skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the same boat. There are different metrics to judge the quality of an upscale (peak signal to noise ratio comes to mind), but it's obvious they are limited in that they can't capture perceptual quality very closely. While it's obvious the filter is much sharper than even NGU sharp, it also seems to come with a weird gradient effect and some artifacting. Another thing I find is that sharper filters like NGU sharp don't upscale as well as other upscaling options on frames with edges that aren't supposed to be sharp, probably because in some sense they try to hard ink in parts that aren't supposed to be so. This can happen either because the source is composited to be blurry for artistic effect, or because the source is low quality. I admittedly have not tried Anime4K, but I imagine Anime4K will have a similar effect.

Of course, in the end, it's an entirely subjective thing. Personally I hold off using on using NGU sharp and use NGU Anti-Alias instead for the above reasons.

EDIT: this is addressed in the readme:
I think the results are worse!
-Surely some people like sharper edges, some like softer ones. Do try it yourself on a few anime before reaching a definite conclusion. People tend to prefer sharper edges. Also, seeing the comparisons on a 1080p screen is not representative of the final results on a 4K screen, the pixel density and sharpness of the final image is simply not comparable.

EDIT: I just tried this filter on a 4k monitor. To honest I don't think is very good. To me it reminds me of the bad parts of sharpeners turned up to the max. All the edges turn into a weird, sometimes jagged, smear, and originally blurry but detailed backgrounds just become a weird mess. I really don't think even people who like sharpness will prefer this filter for general viewing, and I find the chart given in the preprint (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bloc97/Anime4K/master/resu...) extremely dubious.
I'm more thinking about the whole thing Americans talk about with 'food deserts' - e.g. are there people surviving on fast food that are really too far away from a real grocery shop to buy supplies - you can't build shops overnight.

How many people don't have a stove i.e. they're effectively homeless if not literally on the street? Stuff like that.

I have no idea. It'd definitely be alright in the UK but the way I see Americans go on about this stuff on here makes it seem as if McDonalds is critical infra.
It depends a lot on whether the scene is changing or the light is changing.

The problem with auto-exposure is that where you have a fast-changing scene with slower-changing lighting - especially fast-changing background scenery with constant lighting, the computer will change exposure when it shouldn't. This is a scenario professional photographers probably find themselves in rather more often than amateurs - think concerts, stadium sports, etc.

When the lighting changes more frequently than the scene then auto exposure can be helpful.

In this sense full manual settings could be viewed as a longer lasting "exposure lock" type function in a way. It's not that the computer-assisted metering is not useful - more that you want to get the metering locked in for the actual subject then stop it from changing.
The text snacks should show up next to the code. Not fixed to the bottom. It makes it hard to follow.
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Two treatments for Ebola emerge from a clinical trial in Africa
https://www.statista.com/statistics/261925/unique-visitors-t...

Yeah ok, whatever.

I don't doubt that it's still a viable business, I don't care.

I feel a deep pain every time I think about it. Something beautiful was destroyed with no remorse. The world is worse off because of it. It feels like tearing down statues of the buddha. The one place on the internet where one could explore explicit sexuality without feeling gross and exploited. I will never forgive this destruction of a beautiful culture. The whole thing makes my blood boil.
Once the patents expire, your country gets the free access.

If you didn't develop a drug or pay for its development, but get access to it one day at only the cost of manufacture, then you're getting the R&D for free.

All of the drug companies you mentioned, while not founded in America, do most of their R&D in America.

You're right about many immigrants developing those drugs, but they came to America to do so. You should ask yourself "why?"

For the record, I'm an immigrant to the US.
> Google's expenses aren't trivial, but they also aren't paying creators

Yes, they are, if the creators choose monetization. (If the creators choose to make content free, including choosing to supply content ineligible for monetization, sure, Google isn't paying for it, but they also aren't getting direct revenue from it.)

Now, the payment is contingent on the revenue Google receives tied to the content, so it's a low-risk/low-cost consignment model (because low-cost because the unit cost of nonproductive inventory is low) rather than a “buy and try to sell” model where content that Google couldn't monetize would leave Google out piles of money that they speculatively paid for the content, but they absolutely are paying creators.
Also I think the formal education system weeds out people with major personality problems. People who have trouble with authority or showing up to places in time don't graduate.
That article is specifically about healthcare, where women are 65% of the workforce (according to the same link).
> As a result, we might not be able to pay you back

This is an absolute non-starter.

Sorry to be blunt, guys, but if you can't cover your promises, they aren't promises.

Your customers should be nuts to agree with this. Or misinformed. Again, sorry, I don't want to bash you, but what you are offering is simply too bad for your customers.
No, the US government is actually #2 in handing money per person to healthcare companies. Though some of this is government employees or retirees.

We also subsidize the most expensive people, including the elderly and people with cancer and AIDS. Plus, we directly subsidize hospitals in rural areas etc. It’s a giant flood of money.
We've switched to the article title now. It was submitted as "New Proof Settles Ancient Question of How to Simplify Numbers Like Pi". Perhaps the publication got the message and changed it?
Noted, but in what way was this not substantive? I'm expressing my opinion on a particular subpoint which is quite relevant to this discussion. If Barr was was not pushing for an artificial separation between the corporations and consumers, there wouldn't be any discussion to have, since taking encryption away from corporations is a non-starter.

Just as a disclaimer, I've read the guidelines and know them well.
Reflinks vs. symlinks vs. hard links and managing data in ML
It doesn't have to be legally enshrined for the general attitude to help the situation, though.

A bit like how buses in the US, or at least the parts I've visited, seem to be a shitfest, because they're only a thing poor people use, whereas in Europe they're often a lot better not due to legislation per se.
And then it goes on to say:

to make sure we can pay you back we buy financial instruments on the open market, kind of like buying a stock of apple for example. These instruments work in a very interesting way. Their prices go up, if the real estate market goes down. Their prices go down, if the real estate market goes up.

So, with these instruments. We can ensure that in the event of a recession, we can still afford to pay you back
Why does it take so long to treat TB, out of curiosity? 6 months is crazy long, isn't it?
You can tell them you think they're delusional, or make it slightly less personal and say what they've said is delusional (linguistically incorrect but a compromise). I mean, it really isn't your responsibility to coddle their emotional state by staying silent. Anyway, I've done both, in public, and the result is interesting. I felt slightly guilty because the person will take great offense even though usually they don't get riled up about it. But at the same time it was less uncomfortable than listening to unopposed lies.

Diplomacy provides for ample indirection: I'm so sorry to inform you so directly, I mean no offense, but what you're saying is completely unprovable, you have no facts at all that can demonstrate your position. I do appreciate your bravery for being willing to expose your ignorance on this topic so publicly, however.

Et cetera.
Considering this study probably involved slicing open hundreds of rat heads, I think us humans being interested in neurons more now vs. 50 years ago, has only made things worse for them. Although 50 years ago they likely suffered more amputations and the like.
Quote from the article:

> The German union is inviting YouTubers to become members and is running a campaign called FairTube to press for better terms
Roche and Novartis are Swiss.
GlaxoSmithKline is British.
AstraZeneca is British/Swedish.
Sanofi is French.
Novo Nordisk is Danish.
Bayer is German.
Takeda and Daiichi Sanyko are Japanese.
Teva is Israeli.
Money laundering? Creating a corporation or LLC for each property is standard practice in the real estate business.

> ... usually, every investment property should be owned by a separate limited liability company that owns only one property and that is not engaged in any other business activity. The reason is simple: to maximize asset protection.

https://www.keytlaw.com/azllclaw/asset-protection/how-many-l...

And you really shouldn't go throwing around spurious accusations like that without any evidence.
The overhead of C++ adoption actually prevented us from ever moving fully in this direction.

Today, unlike in 2013 when they started, there are other options.

For others considering code-sharing, another option not mentioned in their article is Rust for the core with Swift and Kotlin. Between bindgen, futures, serde_json and non-nullable pointers in Rust, those would satisfy their stated subcategories today.

Companion templates are explained here: (January 2019)

Medium.com/visly/rust-on-ios-39f799b3c1dd

Medium.com/visly/rust-on-android-19f34a2fb43

(No affiliation other than starting to proceed down this path myself.)

For Common Lisp heads, there's also MOCL, which seemed quite reasonable when I explored it years ago: wukix.com/mocl
This reminds me of LLD’s approach of sharing an architecture but having separate ELF, COFF and Mach-O implementations. This made it much faster than gold which wasn’t actually slow.

Apparently sharing code isn’t necessarily a great idea.
There's no way there aren't corporate secrets,and probably national security too, going over those same email, phone, voice and data applications already, whether considered "personal" devices or not. You don't even gotta get to finding something else to use as blackmail.
Young women are paying dividends apparently, check out the Becky / Basic index - performance year on year is spectacular.
He hasn't actually presented any meaningful evidence and is a kook that believes in QAnon. So excuse me if I'm more than a little dubious of his claims.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/james-okeefes-google-whistlebl...
Java WebSocket Programming with Android and Spring Boot
The issue is not demonetization.

It's that Google are twats that arrogantly think they can do as they please and offer no explanation for their actions.

You know, like any monopoly entity that is filled with people who depend on a paycheque to live their life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO_Model_List_of_Essential_Me...

I never went through the whole list because it took a super long time, but when I tried sampling where most of these ~300 drugs were developed, it was like 80% developed in the US. I got through like 50-60 of them before I gave up. 50-60 should be good enough to be representative of the 300 or so. Feel free to go through them yourself if you don't believe me.
There is zero reason to believe a single payer system would cost us what it costs other countries. We have the same basic model as Europe for building infrastructure, and it costs us multiples what it costs Europe. For $6 billion, suburban Maryland is getting a light rail line that isn’t grade separated. For the same money, Copenhagen is getting a fully automatic new circle subway underneath downtown that’s almost twice as long. Why would we expect healthcare to be any different?
Cool project! Also, TIL: KYC = Know Your Customer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer ;P
Pretomanid was approved by the FDA today. Obviously the molecule and treatment protocol has been in design and study for years up to this point, but FDA approval is a reasonable endpoint to celebrate as a "cure being discovered."

I suppose you could also argue it's "not a cure" because in the small trail performed it only cures 90%.

Finally, I don't know what you're getting at with "not a more deadly strain". XDR TB is "eXtensively Drug Resistant" which makes it also the most fatal form of TB. There are a lot of things which left untreated can kill you. I assume it is normal for fatality rates of a strain of disease to be stated as the post-treatment fatality rate.
I tried using C++ and Objective C several years ago.

Compilation was incredibly slow. Maybe when C++ modules finally arrive things will improve.
I've definitely had to fight, as a frontend engineer, to prove that my job is just as demanding (and in many cases more so) as any other engineer.

I have the education, knowledge, and problem solving skills required for backend engineering; I just find the front end much more interesting. Building a complex, intuitive user interface for an application/website is a huge challenge.
> have admitted through their ceo to scan the traffic for law enforcement!

I'm not disagreeing, but you gotta cite that one. To educate the readers.
compare these I just did it again

http://i68.tinypic.com/213nty.jpg
http://i67.tinypic.com/fnqoib.jpg
http://i65.tinypic.com/20krl6p.jpg
Right, that's why I criticized "number of particles" as a metric, not the study in general. The point is that "pieces of plastic below 5mm in size" does not have a lower bound, and indeed the journal article discusses pieces that are 300 microns across, overwhelmingly most of which are less than 100 microns across (meaning many thousands of times smaller in mass than suggested by your phrase). This is getting close to metric I already said would be a good one, i.e., ppm, or some other similar metric along with an estimate of the size of harms at this level.

For that, you'll have to actually read the paper (please share!) or wait for non-terrible science journalism -- don't hold your breath!
Hey HN, I want to share with you a simple webapp I built to write, host, run web3 code from the browser. As I started learning Solidity and playing with some of the existing protocols (for example uniswap or compound) I felt the need an easier way to experiment with web3, which didn’t require starting a local server/ truffle/ ganache etc. The tool allows you to write javascript on the fly and call any smart contract function directly from the browser.

To get started, just copy/paste 1) the contract address and 2) the ABI of the smart contract you want to interact with, then click on “Start interacting” – it will ask you to connect with MetaMask. If you want to start with an example, click on “Example: interact with Uniswap”, it will load up the Uniswap contract so you can play with it. Next, you’ll be able to write code in the editor and run it live. For now the tool works with contracts in mainnet only for now, but I’m thinking to add testsnets too.

I built this as a side project for myself and I hope you will find it useful too. It’s currently in beta and pretty bare bone, but I’d like to expand it if people are interested. If you decide to give it a spin and have any feedback I’d love to hear your thoughts!

https://web3anywhere.herokuapp.com
+ Example of such a statewide legislation:

https://www.curbed.com/2019/7/1/20677502/oregon-yimby-single...
That’s pretty cool. Something non-obvious when we think about engineering vehicle safety. Of course it only matters if you make it out ok :)
I take it you haven't tried Swift ;)
If only the rest of the world had caught up on implementing a GDPR
Somebody who focused on making progress alongside professionals instead of "winning fights" at taxpayers' expense.
Video from that flight simulator is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a88Ixuv084

This video seems to be from 1973 (not 1970, as the title says), when the flight simulator was actually running as a distributed application over the ARPAnet!
How does Rust differ significantly from C++, other than the fact that neither platform's toolchain can compile it out of the box?
Well, I plan to built this since last year, but haven't got energy to actually build that. Congratulations on launching!

From the website it seems that your MVP is a Chrome extension. A lot of time I remember to keep in touch with my friends are when I'm outside, away from my keyboard. When using computer my mind is habituated for works and leisures. Do you have any plan to build apps for mobile?
Well yeah. We've basically been playing whack-a-mole with racists for hundreds of years. There will be another word after this one because racists will find another word to use as a pejorative.
"f/8 and be there" is the somewhat hackneyed phrase which covers this in the documentary photography space - the subject is much more important than the technical details.
Curious to know what the landlords think of Wework’s prospects. Does he think they are going to blow up soon?
I agree with open source =/= free but what most comments like “open source alternative to” mean is exactly that. HN is a forum promoting ideas both for the benefit of everyone and / or commercial, yet each time someone showcases their work there is someone posting a “free alternative” post as if it’s meant to mean something. Cargo culting open source is really not doing anyone a favour and instead it is pushing more and more entrepreneurs types away from hackernews. Unless some drug maker made a commercial drug to cure cancer and someone else made a free open alternative to it, i really don't care about free github star whoring on hn.
If I take out the nationalistic slight ("This very American attitude"), the sarcastic rhetoric ("separating the noble and important from peasants or cattle"), the denunciatory venting ("utterly sickening") and megaphone language ("demand"), it's not clear to me what information is left. What is the comment really saying? Something about how businesses aren't people? To me it reads like an angry reaction to some shallowly triggering phrasing in the article. Angry reactivity is the opposite of thoughtful reflection, which is what we're hoping for here.

It's also off topic. Whimsical off-topic digressions can be interesting, but generic rhetorical ones are never interesting. Those discussions have been repeated countless times already, thus are predictable, thus are tedious, so we ask people to avoid them. The more generic a subject, the more shallow its discussion—and when it's angry as well, that's much worse. Angry plus shallow equals riler-upper, which is close to flamebait.
A good recruiter knows his shit. I have a contact on LinkedIn,who specialises in Salesforce recruitment. He probably knows more about Salesforce than an average consultant he's trying to place.The guy buys and reads books on the subject,tries to understand new features and etc.Also seems to be able to cut through a lot of crap companies and candidates try to pull on him occasionally. He is the opposite of the idiot,who contacted me and asked to sign NDA before he would discuss the job,even though the same job ad was on their website(go figure?!). Opposite of those who have no idea about the industry they operating in( i.e. to be able to recruit SAP consultants, I'd expect a bit more than 'this thing comes from Germany').A good recruiter would give a balanced overview of the company,what things you might like,how they operate and etc.This is the opposite of those who paint everything in pink and promise unicorns.
Versions of MS-Windows before Windows NT used "cooperative multitasking" in which it was the responsibility of each process to yield CPU time to the next process in the task queue. Compare this with "pre-emptive multitasking" employed by UNIX, OS/2 and AmigaOS in which an interrupt causes the OS to save registers, stack pointer, etc and transfer control to another process (if needed) after each quanta.

If a Windows 3.1 process failed to yield, it could result in a nonresponsive OS. On Linux, an abusive process would have to try a bit harder to take down the system (fork bomb, hog a bunch of ram, etc). On AmigaOS, a process could just overwrite part of another process or the OS itself to cause a crash.
2000 - probably used the most in product names among numbers in that range. Also, why mention the top of the range first?

(Also wins Google compared to other numbers mentioned when this was written - 1234, 1337, 1776; but I think that's because it is a recent year.)
Note that there are Twitter reports about this happening as early as 12 hours before Credit Karma's initial response.

It seems this was happening for a long time, but Credit Karma did not notice until their social media team came in at 9am PDT.
No rational person has had any doubts about Epstein's involvement with sex crimes since at least 2008. If they had secret knowledge of this, why didn't they share it much, much earlier?
Did we read the same article?

> A strike in the traditional sense would achieve little. Even in the extreme unlikelihood that every YouTuber in Germany boycotts the platform and stops uploading videos, it would have a limited impact on the site’s profitability. While a localized strike by Uber drivers can cripple the ridehailing service for its duration, YouTube has unparalleled cross-border scale – 450 hours of video are uploaded every minute – and an almost bottomless library of existing content.

> So what exactly can IG Metall do? A lawsuit is the most likely next step. The union claims that decisions made to de-monetize a video with no explanation contravene the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation.

They clearly admit the traditional power-move of a union to strike would fail and that their only recourse, would be to file a lawsuit.
Personally I think a lot of it is just because of their choice of the term 'union' for it. It has significant negative connotations at least in the US and they would do well to use different terminology (eg. guild or like).
You'd probably have better luck subverting existing regulatory infrastructure that closely matches your use-case.

Instead of tiny homes, try thinking within the regulatory box of "classifies as an RV or towed camper". That might allow you to bypass some of the other limitations you were facing.