skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They guy hasn't actually created much, though the account is fairly old. Most of the repos are forks of others with no changes. It looks like a real person, but his name is Christian, which is not a likely name for a Jew. His repos got brigaded and he claimed his grandfather fought for the Germans on the Eastern front after "kick[ing] some Gestapo ass" [0]. This part is obviously malarkey, and convinces me he's a troll.

[0] https://github.com/Christian-Schiffer/servicelayer.chat/issu...
A macro isn't a function and can't be used like a function. Sure, doing the work at compile-time instead of run-time will be much more efficient at run-time, but you're won by moving the goal posts.
I am surprised about how biased this article is in assigning attributes like ‘good’, ‘bad’ or ‘perfect’ to Bokeh shapes.
You can talk about this in these terms solely from an optical engineering pov.

The shape of Bokeh is often why a lens get picked for a shot.

What the author calls ‘bad Bokeh’ other people call ‘soap bubble Bokeh’ (google for it) and they are willing to cash out [2] for owning a lens that can produce this sort of thing.
This is an artistic choice[1].

This article’s generic statement that this sort of Bokeh creates images where the out of focus BG areas distract from the FG/in focus motive shows a narrow understanding of how Bokeh can be used in composing an image.

[1] https://www.shutterbug.com/content/creating-unique-macro-ima...

[2] Caveat: I bought a Meyer Optik Trioplan 100mm f/2.8 replica on Kickstarter for this very reason: the ‘bad’ soap bubble Bokeh. I love this lens.
> but because of various market failures and collusion that happened in practice.

No. The pencil is built because of the incentives (read: potential for profits) for each of the people involved. The lighthouse keeper maintains the lighthouse to earn a salary. The truck driver earns his/her paycheck based on milage&tonage hauled. The entrepreneur bought the rights to log the land because he/she believed he could make a buck. Etc.

I, Pencil is not a story of cooperating for social/feel-goody sake - but rather for individual incentives all along the way. The million people involved in making that pencil - none of which knows any of the others.

I, Pencil is a story that shows government intervention is not needed to build the pencil.
Turns out Marissa made a false promise. Who would have thought it? We live in sad times when we are upset by moves necessary for financial solvency, instead of holding to account bulls__t peddlers that promise "free" stuff while donning their golden parachutes.
What makes this a low quality article?
CERN's NA64 experiments have been looking for a similar particle and so far haven't found it. They haven't completely ruled it out, but their results so far don't seem to support a claim that this particle has definitely been found.

https://home.cern/news/news/physics/plot-thickens-hypothetic...
"gun-related deaths":

There are about 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, this number is not disputed.

U.S. population 328 million as of January 2018.

Do the math: 0.00915% of the population dies from gun related actions each year.

What is not insignificant, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000 deaths:

• 22,938 (76%) are by suicide which can't be prevented by gun laws.

• 987 (3%) are by law enforcement, thus not relevant to Gun Control discussion.

• 489 (2%) are accidental.

So "gun violence" isn't 30,000 annually, but 5,577... 0.0017% of the population.

Still too many? Let's look at location:

• 298 (5%) - St Louis, MO

• 327 (6%) - Detroit, MI

• 328 (6%) - Baltimore, MD

• 764 (14%) - Chicago, IL

That's over 30% of all gun crime in just 4 cities.

But what about other deaths each year?

• 70,000+ die from a drug overdose.

• 49,000 people die per year from the flu.

• 37,000 people die per year in traffic fatalities.

• 250,000+ people die each year from preventable medical errors.

You are safer in Chicago than when you are in a hospital!

• 610,000 people die per year from heart disease.

We don't have a gun problem... We have a political agenda and media sensationalism problem.
https://github.com/pts/pts-xtiny for creating similarly small i386 ELF executables from C source, without the usual libc overhead. hello_world.c compiles and links to ~200 bytes.
What does "broadcast UDP packets" mean? They'll need some sort of physical encoding; if wifi, why not use a wifi card? If not wifi...what are you trying to do by broadcasting UDP packets?
>Maybe by adding an option to disable the santa hat, where it's on by default, but you can turn it off?

This honestly would have been the best solution, I'm Muslim and I'd like to switch it off but I'm not going to go out of my way to complain about someone else's program that I have voluntarily placed on my computer when it's clearly a valuable part of people's traditions and I can patch it myself.
I am (mid-forties) and started using Photoshop around version 2. People definitely worried about the integrity of photographic evidence.

I think what's different now is the combination of much more powerful cheaper tools (those fake GAN generated faces are likely taken from one of the sites making them for free) vs Photoshop at the time was thousands of inflation-adjusted dollars.

This is coupled with a much more efficient peer to peer and unvalidated news system (which there's much to like), but consider Dan Rather. He was forced out of CBS Evening News and producers were fired for having been fooled by (not producing) digitally forged memos for a story critical of George W. Bush. [1]

Contrast that to whatever group is putting up fake stories and accounts of Facebook, there are no repercussions.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rather#Killian_documents
Large corporations are ruled by internal politics anyway, not market mechanisms. It's a wonder that they manage to work as well as they do, despite that inherent source of dysfunction.
It's the PC (politically correct) movement. PC definitely needed a lot of push in 2000. It has certainly helped correct a lot of language problems, problems that either reinforce stereotypes, gender and/or sexual orientation issues. Indeed it is part of the reason people stopped saying Japs or the N. word or fat person.

The reality is that if you were one of the people that is sidelined, you would feel it too. It's part of the reason we need to keep at it.

So while PC'ism may have changed your companies end-of-year greeting cards from "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year" to "Happy Holidays and Happy New Year", or even just "Season's Greetings", you can probably imagine that's helped 10 to 20 percent of the workforce (that are likely atheist, agnostic, jewish or muslim or whatever feel more included in the greeting.
Yeah, I've definitely heard people say that Perl was effectively Python before Python. I'm not sure if it could scale in terms of computational ability for ML though.
A FB ToS violation is not a violation of the law. Nothing prevents people from having multiple accounts to shill with. The only thing "wrong" is how much people will trust what they read on the internet from random people they don't know.
Oh wow thanks for sharing. I use tree all the time, but had no idea you could do this. baseHREF should be the full root domain, e.g. example.com?
I work for a journal which is in this field. Grammatical errors are OK for a manuscript as long as reviewers can understand what you are reasoning. We will copy edit for grammar or style later if accepted. We won't change the significant findings of a manuscript though, so if the paper is unclear and gets rejected by referees, that is how it stands. Referees will usually ask for revision if something is not particularly clear. But if a manuscript came in that was not comprehensible it runs the risk of being summarily rejected.
This is very meta.

You've commented twice on the incident now.
My understanding is that the carboniferous was a particularly productive coal forming period, but in no way unique. The majority of the coal on earth has been formed since the carboniferous and the process is ongoing today.

Figure 1 in the link below provides a good demonstration of north american coal formation over time/

https://www.pnas.org/content/113/9/2442
Couldn't he just not use vscode?

I think the response from Microsoft should have been somethjng like "it's unfortunate to are offended by this but this absolutely wasn't our intention". If you dont wish to use vscode during the holiday season then that's up to you but the vast majority of our users saw the hat as we intended and we aren't going to have one user dictate to us how we run vscode"

I mean, isn't vs code essentially open source? If the guy was so offended couldn't he just remove it and build hus own inoffensive version? Presumably if he's using vscode he is a developer...

It's the request to remove it as a top priority that I find strangest. The ego of someone must have to think they can dictate to everyone else what to do just to make sure they themselves get a perfectly comfortable existence. I genuinely don't get it. It must be just an exhausting way to live?

Is this sort of perpetual offence/ victimhood more prevalent in IT than other industries? Is it just a by product of the sort of people out industry attracts?
Power of Silence: How Noise-Cancelling technology can improve our life
The Air Force didn't design or manufacture the F35.
They call it Christmas though. So it is not your version of Christmas but theirs. Also you can't be certain it is commercial exploitation. What if some you are referring to give mostly homemade and charitable gifts. Certainly would be the minority but you are lumping a lot of people together.
The most fascinating thing to watch is the democratization of propaganda. Now you no longer need the printing press. You can speak with a million voices without being a Getty or Rockefeller.

The NYT no longer has a monopoly on convincing lies.

These are interesting times. I think we're close to the emergence of trustworthy celebrity journalists.
Hm, yeah it would be interesting to see how optimized Node.js would've gotten if it were a necessity for ML to progress.
>One would think that developers at the very least would have some deductive reasoning, so using the n and k word against me, when my profile picture and name clearly show I am neither

I don't think this person understands that part of the internet...
I love this! I was going to write something similar. The increasing prevalence of sites that shard their content over multiple pages to increase ad impressions seems beneficial to nobody; the consumer, producer, and advertiser all have degraded experiences. The problem is that the companies which are paying out for ads (Google) don't penalize this type of behavior, so it is financially beneficial to have super bloated websites which require 15 page refreshes to view all the content.

wikihow is a very good antipattern to follow. This site should be deindexed from google entirely.
Ask HN: Ripped Off by Fraudster with Steam Giftcards – Money Back? Any Chance?
I have been ripped of by a fraudster using STEAM Giftcards to pay in advance.

Now, as you may think: The fraudster redeemed the code and didn’t deliver as promised.

Is there any chance to get my money back from STEAM?
I have the physical giftcards, my paymentcard (Which I used to pay for the Giftcards) and the physical receipt/bill which I got when paying for the Giftcards.

Background research also shows that the Giftcards have been redeemed in another country than the one I bought it in.
(Bought in a western country, redeemed in a southern-hemisphere-country)

Is there any chance to get my money back?

Any idea is appreciated!

Thanks
Earthquakes in less than a day rattle Navy base
High-Speed Rail Is Going Nowhere Fast in the U.S.
This Article Does Not Exist
You seem to be describing strategy writ-large for a company, this is about "content marketing" strategy.
I Support CAA – Muslims Invasion Hisotry in India – No More Division of India
If it is for blocks of text then you could use #+BEGIN_VERSE in combination with #+ATTR_HTML, or possibly create a custom #+BEGIN_FRENCH block type, but I suspect that you are thinking about inline markup, in which case you have two options, one is to write a macro {{{lang(french,ju ne parle frances}}} and the other would be to hack the export-snippet functionality so you could write @@french:ju ne parle frances@@ and have it do the right thing when exporting to html. The macro is certainly easier, and if you know in advance what languages you need it shortens to {{{fr:ju ne parle frances}}} which is reasonably economical in terms of typing.
> Fact-checking is more time consuming than making things up.

AKA the "bullshit asymmetry principle"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Bullshit_asymmetry_pr...

"Both sidesism" is a closely related problem.

"We interviewed Elena, a geophysicist, about the different ways scientists collect data about the planet we live on and the cosmos it's situated in. On the other side, Bob from the internet offers his theory about the earth being flat".
Please, just learn SQL instead of creating more Excel messes...
Ember.js Octane Edition
I just leave this here https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/ Probably the source of these images.
That’s fair criticism... can I qualify that I meant new development? Curious, what do you see as succeeding?
Who are those people who go to political rallies? This feels so alien to me. Americans support their politicians like the rest of the world their local club and badge and vice versa.
‘Polygenic’ analyses may sharpen disease risk predictions
This may be the only way to get rid of emoji, I say have at it.
He didn’t say it’s irrelevant, he said it’s secondary. And he didn’t argue that the overall thesis of the article is incorrect, he argued that it did a bad job of addressing the topic.
apple's own notes app similarly screwed me over. they apparently changed file formats with ios/ipados 13 so that the existing pencil drawings on my ipad pro were "rasterized" during the upgrade from ios 12 (they're no longer easily editable). they also removed features like zooming in/out for no discernable reason.

edit: also meant to say that exporting the drawings only gives you raster images.
Didn't the US "steal" the mechanisms behind the mechanical looms in the 19th century? I understand the concern that if no one is safe to invest in R&D without others immediately copying their tech (and therefore they won't receive a return on investment, which disincentivises future R&D), but aren't some phone manufacturers sitting on giant piles of money from their profit margins (Apple)? At the end of the day you end up with phones with more features being more affordable for the masses.
I Think there is some confusion between coal formation rate and coal formation volume. My understanding is that more coal has been formed since the cretaceous than during the cretaceous.

Figure 1 in the link below provides a good demonstration of north american coal formation over time.

https://www.pnas.org/content/113/9/2442
> Ease of use means loss of control.

It'd be a cool challenge to build something so simple that even a non-tech person could use which allows them to maintain control and ownership. Any good examples of tech in general that is highly approachable like this? Even things like WordPress are too complicated for most - maybe if not self-hosted it's not so difficult, but still falls short in terms of being complex and not just simple text or html (at the most)..
> people are choosing other features (mainly collaboration) as more important than data ownership

If it were treated like infrastructure, we could have both.

Pointing to a product that got replaced by another product doesn't inherently prove anything.

And seriously, who uses Gmail voluntarily? The complete non-existence of a suitable SMTP implementation is a pretty good example of a _clear_ failure of the market to properly allocated resources.

edit - thanks for pointing out Figma though, might have to check that out
> A health-surveillance system put in place after the terrorist attacks of September 2001 has been used to pinpoint the cause of the...

That’s the interesting part of the article.
The fact that the GUI button to make a table is called "Format as Table" and placed next to purely visual formatting options (and makes you pick a color scheme!) has been the roadblock for countless Excel users graduating to power users, I imagine.
I think it's about the principle of it, or for people who like well-designed, or at least sensibly-designed things. If I'm going to read short bit of text then surely one request is sufficient.
Oh cool, didn't know about that. Be cool to see something like this which is more approachable for non-tech people. I think the tor part of this, at least in its current state, is too much for the average person.
My point was more towards how our countries are so similar yet different. Of course Canada isn’t perfect by any means and you’re right, perhaps there is stifling of self criticism going on but we have a different attitude towards the social well being such as healthcare and accessible social services. Of course these come at a cost of making compromises such as paying higher taxes and relying heavily on fellow Americans for both security and trade.
constexpr is Turing complete and it’s only limit is recursion depth of the compiler, which can be changed.

And as of C++17/20 some of the weird stuff like not using conditionals and such isn’t present anymore.

Also if you’re a masochist, the template system is Turing complete.
even better, he could have not used the insider edition. Apparently this was only on the insider edition
I think in your case it would be better to learn a traditional keyboard layout. There's way more training material and the fingering is a simpler (fewer choices). It also lets you just go to some other place and play the piano there (I think this is the main reason Janko didn't catch on).

I think Janko might be a good first keyboard layout for a guitarist or other stringed instrument player.
I'd honestly hope that it would have been something like Common Lisp or Ocaml... now I just hope that Julia replaces Python for ML.
The truth about coaching in the business environment
I think the rise in awareness and practice of mindfulness counteracts this dystopic march.
As a programming language for ML? God no.
The bot submission used as an example doesn't make a strong argument it uses basically the senseless politics one liners that usually get bandied about. Which shows just how vacuous and useless they always were.
Our organization has embarked on a content marketing strategy that looks exactly like this and it seems to be paying off. Our sales pipeline is better than it has been in years. Our sales and marketing people brought in a content marketing company to help us and although it seems obvious and simple having the formula laid out clearly without a wall of text does not translate to low value in my mind.
No, they would not. They've proven that over and over again.
Dropbox, ServiceNow? ServiceNow goes so far as to give customers non-shared bare metal.
People have also been talking about every other group. The sensitivity of "people talking" may be 100% but the specificity is near zero.
Sentences 3 and 4 in the article seem to excuse this. Is there further information that I may be missing regarding why the bias is still a problem?
This is Thomas Pornin, by the way, from whom I and many others have learned a lot, and whose original Stack Exchange answer† about random vs. urandom set me and presumably Thomas Huhn (there's something about urandom and Thomases) tilting against this Linux windmill with our respective urandom advocacy pages, both of which pop up on HN every couple of months.

This article is authoritative and also covers some recent updates, like Jason Donenfeld's work on the Linux RNG, is well worth a read, and hopefully will show up on HN at least as often as me and Thomas Huhn's.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/3936/is-a-rand-...
I occasionally think about the end of The Man in the High Castle, when the characters realize they are living in a fictional alternate history.
Sorry, I have no idea why. But Infant Jesus is really popular in South India.

As a very curious kid, I used to ask my grandpa and others the same question but never got a satisfying answer.
His rude responses to questions aren't as adorable as he thinks.
I think a phone call is not only more respectful but the recruiter actually can say things that she may not want to put in writing.

I've got two such calls from FAANGs and I'm glad they told me I did great in such and such interview but fell short in this other one, apply again etc (even if it may not have been true). Better than the boilerplate emails.
My understanding is once the capsules splash down that’s it for the capsule as a passenger ferry. Does Boeing get to reuse theirs? I lost track of the final resolution on the stand test but if I recall I don’t think that was intended to be low risk..they shook it until something broke if I recall. But even so wouldn’t you count that as an iteration?
I've been working on an editor on top of ProseMirror to support saving web content in the form of rich text and predefined schemas. Given that you have academic research in this area of web OCR, what's the current literature or tools on saving web content using both html and visual cues from the rendered html? For example, both <figure><img><figcaption> and <div><img><p> visually look like captioned images, but are represented differently in html. Is there a way to parse that into a simple [figure, [img], [figcaption]] schema?
I'm not sure if there's a non GUI interface for it, but zathura does this for pdfs.
Those look like Motif gui widgets from the 1990's on the touchscreen!
https://features.propublica.org/navy-uss-mccain-crash/assets...
For write once archiving, bluray is an option too. Although who knows how long the discs last.
This person is obviously a troll. His GitHub name Christian-Schiffer sounds someone who "Schiffs" on Christians.

Elsewhere he has been identified as DavidBenMesecke and has a history of interesting comments.
To blend in with humans, these fake profiles could take advantages of AI progress on the Turing test to converse with real people, ultimately befriending (some high fraction of) us.

The persuasive effects of these fake friends on (political) advertising are terrifying.
a low single-digit dollar amount of money isn't really prohibitive any more in almost all regions on the planet for a one-off payment (networked regions, at least). That's an argument facebook itself likes to make but if you look at the WhatsApp growth which used to have a model of 1$/year it seems completely fabricated.

And arguably a small payment amplifies anti-abuse measures because you have a hard financial trail. If a foreign entity buys thousands or more of accounts, not only are you putting a cost on it, it should be trivial to see the anomaly in the system.
> No. The pencil is built because of the incentives (read: potential for profits) for each of the people involved.

I never claimed otherwise, so that 'no' is unnecessary.

> I, Pencil is a story that shows government intervention is not needed to build the pencil.

No-one claims government intervention is needed to build pencils or more complex goods. But it is needed to, for example, prevent corporations from polluting rivers with mercury: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease

The whole story is nothing more than an attack on an implied strawman.
> a place not to be trusted as a source of news, finding friends and meeting others

Sounds like Usenet in the 90’s. The more things change...
Honestly, I'm just hedging against people who spend a lot of time thinking about SGX and have formed opinions about it. I don't have a strong opinion either way. My "take" here is just that the information you're protecting with SGX is information Wire "protects" with indexed plaintext in a database, and that SGX vs. HSM is not really a useful debate to have in this one case.