skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems you misunderstood a bit, which is my fault, so I'll explain.

Facial blindness for racial features occurs when you're not accustomed to having to noticing such features. Most homogeneous regions can readily identify outsiders: they just look different. They're less likely to be able to identify where the outsider is from.

Guessing from facial features, with great but not perfect accuracy, is a skill. Like any skill it needs to be practiced. It is also never 100% accurate but I'm right most of the time.

Korean people have rounder faces and a less distinct chin than Japanese people. Chinese people are a bit in-between the two in terms of head/face shape. Koreans tend to have smaller noses and less pronounced cheek bones. Japanese have thicker eyebrows. The "double eyelid" is more common and prominent in China/Japan than Korea. China varies a bit more by region - but the people from Guangdong look different from those in Jiangxi or Gansu.

As a rule of thumb the north-south effect applies to Asian just like it applies to most of Europe: people in the northern regions are on average taller with lighter skin than people in the southern regions.

It also isn't just East Asia. Most people have difficulty telling African people apart because it isn't a skill most people need to practice. In East Africa, (eg. Uganda, Kenya, and Somalia) people tend to have larger foreheads (or more accurately: higher hairlines) than in other African countries. I actually learned a lot of this from watching a linguist, who often goes out to speak with people in public [0]. To approach and open a discussion he often has to guess their ethnicity in order to guess which language he should speak. He does so with a very high accuracy, including regional differences for Chinese people (he speaks Mandarin and Cantonese and from what I remember a few more regional dialects). He often does this without ever hearing the other person speak first, although he does sometimes overhear them speaking and butts in to chat.

>If the foreign Chinese or Korean person has assimilated (learned the language), you would hard pressed to tell.

I attend a Japanese class (in the US) with Chinese, Korean, Filipino, and Japanese students many of whom speak the language fluently. I did not have any trouble guessing except for one man who was half Korean-half Japanese. Now this isn't a topic I always bring up and it's not like I go around trying to guess peoples' ethnicity, but among friends who are learning a language together it usually comes up at some point.

Again, to reiterate: It is never 100% accurate. People are of mixed races all over the world, very few people are completely homogeneous. Recessive traits can appear, maybe they were raised in the South but by Northern parents. Maybe they're just a tall shut-in. Maybe they have a lot of makeup on. Maybe their diet was very different growing up. There's a lot more that goes into looks than just genes.

Just because most people can't play a 7-string guitar doesn't make it impossible to play a 7-string guitar.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/laoshu505000/videos
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I think it is a bit absurd to think Sweeden would allow it in this case either considering that legally they wouldn't allow him to be extradited.
> traditional journalism is pretty far away from what Wikileaks has done.

What you're describing is exactly what investigative journalists do all the time: they encourage sources to leak classified information, which they then publish.

> If you don't agree about classifying that as espionage, what is espionage to you?

Espionage is when a government uses covert means to obtain information on a foreign government for its own gain. When an independent organization obtains and publishes government secrets that it deems to be in the public interest, that's normally called "journalism."
They absolutely tried to verify it.

And actually there aren't any parts that have been categorically disproven.
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I'm not looking forward to them being necessary, but given the news that bits of the world may move past unaugmented survivability, due to wet bulb temp, I have been giving some thought to the cheapest version. So far I have been looking at a solar panelled conical hat, similar to the traditional chinese farmer hats, with a curtain of layers of mosquito net. The layers are seperated and cotain a water condenser that feeds to a storage tube at the bottom that also acts as a weight and a cool environment is kept within the circle under the hat by the air being blown through the condenser.
Of course reporters are largely in the clear based on what we know so far. But the DOJ and intelligence agency officers who selectively leaked information about the Russia investigation and unmasked people to the press in order to foment their own narrative should technically be prosecuted just as Manning and Snowden were.

If enough insiders keep doing it and they all mostly agree with each other, and they are the only ones in charge of initiating these prosecutions, obviously they aren't going to prosecute themselves for breaking the rules in the same manner they went after relative outsiders such as Manning and Snowden. And they obviously would turn a blind eye to reporters they are cozy with, compared to how deeply they looked into Assange.
It's also that you can go "backwards", e.g. slow down to land on another planet.
The major difference is that journalists do not ask their sources to break the law to obtain information. Assange did, and that makes all the difference.
The optimizer should take care of that, yeah. The ABI isn’t defined so it can re-write stuff. And inlining, all that fun stuff.
I like this particular comment because you've stated what you're for, versus what you're against.

There is a lot of daylight between our respective positions. I don't agree with most of your assumptions, or statements of fact. So of course I don't agree with your conclusions. Alas, our realities are so far apart, there's zero profit in trying to find common ground.

I do have a request, a suggestion: Make some predictions. Set some arbitrary horizons. Guess what you think will happen. Write it down. (No need to share with me.)

I used to be very bullish on both algae for biodiesel and cellulosic ethanol. Much disappointment. As a layperson, I don't know enough to know the why nots and what ifs. Or if those two techs can ever be viable.

Likewise, I totally didn't foresee solar doubling every 30 months. Nor the rise of the wind juggernaut.

I was wrong. I usually am. So with new data, I reluctantly have updated my worldview.

I'm curious if you can do the same.
I'm not readily finding a nice blurb that says "$xk annual income puts you in the top 10% globally." I've supported three adults with serious health issues on under $20k annually for years and was homeless for nearly six years while participating regularly here.

I'm American. I have also seen comments on HN from people in very poor parts of the world. I don't think I'm the poorest person on HN.

Yes, the population on HN skews towards the well heeled, apparently pretty strongly. But I have zero reason to believe that all participants here are globally in the top ten percent for wealth/income. And, in fact, I have reason to believe otherwise.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/07/how-much-money-you-need-to-b...

A net worth of $93,170 U.S. is enough to make you richer than 90 percent of people around the world

That absolutely does not include me.

https://www.quora.com/What-salary-in-the-world-puts-you-in-t...

Meh, tired of looking for a definitive figure.
We have chimps and "chimps" using cell phone.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/b08v5...

Turtle smashing mental level requirements are not much higher than social media surfing, but there are plenty of examples they can learn complex sequence of steps and pass it on.
> After all, what's the difference between WL and the New York Times

The difference between WikiLeaks and the New York Times is that WikiLeaks would not have kept Bush's warrantless wiretapping program secret until after the 2004 election - at the request of the Bush administration.
I imagine its just that cicadas - when they finally show up by the millions - also die by the millions, and leave little crunchy carcasses EVERYWHERE.
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Hadn't heard of it actually, but side channels have been an issue in browser security for a long time.

Spectre caused a lot of changes in JS like disabling high precision clocks. But I'm afraid clock proxies are everywhere. The API surface is gigantic and all you need is a single call that reliably executes in constant time on the samr thread
The guy in question isn’t even stupid, average to above average for a difficult research lab in a decent PhD program, which means smart, but through some bizarre mental problems tries to convince himself and others that award winning work by internationally recognized people 20+years into their field is trivial, sort of slacks off and spins his wheels chasing low hanging fruit, and gets mad if you say this
JavaScript can't easily evolve past the optimization tricks used in the major implementations. They all heavily rely on NaN tagging which makes 64-bit value types problematic. For similar reasons the architecture of V8 in particular has effectively dictated the design of WebAssembly, especially regarding control flow constructs like goto and coroutines.
Marketing and Sales budgets are bigger than R&D at most tech companies. So, you can work with the people who's job is literally to spend that allocated pot of money every single month. Or you can try to change how businesses operate.

If your ultimate goal is to work on OSS and to get companies to chip in, I'm quite convinced the former will yield better results and be less frustrating for everyone involved.
.Zip also has no benefit over .exe, .dmg none over .app.

It’s just a codec. It makes it smaller.

Unless you mean “lossy” by “traditional”, in which case, yes, lossless codecs have a lot of benefit over lossy ones.

A perfect example is when sampling or beatmixing; if the final product will be played on youtube or streamed on digital radio or compressed lossily in any form, you will have incurred two lossy compression steps if your source material is lossy. This is akin to subsequent generations of dubbing analog media; the quality degrades quickly with each generation.
I’ve been running the RC5 - so last release before this one - for a week and found it to be stable enough. But I might have just been lucky.

Ultimately there is a risk with any file system- if not a software one then a risk of hardware failure. So the advice will always be the same: make regular backups
That is nonsense you hear on Fox News. Investigation started because Trump sacked Comey and so Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller to lead a special counsel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Counsel_investigation_...
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> This has been the most discussed aspect of Rust ever.

I still remember the lifetime syntax (&'a T) discussion. await syntax discussion felt really similar.
The author doesn't understand what blockquotes are for I think.
I would if I could do it from home with zero chance of getting caught and shop wouldn't loose the thing I stole.

If you say you wouldn't I think you are lying, mostly to yourself.
Yeah - plus Javascript doesn't even support 32 bit integers.
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The predictions seem to have rapid flickering, which means the model is saying lots of items are moving back and forth extremely quickly. Since this seems common in video analysis (rapid changes per frame) is it that smoothing or taking into consideration multiple frames is slow? Or does it cause more issues than it solves?
It looks like all counts were from 2010, and not anything to do with the 2016 election. [DOJ Indictment: 1] Much of it has to do with First Amendment issues, sure. But not all of it. A large piece of his crimes were conspiracy to access computers without authorization.

I'm not sure the Julian Assange hill is the one I'd die on if I was worried about first amendment protection of the press.

[DOJ Indictment: 1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/press-release/file/1165566...
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It's a tough line to find there with what you propose. I'm not happy about all leaks, particularly those that seem to intend to deceive / distort.

On the other hand it's hard to really draw that line when it comes to intent for sure without shutting down all and any leaks, and leaks are an important part of democracy.

Every government has to find a way to deal with them, and hopefully not cross the ever moving line.

The hacking thing though, I think that's a legitimate line. How much Assange did or did at all, courts get to decide that.

Leaks are just such a difficult area to manage.
"Would there have been any way to see this coming?"

Stuff like this is pretty much guaranteed to happen in places that sit on a lot of data. The only question is whether it get noticed and then published.
15 years. My GC has been in backlog for the last 9 years and I'll continue being on H1 for the next 5 years.
most of the amazing facial recognition tech is actually israeli--and turns out the biggest buyers of military foreign tech tend to be competitors of china, so not sure how much legs this OS idea has, unless you mean small eastern european republics signing up
> The movie makers stop making movies because they won't make money on them.

Counterexample:

fanfiction.net 13'293'677 works

archiveofourown.org 4'825'000 works

fimfiction.net 125'797 works

[assorted forums and individual websites that make up the other half of my bookmarks] ? works

It looks like people will in fact make things even when they know - due to copyright law even - that they cannot make money on them.

Any creative work that will only get made if the authors think they can extort money from the people who benfit from it is a work that society is better off without.
Chops up the air molecules, you'll suffocate! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death
So by your logic if any country in the world approves some law that you are not even aware of, voted on a parliament (at best), that you have no voice nor vote on, then you are subject to whatever the f*ck they decided to do?. That's just plainly insane.
If it helps anyone any I use the following for iPad and code stuffs. I doubt you'll ever be able to write something from scratch but the odd change here and there works fine. Especially if you have a CI/CD process. I still feel futuristic when I push code from the iPad

- Working Copy [1] for git repos and quick edits to things like static sites on Netlify

- Coda iOS [2] for anything more heavy lifting. I use SFTP to edit files on my desktop computer and have it run preview sites, commit to git repos, etc

- blink [3] for plain old SSH. Coda does have an SSH client too but I usually SSH via mosh to my home PC and from there to whatever I need. Better experience when on shoddy connections

[1] https://workingcopyapp.com/
[2] https://www.panic.com/coda-ios/
[3] https://www.blink.sh/
As an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4390997

A common theme for a while was that Assange was just attention seeking and/or using the excuse of extradition to the US as a way to avoid facing justice in Sweden.
>FLAC has no benefit over traditional 16/24 encoded content.

You seem to have misunderstood FLAC with the sample rate / bit depth of a file. The vast majority of FLAC files are regular old 16 bit 44.1 kHz, and nobody is claiming that 24 bit 192 kHz (or whatever) files are better.

FLAC is a codec: simply a way to take all the audio on a CD and have it preserved indefinitely, without "generational" loss (where a mp3 is encoded from another mp3, and so on).
Whenever a journalist asks their source for classified information, which they do all the time, they're asking their source to break the law.

The legal theory being advanced here would basically outlaw investigative journalism into the activities of the US government, even by foreign journalists.
Interesting story... almost a time traveling experience. I studied music and technology in college. Our music lab had some old 60’s and 70’s experimental music equipment and they were always fun to play.

I was the lab tech for a semester and had a key to the lab. Occasionally, after a night of imbibing, my friends and I would go to the lab and turn on all the workstations and arrange some very large pieces. Looking back, I wish we had hit record and taken some of that work with us. Back then though everything was in the moment for me.

It would have been pretty crazy if any of those machines had been dipped! What a trip.
Do you own a car, fly anywhere, or eat imported food?
still love the OS idea--it found its home on a HN thread. The US has been selling the word its OS for the most of the last century, some would say about time another one showed up
FLAC is an archival format. It's valuable because you can use whatever codec you like to stream the audio or store it on a device with limited space, including future codecs that haven't been developed yet. Lossy-to-lossy encoding is bad.
> Yet when you look into it, they pay comparatively poorly

Hmm. I know this is completely anecdotal, but the two software engineers I know who are COBOL experts also happen to be the best-paid software engineers I know, and not by a little.
How do you convert lossy music to another lossy format? I'm having my music encoded in 96kbps opus in my phone and it is much more convenient to encode them from flac than another lossy format.

I have hundreds of albums bought and ripped to flac on my NAS server. They take about 300 GB out of the 40something terabytes available. I have real rarities stored in there and I pay about 1 euro a month for the cloud backup.
When concrete was introduced it was considered highly elegant.
In southeastern seaboard US states, some folks called them cicadas, some called them katydids, and some got the syllables confused and said things like katydeads or similar. Some people claimed the name depended on where you’re from.

But they’re not the same:

https://zippyfacts.com/what-is-the-difference-between-katydi...
How odd to notice that my brain really messed that number type up. I could swear Python has a type called (capitalized) Number and that this handles arbitrarily large numbers as well as decimals. Seems like that 'memory' is completely fictional.
The heart of their indictment [1] is the conspiracy charge. Basically if you conspire to access a computer system, especially one owned by the US Military and containing classified information, they will come after you.

1: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/press-release/file/1165566...
Hmm that's an interesting avenue. I've heard of that briefly somewhere but haven't put any thought into seeking out partnership. Thanks for the tip.
I do all the laundry, cook on weekends (and on weekdays if required), etc. That's not the point. My wife wants to be able to pursue a career of her own not just for money. She won't be able to do this without a H4 EAD
Complying with legal requests, fighting child pornography is not optional. Unless you are of course Mastodon etc.

I don’t understand the article it quotes unnamed “former” employees who might very well could have been the ones who got fired for improper access.
People would seriously pay 9.99 for to waive a service fee? Uhm... have we fallen that low? Just go get it yourself.
My interest ended when I couldn't afford to build the model rocket kits I wanted to build (I was a kid with a very limited budget). When I got older and had money, the lack of any convenient launch sites probably discouraged me from getting back into it.
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Precedence of the extradition requests is a matter for the Home Secretary, if I'm not mistaken, and there are various guidelines to determine which request should be given precedence.

Given the previous EAW was withdrawn due to the impossibility of serving it, it is relatively likely any new EAW will be considered practically identical to the original one and therefore the date of the original warrant used to grant precedence. There's also the matter of statute of limitations: the Swedish offences (one? two? I forget how many of the original four have passed the limit) need to go to court in the relatively near future, whereas the US offences have no limit as I understand it; this furthers the argument that the Swedish request should be given precedence.

As for whether he gets to Sweden before the US, remember that he can then challenge the extradition to the US in both Swedish and English courts, and Sweden considers espionage a political crime for which it won't extradite. (Okay, very hypothetically extraordinary rendition has happened from Sweden with some level of Swedish consent before, but for such a thing to be done to such a high profile person would be… truly extraordinary.)
Is it really serious, or is it just counter-trolling?
The only reason anyone thought it wouldn't happen is because it involves stepping into controversial legal territory and angering American journalists. Who described it as delusional? What are you talking about?
The whole point of extraordinary rendition is that it's outside the legal process. The individuals in the wiki link I gave you successfully sued and won on the fact that Sweden had allowed their kidnapping when Sweden wouldn't have allowed an extradition.
Always worth looking at a point cloud versus a disparity map.

Grayscale disparity/depth maps are somewhat misleading - the large regions of constant intensity suggest that the algorithm is good at segmenting areas of constant depth. However, the flickering in the map suggests that if you actually tried to plot this in 3D, it'd be pretty noisy. Not to disparage the result, but 2D depth/disparity maps tend to look better than what they represent.

You can see this in the synthetic camera wiggle video, focus on the actor's hands, for example.

You can also see this effect in the Stereolabs Zed promo video.
I mean yes, this is obviously a thing, no argument. But I'm not sure that means that Open Source maintainers are feeding themselves off the goodwill and feelgoodness they are getting from maintaining these projects.

I would gander to guess that most maintainers are supported by a small minority of enterprisy agreements they have, either through large sponsorship or by working for a company that is supporting their Open Source work.

And I think that's a bad thing. I would much rather see them supported by 10,000 $1 monthly donations than 5, $2,000 donations. That is more likely to lead to features and attention focused on the needs of the masses than the enterprise.

I say this as someone who maintains an Open Source platform primarily funded by a single enterprise. I would love to flip that on its head.
I'm somewhat skeptical of the thought that FPTP makes it harder to rig the system. I'm probably a bit information diet biased here, but it seems (as an example) that Republicans have had more court rulings against them due to unfair gerrymandering of districts. It seems who holds the power gets to determine the districts, which would help preserve power. If there wasn't a two way swing, it would arguably be harder to gerrymander in one parties favor, as it _should_ be more difficult to hold 51%+ power if more than 2 parties are available.
Comcast does so much lobbying that it says disclosing it all is too hard
Loose interpretation of "tools" but I pair program. It does wonders for clarity and focus most of the time, but can be exhausting and sometimes counterproductive for deep thought and analysis.
In addition to what's been said in other replies, there's also `cargo vendor` which can give you even more flexibility when working offline.