skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A standard IBM "gotcha" is to offer deep discounts and charge the 20% p.a. maint cost on the list price - e.g. "We'll give you this hardware for $1." then a year later "So sorry the maint is 3 x $250k x 0.2 = $150k p.a.".

Another is that the software and hardware designed to turn a baby system into anything useful is astonishingly expensive to people not used to dealing with this end of the market. Enjoy finding that your hypervisor is licensed at 5 figures per core, and that your cores are six figures a pop.
> doesn't clash with a language that has been around since the 1970s

I don't think 1970 is much of a filter.

That's pretty much the same as saying "doesn't clash with a language since the beginning of time".
My wife's Show HN: Recyclable material classifier. Training data avail by req.
“How to teach programming (and other things)?” by Felienne Hermans
Telemetry systems are out of control, and really exploded with the smartphone era. Personally, I run application level firewalls on all my devices i) to stop ads & ii) to stop telemetry. Unfortunately, it's too hard/too much trouble for the average user to maintain.

We need to come up with a better way to (automatically) hobble this nonsense, probably at the os level.
Does anyone know any other sites covering this? This one doesn't work well with mobile :(
Educated people from western countries have political norms that they think are universal but are actually highly contingent on the Enlightenment. These values such as freedom and democracy have some limited play in China but are not esteemed to the same extent, especially after Communist ideologies became dominant after 1949. Rather than considering liberalism as a normative end to pursue, Chinese were more likely to treat it as way to pursue national wealth and power.
You can blame it all on incompetent governments, but that’s taking the easy path.

With endless inflation as a reality, the only way to support retirement is to basically build a pyramid scheme. For every old person who retires, you need multiple young people to work to support them. Seeing as how Singapore’s fertility rate is only about half of the replacement rate, that’s not possible.

The elderly today have a few people falling through the cracks. The elderly 50 years from now will have nothing to their names and no family to support them. They’re truly fucked.
You need to know your audience. You need to think of ways it could go wrong. This means researching if it sounds or looks like something offensive. Sexual, political, racist, swear words, unpleasant associations, etc.

But there is plenty of marketing that hinges on there being an acceptable sexy interpretation of a name or catch phrase -- hot and ready pizza, Easy Stripper paint removal product -- so it isn't even as simple as "Just make sure it can't possibly be interpreted as sexual."

Different people approach this space differently. I like casually collecting stories or examples of successes that break the mold. Questionable Content has a .net name and as far as I know is the best monetized webcomic on the planet, or was at one time. Hyperbole And A Half uses blogspot and has no TLD. She just uses the blogspot url.

https://questionablecontent.net/

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/

Aflac is not the actual name of the Fortune 500 insurance company best known by that name. Their legal name is still American Family Life Assurance Company. They originally incorporated as American Family Life Insurance Company. Internal tales from when I worked there indicated that they lost the original name in "a gentleman's coin toss" between two CEOs because there was another company in another state with the same name and it had to be settled somehow.

They had low name recognition for an industry that already lacks sizzle and tends towards poor name recognition and thought about renaming it, but that would require filing new papers in all fifty states and other places they do business. They decided to go with the acronym.

It's kind of like calling someone Bill when his birth certificate says William. Everyone knows that's not how he signs his name on a check and no one will be confused by it when his signature is different from what his friends call him.

As noted in another comment, most people don't relate to the web the way most hackers do. You need to have some idea of how people will be accessing your site, from where, when, why, etc.

It's great if you can find a unique .com that hasn't already been taken that is also an excellent name for the company in question, but it shouldn't be the single most important thing involved in picking a name.
Robot priests can bless you, advise you, and even perform your funeral
Fair or not, Canadians find this hilarious because Ontario premier Doug Ford is reputed to have been a hash dealer in his younger years.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/globe-investiga...
Strange how Québec's SQDC seems profitable...
I didn't follow. If you take a high dimensional data set and project it are you not going to find patterns? In fact, let me ask it differently. Are there any projections that don't find patterns?
If you would like to request access to the training data she has been gathering / labelling, you may email team@ecofriendlyapp.com . To her knowledge, hers is the most comprehensive and best-labelled dataset to date in this problem domain.
> Mandatory helmets

Mandatory helmets is a separate thing. You're arguing against a policy none of the parent comments or the root article talks about.

> Both cyclists and motorists tend to take slightly more risks when wearing helmets

This whole article is about being an assertive bicyclist while not wearing a helmet. The author is encouraging people to not wear a helmet and bicycle less defensively than they typically do. The primary argument for this behavior is because it feels good.
It makes things better.

++ is for concatenation.

+ is for arithmetic.

Coercion or not, it's always puzzled me when languages used the same symbol.

I guess they're both associative and have identity values, but that's about it. One is commutative, the other is not.

* makes about as much sense for concatenation as +.
Really impressive results. Is your "Context-aware Synthesis for Video Frame Interpolation" available as an implementation somewhere? It looks really good.

I skimmed the paper about the Ken Burns effect, and if you don't mind I have some questions. I hope I didn't miss the answers in the paper itself, I'll be sure to read it more carefully when time permits.

1. The loss function for the depth estimation is Ldepth=0.0001·Lord+Lgrad. Is Lgrad much bigger than Lord by design or will this basically make Lord tiny and almost unecessary? How did you arrive at this number and not a magnitude bigger or smaller?

2. How are you rendering the point cloud, like tiny discs in free space? When I think of point clouds I think of the typical LIDAR output renderings, but your results are continuous images, or video frames. Are the points rendered to an image plane and the result then interpolated?

And a couple more general ones:

1. Are all other depth estimation techniques other than NN obsolete now? Is there no point in estimating intrinsic camera parameters and epipolar lines when the state of the art seems to be to input one or more images into a NN and let it produce the depth for you?

2. How do you decide how the NN should look like, with various downsampling layers, convolutions, etc. I've seen people start with pretrained networks and retrain them, but how do you build a novel network based on the input and desired output?
That's because he had hacks like Shelby Foote trying to convince people that the Civil War wasn't caused by slavery.
What is a good low-end laser printer or multi-function device to recommend to non-technical friends that "just works" ? I don't like HP for the reasons mentioned in the article and other reasons (blaring WIFI-DIRECT interference from their printers in houses all around me)

We bought a Brother a few years ago, because it supported Google Cloud Print. The idea was that my son, who used a Chromebook, would be able to easily print. The problem came when the GCP worked only for a limited time, and then stopped working a few weeks after we got the printer. I was able to set it up to work via a Linux machine and the "cloudprint" daemon, but this was supposed to be _EASY_ and it wasn't.

Assuming this was just a problem with GCP, I recommended a Brother to an Apple-using friend who was trying to decide between an HP and a Brother. She uses airprint (I'm not a Mac/iPhone person, so I never tried it). And she has the same problems with the printer just not being found as an airprint device.
China's place in the world as an evil authoritarian regime isn't seriously debated by anyone who has read even a little history.

It's not a "belief", it's fact. Mao killed 45 million people.
Foregoing your retirement to make wealthy shareholders wealthier is not useful work. Community work is where "bored" retirees would be better off putting their focus.
Social Security != Medicare
Since I have done the work while interning at Adobe, I am afraid that I will not be able to commercialize it myself due to patenting. I agree with you that it has great potential, there are still quite a few failure cases though and it is a little hit and miss.
The importance of social aspects seems to be inversely proportional to the technical difficulty of the problem being solved. Easier problems or otherwise nontechnical problems will see many open source solutions, and to stand out you have to use many of the same marketing techniques as commercial software. Harder problems generally see fewer solutions and the natural flow of people looking for solutions generally means you don't have to invest much in social efforts.

For example, our major open source project (https://github.com/sheetjs/js-xlsx, currently at 17K stars) started as a solo project, and most of the "growth" was driven by the complexity of the underlying problems as well as the general acceptance of JS.
Wouldn’t wire tapping laws apply?
If you read it "Don't travel to China" it would have.
My kids love to play with things like the left over cardboard from deliveries that became a 'cubby house'. I used to love playing with some left over carpet strips that became roads. I think children naturally like 'toys' where you imagine them into existence, although I am not sure how they'd like only to have those toys and nothing modern.
I'm not even sure the land line wiring in my house is functional at this point, to be honest. You could always get a VOIP adapter and plug your old phone into it, though.
Going from IBM to SAP seems like no less lock in?
Somebody went and took a picture of the vantablack car that wasn't set up to make it look dark and showed it appeared to be a dull gray. There's a very high degree of latitude in how you take pictures of something, and the 0% brightness level in the output can be anything you like. The human eye is adaptive, as well, so it probably wouldn't be all that impressive in person either.
I tried to find nabla (∇) as it is a very common symbol in engineering. Tried 'differential', 'derivative', 'delta', even 'triangle', but didn't get it.

Finally tried 'nabla'. Turns out it's just not there :(
> Hacking one of these mainframe would take an intense, coordinated effort.

Just as well Soldier of Fortran doesn't exist or this would be a silly assertion.
Lighthearted retort: And web browsers will still be slow.

Slightly more serious retort: I'm not aware of any brands from 300 years ago, I'd be surprised if any of IBMs customers survive, let alone enough to keep IBM as a going concern.

Btw when you start folding the space time mesh, terahertz figures just become marketing numbers, what you really want to know is how many parsecs it can do the Kessel run in.
Thx for the interesting link but A) as highlighted by kkarakk it's a bit old and B) as far as I understand it's a post from a single customer/client without comparisons => are there any kind of statistics?
I politely suggest you re-read my comments, as I have indeed considered that and it's exactly what I'm saying :-) I agree with what you're saying 100%, I perhaps haven't written clearly enough because I think you're thinking I'm arguing against optionals being useful. I'm not, I'm just saying they're not a solution to the bugs that cause 'real' NPEs - only design bugs where the code doesn't model the data correctly.
This product always makes me think of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. I wonder if that's where the name originated.

https://youtu.be/uOd7HQoKxcU?t=50
Yeah, it sounds like they rewrote it piece by piece to run on different architectures.

Really similar to having a big monolith, and taking pieces out chunk by chunk rewritten to run as microservices until you're left with a new codebase with no sign of the original monolith or any of it's code.
Arrows would be good to have too.
I personally use Canon Pixma series printers. They work really well with AirPrint and are not super expensive.
> forced to succeed upon merge, etc.

I like this approach and it was used heavily in a previous role by both the devops and development teams in a company I worked for.

However it can come with a cost if the tests are not targeted enough or there are simply too many tests to run within a reasonable period. At one stage tests were taking 20-30 minutes to run, so you could be waiting an hour or more sometimes to find out whether the change you pushed went green or red. Often this meant people pushing before their lunchbreak or at the end of the day and effectively leaving the build broken for many hours, with others unable to push unless they included a fix for someone else's breakage.
I guess that's true, I didn't think of that while writing.
Agree from theoretical perspective you are correct -
however, with a good implementation of a real-time multisite replication you can just about eliminate the variable..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Parallel_Sysplex
Carrying on a long tradition of Alberta having more defensible government in most ways, and having books that are balanced despite the federal parasite of equalization, and a largely natural-resource driven economy (which usually produces extremely crappy government).
My impression is that "minus" is pretty acceptable in German domain names -- more so than in the English-speaking world.
You've kinda dodged the core of my argument: why should your money be worth more later than it is today even though you're not doing anything with it? And further, if you think money should be backed by gold, why is it not sufficient for you to simply buy gold with your fiat as you earn it? I'm having trouble understanding why this fails to meet all your objectives.
There was a change in the provincial government prior to legalization that probably contributed to this loss. The previous provincial Liberal government had planned to sell cannabis through the provincially owned liquor stores. In June 2018 they lost the election to the Conservatives, who in August 2018 decided not to sell cannabis in the government stores but through private retailers[1]. However, as this was an unexpected change the first private retailers wouldn’t be operational until April 2019 [2]. So from the time of legalization, October 17, 2018 until April 1, 2019 the only way to legally purchase cannabis in Ontario was online and by postal delivery.

[1]: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-cannabis-priv...

[2]: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-cannabis-open...
PHP is moving away from that... what a joke
It has nothing to do with inflation. Retirement savings are capital, but production requires labor. The mechanics of retirement are just a proxy for diverting production from working young people to non-working old people, and that’s true whether you have private retirement savings, tax-funded retirement, or traditional family arrangements where children care for elderly parents. In any of those systems, if the older generation is much bigger than the young generation, you have a problem.
It has stuff like LPARs because it shares a processor arch with IBM's COTS servers running POWER (yes it has an extension to have tagged pointers, but they demoed it originally on unmodified POWER).

Ie. it shares way more with regular server boxes than mainframes.
It's not so much this as it is I am a person who absulotely needs freedom of expression and China is a place where that is highly regulated. I wouldn't survive long.
Those are great documentaries....

I also really enjoyed Empire of the Air, covering the history of radio.
I’ve been using a Fuji / Xerox Docuprint M225 for a 5 or so years now. Replacement toner was dirt cheap, and I expect to continue using this printer for another 5 or so years. Works with AirPrint and Google Cloud Print. WiFi can be finicky at times but nothing a restart doesn’t fix.
The Last Temptation of Ben Sasse
When it's released, the PinePhone should provide a good platform for mp3 and other media. If all you want it for is music, disable all the wireless (both for security and max battery life) and you've basically got an open source iPod touch with a microSD slot for $150. Seems like a natural 'stripped down' distro/image use case for the device.
You'd be surprised how many investment proposals still contain 'AI' just to sex them up. Even if it isn't applicable. Even if the application suggested is way beyond what current AI capabilities are. Case in point: received just such a proposal last week.
Hey, I am interested for this job profile. From where do I apply?
No they did not: https://www.google.com/advanced_image_search
Yes I use arrow functions all the time but I was under the impression expressions must be strictly closed to be true lambdas? although to be honest i can't find any definitive info on this, so now I suspect my definition might be too strict...

I find it very useful to know that all variables in the expression are bound, expressions with free variable can be more complex to reason about, which is fine, but it would be nice to be able to easily differentiate without having to carefully parse each expression first - so a separate syntax just for that purpose would be nice - I thought that's what true lambda functions were (disallowing free variables), but it looks like i'm wrong, i guess that feature doesn't exist.
agree those particular technologies are not now mainframe exculsive - however mainframe grade systems allow switching / reconfiguring all components on line. E.g. plug in a new processor unit (e.g one of N processor racks plugged into the system bus), new IO unit, new disk unit, replicate all data, move all jobs, decouple the old one so that after the operation is complete 0% of the old hardware is running and 100% new, with no downtime.
>Your entire post is a long complaint that I did not display enough contrition when citing uncomfortable facts. Not fringe facts - mainstream media/science acknowledged facts..

Your initial comment implied "Jews control the media and use it to push their propaganda". Do you believe that is an uncomfortable fact backed up by the mainstream media and science? I gave you the benefit of the doubt originally and assumed that implication was accidentally. You have had multiple opportunities to say that the implication was not intended and yet you seem to be unwavering in support of that implication. My complaint is that you are showing no contrition in stating this clearly anti-semitic idea.
All of these points have been known for some time and were actually "designed into" Social Security reform legislation that was enacted in the 1980's. The American people (through their elected representatives) have chosen to indefinitely postpone additional reform that may address some of your criticisms.

Therefore it seems to me that the civil servants running Social Security have been doing exactly what they were expected to do so it still isn’t clear to me how they're mismanaging it.
To me it's the same "g" as in the word "good".

"good" + "frugal" -> "google"
I unfortunately did not get the approval to release the context-aware frame interpolation, but one of my older works is open source for research purposes: https://github.com/sniklaus/pytorch-sepconv

1. I am not sure about the scale of the individual loss functions anymore, my apologies. I determined the combination of the two losses via a simple grid search and seeing what works best (plus / minus a magnitude did not make that much of a difference).

2. The points are just splatted to an image plane, more advanced point cloud rendering techniques would be better though. There is no video frame interpolation, each individual frame in the output video is a rendering of the point cloud from a different camera perspective.

3. I am not sure about multi-view stereo, COLMAP still seems like the state of the art for that. But neural networks definitely outperform classic techniques for single image depth estimation.

4. Common architectures just did not do as well as I was hoping for so I tried about 1500 model architectures. I started with an architecture that intuitively seemed right and then gradually explored / refined alterations of it. It ultimately was a lot of trial and error.
> if the subject is very familiar to you.

Fair enough, if you know what someone wears, their exact skin color, build, and perhaps even the place they are in, then sure, blacking out the face (or changing it for that matter) won't help. I guess I agree that this is more common than the authors make it sound (it's indeed not 100% guaranteed absolutely anonymous always ever, as they put it). But I do have to say, this is about as good as blacking out the face completely and a lot less obnoxious.

> The picture of Obama and Trump is clearly recognizable

You sure? If I show this picture in isolation to someone https://snipboard.io/VjwEc1.jpg I'm not sure that they will say it's Obama. Not sure there is a politically correct way of saying this, but there aren't that many people that are well-known by billions with that skin tone and in a suit, so of course if you ask them "the face was changed, who is this?" they can do a lucky guess for Obama because that's the only guessable possibility.
HDR and wide-spectrum are extensions along different measurement axes.
> You may believe Faceache broke electoral law in the UK; but they have neither been charged nor convicted. So your belief would be false.

You are correct that they haven't (been charged with having) broken electoral law in the UK, but they have broken data protection laws in relation to the information which was then used by Cambridge Analytica:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/11/facebook-...

Whether that information was then used by Cambridge Analytica as part of a Brexit campaign is open to more questions.
Of course the fear is that you spend a few thousand dollars on a potential solution, use it for a few months only to discover that it does only about 60% of what you really need and/or it's painful/difficult to use. So now you're either stuck with a substandard solution, or you are going to do the work yourself anyway, and are out the few thousand dollars besides.
London Underground to retire ageing 92-year-old signal box
Those masks look great, thank you for the pointer!
Show HN: Hire-a-Cofounder
When you are in another country, and the government decides to abuse you, detain you or even straight up execute you, there is very, very little your home country can do about it, besides complain and try to assist you with some advice (not legal advice however).

They aren't going to invade another country to recover you, or do much of anything else. Even if you are American.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra...

Keep this in mind before you travel.

Read travel advisories, they are not overblown, or alarmist, they are important sources of information to fully understand before you travel.

https://travelmaps.state.gov/TSGMap/

https://travel.gc.ca/travelling/advisories

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice