skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>People use in-betweening GANs to make things like 60 FPS anime

Animation seems like an especially poor fit to me, since the actual framerate is often much lower than the video's framerate. Framerate can vary between scenes and even within different parts of one scene! Typically the background is very low framerate (sometimes as low as 4 FPS), the foreground is higher framerate (typically 8-12 FPS), while pans, zooms, and 3D elements are at a full 24 FPS. Most of the additional frames from interpolation will therefore be exact duplicates of other frames.

This does little to improve the smoothness of the video. It just adds in artifacts. And, since the frames between two drawings will be interpolated while frames within one drawing will be unchanged, the framerate will be inconsistent and appear as judder.

Interpolation will never work for 2D animation. No way, no how. Any worthwhile system will need to modify existing frames rather than simply adding more in between the original frames. I can understand interpolation for live action (though I still dislike it), but it is absolutely god-awful for animation.
No but have many friends there. It depends if you're in the north or the south. Same with Italy.
Police in the UK have the same goals as police in the US, it's just that American police are often more aggressive about it. American lawyers will often give that same advice, tell your story to clear things up so that you can go home.

It's still generally smarter to wait until you have the advice from the lawyer before you start yapping though.
Learn Flask by Coding – Flask Dashboard Argon
Ask HN: New job, how to do onboarding?
I am in process of changing my job.

What questions should I ask my new employer to successfully onboard myself (engineering).

So far these things are coming to my mind:

* Which stack you are using most
* Deployment
* Configuration management
* Code review and PR process
* Agile/Scrum/Kanban/.... workflow
...?
Win7 and IE9 are both EOL in six months. Makes sense to drop in new articles.
I don't think running 5km daily reaches the 2.5x of daily rest energy use hard limit that they found across this wide range of athletes. The article isn't about that effect.
I'm curious if this works when the RSA key is spread across multiple DDR sticks. I have 4 sticks of 8GB each in my home desktop. Would the key be contained in just one? Spread among multiple sticks? If it is spread, would it completely foil the attack, or just make it take longer?
You may be surprise to know who is Heydon who co-author in the article.

https://inclusive-components.design/

IE11 is meant for supporting legacy sites and Microsoft doesn’t recommend consumers to use it. It make sense to work on Grid and Flexbox for new sites.
Crimea has the problem that the annexation was very, very popular among Crimeans, even more so than most separatist movements. That doesn't make it okay, but after the fact, it'd be hard for third parties to justify forcibly reuniting Crimeans with the Ukranian government they don't want to be under.
Google wants to keep users at google.com so it can keep showing them ads. Each time a user clicks away to speedtest.net or genius.com, that is a missed opportunity for revenue.
> It’s just a matter of time

Well, yes. The handover is explicit in 2047. This whole mess was an avoidable miscalculation prioritising Xi’s short-term political interests over China’s long-term strategic wellbeing.
Like I said, I hope they work, but I see no reason for the HK government or Beijing to respect this, given there's no actual threat of the people protesting in a more forceful way.
Cut off from global markets. Cut off from probably most international suppliers. Cut off from all American patents. In its current state I doubt it will last very long as anything outside of China.
I still believe that. China still has a huge poverty. It's on its way up but, but it's not there yet. It's a big country, it's not easy.
I bet that if you didn’t tell people who was president, the vast majority of Americans would notice exactly no differences between the last president. Slightly different tax rates and slightly different employment rates maybe, but practically no detectable difference. People’s retirement accounts are still healthy, people have jobs, wage growth (or non growth) is similar. The only difference is the level and type of rhetoric. Businesses might notice that it’s a bit easier to get things done, but the actual change between Obama and Trump is benign when you take the media out of it. Deportations of illegal aliens was actually higher under Obama if that’s your issue. But the US is characterized by stability and even under Trump, the US is a functionally stable as it has ever been. Under Reagan, a certain element was convinced the sky was falling, under Obama, the same thing. The US isn’t perfect, but it’s all going along reasonably well. The media likes to create non-stop urgency over everything, but that helps them sell more ads. I don’t buy into the hype that the world is ending. We could always be better and not everyone will ever be happy, but for most of us, American politics is two sides of the same coin and we like it like that. We don’t want revolutionary shifts every four or eight years; we want stability and predictability — that’s why our economy is so strong and our currency so safe.

Nobody’s wellbeing is being immediately affected by this president any more than the last one.
Hawaii isn't an appropriate equivalent. Puerto Rico or American Somoa are closer but still not close enough to make the analogy work.
I agree with you that the government should release all protesters arrested. I actually don't care about the difference between "suspension without timetable for restarting" and "retraction" because even if the government had completely retracted the amendment, they could draft another amendment anytime anyway.
Five kings criticized but only four mentioned? “Three centuries years later...”? Is this person a Guardian intern in their free time?
I was wondering whether they were using `libc++` and `libc++abi` or not. Thank you for clarifying this.
The Fifth Discipline by Senge.
Also a great introduction to systems thinking.

Also everything written by Goldratt.

In particular:
The Goal and
It's not luck
Both are business novels, they read lightly but the lessons are profound.
This also plays a major role in Frederick Forsyths book “The Fist of Good”. It pretty much mentions all the things in the article, I was actually surprised how accurate the book is.
You send a bunch of soldiers into the territory and say the treaty is canceled, 28 years early.
virtue isn’t clustered at the top. virtue is to be found everywhere. virtue... the good... whatever you want to call it.
> I worked at a large tech company that had

How big is their finance department now?
Longtime 'X-Men' editor shares his abandoned 'Beast' script
In the UK, this phenomenon is called the TV Pickup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup

Basically a commercial break comes on, everyone turns on their tea kettle and flushes their toilets, and bam: 200-400 MW spike in demand.

There's some blogs out there charting this during big world cup games.
Interesting, but nothing to make any conclusions from. Too many variables to be of any use. Almost everything was different about these projects (different parsers, error handling, features, developer skill, team size).
Yes, but she's probably too occupied at the moment to kick another honest's nest.

Also, HK can be a valve for the Chinese economy if the trade war continues to deteriorate.

The majority of the Chinese people have no idea what's happening in HK anyway, so it's not like HK will lead to troubles in other Chinese cities by itself, at least not in the short-term. So it is IMO wise for the Chinese government to leave HK alone for the time being.
I was just imagining the same thing, and it's not hard to relate it to similar stories conspiracies happening today. QAnons belief that there is an underground network of famous child pedophiles. Of which are secretly being arrested by the current white house administration.

It's easy to disregard these stories as wild fantasies, while at the same time there is a growing groundswell of people who fully believe it.
I haven't accused anyone of the crime of fraud; fraud requires an active intent to acquire something of value through misrepresentation, and I'm happy to concede that forces other than intentional misrepresentation are at work here.

The premise of the ntpsec project was that ntpd was an unloved and mismanaged codebase that suffered, as a result, from security flaws. Raymond and his team would take over the code, in something similar to the manner the openssh project took over SSH, and eliminate security vulnerabilities. The project needed funding because ordinary developers wouldn't take on such a thankless task --- maintenance programming on a giant C codebase --- without compensation.

A reimplementation of NTP in a different language is not at all the same project --- as you can see from all the NTP projects that already exist in Go and Rust, for which nobody appears to be begging contributions. Not to mention the obvious fact that people don't run new implementations of NTP in Go or Rust because they can't, and so abandoning the ntpd codebase eliminates almost all of the purported value of the project to the Internet.
I can't seem to find -- is there a testable website to play around with this? Or do we need to compile from source?
You can't "steal" lyrics because the copyright is owned by the record company. Both Genius and Google license the rights I believe.

But if Google is not sending traffic to Genius and using Genius as the source for some of it's lyrics, that's shady as hell. That's anti-trust.
That’s interesting but kinda highlights the difficulty of shipping an entire OS with profile-guided optimizations. What they need is very broad sample coverage and SamplePGO instead of instrumented FDO. This is what ChromeOS does with Quipper: they collect perf data samples from the entire fleet of customer devices and they build the distribution with AutoFDO/SamplePGO.
I had a very bad feeling that my woman has been lying to me all this years and also cheating on me, I can’t get hold of her phone cause she always put it on phone lock, though she claims that there is no one else but she stays out some nights and tell me that she was up for work so I was able to pull up with SPYEXPERT0@GMAIL.COM and this hacker helped me with all the necessary info I needed to know and right about now am very happy with all that I was able to find out from her phone without touching her phone. Am here to thank you SPYEXPERT0 you are the best. Its really hard to find a legit hacker but this hacker is the real deal just tell him Jim Dutcher referred you to him.
> What does Google gain?

~20 years ago some people were wondering what does Google gain from giving free service. The point is Google is trying to be the one stop shop for the whole internet no matter what you need.

Unfortunately I don't see anything changing for Google especially in the US where lobbying is such a cheap way to turn all legislation to their advantage.
Russian geneticist answers challenges to his plan to make gene-edited babies
What type of pasta would be more appropriate for the analogy? Clearly, spaghetti is probably the worst... I suggest macherroni (i.e. the mac and cheese noodle) or, perhaps, cavatappi.
Are you keep trying because you hope for striking gold sometime or because you can't find a job that resembles the jobs your father worked?
If you post a letter on a telephone pole encouraging one person to commit a crime, could you be prosecuted if many other people then commit that crime?

The answer is likely yes, as simply addressing it to a single person while posting it publicly in view of many others does not act as the “plausible deniability” air cover you assert that it does.

If I post a billboard that instructs “ImaginaryJoe” in how to exploit a weakness of bank security to steal money and encourage “ImaginaryJoe” to do so, and then five other people do so, I will be convicted as an accomplice in all five of the cases against them.

If you are at risk of prosecution for past activities along these lines at forums such as 4chan, I encourage you to consult with a lawyer at your earliest convenience.
You can lose weight eating any given thing (if energy in is less than energy out, something's gotta give), but it's not psychologically sustainable to keep weight off by eating just Twinkies.

For most people, the eventual goal of losing weight is to keep it off, so the trivial truth that starving yourself inevitably leads to weight loss is unhelpful.
> the Chinese government typically doesn't compromise at all under pressure.

This isn't the central government of China. The government in question is the government of the Hong Kong SAR.
caniuse.com also has the combined global market share of IE 6-10 as being only 0.46%, which is completely insignificant for most websites. And I've personally been using flexbox on IE 11 for years with very few issues.

> Some of older browsers, released in 2012-2014 support flexbox only with vendor prefixes

Again, these browsers represent a tiny fraction of the total market. Firefox and Chrome auto-update by default, so there is no reason that someone should be on a version from 2012.

These days it simply doesn't make sense to have a fallback for flexbox unless you're specifically targeting older versions of IE. (And even then, I've had some luck getting flexbox layouts to work on IE 10, even though it's more effort.)
"The problem with free money is that it affects all the other money in a bad way. I may be a dreamer, but I do not see the same problem with almost-free energy. I see a revitalized money economy where all things that are technically possible, even fantastic things, become more feasible because human ingenuity is ever-increasing. I see reduction in cost of living, cost of manufacture and cost of fossil fuel extraction that is so pervasive its positive effect may exceed any economic strategy ever devised. And on that day far in the future when the last hydrocarbon is extracted, it will be just cause for a quiet celebration. We'll already be well into the next great thing. What would the future hold, and what wonders could we achieve— if energy was simply not an issue?"

My letter to candidate Trump, 2016
https://archive.org/download/20160422TrumpEnergyLetterSC/201...
The code examples are overengineered. For example, the code generator for stack uses rem units and CSS variables, while it could be written without them and have better cross browser support (and the code would be easier to read and maintain in long-term perspective). The author just wants to use modern CSS features without clear rationale for this.

Rem units can cause issues in long term. For example, imagine if a sidebar widget is coded using rems. When later the main font size is changed, margins within widget will change its size, although the font size in it is fixed and didn't change. There are cases when rem is useful and there are cases when it is not, but the author doesn't give a choice and doesn't explain it. He just uses his authority to push his personal preferences to frontend developers who tend to copy the code from tutorials without much thinking.

I recommend using pixels for projects that are going to be maintained and developed in the long term.
An overview of a museum exhibit of manga, the (after reading the article, I'd say clickbaity) title isn't addressed until the very end of the article:

>Critics will lament that such a disposable medium does not belong in an esteemed, if controversial, museum. Yet if you wish to remotely understand a place and time (and those who lived there), it is unwise to dispose of disposable things. They tell us a great deal. The temptation is to respond to derision or faint praise with claims that manga can rise to the level of great art, providing stunning examples such as the neo-Piranesi atmosphere of Tsutomu Nihei’s Blame! (1996-2003) or Moto Hagio’s exquisitely florid ongoing work, which reaches deeper into human souls than most of the practitioners of Art Nouveau or the Pre-Raphaelites ever did. This is to play the wrong game however; one that constricts while pretending to elevate. Manga doesn’t need to be high art. Manga is manga. It has different ways of being appraised. It has different functions, strengths and rules to fine art, as this exhibition studiously shows.

This passage pretends to say something while, I'd argue, saying nothing at all. It exists to justify the title of the article.
Yes, but many of the HK protesters, somehow, became obsessed with the terminology.

It's part of a broader war between the government and the opposing faction.
From my perspective this is how I see mass transit in the US, and I am 100% for changing the status quo here. READ: Im for sensible, reliable and safe public transit systems by train/bus/subway/ whatever.

In Houston, there have always been proposals for hub and spoke train service from the burbs to downtown. They get shot down repeatedly, usually on grounds of imminent domain fights. High speed rail from Houston to Dallas is proposed every so often and will likely arrive on the same time scale is fusion energy. (perpetually 10 years away). Dallas is actually an example of a sane train system, and I quite enjoyed using the Dart when I worked there for 6 months a few years ago.

If you happen to use the public transit in many urban areas of the US, people don't seem to want to take care of these sorts of things, so they usually get pretty grimy and in a state of disrepair quickly. People (rightly or wrongly) fear for their safety as sometimes these trains harbor those with drug problems or other mental illness.(separate and equally important issue to work on here)

The projects that do get off the ground seem to turn into boondoggles that blow their budget 10x or more and end up serving 1/10th of the proposed areas. California comes to mind as an example of this recently.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-governor-rail/...

I admit it was impossible to glean this from my comment and it would be easy to see what I said as anti mass transit and all of the political baggage that carries with it. That isn't the case here. Pragmatically speaking, though you are misguided if you think that it is as easy to implement rail and other forms of mass transit in the US vs a small European country. That is not to say its impossible, or that other countries haven't done it. But I do stand by my statement that rail projects in Switzerland are not the same as those in the US. Its not apples to apples.

In my opinion, for this sort of thing to take off in the US, it would take a sea change in how most people view urban living. That means people will need to decide that they don't need a 4-5k sq foot home in the burbs with a 30-40 mile commute every day...
If you search "Ookla speed test" or "speed test Ookla", then you get Ookla as the top result without seeing Google's panel.

If you only search for "speed test", you get Google's panel followed by Ookla's. I see nothing wrong with this, they are giving users what they want.
So my HK team had the week off to protest. Luckily I didn't get any calls at 2am to bail anyone out of jail.

This result- where the government backed down, was not expected by anyone. Ever since the Beijing-picked government stared down the Umbrella Protests in 2014, it's been a death by a thousand cuts to Hong Kong's autonomy.

After talking to a friend who works for one of the pro-Beijing parties, it turns out the biggest fear for the Chinese authorities wasn't related to HK at all, but Taiwan. China has spent so much resources to promote friendly candidates for office in Taiwan and this HK debacle has instead emboldened the incumbent president of Taiwan, who is not at all friendly towards Beijing. In fact, she won her party primary and is now well positioned for the elections next year. As it turns out, as important as HK is, Taiwan is more important to Beijing and anything that provides fodder for Taiwan's independence leaning party is not allowed.
>This study is very poorly interpreted. It specifically excludes government and corporate pensions (including social security) from its calculation.

It excludes corporate defined benefits pensions. I suspect the people on corporate defined benefits is fairly low at this point.

Source of the social security number? I have a salary above average, and the SS web site estimates a $24K/year for me (today's dollars). Lower income folks should get less.
Compiling things with clang is faster and uses less memory.

Linux distros, package repositories, etc. are basically giant compilation farms, compiling packages making sure they work well together so that you don't have to.

So switching to clang might impact their resource usage.

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For you, the user, the performance of binaries compiled with GCC or clang is pretty much on par. Some binaries are a bit faster with clang, others are a bit faster with GCC, often in negligible ways.

If you are doing something that's very resource intensive, recompiling that software yourself tuning it to your use cases is probably going to have a much larger impact on resource usage than whether the shipped package was compiled with gcc or clang.
Display: block fits better because it has been around for more than 15 years unlike flexbox. And flexbox has no advantages in this case.
>Can there really be consequences for contradicting the other witness, without other indications pointing to who's right?

Yes. The end-goal is to infer that the suspect is being deceptive and/or lying and that, in turn, would make any statements that give the suspect any "good light" weighted less credible to their own defence.

"You said you didn't shoot the suspect but you also said you wore an off-blue shirt. 'X' said the shirt they say you in was solid blue. Why would you lie about the colour of your shirt!? And, since you're lying about that, how do we know you're not lying about shooting the victim?"
Yeah, but obviously the Chief Executive simply takes Beijing's order for all such big movements.
Using a wooden binary counter to demonstrate the binary numbers from 0 to 63
You're being downvoted because your portfolio's performance is almost certainly a matter of luck and a bull market, not your clever investment research. Not even Berkshire Hathaway makes consistent 30% annual returns, and they employ plenty of "stock market wizards".
Sure, they put themselves between users and content, and then they decided they should serve the content too.

Amazon discovers the best selling third-party products on it's site, and then makes it's own version of them too. Everybody is doing it.

Pretty soon, 5 companies will be serving up 99.9% of the content on the Internet. Nothing wrong with that.

Nothing anyone here in startup land needs to worry about.

Right?
I’m curious if you thought he would read this?
which has been becoming more and more hardline since 1997. Besides, the HK government cannot act on her own on such big issues. It has to be consulted with the PRC government.
Really?

I find myself scrolling down then up, down then up. I also have to manually control the zoom so text fills my screen width. Then I had to scroll left and right. And when I want to scroll vertically I have to be careful to not screw up my horizontal position. It’s super frustrating.

I don’t think a single blog in the world uses a two column view. If it were an actually useful format for sharing information digitally then it would be more prevalent.