skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read internet comments from many of them, met a few of them, and am friends with one. My friend regularly sends me articles from Brietbart and other conspiracy mongering outlets who write entire articles based on Jason Wohl tweets. People who consume /r/The_Donald, chain emails, and propaganda outlets like Fox News, Breitbart, and the like are Trump's base. They are typically not podcast-listening thinkpiece-reading latte-sipping yuppies.

Here, watch this BBC video [1] where they interview Trump voters about their views on the "mainstream media" (by which you quickly realize they mean anything that doesn't deal in pure pro-Trump anti-librul propaganda). Here's an article [2] on a study showing that pro-Trump people specifically like to consume fake news shared via Facebook.

But personally I didn't really need a study to tell me any of that -- how do I know? I live and breathe and observe the world and people around me...

And yes, this is a generalization and not true of every single Trump voter. Obviously. All I really claimed was that Trump supporters will definitely be a minority of readers of a blog like this.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-38191313/no-tr...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/06/sharing-f...
That's a line about Unix. I believe before Linux ever came along.
Any clue at all how much processing this takes? I don't doubt you could build a salable product out of that that worked in real time, even if it took a big rackmount box of FPGAs.
Tried it on a family picture right in front of the castle of Disney's Magic Kingdom, my family posing and tons of people walking around. The result is incredible, this is really great!
> The notion would be laughed out of any city budget here.

I could see it happening. Portland, Oregon has an art tax that goes towards things like large scale murals in public spaces. An extra 5-10% on the cost of a man hole cover would fit within this, easily.
Been living and working on the east side (Redmond/Bellevue/Kirkland) for the past 10 years. I haven't noticed the Seattle issues spilling over. Although I'm sure that some people reading this will be able to come up with random anecdotes of their own.
Original article: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2013/09/rising-s...
I could see this as a great as visualization tool for a high school geometry class, i.e. explaining solutions for systems of inequalities.
It might be worth costing out Digital Ocean. They now have managed db services.
We're not talking about the basics. We're talking about mastery.

Many great musicians haven't mastered their instruments because many styles of music don't ask for it. So that analogy is arguing against your own point.

Great a great golfer is more or less synonymous with being good at golf. A better analogy to text editing and programming would be a golf player being obsessed with caddies.
A fair bit of this would be testing, reverse engineering, etc.
If you look at the commit history of any of the devs where I work, it'd look a bit thin too, but we're all working 8+ hours / day.
I tried it on a bee image. The bee was not a person, so it did not work.
That's correct. There isn't anywhere to build new roads, anyway. But the roads we do have, especially in town, are very potholed. To the point that it is causing damage to cars.
You can change a 403 to a 429 easily in conjunction with auth_request using a named location.

One thing I've been doing recently is to deploy oauth2_proxy in proxy mode, protecting an authorization endpoint. The authorization endpoint can be custom code in any langauge - it can have logic for rate limiting or anything else. Together oauth2_proxy handles authentication, and the authorization endpoint might do an LDAP lookup and limit access based on a group or something else. If you want to return something other than a 401 or a 403 you have to do a little more work.

Something along the lines of this:

location / {
auth_request /auth;
auth_request_set $backend_status $upstream_status;
}

location = /auth {
proxy_pass http://oauth2-proxy:8080/authz;
proxy_pass_request_body off;
proxy_set_header Content-Length "";
proxy_set_header X-Original-URI $request_uri;
}

location @process_backend_error {
return $backend_status;
}
I couldn't really see any of them until I started moving my head back and forth a little bit, then they popped. The effect was really noticeable with the red-black-dark blue images.
Interesting.

I was born without "Wisdom teeth", which my Dentist claims is widely accepted as human evolution. (apparently the number of people born without them is growing)

But I also have a bad, and getting worse "popping jaw" issue. where my jaw pops (loud enough to make my ear ring for a while after) or locks up when under too much pressure or opened too wide.

Her advice is to eat soft food.... which seems to go against what TFA suggests we should be doing.
Impressive if that treatment with the hair is realistic as shown.
The same thing is happening with PDFs. Google any popular business or finance book and append pdf and see the results for yourself. Google has been gamed by affiliate marketer - my guess it’s the same guy who was outed a while ago and had his address shared online. It was a HN headline not long ago.
I find it interesting that the first image they choose to show on their page to represent their product has an obvious flaw in it. For me, the image of the woman in black overalls with a grey tshirt underneath is the first to show. If you look under her right armpit, you can see that the grey lake is still there and not the expected grey-and-white checkerboard. Maybe they're just trying to be honest about the limitations of their product, but I assume this was an accidental oversight. Obviously this is a part of the image that could be easily fixed by (computer-aided) hand, but it might make more sense as a third or fourth image if that is the point.
Haha, yeah - if I ever get to make a game in the apocalypse/hoarder genre, 'polyethylene' is going to be a core resource.

It doesn't lend itself to 3D printing because it is similar to Teflon/PTFE in not wanting to stick to anything, but it is still astonishing stuff. You can melt/press it into molds, and if you toss it in a toaster oven you can even knead it like putty through welding gloves if you're careful. Metal tools will chew through it like butter with hardly any wear, and it is very light for its strength. You can even melt down the shavings. And if you need to, you can often "glue" it to things with anything from a soldering iron to a blowtorch.
If you still have it, keep it. They can be repaired pretty easily and you can use it to dump your games for emulation.

Yes, they emulate the whole deal (DS3 support isn't there yet) but RSX and Cell, yeah.

You can even run PS1 classics (emulating an emulator!)
The distinction is that Google (usually) is a useful tool; you can get to the source of the image from it.

It’s less about plagiarism, more about a dead end vs. a stepping stone.
If you still have the barf bag, it adds value!
I don't know enough about the particulars of this case to have an informed opinion, so you may be right. The reason I'm dubious is that what I've seen is regulations generally adding compliance overhead even for those not directly subject or for those already in compliance.

Moreover, every additional regulation generally increases the need for an official registration/approval process for would-be market entrants, which precludes a transition to the type of barrier-less industry that I think would be optimal for innovation.

That's the extent of my comment on this particular issue.
I noticed something similar recently when searching for icon like files.
> the grad student/professor relationship is inherently asymmetrical, much more so than most employer/employee relationships... So many professors treat their students like robots

Power corrupts, apparently.

> Nothing about becoming a professor selects for kindness or empathy...

Quality of advising should be important, but of course that's not what they're selected for or rewarded for.
I tried a few cartoon images. Realistic styles (most of Avatar: The Last Airbender, most of Ghost in the Shell) work well. Semi-deformed styles (Avatar gag faces, Samurai Jack, The Simpsons) usually didn't work or resulted in artifacting. Non-human cartoons (Spongebob, Adventure Time) never worked.

Some photographs which had low contrast between subject and background were not as cleanly cut out. It was good enough that I wouldbe able to import the mask as a starting point and clean up the edges manually.

Photographs in which faces were obscured where handled surprisingly well!

Would love to see this as a native feature of an image editor.
You seem to think GUI tools are somehow inferior to text based tools.

I wonder how many people would still vouch for Vim if they spent as much time learning a modern editor as Vim. But frankly, I don't think it's possible to spend as much time configuring any other editor as much as Vim, since most editors can do out of the box what hundreds of lines of .vimrc can't accomplish.
Ask Neville Chamberlin how appeasement turned out.

You will never have a debate in good faith with a white supremacist, as it's an inherently irrational position. Don't waste your breath on them.
if you dump your customizations into github you can customize on whatever server pretty quick. or at least some subset of your settings that would be safe to pull down on the servers you work with.
Altimir: Life in the depopulated Bulgarian countryside [video]
The key words you probably need to look at are "multi-petabyte". Not saying they shouldn't be doing something but it all costs - and at multi-petabytes, it cooooosts

1 Petabyte (and they have multiple)
S3 - $30,000 a month, $360,000 a year

S3 - reduced redundancy - $24,000 a month, $288,000 a year

S3 - infrequent access - $13,100 a month, $157,000 a year

Glacier - $7340 a month - $88,000 a year
Didn't pico as well?
Yes, this is an accurate elaboration on the situation. That doesn't take away from my point - that the stresses people are complaining about, in Anglo-Saxon 'graduate level studies', can be compared to continental masters programs. Some of it is similar in continental PhD programs, but the GP's anecdote of experiencing this in a continental masters program is simply misunderstanding the situation.

The fundamental problem here is that research is inherently uncertain, subjective and requires lots of creativity and independent thought (ideally - whether or not that actually happens is a different discussion). It's very different from undergraduate studies, which are usually 'do as you're told and you'll be fine'. Not everybody is suited for so much independence; in fact, often that do best in the rigid undergraduate system are those that are fundamentally wired to not do all that well in a more free form environment.

None (at least, very little) of that exists in continental masters programs. You just take your courses, do well on your exams, and you're good.

So that's what I meant as the fundamental difference between masters in continental vs Anglo-Saxon systems.
It's literally a banner on https://myspace.com/ right now

"As a result of a server migration project, any photos, videos, and audio files you uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available on or from Myspace. We apologize for the inconvenience. If you would like more information, please contact our Data Protection Officer at DPO@myspace.com."
Graph Processing on FPGAs: Taxonomy, Survey, Challenges
> I try to not read that much news and instead try to read books.

This is pretty much it: it's better to avoid reading news as a habit, and instead use the limited resources on finding quality information, regardless of the medium.

That is, don't stop following news. Instead, try to control, what news, where, when and on how often you consume. Prefer quality over quantity.

The biggest confusion regarding news stems from the semantics. Even though the name would imply that there is, or needs to be, something new in news, as in something fresh related to today's events that should be read the same day it was published. That's rarely the case. News is a medium of information delivery. It doesn't really matter when you consume it, or how often. News don't really get stale, if you read them a day later.

For a large part, news are already old the time they are published. They depict things that have taken place possibly days earlier, or have been published way before in other mediums, or don't actually matter whether they are published or read today or tomorrow.

That being said, there are cases when news deliver breaking information relevant to events taking place at the very same time, just in time to affect outcomes.

Many times, reading about these things the same day is not relevant for average person. This kind of information is primarily important for the greater public discussion. It is relevant for specialists, whether that's people or organisations, which in their position need to stay up to date with live events, or need to follow chronological order of information on events.

For an average reader, majority of news are not day specific. It's okay to read about them on a later date, or even from different sources, other than the ones initially breaking the news, with possibly additional commentary that provides greater insight on the topic.

It's totally okay to follow news non-daily. Weekly is still a plenty regular.

If you get depressed on a specific type of news, read less of them, take pauses, air your thoughts, and try to vary your news sources.

There's a great many interesting and important things taking place daily. It's totally okay to know about some of them a bit later.
Thanks for doing this. I have a few questions:

1. How does OpenAI incubate ideas? - are there broader themes (woven into an x-year roadmap) from which projects are born? Or are the projects driven by individuals' area of interest rather than company-wide themes/roadmaps - this is also probably a big difference between university and corporate research labs.

2. Can you shed light on the computational nature of AI problems OpenAI is working on? And what kind of computer architectures are being investigated to tackle the problems, by OpenAI or the broader AI community?

3. Where is the field of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) headed? In particular,

a) What would be the first areas for AGI research and commercialization - Video Games, Robotics, etc.?

b) Does the community think that the current set of tools - Deep Learning, Evolutionary Computing, etc. (with some further advancements) - can produce AGI or are these tools a unit step in the many step journey towards AGI?

c) How important is the collaboration of the neuroscience and computer science communities towards the advancement of AGI?

d) Is brain simulation/emulation a promising approach to AGI?
Its a monthly subscription for a simple "game". vimtutor is free without the cutesy stuff.
Nice ideas. Isolation is definitely an issue, and having them work with undergrads will also remind them that they're not at the absolute bottom of the social status hierarchy. They might get jealous of people who actually have a life though.
This is an intriguing theory that I haven't come across before. Do you have any book recommendations for learning more about the evolution of Indian philosophy?
Yes there are nurses with PhD's. There are janitors and Uber drivers with PhD's, so what? You probably mean that some people, with nursing degrees, have done PhD research on nursing. That still doesn't mean that nursing is something that is inherently meant to lead towards research.
About the VPN App and incorrect spelling? Don’t you get it?

Let me see what comments I would get.
Are attitude indicators or gyroscopes used as as inputs to automated systems? Or are only external sensors used?
There's a pretty bad issue with the hair too, near the top of her head. That was the very first thing I noticed about the image and it gives a poor impression.
> I disagree that it is not logical to point out the religious aspects of some of people that subscribe to intersectional ideology. I hope you can hear me out since you had such a vocal objection, and that you can point out flaws in my reasoning.

Primarily that you seem to be making a category error in saying that because people within the movement have acted in bad faith, intersectionality itself — or, possibly worse, the legitimate concerns it's trying to explore — is bullshit.

I'm not here to debate the movement with you, but if your notion of it is something other than "people marginalized along multiple axes have an especially hard time of things", and particularly if it's something more nefarious than that, then you're quite possibly operating from someone's "they're coming to take your $whatever!" narrative, instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXyn4ZOcZ54

audio interview
Things to Be Excited About in Perl 6 (2015)
One of those threads links to a support article that seemingly hints at data loss: https://help.myspace.com/hc/en-us/articles/202233310-Where-I...

It looks like one of their triages has been to link to YouTube copies of tracks if available.
I was the original reporter of linked bug. In fairness to Riot team, it appears to be an upstream bug with their rte: https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate/issues/2612
I get your point, but I think it's lazy (not of you, I mean the entire tech community) to take on this assumption "those sorts of models are inevitable given how the internet works" How does the internet work where the only way to make money is to make money off of ads? That's the only ranking system possible? That's now how y combinator works yet there's a pretty aggressive ranking system on how even these comments are ranked and what is shown first to the user. What if we are were rewarded directly based on the quality/relevancy of our comments using a ranking system similar to this one or in general a quality based ranking system, or really anything with even a slightly democratic approach to it.
If you are talking about [1], I think nobody knows how they are possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle
I sincerely hope someone took the Telegram client code and add Matrix protocol to it.

Really, Telegram client is open source and the app is more usable than any other bloatware on the market.
You don't have to be kept in an actual cage to feel trapped. This is one of the themes in Johann Hari's book about the drug war, Chasing the Scream. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19122637

The economic predicaments of the underclass would be easy to fix, if the politicians cared to do so. But the political debate is all about taxing and not-taxing. The talking heads ignore other strategies to fix the underclass' actual problems.

Ending the drug war is the most important thing we can do to foster more equitable economic conditions for all.
Well yes, it is, and that would remove a lot of confusion. But for now, the majority of all continental masters are not 'research oriented' in the way an Anglo-Saxon masters always was. And most people hiring (which lags people graduating by, say, 10 years) will see a person who left university after a continental bachelors as someone who if not dropped out then at least didn't do the whole curriculum.
Good question.
1. Being more on a business side rather then a tech one. Many times I find myself not giving a shit about how something is implemented. If it works it works (I know, I know, it does matter. Maintenance, scalability bla bla bla)
2. Trying myself in a leadership role. This could be a technical leadership as well but it's harder to get there and I don't have a strong bias towards that. I'm also not confident about being a good tech leader but maybe its just my fears.
Canada Moves to Regulate Crypto Trading Amid Quadriga Scandal
Not GP, but I think they're saying that the whole process unfolds nonsensically, not that people making comebacks specifically is odd. That is, one celebrity may quickly bounce back from the same kind of scandal that burns someone else forever.

I'm no expert but I gather it has a lot to do with how powerful the talent agency involved is, and the relationships between the agencies and the news outlets.
The way I see it is that the FP school is about the microcosm like quantum mechanics, deciding what are the best possible building blocks of programs, the functions, which are pure and referentially transparent and immutable.

OO is looking at the macro level: What are the systems how they communicate in a way that preserves the referential integrity of the system as it evolves over time. OO is like cosmology, structure of things on a large scale.

FP = Quantum Mechanics

OO = Relativity
I should probably have clarified that by 'European' I meant 'continental European'.
The image on the front page changes all the time, so I am not sure which you are talking about.
Starting a New Job and Noticing Things
Those who master language and domain live outside of tools and don't need them but use them for speed.
You can upload an image. It spits it out in seconds.
If you just google for Social Capital Theory you will find enough of articles that you might find interesting or not.

Personally I have been inspired by 2nd hand source - I had been reading historical book on Afganistan (very good book but I can't find it at the moment). At the same time I had been living in provincial Sumatra and experiencing myself something similar (It is something that makes living in Indonesia a joy despite other shortcomings).
> Maybe a good place to start is to read up on method_missing and message passing in Ruby.

I wrote a PhD on method_missing, and I still don’t really see how Ruby is message passing rather than just normal method calls.
IO tried a pretty complex group picture, and it did great, except for a couple of spots...a lot of time saved.
-> could be read as type arrow and ->> as unmatchable type arrow?
That article links to a much better written one that appears to discuss this exact issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin_limit. Thanks!
I din't watch the Youtube video. I'll try to do it later, but the email is spot on IMHO. The point about polymorphism and inheritance is great (although I will argue having tried to implement OO systems from scratch before that it's very hard to implement non-inheritance based polymorphism in a dynamic language because of the difficulty of doing multiple dispatch).

The one quibble I'll make is that about the "everything is an object" issue. I think he's begging the question there. One of the things I realised having done it myself is that in OO systems message passing is essentially doing calling "bind" on a monad: the method is the function and the program state encapsulated in the object is the contents of the monad. This breaks very, very hard if the return value of your method is not an object -- you can no longer chain your operations. I honestly believe that this is the real (probably unconscious) reason why "everything is an object" OO languages are attractive.
Some tests:

Easy: https://i.redd.it/dwi7jrmrwri21.jpg -> https://i.imgur.com/bQZXrAJ.png (Okay, but doesn't mask shadows around the feet correctly)

Medium: https://500px.com/photo/195143459/ximena-by-agata-serge -> https://i.imgur.com/kUdcvFo.png (Okay; it could have taken out a bit more background in some semitransparent sections of hair)

Hard: https://i.redd.it/i7fn0fy89ma21.jpg -> https://i.imgur.com/WGM67XL.png (Fooled with some false-positives, but still a good try)

Certainly not perfect, but definitely usable.
I need a solid database with good support and low latency. What would you recommend?
Checkmate, Undefined Behavior
I suspect the real reason for using these key combinations is that they are original vi commands as developed by Bill Joy in the late 70s. Most likely, his keyboard didn't have PgUp or PgDown keys.

The same commands also work with the `less` pager -- and they're specified in POSIX for the `more` pager: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/mo...