skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He is not getting any contributions. It would need a Mac kernel expert to fix most bugs anyway.
Yes it's as if they've never heard about anyone falling asleep while watching a film.
Thanks for pointing that out! Will make changes asap! :)
No mention of Power-over-ethernet?
High heels make sense if you're on horseback with stirrups all day. Everything since then is social signalling based upon the former high status of cavalry, the wealth to own a horse, or the wealth to not need to wear practical footwear.

Mind you, buying shoes that don't have at least a vestigial heel is pretty hard. A whole society that intentionally damages it body mechanics...
Because when you say one and mean the other, it legitimizes the wrong kind of behaviour, and people don't have the words to describe it so they check out and call it "toxic."
People predicted that Photoshop was the end of truth, that journalism could no longer be trusted, that photographic evidence at criminal trials would be inadmissible.

None of that actually happened because people learned to be skeptical, and to care about who took the photo, the chain of custody, and the controls to prevent digital alteration.

Maybe we need something similar but more rigorous for video. The camera itself could encode a PKI signature in every frame of the original. If subsequent edits preserve frames as is, then the viewer could determine how many frames were cut or duplicated.

If subsequent edits crop, recolor or otherwise alter the frames, that editor could encode its own digital signature so the viewer could judge how much to trust their edits.
Ask HN: What Architecture Apple uses in its iOS Apps?
I am curious what SW architecture(s) were used for development of the system iOS apps like Messages, Photos, App Store, etc.

I would assume that with the more complex apps, a simple MVC/MVVM is not scalable enough and alternatives like VIPER and VIP (or a completely custom architecture) may be used. Does Apple use the new SwiftUI and Combine Frameworks?
There may be a generic list somewhere but I find them to come naturally from curiosity. Things like:

- Do you like what you do?

- Do you regret this or that?

- Did you study what you always wanted?

- How believing in X helped you?

- What’s the worst memory/event you went through?

- Do you love your parents?

- What’s the best/worst your kids gave to you (emotionally speaking)?

- Do you think you need this or is it a distraction from the important stuff (whatever that is for you)?

Those questions I just came up for nobody in particular (for a close friend those would be pretty normal) and depending of your background, customs, etc they might be deep or might not. They’re not inquisitive and I’m definitely not judging or trying to convince about anything. They do make you think a bit before answering and you learn a lot from those, even from the most superficial people. You need to be very open and accept very harsh and contrary visions from your own in order to benefit from it though, and that’s a long process.
India’s Payments Revolution
I don't get why they write off USB so quickly. It's small, it's reasonably convenient, and is almost ubiquitous already.
I'm pretty sure the thing that changed was that he was allowed to sell...
Saw the headline and knew it'd be Jim. But yeah, this is ancient. Last I'd heard, the old tricks were starting to fall.
Intel Acquires [AI Hardware Startup] Habana Labs for $2B
A lot of what I read in 2020 will involve just finishing titles I started in 2019 (or before). So my "To read in 2020" list already has a lot of stuff on it.

But to name ones that I very specifically want to read/finish sooner than later... hmm... there are a number of books that fall more into the realms of history / anthropology / etc., that I have been meaning to read. Books like Guns, Germs, and Steel, and Sapiens - things of that nature. One of those that I'm already on, but probably won't finish before Jan 1, is Human Universals by Donald Brown.

I also want to get through some books on writing/reading mathematical proofs. Mathematical Reasoning: Writing and Proof by Ted Sundstrom, or The Book of Proof by Richard Hammack.

Another one I hope to get through is Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
"basically every company drops from their IPO" is not at all true, hence the downvotes.
Recessions are unpleasant, but it's not considered a tragedy that should be avoided at all costs because they're not really considered as avoidable.

The 'business cycle' of expansion and contraction is obviously visible in history and has reasonable macroeconomic explanations, and it's expected to continue.

People try to predict the timing of it (which is hard because acting on these predictions often alters reality so that they're less likely to come true), and they definitely try to ensure that recessions aren't long and hard and that the economy can recover from them faster, but nobody is saying that they can prevent a recession, and the interventions which can artifically postpone a recession (i.e. postpone a correction of some market) would generally only make the recession much worse when it happens.
Link-boys FTW
It seems like USB A/C are going to be that. You can already buy outlets that have both mains and USB ports, there are even dual USB C outlets now, that can do 30 watts:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PTWG5DV
Fundraising as a Sprint vs. Marathon: Student Edition
When most of your net worth is tied to a stock of a single potentially volatile company like UBER, you sure as hell want to sell that off and diversify your portfolio. He's not involved with the company any-longer, he has no reason to keep his stock. If he was still in-charge I get that you want to display confidence in the business and keep the stock.

TLDR: Most of your net worth in a single stock is insane.
Tell HN: CNN Lite no longer functional
I’ve been a long-time user of CNN Lite (lite.cnn.com) since first learning of it here. It seems to have been deprecated, showing just a single message to update your app. Sad times.
Alternate link (non registration) :https://outline.com/VzXSVg
(I also deal with sparse graph data in my dayjob.)

A 1-step traversal is the same complexity for both a linear algebra and vertex- or edge-centered representation. However, you do absolutely need a sparse linear algebra representation and operations (cfr. GraphBLAS mathematical foundations paper).

With the standardization of linear algebra for large graphs in the form of GraphBLAS, it would be interesting to see a sparse extension to APL or J for dealing with large graph analytics. It's already there for Matlab, Python and Julia.
This is true, but I'm guessing what happened is they evaluated > 65 as a group and gave that a mortality rate, when in all likelihood those who broke their hip at 65 probably had a very low mortality rate, despite being lumped in that group. If you could say ~50% of those over 65 that break their hip will die within a year, you could honestly probably say ~50% of those over 30 that break their hip will die within a year, since the group of 30- to 65-year-olds breaking their hips would be a blip in the data.
Well, there are multiple definitions of hustle. They keep changing with the times and also depending on who you talk to. What one party might consider "selling", another might consider "being preyed upon". What one might consider "courteous", another might consider "sexist".

We are so eager to try and find a neat place for all our interactions. It never works like that. Pretty much everything ends up being relative.

Anywho, as far as definitions go "energetic teamwork" to me does not really qualify, because hustling in any commonly used sense is not at all required to be a team effort.
Much of philosophy is concerned with "how are we to live"?

I am consistently puzzled what people seek when they read Nietzsche, or what of value they take away from his writings.
Jumping in to chime in on this. I developed issues a few months ago, then swapped over to the ergodox, and my daily pains stopped. If you can't afford the ergodox, I also found the Microsoft Sculpt worked wonder. I picked up a used one on eBay and it's been great.
Yes. I've made myself a config for that. Will share it in maybe a few hours.

However it works a bit slowly sometimes, but dunno if that's a problem with Hammerspoon or with my machine.
Because you don’t disclose your core business practices at conferences
If you want to test the waters instead of going with a full build at the start, pre-built ones are starting to pop up from popular brands, ex. https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/peripheral/keyboards/sk...
UN Latin America is more prosperous but less equal
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/historians_views...
Because there is a lot of difference between the two and yet both definitions are in the same general domain. So if you use the word and mean one definition, but the person you are talking to hears the other definition, you are in for some most interesting communication problems. If you tell me that you are good a hustling during a job interview, I will most definitely not hire you.
I think you're right that most DeepFakes use Variational AutoEncoders (As described by the article) where the latent space is jointly distributed between the two domains, allowing for translation. For additional context: AutoEncoders are also frequently adversarially regularized so you're not wrong about GANs being involved. My understanding is that the most accurate implementations also have some manual feature engineering for more tractable problems like facial orientation.

One of my favorite related papers: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.00848.pdf
European Data Portal Open Data Maturity Report 2019 [pdf]
The article describes this process in detail.
Three Best Business Books of 2019 (According to Every Other Best-of-2019 List)
> My favorite Hammerspoon use is binding applications to hotkeys

In linux and windows you can just use the superkey+1, 2, etc. I'm surprised macos doesn't have the equivalent to this built in.
When Museums Have Ugly Pasts
5G in 3GPP Release 17
IME a deep conversation's subject actually depends wholly on the individual participants of the conversation. It generally is about a shared topic that is part of the self-identification of at least one party (with a non-identifying party being willing to listen to the identifying party in a manner that the identifying party understands to be respectful).

For example, between an athiest and a thiest, a deep theological question goes into the thiest's religion with the athiest being at minimum willing to listen in a manner the thiest sees as both participatory (not empty 'uh-huh' responses) and also respectful (no blanket denials or insults). Between two thiests, a deep theological question would go into the nature of their spiritualities, comparing and contrasting, or some specific nuance of a shared thiestic belief.

A non-religious deep question can also be positioned on, say, the influence of a specific popular activity. This leads to, for example, heavy and deep debate on the nuances of tennis between two tennis players, or a similarly intimate discussion in which people who suffer from addiction can feel benefit from discussions with other addicts.
Isn't that just the money he would need to pay in taxes??? So he has to sell?
The author makes the valid point that USB-A is too low power, and USB-C requires active cables. (Translation: expensive or dangerous)
The advent of GANs by Ian Goodfellow and the experimentation done regarding adversarial attacks was extremely important for the ML research space.
I was going to link to that exact product. I put in the USB A one a few weeks ago and love it. When the iPhone 12 is released I’ll switch to USB C.
OH! I just realized this explains why my right shoulder is lower compared to my left! Every time I take a photo, the photographer always tells me to bring it higher. My neutral position for my mouse!
I'm old enough to remember when people still attempted to claim that fashion magazines were forcing airbrushing on women. Clearly, there's a large amount of market interest for this sort of capability.
After my Visa List launch on ProductHunt, i posted a gist of my journey on Reddit and what do you know, i got a message from a some guy who said he was willing to buy Visa List for $100K.

This is not the first time i got an offer to sell Visa List, in fact i think this is the 7th time in a year. It made me think what is actually the value of Visa List and how can i decide that irrespective of whether i want to sell or not. So i did some math based on Visa List stats

- MAU : 310K

- Monthly Page Views : 650K

- Monthly Revenue : $5,000

- Growth Rate: 10%

- Yearly Revenue w/o Growth: $60,000

- Yearly Revenue w/ Growth: $106,921

Selling for $10000 would mean a loss of $6000 on the face of it but you are actually losing a lot more revenue. Usually you have to consider the lifetime value, let's say you 5 years, you can potentially make $0.5M or may be more so you are actually losing a lot.

On the other hand cash flow is more risky and there is no guarantee if it will actually survive for that long and keep the growth rate. Having said that, these acquisition offers rarely close, so 95% of the time someone is just wasting yours and their time at the same time.

I'm not saying you shouldn't sell, you can if you need cash very badly and/or you don't believe in your microstartup very strongly. No shame in admitting that, not every idea can be successful. I have more than 10 ideas didn't see the light of the day.

I believe in Visa List and wouldn't sell it for money any day but thats just me. What do you guys think?
Something like a CycleGAN and/ or weight sharing would do the trick
Quite the opposite actually, by the time your hand even finds the mouse the vim user will already have jumped to the desired code block and have started editing it.
That kind of changes when one is forced out of the company.
The world economy wasn't built. It emerged.
When you consider the impact of "cloud computing", you need to consider the offsets as well.

Enterprise datacenters have much higher PUEs than a hyperscale datacenter, and the hyperscale folks have an incentive to use energy as efficiently as possible. Hyper-scale datacenters often tend to be placed in locales where space and access to electricity is better.

There is always alot of navel gazing about anything environmental, and it's easy to throw rocks at what's new, because the facts are known and easy to find. Ultimately, I don't think that what the author is suggesting that we all do (ie. developing with an eye on efficiency) could meaningfully happen without cloud computing, because the "old way" of making big capital purchases for infrastructure is too disconnected from the operational costs.
Secrets, environment variables and config files: the Ruby On Rails case
PyTorch Deep Learning Framework: Speed and Usability
Interesting idea, but running an extra set of cables is a non-starter. The cost/benefit analysis would never make sense for existing structures, and newly built structures wouldn't do it unless it was almost certain to become a universal standard. This is a classic chicken-and-egg problem.

You would also still need something similar to a wall-wart to step down the voltage to whatever your device actually uses (e.g. from 12 V to 5 V to charge your phone), so its not clear how much benefit there would really be from such a system.

Whatever specs we adopted would probably also end up not being appropriate for some future devices, so we'd probably go back to a substantial number of devices bundling their own PSUs anyway.

Interesting idea, unlikely to ever be worth the cost. If wall-warts really bother you, then just invest in some wall outlets with integrated USB sockets - there are many good options on the market.
It is in their benefit to claim that, regardless of the truth of the statement. Why would one trust a biased party such as MPAA?
The penetration of deep learning and other machine learning technologies.
You mean like Barnes & Nobel is a monopoly for books?
I just wish there were a Kindle edition. Eventually I'l break down and buy it but I do so much of my reading on commutes that I strongly bias towards a digital copy.
That's the way it is at Google and the FAANGs in general and companies that try to ape Google's practice but that's far from most companies. This is very much a selection bias. "Most companies" don't have the budget for the roles you've listed or aren't middle-manager heavy organizationally like Google is. Most of my career I've been my own project manager.

At least in my 20 years of experience, the most effective companies have developers (sometimes in those roles you listed) involved in the requirements gathering or at least work planning phases. Does anyone really enjoy just being a cog in the "feature factory" you described? I doubt it.

Given the number of broken Google SDKs or Cloud features I have to deal with in my day to day though (and game of whackamole that we have to play with them), this seems accurate.
I actually love a good "future vision" ad. They're often pretty inspiring. One of my favorites is Corning's "A Day Made of Glass": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38
didn’t host the video content themselves

I guess you could host the most popular stuff, plus the first five minutes of everything Netflix and other streamers have, and then just redirect the rest of those streams...
> 120 character line width, set in Courier

Um, it’s not? Chrome 78 on macOS here, text is rendered in 14px Roboto, content box width is 75% (on 2560px viewport). I find it fairly pleasant to read, my only problem is page reloading on exit as I already mentioned.

Edit: The mode is gone after updating to 79, seems to be gated by a command line switch now. What the hell.
Yes, that's the exact same trick as Jim Sterling's "Copyright Deadlock".
Floatplane – Linus Tech Tips launches their own video hosting platform
-The Rational Optimist
-Hacking Sales
-The Singapore Story
-Thinking fast and slow
-The Mating Mind
-Blitzscaling
The Winds of Winter

...I hope!
Which films exactly took 28 years to turn a profit?
Funny enough, back when the Mac Automation devs were still getting JXA ready to throw away, one of the things I told Sal Soghoian to do was to add automatic AS-to-JS syntax translation to Script Editor’s Log pane. While it only translates outgoing Apple events, not native AS code, 99% of the time JS users already know how to write general JS code, and it’s the application-specific references and commands they’re struggling to form.

Back when appscript was still a thing I hacked together a quick-n-dirty AppleScript-command-to-Python/Ruby/ObjC translator app which appscript users absolutely adored, plus it greatly reduced the number of “How do I…” support questions because, more often than not, users already had a working example in AppleScript which they could just run through the translator to get the answer for themselves.

Needless to say, Sal Soghoian completely ignored my expert recommendation for this killer feature which could be implemented in a day, choosing instead to dump JXA and its few hapless users down the same black hole of nothingness as all his other product failures. PEBKAC. Not Invented Here. So it goes.

--

[edited to add]

Just d/led the JavaScriptOSA zip from the appscript project page on SourceForge, and the bundled JABDemo.app still works. It’s not codesigned so you’ll have to right-click the app to Open it, overriding the security warnings, but it still works even on 10.15 (caveat any bugs in the underlying JavaScript Apple event bridge, of which there were a few, plus the endless string of permission requests whenever you try to control another app). Example:

Original AppleScript commands:

tell app "textedit" to get name of document 1

tell app "finder" to count every folder of home whose name begins with "D"

Generated JavaScript equivalents:

app("TextEdit").documents.at(1).name.get()

app("Finder").home.folders.where(its.name.beginsWith("D")).count({each: k.item})

I mean, I wrote the thing and even to me years later it’s still like freaking voodoo! :)
Great for making your video ad-free.
But things have moved on since then, you can now guarantee 50% of the ad revenue.

https://youtu.be/Mz14Ul-r63w
It’s to “trick” people into thinking there is more content than there is, by having to scroll through it. I don’t know why they think people won’t wise up to the ruse after some point.

I opted to cancel rather than be inconvenienced.
Really disappointed that I couldn't get the pigs to jump across the floating platforms. Maybe I didn't do it right?
the same reason anybody else would buy the stock
This comment reminds me of another comment [0] on Reddit that talks about the different levels of wealth. An eye-opener for the rest of us for sure.

[0]. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2s9u0s/what_do_i...
You can toggle between the two quickly from Safari’s Web Inspector.
> Anywho, as far as definitions go "energetic teamwork" to me does not really qualify, because hustling in any commonly used sense is not at all required to be a team effort.

The point of hustle in the “kids sports team” context is that a team that “hustles” can beat an equally skilled team that doesn’t. In my experience this is also true of other kinds of teams and even in contests among individuals.
No, absolutely not. Trust goes both ways, and if a company cannot trust me to use my time appropriately, then I cannot trust them to provide an adequate environment for me to perform my job. This is doubly-important for remote work, as you're relying on the company to adapt to its employees and the environment they work in.
How much confidence should anyone be expected to have in a company that canned them?
That one's hard to say... the course focuses intensely on learning how to better understand your audience, but that audience doesn't sound like what they'd recommend.
I’m surprised they hadn’t stopped already. Do airlines even want them right now?
I suspect these anti-social patterns will only become intensified should the AR vision become reality. Who is going to push back on supporting and actively reinforcing the common vices of pride, vanity and sloth when designing, for instance, facial filters and entertainments? No one that matters.
> But, much to the disappointment of software developers, machines in large clouds are often in service for 8-10 years.

Why does this matter to software developers?
evidently I asked a sensitive question here, as I got downvoted a couple. Sorry I just thought they had gone the way of the tape cassette, phonogram, typewriters etc.
> The headline doesn't say anything about whether it was convincing or not.

I guess I always assumed the 'deep' in deepfake meant it was convincing, but upon further consideration it's probably just a nod to DNNs. Well played sir.
Here is their explanation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOOOfZWXPu4

Their site is light on details, but the TOS spells it out pretty well: https://www.floatplane.com/legal/terms
Why does the testimonial contains only Chinese company?

I think it's really great but it would be better to have company from all around the world
Unfortunately their landing page doesn’t give and real confidence. It looks like a MVP rather than something they’ve been working on for years.