skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most successful gift I gave was a a tribal skull carved leather biker wallet for my husband https://www.bikerringshop.com/products/tribal-skull-carved-l.... He likes such things, so he was happy to receive it. As for the most successful gift for me, I received a puppy when I was 12.
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This truly sounds like it could be a fantastic tool for treating neuropathies.

Many patients with diseases such as CRPS (one of the worst pain wise) would be able to kill the pain signal allowing them to rehabilitate the affected area. Hopefully by the time the nerve function returns their body will have been able to battle the affected area into remission and avoid atrophy.
There is very little water in the air at those altitudes. Also, electrolysis uses a lot of energy.
But your aren't throwing away the old car when you upgrade. It goes on the used market and someone who has an even less efficient car buys it. Someone who probably can't afford a brand new maximally efficient car.
There’s something inherently gross about running my desktop in some sort of Frankenstein-javascript-single-threaded-modify-with-css mess that I’d rather avoid. And KDE has been faster for me. KWin is amazingly quick. What KDE lacks is the polish that the Gnome based desktops enjoy — if it has that I’d doubt a reason for Gnome to exist.
Accidental Expletives in Mathematical Literature
I have an uncle who is a physics professor. His hair is always a frumpled mess like those in the pictures. I always wondered if it was an affectation (this is what physics professors are supposed to look like) or if it just naturally comes with the territory.
> the British use pints in the pub and stone when weighing themselves.

Using a country that excels in being contrary, to the point of being the national pastime, is a poor example.

Even then we literally use metric for everything else. And although it is referred to as a pint, it is measured in metric.

Weighing yourself in kilos is a more modern thing, but that is really the only thing.
This is really great good job! First thing I thought when I saw Carlo was I wish there was a go version! I'd love to see this under the GoogleChromeLabs github organisation alongside Carlo so that it gets the same exposure and community involvement. Would you consider reaching out to them?
I installed it a year or so ago on an old 2014 MBP. It's battery was bulging and bending the casing so I knew it was on its way out... I used elementary os for a few months, mostly just using it for spotify, occasional programing, surfing the web.

Worked fine, and in this case, added some life to some older hardware.
A balloonet is a small balloon inside the big balloon. By filling it with air, you are adding mass to the craft without changing the crafts volume.
> Not many are going to want to learn a new language that’s scarcely used elsewhere in order to be able to work on any kind of project.

As someone trying to make some (proprietary) software compatible with elementaryOS, Vala looks really fun to work with... but the cross-platform story for Vala isn't clear. 98% of any sales are going to come from the Windows & Mac versions, so I have to prioritize what will work best on those platforms.

If I could make significant sales just from an elementaryOS version on its own, that'd be a different story. But elementaryOS already discourages sales by making their App Store "pay what you want" & excluding proprietary software. That's fine, and I understand their reasons! But as an elementaryOS user, it'd be nice to be able to install Sublime Text directly from the elementaryOS App Store, even though it's proprietary software, just like I can from Snapcraft.
Good on Alphabet for 1) releasing their findings and 2) not continuing the experiment for publicity purposes.

I'm wondering though, even if this were a success, how many people would it help? How big is the intersection of people who use contact lens (i.e. can afford them and don't find them annoying) & have diabetes?

In the US, there are 45 million people who wear contacts [0] and 30 million with diabetes [1]. Naively assuming independence, that means potentially 4 million people would benefit from this. Seems like small potatoes to Alphabet, even if they could capture 50% of the market.

0: https://www.cdc.gov/contactlenses/fast-facts.html
1: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/p0718-diabetes-repor...
I consider intelligence to be the ability to predict the future. The average human has reached a level of intelligence that allows them to bypass immediate impulses for a greater reward at a later time. Also in a way we are a nested intelligence. DNA and the biological structures it creates abstractly speaking exhibit intelligent interaction with the environment. Our self awareness emerges on top of that 'intelligent' biological structure.
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I've also wondered why I should use Pachyderm. Decided to give it a try, and wrote the following blog about it : https://medium.com/bigdatarepublic/pachyderm-for-data-scient...
" Finally, version control for your data "
I think it's more "things we assume thought process is needed to manage". Because we use thought processes when we do them.

This is also where the disconnect is coming from. We have self-driving cars now, so (an alarmingly good chunk of) people assume the car has thought processes. While in reality the car is more like blind walking than having the experience you and I have while driving a car. Certainly it's not thinking any thoughts.
I tried to switch from macOS to Linux Ubuntu running wayland gnome. HiDPI is sort of ish there.

I have been using GNOME with a 4k monitor a year or so. It works fine, including most exceptions. The exception are Gtk+2 applications such as The GIMP and Inkscape. Heck, even Tk applications are scaling. The really big downside is that fractional scaling is not well-supported under GNOME on Wayland (I don't care that it is technically a hack on macOS, it works).

Spotify definitely isn't

spotify --force-device-scale-factor=2.0 works great on my machine.

Shearing when scrolling is common.

For me this has improved when I switched from NVIDIA to AMD. The open source amdgpu driver is great.

Key bindings are inconsistent and all over the place.

Yes, this is very annoying. Even within GNOME applications it is anyone's guess what the shortcuts are. And they are not very discoverable since they have removed menus. To preserve vertical space. On 24" screens.

Debian just released a glibc that completely broke electron.

I take it that you are running Debian unstable?
We do actually work in decimeters a lot, we just refer to them in 10cm increments. And conveniently there are 10 units of 10cm in a meter.
MY university said they aimed to get 50:50 gender representation of professors within a few years from the current 80:20.

Now, you could achieve that in 2 ways - fire a bunch of old men, or hire mostly women for new jobs.

As a young man, I'd much rather see the first and I think it's fairer... however there's tenure. That means the only way for them to achieve their goal is to hold down young men, who are made to pay for the 'crimes' of the old
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Totally fair.

What I wonder about is choice. You've expressed yours, and it's solid. Others may well make other choices.

Will they be able to, or are we headed toward a new paradigm, where it's "just fixed, you can go" as opposed to management, options?

Then again, perhaps most people don't care.

I had skimmed this, found it thought provoking. Missed where there is nerve recovery. I do know, from some personal experiences, nerve regrowth, if it happens and it doesn't always happen, is sloooow.

Looks like there is recovery, meaning it's not permanent. I feel a whole lot better about that.
I've Dell XPS 13 4k display and its perfect for single screen (or if all your screen have same resolution). The only issue is when you are using multiple screen, it wont scale properly, i.e. stuff on one screen would look unproportionally larger or smaller.

Mixed DPI screens work fine on Wayland.
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In this case you are basically missing a feature

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/6963sa/plasma_tip_you_...

If you watch the gif in plasma basically you hold down the alt key and right click and drag to resize from anywhere on the window. Likewise you hold down the alt and left click and drag anywhere on the window to move it around.

Further there are hotkeys to place the window on a segment of the screen example: the left/right/top/bottom half or one of the corners. I think there is a function for sizing it to thirds as well. For me this virtually replaced any manual resizing even before I swapped to using a tiling wm where there is zero resizing.

I just tested this on cinnamon and this works there too. I don't know if it works in mate.
The threat model is "someone broke into Amazon's data center and stole the hard drives".

That's a silly threat model, but it takes a long time for rules and regulations to catch up with realities.
This appears to target pain, leaving touch. Not quite as bad as numb. I have a small numb zone too. It's part of a toe, and I've shredded it before. Not a care in the world!

(disturbing, because I could lose the damn thing and not know, or not know how bad it is)
"in the eyes of some..." - thought you could sneak that by HN? I see what you did.
I work a lot with wood in the metric system and the third thing is bot a problem at all. I never had even remotly any trouble finding 333.33 mm or a 666.66 on a tape measure. For anything that needs extreme accurcay I’d go with my iron ruler with 0.1 mm ruling and beyond that I would go for a caliper.

If you consistently have to use a weird measurement over and over again, you usually end up making a temporary ruler (paper, wood, metal) anyways
OK why is MacOS still the ONLY OS that executes this flawlessly and smoothly every single time no matter what is running?
JehanneOS: Simplicity and the curse of Frankenstein
"Everyone knows there are 1000 litres in a square metre"

;)
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Hate to break it to you, but international companies do ignore it unless they need to print something out for an American to read.
Paralleltext: Learn languages by reading
Standard Notes

https://standardnotes.org
Wouldn’t the feedback loop effect significantly accelerate injection rate beyond the estimates 10x? My understanding is that matters compound faster and faster as issues grow problematic.
That large reduction in Western Europe is probably caused by the switch towards diesel engines that I don't think that graph covers.
It would not surprise me if the Bank Of England still kept written ledgers, with a quill, in Latin.
Evar D. Nering, Linear Algebra and Matrix
Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory*

Kenneth Hoffmann And Ray Kunze. Linear
Algebra, 2nd Edition, Prentice-Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1971.

https://www.zuj.edu.jo/download/linear-algebra-2nd-edition-k...

Halmos, Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces

George E. Forsythe and Cleve B. Moler,
Computer Solution of Linear Algebraic
Systems

Paul R. Halmos, Naive Set Theory, Van
Nostrand, Princeton, NJ, 1960.

More has been done since this book, but
this book is a gorgeous introduction to
axiomatic set theory. So, even people
who want to dig into the latest work would
do well to have this as the first book.
And for people wanting to read any of the
more advanced material here, knowledge of
this book will be from good to have to
important.

https://piazza-resources.s3.amazonaws.com/is25bi6c6o1oh/isv1...

Walter Rudin, Principles of Mathematical
Analysis

The third edition is a lot better than the
first two.

H. L. Royden, Real Analysis: Second
Edition

Beautifully written, elegant, but maybe
don't work way too hard on the exercises
about upper/lower semi-continuity, and
there is a better summary than
Littlewood's three principles.

Bernard R. Gelbaum and John M. H. Olmsted,
Counterexamples in Analysis

John C. Oxtoby, Measure and Category: A
Survey of the Analogies between
Topological and Measure Spaces

Walter Rudin, Real and Complex Analysis

Walter Rudin, Functional Analysis

Leo Breiman, Probability

Kai Lai Chung, A Course in Probability
Theory, Second Edition

Jacques Neveu, Mathematical Foundations
of the Calculus of Probability

Erhan Cinlar, Introduction to Stochastic
Processes

J. L. Doob, Stochastic Processes

I. I. Gihman and A. V. Skorohod, The
Theory of Stochastic Processes I, II

Donald E. Knuth, The TeX book

Donald E. Knuth, The Art of Computer
Programming, Second Edition

Leo Breiman, "Statistical Modeling: The
Two Cultures," Statistical Science, Vol.
16, No. 3, 199–231, 2001.

Paul R. Halmos, "The Theory of Unbiased
Estimation", Annals of Mathematical
Statistics, Volume 17, Number 1, pages
34-43, 1946.

Paul R. Halmos and L. J. Savage,
"Application of the Radon-Nikodym Theorem
to the Theory of Sufficient Statistics",
The Annals of Mathematical Statistics,
Volume 20, Number 2 (1949), 225-241.

https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.aoms/1177730...
Also, it's gotten to point that a lot of people hate cars and commuting. I love biking to work and getting on the subway whenever weather is bad. I think driving a car is just a big waste of time
That's 62.8 UK mpg which is 52.3 US mpg.
I think that can be solved by good tracing and logging facilities. Both of which are already available in Linux (eBPF, ftrace, tracepoints, perf events...). You may have to customize them or polish them further though and provide more user friendly interfaces/frontends for them.
In Australia, we use metric. On the odd occasion, you will find both imperial and metric depending on the application. Our wood sizes are metric, nuts and bolts can be either, nails metric, screws metric, tape measures generally have both imperial and metric, pipes are generally metric though you can get imperial if needed.

I have been using metric since the seventies. About the only things I still use imperial for are people's height and the length of fish (for undersize/oversize determination). In regards to woodworking, I much prefer metric over imperial and the millimetre over just about all other base units.

That's just my opinion.
Since I work from home my annual km driven have fallen by 40%.
I don't understand. Do most modern aircraft fly right at the edge of their ability to stay in the air?
You might wabt to run some analytics on your data based on city, general area, etc. Also simplifies fraud detection.
But Brits haven't completely abandoned them, have they? Maybe for educational, scientific and in manufacturing industries it's all metric but they still seem to use a blend of imperial and metric for day to day stuff. The distance is in miles, speed in miles/hr, they use lbs as well and deg.F from time to time (mostly deg.C tho),"pints" for beer, ft and in for height etc.
Well, for some people that is a pretty big advantage. I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 now, running Unity. Despite all its bad press I love Unity - it perfectly fits my workflow and just gets out of your way. (Not like Gnome Shell, where a third of your screen real estate is gone just with various menubars, each of which you could park a truck on.)

Gnome Shell on 18.04 pretty much killed Ubuntu for me. Next time I set up my computer, I'm going back to Elementary. (I used it some years ago, but it was still very buggy. I'm hoping they've fixed some of those since.)
This is quite frankly a sub optimal recommendation. Fedora adopts crap that quite frankly doesn't work at time of adoption and only offers support for 6 months.

It also used to be true that updates between version x and x+1 were a crap shoot. Regular users don't want to reinstall twice a year even if its easy to do so. They also want to use stuff after others have found the showstopper bugs not help find them.

I used fedora from version 1 -> 14. Its great that stuff like fedorasolved.org exist but they needed to because it was always freaking broken for the first month of its sixth month cycle.
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The error bars are not large enough to be seriously confident that the problem can be ignored, though.

Basically everything we have says that:
* Humans are causing basically all of the warming happening, either directly or indirectly
* All of that warming will eventually be enough to kill most or all of us within 40-100 years, especially if nothing is done, but even still eventually if we stick to current commitments.

There's literally no reason to faff about anymore - we have direct, quantifiable evidence that people are being killed and displaced by climate change related events today, and it will only get worse as time goes on. Hurricanes are stronger, wild fires are wilder, sea levels are rising and driving people off of low lying islands, glaciers are melting, the northwest passage has stayed opened for literally the first time in living memory, coral reefs are overheating to death, species are migrating north or just straight up going extinct. This is a problem now and immediately that the human race needs to address in force.
So you never went hiking for a longer period of time or did anything that actually involves carrying water.

I remember when some guys thought about building a pool on the balcony, calculating how much water weighs is admitably not ver often used, but when it is the consistency of the metric system is nice.

I work with wood in mm for years and never had any problem with the metric system. Finding the third, fifth or sixth or whatnot is not hard if you are used to it at all. Converting from mm to meters isn’t hard, etc.

Having a number like 666.66 mm probably sounds scary to measure (beyond the religious connotations), but in fact it is a point on a line that is easy enough to find.
If you're buying 1 milligram of a substance, how much are you affected by an one microgram error in the definition of a kilogram?

Hint: not by one microgram.
Please someone correct me if I'm wrong; but that is not what
"we" mean with A.I.
Neural net is actually one. It is the ability "to learn themselves through self-feedback".
I don't think we have it covered down, as in we don't fully understand the outcome. It gives great results, like pretty generated pictures. And we do know the process, but the outcome is still unpredictable.
Both of which make sense, as they're integrations to other Microsoft owned and operated platforms.

How go and lua fit into their product line I'm less sure of.
Genetic optimisers don't tend to do well over a few hundred parameters, but stochastic gradient descent does well up to billions of parameters as long as you have sufficient compute and ram. Obviously your fitness function needs to be differentiable with respect to the parameters, which most simulators can't yet do.
The investigation was a show. The media is drawn to the story as it involves a colleague, and this let's the incident get swept under the rug.
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I don't think he's wrong, but this can be said about existing pioneers in electrification as well (e.g. Toyota, Honda) which have already brought electrification to the masses in the US with improved efficiency and no compromises. It's rare that I don't see an electric hybrid taxi/Uber/Lyft in the US.
Even more, Theranos should be a case study for investors. People in the industry were calling out Theranos' nonsense for many years before the whole thing finally collapsed.

I'd really like to know if investors were just oblivious or if they genuinely believed that Holmes could fake it until she made it.
> photorealistic image in Photoshop by hand

If you are competing with a human, if not me I am sure a professional can easily better the best of best (and not just 512x512 pixels but 100 time more pixels) by this network. It has to catch up with humans by a long shot.

> Cropped a few more BigGAN samples for reference: https://imgur.com/a/GIQSo4I

I don't know but to me all of the images you have in the imgur link seem non realistic. Head or torso or legs is messed up for (all?)most of them.

> how about ProGAN for faces? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lE9tV9vm0 Does that look like a simple copy? It's a 'walk in the latent space' of faces.

No, I am not saying its a simple copy, the copy is great. The fact is that its a copy. An imperfect one.

> Also, take a look at this tool (TL-GAN) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1by05eX424

Sure, human face comes in all shapes and sizes, so its tricky to judge the effectiveness since every modification is a possible real person.
Some profs definitely try to look the part so that students are less intimidated and actually ask questions. For some reason, mad scientists with wacky hair are approachable. It's a good thing the physicists in this article helped create the stereotype! Others do it entirely by accident though.
And then you put it as a window-attached banner, only provide the OK option, and call yourself GDPR compliant (and I suspect start tracking regardless of whether OK is ever clicked). And you end up exactly with the situation today.

I’m not sure tracking can be solved well; any information about it is deliberately vague, because it forms your api contract, and you want to swap out the rules from under the user’s feet, because that data is just so damn useful that it can really be sold off anywhere. I find it difficult to believe marketing can get trust out of someone who doesn’t: at best, it can continue as it currently does, keeping people who don’t think about it from thinking/caring/distrust about it. The whole thing is so opaque, unregulated and nonverifiable that its not even clear that you won’t just flat out lie about how tracking data is being used / sold to. Or even what exactly is being tracked.

I’m pretty sure if you don’t trust tracking, you don’t trust any of its various forms. It might be too much effort to avoid, or you don’t care enough, or don’t really expect anything to go wrong for you from it (the average person leads an average life; there really is nothing to hide, at least from most current web-tracking) but I think the trust gets lost in total.
Yes we are, they are American bombs that can only be dropped with help from the American armed forces. The blood is on our hands.
It means making it more enjoyable to use for everyone, both for those that are more and less sensitive to the aesthetics. Everyone is sensitive to it to some degree.
Fractions are nice when the numerator is always 1. They're a pain when it isn't; sorting drill bits or buying material from McMaster Carr, you constantly have to sort out whether 17/64 is larger or smaller than 3/8, and by how much, and it becomes quite burdensome.
Fighting for net neutrality is like fighting the wind with your fists.

Mozilla does great work in raising awareness of these issues however until every Joe Bloggs and Susan Someone takes their own stand against companies, governments and other centralised organisations, then it's going to be a very hard battle.

How do we do that? Maybe start by not making it an issue that only geeks or tech savvy types are outraged about.
I agree; my comment was not intended as a dismissal to the underlying issue.
Ok thanks for responding. Do you have evidence for what you said? Like links to comments or....well, I don't know what. I suppose there isn't any proof, or you would've mentioned it by now.
Jesus Christ hacker news, get your shit together. Way to many Climate Change denialists/minimizers here to be anything but appalling, considering the reputation of the site's user base.

Scientists agree: Climate change is terrifying, climate change is human caused, and climate change is here now today, threatening to be the effective end of our species in a number of decades you can count on your hands. On top of which, it only takes mildly pessimistic scenarios to reach time spans you will probably live to see.
In Norway in cities a lot of new apartments are OK even for families with 3-4 kids. As a result some schools in the cities previously considered for closing down became overcrowded. And this is really a new development. Even twenty years ago a big family implied moving to a suburb.