skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only have vague memories of shooting with film, with permissions from elder members of the family. Browsing through the photographs, I couldn't help but get somewhat nostalgic.

Just a small suggestion, you could remove the "Explore Now" button on the homepage, and take visitors straight to the films.
Maybe it could be coupled with GAN generated faces.
I think you're wrong to assume that it only works with people who are "too ignorant or low intelligent". Confirmation bias is not limited to dumb people. It's always more pleasant and comforting to listen to people agreeing with you (even if what they're saying isn't super insightful) rather than people arguing against your values (even if what they're saying is very interesting).

Searching for contradictory viewpoints and actually managing to listen to the argument with an open mind takes effort. That's the big problem with most social media currently, they amplify this bias to the extreme. You can hold a fringe belief like "earth is flat" and still manage to find thousand of people agreeing with you, spending hours every day consuming flat earth content and avoiding any dissenting voice.
Sounds like a difference in perspectives; you as a user think of data about you as personal and private, while an operator of a site using Ackee thinks of their sites' tracking data as private. Quite amusing, really. :)
They do make a big difference to the routing algorithms in Waze. How many LA drivers are just following GPS directions now?
We're not talking about an act of criminal violence, or indeed anything illegal at all. We're talking about a private, off-the-cuff remark, isolated from much surrounding context or knowledge of what was going on in his mind or heart when he made it. For all we know it was just a dumb 19-year-old joke, so there's not even any clear evidence of immorality, apart from by the person who publicly shared a private conversation.

OK, I understand that for a lot of people, it's really important to fixate on this "gotcha" instance, to take the view that the worst possible conceivable motive just has to be the only plausible one, even though there is no possibility of undertaking the kind of forensic or judicial examination that would be required to properly determine such a thing.

But seriously, regardless of what it may or may not reveal about Zuckerberg, fixating on it is just not a healthy or productive way to look at the world.

I invite you to explore the psychology concept of the shadow [1], and consider that when we fixate on other people's flaws and transgressions like this, there's very likely plenty wrong that we're not seeing in ourselves, but that we could greatly benefit from paying attention to.

That's is why I call out this trope whenever I see it on HN. Not because it upsets me that people are saying mean things about Mark Zuckerberg. It's that in focusing on other people's supposed sins, they're likely avoiding looking at what they could pay attention to in themselves, and thus embrace big opportunities for their own personal growth.

Say what you like about Zuckerberg and Facebook's current/recent conduct. There's plenty there, and there are plenty of valid and important discussions to be had about the role of Facebook etc in the modern world.

But this 15-year-old comment trivialises these present-day issues, and is also just super-boring.

By the way, the Oxford dictionary and Wikipedia both define "teenager" as any age ending in "teen", so nobody is wrong to use it in that way. You can apply a different interpretation, but it would only be for rhetorical purposes, not to correct any errant assertions of fact.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_(psychology)
In the Twin Cities as well.
I've heard keyboards that use dome with slider designs, like Packard Bell keyboards, are about as cheap as generic non-mechanical keyboards, but avoid the mushy bottom-out, making the typing experience infinitely better.
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As a part of a pro movie making suite like AfterEffects or DaVinci Resolve - you can take somebody else to act in a scene and then replace with physique of your chosen actor, e.g. you do stunts, your actor can't appear at a given geographic location at a given time, somebody had a facial injury/scars you want to get rid of etc. Plenty of valid uses. Then you could e.g. do a render in Blender and replace "avatars" with real human faces, avoiding "uncanny valley" in your animation.

Travel industry can have uses as well - these days many places offer video recordings of their clients doing some dangerous activity; for those that can't do them yet still want the video they could offer pre-baked scenes where taking a selfie could kill somebody and then replace their face/body with some green screen footage of their client using this app and some pose estimator/body switcher. Or just show you how much would you enjoy some beach property in some hot location with a video featuring you etc. This would make it useful for custom ads featuring you as well.
This is why I won't use open source for a desktop anymore. It's so convoluted and changes so often that I have to constantly keep track of multiple kernel and userland systems in order to know what tweaks I don't need to make.

"Don't use the faffle-fille.123456 tweak, that's for the 2016 driver; the 2019 driver inherits the booble-babble hack from the nzudzu core. Also, the 611-double-decker-dev release added FOO_MANCHU support so you just need the abcdefghijk=999 argument to set up all the things you would expect to work by default."

I just want to pay someone to make my computer work the way it's designed to.
I used to run Slackware, and the user experience is pretty terrible compared to Arch or OpenBSD. The absence of a package manager that tracks dependencies is not a “truer” Unix experience. All the BSDs provide a more Unixy experience than Linux and they all track dependencies.

If Slackware was updated more often, the system would work better. The dynamic libs are always way out of date, and god help you if you want to install a newer version.
Getting Started with Redis Streams and Java
Beautiful drawings reveal millions of Wi-Fi signals all around us
The BSDs aren't really much better in that regard once you leave the base install, and their hardware support is substantially worse.
Ask HN: Examples of Great Presentation Decks?
Not quite the same thing but I've contributed a correction to Google maps before. My motivation was that my address on maps was in the middle of a cornfield and I was tired of explaining exactly where my house really was when new people came over.
I released an analytics tool earlier this week that doesn't collect PII or set cookies. All the tracking events are aggregated and you can't even see the tracking logs of a particular visitor or visitor's browser as with log based analytics.

https://github.com/sheshbabu/freshlytics
I find Google Maps is way more conservative with those kinds of left turns where they'd rather I'd go to an intersection and make a U turn or a couple extra turns where ... actually you can make a left before there.

Granted, being conservative is probabbly the right call.
Ask HN: Books that you have re-read
In the "How do you read" Ask HN thread from a couple of days ago, there were quite a few mentions on the lines of "Great books should be re-read again and again". Thought it'd be great to know what those books are for everyone. Something that you have read more than once and would likely read again.
Seems to be a lack of real study and evidence either way on this one. Need an independent third-party research team to measure the effect on the aquifers and provide limits on use.
the middle is kind of a funny territory

appearances would say it's between two polar complements

as some bridges extend beyond the scene, even from behind it

reminds me of 'a message that discredits the medium that carries it'

~~

sun and moon watercolor painting, "Polar Complements" original watercolor painting, zentangle art, wall art, decor living room decor

https://www.etsy.com/dk-en/listing/626399645/sun-and-moon-wa...

https://imgur.com/2Te9EBF

https://imgur.com/XIWBmum

~~

(maybe to slow down thy downvotes: I don't intend for this comment to make a whole lot of sense to you, right at this moment.. hopefully you'll at least enjoy the painting...)
Could you improve this further by somehow automatically controlling heat exchange between the thermal mass and a separate grocery compartment? That way the thermal mass would really act like a battery, you could save all the energy during a sunny week and use it over time?
Caterpillars match surroundings by “seeing” with their skin
Sun probably had a good sales team. ;)
That's probably for the best
I haven't. Thanks for the rec!
This sounds like an initiative I’d hold signs for in the street, if there were an actual plan for it. How do we make sure this agency doesn’t become a cudgel for the government to wield for itself? Who gets to run this ministry of truth?
I think the cons are going to heavily outweigh the pros with this tech.

Fake news on high octane race gas.
I’ve been telling people that there will now always be new movies with Tom Hanks. Even after he has passed, there’s so much screen time to use and audio recordings that he could forever be in new movies.
> We have the potential to do it.

I absolutely agree! Humankind is innovative and can move mountains when working together. It seems to take some time to make everyone aware but ultimately a lot of resources will flow into solving the climate crisis.

> Also in feudal times people lived 30 years on average and had horrible quality of life, spending most of the time with back breaking work

I don't think so.. Look for example at indigenous tribes, they don't work back-breaking 14-hour days, as far as I know. And if you consider that back in the day half of the children died before the age of 5, that leaves a comfortable live expectation of 60 years for anyone surviving childhood!
Infoamtion is a necessity, but disinformation is a weapon.

I have lived in an Internet Shutdown that lasted for about a week. I was actually thankful for it. Don't get me wrong, It was inconvenient to say the least, but it probably saved thirty-odd lives.

You have to actually live in a tense environment (and be a minority) to understand how quickly misinformation and rumours can be spread that incite extreme violence and then counter-violence. Facebook/WhatsApp isn't very good at quickly taking down rumours, and people are easy to get charged when in an emotional state. The percentage of people who keep calm and let the situation die down is miniscule.

Reg. Kashmir, there have already been multiple instances fake videos/images shared by influential people, let alone everyday folks, within the last month (I'll put up links below later). You can only imagine the amount of inflammatory disinformation being shared by normal people. This stuff has already spread quicker than it is usually debunked, so the damage is already there.
Which decent mechanical keyboard has the feature of being $14.50?
No, the The Open Group, which owns the trademark on the name "Unix", defines what Unix is.
My understanding is AC is safer at higher voltages than DC - and if you have a choice between 12v DC and 120v AC, the latter needs radically smaller cables.

I haven't seen any truly high quality data on voltage safety, due to the obvious ethical issues with performing properly controlled experiments. It's possible the reason you see 120v in every home but 120v DC almost nowhere is inertia rather than safety.
You and your SO might want to look at the state of the glaciers and realise that you might not get much more skiing if things continue as they are.

And saying “don’t fly, knuckleheads” isn’t the same as saying “don’t ski”.

The snow trains are arguably a better way to do it: you don’t have to get a stupidly early flight and you don’t face a 2+ hr coach ride to the resort. In some resorts the train leaves you ten minutes from the slopes.

That’s how we help in small ways with this, not short-sighted stubbornness but with better solutions.

Fewer skiers flying might change the economics of Nightstar too: a proper luxury sleeper train from London to the slopes. I’d genuinely prefer that to ever getting a coach again.
"Don't be evil" died a while ago, so it's free real estate for then anyway.
As a recovering watch collector (~30 down to 5 in recent months), there's a special feeling I get when I wear a nice mechanical watch, especially with an exhibition case (crystal on the wrist-facing side to view the movement). The intricate and precise manufacturing and assembly of these tiny objects is astounding and tell so much history of not just the brand but horology in general. Quartz watches are certainly cheaper and more accurate, but they still lack the character found in mechanical pieces (for a while I collected Seiko 7A28s, the first analog quartz chronograph). Analogous to a pristine vinyl record vs its CD equivalent, I guess. Not saying quartz is bad, but if you find yourself developing an emotional attachment to timepieces, explore some affordable mechanical options. A great option is the Seagull 1963, a mechanical chronograph with an exhibition case and a lot of character for like 300 bucks.

Right now I wear an Oris 65 daily and I have two Bulovas (Lunar Pilot & Accutron Spaceview) for different occasions/outfits.
But if their algorithms took the road's capacity into account...

As the secondary and tertiary roads start to back up, wouldn't Waze start to direct people back onto the primary road for the same reasons it started directing them off the primary?

The problem isn't Waze, or Google, or sat-nav in general. The problem is LA (and most of the US) has massively under-invested in urban planning and infrastructure. More housing built closer to work hubs. More transit options.

The part that really rustles my jimmies is none of the rest of the US seems to have learned anything from California's mistakes. As new areas grow, they seem to repeat the same failures that California made in the 1960s.
Ultragentle manipulation of delicate structures using a soft robotic gripper
I’ve found the long-term productivity gains far outpace the short-term cost of using Linux/BSD. For example, I’ve found focus-follows-mouse WMs a huge boon to my productivity, a feature that OSX absolutely refuses to implement. The ability for a window to grab input without being raised is highly underrated.
> Hmm. Pensions are obligated to deliver a defined benefit in dollar terms, or try their best to do so.

That is traditionally what most people mean by "pension", but it is DB pensions aren't the only kind. There are also defined contribution (DC) pensions:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defined_contribution_plan
What irrelevancies!
To speak to the specific case, Google does use some BSD components - large portions of the C library in android are OpenBSD sourced:

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140506132000

Google also has donated to the OpenBSD foundation historically in relatively small amounts: https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html
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Storytelling of historical characters where we have common knowledge of what they looked like (e.g. Einstein).

Reshooting scenes of movies without having to get key actors back on location.

Immersive storytelling where you get to be placed inside a movie.

Actor safety where they can go through transformations for a shoot, such as extreme weight loss or weight gain.

I can really only think of it in terms of entertainment. There may be some therapy benefits which are yet to get discovered, but I would imagine that's a whole new level of complexity.
This one [0]? Thanks!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Dog_(novel)
They are if the way you monitize your platform is by offering it as a managed service, as is the case with MongoDB. Company A spends 75% of it's resources developing a product and 25% on a platform, Company B spent 75% of Company A's budget just on its platform and uses A's product for free. Who will most likely have a better platform that they can offer at lower cost?

In the AWS case, Amazon already spent many multiples of MongoDB budget on their platform, so they were easily able to undercut.
Well the author also thinks pair programming is a good idea so I'd take what they say with a grain of salt. Also I get the impression this article is just a thinly veiled ad for their courses.
> "The assumption that the market is large, that the commons helps everybody sort of equally are not true in a lot of sectors."

Not sure what we are talking about, personally I don't make that assumption, although I recognize that others might.

Yes, roads and highways help big companies more than they help small companies. That doesn't mean that smaller companies don't benefit from the existence of roads and highways.

> "the fact is the license was never good in the first place, because it failed to take into account what will happen when AWS starts to offer MongoDB"

Without that license, let's be honest, MongoDB wouldn't have gotten popular in the first place. MongoDB has been plagued by technical issues too and without it being open source, one of the carrots being used, MongoDB wouldn't have been a blip on anyone's radar.

So this is a conundrum and I understand the reasons why MongoDB Inc has switched, I do, but I just don't care.

Because the nature of the thing has changed — and for example I would now need a lawyer to find if my own product is safe or not with an on-premises MongoDB solution, because I can no longer rely on OSI's definition to tell me if my use is OK or not. And yes, we've got random opinions on the Internet about what you can and cannot do, but that's not valid legal advice.

And even if my use of MongoDB is OK for now, who's to say they won't change the license again in the future to something even more abhorrent. This means that for me going forward is that MongoDB is no longer reliable from a legal standpoint.
Last time this was discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16985413

I've noticed a little uptick in stories about gambling here, I suspect there is a strain of us at HN interested in sports analytics for financial gain. Interesting. :-)
A few days ago there was this related post on /r/machinelearning

> Book on practical considerations of ML

https://reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/cxu9d7/
The west should have just let Japan take over China in WW2. Maybe then they'd have moved in to the 21st century properly like Japan did.
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Stan Lee's face had been scanned like crazy before his death in order to keep the cameos going.
It could be low-hanging fruit. Thousands of airships to change, vs hundreds of millions of cars.
One of the ways to improve a betting strategy is to incorporate into your model the available odds for a race (especially near to the off), as the odds will to some extent reflect the hidden knowledge of other participants...

Benter used this himself, as detailed in his paper 'Computer Based Horse Race Handicapping and Wagering Systems: A Report' - https://www.gwern.net/docs/statistics/decision/1994-benter.p...
Er I don't know the right etiquette as far as original post, but I shouldn't have quoted/included "somehow", that's entirely fair. I think you've had great success to my eyeballs for placement on HN, but did not need to insinuate that it wasn't on the up-and-up.
The whole premise of the article is that it only needs to coerce Waze’ routing. If the glut of traffic is just following the blue line, the minority that route themselves shouldn’t be enough to cause problems - or at least, they apparently weren’t pre-waze.
Couple of ones I can think of:

Fathom: https://github.com/usefathom/fathom

Goatcounter: https://github.com/zgoat/goatcounter

Freshlytics: https://github.com/sheshbabu/freshlytics

There's also a non-oss but privacy focussed analytics - http://simpleanalytics.com

Disclaimer: I'm the creator of Freshlytics
There's much lower hanging fruit to be plucked. A few examples:

Why don't the mainstream distros automatically apply laptop (especially powersaving) specific settings if they detect an internal battery?

Why don't the main distros automatically apply a 'small speakers' equalization to any detected built-in speakers? Running Ubuntu on my MacBook Pro makes it sound like ass but doing a very generic equalization via PulseEffects makes it sound almost the same as on macOS

Why doesn't increasing or lowering brightness fade up or down instead of doing big jumps up or down?

Just doing those three things would make Linux feel tremendously more polished on any laptop it's installed on, no 'blessing' of certain brands or laptop series needed.
Thats what closing is, isn’t it? One answerer recognizes it as closable, so no future answerer has to deal with it.
It is very meta to ask this question, and to see the replies to this question, as the trope: "The US meddles in foreign revolutions" is common for (social) media propaganda (bots).

> Claim: The US is supporting and encouraging Hong Kong protests.

> Verdict: Conspiracy theory without evidence.

> For years, pro-Kremlin media has used the narrative about anti-government protests being funded by the US. Examples include colour revolutions in post-soviet states, the “Arab Spring” revolts, and Euromaidan in 2014.

> The Hong Kong protests began in June 2019 because of a controversial extradition law that would allow for the transfer of suspects to face trial on the Chinese mainland.

https://euvsdisinfo.eu/report/the-us-is-supporting-and-encou...
Australia's Bizarre Coastal Desert
Seeing this work by Schmidhuber suddenly reminded of this song: https://twitter.com/i/status/1155091710281580548
a sort of tongue-in-cheek celebration his famous eagerness when discussing his work.

[edit] Just found out there's a second part: https://soundcloud.com/user-430897588-587876313/lstm-song-2
> Hmmm. We move our satellites on average once a week and don't put out a press release to say who we maneuvered around...

- https://twitter.com/IridiumBoss/status/1168582141128650753

> Normal part of flying satellites (or should be). Does BA announce every time one of its airplanes steers around a Ryanair aircraft?

- https://twitter.com/IridiumBoss/status/1168607146646364160

CEO of Iridium, an existing not-mega constellation that Starlink is arguably going to make obsolete. When a competitor is coming in and calling this unnecessary drama, you have to wonder if the ESA has a leg to stand on or is doing this for political pandering.

They have lots of political reasons to do this too. Attempting to acquire more regulatory authority. Attempting to acquire funding for projects like AI collision avoidance (https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/1168540912282165248). Maybe even attempting to slow down a competitor to their Ariane rocket family...

PS. the other recent tweets by the CEO of iridium are also interesting and relevant: https://twitter.com/IridiumBoss/with_replies