skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed that there's generally odd texturing and hair placement. Wrinkles on an otherwise smooth face, or in weird places / directions. Hair of a mismatched color. The unusual facial texturing seems to occur more on the right side of these images.
Neither seems to explain why these files aren't just placed in root, like robots.txt. What's the point of having a subpath?

The RFC says:

> 2. Why /.well-known? It's short, descriptive, and according to search indices, not widely used.

This gives reasoning for the name of the subpath, but not its existence.
Same here. My bats can live off the moths. I currently have to use several measures to reduce mosquitoes in my area and it is costly and time consuming.
Create a React Native Image Recognition App with Google Vision API
There are a few things, but not much that I have had a better experience in Spark with as compared to using something like apache pig with UDFs. Now this part might be a matter of how things are set up where I work, but I find that working with Tez for process management and debugging to be far easier than working with the process management built into Spark.

EDIT: when you read process management above, perhaps it's better to think task management.
DJI Improves Geofencing to Enhance Protection of EU Airports and Facilities
It's also worth noting that a couple of years ago, most GAN-generated faces looked obviously wrong at 128x128px. It's entirely plausible that this approach is ultimately a dead end, but it's also plausible that we're at a crucial inflection point in the development of computing.
Did they ever fix the SD Card issue?
IoT-Core has been possible on the RPi3 for a while but none of my micro SD cards would boot the image but would happily run every other OS for the RPi I never bothered playing with it.
> As a niche market founder wish option like Earnest existed when we were raising early financing.

Can't tell you how often I hear this.

> what dynamics are like for LPs

Can't really say much on this because SEC. But yes, being better than the average VC fund (not to mention better liquidity and lower concentration of returns) is not a high bar IMHO.
Ignoring a learning curve for the sake of argument, the most effective UI's tend to be command-oriented. If you memorize the abbreviated commands, you don't have to traverse menu trees. Command-line interfaces can still have menus for newbies.

For example, pressing Enter or giving the command "m" or the fuller "menu" at the command prompt may give a menu similar to:

1 - Search for employees (SE)
2 - New hire (NH)
3 - Department transfer (DT)
4 - Etc.
0 - Back to prior menu [app-wide convention]
Command: __

Here newbies just enter menu numbers; but next to each menu is a shortcut command, such as "DT". After they get experienced, they start using the shortcut commands to jump across the menu tree as needed, they are usually global. It's like a Go-to (gasp!). The prior stuff is still on the screen for reference because they wouldn't get a menu when using the shortcut commands; it only shows up if you ask for one.

And the shortcuts may take optional parameters, such as "SE gar" to search for all employees with a last name starting with "Gar". (Without the parameter, they get a typical search form.)

Before GUI's, I worked with users directly to gradually fine-tune such gizmos, and after a while their productivity screamed. They loved me and even forgave my lack-luster people skills.
May not be quite the same. Navigating to Burger King website in McDonalds requires the user to take an explicit action to do so, Always-on geo-located AR may not require user consent (unless it's designed that way which may defeat the purpose of Ads).
State-of-the-art pre-training for natural language processing with BERT
Army tests using a grenade to stop drones with a net
Block Kit helps deliver more visually appealing content in Slack
They obviously did not do it just to save the cost of restocking a few paddlefish. As the article says repeatedly, they thought they were infiltrating an international mafia of endangered species poaching, money laundering, smuggling, international crime and transnational mafia likely with links to terrorism or intelligence agencies, which might be involved in anything from drugs to ivory smuggling.
I'm waiting for the time where all this neural technology will start to be used for something good, like making better games with more NPCs who can really talk. Maybe never. The life-cycle seems to be research -> malicious use -> hipster nonsense -> memes -> abandonment.

Edit: the problems with these images look very much like application of anisotropic smoothing. G'MIC has filters like that. You can make this stuff look more realistic by blurring it (gaussian) and adding noise (uniform). Blurring hides small-scale irregularities, while noise makes blurring less obvious by adding small-scale "grains" that you perceive as detail/texture.
Swiss government decided to use Threema Work as official messenger
Thanks! Yep, fun times.
The obvious and most common is asynchronous state that has some associated loading process/time. Especially those situations where loading some top level object implies to start loading a collection of lower level objects.

Reacting to object changes (persisting them to a database, or otherwise audit logging them).

Kicking off and managing "background tasks" like chron-job equivalents (5 minutes after a state update do some other related thing, such as a automatic state machine transitions), database synchronization/replication processes, cross-checking/merging in data from GPS/geolocation/compass streams, etc.
I’m convinced this happens everywhere, at almost every software company. As a developer, the most demotivating part of my job was the endless redesigns-for-the-sake-of-redesigns that kept happening. It’s ultimately what drove me away from being an individual contributor software engineer.

And it’s always for goofy vague reasons: “It looks dated!” “It needs more pop!” “It’s not fresh enough!” (What are we making? Software or food?) Nobody is willing or able to prove with numbers or measurement that the old UI is bad and the new UI is better. It’s usually just the designer’s hunch! Yet if I want to change the search algorithm we are using I have to prove the new one is faster with research...
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15679150.
You'll get a residue of organic materials that don't immediately return to the atmosphere, and eventually accumulate into fossil fuels, but that's a very slow accumulation, a fraction of the carbon that is initially captured when a unit of forest grows from scratch.
I literally LOL'd upon reading this.

While I personally hate using Windows, I have been trying to get family members to update their machines from Windows Vista, and they won't because "new machines are too expensive and their computer works fine", and despite my best efforts, I cannot get said family members to let me install a Linux on there.

A Raspberry Pi is cheap enough that I might be able to swing them to using something a bit more modern.

EDIT: Not 100% sure why I'm being downvoted for this. Clearly I didn't realize how slow Windows would be.
IoT core is different than full windows. It’s almost like the “lite” version of embedded windows. It has no desktop or start menu, for instance.

From what I understand, now you can run full windows. Although I’m curious how well it runs
A very small fraction is sequestered as topsoil.
Would you argue that the internet changed and improved more from 1969 to 1992 or 1992 to present day?
A study from 2008 shows that mature forests still store some carbon. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature07276 "We find that in forests between 15 and 800 years of age, ... forests can continue to accumulate carbon, contrary to the long-standing view that they are carbon neutral."
This is a Hard Problem because no fixed reference frame exists for registering position. For many applications we pretend that exists but with sufficient resolution (centimeter) the illusion of a fixed reference frame is shattered. Many companies, like Microsoft, want/need near pixel perfect registration. The challenge is worse than people imagine.

GPS positioning does not provide a fixed reference frame, even when it works as advertised, as it assumes some properties of reality are constant that are actually variable. But let's assume that it does provide a fixed reference frame for the sake of argument.

Physical objects are not fixed in any global reference frame. They can move quite a bit throughout the day, exhibiting significant Brownian and regular displacement relative to their mean position. No big deal, we'll just use a local reference frame, like the geometry of buildings and objects, right?

Local geometric relationships we treat as fixed are also quasi-randomized throughout the day. For example, the distance between two buildings can vary by centimeters over a day. With enough measurements you can sort of average out the local noise, but the precision is much worse than people find desirable.

We can't precision measure our way out of this problem because the things we measure don't sit still.

High-precision registration in physical reality is generally believed to be an AI-complete problem. This is a major hurdle for the vision of AR most companies have. You have a huge number of contradictory positioning cues, all of which are constantly changing, from which you need to synthesize a coherent positioning model that matches the one humans naturally perceive.
This is awesome! In case you're wondering, the latency of _mm_aesenc_si128 on Skylake and above is only 4 clock cycles
"We couldn’t see the types of projects they were working on..."

In other words, they didn't have access to the most crucial factors, and were left wondering why the trivia they were collecting had no explanatory power.
This comment seems wrong to me:

There is no inherent reason why a more-expensive car should
be better or worse in terms of reliability than a
less-expensive car, so my guess is they’ll track each other
fairly closely going forward.

If the metric is per car faults, then surely more features mean more opportunities for defects, given an equal attention to quality across all features?
+ https://www.fakenamegenerator.com
> There isn't a clean metric for most qualified or most elite, and there really can't be

For an academic institution or an athletic endeavor, I completely disagree. Performance in these environments is measurable. Elite performance is obvious, observable, and measurable.

Should a theoretical elite university basketball team sign and start a 4'11 80lbs person who makes 1% of shots and has only played basketball maybe a half dozen times before total but they happen to be the very best player from their school? What if they're technically the best basketball player in their schools history? Are they therefore an elite basketball player, and an elite performer? I would say no, observably and measurably not.
Why am I being downmodded? I presented very good reasonings and logics
Either approach, whether it recaptures the oxidizer or fuel rich preburner exhaust, is clearly an improvement over dumping everything overboard. But neither is an ideal solution as there’s still potentially combustible products being wasted.

Are there? Here's a diagram of the RD-180, which uses an oxygen-rich preburner:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RD-180#/media/File:Rd180schema...

Where is anything escaping other than through the combustion chamber?
Right now they don't even account for the factories in its territory...
In my comment about the Bloomberg Terminal, I talked about how it, and any good software (also like Vim and Emacs) makes users feel like a wizard. People, especially enterprise banking users, want to feel powerful when using an app. Like it’s an extension of their own mind and body.

If you make something that is valuable but doesn’t give the users a power trip, it will fail. This is just how people work.
Major Malta bank suspends operations after cyber attack alert
Story is pay-walled.
Not sure about Canada, but my understanding is that for the US we’ve gained forests compared to 50 or 100 years ago due to replanting, repurposing land and having dedicated paper pulp tree farms.
Yes, one of the proposed sequestering techniques is to produce and sequester biochar, essentially charcoal produced from biomass.
>What doesn't run VSCode?

Last week was the first time my 2015 XPS laptop started swapping too hard to get any meaningful work done, and that was because I jumped onto a project with a vscode workflow.

Technically it can run vscode fine. But only if it's exclusively vscode.

So now I'm working in my editor of choice most of the time, and then closing all my open applications whenever I need to use the vscode extensions.
Government-controlled is only a positive if it means the government can control the thing better than private organizations, and this simply isn't the case.

NPR and PBS have certainly done a lot of good stuff, stuff that at least at one time might not have been possible on commercial TV, but these media also suffer from the same kinds of bias that privately-run media suffer from, except it's on our dime. They are paid for, in part, by the public, but the public has no say in what they do.

I simply can't imagine a government-controlled social channel being any better. There would be constant fights and protests over what is or is not allowed. Having to police such a channel for truly objectionable content (e.g., everyone reasonable would agree that racist hate speech shouldn't be allowed) will quickly become censorship (e.g., "MAGA" or "Feel the Bern" aren't allowed). It sounds like a slow-motion trainwreck coming from miles off.

Twitter and other social media platforms have major problems by trying to reserve their rights to the benefits of being a publisher and the benefits of being carrier, but trying to dodge the disadvantages and responsibilities of either. There is absolutely no way a government-run version would be better, and many reasons why it would be worse. For one thing, by being a public "utility" everyone would (rightly) feel they should have a say in how it's run.

Twitter sucks (and I don't use it), but it may be the best we can get right now. Anything better can probably only come from the market.
This is different than the IOT version. It's just Windows on ARM.
A full-flow staged combustion engine has more efficiency due to both propellants being fully vaporized before they mix, rather than a liquid-liquid mixture (as in a gas generator engine) or a liquid-gas mixture (as in a normal staged combustion engine).

The seals are between the turbine side (hot gas) and compressor side (liquid fuel) of the turbopump. In a full-flow staged combustion engine, you don't have to worry about accidentally getting a little of the hot gas into the liquid propellant, because that would be mixing fuel with fuel-rich gas or oxygen with oxygen-rich gas. But in a normal staged combustion engine, you have to carefully seal off the oxygen from the fuel-rich gas (in a fuel-rich staged combustion engine) or the oxygen-rich gas from the fuel (in an oxygen-rich staged combustion engine.
BueBiz? Do you mean Blue Mix?
What do you mean by 'fake rocket'? A prototype built for display, not for launching?
> A perfect hash function is one that is collision-free. By implication, the hash must be at least as many bytes as the key

I don't understand this lemma. An indexed array is a degenerate example in which the "hash" (pointer) is presumably a lot smaller than the key (index).

BTW for those not familiar with a perfect hash function they are great for things like symbol tables that are immutable at runtime. You can make a very fast lookup that requires no probing (bucket size is always one) so you can also eliminate a lot of implementation both of code and data structure.
I feel like there's some ridiculous pistachio laundering scheme because of the sanctions too.
African countries with large Muslim population certainly hate China. As with most other developing Muslim countries.
Almost 60% of marketers haven’t implemented AMP, see why
Personally I think the Github page is more informative than the very brief article

https://github.com/WoA-project/WoA-Installer/blob/master/Doc...
Macron to unveil plan to give Europe's electric battery industry a jolt
> Since it uses a deep neural network, I don't think it's "thousands a second".

The generator is like 150MB. The forward pass is <0.1s. Hypothetically you should be able to generate on a decent GPU like a 1080ti with 11GB VRAM at full utilization <730 images per second. Use a few GPUs and you're at thousands per second.
There's no wasted propellant with normal staged combustion.

But full flow staged combustion lets you fully vaporize both propellants before they mix, leading to more optimal burning.
For any UI that has long running power users, however complicated, the users will over time memorize how the screens look and operate. It doesn't matter how 'intuitive' the redesign is because you will have broken their rote patterns - and the user has to rethink how they use the software, often at every turn. In the high paced environment of a call center this is simply untenable.
Either libFuzzer or AFL are your best bet for getting started - they both use very similar algorithms and just differ on execution.

libFuzzer is more suited to fuzzing a single method, while AFL gives you a little more freedom when deciding how to fuzz your code.

This is a nice initial look at libFuzzer: https://github.com/google/fuzzer-test-suite/blob/master/tuto...

And here are a couple of my favourite AFL tutorials:

- https://fuzzing-project.org/tutorial3.html

- https://github.com/ThalesIgnite/afl-training

Happy to answer any questions!
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It was a long time ago (2013). Issue was fixed in the next iOS milestone release, but they gave no recognition at the time and no follow up besides a "thank you for reporting this" email.
The algorithms presented below are much faster than most non-perfect hash functions on recent CPUs.

This is a very vague statement. I would like to see some numbers, as well as real-world use cases.

Last month there was a thread about perfect hashing in the postgres parser, but I wonder if a DFA / trie is better, since you don't have to always look at every byte.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18880374
I think this is about safety. You need two pumps, one for fuel, one for oxygen. The compressor side of the pump will be full of whatever it is you're pumping. But if you use a single type of preburner, then the turbines of both pumps are full of either hot fuel gas, or hot oxygen gas. That means you have one pump where you have hot fuel or oxygen right next to cold oxygen or fuel. If the seals leak, the pump blows up.
> The new browser layout engines are quicker than the old floats and divs with billions of class tags.

Can you back that up with benchmarks?
Scroll one paragraph down from that quote and the RD-180's approach is mentioned.

> In the 1950’s, Soviet scientists came up with something of a compromise. Instead of using a fuel-rich mixture in the preburner which produced an exhaust that couldn’t be safely recirculated into the engine, they experimented with running the preburner oxygen-rich.

> Eventually the Soviets mastered the metallurgy required to build the turbine and developed several engines that operated on the oxygen-rich preburner concept. The exhaust was piped into the engine’s combustion chamber and recovered at least some of the propellants which would otherwise have been dumped overboard. The modern day Russian RD-180 engine, currently in use by the American Atlas V, is a continuation of this technology.
Over 16,000 bugs later, Google’s fuzz tester is now open source
Xiaomi electric scooter reportedly vulnerable to hijacking hack
I wondered the same thing, I would expect performance to be not great
Show HN: Føcal Releases OpenCV Benchmark Tool
That assumes they want to know instead of grandstanding based on what gets the most campaign contributions/votes/highest post career jobs.
Does it matter what African or Latin American countries think if they lack the economic and military power to effect change in the world?
Microsoft patches 0-day vulnerabilities in IE and Exchange
The racial lens also falls apart a bit when you consider the fact that the most dynamic regions of the American economy are extremely ethnically diverse (e.g., California, already a majority-minority state).
Why matter exists
Brb, going to train a GAN with all my selfies so it can generate new selfies.
Silicon Valley Is Using Trade Secrets to Hide Its Race Problem
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/11/spanish-mp-fbi...
In the Carboniferous period[2], plants evolved lignin which made their cell walls stronger so they could grow taller. Fungi that could eat lignin had not evolved yet and so the the dead trees just built up layer after layer. This build up eventually turned into the coal we mine today.

Turning trees into charcoal[1] is one way to slow down the processes of the wood turning back into CO2, but it would be difficult to do it on a large enough scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous
they're locally plausible but globally everything's slightly wrong: the measurements of features, the mixture between high-resolution and sudden blurriness, the occasional warping effect, the shifting perspective, the eyes don't sit in the skull correctly, the hair seems to be intersecting the forehead sometimes, every area seems to be located in a different space & there's no three-dimensional coherence to it
Twitter is a million soap boxes in the town square.

Perhaps what we really need is a million meeting rooms that people can enter or leave as they desire.

I don't use Twitter, but I do use Facebook to keep up with family and friends, but the primary value I get out of it is from the groups I belong to, often private, where people can have (moderated, if needed) discussions about topics of common interest.
Wow - you guys need to find a way to commercialize this.

I manufacture products for an agricultural segment (where limited data exists for sales leads), and was able to focus on one example customer site with some of the unique structures they use. Then it brought me loads of other potential customer sites that matched similarly.

You don't have any workflow to help turn this into leads, so then I have to figure out the address, use Google streetview or something to figure out what place it is, and then turn that into a lead I can turn over to salesperson. But if this was made easier, it would be a great lead-gen machine and I'd happily pay for it. My prospects can't hide from satellites!
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The thing is, this category of "not VC" is actually like 99% of all businesses. There's going to be a ton of diversity of viewpoints and alignment and I think it's good lots of folks are trying out different models. Not even clear to me that there will end up being one "best" approach over time.
Fake? Isn't it the first stage that ever landed!?
And you are infringing on the liberties of others when collecting taxes to distribute as food stamps.

"Never infringe on liberties" is not a workable plan. The question is when those infringements are worth it.
> ActivityPub seems like an interesting protocol waiting for a killer app

You may well be right.

If someone builds a new and innovative social network, it will start with 0 users and probably won't be able to compete with existing networks, due to network effects.

But if someone builds a new and innovative social network using ActivityPub, it can piggyback on all ActivityPub's existing users, so network effects help it (and help existing ActivityPub systems).

ActivityPub means that innovation in the social networking space can now succeed, and is thus a game changer.
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