skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I have a 12 megapixel camera in my phone

I am sorry, but megapixels do not a good camera make.

My Fuji X100 (35mm prime) and Nikon D200 (50mm prime), the latter from over a decade ago, both easily produce clear pictures in eye reflections when the light is good.

That said -- have you actually tried?

I just took a selfie with my MotoG5s front camera, and I can see a face from my FB feed reflected in my eye. And that's in crappy office lighting, from a screen with brightness turned down to minimize strain!

>Or even any staged photo you have or can take

To re-iterate: it is ridiculously easy to take such a photo with a real camera with decent lens. Modern cell phone cameras are capable as well if the light is good.

Here's a non-attempt: just a crop from the selfie I took

https://imgur.com/ax9Vz5B
China was never any threat to any country in the history of China

Tibet? Taiwan? Vietnam? South Korea (by proxy)?
AI Begins to Reshape Chip Design
Would be very amusing if they started cooking up this program because SF proposed their cafeteria ban.
Thank you so much for talking about critical path -- I think that is the biggest takeaway.

As someone who had a manager who was very hands on... it was frustrating. The code he wrote was brilliant, but it was hard to review against him. Furthermore, when bugs came up, it was always "hey guys I don't have time for it, please fix it."
I'm confused, are you only talking about apple maps? I just checked on Google maps and I can easily see all the street names on my screen, as long as I zoom in far enough that there is enough space.
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A uniform magnetic field is used to cause the trajectories in the simulation. Because the ions are allowed to follow large, circular (helical in 3D), cyclotron trajectories, self repulsion is minimal over a large portion of their motion.

At the focus, where repulsion is more of an issue, all ions are essentially flying straight at the focus (at the same time) with enough energy to pass through it easily unless they collide with another ion there.

There were some instabilities in some simulations that I did where I cranked repulsion to massive levels... It's beyond my expertise to interpret whether those instabilities are fatal or not, or would cause problems in an actual device.
this simulation is here: https://youtu.be/NnbfgTP7v5M

One benefit of this weird geometry is that the walls of the device can be very far from any hot plasma. Energy losses should be minimal, and the self intersecting trajectory gives ions multiple chances to fuse once accelerated.

It may not work, but I feel that it deserves to be looked at.
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cmd+f "enhance"

Nice one HN. I'm not disappointed.
I'm familiar with a link budget. That doesn't have anything to do with how much a phased array antenna costs.
> pre-pay $250k towards airfare for your company, or $50k personally

I’ve never heard of the prepayment for GS option, and those numbers seem low. Do you have a source for that?
$10/flight * thousands of flights per day * 365 days per year = real money. Airline margins can be ruthless.
iOS 12 supports the 5s, which was released in 2013.
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I lol'ed at "secretly transitioned".
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Super resolution doesn't do what you seem to think it does.

It probabilisticly fills in details to make an image look good. It doesn't make those details correct.
I googled it, and didn't find any that were suitable for something anywhere near what SpaceX is doing. Please provide links if you know of some.
Should programming languages be made for IDEs rather than humans?
If you look up somewhere in Google Maps and then go there, with your phone in your pocket, Google knows where you went. It also knows how long you stayed there.

Now they know exactly where it is, when people like to go there, and if the opening hours seem accurate.

Not limited to them of course, this is also check-in companies' business model, like Foursquare.
Yes, but what motivates those people isn't relevant unless they're the ones making the decisions.
> I've never met someone who doesn't know that eyes are reflective.

"Moon landing? Bleh, who cares. We know the moon is a planetoid and how far it is, why is it interesting when we land on it? I've never met anyone that didn't know it was possible to land on the moon."
One packed bus does not make a service, if it's unreliable. And over those distances, they may not be profitable at the ticket prices they charge. And they may not be commercially viable if the ticket has to recoup all the costs + profit.

That's why, sometimes governments operate services, even at a loss, as a benefit, to their citizens.
It's hard to get excited about a work that's still so much in progress. Who will be the target market and in what capacity for the final product? Or is that not to be worried about? This seems like doing something because you can, rather than a large demand for anything about it.
Because the underlying message service wouldn't be controlled by any single entity. This would mean that once the code was out there, you could be confident that no-one would change the service when there was a change of CEO or new censorship laws brought in or something like that; we'd have a neutral piece of underlying infrastructure that anyone could use to build a robust discussion platform on top of.
The article was only about spacex satellites, so that was the context of the thread. I mentioned originally that they're not ahead of other companies in the satellite space. They are definitely ahead in the launch category.
Superresolution can only process information that's even there in the first place -- it might be trained and aware of faces enough to produce a face from very low resolution, but it won't be an accurate identifiable face, it'll be a machine's hallucination of a plausible face, and to even find yourself in that whole courtroom argument of "is this the accused or does the AI just dream that up" you'll need enough resolution in the first place that your entire reflected face isn't just a contributor of a single captured pixel -- enough only to guess at skin hue.
Yikes, I had no idea.
This one is even closer, but it looks like these researchers used a custom camera setup and the presentation I saw made a big point of the fact that they were doing the work using their existing consumer grade cameras and lenses (since the presenters worked for one of the big digital camera companies of the day)
Me too. I guess telescoping means you can reduce the length of the rigid portion to keep them in smaller spaces, like on your belt or something. There's a whole culture of that around Hong Kong, for example. Everything must clip to belt - otherwise, not cool. I only half joke.
To be fair, it has been about 90 years since the last time the Tories were elected in BC, and with no functioning Tory party in BC it doesn't seem like that will happen again any time soon.
The essential difference is in the name! A debit card creates a debit from your account. It is your money that is used to complete the transaction. A credit card creates a credit to a revolving loan account. It is the bank's money that is used to complete the transaction (and you repay the bank separately). The bank cares a hell of a lot more about its money than it does about your money. Sure, regulations come into play as well but they're not enough to bridge that essential difference.
If a given place has a higher level of homicide, doesn’t it logically follow that more people there resort to violence as a means to solve problems? Your personal anecdote doesn’t really disprove the actual statistics. Most countries have laws against bribery and corruption, although I doubt you’d define a countries acceptance of bribery and corruption on the basis of whether there are laws prohibiting it.
So, 3.5 billion years of organic computer evolution from now is when we should begin to worry? ;-)
That's a frequency illusion, also called the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, not confirmation bias.
I used to live in the Cayman Islands (Grand Cayman specifically), and my issue with Apple Maps is, forget about the enhanced details being mentioned in this article, the actual landmass on the map is WRONG, and I just checked - its still wrong. Roads and roundabouts and my condo, and Camana Bay (big mixed commercial living area) apparently in the ocean. Its been like this since they introduced it.

Here's a side by side of West Bay, Seven Mile Beach and Boddentown, between Apple Maps on the left and Google Maps on the right.

I understand that its not a huge market (even though there's something like 2 million+ cruise shippers stopping every year), but man... it really makes me not trust it anywhere when the map is completely wrong, geographically speaking

https://i.imgur.com/4DaiXyp.png
https://i.imgur.com/f5nerNY.png
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This looks great, and comes at a perfect time for me, as I was looking for a replacement for the supremely annoying Google News on my phone. You've made all the right decisions, eliminating the misfeatures of Google and other news aggregators.
Well this practice was really following a template instituted by Muhammad who also robbed local merchants from Mecca unless they accept Islam.
This just isn’t true. In the modern era, and presumably thanks to computers and revenue modeling and so on, business is often quite reasonable in comparison.

It all depends on the route and situation but it’s common for business to be only 25% more than coach on many routes where it’s very much worth it.
I don't see that happening in the near future, at least not until there is ubiquitous 5g coverage that is affordable.

*posting from a place where there's no cell signal and the only internet access available is satellite (the POTS is too noisy for modem connection)
> I guess you haven't heard about the fees and penalties levied against companies who fail to conform to FTC regulations and government mandates. There's plenty of regulation. It's simply a hard problem to solve.

I've heard plenty about them. The fees and penalties are often so small compared to the revenues of the companies they're levied against that they seem more like a cost of doing business than a punishment that could actually change behavior.
>Well, if this was not the Ai age, I would probably agree with you. But now we have super resolution and this papers can serve as a warning that now someone can recover the image, enhance it and use as evidence.

What does Ai have to do with this? AI can't create lost data. If you zoom in on Facebook pics and don't see anything, there's not much that can be done.

On the other hand, if you ever tried taking a close-up of anyone ever, this wouldn't be a surprise.
I think the biggest issue is that the whole process of getting on the bus is terrible. I took a Greyhound from New York, and it was just a disorganized mess the entire time. I waited in a line for over something like 45 minutes to get my luggage tagged, and there were only 20 people in front of me in line. And then when I went to line up for the bus, there were no actual lineups formed, just a mass of people, each waiting for different buses, all crammed into the same place. When I finally got on the bus, it turns out that we had to switch buses part way through, which wasn't on the ticket, so I got bumped and had to wait another hour or two for the next bus, which ended up going a longer route and taking at least an hour longer.

Maybe Greyhound elsewhere is different, but for me the entire experience was a nightmare. I took greyhound instead of a plane to save a little money, but I would gladly pay $100 extra just to avoid the whole mess of getting signed in and on the bus.
I don't think they're genetically unable to stop, but I think they're genetically predisposed to prefer eating meat if it's an option. I've gone without dairy for a couple of months here and there (while traveling in Asia where it's much less of a thing than at home) and definitely still missed it by the time I got home.
When your friend is a faster runner, and is wearing running shoes, he will leave you in the dust. Solution: everyone wears combat boots, and carries a 30 pound load on their back. Now the field is level; and you even have to cooperate to go forward.
Yes, tools like this can be so focused on accuracy and efficiency they forget to account for the value of paper bag compromises: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9YgBF58Qks
Services story is amazing. An area Apple could grow is host backend services for the 2M+ app developers out there.
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Seriously, you have put in more than 10 years hard labor at a genuinely bad company where it's frustrating work and you don't get paid enough, and you actually want to help them?

Ridiculous. Get out of there! Don't let the door hit you on the way out, and don't look back. You owe them precisely nothing.
Wow this is going pretty high actually
Politeness is all about rules. A society where people tend to follow complex rules of social interaction is polite, even if it becomes very violent if someone breaks those rules. That's why they are rules in the first place: they are enforced with violence or shame. I don't think I'd be able to find a single large society where people are polite but face no risk of violence or intense social shame when they break the rules.
I was specifically exploring this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18359646

I wanted to see how it would look if "whenever you zoom in enough that there's enough room on a visible street to put a label, then put the label!"

I think my render looks absolutely fine. I don't see why I wouldn't always use it if I had a toggle switch. Yes it's cluttered if you just glance at it, but we don't use maps as pieces of minimalist art.
A lot of people given that the major carriers have upgrade plans to trade in for the new one after one year.
The largest icon size Apple requests for App Store apps, 512px square, is larger than the display of both the original iPhone, and the first Macintosh.

I believe Apple uses this large size for display promotion of the app on its store, not necessarily something it would use in the normal operation of the app.

A typical 32-bit RGBA bitmap, 512 on each side, requires four times the memory as the NeXT Megapixel display.
Yes, periodic compressions are a feature of both.

I've looked a lot at what they are doing and hope to replicate their story. If I can generate some "marketing neutrons" like they did, maybe funding will follow.
This speaks to one of the most profound things about Uber: once an infrastructure of transportation workers is set up, a single software development project can instantly transform the value of that network no matter how large it is. Many metropolitan areas, I’d imagine, would love to incentivize their resident corporations to spend more money on local food services (those “late night food allowances” are greater than what the finance firm’s employees would spend themselves) but can neither justify the development costs nor provide upside as an incentive. Hardware meets wetware meets capitalism. It’s both a thing of beauty and a little saddening at the same time.
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I wonder how many people missed the interesting conclusion of that article (that places, not map details, are the key when we get to augmented reality and self-driving) since it spent so much time analyzing the differences in the new map and speculating on how they did it. That stuff was cool too, but I think the author had a really good insight that most people are going to miss.
I have to join jesterjester here to say that this is about "sky is blue" level obvious.

To punch the nail in that coffin:

"Wedding photographed through the eyes of guests"[1] is exactly what the title implies.

That was from 2015.

Someone should let the wedding photographer know he is a scientist now.

[1]https://petapixel.com/2015/11/27/a-wedding-photographed-thro...
Fizzbuzz does that to some people. It's a mind-control meme, and a very powerful one.
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Not too long ago I had to deal with C# in the same style, which reminded me of it; and not surprisingly, there's also a C# version:

https://github.com/jongeorge1/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition-CSha...
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Needed this. Right now my city (heck country's) cellular services have been been suspended on account of the thousands of people rioting & torching public and private property to protest the acquittal of a woman in a blasphemy case by the Supreme Court.

Just more of the same, I guess.
TIL that yes, that's true, but only on Android. iOS only lets you Open, which uses the same window.
I would like something that filters either Google News or Apple News (app), and removes all stories of murders and abuse.

I understand that a small % of adults behave badly, but I’m not sure that reporting each instance isn’t actually making the problem worse. Or desensitizing us. I guess morbid curiosity sells.

I would also like to exclude most Trump news. But still know what’s going on in the world.
I tried translating the slides, but my Japanese is very bad.

https://gist.github.com/huntiep/91d272e45fb4c87ed1e2bfc6e8d1...
>Everybody "knows" that scene from Blade Runner is "just science fiction". Well now it's not.

It still is, that's not what the paper is about.

The paper really seems to amount to "gee, eyes are reflective".
I've done some simulations, but have taken them as far as I am able to without additional funding. The results were promising, but the cost of better software to MAYBE get better tests was insane... Over $50k for a package that might not even do what I need it to do.

I've contemplated writing my own software from scratch, but that just seems daunting. I'm quite burned out.
This is my warning to those of you attempting to push the boundaries of AI; You will never achieve the utopia you desire because your creations are only 95% perfect. That kind of "perfection" will be enough to enslave us all. You've been duped into betraying every ethical boundary you've ever considered based upon a promise that your intellect will save us all. Unfortunately you've doomed us all to live under the auspices of a system that only needed the power to punish some of us in order to silence all of us.
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Most of the time when I'm going to an unfamiliar restaurant in my city I don't want "directions" though -- I want to know "It's on street X between Avenue B and C."

If I have to walk up 10 blocks and across 5 blocks, my route is going to depend on the traffic lights. "Directions" aren't what I want, what I want is to know where the thing is in terms of landmarks I know and can recognise, and that mostly means street names.
For some reason the national forest boundaries on google map seem to be frequently wrong and also change over time (at least I've noticed some changes). Trinity (CA) looks to be completely missing, as is a large portion of Gifford Pinchot or Okanogan-Wenatchee and maybe Snoqualmie (WA). Not sure why this happens.