skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can’t wait until techniques like this find their way in to open source photogrammetry pipelines. I came up with a way of training neural nets for robotics using a monocular camera, photogrammetry, and a simulation environment with the captured 3D scene, but the photogrammetry was error prone and computationally intensive even on a beefy cloud server.

I’d love for OpenSFM or OpenMVS (check github) to get this kind of software.

Also would love to see an implementation of this on github, but hopefully that will follow in time.
Elastic Partners with Tencent in China
Disney recently took full control of Hulu, so theres a little less threat of fragmentation in that piece of the streaming ecosystem.
We could transition into a model where works are crowdfunded before they are made by people who want them the most. Creators set the amount they want for their work and if there are enough people that wish to see the work it will get funded and will be free for everyone to enjoy without artificial scarcity.
Soon it will take less time and be more cost-effective to commission the integration of an SoC for your application than to risk your business to software basket weavers.
I believe yes if the content is under Creative Commons License.
What's the problem with running a fan all night? Legitimate question, as it's never occurred to me not to do that in the warmer months.
Life was loud and very buggy in 2004 when Brood X emerged on the east coast US.
In a first, chimpanzees seen smashing and eating tortoises
Show HN: CV Scanner – Examine Tech Terms Using NLP
Free PDF-book «Connect The Dots»[0] by The Blind Foundation[1] would be good start point.

[0] https://bf-website-uploads-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploa...

[1] http://blindfoundation.org.nz/how-we-can-help/daily-life/bra...
Also same data: 38.8% pay it with CC that they pay off, 41.8% pay it with cash. Put two of them together and you get $80.6% not struggling at all.

That data is garbage.
uhh download the movies on itunes for free? get the dvd by mail in a few hours as opposed to days? why is your comment so incredibly full of shit?
> it seems that the lawmakers have too perverse an incentive structure and their constituents have too short a memory to realize which regulations are necessary to protect the greater good.

while reading your post half way i was thinking to reply saying the exact same thing

this gives me much pause, because it means that even if more and more these deregulation’s hurt society, they would get drowned out by the (increasingly sensational) daily news cycle
> A couple days later the landlord came back, standing firm on 5-year extension, plus an across the board rental increase of about 8%, plus a baked-in annual increase of 6%, plus an additional levy for a new HVAC system on the roof.

Yikes. Sounds like great timing too.
It is really, really hard to get in trouble in the United States if you have a lot of money and some friends in Washington.
Reading the tos for refunds it seems I have to play for a maximum of two hours or must be passed less than two weeks from the moment I buy. Considering I play mostly rts, simulator or survival games I need far more than 2 hours to understand if the gameplay is deep enough or replayable enough, or if the game slow down too much as soon as I have too many units/buildings in the screen
Agree. To add, if we accepted this as the attribution source of truth, there would be large conflicts of interest from companies like Google who own an ad network and also Chrome. They would basically claim all Adwords traffic is awesome.
Everybody gets actively recruited. So the words don't mean much.
It's kind of sad that the exact same list of issues applies to many Fortune 500 companies I've worked with.
What you describe in the first paragraph seems like a detailed and accurate description of the current state of affairs, with strong copyright law essentially written by the large corporations you describe.

Anyone who is making a modest living producing their own original IP is not doing so because of IP protection laws, because they surely cannot afford to litigate (and they certainly can't afford to lobby to get the laws to favor them).
Software like Photoshop or After Effects, cracked PC games I would guess, and of course pornography. Important to note that despite the convenience offered in today's streaming services, there is still a large portion of people who are morally/ethically against paying for streaming services, so there is still a market for TV and movies -- PopcornTime runs on torrents and there are millions of users.
There are plenty of things in existence that took more than 15 tries to get right. It is silly to dismiss something because it has failed the last 15 times.

If wealth taxes are beneficial and a good goal to work towards for a society, then it might be worth it to try for a 16th or even a 17th time until someone figures it out. Human flight took plenty of tries too, but it was something we deemed beneficial, so we figured it out.. eventually.

Anyway, Property taxes are a kind of wealth tax, as are capital gains taxes and inheritance taxes. All three of those are wide spread and well established.
Not sure the exact definition, I meant it more as the politician would have to do what they said they would do when they were campaigning (as in fulfill their promises). The enforcement mechanism is what I think is most lacking today - even when politicians break promises they often still get reelected (hence the Congressional reelection rate compared to voter approval). The pessimist in me says it has to be purely based on money because money is what really talks, but maybe there's another mechanism too
What kinds of issues are you thinking about tackling in that space?
It feels like we're probably in, or just over, a local maxima as far as getting content at a reasonable price goes. This has obviously been a reflection of the ease of duplication and acquisition of works for free (gratis) that the internet has brought about.

Now we seem to be entering a time where, as media mega-corps have appeared and won us back to paying for content and having content easily accessible, they're starting to think they can ramp up the prices and lock away "their" content in a silo with a hefty price-tag for entry.

It seems as if we're going to move back towards a much higher price for taking part in the culture that surrounds current media; and that in turn is going to lead to more copyright infringement. Only this time the media corps have got the internet sewn up pretty well

It would be ideal if the reaction were to rest control of culture from the hands of big business a little with some statutory reform. But that in turn rests on whether countries get democratic reform to proportionalise representation and enable the tackling of smaller issues like disenfranchisement from culture and locking away of works so they can't ever enter the public domain.
The Mayor of Meatpacking
Why humans treat their dogs like people
Six Brazilian tourists die in Chile in flat rented on Airbnb
There's lots of nervous/stressed looking people in airports, at least here in the US. How does the natural state of being stressed/tired from travel or being nervous about dealing with the horrendous TSA/CBP allow an officer to reliably distinguish regular citizens from terrorists?

Some people are naturally anxious/nervous in public and a place like airports with TSA agents strip searching you and ordering you around like cattle can appear to be "suspicious" behavior.
As an aside, there is a cathedral built during the 90s in the modernist style in France. It is in Evry, just 40km south of Paris. I have visited it, it's actually pretty nice. It's very bright inside and accoustic is supposedly very good.

http://cathedrale-evry.net/smart/textes/exterieur.htm
http://cathedrale-evry.net/smart/textes/interieur.htm
Increment Issue 9: Open Source
> Why would Disney/Marvel go to the effort of creating the Avengers movies when those movies could be shown freely by movie theaters?

Maybe we could wait a bit for cool movies when technology advances to the point where they can be made by few dedicated people with off the shelf hardware instead hundred million budget that needs to be propped up with additional millions to trump up the hype so it can be earned back?

So many things made possible by copyright that we are accustomed to look like severe pathology when you look at them with fresh eye.
Decimals are conceptually similar to binary numbers, just with a different base. So no, they can’t represent all rationals accurately, and yes, they involve approximation.

For example, you can’t represent 1/3 in decimal, for the exact same reason you can’t represent 1/5 in binary. (1/3 is the infinitely repeating decimal 0.3333..., whereas 1/5 is the infinitely repeating binary 0.00110011001100...)

In general if you need to perfectly represent rational arithmetic you shouldn’t be using decimal or binary; you should have a type with an integer numerator and integer denominator. I don’t see the value of making arithmetic dramatically slower without actually solving the approximation issue.

If you are ever calling == on floating point numbers, you are doing something seriously wrong. Floating point numbers are supposed to be used for scientific and numerical computations where there is a notion of measurement error, and “exactly equal” is nonsense, so yes, speed is the entire point.

That’s why making a language without integers is such a serious mistake.
Immutable.js has good functionality to allow you to batch pure operations if you don’t actually need the intermediate values.
Does anyone know of a kit for building a gothic architecture building consisting of small stones with pre-cut geometry? Seems like it would be fun to put together - could you use it like a puzzle and assemble with no adhesive, throw the pieces back into the box when you're done?

Presumably could be manufactured from concrete in molds, so incremental cost could be quite low.
Trump is just a first in a long line of populists yet to come from the right and left. I don't think he can fix much but i can see why someone might think he has answers (He knows how to talk). Answers to pressing problems that are more immediate to people such as growing inequality, drug problems in rural areas, loss of American global dominance, the growing feeling that politicians and the "elites" just fool people to line their own pockets etc... Black and white thinking about the "other" side is a seems to be so rampant that even smart people seem to not be able to avoid. Topics such as these are generally plagued with emotional vitriol. Most people don't vote for politicians because of logic (How could a billionaire be anti-establishment?), but don't go believing all of them are somehow your enemies or racists or bad people, most of them are just decent average people that believe something important to them will be solved by a guy like trump (it probably won't).
It's impressive to see how a company that scales really fast has to be ahead of the curve in how the infrastructure will behave months in advance.

There must be many shaky hands on pulling the trigger on a massive architecture re-write on the assumption that half a year later the current system could go bust.
With Trump, Brexit and the turmoil in Europe we're way past just "opposing" multiculturalism. Multiculturalism seems to be imploding.

I was and am not fascinated by Japan, and to be honest I didn't always enjoy my visit there. It was frustrating to feel so... foreign. I complained about them not speaking English and was annoyed that I couldn't even read a simple sign.

And yet, looking back I cherish that time and a feeling of respect has developed inside me. Because Japan was Japan, and didn't bend itself to my will, of that of other "guests" that want to change it to fit their imagination.

It was as solid as a rock and that counts for something.
Sometimes I pay for them, when I consider that the product is really good and I want to support the author, and sometimes I download them for free.
It THOSE guys! I’ve never used the OP-1, but I love watching people on YouTube make music on it. It seems like an amazing piece of hardware.

Check out “red means recording” https://youtu.be/7z4hoazra_g
> Someone made it because they wanted to make it or got paid to make it.

This is definitely not true when it comes to royalty-based models.
Visual Basic did something similar to Basic with drag and drop controls and writing most of the UI code for you. This seems like a command line version of same thing.
SingularityNET X-Lab incubator and supervisory council community election
SingularityNET (singularitynet.io), the decentralized platform for AI services, published two new milestones:

1. SingularityNET X-Lab which is an incubator program where AI startups can apply to contribute and participate in the SingularityNET ecosystem. They will receive coaching, an AGI token grant to accelerate their development by using existing services as building blocks, office space in Hong Kong and connections to VCs as well as guidance on building a community by SingularityNET team. Blog post: https://blog.singularitynet.io/singularitynet-x-lab-6552d823595d

2. SingularityNET Supervisory Council which will have three members and be elected by AGI token holders in a direct, democratic vote as their representatives towards the SingularityNET Foundation. One vote per AGI in a wallet that did not have input or output for 24 hours at the election day. The self nomination process is still ongoing. Blog post: https://blog.singularitynet.io/singularitynet-supervisory-council-e7c513fd3ea6
So if you think you can morally guide and support the researchers and developers that want to guide humanity to a benevolent Singularity, please, please nominate yourself via this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdL5liUGXwNo2T8ZWcmR2lJrC9_605ByXMqXHUwagzAri_nNA/viewform
It seems like the courts eventually came around to a more just way of thinking too, for example, they stopped treating the partial uploading of a single song as if the person had stolen the entire value of that song from the publishers.
> timeless

I think one thing that's proven beyond a doubt by now, once more by this fire, is that everything that man puts up is almost by definition not timeless, unless you make it out of large piles of stone such as the pyramids.
The MSDN CDs where an endless source of amusement. The reference manuals were very good and search actually worked well. Did not feel crippled at all.
Facebook removes 3 Billion fake accounts in 6 months
It is a joke? If I want to set some variable to be present for a single user (me) I surely don't want to ever touch /etc/profile or /etc/systemd/system.conf (and I have no idea what /etc/environment is supposed to be). And even less want to change something in a bootloader. The things are surely configurable in my user home directory.
Housing crisis: 4k people applied for 28 affordable homes in Oakland
While throwing for hunting purposes would have been useful, throwing for defensive purposes likely would have been the initial impetus for throwing evolving to a fine art.

Imagine yourself alone on the plains of Africa and facing a lion or two. Your odds are not good. Even a group of people on the plains of Africa facing a few lions with no ability to throw stones looks like a losing proposition.

However a group of people in an outward facing circle facing lions and each with a pile of stones to throw with deadly accuracy, now this is something that even lions would think twice about.

The thing about defence is you don't have to move, the stones are prepared before hand. The predator has to come to you and is therefore easier to hit, preferably in the head. Sticks and stones will break their bones but names will never hurt them.
> Python has only Number though, and that can get as large as fits in your memory.

This is not true.

>>> type(1)
<class 'int'>
>>> type(1.5)
<class 'float'>
They can have all these if they allow "pay with Ethereum".
At one end of the spectrum, everyone pays to see every movie they want to see. The movie makers make bank and keep making movies.

At the other end of the spectrum, everyone pirates the movies they want to see. The movie makers stop making movies because they won't make money on them.

In between the two ends is a large grey area. Pretending that it's always acceptable to pirate any movie you want to see is akin to saying that you don't want the movie studios to make movies anymore. But pretending that every movie pirated costs the studios a ROI equal to the cost of buying the movie is disingenuous, too.
Not surprised either. Very easy to pick up and get things done. However, I think for some of the use cases I have seen so far, sql can do the job just fine.
How much of that decrease is just moving the factory to China?
> It won’t be. The games industry is littered with hardware that flopped.

What do you think Panic means by successful?

From the PlayDate's site:

> Stock will be very limited. Sign up early.

It doesn't sound like they're trying to take over the gaming industry here.
While I agree with Intuit being complete rent-seekers, I don't think it's "weaponized". It's every-day lobbying (aka corruption) to limit government from doing what many other countries do successfully: automate tax filing.
> The spire is gone. The original one is never going back. What's the point of making a copy ?

AIUI, the spire itself actually dates back to the early 19th century - if so, rebuilding one in the same style would be quite appropriate. 19th c. was the peak in scale and ambition for these sorts of works, and we should take that as our reference. Brutalist 20th-c. or 21th-c. architecture might be "ambitious" in its own terms, but it would never fit the context of a Gothic cathedral.
There's money to be earned in solving for the #GlobalGoals Goals, Targets, and Indicators:

The Global Goals

1. No Poverty

2. Zero Hunger

3. Good Health & Well-Being

4. Quality Education

5. Gender Equality

6. Clean Water & Sanitation

7. Affordable & Clean Energy

8. Decent Work & Economic Growth

9. Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure

10. Reduced Inequalities

11. Sustainable Cities and Communities

12. Responsible Consumption & Production

13. Climate Action

14. Life Below Water

15. Life on Land

16. Peace and Justice & Strong Institutions

17. Partnerships for the Goals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Development_Goals
Then it surely needs reforming. Current parties simply don't adequately represent the people.
Wood and rock have such dissimilar structural properties that scale models out of wood don't say anything useful about full sized buildings out of rock.
Eh, his response is also misleading in places.

Here, he recognizes that there's double counting but still adds categories in a nonsensical way: https://twitter.com/p_millerd/status/1118071185311330309

The total of all responses is 140%, so there's way more overlap than he seems to account for. Isn't it likely that a lot of that overlap is between the only two answers that mean you have the full amount on hand?

Here, for example: https://twitter.com/p_millerd/status/1118071193393750016

Sure, 83% can still meet their other bills, but that's because, according to the other question he pulls out, half of them expect to borrow money to make it work. The other 15% lines up pretty neatly with the 12% who reported they couldn't beg, borrow or steal $400.

So yes, the newspaper headlines are overstated and imprecise, but the "debunking" is also pretty incoherent.
I sure hope so. This is not acceptable, especially when they're being paid by the taxpayers- so not only is Intuit dipping once, they're double-dipping.

Why, oh why, do they deserve to exist anymore? This is not cool. Unfortunately, I expect that they'll get either nothing or some flavor of penalty that'll only momentarily stun them.

Not to mention the fact that class-action lawsuits disproportionately help the lawyers get money out of it, either.

Ugh.
It's planned obsolescence for media, remove the older media and people "have" to watch the new stuff: "you pay more because it's new" and "production of all this new stuff everyone is watching costs more, so we have to put the price up", etc..
WebAssembly has not arbitrary precision integers, so presumably is able to execute arithmetic as direct hardware instructions. bigint, on the other hand, is arbitrary precision, so it obviously can't do that.
Mini split systems are not cheap, but would allow you to keep your room cooler than others.
But the problem in that case is the way government is set up (folks can "buy" government etc.).

I don't think the best way to solve that problem is saying people can have less money but rather fix the systemic issues (lobbyists, opportunities for corruption, the campaign contribution circus etc). And manifestly not allow abuse of the poor by those with money.

What seems to happen the other way is sort of like what happens in China (or other parts of the world). Becoming a bureaucrat is an income producing commodity. And that has a worse outcome than Bezos buying a newspaper in my opinion.

But I also agree with the problems you point out. They are issues with the way things are running right now in the US for sure that should be addressed and it is hard to do because monied interests stymie attempts.
Donald Trump beat him to it.
If you have an adblocker (to prevent cryptocurrency mining, and giant transparent overlays with links taking you to horrible ads) I hear that skytorrents, 1337x, the pirate bay, or eztv are pretty good.
My first flight was in a DC-3, 1953, age 4. Philly to Cleveland, crossing the Appalachians at the low cruising altitude that they made was maybe not bone-crushing, but it was bumpy. The only time I ever got to use the vomit bag.
a lot of abandoned project will get revived
Snapchat Employees Abused Data Access to Spy on Users
People here talking about image quality should be aware of this being a jpeg. I'd say most problems discussed are jpeg issues. You can't discuss image quality over a lossy codec.
Testing Video4Linux2 drivers like a boss
What Happens to Your Resume After You Apply for a Job
It’s revealing that you offer nothing but (feigned) incomprehension and quibbles. You can easily make your point by offering a purely natural foundation for ethics that isn’t just the arbitrary desires of whatever prestige group makes the rules. Want to try being substantive?
I'd hypothesize a self-selection bias. Casual players (the targets of the SdJ) are probably less likely to rate games than connoisseurs (who have their own category, the Kennerspiel des Jahres).

Notice that the Kennerspiel des Jahres nominees have higher ratings.
>Since we have to build something, let's at least build something reflecting our time.

I don't buy this idea. The original design was so beautiful that it inspired pilgrims for hundreds of years to make a trek to see it. Modern architecture is bland, glass-and-metal, uninspired crap; shiny jewels with no staying power that will be torn down within a century to make room for something else, or brutalist monstrosities put here to punish us with their brooding ugliness.
Not at the moment, I currently work as an iOS developer. But I'm working on a cross-platform app in my spare time (currently I'm only developing the iOS and Android frontends, while I ramp up the core), and when the time for the Windows frontend will come I'll probably pick WPF with XAML Islands when running on 10
The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan – Elon Musk (2006)
I have embraced a large wet bandana on my forehead / neck / arm / etc. Evaporative cooling for the price of $5 (and the effort of carrying around a bottle of water). Dunno about 10C reduction, but it makes a lot of difference. It also made me question the wisdom of having spent the prior years in unnecessary suffering.