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Ask HN: What are some bleeding edge Generative Neural Network architectures?
I am about to start experimenting with making my own architectures for body pose estimation from color images (ala OpenPose) and if I'm not mistaken, the problem can be solved either via generative (GANs, VAEs) or discriminative networks (CNNs). So far I prefer generative networks over discriminative ones.

As the title says, I am curious what are the cutting edge generative network architectures. Are there any other architectures besides GANs and VAEs? Where can I learn more about this?
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Since this account seems to have gone single-agenda and you've ignored our request to stop posting these links, I've banned the account until we get some indication that you want to use HN as intended, i.e. for intellectual curiosity on an unpredictable range of topics. That's not to invalidate your spiritual path in any way, it's just that repetition is the mother of offtopicness on HN.
Matplotlib titles have configurable locations – and you can have more than one
If they are all described as graph databases, we lose the usefulness of understanding the differences between them. I think understanding these differences are at least interesting, and possibly useful.
Can you bring in someone with marketing/biz dev chops? You've hit a dip, it sounds like someone new to the project with fresh eyes could give you and the product a boost.
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That’s what people have been saying about the iPhone for 12 years now. I suspect it will be several decades before we get close to tapping out the technological improvements and engineering optimisation potential in EVs. We’ve really only just got started with them seriously in the last few years. There’s also plenty of scope for further advances in the manufacturing processes. Building EVs is incredibly complex. It’s not just another electric commodity like a washing machine.
I'm sorry, based on my personal experience I consider this bad advice. Investors don't cut checks to companies that cold email them. It's a waste of time.

If you are really committed to doing this, there is one way you can do this. Concurrently and genuinely make a company2 and try to raise money for it. Send cold emails only for company2. It doesn't matter how great company2's business plan is, of course. You'll never raise money for it this way. On the last slide list other companies with similar initial growth propositions, the logo and name are enough: Facebook, Uber, Company1 etc.

While the investor will throw your pitch deck in the trash, regardless of how great it is, as they do so they'll probably get out their checkbook for Company1 without even talking to them. (Based on your last slide.)

Investors behave a bit like sheep, I'm afraid.

At any rate: don't cold email them but if you must this is the only way I would ever go about it.
> Have a look: https://www.cloudflare.com/network/

This is a really good example. Did you look at Africa? For the record, 1.2 billion people live there nowadays ;)

> Out of curiosity, what is the significance of "<<" and ">>"

Oh, you mean '«' and '»'? They are French quotation marks[1], I try to use the English ones '“' and '”' when I'm writing English, but sometimes I forget. Same for the space before the question and exclamation mark (there is a space in French, but not in English).

[1]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemet
Pixel 1 just received the Q updates and is still getting security update. Are you comparing premium Apple built phones against 400$ nexus phones which were co-made by Google just to have a vanilla device for development? Nexus line was never meant to be a high-end phone with good support.
You could say the same about television.
I’ve journaled on and off for years. It’s incredibly stressful for me. Most of what I write is unbearably stupid. It’s excrutiatig to see how dumb I am. I tried to turn lemons into lemonade, and decided to keep a “what did I learn” journal, but it was even worse. Maybe journaling isn’t for everyone.
>How is that different from the site you are on right now or email?

I don't think Hacker News or "Email" are collecting/monetizing your data, or have teams of PhD's actively researching how the UX/UI can psychologically addict you so you spend more time using them...thats just for starters.

But sure lets bury our head in the sand and pretend FB is still some fun startup college kids built in their dorm for college kids to communicate with each other, and lets also pretend Zuckerburg has matured from those days of calling users "dumbfucks" for trusting him with their data.
I think Ubers lockup expires November 6th. should be an interesting day to watch that stock.
Stardog is quite successful.
Genuine question: can the government legally sponsor a social media network if that network censors legal but abhorrent speech (e.g., anti-black or anti-white hate speech)? Seems like it would either be a cesspool or it would get struck down in the courts.
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They're stuck between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, they provide the 'objective' benchmark for the entire media industry. On the other, they have no way to actually capture the value of the data they provide, because advertisers use their data to make decisions on opaque Big Tech platforms. It's a commodity that doesn't have an equivalent exchange representation. On the surface, it might seem like a bad faith data broker. But on a deeper level, this is a canary in the programmatic ad monopoly coal mine. If we can regulate data exchange, but can't regulate data use ... we're setting a dangerous precedent.
We should expect ideological reflexes to dominate discussion of this topic everywhere else, but can't we have a higher level of insight and discourse on HN?

Can't we transcend our respective affiliations, prejudices and shibboleths to discuss this on its merits?

For all of us who believe, as I do, that Bill Clinton's impeachment was completely justified in spite of the fact that it was prosecuted by right-wing partisans, can't we apply the same values and standards to the current situation?

Must we torture the facts to benefit our team and hurt the opposition, with no intellectually objective escape?

Does anyone have any new thoughts or insights, or are we fated to hurl prefabricated propaganda at each other?
>I do not want crimes that are deemed acceptable to be forgotten to be delegated to private corporations.

But that's effectively the opposite of that. It's the government that mandates that private corporations implement the "right to be forgotten", regardless of the reason. The corporation has no say on the matter.

On the other hand if you do not have something like that then you live it up to private entities to effectively implement vigilante justice by listing supposed pedophiles forever on their websites for instance.

If you really think that people who commit pedophilia and other heinous crimes are forever unfit to live in society you should get your government to enact laws that make sure they're never released without supervision for instance. I mean unless you're a proponent of vigilante justice, but then you are effectively delegating justice to private entities, corporations or otherwise.
I read an article that Adam Neumann has a $700 million line of credit against his WeWork shares and has already drawn down around $550 million of that (to purchase real estate and lease back to We).

After the IPO valuation downgrade the banks are now questioning the value of his collateral WeWork shares and could force a margin call.

I think this might be driving it.
If that is indeed the real reason, its unfortunate that they cannot get an OS to run acceptably in 1GB of RAM. Especially when they have such a tiny amount of hardware variations to support.
Are you including Geely in your list of manufacturers? Geely owns Volvo, and I'm eagerly looking forward to the (electric) 2020 Polestar 2 going on sale[1].

The tech will likely percolate downwards to Geely's non-flagship cars over the next few years.

1. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/02/volvo-spinoff-polestar-...
I rolled back my really old iPad 2 to iOS 6 recently. Was fairly easy. As long as Apple is signing it, it just takes 3 clicks on iTunes.

I wrote about my experience at https://captnemo.in/blog/2019/08/11/ipad-downgrade-ios-6-8/
Easy to do running it containers too!
Plus they don't have a great track record on the hardware durability. Some anecdotes: I had a bootlooping 5X after 11 months of ownership (that Google refused to replace) and my Pixel stopped being able to receive calls, also after 11 months (again, Google refused to replace it). The Chromecast I bought also only worked when it felt like it, which was, maybe 20% of the time. I won't buy their hardware anymore.
I have the same experience for anything hyper-library or distro-specific - like "why is x package not working on alpine 3.whatever".

More generally, I use async Python features and libraries, which are developing and changing very quickly. Most stack overflow answers on things like this are at least partially outdated, many more-so. I tend to go to prominent async libraries source code & Github issues to see how the leading users of async features are doing it.
> My web browser is an interactive software application and it doesn't even start up and put an about:blank page on my screen in 64 ms. Repeat this statement for literally any GUI application, the containing window don't even appear in 64 ms.

This is a straw-man. You didn't ask your web browser to open, you asked your OS. Your OS shows you the response to your request to load an app or web browser, and it shows that response immediately. The launch icon blinks, your cursor changes, and a blank frame appears all within the span of a few frames.

> And anyway, how big is a "screen?"

You get to decide. I don't think the post was meant to be taken as so extremely literal as that.

> Essentially no application follows this guideline and never will

Browsers and games already do follow this guideline. I think you're mis-reading what's here, and what's here is already generally accepted and very much used broadly. The audience for this post may be devs unfamiliar with interaction best practices, new web developers who don't think to show changes on screen before a network response, or don't want to do extra work when it seems like a .then() is completely sufficient.

> This website is more of an exercise in snark and elitism than anything else.

Why do you feel it's snarky or elitist? Is it possible you're mis-interpreting this post, or just in a bad mood? As someone who's worked in games and interactive apps, I interpret the post to mean that for user interactions, please keep performance-as-a-feature in mind. There have been many threads on HN on this over the years, and that's just a drop in the bucket compared to all the talk of how to keep interaction from being frustrating to the user.
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No, we don't.
They had a heavyweight class but in the end, spinning really fast crushed all competition at every level from what I remember. Any design that deviated was a novelty, and I can see why you wouldn't want to bother with an interesting design, only to have it ripped apart in a few seconds.

There were some flippers, some hammers, some flamethrowers, but spinning really fast always tore into them instantly. Kinda made it boring after the first few seasons.

I'd be on board again if there wasn't such an obvious winning strategy. They banned nets, but they should probably ban spinners as well.
Alright, but the reason for the complaint about centralization you're dismissing is that most people are encountering DoH via Firefox's plan to default resolve via DoH to Cloudflare, rather than in the context of being deft Unix hands searching for a way to tunnel their DNS out of an untrustworthy network.
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That's certainly how we'd like to look at it, but it's only true by defining "standaardnederlands" fairly narrowly. Plenty of regional accents change phonemes, like 'ij' -> 'ie', hard 'g' to soft 'g', and some of those changes don't happen the same way across all words. Dutch is certainly not the big mess of inconsistency that English is, but it still has some inconsistencies.

For example, the word "lijk" is pronounced different from the suffix "-lijk". And then there's the difference between "een" and "een".
Starbucks has a long list of failed stores. They aren't that good at picking locations. They just saturate and keep what doesn't lose money.
I feel the same way about Orwellian metaphors. So many things are wrongthink and thoughtcrime and a slippery slope to a boot stomping on our head forever now. It's not even clever, much less compelling, and most people who invoke them probably haven't even read Orwell, they're just familiar with the memes.
(I'm not taking a side on whether the opiod question is correct, just talking about the process of journalism.)

The press's ability as an institution to contradict another institution has practical limits.

In particular, if the broader medical community is largely on board with opiods, for a journalist to write a story, they have to get comments from medical authorities.

If those comments are consistently saying that opiods are necessary and good for pain management, an ethical journalist can't just ignore all those comments and harp on a few outliers.

And for a story to catch on, other journalists have to, in effect, replicate that work: they have to do their own investigations, but they're going to get a similar distribution of comments.

The press can typically focus on an institution if there's a particular scandal involving specific people or entities because then their questions become more targeted.
Similar to mobile vs 10FT, to achieve a perception of linearity with regard to dot density, we need a massive leap in display and graphics interface technology. We are still only ~5% of the way there. Each dot density increase also increases latencies so this will take some time. Until we have 8k or equivalent resolution for each eye, the screen door effect will remain.
You seem to have somewhat missed the point.

You are correct that chronic pain patients are not a high overdose risk and that there is little to no benefit to treating their prescriptions with suspicion. (People who don't have to operate in a black market are MUCH safer.)

Here is here you go wrong:

> All of this goes to show that there is very little evidence of any sort of over-prescription of opiates in America.

There is very clear evidence for over-prescription of opioids. There is very clear evidence that the risks of addiction were deliberately minimized by drug companies and doctors were incentivized to over-prescribe for as many off-label uses as possible.

The issue is: Anyone who does develop a problematic addiction to pill they are prescribed tends to have their access cut off and are thus forced into the black market where their chances of overdose increase dramatically.

Thus while users with drug prescriptions may not be overdosing at high rates, that does NOT mean that the black market overdoses are not directly causally related to the over-prescription of opioids.

> Finally the sizable majority of prescription drug abusers in this country do not source from a doctor or the healthcare system at all. The vast majority get their drugs either from the black market or a friend or relative.

They may not source directly from the healthcare system, but prescription diversion and fraud do indirectly source a lot of product from the the healthcare system. I suspect that crackdowns on this diversion helped spike the blackmarket opiod overdoses as it decreased the quality of the blackmarket supply (and thus increased the prevalence of Fentanyl.)
gzip can create that dictionary for you on the fly.

AdvantageS are that the dictionary stays up to date, and that it covers non-static strings such as dates, too, disadvantage a slightly less efficient compression.
By 'propaganda', I'm guessing the author means "things I don't agree with".
15 tons? What do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
Switzerland has Romansh as one of its four national languages, though I'm not sure if that's the context you were intending.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romansh_language
>Why does it matter what their potential production capacity is?

Because they're planning to IPO? Surely if Aramco had double the production capacity, it would be worth more to investors because it would be better equipped to handle disruptions.
It is an abstract. the full article is available on Medium@ https://medium.com/@MindnStuff/how-far-could-the-willpower-g...

Also, I will keep practicing! Hopefully one day you will find interest in my writing!
Think of oil in the ground like a sponge, after a certain point it doesn't matter how many wells you have to extract it, its only going to "leak out" at a certain rate that can not be raised.

It isn't necessarily trivial to raise production.
Hello, author here. That's a good question and something I had a hard time sorting out as I worked on this.

I think those fall into a different category confusingly sometimes called column-oriented databases. They're primarily used for analytic-focused tasks and get their name from storing data by column instead of by row (all data in a single column is stored to disk together).

I didn't include those as a separate category here because they're basically relational databases with a different underlying storage strategy to allow for easier column-based aggregation and so forth.

My colleague shared this article [1] with me, which definitely helped inform how I distinguished between the two in my head.

[1] http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2010/03/distinguishing-two-m...
Too close to the Son?
Don't know about the idiots. My quora feed keeps coming up with pairs of "What is the square root of nnnn?" for seemingly random integer nnnn. Don't know how to stop it.
When I feel like it, I answer "2".
PBS also spreads propaganda. Look at Sesame Street as of recent and basically, they label Trump a shithead. I mean anyone can disagree with the guy and basically does. I'm sad to think that shows like this are basically telling our kids what to think, rather than encouraging independent thought.
If you don't mind my asking: what was the "old" generation technology?

It seems like with modern manufacturing we ought to be able to replicate that.
Newfront is hiring SF engineers to transform a dusty industry (insurance)
Not advice, but you can trade oil futures and options if you have belief in your thesis.
Google’s minimum is usually 3 years. It is unlikely to get revived for Android 11.

Apple on the other hand is at date of discontinuity + 5 yr hardware support.
Yep. Watching the editorial teams' Slack channel at work is pretty entertaining right now. "Schadenfreude" has come up at least once. If I could peer into marketing it might be a sadder scene.
If Boris's main policy is the delivery of a no-deal brexit, and he had a choice to face an election without delivering it, or shortly after successfully delivering it, you think he'd prefer the former?

I mean, I'd prefer to face election as the victorious conquering hero. Unless I thought everything would go to shit the day after no deal.
So who is this for?
Blog post says this is for people who want to test stuff before it lands in RHEL. Valuable to enterprise hardware/software companies etc..

But, if it's sort of a rolling RHEL, then this could be excellent for people who trust RHEL and want stability, but more frequent updates (which is exactly why I know lots of people using Debian Testing over Stable).
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21061376.
More info and explanation here from the CentOS team: https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSStream
Interesting. Is there a reason this technology isn't used by competitors? What are the downsides? Is it their "secret sauce"?
(Disclaimer: self-promotion)

This article echoes a lot of the reasons I'm working on Tildes (https://tildes.net) and specifically founded it as a non-profit. My announcement post from last year discusses how the current approach to community-based sites -- specifically the dependence on venture capital and advertising -- makes companies chase goals that are harmful for the users themselves: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes (HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17103093)

I believe that a non-profit model is the only way to break out of the current cycle of sites starting out as "too good to be true" (as they burn through their VC), and inevitably devolving into privacy-invading, advertising-heavy sites dominated by lowest-common-denominator content when they need to keep forcing growth and monetize their users.

Tildes has been publicly visible for a while now, but still requires an invite to register an account. If you're interested in registering and participating just send me an email, the address is in the announcement post linked above. It's not intended to be difficult to get invites, I mostly just want to keep the growth rate under control while more features and the early site culture continue building up.
My Pixel C is still being updated four years later.

I do agree about repair options. It's pretty much impossible to repair the screen on a Pixel C.
Limits and costs. You can only connect to 150 people. No celebrities / influencers. You can only write X messages a day, and copy paste is disabled. You cannot share for free, got to articulate at least 50 words. The reader got to click the share link if they want to see the original content. No one click karma, let people write 50 words or more if they want to express their feelings. Concession: Voice dictation, typing 50 words on a phone is too expensive.

Focus around offline activities: sports, food, children, church, charity, gardening, arts.
Sure, but the question is whether Youtube as a platform could survive without the ad income.
Thanks for the heads up. I'll try to incorporate that into the article soon.
> doesn't feel very actionable, it assumes quite a bit of in-depth knowledge

Think you've hit the nail on the head there, it's a fair criticism.
Being numb to the repeated warnings of our imminent descent into an Orwellian nightmare is the most damning critique of our society I've heard all day.
You know, when you have to aggressively chop quotes to distort the meaning, it's a good time to pause and reflect on whether you are making a mistake. In particular, ask yourself whether “it’s never been easier to get servers around the world” meant “it's perfect for everyone no matter where they are” or what the actual words mean.

Beyond the obvious point that the growth of commercial cloud options make it much easier to get servers around the world without having to research providers and negotiate contracts in each country, you might in particular want to spend a couple of minutes looking at current CDN coverage, especially if your experience is either limited or old. Coverage is a lot better globally than it used to be — gone is the time when “Africa” either meant servers in Europe/Israel or, at best, one POP in South Africa. Next, think about services like CloudFlare Workers, Lambda@Edge, etc. and ask what percentage of people on the planet are likely to be close to one of the POPs where you can run code:

https://www.cloudflare.com/network/ — 194 cities in 90 countries

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/features/ — 191 locations in 33 countries
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I must say, I am jealous. It seems a bit unfair to me how computer engineers are getting hired and paid so well, while my economics degree is useless and I have to fight like crazy to get a job that pays WAY less than engineers get. Honestly, I studied economics because I wanted a job that pays well - that was one of the key criteria - and now I am standing with little money and a job I hate. It sucks.
After 15 years of development, Lockheed wins new cost-plus contract for Orion
Richard Stallman Resigns from FSF