skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I frequently find that going straight to step 6 results in the order of the steps being 6, 7, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8.
I pursued this a little further out of curiosity and found the inventor's CV: [0]

He had a publication on there belonging to "9th NATO Military Sensing Symposium, 2017" from which papers/presentations are made public: [1], surprising! But I didn't find Massaro's paper there.
I also searched for his "Videogrammetric Mapping from Unmanned Aerial Systems" but did not find it in ISPRS or elsewhere.
A commercially available software that seems to use a similar method: [2]

The Techcrunch article is likely a derivative of the earlier Techlink article: [3]

[0]: http://mason.gmu.edu/~rmassaro/CV_Massaro_complete_20180816....
[1]: https://www.sto.nato.int/publications/STO%20Meeting%20Procee...
[2]: https://www.pix4d.com/blog/underwater-mapping-videogrammetry
[3]: https://techlinkcenter.org/new-us-army-software-rapidly-conv...
I will, thanks for your comments.
I'm afraid these AI accelerators available only to the Big cloud companies would further 'prevent' democratisation of AI/ML.

GPU is already a big bottleneck for an individual/startup from a poor economic region. Considering, even entry level Software Engineering jobs now expect the candidates to know ML; it is imposing a huge disadvantage over a large sector of students from poor countries.

I understand this issue has largely to do with how semiconductor industry by itself is structured. With only handful of fabrication plants capable of mass producing semiconductors of this nature and they being integral part of 'soft power' in Geo-politics; it's hard for a startup to enter this space and when they do, they have no option to tie-up with these cloud companies.

But, without the hardware bottleneck being addressed not only 'AI powered end product' will increase the in-equality; but the ML education/research ecosystem is already raising the inequality.
Related:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TraceAnObject/

https://www.europol.europa.eu/stopchildabuse

SFW but fair warning to not think too hard about the origins of these photos or the horrors they may have contained.
What are they called? I'm interested in buying a pair.
RAR also has built-in forward error correction, something I sorely miss with 7z :(
"Well, from now on they will not call me comrade but mister". That was revolution for me.

I was a bit older than you (and not Czech) but I also found this striking then. All over Eastern Europe the phraseology of communism simply melted away, down to everyday forms of address. And there were at least two generations of adults around who had never used anything else.

I lived in Vienna at the time of the Velvet Revolution and soon after the city was full of visiting Slovaks and Czechs, many arriving in rickety buses. As prone to high-faultin flights of fancy as any teenager, this seemed especially symbolic to me - the old imperial capital, all lit up for the holidays, welcoming what was once its biggest minority. As if saying we could, yet, erase the murderous divisions and follies of most of the 20th century. Not exactly how things worked out!
That is something I've wondered too. I imagine foundations, elevator shafts and other key parts might still be concrete. Buildings like this are fascinating: https://www.dezeen.com/2019/03/19/mjostarne-worlds-tallest-t...
The Little Book of Psychology will give you the lay of the land. Then build up your library over time as you deal with specific issues.

The key is awareness of the important concepts of the field.

Most managers have very little awareness of the field. And under time and resource pressure, come up with their own half baked theories and solutions which seed further issues and compound misunderstanding.
> Not if you are a regular traveler

The regular travelers have voted in numbers for Amtrak between DC and NYC over air travel, preferring it for the last decade[0]. They have been growing the number of trips and have even been able to go further up market with the new Acela nonstop this year. The truth is, passengers are voting with their dollars for the train between NYC and DC.

[0] https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2014/11/why-more-nort...
The PayPal mafia: How a group of 'misfits' became the kingpins of tech
Show us. Let's play a game; I'll start with stuff written in C++

* Skyrim
* The F-35 flight control software
* The Mars Curiosity rover

Your turn.
you're saying this never happens? or rarely? or just not always? or you object to the word "tomorrow"? or...?
I'd argue there's a requirement of more than 48 neural networks in order for a self driving system to be able to drive.

As the number of actors in a scene (cars, motorcycles, signs, and pedestrians) increase, I'd be surprised if you wouldn't need something in the neighborhood of 100+ neural networks that have varying levels of importance triggering on the car.
I think that was sarcasm. Or... well, I hope?

I dispute Canberra being a fine city (:P). Though I agree with you that Sydney is my least favourite city, Melbourne and Brisbane being equal top.

I only chose Brisbane because moving from he UK to Australia, it's too far to move to another city and still be wet and miserable 9 months of the year. ;-)
I must have played fallout 2 thirty times through as a kid, and Fallout 1 a half dozen. I'm now (finally) giving 4 the time it deserves. It's truly a gem on par with 2, IMHO, especially a after playing New Vegas and wanting to have the kind of options I have in 4 (settlements, crafting to the extreme, etc).

Perhaps I'd have been a more productive member of society had I started businesses, graduated earlier, or done more R&D with these hours, but these were real parts of my life then and now, like stories or movies or beloved books. Part of the measure of my life's accomplishments is having time to indulge in these interactive art pieces.
This being only chat, what about email support?
Wow. This article is truly terrible.

> Youtube has one of the worst user experiences out there

A bold statement, considering it’s the #1 video website in the world.

(Sub-quoted text)

> The ads are incessant, the up next related videos are horrible inaccurate, autoplay is a major pain, and for the last time NO I don’t want to sign up for youtube premium

The author doesn’t want ads but then doesn’t want to pay anything? How would anyone expect a video site to stream 4K video for free then?

YouTube Premium is a product I wish existed for many other social media sites like Facebook. It’s really an excellent option for heavy YouTube users (and includes a music service) and the author shouldn’t dismiss it.

Autoplay can be easily turned off in settings, that’s like YouTube 101.

Relevant videos are often quite within the wheelhouse of your history. And you don’t have to watch them, turn off autoplay and use your subscriptions tab or just search for what you want. They’re recommendations not mandatory entertainment.

> One part that really stands out is how bad is recommendation engine is, and one of the main reasons is so bad is that is the user cannot chose what their recommendations are based on

Yeah and? Is this a problem? Can you choose what’s in a newspaper or what comes back when you type something in a search engine?

Smashing the dislike button is not really a solution and it’s no wonder that YouTube is ignoring that input. The author watched the entire video to the end perhaps even in full screen and then hit dislike, YouTube’s algorithm actually knows they’re just lying because they have that information about your browser behavior.
Show HN: A remote browser product, open-sourced
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Among other responsibilities, I currently manage a Docker Swarm deployment that serves between 10k and 100k users. I can’t compare to k8s since I lack experience with k8s, but I can say that ops on this service take approximately 1% of my time per month. After the initial learning curve, Swarm has proven quite stable and easy to work with. 10/10 would deploy with again (in fact, I will within the next week).
Fascinating article.

I didn’t realize this all started because of terrorist attacks,

> In 2014, little more than a year after becoming president, he spent four days in the region, and on the last day of the trip, two Uighur militants staged a suicide bombing outside a train station in Urumqi that injured nearly 80 people, one fatally.

> Weeks earlier, militants with knives had gone on a rampage at another railway station, in southwest China, killing 31 people and injuring more than 140. And less than a month after Mr. Xi’s visit, assailants tossed explosives into a vegetable market in Urumqi, wounding 94 people and killing at least 39.

> Against this backdrop of bloodshed, Mr. Xi delivered a series of secret speeches setting the hard-line course that culminated in the security offensive now underway in Xinjiang. While state media have alluded to these speeches, none were made public.

Xi’s speech was enlightening too,

> In several surprising passages, given the crackdown that followed, Mr. Xi also told officials to not discriminate against Uighurs and to respect their right to worship. He warned against overreacting to natural friction between Uighurs and Han Chinese, the nation’s dominant ethnic group, and rejected proposals to try to eliminate Islam entirely in China.

> “In light of separatist and terrorist forces under the banner of Islam, some people have argued that Islam should be restricted or even eradicated,” he said during the Beijing conference. He called that view “biased, even wrong.”
“We say that development is the top priority and the basis for achieving lasting security, and that’s right,” Mr. Xi said. “But it would be wrong to believe that with development every problem solves itself.”

> “In recent years, Xinjiang has grown very quickly and the standard of living has consistently risen, but even so ethnic separatism and terrorist violence have still been on the rise,” he said. “This goes to show that economic development does not automatically bring lasting order and security.”

The NYT did a great job reporting the situation.
Is "not interested" unhelpful? It seems to at least prevent the same video, and often the same channel, from being recommended again.
Probably bad deinterlacing somewhere along the way. For too long, half-rate deinterlacing (60i > 30p) has been common. That's starting to change with 60p support on major distribution platforms, but in the piracy scene half-rate deinterlacing is still common for many types of content.
Except for webworkers (relatively new, I've not used them and know little about them), javascript in browsers is single-threaded. Even asynchronous things like ajax requests can only handle the result once the thread finishes doing whatever it was doing.
The YouTube ui is a masterpiece of ui achievement when compared to the YouTube tv ui, including the awful recommendation engine and even including YouTube comments. At least it plays the video you click on. Can't say that much for YouTube tv and it costs an arm and a leg every month. Expecting Google to fix or create a decent ui or app experience even when it is in everyone's best interests is ridiculous. Now if only there was a place to watch the tennis channel on some service that plays the video I click on rather than the video it feels like playing, if it feels like playing at all, it would be wonderful. I'm certainly not naive enough to think Google will fix things, however, even if I pay them thousands of dollars, let alone if I'm not paying for their service. The author should be thankful YouTube works at all. Google doesn't give a fuck about their opinion. They don't give a fuck about their paid customers' opinion.
I can assure you this was not a tick box operation.
well, I can attribute to anything, if there is no explanation.

When I first posted this, I had multiple down votes in the span of a few seconds with barely enough time for someone to read or even process my comments. It just seemed very suspicious.
Nonsense. Besides each recommendation there's the three dots. Tap it and choose "not interested" or "don't recommend channel".
Except the US is still much larger than China is, at least in terms of practical geography.

You can fit most of China's population in a box about 1300×1100 mi, with the most distant route being about 1700 mi. In the US, the equivalent box is about 800×2500 mi, with the most distant route being about 2700 mi. (All numbers as the crow flies).

The US's geographical issue is that its major population centers--California and the Northeast--are separated by ~1200 mi of empty land, and ~700 mi of rural land. The only other countries to have that sort of major gap between population distributions are Canada, Australia, and Russia, although in each of those cases, the population distribution is more "there's one major city far away from everybody else" (that said, the Trans-Siberian Railroad cities of Omsk, Novosibirsk, and Krasnoyarsk are pretty big cities that are relatively distant, although only 2200mi at the long axis rather than the 2700mi of the US).
The Economist reviews a book reviewing The Economist
There are very interesting ways around this, eg with some decentralized architecture supporting coins to pay hosters to host people's data, eg Axiom https://axiom.org/

There's no reason github couldn't exist in a truly decentralized environment where people retain ownership of their data, and also retaining its tiered payment structure.

It's just a matter of market forces giving them an incentive to move in such a direction.

I believe most people would choose to retain ownership of their data if they could, as long as it's free and zero effort.
Similar, there's a website where you can compare the true size of countries. It allows you to drag and drop countries around the map, thus seeing the country "grow" and "shrink" with the stretching effects of a flat map.

https://thetruesize.com/
I’m not sure I agree. For example, nothing about Erlang makes it unsuitable for a browser environment, it can handle running single threaded, or distributed across workers, where each worker runs its own scheduler. The only limitation is interacting with the DOM, since that must all happen in the main thread, but it is still possible to treat that the same way other blocking I/O is dealt with in the scheduler.

I’m actually working on a compiler/runtime for Erlang for WebAssembly, so I’m maybe more familiar than most with how it works in practice.
Yeah, I'm all for unit tests when they're needed. They just aren't the first thing I'll write
It's reductio ad absurdum, not reducto absurd.

Less than half of college students say they want kids, and yet something like 80% of Americans end up reproducing at some point in their lives.

Personally I try to assume that I'm not magic and different because of my generation. It's lazy thinking. Yes, Millennials might be unicorns. But it's also possible that humans just find kids more attractive as they get older.

Since the latter seems to have been the case in American society up until now, I think the policy of making people fund schools even when they claim they're not interested in kids is reasonable.

Thanks for the downvote and the one liner though, I didn't feel like I was getting enough Twitter in my diet today.
This repo uses the Serverless Framework. It is an excellent abstraction framework for constructing, orchestrating, and deploying "serverless" applications to AWS (and other clouds). Instead of building 1000s of lines of esoteric cloudformation yml, a few lines of higher level definition can deploy your app.

I've built quite a few lambda + API gateway based apps lately, a couple are open source. Want to replace your DDNS service for your home network? Use this app, which will cost you $0 a month (not including the cost of a domain name): https://github.com/jmb12686/serverless-ddns
Not sure what apps you refer to in your two citations, one is probably just about Akka and not an app per se. And these two papers were written in the last two years.

There is still no credible evidence that the actors system is better than the more traditional way of writing distributed apps, especially now that more and more languages offer an increasing amount of asynchronous approaches.
For classical Chinese that would be An Introduction to Literary Chinese by Michael A Fuller. That will open you up to most pre-modern Chinese lit.
Before generic is supported officially, one can use code generation to get that effect.

I did that to typescript, should be applicable to go as well. Ref: https://github.com/beenotung/tsc-macro
FTA

> The host railroads have been obligated to give the company preference over freight trains so Amtrak can run on time, but that statute has not been enforced, he says.

Anyone know the details on this? It’s something I’ve experienced to a degree and a complaint I’ve heard from other riders.
@Dang, can we have a rule about editing away clickbaity headlines?

The story here seems to be: coffee shops allowed people another venue to socialize and challenge existing power structures.

There is nothing special about Turkish coffee and coffee may not even have been important. As people got educated and had more free time, they may have found other venues to communicate and exchange ideas. 'Increasing leisure time and freedom destroyed an autocratic empire' may be a more accurate and still interesting headline that takes the discussion away from complaints about the headline.
What is the value of learning any second language? Expanding cultural understanding, increasing the number of places you can travel and be at ease. German may not be as useful universally as Chinese or English, but there are about 90,000,000 speakers of it, so.
https://opensource.org/osd-annotated specifically excludes licenses that “restrict the program from being used in a business”.
I've done the NYC to DC train numerous times. Penn Station (no parking, take the subway), hop onto the Acela, grab a 4 top. Now me and my coworkers can chat on the way to DC and work on our laptops with shoddy WiFi. There's no shushing unless you are in the quiet car, which you shouldn't do if you are expecting to have a working commute. This is much better than a car - can't work on your laptop unless you enjoy motion sickness. Or taking a flight - now you have real costs of time because of security and commute. Big fan of Amtrak in the NE corridor. Better than driving or flying for business trips.
A few tens of degrees hotter makes PVC plastic insulation go brittle much much faster.
To me, the problem is how easy Youtube will increase your engagement with channels/topics and how difficult they make it to decrease engagement. The "not interested" dialogue is under the three dot menu, but "watch later" and add to playlist are immediately available when you are highlighting the video. On that same topic, when you watch one video on some one-off issue e.g. fixing a car issue, home improvement, YouTube will keep showing similar videos
This is ridiculous.

The Ottoman empire was a huge, multi-ethinic and multi-religous empire and the amazing thing is that is stayed together as long as it did.

Saying the the Greeks, the Bulgarians and the Serbians revolts succeeded because of caffeine ignores the long history of revolts which at time were moderately successful for a while. For example, in the 1770s there was a Greek revolt which led to partial de-facto independence of Laconia for many years[1].

The bigger difference after the 1820s was the interest of the great European powers in supporting these movements. With Great Britain, France and Russia all supporting these revolutions militarly it would have been surprising if they hadn't succeeded.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maniots#18th_century
> It's like healthcare, which is an absolute shitshow in the US, however in the rest of the developed world it's not a shitshow

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/feb/08/patients-suf...

I have great health insurance and can use Stanford Health doctors and clinics. It isn’t a shit show for me. Public health might be some version of a shit show in the US, but most people have insurance. Nobody is going to the U.K. for advanced cancer treatment if they have a choice. And the French system? Billions in debt. They even pay for spa treatments in some cases — and they pay for homeopathy. Those “great” systems come at a huge cost. Why do Americans have vastly more disposable income (even after paying for insurance) than the rest of the world?

The US system is fine — at least until the part were the government gets involved. The VA is the closest approximation to what government health looks like and that is the real shit show. The NHS is a shit show — try to get mental health care. Try to get advanced treatment and diagnostics. Try not to be too old or they’ll just deny your care. Be careful if you are young too — if your parents want to take you out of the U.K. because the NHS has no more options, the government will stop you. And how many revolutionary drugs have ever come out of the NHS? Very few. That isn’t a coincidence.
There are some short-line commuter rails that are absolutely worth it. Some of them are even run by Amtrak. That does not outweigh the general statement, but I do want to point out that rail is not a universal failure in the US.
Could you elaborate on your proposed CRISPR-based sex-reassignment idea?
Describing kuzushiji ("broken characters") as a "writing system" is a bit much, I'd liken it to a cursive script. Not that this diminishes the importance of ML here, since anybody who's tried to read historical English documents will know that these can also be pretty incomprehensible to the untrained eye:

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/doc5_popup/...

But as ever, Japanese ramps up the difficulty because there are thousands of characters instead of 26 letters to deal with.
China's Industrial Policies Work. So Copy Them
One of the movies the South Park guys made used this technique to get an R rating out of some gratuitously NC 17 movie. They included some over the top 20 minute graphic sex scene and they cut and cut and cut until there was nothing left but a short gross sex scene and the "regular" movie.

See also the duck from battle chess.
I know, it's rough! I had to start FF to generate it. For some reason it wont work with webkit(surf ctrl-shift-s to JS).
The whole thing strikes me as some kind of weird ad hominem attack on an anthropomorphised foe, with an out of "but I don't know Java, so what do I know" (I'm only Paul fucking Graham).

He says "No one loves it. C, Perl, Python, Smalltalk, and Lisp programmers love their languages. I've never heard anyone say that they loved Java.". Putting aside the objection that loving Perl is a clear sign of mental illness (ducks) I'm sure that back in 2001 I absolutely loved Java and still do to a degree, though Clojure has taken the top spot.

Being a Lisp guy, PG doesn't understand why Java mattered back in 2001.

Quite simply, because the alternative was C++, or, heaven help us, C. Where I was working, we were doing cross-platform C++, with GUIs, and Java was a godsend. Java showed that you could get portable GUIs with performance in the right ballpark without all the incidental complexity of complex build toolchains and manual memory management. A whole slew of errors caused by manual memory management went away. No more corrupted heaps because someone in your team had a brain fart. No more segfaults and a blank screen where your running app used to be.

Graham asserts that Java being a simpler C++ was a downside, but out in the real world where your teammates are fallible, Java let you get things done without requiring perfection.

People who hate on Java lack context.