skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 15 years, deepfake stars based on audience metrics will be all the rage. Even actors that don't primarily work in deepfake will usually have clauses in their contract which allow deepfaking them post-filming to make adjustments.
Search for fernald nuclear plant the US government did same thing there in my home town. Took the worst nuclear waste known to man put it in a concrete silo that cracked and leaked into our water source. The whole town was drinking from a aquifer that had k-65 waste in direct contact with the water pool and you could see the cracked leaking silo from the road.
What if we mandated that companies can only use their revenues for the company's purpose or given to the shareholders? I consider "ads" on company property part of the company's purpose here as they're necessary so the customer knows what company they're dealing with.

- Ads would be implicitly banned.

- Coca Cola couldn't bypass this rule by buying a taxi fleet because they aren't a taxi company.

- Newspapers could still operate even though journalists get paid for speech.

It could also help against other problems, depending on how narrow the purpose of a company has to be:

- ISPs have no incentive to violate net neutrality by privileging their own value added services (streaming etc) because their ISPs not streaming providers.

- If you subscribe to a folder that syncs you know that it will remain a folder that syncs. The behind it won't pivot to something you neither want not need, bloating the software till it bursts.

- Similarly: No incredible journeys anymore. Products don't get discontinued because they get in the way of $CORPORATION's plans.

- Chosing services because they aren't owned by Facebook actually works.

- Open protocols would be a thing again if we decouple clients and services. Edge case: Someone initially has to develop a client, a server and the protocol.

The idea is that by separating concerns, we enable customers to decide where their money goes and to freely chose between goods and services without getting artificially locked into any corporation's ecosystem.
So developer error / laziness not user error (though they are using Facebook)
You have a partner
Mate, this is nothing new... just have a look at what happened with Blade Runner, or infamously the first Star Wars trilogy: every new release tweaked this or that, and it’s now extremely hard to find the original theatrical versions.

Having it explicitly done in a transparent way would actually be an improvement. It would trigger the necessary alerts for archivists to get to work, and we’d never risk losing the historical record of a film.
Sorry to hear that... I had high hopes for Bra Theory.

Our biggest challenge was not the technology, but the underlying methodology.

We could not automate that which we did not know how to do by hand.

I like applying the inverse of this. If I don't know how to do something, I try to automate/simulate it, and this creates for me an organic path to the knowledge I seek by creating problems which can be solved. Perhaps your algorithm simply needs further refinement.

I was brash, and thought that with the right team, we could accelerate centuries of learning into six months and a trade secret

Ah. You didn't give yourself enough time. A research project like this is 2 years minimum, 10 years on the long side. But it has to be done if we are ever going to push the envelope.

Perhaps scaling down the company to just research and consulting for the time being would provide a way to continue in your spare time.
Yes yes, but people used to be just fine with normal-sized cars. The large majority of car-owning people in the world still are. SUVs are a negative-sum game; a race to the bottom where people feel the need to get a bigger car just because their neighbors have ones as well.
In Bayesian inference this isn’t actually as helpful as you make it sound. In some special applications there have been physically motived (even discovered) prior distributions, like Weibull, Gumbel or Rayleigh distributions.

But almost never do you start from freedom for arbitrary loss functions and work backwards to what prior they would imply. That’s mathematical curiosity that doesn’t connect to understanding of the problem domain.

More usually you will put simple, known form priors on the quantities you need to model, and then abstract the parameters of those priors into hyperprior distributions, and just keep doing this process until the parameters you end with are so abstracted from how they influence the inference that it will be perfectly valid to assume uninformative priors at that stage.

You would only adjust the functional form of your intermediate, parameterized priors if doing this and carrying out model fitting ended up with very poor model fit or poor posterior predictive checking, in which case it would be the aspect of poor model fit that informs you about problem structure and leads to a revised prior, not the other way around.

Even when there is poor model fit, changing from simple priors / uninformative hyperpriors won’t be a first reaction. You might try data cleaning, transformation of variables, dimensionality reduction, collecting more data, changing the core likelihood function of the model, and many more things before having good enough reason to think that manipulating prior distributions is going to be important for the solution.
It can be a large topic dependent of the type of game, whether physics and such is involved etc... but I bookmarked this article from before which gave a good overview

part 1: https://medium.com/@qingweilim/how-do-multiplayer-games-sync...

part 2: https://medium.com/@qingweilim/how-do-multiplayer-game-sync-...
Can you simulate/calculate how voltages and signals behave in Ki-CAD or do you need pen and paper or an entirely different tool to achieve that? What does the entire workflow look like, not jut the circuit layout design?

P.S: I'm the ultimate noob on these topics.
Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong IRL
Show HN: AWS Lambda Invoker for Android
> For example the distance function of two objects moving in a linear fashion is (IIRC) a squared parabola

This is only true for points. It’s demonstrably untrue for arbitrary shapes.
It's a good idea, but increasingly impractical. Npm-based development is just such a fractal of dependencies; it'd take me a year to review everything that goes into a typical SPA, and by the time I was done 90% of the packages would have been updated significantly.

I just hope the various cryptominers that get shoehorned in to umpteenth child dependencies fight against each other...
I once bought a Lightroom license. Then they ditched all updates and moved to a subscription model and slowly made it unusable. Won't make that mistake again.
Yeah don't worry, any issues are just a coincidence, as they only had access to a test area that they constructed, moreover, no one will let them do anything (probably and hopefully) because they can screw everything up - from hospitals to defense systems.
The code needs some minor changes (imports, missing parameter and indent) to make it runnable.

from concurrent.futures import ProcessPoolExecutor
import string
import random
import time

def hello(output) -> int:
seconds = random.randint(0, 5)
print(f'Hi {output} {seconds}s')
time.sleep(seconds)
print(f'Bye {seconds}s')
return seconds

# Don't forget this for processes, or you'll get in trouble
if __name__ == "__main__":

inputs = list(string.printable)
results = []

# You can sub out ProcessPool with ThreadPool.
with ProcessPoolExecutor() as executor:
results += executor.map(hello, inputs)

[print(s) for s in results]

EDIT: I also struggle with proper code indentation on HN.
great!
i truly like this language.
Haven't you read of Darth Jar Jar theory that hints he's a sith lord in disguise, and not a comedic relief sidekick?
https://darthjarjar.com/original-theory-by-lumpawarroo/
Podcasting finally creates another mega-hit show
Weight Loss for Women
What's the name of the conference?

I'm in Milan and I have access to a beautiful villa 10 minutes off Bellagio on Como lake, on the mountain side. it would be great to organise something together.
I don’t really have any life changing apps but I enjoy Instapaper, Google Keep, Podcasts & Reeder. All on iOS.
This case study has been updated:
https://pingcap.com/success-stories/why-we-chose-tidb-over-o...
California bans per-minute billing; Tesla Superchargers will need displays
Non-shooting games I’ve played over the last couple of years that are mainstream:

- Death Stranding (ok, it has some shooting in, but not that much)

- Resident Evil 2 (has guns but the idea of survival horror is to run, not kill everything in sight)

- Metro: Exodus (combat is mostly optional)

- Super Mario Odyssey

- Until Dawn

- Life is Strange 2

- Senior: Shadows Die Twice

- Divinity: Original Sin 2

- Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice

- Outlast

- Persona 5

- God of War

- Darkwood

- Minecraft

...

You can argue that most of them have some degree of violence in their gameplay, but there’s so much out there that isn’t your standard military circle-jerk. Most of the games I’ve played there have little in common except a really solid and immersive story.

Of course, indie games are more diverse and can be much more experimental, but I would say that the games medium has matured quite a lot in terms of gameplay and story telling; far beyond your annual CoD and Battlefield games.
Bus is the lowest form of commute. Specially in winter, when most of population is infected with highly contagious diseases. The best one,and hardest to maintain is bike: shower requirementbat work, various weather conditions.
Might be worth looking at the HN thread about angeldu.st a couple of days ago; lots of discussion and links there about world state
I'm an expert in some things, beginner in others. I've done a few conference talks, and on topics where I'm an enthusiast, I've always made sure to title/label as "intro to ... foo" or "foo 101". The last thing I've wanted to do was to make someone feel they wasted their time at my talk, precisely because I've felt that way about so many others over the years.
Great question. I got what you mean.
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Nice effect! Happy Holidays
Downvotes suggest you're right.
Crisis Looms in Antibiotics as Drug Makers Go Bankrupt
42. Never too late but my advice would be to de risk as much as possible (eg get paid by customers as early as possible - that’s true validation).
Try using bubble to build your prototype. https://bubble.io/

It might be something that helps you
Did they report this breach as required by GDPR rules in the EUR? I can't imagine the GDPR rules don't reply to an American company when they are active in the EU? Especially, if they have (do they?) a branch in EU like for ads revenue or royalties to lessen the tax pay in Ireland or The Netherlands like Uber
I have an Epic store account on one of my emails. Thing is, I didn’t create it but it’s a cheap Chinese turd that doesn’t validate emails. How can I trust them with my credit card then?

And incompetence aside, Tencent made all their money they now use to bribe for exclusives with free to play “games”. And I don’t mean the likes of Fortnite. I doubt they even know what a honest business deal is.
I know it's slow at the moment, but is anyone planning on using pattern matching for anything in particular? Curious what use cases are particularly suitable for it.
After the initial release of The Shining, Stanley Kubrick decided to make one final edit to remove a scene at the end of the movie and the studio sent instructions to every theater to perform the edit on their physical copies of the film and return the cut segment of film to the studio.
I won't use this probable spyware, however I do hope that some RN competition can make RN grow, and be, a bit faster.
The Community of Christ (formerly RLDS) began marrying and blessing same-sex couples in 2013:
https://www.kcur.org/post/community-christ-oks-gay-marriage-...
These are totally out of reach of 99,99% phone users skills, and providing services for that would quickly be outlawed.
No, sorry. This was contract work, and is closed source.
Translating programming languages was tried. Indeed, when ALGOL was originally designed, that was one of the reasons why its keywords were standalone "symbols", completely distinct from the letters they consist from. The idea was that a particular representation language could choose different representations for those "symbols" - and one obvious option was to use the translated words.

Here's an example of an Algol-60 program in Russian representation:
https://i.imgur.com/9edem3y.png

This was also done for Algol-68, and some Pascal dialects. But the practice has mostly died out once newsgroups and Internet became widely accessible. There's honestly very little upside to translating keywords and identifiers, because learning words is the easiest part of learning any language (grammar is much more complicated). And you don't actually have to learn the original meanings of words, either - you just need to know what they mean in programming context. In fact, not knowing the original meaning can be beneficial sometimes, because it can prevent poor understanding due to false equivalence or poor metaphors.

But there's considerable downside in not being able to understand or reuse snippets from another language...

TL;DR: we tried - it's not worth it. English FTW.
https://gafferongames.com/#posts

Specifically: https://gafferongames.com/post/networked_physics_2004/

https://gafferongames.com/post/what_every_programmer_needs_t...
his vessel went about 20 years early and it sounds like he stopped being mentally productive by his 40s, when many of us peak around then as tons of experience combines with only mildly declined cognitive ability at that point. but if you let yourself go physically you are just tired all the time by then.
That's ok. Anything publicly available you used as reference materials? I had a read through that site, but id love to see what's considered a good example in code.
As someone who is highly susceptible to yawn-contagion (I literally yawned writing that's and again writing this parenthetical) the <redacted-to-not-give-them-exposure> snake oil ads showing the woman yawning are a nightmare for me, but I suspect I'm in a tiny minority
They're bad because the world isn't producing nearly enough electricity for us all to go electric. And producing more electricity IS going to be bad for the environment.
It’s not meant to be dishonest. I take for granted that the existence of a setting is implied, insofar as people are discussing non-hypothetical commuting.
Things like rockets tend to not be hitscan.
I think they meant "casual" in a conventional sense as "easy to get into" as they talk about "simplifying learning curve". So opposite of it is "hard to get into", and "immersive and realistic" is one kind of such games, but not the only one.
Visa and MasterCard services are available in Russia. They do not operate in Russian occupied Crimea.
I’d love to, if it helps with things like Either/Maybe types. Although from what I’ve looked at briefly the syntax felt a little less intuitive than I’ve seen in other languages.

Will have to properly try it out.
Well, actually it's also true for spheres.

Then you can approximate any shape with spheres and use that as an optimisation before actually calculating the more costly distance functions.
I haven’t played Fortnite, but this sounds (at least partially) like Battlefield 2 about 15 years ago — huge 64 player maps with fast paced action. I remember at the time being amazed that I could fly jets and helicopters, drive tanks, or just scurry around on foot all in one game. I played many, many hours of that.

The base game did not have building or many interactive objects but there were a couple of custom mods that did.
Yeah, the sample set will be highly biased towards young animals. There will old animals as well -- the ultimate fate of the breeding stock is the same -- but I'm not familiar enough with the study I'm referencing to know if any problems in that subsample would be obvious.

It's not obvious to me that you would expect there to be problems that only show up after years but not in young animals with exposure from birth -- young animals are fast-growing, and fast-growing things are very susceptible to poisons of all flavors. (It's the basis of chemotherapy: you give the patient a poison, and the fast-growing cancer dies faster than the rest of the person.) Which is to say, a study of animals fed a substance for only the first tenth of their life is way, way more useful than a study that only looks at the second tenth, because of the rapid development during that time. Whether that makes the full lifespan data "useful incremental data", "vitally important data" or "uselessly redundant" I don't know enough to have an intuition on.
Sometimes I just don't get HN. I figured this would be fairly popular.
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> It doesn't make sense to me that people in china, russia, europe, india, etc are writing code in english. Why not translate computer languages to their native language?

It doesn't make sense to you, because people are not writing code in English, they are writing code using a set of characters, only some of those characters and some keywords overlap with the English language, namely latin alphabet and those keywords have different distinct meanings, than what they mean in English. Furthermore, most of the characters, including the latin alphabet, already have a significant part in every education system in the world. People are taught latin alphabet, some keywords and most of the operators you see in programming languages at school in math and physics classes. So, how in the world would it benefit anyone to have programming languages with non-latin alphabets? It can only make things a) harder to learn, because there is no utilizing familiarity with other fields people already studied and b) harder to share code and knowledge, because other people in the world can't read and input your non-latin characters.

By the way, this is the same stupid idea that got people to allow unicode variable names in programming languages.
Wow, that is everything I asked for and more; thanks a lot for taking the time and effort to summarize all this. Now I feel like I can get started with this tomorrow.

Couple remarks:

> CORS

Oh, that may save me lots of time... Seems related to http headers at first Googlance? These bit me in the past (in middleware and backend apps) and I still don't have a solid grasp of when I should use which.

> dynamodb

I'll probably do the same as you then.

I've got hobbyist hardware at home (behind 1G fiber) so I usually use that as a lab — I still have to make a 'serverless' platform though — so anything too expensive I can balance back 'on-prem'.

I need to learn AWS anyway (who doesn't, I figure, if you intend to CI/CD as small/one-man team). Glad I can go the serverless path to get my feet wet!

Thanks again.
what's the purpose of Either and Maybe in a dynamically typed language?
> Trillions of dollars of tax revenue are being lost because capital gains doesn't count as income

Capital gains do count as income, just at a different rate if "long term." And there are one-time exemptions for real-estate gains, and other rules for exchanges.

This is the way the law works.

One's cheating, the other is legal. One is malicious and criminal, the other is someone following the law.

The law may be wrong. That doesn't mean people who follow it are bad. Change the law.

And put the people knowingly and falsely claiming EITC in jail where they belong.
Interesting thought. How about this scenario: deepfake the audience into background character roles. As training times go down you could see this happening on demand at theaters after you buy your ticket.
Childhood exposure to cats and dogs and risk of adult schizophrenia or bipolar
What forbids bolognese brands to add a similar preservative ?
Ask HN: Is it worth it to learn C in 2020?
Global Carbon Budget 2019
Physical Indeterminacy in Digital Computation
Thanks for this - watching the documentary is the correct answer! I’ll get right on it.
In Europe any app that just reads your contact list and sends it to a remote server is in violation of GDPR. Companies write in their privacy policies "you guarantee that all of your contacts have agreed that you send their personal data to us" which is completely bonkus.
Does anyone know which app this is ?
Celebrate the holidays at your Bash prompt
You have unlock the bootloader. The govt could easily ban that.
Movie action scenes are typically equal ingredients vs other scenes, but in games they are typically the dominant way of exercising player agency, big difference.

Besides shooters, combat dominates adventure and open world games, which could be done differently too.
We're not on LinkedIn, so it's probably a good idea for you to keep the gratuitous chest-beating to a minimum.

Let's be honest. Having what it takes is about whether you successfully sell the MVP you get built to happy paying customers and keep the momentum going. Simple as that. "Slogging" through the nights and weekends on an idea that doesn't have legs is a level zero test of being a glutton for pain. Don't mistake that for actual progress.
Something I have found really great is to purposely build something you will never ever even be remotely tempted to ship but that has some degree of complexity to it. What's great about this approach is you are never forced to be bogged down in details that aren't relevant to you.

If you ship a product and I mean like really try to ship it with a launch and everything, you will spend a tonne of time on a) non-technical tasks that don't matter to your day job and b) technical tasks that don't matter to your day job.

For example graphic design, copywriting, marketing etc. All great stuff if you want to go the route of actually trying to launch a company. Terrible to get caught up in if you just want to learn to write production grade systems.

Technical tasks you have to spend time on for stuff you actually will ship do have some value but really it can be limited. You might spend time to build deployment pipelines or auth or HA deployments etc. All of that stuff is great IMHO and I personally value having done a lot of it but to a lot of engineers who work on established code bases and just never ever touch that stuff I feel like it's not a huge value add.

With a project you know you'll never ship you can focus only on the parts you want to. You can then layer lots of little mini-projects into it and use it to try out new things over time.

I guess I'd recommend trying to ship a real project solo at least once too. It gives you perspective.
Changing from cinema to home video is one thing. Changing while still in cinemas is something else, though
Where is the faraday cage?
Possibly because he had exhausted his professional network of contacts who trust him enough to put an order with him.
One use could be that you could capture source information in them, so when you get an unexpected None you can find where it came from.
Andrew Ng Interview with Geoffrey Hinton (2011) [video]
How about ETQW (2007)? Huge maps, 64 players per match, vehicles, lots of interactivity on the map in general.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6leg-2Let0
Toward a grand unified theory of snowflakes: A quantitative physical model
It seems that GP is "ripped" enough to make a shirt like this: https://harlanji.com/merch/no-hymen-no-diamond/
> and secondarily a way for attendees to launder company training budgets into paid time off.

Speak for yourself.

My job has gotten good value from the conferences I go to but if the rest of you live like that that would go a good way towards explaining why my very reasonable requests always has to be defended :-/
Unfortunately no backreferences

I use FLRE: https://github.com/BeRo1985/flre

That is also an impressive project, with multiple subengines from which it chooses the fastest one. All written by one guy. Basically no documentation though

I wonder how the performance compares