skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the point was how little Spotify pays, they should have highlighted how little typical artists get rather than the example that’s 100-1000X what most people earn in a day.
Mathematics has the recent case of having to reference an anonymous 4chan user for a paper 'A lower bound on the length of the shortest superpattern' - https://oeis.org/A180632/a180632.pdf
As someone who doesn't consider themself to be a bot - if that is your inference - I upvoted because i found the post particularly well-written and informative from someone 'on the ground' so to speak.

- ed

(also somewhat contrary to my preferred Euro-friendly narrative)
> Before we throw about the term "Imperialism", let's remember what kinds of things the European powers did

You imply a relationship between the two throughout the rest of your comment, starting from the first sentence. Just because you make the refutation in the last sentence does not suddenly wave away the whataboutism you employ through the rest of your comment; directly comparing the two.
"The goal of the military is to settle international conflict through violence."

That is misleading. The purpose of the military is to safeguard the interests of our country through its presence and--if necessary--decisive violence. No US military leader wants to fight a war; that notion is absurd.

Don't confuse the desires of the military with the occasional desires of its civilian leadership.
That's like saying Usain Bolt only ran for less than 10 seconds and he gets all the glory. It takes years of practice before one becomes an overnight success.

Mariah Carey is incredibly talented musician who dedicated her entire life to music. If she made a chart topping song in 15minutes, that just shows how good of a musician she (and her team) is.
You can use a printer only for one book at a time. How long does a single book keep a printer busy?
> but people keep coming up with silly dismissals along the lines of it not being "real AI".

That is not what I meant at all. For me, it is the nature of the field and has been that way since the days I first learned it (the 1990's). Once an reproducible algorithm or methodology is discovered to solve an AI problem, it generally ceases to be an AI problem.
> Because IP is so much more valuable than lives

The average Western human life is $5-20 million. IP can be easily worth more than that.

Lives are probably worth less to the Chinese government, though.
From the perspective of Unicode, no. What you're looking for here is what Unicode calls "equivalence", and it comes in two variations: canonical equivalence and compatibility equivalence.

For example, "é" can be written as either U+00E9 LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE, or as the sequence U+0065 LATIN SMALL LETTER E followed by U+0301 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT. These two options have canonical equivalence; what this means is that Unicode treats them as two ways of specifying exactly the same thing.

Now, consider "½". That's U+00BD VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF. Generally you can replace that with the sequence U+0031 DIGIT ONE, U+002F SOLIDUS, U+0032 DIGIT TWO ("1/2"). This is not quite the same thing; most places where someone writes "½" can safely be replaced by "1/2", but not necessarily all, and it definitely doesn't work in reverse. This is compatibility equivalence, and under compatibility equivalence "½" maps to "1/2".

So to get to your actual question: U+017F LATIN SMALL LETTER LONG S has compatibility equivalence with U+0073 LATIN SMALL LETTER S. But U+03C2 GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA does not have any type of equivalence with U+03C3 GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA.

If you follow the general recommendations for things like comparing Unicode identifiers, you'll apply normalization to form NFKC (which decomposes by canonical equivalence, then recomposes by compatibility equivalence); this will turn a "ſ" into a "s". It will never turn a "ς" into a "σ".
> Yes, there is herdlike behaviour. But why?

> People, and computers which learn what worked for people in the recent past, have gone from a rich market conversation about many things to one about just QE.

So are you saying that in the past N years since QE and 0 rates, the parameters that define which assets/resources to buy/trade have gone from wide-ranging (e.g., "We'd think about different countries, their bonds, their IR rates, swaptions, etc"), to singular (e.g., "...has become a conversation only containing rates.") ?

How does this tie back into the "herd-like behavior" comment? Are you saying that every algo trader is only focusing on rates because that (more so than anything else), is determining where to allocate capital?
Winamp won far before Spotify was even a contender. It won in another time. Spotify is winning mostly because people don't want to spend money for songs anymore and they don't give a damn if they own them. Which is not to say I don't like the practice, it doesn't matter to me.
How does this happen, a website, literally created on 5 months ago, probably just for this article, hits the HN front page. If you google africastand it asks "do you mean africasand". OP how did you come across this article?

Edit: my bad made a typo. Ignore the google part. But the post still stands.
The 3D-model look isn't consistent and seems to mimic n-gon (as opposed to quad or tri) modeling at best. The shadows are certainly just decorations drawn in.

I made similar illustrations back in the early 2000s. I'd guess that a) the fastest and b) the most overall-effective way to go here is to pay an illustrator to sketch these roughly in paper or in digital form, and then on approval go in and draw with a vector tool. Enabling features like "snap to point" would help greatly here.

Take a look at some of the galleries on vector drawing software websites. You'll find a lot of things that you'd think were modeled in 3D, that weren't. Back when I was a production illustrator with my choice of 2D or 3D methods, vector 2D was such an obviously easy way to cut through a lot of BS. Vector-tracing 3D art was really only ideal for animation in e.g. Flash.

I still do some illustration work as a hobby, and if I created the art for 16 Personalities, I'd do it in 2D vectors. Heck, I used to teach Adobe Illustrator at my local college, and my Art 181 students would know the technical part of how to draw this by the end of the semester...they'd just need to learn character design next. :-)
You’re Fine, and So Is Your Baby
Good point. Would probably irritate me as well (currently using iPhone 7).
That would be a sixth case I had forgotten above (negative return value with errno EAGAIN and/or EWOULDBLOCK - these two might or might not be the same number).
I see abundant racism and sexism on patreon of the kind popular of the American left.
from https://nodejs.org/api/esm.html

> For now, only modules using the file: protocol can be loaded.

Is it the plan to allow modules to be loaded from any protocol? Because that seems dangerous, from a security viewpoint. I've been trying to find mention of anything that mentions SRI support, or something similar, but I haven't found it yet.
To take over Mombasa port is the equivalent of a strategic takeout/takeover of a number of East African countries. Mombasa port and its adjoining highway connects Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda, and Burundi. 100% of East Africa's export cash crop produce (Coffee, Tea) flows through the port which translates to significant revenues and GDP. I really hope that African para-state agencies (African Dev Bank) steps in and provides monetary assistance to Kenya.

Times like this make me wish that the EA community takes off and together these tiny countries are able to better band together and pony up.
Good article on why Innovation fails
Any of these concepts can be your answer art/artist/illustration

The style of the illustration reminds me highly of Alone in the Dark

https://www.abandonwaredos.com/abandonware-screenshot.php?gi...
It's a double-edged sword. My own experience has been that your sales volume will absolutely increase because customers love seeing Prime shipping and "sold by Amazon" on products, but once you add in all the handling, storage, processing, etc. fees and also factor in that you are completely at Amazon's mercy, it's often not worth it unless you're just an FBA reseller pumping through generic stuff from China.

As an example, I shipped 50 units of product to Amazon and got it to their fulfillment center on 12/5. Their published deadline to get things to a fulfillment center in time for Christmas shipping is 12/9. As of today, exactly 0 of those units have been processed and made available for sale, thus completely missing the holiday shopping season and leaving me with a long-term storage bill since it will now take 2-3 months to sell through them. Good luck getting any help with something like that. On the flip side, I did an A/B test last year vs. this year using vendor central vs seller central for a different product and saw about 2x sales volume for the former. So it's really something you just need to test and make a decision on yourself.
That is when you are running late on a project and adding new people. Someone that is already up to speed in the project does not have that limitation.
... The woman pays the outrageous sum for the portrait, but Picasso still (somehow) owns it for the rest of his life, plus 70 years.
I'm guessing that's probably for cross-platform behavior. Maybe a linux specific std replacement crate could probably solve the problem.
I doubt that all algos are looking at the stream of interest rates. It's hard to know since these things are mostly private.

But they can herd into factors specific to their markets that are nonetheless still the same thing, due to rates causing behaviour everywhere.
More than what the outrage over the censorship of other viewpoints are? To me what they are doing seems more like an act of faith in social justice that is most likely really bad for their business
Well, regardless of what it wants, it’s primary means of achieving those ends is through violence or the threat of violence.

The military is not particularly well suited to nation building and other peaceful tasks, as we’ve repeatedly seen.
They are getting closer, but I do agree that it is still not quite there. It's pretty common practice now at the beginning of each film production to do full image capture of all of the main talent. It's a back up in case something untoward happens that the film can still be finished by using their 3D likeness.
While I don't come to the same conclusion, I think this is a great example of presenting a well reasoned argument for a position that is not widely held. I would love to see more debate over topics like this they doesn't resort to name calling, straw man arguments and all or nothing conclusions.
Many of the reasons he stated can also be applied to VC funding:

> One thing that makes the slope so slippery is that you have accumulated responsibility for a lab full of graduate students, and the consequences of a major drop in funding will be even more painful for them than it is for you.
The maintainers of the VeraCrypt fork are not anonymous [1]; whereas most of the team behind TrueCrypt is.

[1] https://www.idrix.fr/Root/mos/Contact_Us/task,view/contact_i...
>>but I find it strange that people are trying to politicize it being debt trap and trying to garner sympathy towards the defaulter than towards the victim who didn't get paid.

I find it strange that new accounts are defending China using academic language that is not commonly used in HN discussions.

Debt trap explains the victim and defaulter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt-trap_diplomacy
We know what he claimed to invent, but the point is that he didn't actually invent any of those mechanisms. They've been around for decades. At best this is incremental development on existing stairclimber trolleys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stairclimber
Ranges, Code Quality, and the future of C++
the tool do not provide that look n' feel out of the box. It's the artist operating the tool that is the determinator.

These graphics can be created in vector drawing tools, as well as raster tools. The underlying SVG indicates the original source as vector drawings.
I loved the analysis of the soundtrack embedded as a YouTube video [1] about halfway through the article. The composer, Soyo Oka, only brought one song from the NES version into the SNES version. The author of the video walks you through each track and explains what channels were used, what can be learned about the waveforms, how it compares to other NES music of the period, etc.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=791&v=HmJP5EFUEp...
And your argument is just an anecdote. Now who would we trust more, a random stranger on the internet or a Nobel laureate?
>I'm working on a microbindery, which involves ultracheap one-off book runs in tiny distributed shops around the country, [...] , whatever's out of stock can simply be knocked out in three hours and either picked up or mailed a short distance.

I remember that ~10 years ago, Barnes & Noble tried a print-on-demand experiment with the "Espresso Book Machine". The equipment was made by Xerox. (photos: https://www.google.com/search?q=barnes+noble+"Espresso+Book+...)

I can't tell if B&N abandoned the project. They didn't introduce the POD machine at any of the B&N stores in my area.

It would be interesting to understand how your approach is different from the Xerox + B&N venture.
some strange things about the 'generated' faces. The one face is nearly identical (1,1) (1,5), just that adding the glasses. another is that male + female generates male images. you'd expect more androgynous images to show up
Anyone on HN Versed in Klingon Language?
Somewhat related, there's also a Japanese character/synth/software package called Hatsune Miku that is flat out an animated hologram that is just a voice synthesizer for its voice.

It is currently on tour...
Interesting that they tried to use commercially available truck parts wherever possible. Good example of "good coders write code, great coders re-use code".

IIRC, the F-117 stealth fighter was built in a similar way. Many of the parts were from other existing planes e.g. the avionics were from a F-16. This mean that the stealth components were cutting edge whereas almost everything else was battle tested and well understood.
Have you tried reporting these to them? Is there somewhere where these are documented together with the response from their trust and safety team?
Yes, just discovered it on my BenQ projector.
Rsync for cloud storage-
Liquid – Clojure Text Editor
It could still hold if only a small percentage of schizophrenia was caused by toxoplasmosis.
Translation error? I was able to locate an image of a Jan Provost painting called "Death and the Miser" [1] but none called "Death and the Merchant".

[1] https://www.wikiart.org/en/jan-provoost/death-and-the-miser

Having relatives that are accountants, I am interested in seeing more of the Dutch and English paintings of accountants described, but not named, in the article. If anyone knows any, please post.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/a9fcy1/liquid_cloj...
Toxoplasmosis is smart enough to spread through the Internet as well: https://vimeo.com/69181785
B-money (1998)
Whataboutism is basically this:

A: X is bad, B does that. B is bad.

B: Y is bad too, and A does that. You're just as bad as me.

What I said was:

Imperialism is A, B, C, D.

China doesn't do any of those, so let's not call them imperialist.

Now you can argue about what imperialism is, but you can't argue that I'm making a different kind of argument to whataboutism.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted; you're entirely correct. Wikipedia's "stairclimber" page was created in 2007. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stairclimber
As someone on 'the left', the criticism are both of the IMF and the local governments. Pretending however that the IMF does not play a role in many 'misfortunes' is laughable. It is also ignorant to pretend that because Africa has been more or less 'independent' for over 40 years, that the history of colonialism should be discounted as having no effect on the present anymore.

This does not mean that the countries themselves should bear no responsibility and few are making that claim.
Thank you so much for this write up. I’m not from the area but I’m very wary of this sort of reporting. I really appreciate your thoroughness here :)
To settle international conflict through violence and the threat of violence.
The thing about Electron - and the thing that Electron fanboys either don't realize or don't care - is that with Electron, the company/vendor wins at the expense of users, who have to put up with their "application". No one really likes Elecrton apart from the vendor/developer and the most fanatic fanboys. Everyone else at best doesn't mind Electron.

If an Electron "application" is decent, people typically like the features or the online service to which it's tied but its Electron base is something that people more or less tolerate, depending on the degree it irks them. It's just a huge tradeoff, that's all. It reminds me of some Java or Python desktop applications, it's a similar kind of tradeoff.

Hopefully it'll pass just like the previous fads.
Run full out, it really depends on the printer, but the printers I employ can do about 20ppm double-sided. But as books are numbered, each sheet of paper ends up becoming 4 pages. So an 800 page book (close to the largest you can print without getting really exotic) thus only takes about 10 minutes of a printer's time. A more conventional 200 page book would be 2 1/2 minutes.

There's additional labor to putting the book together besides babysitting a laser printer, but if you come up with a good process, there's probably more idle capacity than will be needed at all the busiest times of the year. A microbinder might find himself or herself like a uber driver- spending the money on the equipment and renting the space, but waiting for runs, subject to the market.
You _can_ do it with libreboot on ancient thinkpads, but it requires a decent time (or money) investment and some know-how. https://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/encrypted_trisquel.html
The lead developer of Grin (Rust Mimblewimble implementation) is anonymous.

The origin of OWAS and the CryptoNote protocol is also interesting :) https://moneromonitor.com/episodes/2017-12-05-Episode-016.ht...
I think a big reason he's able to stay that way is that his real identity is not a public figure. The only thing ordinary people in the community know about him is his name, so there's nothing to talk about.
Algorithmic trading to gain significant ground in 2019
In this day and age there's no running away from tech...
Read up on Bourbaki, the original Satoshi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki
The parent comment is proposing a just in time small-batch printer. In the same vein, we have just-in-time photo printers or FedEx Kinko’s.

Ideally the output book is almost as good quality as one made during a large print run. But the output is still just a book.
I used to justify piracy by thinking that the digital data was more like particles in water than items on a shelf. If you pee into the water, it doesn't matter how much or where you aim, all the water is corrupted. In the same way, if an artist releases digital work, they're essentially giving it away because there's no effective way to contain it. DRM fails just like trying to stop pee from spreading in water. I held the idea that if an artist uses a digital medium, they should just accept that when it's copied once (from their private computer to the public web) that it's copied indefinitely. I would claim that the nature of the digital world and internet can't support the blocking off information like that.

I'd like to still believe in this, but I'm not sure the logic holds up.

I pay about $20/year for Spotify because several of my friends have a family plan. I know this tactic is used with foreign students and cell phone plans as well.
Interesting.

I assume because financing is less than inflation?

Wouldn't you still have the same relative tradeoffs? Bonds lower yielding, but more liquid. Stocks riskier etc.
I have a script that does this:

mpv --demuxer=rawvideo /dev/urandom
I think the problem with the "West" and Africa, is that we view Africa as mostly a single unit, and not the individual countries that make up the continent. From a westerners prospective, African countries have a huge corruption issue, and years of "give-a-man-a-fish" charity from the West appears to have labeled westerners as someone to be taken advantage of and to get free handouts from. It's difficult to evaluate the legitimacy of a company ran be people who think much differently than you.

I've been following the story of a Westerner (I believe he is American) that is taking a land trip through Africa[1]. While there are areas of great, geniune people, many of his stories involve people, both government and private, in the countries trying to exploit him for money, gifts, etc...

He went into a rant in one of his posts that I think has been removed now, but the gist was that years of free handouts from the West is the reason for this behavior.

I don't know how to fix it, but this mentality and perception has to be fixed by the African people -- the West is not going to change on its own. The problem seems to ultimately have been created by the West, and should be fixed by the West, but the reality of the situation is that is not likely to happen. If Africa wants Western investment, it will need to address these stereotypes and perceptions, otherwise China will continue investing. They are not involved in African politics now, but wait 50 years and see if that is still the story. They have to establish their grip on the money first. Once they have solid control of the money, the control of the people will follow.

[1] http://theroadchoseme.com
Step 1: `npm i piotr`

Step 2: `piotr awesome-illustration.svg`

Step 3: ???

Step 4: PROFIT
I'm not sure what the takeaway here is. If desktop users don't need (or can't use) more cores, then don't get them - and call an end to the periodic performance improvements, because CPUs won't get faster without more cores. Maybe that's fine.

On the other side, high performance computing demands more computational power, and the only promising path forward (at this time) is parallelism. I'm not motivated by optimism, but by pragmatism.

As a sidenote, I don't understand this section:

> We look at computing for graphics, neural nets, signal processing, and Bitcoin mining, and we see a pattern: parallelizing algorithms work best on hardware that is (a) specifically designed to execute them, and (b) can’t do anything else!

The same hardware is used for all of these things, and it was only (arguably) designed specifically for graphics (and even there "specific" is not certain).
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“How the Brain Is Inspiring AI” from Forbes 30 Under 30 Event
Greece is in EU and NATO. EU, monetarily and NATO in defense have Greece by the, you know what. No one can give Greece the money that EU gives them and if Greece loses NATO, Turkey is waiting. So no Chinese or Russian base will be allowed in Greece or Turkey gets a wink and a nod to remind Greece which side the bread is buttered. http://www.ekathimerini.com/235989/article/ekathimerini/news...