skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I don't understand the question. What more than "an illustrator made them using some vector program" does OP expect?
And I'm just over here, advocating for a smaller and less powerful government.

Edit: I found a quick way to lose HN points, simply show support for smaller government.
Probably because you are using a brand new account. I don't know for sure, but I suspect HN autokills certain posts by really young accounts, to prevent spam. You may have gotten caught up in something like that.
Nonprofessionals basing how to give chemicals to their children is distressing for the same reason the anti-vax movement is distressing: people think their Google search is a substitute for medical care, and make treatment decisions based on it.

Remember: Arsenic is natural. So is polio. The "natural" label is meant to imply safe, and it is a rhetoric device used go convince others of the minimal harm of their snakeoil.
I tend to consider internet measures to be 0.1% of real world measures anyway. You don't perceive, think, feel the same when you went out to see something in the flesh. If you divide internet time by the ratio of ADD in each user at the time you get epsilon
I find the bearing more significant than the wheel: without a good bearing its utility is limited. They have a rich history it seems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearing_(mechanical)#History
Dude kudos for giving back to your education system and to your community. I wish more people felt like that where I am form. I wish to do the same after school and currently I see a good momentum at my school, but I fear bureaucracy and system will not only hugely slow things down but even stop. I wish you all the best in the following year.
So what you're telling me is... he literally reinvented the wheel.
NVIDIA created an entire CGI city with Machine Learning

"Research at NVIDIA: The First Interactive AI Rendered Virtual World
" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayPqjPekn7g
What are examples of service companies?
Interesting, do tell us more about your efforts in advocacy.
I believe games were one of ESR's special cases, which is highly parallelizable. On the other hand, most of the software in daily use isn't cpu bound on one core.
>, after completing my PhD thesis on cognitive maps, I found that the only funding agency that was interested in supporting my research wanted to build smart cruise missiles that could find their way to their targets. This was not what I wanted my life's work to support.

But if the military really really wanted to, couldn't it just "launder" their funding via "worthy humanitarian" causes?

The government could find a more socially palatable institution (or possibly create one from scratch) and funnels the research money through that. The unknowing scientist then thinks his cognitive maps is fighting cancer cells or detecting crime but in reality, it's going to ultimately end up in a cruise missile. Like a lot of basic research, the knowledge can be legitimately applied to humanitarian purposes so those laundering schemes are not a total fiction in terms of beneficial results for society. It's impossible to disentangle good-vs-evil uses of knowledge or technology.

I'm not trying to dissuade anyone from abandoning their principles but I think the government can invent clever ways of disguising their goals. E.g. A mechanical engineer that wouldn't work on exoskeletons for Army soldiers to help kill people but would feel ethically ok with funding from a charity[0] to help paraplegics gain freedom of movement. Since the scientist can't know the provenance of all funds, maybe he's still helping the Army after all.

[0] e.g.: https://www.unitedspinal.org/
Sounds reasonable. However, I'd suspect that the post was ghosted manually, given the content.

Any input from a moderator? Can you kindly reinstate the post?
Lucky his partner is an attorney.
> The ability to have a dependency expose an interface without knowing what type of thing that dependency is is very powerful

Is it? I honestly can't say I've actually used that feature -- although I can say I have gotten burned by it by accidentally importing the wrong thing.
>I'm thinking of those millions of Vietnamese and Cambodians

China was involved in that as well. They supported North Vietnam and backed the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. They even invaded Vietnam after the war.

>Could you clarify which people you are thinking of

It’s interesting that you mention Vietnam and Cambodia because 90% of Vietnamese and 85% of Cambodians surveyed believe the US has a positive impact on the region. The numbers are above 70% for most Asian countries outside of China [1].

Horrible things have happened under US dominance--the US has been directly responsible for some of them, but let’s not pretend that China in a similar position wouldn’t be much worse. Just look at how China treats its people internally--mass reeducation camps for political prisoners, censorship on a scale undreamed of outside of the minds of dystopian scifi writers, authoritarian leadership appointed for life. Imagine how they would behave if they become the dominant superpower. Their neighboring countries think that it would be worse. Most of Asia is terrified of Chinese military ascendancy.

Obviously most countries would prefer if the US didn't have so much power--provided someone like China doesn't come along to take their place. If the choice though is between China and the US, I think it's pretty clear which would be worse.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2017/01/18/h...
That reflects badly on TCS, not on Computer science or it's students.
That's a good point, but I think many of these videos only require 5 seconds to really get the point.

If Facebook wants to say I watched 1 minute of videos and its because they saw me stop scrolling and continuously digest a couple seconds of some buzzfeed video that is fine with me and I would think is honest.

But if their calculations includes videos that I "watched" for 1 second or less than 1 second, and didn't even pause my scrolling.... that is pretty wretched.
How DARE you put down the Ronco!

:-)

The comparison to Zuck with this thing is laughable. Is this device slurping ALL your activities regardless of if you want it or not? Is this device and its creators trying to scam you into accepting app updates so they can further spy on you?

Is this device capable of ANY spying?

NOPE.

What this device SHOULD have is a fitbit which measures how many steps you have used it on - validating its existence. Period.
Cassette to CD, I agree or record too. But once I buy the CD, I can rip it losslessly and it is the exact same ordering of bits no matter where or how I play it.
Be sure to follow up with a post about your ed-tech product. I made educational games for my senior thesis project a while back and I always looking for other people in the sector! P.S. Thanks for the book list, I have added a few to my list for 2019.
re-inventing is a bit high, lets just say it's a step up
It is speculated that icefrog is Bruno.
I read somewhere that 90% of the internet is porn. If that is correct, then at least 90% of the internet is fake. (because you don't really believe that that pizza guy actually made that beauty fall in love with him, right?)
A quick look into the most popular open source crypto trading bots
Will your company sponsor you for a green card? My understanding is the green card process is significantly shorter if you are on an L1. That outcome would give you maximum flexibility with regards to working and living in the US
Web Components, I presume?
> A recent academic paper from researchers at the graphics-card company Nvidia demonstrates a similar technique used to create images of computer-generated “human” faces that look shockingly like photographs of real people. (Next time Russians want to puppeteer a group of invented Americans on Facebook, they won’t even need to steal photos of real people.)

Here's the HN discussion about that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18761907
Yeah that's sort of the article that lead me to post here- like I tried to say in my title, there's not really a true "full featured" PDF editor/viewer that does everything.

There doesn't seem to be a GIMP to Photoshop type of product for PDF as far as I've seen.
How have e-books changed copyright laws?
Also relevant:

https://slashdot.org/story/12/04/03/1656224/mitch-altman-par...

This is a principled stance, and one I vehemently agree with. I wish more in our line of work would so actively reject associating with those who deal in violence (whether “justified” or not).
A more apt comparison would be if the women bought a print of the original portrait.
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Honest question; how large is QVC's reach and market and WHY is it whatever it is?

IMO, if you want to succeed with QVC, you should market a widget to the elderly/uneducated?
I think this is an internal paper addressing other contributors, explaining the architecture roles, core techniques, etc specific to this company. This is not a 101 in architecture.

It is not a full
Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD receiving DARPA funding[0]:

> I actually am fairly uncomfortable about it, even if our firm stipulation was that they cannot tell us what to do. We are simply doing what we do anyways - securing software - and they have no say in the matter. I try to convince myself that our grant means a half of a cruise missile doesn't get built.

[0]: https://www.smh.com.au/technology/openbsd-loses-funding-due-...
These graphics look great. However, I find the Star Wars classification of Meyer-Briggs types more entertaining

https://www.personalityclub.com/blog/star-wars-personality-c...
+1, plus it threatens global Western influence. Ever since Western colonialism took off, in spite of the eventual independence of the colonies, the West has had economic and thus a lot of political dominance all around the world.

China was the richest country in the world, and through drugs and war even it fell to the British.

Now that the world is slowly returning to a state that makes more sense-- with the bigger countries with lots of human and natural resources climbing back on top, the West needs to cling on to something. The narrative that "China is worse" sounds to me like "China is worse, thus it's better for everyone if we keep the world order as it is".

I think everyone knows this won't be the case. Population alone, China has more people than the US and Europe combined-- that's not only more productive potential, but as purchasing power increases, a bigger market for companies to operate in. Factor in a much slower, but potentially similar story for India, and I think there's not much the West in general can do but accept the world can't all depend on a single bank and monetary fund ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Yes, you can't break the site guidelines by insinuating astroturfing and bad faith by another user. If you think you're seeing abuse, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look for evidence. Someone else having a different view than yours is not evidence.

Nor is it a problem if people are inspired to create an account to comment. As long as they follow the rules, that's how HN is supposed to work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I thought it was CelebA-HQ (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4qLcYyJmiz0TXY1NG02...) but the article states that they have made a better dataset; which isn't published yet but promised to be published in January at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SDbnM1nxLZNuwD8fQkIigUve...
> " but people respect it and don't talk about it."
Is there a gendered element to "qiou"? My hypothesis would be young men self describe as it more than women, and I'd love confirmation or invalidation from someone who's more in with Chinese social media.
I hit the same thing. Nuke Anything (a pretty awesome Firefox extension) let me kill the popover and access the article.
> WKWebView uses _basically_ the same amount of memory give-or-take a few MBs as Chromium

It really doesn’t. A “Hello, World” WKWebView is a couple of megabytes. The same in an Electron app is hundreds of megabytes.
What does he mean by "bad locality"?

Why depth-first search can't be parallelized?
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>In other words, if you `import` a file with that line, it should crash. If you `require` the file, it will do nothing

This is the situation we don't want to be in, where the consumer is choosing. The consumer doesn't know. Even if you, a human, read the file, you don't know what the author's intention was.

> you can just use the existing pkg.module field to determine whether to enter the ESM world or the CJS world.

We really can't though, because its already full of files that are intended to be used with rollup/babel/etc, which have incomplete implementations of esm.
The previous version of this published a year ago was using public CelebA dataset; and no, vast majority of generated faces were different than training dataset. You could even change latent variables for continuous "morphs" between various synthetic faces, each stage being a unique face. Read on how GANs work first if you have doubts.
That's a good visualization. I also like this one[0], where the spinning rate of each radius is fixed, and the FFT's job is to find the size of each radius. Another great one is imagining the DFT matrix (which is unitary) as a change of basis.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8FXF1KjzY0
Or maybe the real losers are all the American companies that agreed to create "joint ventures" with Chinese companies getting 51% control of the venture and 100% of the American company's IP. All of these companies are a few years away from having several Chinese competitors pop-up overnight with their own technology and drastically undercutting them on price.

Google should consider itself lucky for "losing China", but not giving Baidu the opportunity to create a competitive global search engine with similar indexing and ranking technology.
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Yeap, in the beginning we want to cover React, Angular and native (HTML) Web Components. It would be great to write components in simplified Ruby or Python, but it won't happen any time soon (WASM).
China is using political prisoners as organ farms. Russia is flat out physically attacking LGBT individuals and lead by a dictator for life. America is still a shining beacon of freedom in comparison.
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To an extent, those drawbacks can be mitigated by software, namely Calibre[0]. There may be alternatives out there, but this is the particular piece of software I use. I'll do my best to address your concerns here. (N.B. I don't develop this software, nor am I paid to advertise it; I just like it and want to demonstrate some of its features here)

While most books that I own are hard-copy, I have an old Kindle Touch from 2012 that I use fairly often. I've received a bunch of gifts in eBook form over the years, and want to be able to read them on my computer and other devices. Calibre natively supports getting eBooks to and from devices such as mine[1], and there's a plugin out there (not too hard to find, but I won't name it here just in case) that automatically strips DRM from files during the import-to-library process. Of course, you can also just import files from your computer, and it will de-DRM those as well. Calibre also has a built-in content server[2] that's pretty configurable and allows you to share with friends; it essentially whips up a website that lets you both read eBooks in browser and download them in whatever formats you have.

You can also have it convert between most eBook formats and more[3]; you can be as granular as you want during the conversion process, or just use a default profile that comes with the software.

Of course, you can also edit any format of eBook that you've imported into your library[4]. I haven't personally tried that feature, but it looks like you'd be able to manage diagrams.

I realize that this is a fair amount of work to do on the consumer side to address the problems you've brought up, but as a multi-device reader (computers big and small, Kindle, phone), it does a great job without much hassle for me.

[0]https://calibre-ebook.com/
[1]https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#device-integration
[2]https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/server.html
[3]https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#id6
[4]https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/edit.html
"Blink" is a great book by Malcolm Gladwell. He goes into detail about the flashes of inspiration or genius that people receive when creating great things and how that generally only happens to people who have spent their lives learning a craft and being steeped in it all the time. Many thousands and thousands of hours of hard work are behind most anyone who can sit down at a piano and hammer out a great song in a short period of time.
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haha, nope I've scaled ruby on rails apps (ruby is one of my favorite languages so I say this with love: it is fat and resource hungry) to huge levels. Basically:

> Do you spin up more machines?

Is correct. We make sure that the app itself is stateless (very important for horizontal scalability), and then I set up auto-scaling groups in AWS (or more recently actually, pods in kubernetes that auto-scale). For database I use sharding, tho lately I've gotten away from sharding because it complicates the database queries and you would be amazed at how far you can vertically scale an RDS Aurora instance.

You do have to profile expensive database queries tho. Basically if your app is stateless and your database queries are performant, you can scale really far by just adding instances (more machines).

That said, there is a point where re-writing is attractive: cost. Adding these instances is expensive. There was a great blog post that I'll try to find where a service in RoR had an app server for every 400 to 500 concurrent users, and rewrote in Go and was able to use one app server for every 10,000 concurrent users.
I'm convinced the 80s was the best decade.

Mullets were OK

Mid-rift bearing shirts for MALES were OK (even in Net Fabric)

Computers were cool

Phreaking was 1337

Captain Crunch

Movies were fantastic (minus the pedos who were tormenting the great kid actors of the day)

Transformers

Space Lego

NES

etc...
Exactly. We don't have enough information to make a determination either way.
DeepRay’s use of AI technology makes it better than the human eye (demo video)
Against community rules here:

Why the fk is this down voted?

HN seriously needs to curb this mob mental of attacking noncomforming statements to western mainstream narrative. That's good for everyone, especially for western nations, as their view of the world falls farthest to reality than others in the world.

Also, diversity should be a core value of HN, and statements representing different view should be protected!
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This is a useless comparison. Once you're hosting an actual app, the content matters way more.
Spotify is Chromium Embedded, IIRC.
That's nonsense, and the given evidence doesn't support the conclusion. $92k in a day is ton of money by almost any measure. Even more so because the song was recorded 24 years ago.

It's possible most artists are getting screwed, but the example given doesn't show that at all.

The real takeaway from this example should be how broken the copyright system is. It's disgusting that somebody can still milk out $92k a day for work they did 24 years ago.
I didn't really understand this criticism. If one were to say that American's on average watch almost 4 hours of television per day[1], is it at all misleading that this might not be done in a solid block? All the other criticisms aside, I'm just fine with saying "1 minute per day" even if this involves several short videos.

[1] Yes, this actually is the correct figure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_consumption. 3 hr 58 min per day; 35.5 hr per week; 77 days per year. And if you are thinking to yourself "Well I don't watch any!", remember that this just means someone else is watching twice the average to make up the difference.
Yeah it's possible, but I'm sure it is having some type of an effect. I don't doubt stuff is happening at the cellular/ chemical level. It is just so difficult for me to even perceive. It could be changing my conciousness more dramatically than I realize, but as far as the purely physical effects many people report (becoming jittery/ restless, trouble sleeping) they are just not there for me.
And what's the left's proposed solution? More forgiving terms or no money at all available?
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Who can regulate technical systems if no one understands them?
> The reason they have no one willing to lend to them is that their government has enacted policies that destroyed their economy and the IMF requires concrete changes to get them back on the right track.

I blame the IMF beacuse its austerity numbers were based on a non peer reviewed paper with arthritic errors that simply said what they wanted to hear. That bullshit put the nail in the coffins of several countries.
Do you have a source for that claim? Mozilla's 2010 justification for dropping WebSQL was that SQLite doesn't implement a particular standard of SQL (incidentally no SQL implementation does, SQL is notorious for that, every vendor implements something slightly different with parts of the various standards excluded and other features included.)

But more to the point, Mozilla's gripe was with SQLite's API, not with the file format used by SQLite. I can't find any source for the file format used by SQLite being the problem that tripped up WebSQL.
As cool as that would be, it's definitely not Bruno. The creator has been named in law suits between Valve and Blizzard. So while the person's name is easy to find there's not much info on him other that that out there which is indeed pretty cool
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Well, at least due to the effect of technology on music, many unknown artists are able to produce their own music and go directly to Spotify and other services. And they do that quite often now though I don't know that many making a living on streaming royalties.