASM, possibly even more so.

Didn't GWT-RPC solve most of this ? You could simply run them on the server, which was another nice property of Java. You could actually link nearly any java library together with any app and use it, even with isolation if necessary.
All software is vulnerable to a lot of kind of attacks, especially when outdated.
The best place to start with Krun is its GitHub page https://github.com/softdevteam/krun/
I wanted to try a new terminal, so I looked up the terminal latency comparison article that was making the rounds a few months ago. Of the ones that ran on OSX, Kitty seemed to be worth trying.
Choosing 1 of N with and without lucky numbers
A sense of curiosity is helpful for artificial intelligence
What has your data? Getting from the apps you installed
Your example would be valid if U2F simulated a keyboard, but it doesn’t. The U2F key is a non-keyboard USB-HID device. The browser has special code embedded to identify and communicate with U2F keys using low level operating system USB api calls. The authentication process is a challenge response mechanism where the site challenges and the key signs and responds to the request. The browser adds an additional piece of information to the challenge and embeds the actual URL (and tls session id if supported) and the server verifies this additional information. Phishing and mitm are prevented because the server is validating the actual URL of their own site when checking the signed response. The whole process is really cool when you get into the details and is very well designed for security.
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Whatever Google comes up with I'm pretty confident that I will disagree heavily with. URLs is fantastic, solves the problem well and basically has little to no issues. There is no need to fix something that is not broken.

Thanks, but could you please stop trying to control the web Google?
If the core team members would use a gimp salary to buy new hardware, is it functionally the same.
They can properly support more devs with hardware, than they could with a salary. I like that they want to use the money communally.
Because on moder hdpi screens, text rendering involves pushing around a lot of pixels. Especially if you do stuff like having translucent windows, aliasing, complex font rendering, smooth scrolling, etc. So, it kind of makes sense to use the GPU for this. Of course on OSX, much of the desktop is already hardware accelerated so it is easy to overstate the impact here. Apple fixed this when they launched OSX in 2000 or so.

I've been using iterm for years; when they introduced their metal rendering backend the impact was very subtle but noticable. Anyway, given the amount of time I spend using cli stuff, it kind of matters.
For posterity, Vitalik has responded to the original TechCrunch article.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/9chb5y/the_collap...
Well, given that it is open source software, have you ever considered contributing? I'm not trying to be dick. I know that just because you can spot flaws doesn't necessarily mean you know how to improve them, nor are you obligated to just because it is open source. But I bet you could offer some valuable feedback and/or ideas.
What are you basing your opinion on? How much direct understanding do you have of what the Gimp team needs and doesn't?
I've been hearing about how ROS 2 is going to fix these problems since 2013. I'm not holding my breath.
> which leads to newly launched website owners thinking their website isn't accessible

I mean, practically, if it doesn't turn up when searched for, it _isn't_ accessible to 99% of the world.