skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Developing a DCGAN Model in Tensorflow 2.0
Jesus, that's a quick career progression at Facebook...
>Small farms like your aren't commercially viable for much longer

I think we’re probably just a decade or so away from having lab grown or “impossible burger” style fake meats able to compete with factory farming on price. They won’t be good enough to replace actual butcher shop meat, but they’ll definitely be able to replace generic taco meat type stuff. When there is a viable alternative we might see animal welfare laws gain more traction.

Perhaps actual meat will increasingly become a luxury product for special occasions, improving margins and encouraging producers to compete on quality (and ethics) instead of racing to the bottom on price.

I’m less sure how that will apply to milk and dairy though.
Congrats guys! This is amazing!
> "may"
Sofa: Real-Time multi-physics simulation with an emphasis on medical simulation
I doubt it. The only study I could find on energy usage in image decoding was this

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7168333

which found JPEG decoding to be much less energy intensive than PNG decoding, mostly because it's faster. Note that that's not just a function of file size, as lower quality JPEGs actually took more energy to decode.

Which all makes a lot of sense when you consider how much work has gone into optimizing frequency domain based compression and decompression.
Isn’t this definitionally NIMBY? Might not match modern usage of “all the housing all the time”, but seems in lines with the words as written.
The correction will come when the News Orgs are limited/disconnected from the engagement feedback loop.

News orgs are basically functioning as info amplification nodes on the network. The talking heads have assumed greater importance, than the journos who are painstakingly digging up info. This needs to be revered.

The metrics (likes/clicks/views/retweets/upvotes) that drive this behavior of the news orgs have to be rethought.

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit etc could get together and propose a standard of what metrics are optimal to cause that reversal and then put them into effect.
I have to wholly disagree with this. A meritocracy is extremely important in the software development community. (especially in Open Source). If sub-par code were accepted out of the spirit of "acceptance" and "diversity", then the project would be seriously affected (this does happen still). People wouldn't tolerate that mentality when engineering bridges or building automobiles.
> Societal fabric isn’t going to be solved through anything other than effort on the part of individuals.

Very much indeed. We largely get the world we collectively bargain for.
How do I know if my AI idea is possible?
This is only one item of a larger list. As someone whose university buys Apple products (and uses quite some services on the Stallman's list): does HN have any advice for advocating for making the switch?

Let's take Slack as an example: what strategies are there to convince people to make the switch to an alternative product? From the perspective of users (who may not always care about the things RMS cares about), a switch just involves a lot of time and effort.

Any suggestions or hints how to approach this?
And fees/fines. The poor are being hammered with high fees/fines. Personally I think it's time to tie all fees (including governmental fees(like Patent fees),and fines to income.

(I still don't know if I'm still Shadowbanned?)
You're in luck. Try to search "I don't care about cookies" in Chrome Web store.

I combine that with Vanilla cookie manager to remove all cookies except whitelisted ones after 60 minutes.
Perhaps, just perhaps, the worldwide rounds and rounds of austerity just didn't work.
Isn't a law degree in the US considered a doctorate rather than a bachelors?

Medical degrees in the US are similar in that you complete an undergraduate degree before you can get into medical school and get a MD or DO. Some countries have the MBBS degree which is a bachelor level degree that can be started right after the equivalent of high school.
Getting into, lets say Stanford, on the basis of donations alone would be a few million dollars. Now if an Athletic Director takes a bribe of $50,000 (according to the articles) to get people in on sports scholarships and what not, then yes the University is a victim since it lost a few million dollars on the transaction.
In Canada, I think degrees would be revoked if there was clear evidence that students actively participated in the fraud which obtained their admission. But in this case it seems that most students were unaware of what their parents were doing; we would probably revoke admission for any students who hadn't completed their degrees, but not take away anything they had achieved while at the university. (And they would be free to apply for re-admission -- and almost certainly get it, if they had good grades in the courses they had completed so far.)

Ultimately it would come down to the lawyers and courts to work out.

Would the courts get involved? In Canada, absent clear signs of a defective process, courts are extremely unlikely to overrule universities on academic issues.
Learn C and its lower levels interactively, in the browser – Part 3
I have release part 3 of my interactive C tutorial: https://vasyop.github.io/miniC-hosting/?2

More info in my original HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19126544

Get notified when I release new parts:
https://github.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=2790571880963241ec5dd7d11&id=0e2d1b34de

I have also started a blog post series on how the project got to where it is now: https://minic.pro/a-c-compiler-and-vm-that-lives-in-your-browser-written-in-purely-functional-c-part-1-motivation/
The Squeal of Data
Rare Virus Outbreak: US Navy Warship Quarantined for over 2 Months
I think this article (and I've seen another before just like it about the poor/broke distinction that had a really powerful piece about mental math while buying groceries) do a disservice to themselves by focusing on the usage of two very common, widely used words. It's fine for words to have multiple meanings in different contexts and those meanings are defined by usage. If people say "I'm too poor to get a pool membership" then that's what poor means, at least in some contexts. Prescriptivism of common, mundane words is a terrible way to make a point. The author is hiding their real point, which would be still more powerful without this unnecessary baggage. See what we're discussing instead of what the author probably wanted us to discuss? If she wants a distinction, then there are other words or phrases (chronically poor, perhaps?) with more specific meanings. But it is fruitless to get "heartbroken" that people don't understand a distinction that isn't common use.
Think of the truth as a salmon trying to spawn, and all the challenges that beset it.

Miscommunication, misunderstanding is the norm. We just have to power thru it.
* New York Times: Your number of free articles is 0 ...

The Washington Post recently tightened up their paywall, too.
I was _really_ hoping for Seb to win this year. It would have set up Lewis and Seb both going for their sixth driver's championship in the last season before the upcoming rule change...
Opportunity's Final Image of Mars
This goes alongside the campaign on protecting cash as a payment option: https://campaigns.which.co.uk/freedom-to-pay/
If there is wide field of political candidates and one of them is a former reality TV star, who is going to get the most national media attention? Americans are more interested in celebrity drama than anything else. Quality education is a rock bottom priority.
Consent must be obtained for tracking, right? The law requires that it's opt-in?

So when the GDPR is properly enforced and implemented, there should be no difference to the end user between blocking these content elements vs. clicking No or ignoring the element, as the default is that consent has not been given.
I highly recommend the book "An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry" by Karen E. Smith et. al., as an introduction. It'll give you a taste of the field, without delving too deeply into technicalities.
Soon it will be 6 parts. For some reason they (whoever they are) have decided another book is a good idea.
What the universities do (taking students in exchange for a donation of a new building or whatever) is not meritocratic, but it isn’t illegal. They are private institutions empowered to make shady deals.

Individual employees taking bribes to put students in by pretending they are athletes is clear fraud.
> the material changes this rise in anti-intellectual, conspiracy minded, anti-science free speech crusaders are attempting to cause

You lost me here, as in my experience, such activity has been in significant decline over my lifetime. We're actually living in a golden age where science and reason are ascendant.

Using this as a pretext for silencing people that don't agree with us seems particularly pernicious.
Show HN: Jobs for English speakers in Germany
Maybe. But he's not posting here. If he starts posting personal attacks here, we'll ask him to stop as well.
Why is it the many of those on the right are always convinced they are subject to mass media conspiracy?
> The whole point of the article is there is zero correlation between people who've graduated from college and people who haven't in term of how well they do on the job.

This is not what the article says. It's saying employers hire graduates because they're better employees, but college mostly didn't make them better. This is closer to your option 2. (We are talking about the OP, the Caplan editorial, right?)

Caplan is saying college is mostly an expensive arms race. It has to be expensive (in students' time and attrition through boringness/difficulty, if nothing else) to be an effective signal. Subsidies in recent decades have made it even more expensive.
That requires you to opt-in to the “Find My iPhone” or “Find My Friends” feature which are explicitly designed to locate the phone.

If you don’t enable those things (which are not automatically enabled) then Apple does not know the location of your phone.
>> Bryan Caplan is professor of economics at George Mason University and author of “The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money.”

Here I was thinking this was an article that genuinely sought to engage my opinion, when in truth it was only an advert for someone's book.

I think I'll make it a habit from now on to scroll all the way to the bottom of opinion articles to save myself some time.
The problem with this sort of argument is that I struggle to understand how people are actually harmed. It seems like people assume that Google is harming people, somehow, but it's not spelled out.

(It seems like collecting information, alone, shouldn't count as harm? It needs to be used for some bad purpose or disclosed to harm anyone.)
Honest question, what's a neo-liberal and how do I demonstrate that? This is something new to me.
I'm curious; how do you decide who pays for what? If you're splitting the bills for everything anyway, and since you've dedicated your lives to each other (presumably, if you're married), it feels like a pointless exercise to keep separate finances.
We still use amphetamine to treat ADHD and leeches to help heal skin grafts. I believe that even cocaine is used in medicine today, but I'm not quite sure.
So I am a supermarket employee, I'll just cut out the middle man and pocket the money. What a stupid fucking argument justifying this fraud.
can it block 'this website would like to send you notifications' popups too? those irritate me more than chat widgets
I don't know for a fact, but I'd be willing to bet that Richard Stallman doesn't think you should give Amazon your money either.
Why’s that?

Intercom/etc are incredibly useful both to businesses and customers alike. But not necessarily all customers, I respect that.

There will always be someone who doesn’t want a particular feature, etc. That doesn’t mean it isn’t valuable to someone else?
>> most people don't understand

and you sir, most certainly don't understand economics if you believe money printing and inflation are paths to prosperity. go check out venezuela
Warning this is a very difficult subject. Please consider responding before voting me down.

Economics is plagued by three major problems.

- History
- Momentum
- Incentives

I do not believe it is reasonable to believe that economics is a tool of elite bankers even though they are clearly the most well supported humanity subject in colleges. What I do think what happened was after ww2 we solidified on a ya reserve currency (vs bancor) and an economic model which assumes a loanable funds model. Because so much of central banking is about stability and predictability, the fed has mostly acted along the same framework since the 40s. However, we are starting to see a change in the policy of the english and german central banks. This is probably due to the super toxic italian Euro -> German Euro arb and brexit. Europe is going to deploy australian style relief in the upcoming european economic disaster
I’m not the person you replied to, but I don’t think they want to monitor wind for weather-related reasons. I think they are referring to monitoring wind power generation as related to solar power generation, to see how the wind compensates for the lack of sun, at night or on cloudy/stormy days
Yeah, I hate weasel words like that too. Eating sand “may” make me a genius. For that matter it “may” allow me to fly!
You can call out a multitude of things to be mad at Apple for. The question is, what alternatives currently available would do any better on the whole, for what you need?

You demand a phone that has all these services and qualities to it. Or websites or apps that you like. What system have you come up with that provides a viable alternative to what exists? All these social media companies thought they could create a self-policing, open, free place for discussion. Surprise, turns out every country/government wants to put restrictions on these capabilities, in a different flavor. Or people want to be paid for things, while others want them for free.

Almost every one of the things on his list is a result of people, users like you and me, doing things that weren't intended to be done. And they had to come up with rules to take care of. Or are what's needed to reach this many people.

Not saying there aren't things on there that couldn't be changed. (and by the way, some of his examples are 10 years irrelevant)

But you're mad at Apple because it reaches more people, and does so while ignoring these (let's face it, minor) concerns that most people don't care -- at all -- about. Ask any of your friends to identify / name even 2 of these issues?

So go invent something different. See how long it is before you come under similar constraints and start having to make rules that someone, somewhere disagrees with.

The actors in a system are servants of the things we want (or can't resist wanting) them to do.
> Please check your reading comprehension.

No need for this kind of comment on here.

Yes. I agree with you. I was backing up what nrb was saying and that gesman was wrong. One effect is reduced diversity.
Not being a resident means you are the resident of a different country, so the assumption is that you have a bank account there. And being illegal or a suspected terror financer would already put you in an underclass anyway.
Yes, because then you'll have people who actually need support, forgot they installed this thing months ago, and think there is no support and get mad at the Company/Website for not having a support link. I think this will cause more problems than it actually solves.
Oh great! Another cow rape system...
Agreed on both points.

Counter Culture labels its coffee with roast date and is local, which is part of the reason it’s one of the only coffees I buy at the grocery store: they always have something I like, usually roasted within 4-14 days. If bottomless is doing this right, everything will be towards the lower end of that range, so that’s a draw.
It's funny how clearly people are addicted to outrage, yet also in complete denial about it. They don't see it as outrage, instead it's measured, proportional, and reactionary response to the opposition. It's the opposition that's addicted to outrage, not my team.

Unfortunately I think we've forged a new road to politics, we can call it "outrage marketing". The more the opposition is outraged, the more publicity you get - the more extreme candidates from both sides bubble up in popularity.
I think the weird part is that as large successful companies are turning to vertical integration, at least many western societies are going the other way.
For starters, majority of philosophers never make a stable ground for absolutist statements ("turned out to be false“).

Compatibilism is a kind of comfortable opinion, because it simply avoids thorny questions regarding logic, and morality. E.g. C-sts belive that a criminal is guilty, when he allegedly acts in accordance with his will, because, as you noted, that's what people mean when they say "free will". However, it still may sound unconvincing when one believes that the criminal's mind contents was predetermined aeons before he was born.
And you could even use these functions to check their own outputs and these functions again to check those outputs in turn, and these functions again to check those outputs in turn, and these functions again to check those outputs in turn, and these functions again to check those outputs in turn, and these functions again to check those outputs in turn, and on, and on...
> But late last month, Ma Ling, a blogger who commanded an audience of more than 16 million people, went conspicuously silent.

> In the battle for control of the Chinese internet, the authorities had designated Ms. Ma a threat to social stability, pointing to an article she published about a young man with cancer whose talent and virtue were not enough to overcome problems like corruption and inequality.
Really! Honestly, I’ve only ever used the chat widget once, a few days ago when trying to book a rental car in Israel (a foreign country for me). My session persisted across tabs and refreshes. It was actually amazing.

So clearly, it does not need to be this way (and isn’t for all cases).
Try writing out typical mathematical formula derivations using only s-expressions. I tried for a period and abandoned the persuit. It’s just not comparable to established mathematical notation.
Yes, consent must be given, and it should be a positive action. Inaction, pre-checked boxes does not qualify.
Boléro: Sergiu Celibidache (1971) [video]
Yes its on its way out. I don't think learning it is a waste of time if you touch legacy stuff. jQuery still does some things better than DOM, but if all you need is XHR and css selectors, you don't need it anymore.

Popular component frameworks such as bootstrap still uses jQuery.
Posted this here 4 years ago, the number of jobs has been steadily increasing ever since, and this only captures a portion of the market. I figured it was time to "show it" again.
I have started to use FB for only humor and private groups about side projects.

I got tired of all the politics and news. If it bleeds it leads keeps the mind steeped in negativity.
I have just shown up and asked the prof if they minded, at the end of the first class.

The irritating thing nowadays is that sometimes materials are behind a wall on the university website.
Some people want to receive what they pay for, nothing more, nothing less.

If you had a peanut allergy, wouldn't you want to know if the candy bar has peanuts?
The kids themselves were in most cases unaware of their parents’ deception.

We shouldn’t be lining up to punish 19 year olds for their parents’ crimes. Large fines and jail time for the parents is punishment enough here.
One of the problems is that the UX of these features is always pushy and obtrusive. The designers want to stick it in your face to make sure you use it (probably because decisions about resource allocation are based on how frequently they’re used). The result is that even potentially useful functionality gets presented in a way that’s obnoxious and makes people resent it. It’s like Clippy, but for everything.
Simple Hands-On Introduction to K3S – Lightweight Kubernetes
If they're paying you 1% APY on deposits now, they're not losing money. The going rate rate on deposits these days is a little over 2%.
For context, these figures are roughly in line with what Java, C#, and other "fast" managed runtimes manage on the Benchmarks Game. [0] Since WASM's MVP is designed towards manual memory management(GC is proposed but not yet specified), there is a good likelihood of the results improving beyond these runtimes.

[0] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
The credential signifies that you indeed spent years writing bad code, and got better. Maybe it does have value there. Many companies are weary of hiring someone who has a few years of self-taught experience.
Oh, it mostly already has.

The punchline is whether a printout of a PDF of something that never had a print original counts as an "original" for ID purposes in a completely adhoc adversarial system. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
In my experience, this also happens a lot with "hard science" too, and a charge against various investigations in soft science and philosophy are led by certain "appeals to authority" themselves - including and not limited to unquestioned positivism, the unsubstantiated belief in objectivity in science etc. And these are as ideological as any other "soft science" defender - only more pernicious, since such views are rarely admitted to be ideological in themselves.
Seems like poor design - we used drift and it definitely persisted chat sessions. Agreed on sounds and face being extremely annoying.
I think the point here is that the Angry reaction is a signifier of divisive content. Divisiveness gets people talking, so the metrics look good even though the discourse is unhealthy and tearing society apart on both sides.
I think it should be more metered. Those currently enrolled lose their enrollment status and must reapply. Those who have graduated should be subject to further investigation, and if they did the work and passed their classes, they should keep their degree. It was enrollment fraud, not academic fraud.
I've always wanted to make very low power micros to do simple sensor/comms things in fully autonomous remote locations, but I don't know how to make the solar requirement economical, compared with the cost of the micro.

Is there a _cheap_ way to add solar to very low power boards?
That's weird but I think that the quality of the products we own has gone way up in part due to online reviews.
Most people can but don’t, especially in the US. Partly because of insane parental leave rules, mothers are expected to go back to work after a few weeks. But a lot of people just don’t want to, and that’s about as stupid as refusing to vaccinate.