skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Superman is such a basic character that you can absolutely make stories about him without actually copying the character. Also, it's desirable to have your own character that you can merchandise exclusively. As an example, the Japanese manga/anime "One Punch Man" is a work that takes the very basic premise of an unbeatable super-man and goes interesting places with it.
The Troika cryptanalysis competition (IOTA)
You negotiated well. They're just scumbags.

This is why I just buy dirt cheap piles of rubbish and bring them to a trusty mechanic. I'd rather overpay him and it's done right, than pay some scumbag's commission/pool cleaning/viper payment
That's still just one runtime needing support at a time. OS upgrades happen in waves, and at a cadence you don't choose. Hosted server products, you choose when to update the server stack and you can stop supporting older versions.
A name like "Pedoscope Company" would certainly raise a few eyebrows today!
As a 2nd or 3rd factor SMS is usually fine. Hijacking a text message is still an "extra hurdle" that improves security over just a password. The problem comes when a site allows account resets over SMS because then they've just traded one single factor (a password) for another weaker one (SMS).
UK museums task staff with identifying 'stolen' colonial collections
Novi? Is strip-mall-sprawl a personality?
I just wrote a comment where I detailed my recent experience. They honored their email quote, but tried to add on a $1500 BS package which I negotiated down to $150. So I supose they were off by $150 in my case.
IOTA and CYBERCRYPT Announce New Lightweight Trinary Cryptographic Hash Function
An engineer's guide to the docuverse
I'm using OC for some online 3d models merging and export with a c# wrapper. Never knew about alternatives. Thank you HN!
Sad that you got down-voted, because you're 100% correct on this point. "Left wing" and "right wing" are totally meaningless terms in modern times. Neither describes any consistent, principled ideology, but rather they each just refer to a cribbed together hodgepodge of different ideas, loosely related at best, and contradictory at worst.

Mostly "left wing" and "right wing" exist now just to serve as pejoratives to refer to people in "the other camp" relative to whichever label an individual has chosen to identify with.

A simple one-dimensional model like "left <-> right" cannot adequately represent the varieties of political thought in existence.
> I would use their financing then just pay it off after a month or two.

Make sure there isn't an early-payoff penalty.
Tl;dw
He's using a front fished-eyed camera to build a scene texture to apply to UI elements based on the lighting in the room.

Comment: cool demo but hm wouldn't this murder the battery?
OpenXT: open-source development toolkit for hardware-assisted security research
That syntax looks painful. It reminds me of when I took John Shipman's course in TeX and got docked a point on my homework for writing a self-modifying macro.
> personal computers were decentralization of computing power, back in the days when the Mainframe (centralization) was dominating

This "decentralized" computing power as an accidental side effect. Personal computers (and open protocols) caught on because they were thought, by consumers, to fulfill a need. The number of people for whom that need was "decentralize $x" is a rounding error.
The Time Value of Skill
There are drill bit skid marks, so, in theory, it might be possible to build some sort of a model (of a drill held by a human hand) and then see under which conditions these skids marks _are_ possible.

But that's without considering that the simplest explanation is usually the right one and the at-orbit sabotage is just not that.
Against trendism
There must be some law or corollary to the effect of "In any decentralized network, 20% of the nodes will control 80% of the transaction value (Pareto Principle)."

Critical mass adoption of blockchain will just trigger major capital investments by existing centralized agencies.
There is no such requirement!
It's been rather hard to find others who might have used Fair before (https://www.fair.com) - or have an open opinion about it, short term leasing I guess would be best way to describe.
First time I've heard of the show. I watched about 20 minutes ... pretty good. The style reminds me of Samantha B ... political commentary sprinkled with humor.
I wouldn't call Boulder Open Source, but rather Libre as it is under MPL 2.0, a file level copyleft license.
DNS is probably a bad example here. While DNS does have federated servers in the end the entire system is controlled by whoever controls the root name servers. It's pretty much the definition of centralized control.
I'm scratching my head trying to think of any significant distributed and decentralised economic entities.

In fact I think this is the Big Lie of Disruption. The reality is that instead of breaking up existing monopolies, "disruption" simply creates new, bigger, even more centralised and powerful monopolies.

Economic systems are rather like cellular automata. They either splutter around for a while and die out, or they take over the board and assimilate everything.

Although it claims to solve this problem, blockchain doesn't - not even close. You can only solve it by consciously moving entropy around the system to keep it in a permanently metastable state - supporting smaller structures that generate new information, and splitting up large structures that threaten to engulf everything around them.
And they don't have any in my state.

Well, almost any. Searching 2019 models only, there are exactly _two_ in 250 miles. A Jeep Cherokee and a Corvette Grand Sport.
Alchemy gave birth to science, this is not trolling.
Can you explain what you mean?

If the blockchain issues 1000 BTC to various miners who sell them to 1000 people for USD$1 each, and then some time later 100 of those people are able to sell their coins for USD$100, then the total amount of money that's been moved out of other investments is USD$11,000, but the total market cap of Bitcoin is USD$100,000 so can't I say that USD$89,000 was "generated"?

Although really none of that USD ever disappeared, it's ostensibly still going into USD denominated assets, so... well I don't know what to say about any of this.
Your work looks interesting, would you mind if I sent you an email via the Contact Us page on your website? I'd love a chance to try to get on that call back list.
Who pissed in your coffee today? Perhaps it's my bias living in NYC, but the average denizen here (myself included) finds someone asking proper, honest questions to be the absolute bare minimum to taking that person seriously, not to mention the absolute bare minimum to a whole host of basic human interactions and endeavors: working together, dating, making and sustaining friendships, making art, building a company.

Frankly, I find the almost passive aggressive lack of asking proper questions to be a little condescending and mean in and of itself. One of my favorite movies has several themes, but that's one of them. It's name, very interestingly enough, is Mean Girls.
Shockley's contention was "that the major cause of the American Negro's intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and, thus, not remediable to a major degree by practical improvements in the environment."

The Flynn effect shows that to be incorrect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence#Flynn_ef... . "The importance of the Flynn effect in the debate over the causes for the IQ gap lies in demonstrating that environmental factors may cause changes in test scores on the scale of 1 SD. This had previously been doubted."

Furthermore, "A separate phenomenon from the Flynn effect has been the discovery that the IQ gap has been gradually closing over the last decades of the 20th century, as black test-takers increased their average scores relative to white test-takers."

These show that if IQ tests are a reasonable measure of intellectual ability then there is a strong environmental component - far greater than what Shockley concluded. In other words, Shockley was wrong.

This is in addition to the multiple threads of research which concluded that a race assignment like "American Negro" has little to no genetic basis. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization) as a starting point:

> By the 1970s, it had become clear that (1) most human differences were cultural; (2) what was not cultural was principally polymorphic – that is to say, found in diverse groups of people at different frequencies; (3) what was not cultural or polymorphic was principally clinal – that is to say, gradually variable over geography; and (4) what was left – the component of human diversity that was not cultural, polymorphic, or clinal -was very small.

> A consensus consequently developed among anthropologists and geneticists that race as the previous generation had known it – as largely discrete, geographically distinct, gene pools – did not exist.

So again, Shockley was wrong.

Since intelligence really does have a strong environmental component then Shockley eugenics goals (He "proposed that individuals with IQs below 100 be paid to undergo voluntary sterilization"), would have resulted in the disproportional removal of the gene lines of black people who, were it not for environmental reasons, would have had above average intelligence and thus be a benefit if the goal really was to breed for better intelligence.

That is, "certain desired traits" like intelligence are not as easily measured as Shockley would have us believe, and certainly not to the point where it can be considered "mechanical."
Having someone sitting next to you, on a very simple airplane, moving fairly slowly, coaching every step, makes a big difference. Someone remotely coaching you on the radio, at night, drunk, with a 4 engine machine that has a lot of steps necessary for a successful landing, no chance.

The military was faced with a near certainty of him dying crash-landing it, vs a near certainty of him dying along with others on the ground.

The military was faced with the same choice with the mechanic a few months ago in Seattle that stole an airplane. Fortunately, they didn't have to make the decision because he crashed it fairly deliberately in a remote area.
... They are proud of their small-town values ....

And this part of the issue. I come from a small town. The “values” of small towns are racist, homophopic, and nationalistic. I’ve known many people who moved away, started dating someone of another race and then come back home with their significant other and feel completely out of place - not because of family, but because of the city. I’ve also had gay relatives who refuse to visit family back home but welcome them to come to where they live in a larger city.

I’m Black and in conversations, when I tell people where I live - an infamous “sundown town” as recently as the 80s - the first thing I hear is “why do you want to live around all of those White folks”. People don’t understand how much of an anachronism small town America is. The brain drain is real, young people who are capable can’t wait to move as soon as possible to experience more of the world.

I can’t imagine anyone who is not a native born American ever wanting to live there.
This is why you're not on the ISS ...

... and exactly why I'm not either ;)
There's a difference between not knowing and knowing but still choosing to do the activity.

I ride a motorcycle, and I am fully aware of the dangers involved. I also know that going the speed limit, wearing a helmet, and not drinking anything will significantly reduce my risk of death, but that it's still more dangerous than driving a car.

At the same time, I know that breathing in sawdust, paint fumes, and many other things is dangerous for me, so I have a mask that I wear when doing work around my house, and I ensure that there is good ventilation. The "cost" of doing those things is small compared to the possible benefits, so I do them. And without the information that those things are dangerous, I would be putting my wellbeing at risk for no good reason.
Live Marine Traffic
Ask HN: How to protect ML models/Python code when deploying B2B
We are building a B2B machine learning product and are running pilots with a customer (currently building models for their data on our servers).

We expect this customer will want to integrate our preprocessing and (rather complex) model generation process into their on-premise pipeline.

How do we protect our IP in this? We can of course go through some lengths to generate C++ executables or hide model-definitions in proprietary formats which seems like the wrong focus right now.

We expect for some customers with no background in ML (beyond simple supervised examples), this will not be an issue, since the generated architectures mean nothing to them.

For others with dedicated data science teams (which just lack the expertise in the niche we are in), they could probably figure out how our process works if we simply deploy python scripts generating TensorFlow models. We also suspect this depends on the sector where for some customers, it is simply too far outside their expertise to bother trying and cheaper paying us license+service fees, others not so much.

How do we protect our know-how here? Does it make sense to invest the effort to "hide" models behind abstractions and formats or should we simply focus on growth and ignore this?
Edited the beginning of my original post to say something similar to the following:

Only because I put in a bit of research before hand and learned about the misc stuff over the years (VIN etching - which the police do not actually care about, and nitrogen in the air).

For the average person, they don't know this stuff so learning to be a better negotiator all-around would be helpful for most people. I would like to learn to be a better negotiator in general too, because I won't always have the luxury of research or knowledge.
It's still very relevant for a couple of reasons.

Perhaps most obviously, you just can't try a shoe on if you buy online. You can if you buy five pairs and return four, as some do, but it's a lot of hassle and a waste of resources for all the shipping back and forth.

Secondly, a significant portion of the population (tens of precent) have "problems" enough that most shoes in a store don't fit, meaning you have to try on a lot before you find one that does. And even if you don't have such issues, sizing between brands (and even styles) is so inconsistent that you usually have to try multiple different sizes to decide which one fits you. Having a 3D model paired with an AI system that tells you which shoes fit and what sizes to pick saves a lot of time for a lot of people, both shoppers and staff.

Finally, if you ever want to order custom made footwear, there is really no way around measuring your feet. And arguably the only reliably well-defined and repeatable way of doing that is to do a 3D scan to capture the shape.
Lots of professional architects and interior designers use SketchUp. One of SketchUp’s advantages is the library of pre-built components available for standard doors, windows, etc. Instead of designing everything from scratch, you can search for a “French door” and then place it where you want it. That way you’re choosing from standards compliant elements so when the builder goes to Home Depot to purchase a window it will be available in the desired size.

FreeCAD is great (I’ve used it a lot) and people should definitely continue to invest in making it better. It’s great for 3D printing. Plus, it’s fully scriptable in Python so cool automation or parameterization things are possible.
Well there are several from the 'get rich quick scheme' aspect vs lead into gold aspects to the fact it is trying to get what they want by properties of analogy. That they can turn processing power into the new gold. Then there is the literal magical thinking like the sun and gold must be connected because of the same color therefor if we create a scarce currency it will be a useful commodity and gold shares properties of the sun, also the sun's rays created gold. Alchemists pursue the same goal obsessively trying to get what they want despite the mechanism for it just plain /not being there/. Similarly Cryptocurrency even if it perfect in security and privacy would run into interchange issues. You would need teleportation to bring commerce beyond government control.

Gold is a very apt comparison given the gold-bug rhetoric they were in pushing deflationary currency despite its history of failures resulting in fiat currency. The gold standard resulted in /many/ wars for the sake of gold just so that they wouldn't have their economy size capped by lack of currency - leading to considerable loss of /real/ value and massive suffering. Ironically having too much gold also created inflation issue. Having currency that can inflate with the economy instead of something else arbitrary is what the strength of fiat currency is.
The manufacture of 'steam-engine time'
Apparently OmniFocus 3 has dropped much of it’s GTD focus, might be worth looking at again if that was your main issue.
There are two photo books by Christopher Herwig of some amazing Soviet bus stops:

http://fuel-design.com/publishing/soviet-bus-stops/

http://fuel-design.com/publishing/soviet-bus-stops-volume-ii...
Reading some comments in this thread you might think physicians are unable to apply Bayesian statistics to medical care. As a physician myself, I'd encourage a more considered line of thinking.

Clearly, physicians here failed to calculate an exact positive predictive value in the example. The question is does that inability affect their 1) medical care delivered and 2) communication with the patient and the patient's own informed decision-making.

In speaking to 1-- there are many examples to choose from from probably any medical specialty but let's stick to breast cancer screening since that's the example from the article. USPSTF presents their recommendations[1]. I'd encourage anyone with interest to at least skim the rationale presented on the page below those recommendations. They very well consider prevalence as well as efficacy of specific tests given the presence of different risk factors in a patient (age, family history, etc). Importantly, those and many other screening guidelines are applied by primary care physicians who may not otherwise be able to calculate exacting probabilities.

[1] https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Page/Document/...

In speaking to 2-- patient autonomy of course requires an appropriate understanding of the tests they receive, any risk to those tests and the benefits and harms of true positives, false negatives, etc. The associated frequencies, albeit with some degree of imprecision are avaialble by reference and I'd suspect they're memorized by most radiologists reading mammograms and the breast surgeons involved in tested positives-- even if they may not be able to calculate them. If the doctor doesn't have them memorized-- they should be available by referencing the relevant guideline.
Now it's time to push for copyright term reduction. Back to 50 years from first publication.
Even cooler, it’s possibe to open a console while using the FreeCAD GUI and see the Python your actions generate.
Oh man, Liquid War. That brings back memories. I'll have to give Liquid War 6 a try. Thanks for the nostalgia.
It has been 613 days since Wikipedia was blocked in Turkey
Hostility, inclusivity, and target mismatch in open source community management
"Blockchain was the first serious attempt at solving the problem of distributed concensus without centralisation."

Wow, this is such a wrong statement.

Consensus in general has been in CS since its dawn... How childish a person would think CS scientists wont consider this problem without centralization...
Other commenters have pointed out a lot of the issues, but one that always bugs me is how they often times refuse to talk about the actual price. They are always trying to sell you on the 'price per month' you are able to afford. This is so they can hide the true cost of ownership behind a low monthly payment.
Ironically, asking someone "where are you from?" is now considered a micro-aggression!

https://othersociologist.com/2017/07/15/where-are-you-from-r...
Disney have built their company around appropriating and reworking public domain content (“Snow White” to name just one famous one). Why shouldn’t others get the chance to produce something just as good?
I love BBEdit to death because it is the exact opposite of what things like Atom and VSCode stand for. A lightweight, bomb proof text editor that can scroll through 100k+ line documents without a sweat.
40 cents per month cheaper for you, but he made money on the deal. If a car dealership sells you an extended warranty or financing then they get a cut of it. Se he went from making $0 on your third party financing to making some level of money on you. It's a plus for both of you when it works out.
Array indices with generational indices are popular, by the way.

I think this idea is pretty good!
The fair use doctrine provides enough outs that it's not outright censorship.
It's not unreasonable for a sovereign country to exercise control over legal media in its territory.

It might not be just, or fair, for residents of that country, but it is reasonable.
>As long as one doesn’t own land and has to rely on hired labour, there is no point in farming near a city. As a hobby, yes. Otherwise, no.

so, my understanding is that most of the farming that happens outside of CA, cereal crops and the like, is super capital intensive, but not very labor intensive. On the farm I was speaking of before that has been in my family for some time (though it has consolidated; there's one nuclear family that operates land that used to belong to a bunch of family units) - that one farm is mostly operated by one couple (and, of course, a whole bunch of equipment) mostly growing things like corn, soybeans and wheat.

Of course, the sort of vegetables you see grown in California are a lot more labor intensive.

I actually think your perception of rent vs buying land might be reversed? Land near cities is in high demand for speculation... for building houses on. So the purchase price would be higher than rural land. But if you are renting it out for agricultural use? Growing cereal crops near town isn't going to generate a whole lot more value than growing cereal crops in very rural areas, so I don't imagine the rent is that much different (though there's probably more "I can sell it to a developer" clauses in land near towns) - I mean, the thing is that a lot of places have zoning restrictions that make it really hard to convert ag land to residential use.

Again, the equation is probably different if you are farming vegetables; I don't really care if my cereal grains are shipped halfway across the country, but I'm willing to pay a significant premium for local, fresh vegetables.

On the other hand, unless you are farming fresh vegetables and charging a premium, there's no benefit to farming near a city, and even then, it's probably small. So, uh, were I able to, I'd probably delete my comment that you responded to, just 'cause the question was "would you see a bump by moving your farm to a urban area" not "could you make a decent living at farming, and would you need to be educated"
A tip - you usually don't need lambdas in such cases; this should work:

foo().map_err(MyError::FooError)?
.bar().map_err(MyError::BarError)?;
Novelty, perversity, and randomness
Not related to BIM, but FreeCAD has intrigued me these last few days of Christmas vacation. My dad bought a 3D printer and I've helped him with it, so I've realized it's time I buy one as well.

Most people recommended Fusion 360 but I personally found it a bit annoying to work with, especially seeing that it's basically a webapp. I wanted a real native app to work with, so I went ahead and downloaded FreeCAD. It's also open source and seems to have a thriving community.

Anyone else got some opinions or experiences to share on FreeCAD for beginners?