skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might I suggest parallelization of an algorithm never mind , already available for median filter. Since OpenCV is available I can not think of a single algorithm that is not adapted for GPU.
Stitching is now performed in real time by using GPU
Hough transforms for circles and rectangles is done already
so sorry for the rambling, but I can't think of anything i use that has not been implemented on the GPU
A lot of languages take their date/time formatting from C strftime (and quite a few simply use light wrappers around actual strftime), where the format code for ISO year is %G.

And FWIW, Python's (strftime-based) datetime library won't let you mix ISO and non-ISO format codes. Trying to use %G with %m, for example, raises an exception, as does trying to use %Y with %V (%V is the ISO week number format code).
You’ve mentioned this several times now as though it’s some magic sauce that everybody is missing.

But it’s not like FPC/Lazarus is the only portable GUI solution — Qt, Fox, Swing, SWT, Gtk etc. also exist, and don’t require a fringe language (and I say that as someone who did Turbo/Borland Pascal and Delphi development for more than a decade). What Lazarus offers is a Delphi-type form builder tool, but that seems a lot less interesting in this day and age of heavily customized UIs that aren’t static grids of square components — in particular, we increasingly rely on responsive layouts and smooth animations between them.

Moreover, I’ve yet to see a FPC app (or any app for that matter that isn’t Electron or web) that doesn’t look like an old fashioned Windows-style GUI app. Do you have any examples?
It's definitely a little of both.

But its nice to see how far a little engineering development and solid (but not genius) marketing can take somebody.
Alternatively, in comic form: https://xkcd.com/882/
I agree. if it were a bank exec I'd bet they would be going on about income inequality
EDIT: Apparently the book thing linked isn't actually made with the book thing? I am confused and feel like an asshole now.

I strongly dislike your book thing.

Why?

* Animations manage to drop frames on my brand-new flagship Android phone.

* Pageflip animation (subjectively) doesn't even look very good.

* Can only imagine how much battery power is getting used drawing that animation.

* Gesture recognition is a bit dodgy, occasionally had to swipe several times

* Hijacked back button, meaning I had to search through my history to go back and find this comment to complain

* Wastes a hilarious amount of previous screen real estate on negative space, especially combined with browser chrome; and because it doesn't scroll, the browser chrome is never hidden. https://postimg.cc/cg6JvZGh/12615d74

Honestly really sorry to be so harsh- but at least on mobile, for me, this is perhaps the worst reading experience I could imagine- well, at least there aren't any ads.

I understand that you've probably worked quite hard on this, but in its current state, for mobile, at least on my device, it's bad.
What Christmas, My Kid, and Power Rangers Taught Me About Product Development
How much did it earn from radio play during that time? I didn't hear it once on Spotify, but I must have heard it dozens of times this month on the radio in the car.
It's a node app that tries to keep things simple, i.e. no big frameworks. I put thought into performance as well and it has seen a significant number of re-writes. I didn't just get there from nothing. The project is about 6 years old.

Edit: I should add that I ran into performance hurdles now and then, causing me to upgrade to more expensive hardware until I had resolved them. It was mostly memory leaks or inefficient IO/websockets. Nothing took longer than a week to fix so far though.
Why does import have to work with cjs? It doesn't in the browser. Why does require have to work esm?

Why not just have a package up it's major semver and those packages that want to start using it need to import it? That seems no different than the browser. AFAIK you can't import a non-module and you can't non-import a module in the browser or am I wrong?
I appreciate the work going into this but the timeline is a bit disappointing.
Whatever you do, don't pick Lazership!!!
That reference seems to be offline at the moment...

I don't think it's widely used. It is great that some standards body took that problem into their scope, but it may take a long while until most languages agree on anything here.
Let those countries then talk about Burma and declare Taiwan a free and democratic State.
You're right! Having a council of tech leads is absolutely a viable approach to designing overall architecture.

With that said, it seems to me that each tech lead might individually suffer the same problem you have wisely identified - architects failing to keep up. As a result, it's perhaps possible that you might wind up with a committee of tech leads that have useful expertise in their domain but minimal knowledge outside of it.

My experience with design-by-committee is that it can be challenging to get a quality design out of one when members have broadly shared expertise, backgrounds, and interests. It's very possible that putting a bunch of people with different expertise and interests in a group and asking them to design something might get you a far superior design! It may be worth considering that it could also produce one with one with opportunity to adopt a unified vision.

My experiences to date have been that you're absolutely correct - a council of tech leads is unquestionably invaluable for their ability to supply critical technical detail to an architectural project. It just may be worth considering having an owner for the architecture itself, rather than having it be subject to the vicissitude of community ownership..
Lambda Talk and Lambda Tank
I think it's also telling that many (most?) states do not have vehicle inspections. Are the accident rates any higher in states that don't than in states that do? I don't think so.
It seems one of the ways to sell is to claim the invention, just like Apple https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/con-jobs-5-things-apple-didnt-...
Just remember that China basically gifted a 100M$ bridge to the Maldives. Now imagine the global scale of Chinese investments.
Supply, meet demand
Inside the Bitcoin ecosystem Mimblewimble is another important invention with a funny history.
Getting out of your own head. Focusing on others, and doing things that keep you busy even if you don't feel like you want to.
I use ublock origin on most sites, so the only problem I have is autoplaying videos
perhaps one can say there are people who work with existing complexity well, and there are people who reduce complexity well. These two types of people don't necessarily overlap.
There's a hard dilemma between discoverability to audiences and obscurity to censors.

Steganography can work in some applications, but it's not a general solution. Common memes like Winnie the Pooh as a stand in for Xi are a way people naturally mask information through symbolism. Once it becomes common, censors watch for it.

If your image becomes popular, they will pull you aside. They won't catch every image, but they can increase general risks.

Even in one on one conversations, the risk is that the person you're speaking with could screen cap your chats and have you arrested, maybe because they themselves have been put in an impossible situation.

You might be able to solve for man-in-the-middle, but you can't solve for cop-on-the end.
Hmm? Is the government paying billions for the launch? I doubt it.
No - dollar neutral. Delta neutral is an entirely separate concept. I'm talking about equities trading (or potentially total return swaps) not options or other derivatives.

Why do you think its so difficult and expensive to attain? What do you think institutional borrow costs are? And I'm not talking about Interactive Brokers... I'd wager that most funds are long biased because its more difficult to generate short alpha - not because of the costs of portfolio construction.
What would you want it to do? Aren't PDFs usually created from non-PDF sources? I imagine it would basically recreate Word.
Unknown (as in, probably known in the past but was lost to history) != anonymous. Otherwise this thread will be filled with ancient/prehistoric inventions.
BuildZoom (YC W13), marketplace for construction, is hiring engineers
The joke was going around in 1999, but as I recall it was not the doctor who awakened the programmer, but Bill Gates.
...if that were Spotify's only cost of service. They also pay for bandwidth, servers, application development, customer acquisition, ...
> And we definitely felt sorry for Ivory Coast when French special forces busted into their presidential palace to resolve a domestic electoral dispute.

You're referring to French forces arresting Laurent Gbagbo when he refused to cede power after losing the 2010 election?

Allowing his winning opponent to assume the presidency? Extraditing Gbagbo to stand trial at ICC in The Hague? Where there's a chance he might be acquitted of the crimes against humanity he's charged with for formenting election violence that killed 1,400+ people?

As far as terrible abuses of colonial power, enabling the transition to a democratically elected government and trying the former leader in a fair court of law (where he stands a chance of defending himself) isn't the best example.
Yeah I'm curious at what price. My guess is it massively contradicts their own PR on expected number of runs and thus their opportunity cost.
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Nikola Tesla’s 5 Lost Inventions That Threatend the Global Elite
"...a smaller working-age population supporting a larger dependent population..."

This describes Japan for the past decade or so, right?

Also, are you saying the standard of living would regress back to the 90's/80's/etc., or that growth in the standard of living would be curtailed significantly?
> The entire West has taken advantage out of African nations

> we're not perfect
So Mariah earned $92k in ONE DAY (Dec 24th) this year. My gut is that she probably earned at least 20x that this year- the song is popular throughout December. So she earned a couple million bucks on Spotify this year. The song has made $60m in history... So a couple million on Spotify this year seems pretty damn good.
I dunno, I think it needs a touchscreen and bluetooth sync with an electron app.
Put this in context. Profitable musicians make most of their money from ticket sales to live shows. Recordings serve that business model mainly as promotional material. Profitable recording acts like the later Beatles have been extremely rare exceptions.

This Spotify news is a far greater tragedy for record companies, whose entire business model relies on royalty collection, than it is for the artists themselves. But rentier business models don't deserve a whole lot of sympathy.
Ah I see. The patent is for the exact way this cart folds, and then Mr Reznik is just very good at advertising.
>Why does import have to work with cjs? It doesn't in the browser. Why does require have to work esm?

`import` doesn't have to work with cjs, but we want to do so because there is so much code in the ecosystem that is cjs.

`require` won't and can't work with esm, because esm resolution is async and require resolution is sync.
This song was written and released 24 years ago and earned its creators probably a million dollars on just this single streaming platform this year. That seems pretty damn good. Remember that streaming platforms are just one small piece of the pie.
People other than xfalcox apparently...
That difference will potentially get you a patent on the combination (not the wheels part). The YouTube clip and item referenced above is fixed (appears far more industrial as well), with no folding or contracting parts. One of the selling points of the Stair Climber supposedly is its ability to "fold completely flat for easy storage or transportation." It also appears a lot lighter, easier for someone to throw in the trunk and haul around. That's a big product difference in the market. One you sell for $300 for heavier industrial purposes (the YouTube cart looks like it could take a beating in a warehouse for a decade), the other you sell for $79.95 for household use or to small businesses with more modest needs.

Is it a radically new invention. No, it's an improvement or variation on an existing product.
Not sure about famous, but some designer drugs might fit this category. E.g.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/APINACA
The War Against Sneaker Bots Peaked at the End of 2018
40-year spoiler: Barry is caught because although his papers pass muster with his Prussian escort, his story does not. After conversation over beers, Captain Potzdorf sniffs out Lyndon's BS stories quite easily. It would be interesting to know what "identity papers" consisted of in 1760.

Biometrics are one thing, but they are not the only thing.

Funny -- I watched Barry Lyndon last night, too.
Lois XVI, trying to escape the revolution, was recognized by his image on a form of paper money. In effect, he had sent wanted posters all over the country.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_to_Varennes
Perhaps he just discovered it?

It's no longer ubiquitous as it used to be, PC motherboards don't even have the 10 pin IDC header anymore.
It refers to the (unfortunately named) "Bro" subculture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bro_(subculture)

>Bro is a subculture of young men who spend time partying with others like themselves.[1] Although the popular image of bro lifestyle is associated with sports apparel and fraternities, it lacks a consistent definition. Most aspects vary regionally such as in California where it overlaps with surf culture.[2] Oxford Dictionaries have noted that bros frequently self-identify with neologisms containing the word "bro" as a prefix or suffix.[1] In a New York Magazine article in September 2013, Ann Friedman wrote: "Bro once meant something specific: a self-absorbed young white guy in board shorts with a taste for cheap beer. But it’s become a shorthand for the sort of privileged ignorance that thrives in groups dominated by wealthy, white, straight men."[3]
It’s for a single day on a single platform for a single song. That’s a large amount of money even for the biggest stars to make in a day.
These have existed for decades. My grandma had one of these in the 80s
It's a portmanteau (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau); the Chinese aren't exactly unaware of the existence of sounds outside the pinyin system. 穷 (qiong4) and 丑 (chou3) combine to make "qiou", though I can't even guess which tone it would be.
Digital goods are not worthless because they can be downloaded easily. Distribution costs shouldn't matter much when determining price. Competition should though, and there is plenty of competition for people's time between digital goods.

Also, I'm sure Spotify pays for engineers, offices, lawyers, designers, servers, marketing, avocado toasts and other essentials in addition to royalties.
Face generation is a frequent subject of study in computer vision. One way to make sure the generated faces are not just copy-pastes of some face in the training set is to look for low-level visual similarity of the generated images with the training set to guarantee that it's not "too close" to any of the actual faces used to train the model.
I would imagine that lots of computer viruses and worms fit this description.
yes, weird, those were pretty common in the 80s
I noticed in the bottom image, just by thinking about it you can 'make it' flow left, right, up, or down.
No, I was being quite serious. Instead of ripping low-rez eastern European model photos now they can just churn out the 'ideal woman' for any number of cultures/sub-cultures.

It won't stop at dating apps either, they'll be able to build all sorts of fake social media accounts that can generate new photo content over and over to back up a persona/legend and/or a narrative for all sorts of nefarious reasons.

You'll have OGAs, private groups like PIAs, hacker/carder groups etc all doing this. Hell, you'll be able to have some 12 year old sitting in his bedroom generating private shoot content of a dozen women for whatever the most trending genres on pornhub are and selling private sets for months or years without anyone catching on.

I need to start some sort of neo-amishesque group and run away from tech.
You can get an empty read if you have setup the FD to be nonblocking.
I can write programming script that took me 3-min to write, but creates $90k worth of business value. What's your point?
I dread when law enforcement get their hands on it. This will take planting evidence on a "suspect" up an order of magnitude.
Recently I tried logz.io
In free plan you have 3 days retention, 2gb of logs daily, automatic notifications (insights - your syslog is parsed and common errors are recognized). And they have one click set up of visualisations in kibana.
Ask HN: What side projects you built in 2018?
Mods should, at the very least, change the title, since it is very misleading.

There is language in the deal that would give China control over the port if Kenya was unable to pay back the loan. While concerning, this is very different from that actually happening.
Russian Search Engine and Facebook Align. What Could Go Wrong?
well ok people vary - there are people today who see spirits within everything and others who take everything literally & don't get jokes or metaphors
The echo chamber you mention doesn't simply exist here in the comments section, it's basically a narrative that's currently being pushed by the western media. I suspect at least a small part of it is motivated by guilt over European colonialism. This lets them say "See! the Chinese are worse!"

No doubt this comment will earn me an accusation of being a Chinese gov't shill as well.
What did you replace Wordpress with?
Working on it.

We're just in a bit of a 1968 moment after despairing over how difficult nation building is with Afghanistan and Iraq.

I'm sure we'll return to our regularly scheduled American exceptionalism circa-2040.
Yeah, what it takes to really, truly stop parallelism is an unbreakable linear chain of dependencies, like how LZ decompression needs the previous unpacked block to begin work on the next. (Not that LZ unpacking is maxing out people's CPUs these days.) That certainly exists sometimes but isn't nearly common enough to make me doubt the whole enterprise of parallelizing things.

The good news is that using all cores is one of the top things you can do to get work done sooner, and as such we probably will see investment happen. My work is pretty different from AAA games, but still parallelizing a big task is not infrequently lower hanging fruit than tuning the code for one unit of work. We've paid for the whole machine (or cluster) so we might as well use it.

Browsers are an interesting instance because they have a bunch of heterogeneous tasks with weird dependencies between them, and are huge, old codebases where you have to be careful adding threading, but they still manage to make real use of threads (e.g. running expensive compilers, decoding images, rendering, etc.).

Suspect you're saying ~this re: "foundational software", but as languages, tools, and libraries keep adapting to modern hardware, I think using parallelism confidently will become easier and we'll see more of it. Ecosystems change slowly but they do change.

ESR's claim about locality particularly seems iffy. A common task with very poor locality but useful parallel implementations is garbage collection: it thrashes your CPUs' caches, but thrashing all of them at once can still get it done sooner.
The actual name, not the fact that it was leaked. It's trivial to find, you just have to look for it.
So, every time Apple updates WebKit your app breaks. We've gone through this in the past. There are multiple reasons Electron is a win.

1. It's cross platform

Don't have to deal with the fact that Safari is missing these 12 APIs or has different edge cases

2. It's stable after shipping

Users get a new version only when you ship. If you use the native widget then users get a new (often broken) version on every update by a 3rd party (Apple/MS/Google). Example: chrome just deprecated autoplay. If that bubbled into apps your app just broke. Electron could do the same but if you're testing like a good dev that break wouldn't make it to users. You as a dev would find it locally, deal with it, and only after ship to users.

so, no personally I don't want a shared widget. that sounds like going back to DLL hell or worse, just broken stuff.
I remember those too when I was a kid back in Spain. :)

Ah! you can still buy them; here's one you can fold: https://www.google.com/search?q=carro+dela+compra+con+tres+r...:
that's cool. Seems like it would be useful in other fields. for example I would like to make 3d objects larger than cnc machines tool workspace - eg cnc router, 3d printer, or mill. So if I understand this correctly, the result is a .obj file with cut out surfaces nested such that the average normal is normal to the flat surface? Could it be constrained so that for example so as to split by height (z)? How should I split out the surfaces? Are the vertex normals included in the output (useful for fitting physical parts along edges)?
I thought you’re supposed to use Z for that? What’s the difference then?
If I ever leave I plan to but even if I was fairly vague, there aren't a lot of people that have been here as long as I have. If I mentioned most of the stuff that's progressively gotten worse it would put me on a list of maybe 8 people that had been here that long and only 3 of us in my position.

Griping without directly mentioning them is one thing, complaining on something specifically linked to them is another.
There was some spikes that brought the site down. A notable one was when I submitted the site to HN back when that kind of traffic was still a lot. You learn something each time...
Of course they didn't orchestrate it, but without Sarkozy's calls for an air intervention,which America and Britain then went along with, the war likely would have fizzled or resolved in a way in which there wouldn't be a massive power vacuum. Along with Iraq it stands as one of this century's greatest follies as it resulted in Libya having very factionalized governance, and furthermore then led towards arms being spread across the Sahel, which led towards trouble in Mali and in Northern Nigeria the rise of Boko Haram.

Furthermore it backfired on the EU as Gaddafi was instrumental towards regulating migratory flows, even during the protests and the civil war.
Can the same or similar techniques be used to distinguish real from generated?

Also, might this destroy the usefulness of photographic evidence?
> Not really sure what your point is. Cycles always happen for the same technical reason

Pretty sure that was exactly my point. I'm sure someone finds the behavior "interesting", but if the same thing is happening for the same reason, I'm arguing those details that everyone finds "interesting" aren't "important".
Analyzing the evolution of Linkin Park's music over the years Part 2: Moods
Might not be quite what you are looking for, but Learn Python the Hard Way was a great resource for me when I was getting started - https://learnpythonthehardway.org/