skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That steel truss is not a long way from completely replacing the roof structure with a modern solution. If anything it is more a departure from the original, which stood alone without help. It's not even an option for Notre Dame, because there is no longer any original wood or lead that one might want to save.

For a truly authentic roof appearance, only the lead surface matters. Lead is actually an awful substance to use though. It had cracked, letting in water to rot the wood. Swapping out that metal for one that is lighter and more durable would be sensible. I don't think it would be sacrilege to pick a better metal. Suggestions: phosphor bronze, surgical stainless steel, nickel, titanium, titanium nitride, titanium aluminum nitride, gold leaf over aluminium oxynitride, Monel, Inconel, cupronickel. Some examples here: http://finemetalrooftech.com/products/metal-shingles/

Limestone gargoyles only last a century. They aren't even old! They disintegrate due to the water flowing through them. The other grotesques, such as the chimera, were also pretty well disintegrated. Limestone is fundamentally terrible for long-term durability. The stone chemically dissolves, causing statues to turn crumbly and look melted. Glassy materials are far superior. All desired colors are available, so matching the original color is possible. You can go natural (white granite, black granite, etc.) or artificial.

There is nothing tacky about building with durable materials. Tacky would be like my house, with stucco over styrofoam, a very common construction method in the USA. Granite is the good stuff. Limestone is junk, almost as bad as my stucco over styrofoam.
Famously, the judge in the IP case asked Samsung's attorney to ID which of the two tablets she was holding was the Samsung tablet and which was the Apple iPad and Samsung's attorney couldn't tell the difference between them...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-samsung-lawsuit/app...
Does this mean that people can return to those islands?

Certainly seems unlikely they would close the military base unless they were forced to so do by some military or substantial economic action.

This type of thing is what makes me worried about the long term sustainability of US security. The paradigm is not really rule of law when it comes right down to it, it's might makes right. This is an inherently insecure paradigm.

Whether there can actually ever be a different paradigm seems difficult though.
I don't believe this to be entirely accurate:

1. Reverse mode in automatic differentiation is not as efficient at the function evaluation. Even discounting certain costs, and depending on how you count, the theoretic cost is 4-5 times a function evaluation. Practically speaking, operator overloading approaches run somewhere between 20-40 times function evaluation whereas source code transformation tools run at 10-20 times. This is fantastic, but the function evaluation is cheaper.

2. I also don't believe that stochastic gradient descent requires the entire function and gradient to be revaluated in the manner that you describe. One way to view stochastic gradient descent in the context of least squares fitting is through the use of Johnson-Lindenstrauss, which means that the data set can be randomly projected once per iteration. This means that the gradient and line-search parameters can be consistently evaluated at the per iterations level. Practically speaking, this means we randomly add our data together and then proceed as normal changing the randomization each iteration. As such, there should not be an increase in cost by doing a line-search over the already discounted cost.

3. As far as if the Wolfe conditions are destroyed, kind of sort of. In order to guarantee convergence, the amount of reduction that we use must also be reduced. Meaning, we can't project down the data quite as much if we really want to achieve convergence. However, practically speaking, I believe it to matter, a lot.
Regardless of their ancestry timeline, the natives have known to have been living there for at least three centuries. Expelling them now is cruel and unwarranted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Chagossians
Just because you have a secret clearance, and the information is classified at the secret level, doesn't mean you're authorized to view it. You also need to have a "need to know", and considering that Manning wasn't given the password, I doubt she needed to know what was in the document.
And the team seemed to ignore the users. The two polls I saw, both had the method syntax below 50% approval and below the other front runners. It seemed to me they basically said, "Sure, tell us want you want so we can note it and ignore it." Kind of a real dick move. Why bother even asking for input?

(For disclosure, I preferred postfix punctuation similar to `?` that most people hated - so I'm not gettng my way either.)
This is super interesting, like a combination of braille, legos, and moveable type... I don't know how someone didn't think of this sooner.
Given I was ultimately writing in answer to;

>'Did the non Chinese have any trademarks? Anywhere?'

May I take this opportunity to say; 'Huh?'
i think the implication is that a platform need not police its content if it is truly p2p and not actually storing or responsible for the content on it. with mastodon, the company is not running the servers people connect to in order to use mastodon, iirc.
Well that was the price a while back but:

>The UK recently set aside £40m for exiled Chagossians who live mainly in the UK, Seychelles and Mauritius. Relatively little has been spent so far because programmes are being developed.

Not to say that automatically resolves anything of course.
Just for reference, and since HN is famous for thinking that every software engineer makes at least $300K.

https://swz.salary.com/SalaryWizard/Software-Engineer-V-Sala...
Show HN: Ten – A Tiny Scripting Language
Yeah but if you act differently you might end up entertainment...
Open banking aims to create competition in New Zealand payments space
Just as the experts predicted self driving cars and super human AI being right around the corner, the elimination of jobs was greatly exaggerated. The free market never stops inventing new products, new businesses, and new jobs. The left describes the poor as living in a soul-sucking hellscape yet the place that most resembles such a situation is on the streets of SF.
How cool would it be if we passed gerrymandering restrictions based on the fractal dimension of the district maps :-)
I find this thoroughly unpersuasive. A 2.5x water bill in exchange for no municipal taxes and no zoning laws and other picayune regulations?
>You need 4GB/hour, to achieve NTSC quality (640x480@32bit video + 44Khz audio) DVD bandwidth.

That's going to depend entirely on the codec. MPEG2? Sure. With H.264 a 4GB 720p rip from a Bluray is going to be much better than anything you can get on a DVD.

>The expanded LOTR trilogy needs 2 discs per movie, no matter what definition because each break the two hour mark, and even blu-ray can't fit long movies onto a dual layer disc for its format in HD.

I'm pretty skeptical of that. Regardless of what media LOTR actually comes on, the extended cut of Fellowship would have a bitrate of ~29 Mbits/sec on a dual-layer disc. That's entirely acceptable, if not exactly ideal. And I'm not sure what the "two hour mark" has to do with it: Fellowship is closer to 4 hours than 3, and there are tons of two hour long films that come on a single Bluray disc.
Seems to be limited to playback. Encoding is probably more critical for this.
3D-printed guns are back, and this time they are unstoppable
A display has the capability to display several GB/s of information. But for the most part it's displaying a lot of static images and duplicate frames (unless you're watching video or playing games).

I don't think it's mathematically impossible to read smaller fonts if the same static window is on the screen for enough frames.
>From what I gathered, this sounds more like it happened because he is somewhat grating as an individual, as opposed to a political statement.

All that means is the propaganda worked on you.
I practice ruthless minimalism in everything. Having zero irrelevant things in my world leaves little room for distraction.
No, I don't think so. The derivative required by the Wolfe-conditions is a directional derivative. Even if we're using AD to calculate the derivative, this can be calculated using a forward-mode method, which is cheaper than a reverse mode calculation for the gradient. Of course, even if we wanted to spent the time to calculate the full gradient, if the step is satisfies the Wolfe condition, we can simply save this value and use it on the next iteration. Certainly, if we decide to use a stochastic method, we may not want this new gradient with the current randomization, but then we can always fall back to calculating the directional derivative, which is cheaper. Finally, even if we really, really don't want to do any additional derivatives, we could simply use a trust-region method, which doesn't require a derivative calculation to guarantee convergence. Yes, the model used in a trust-region method has derivatives, but all of these derivatives should be cached when computing the direction in the first place.

But, really, if it's bad step because the Wolfe conditions say it's a bad step, then moving to that point is counter-productive, both in theory and practice. We might as well know that before we go there.
I don't know if it is what you are envisioning, but there is a spreadsheet program called Scheme In A Grid (Siag) [1] (part of Siag Office [2]).

From the "Introduction" [3] of its Online Documentation: "Siag is an X-based spreadsheet for Unix. It uses Scheme (a Lisp dialect) both for expressions and as an extension language, which makes it easy to create new functions (for native Lispers, that is). There is no requirement to know Scheme to use Siag, expressions can be entered in traditional spreadsheet syntax as well."

[1] http://siag.nu/siag/

[2] http://siag.nu/index.shtml

[3] http://siag.nu/online-docs/siag/intro.html
Citation?

I don't understand how there could be that many jobs eliminated by a merger while the beer output remains the same.

It also often takes years for mergers to completely eliminate redundant employees.

It's hard to believe any manufacturing industry org has an anti-Republican political agenda.
> Why not create a system that is fair at the core, something like "your passport countries' democracy score, worker rights, environmental protection standards and human rights need to be in the same range as the country you want to work at".

How is that "fair at the core" when it penalizes individuals for factors they have no control over?
Subtitles are not a burden; downloading a single torrent with a dozen subtitle tracks adds negligible bytes to the overall download size. Audio tracks are a tad rougher; the good torrents come with multiple tracks, but you are downloading all audio tracks even if you only play a single language–and the size of those audio tracks is not as negligible. Most people with large or unlimited bandwidth simply don't care about "paying the price" for multiple audio tracks; it takes a few extra minutes, at $0 additional financial cost.

The rest is your parent justifying their job/industry as if they're a Godsend–perhaps as compared to cable? It's an indefensible position thus far. The streaming services are all trash with pathetic bitrates; all streams average the same ridiculously low bitrate over the entire stream, without accounting for dark scenes that require orders of magnitude more bandwidth. Every Netflix (and competitors') 1080p streams with dark scenes are unwatchable. It's highway robbery to deliver what looks like 180p frames for a 1080p stream. We're supposed to be at 4K these days, yet they can't even deliver acceptable 1080p. Until the streaming services are willing to stop compressing everything far beyond watchable levels, they don't deserve anyone's business. Netflix, I believe, averages ~3-5 GB for a 90-120 minute movie? That number should be, at least via opt-in to those with the bandwidth for it, 20-40+ GB.

I don't necessarily expect fully uncompressed Blu-ray quality, but the standard should be to deliver something watchable, without banding artifacts. At a minimum that would mean massively variable bitrates, where the highest bitrate of a stream should be allowed to be 10-20x+ its minimum bitrate. Compressing a 60+ GB original file into a download of than 5 GB is flat out unacceptable and unjustifiable.
1 minute of uncompressed 8bit 1080p60 video is ~20.86GB. Unless you also plan to recompress into jpg or something frame by frame your 32GB of RAM won't last long.
> The argument comes down to when the undefined behavior occurs: is it at the deference to create the reference, or is it on the first memory access using the reference? The language pedants will say the former, but in practice, it's the latter.

The undefined behavior is always when the null reference is created. The issue will _usually_ manifest when you try to dereference the pointer, but the undefined behavior was creating the null reference in the first place.
That's because even devices from over a decade ago have hardware h264 decoders. Extremely low powered modern devices can play very large 265 videos, if they have a hardware decoder.
The Australian system works a lot better. There are still the main 2 but there are a huge number of minor parties that actually have a meaningful impact. The minor parties are usually dedicated to single issues. The biggest minor party being The Greens who are about the environment. No one votes for a minor party because they want them to run the government but you vote for them to send a message to the major 2 about what issues you care about and then use your lower preference vote to pick the major party you like more.
You can hear these sounds yourself using a carefully crafted pattern! This phenomenon was discovered on HN years ago and I made it into this prototype back then:

http://thume.ca/screentunes/

It's cool that even more normal images produce enough sound to detect and decode. The loudness varies a lot based on display though, lots of LCDs you can't even hear it at all even with the exaggerated screentunes pattern.
Humans got lucky with figuring out fire. Fire simplifies everything.
> Sir Bruce Greatbatch, KCVO, CMG, MBE, governor of the Seychelles, ordered all the dogs on Diego Garcia to be killed. More than 1000 pets were gassed with exhaust fumes. "They put the dogs in a furnace where the people worked", Lisette Talatte, in her 60s, told me, "and when their dogs were taken away in front of them our children screamed and cried". Sir Bruce had been given responsibility for what the US called "cleansing" and "sanitising" the islands; and the killing of the pets was taken by the islanders as a warning.
Chroma subsampling is a terrible idea in the digital era. You should just assign a different compression factor to the chroma channels instead. I don't understand why we keep using this system of discarding 75% of the color data BEFORE applying the lossy compression algorithm. (Well I do know of one argument - apparently it reduces the amount of CPU time required to compress and decompress the data, but I think that's a pretty lame reason)
How plausible is it that someone could acquire this many qubits? How many doublings away are we?

EDIT: [1] suggests D-wave could be 5640 by 2020, doubling approx. every two years - 12 doublings = 24 years from now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems#D-Wave_2X_and_D...
Usage doesn't give you the rights to a name you need to trademark it to obtain legal protection. This is business 101. I feel sorry for the company but this is really an elementary error on their part.
FWIW I've never had an issue with WebEx on Linux Firefox (besides general WebEx UI/UX things).
And he lost out on hundreds of thousands of dollars of real income while pursuing said startup. In his case, the stock that he created ended up being worth way more but for 90% of companies, that stock will be worth nothing.
Some corrections:

ffh264 is FFmpeg's decoder. libx264 only does encoding, not decoding.

SVT-VP9 is a software encoder, specially optimized for Intel Xeon Scalable and Intel Xeon D processors.
We need to try some different economic models for information. Is there any reason to think that treating it as private property, with artificial scarcity, is the only way that things can be organized? The laws of physics don't require it.
Does anyone know if PG 12 can split the default partition into new partitions yet ?

Currently, we have to manually detach the default partition, create the new partitions, move the data from default partition to the newly created partitions, then re-attach the default partition. That's a lot of works compared to the reorganize partition feature of MySQL.
This is why you shouldn't use .io domains. It sounds cool but you're indirectly sponsoring a military base where people were tortured and because of which people were deported.
IIRC it was mostly the tablet that was a copy, not the phones.
I haven't finished reading the paper, but maybe my biggest immediate takeaway is that significantly increasing the number of bits doesn't really help. Using the methods discussed in the paper, 4096 bit integers can be factored in less than 4x the amount of time needed to factor 2048 bit integers. In other words, should this method become practical, cryptographers couldn't solve the problem by using integers we would ordinarily consider much harder to factor.
I completely agree with you in some cases.

However as a data engineer I strongly doubt that many (any) of the dozens of open source projects I use on a weekly basis were created for idealistic reasons.

They were almost all tools (or collections of tools) that were created to fill a business need, or to make a developer's life easier, and then open sourced for one reason or another.

I don't see any conflict with corporate sponsorship of these projects.
> Also, int foo(void) is illegal in c++.

What makes you think that?

I'm looking at C++ 17, 11.3.5 (4).

> A parameter list consisting of a single unnamed parameter of non-dependent type void is equivalent to an empty parameter list.

What are you looking at?
Youtube-dl can turn the YouTube videos into audio tracks for you, at least a few steps closer to piracy.
It might also be because youtube uses DASH?
But the thief in this case got their app up. So if it’s hard to do that for 100 stores. Why wouldn’t it be the same difficulty for legitimate developers?
> I can’t think of a statement - beyond, perhaps, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights - that I have agreed with more.

That Beyonce is the most talented and hardworking person? That no one should have a higher net worth than her? You have some very strange views.
An example is the Hagia Sophia which had a lot of reinforcements added after the original design was found to be unstable. The building you see today is not how it was originally designed to look, not just because of the minarets.
Does it work for conferencing too? I often get "low bandwidth / low CPU" warning and no video feed, despite having quite good hardware. The more people are in the room - the worse (it's as if instead of multiplexing on the backend, it tries to multiplex on the client side). Very annoying.
No the folks there are happy to be French, enjoying the EU passport and French safety net.
The difference is only etymological. Both words mean "right conduct."

The word "morals" comes from Latin (mos, moris). The word "ethics" comes from Greek. Since, for a long time, the liturgical language of the West was Latin, we associate the word "morals" with religion, while we associate the word "ethics" with secular philosophy. Manuals on moral theology in the Greek Orthodox Church use the word "ethics" because that is their language.

In short, their connotations may be different, but their definitions are the same.
A Vue.js directive both for long press touch on mobile and right click on pc
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesian_Ridgeback
Even worse for China is if they are blocked from both US and EU markets. Like the US, Europe has found its IP and technology appropriated by China, so with the right strategy Trump might convince EU leaders to also take a hard line against China. Unfortunately Trump's world view doesn't allow for such a strategy.
A very old (DOS days) VRML navigable fly-through Notre Dame is somewhere on my hoarde of data. I wish it had been carried forward as a thing to self navigate. The same people did a virtual cluny I think.

If anyone has the data brought into the 21st C I'd love to re-fly the nave.
But the app was taken down worldwide. Your example is if the app was only taken down in China, no?
China does not respect US trademarks, but the US respects Chinese trademarks? Someone explain it to me like I was 5, please?
Before making that conclusion, try asking some people who are comfortable with a handful of languages which they would use and why.
> If we make it as easy as we do to become incredibly wealthy, we should make it just as hard to stay wealthy.

What possible reason could one have for making it “hard” to stay wealthy, other than pure spite and jealousy? How does it benefit society in any way?
Very well. I would like to correct two misconceptions that you carry. Not only is the Fast Fourier Transform not magical, but it comes out of a straightforward elaboration of the question of how multiplication of two numbers might be done quickly. The technique was discovered before the (19)90s, too; Gauss discovered it over two centuries ago.
D-Wave is a highly specific form targetting narrow problems.

Generalized qubits I thought were smaller.

Interesting to see the doubling, I've been asking for the qubit size "moores law" projection for a while but people in the business keep pushing back saying its a bad measure, but even bad measures back in the MIPS and GIGAFLOPS days made some sense.

Is it really nonsensical to measure how "fast" we're achieveing stable qubits? Feels like it should be a thing.
>performance is generally not a huge concern on the front-end

Everyone who has ever used a web app already knows this unfortunately.
Ask HN: Preparing for YC interview, which one-liner do you think is the best?
I'm the co-founder of treble.ai, our interview at YC is coming, and we're preparing for it. I want to know what do you understand that my company does based on those one-liners.

Here's our demo video to provide more context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YkZdcLi65g

- We allow companies to obtain realtime feedback and insights through SMS and Whatsapp
- We allow companies to ask questions and receive answers from their users without human interaction through SMS and Whatsapp
- We allow companies to discover customer pain-points by chatting automatically with their users.

It would be great to know your opinion to improve our one-liner.
I've heard multiple horror stories of this happening with physical product brands.

Someone buys their products from a factory in China, sells on e.g. Amazon US with their own brand, trademarked and everything. Then some Chinese entity trademarks it in China. The clincher is that since they have a Chinese trademark, they can put an export block on anything bearing that trademark, and so the US buyer can't ship their goods out of China anymore.

Because of this, people are being advised to register in China even if they never plan to sell anything there.
it's just the consumer's version of Hollywood Accounting: sorry, but there's just no money left to pay you :(
Fair enough, but if the secret sauce is your micro-SD card then there's no reason to stop people looking at your computer, so it's not at risk of being mugged by a customs agent and so it might as well be a nice one.

I can definitely see other scenarios (staying in ultra poor areas with high crime, maybe?) where having an ultra-cheap and easily replaceable device would be good though.