skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can envision tools that allow a sign in a store front to change from "Coke" to "Pepsi" automatically, or even replace that Audi car the hero is driving to a Mercedes. Product visualization/ads has had pipelines set up for this near drag and drop for static assets for a while now. Their assets are known before production, and have been decided by the agency that made them. Animation and Film VFX are setup fairly differently.

The ability to make changes like that already exist. Scenes and assets built procedurally can be altered with relative ease as long as they don’t encroach on other aspects of the shot.

> Specifically things like changing sponsor logos or animation models.

Logos and for the most part basic comp-only changes? Yeah that’s fine. Animation model is a completely different story. Changing the base model means the UV’s likely changed so the texture artists will have to either update (can be complex if they’re trying to maintain their original stack) or redo their work. It means the rig needs to be updated and modified. If it’s a muscle based system for precise and realistic skin deformation, have fun. If there character has fur, then the grooming team has to do another take on the asset as well. Animation then needs to make another pass on their scenes to make sure the animation actually looks good and lookdev needs to make tweaks to maintain the look they had before. And then you have to rerender, which will likely conflict with the rendering allocations (if using an on-prem farm) of the current deliverable unless the studio is in a lull point. And rendering takes time. Then comp gets to deal with the change and make sure it still sits in the shot. And we still haven’t discussed the time and tweaks to re-sim and cache any affected effects.

For a movie like Cats, this is going to be a lot of work, with a ton of anim, matchmove, and comp fixes.

> The original VFX team would just have to insert "markers" into the workflow which could then be replaced and re-rendered. Almost like changing build flags and recompiling a program.

That is a significant misrepresentation/and lack of understanding of how these pipelines work and function. No matter how much you can automate, this is not just data the way the typical HN user sees things. This is someone’s art and vision, and will always require a hands on approach with human eyes. If it was as simple as changing a few parameters or altering a few lines of code, there would be far fewer people in the industry.
What committee decides on CSS features? The W3C?
what if I just want to build a quick CRUD website. Why would i want to assemble bunch of libraries, instead of using a web framework. Framework is pattern of assembly that fits a specific need, why would everyone create their own.
Another factor in China's rise is deciding to not care about the environment at all. Western nations spend quite a bit to have clean air, clean water, parks, etc. The cost comes in the form of more costly energy, raw materials, and waste disposal.
It's built-in for Windows 10. Check this link: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4028538/windows-10-...
Agreed. A Turing machine operates in a discrete countable state space, whereas the human brain requires real numbers for a complete state description. Cantor showed (with the diagonal argument) that real numbers are uncountable - so there are (infinitely many!) real numbers that are unreachable using a Turing machine. My suspicion is that AGI, consciousness, perhaps even the supernatural soul you allude to, can be found only in this unreachable state space. There exists a Cardinality Barrier!
or allow returning multiple values. for example in CL searching for a thing returns two values the is-found and the value
Programming languages are in English though. The keywords are pulled from English, the names of functions are clearly made up of English words, the documentation is in English first and often only English, the untranslated error messages are in English, the filenames are in English. Already speaking English is a massive advantage in understanding and working with all of that.
Herd mentality much?
"Link is time stamped." Yet on mobile Safari the 2 hot video starts at 0:00 and I don't even know where to manually seek to since they don't bother saying what the timestamp actually is - why since the link is timestamped, right?
thanks!

I think the main difference is that GitDuck works async. You can record your screen/Code and other developers can interact and watch it at their own pace, whenever they can.

Merry Christmas!
All script kiddies are hackers but not all hackers are script kiddies.
Good point, I probably should have just linked to a gist - some of the formatting and emoji didn't transfer.
"Whenever I catch myself wondering whether this function I’m writing is going to crash or not, I remind myself to just run the tests or the app."

One lesson that often comes later in one's programming journey is that there are surprisingly, shockingly, many bugs that won't be found by just running the code. Like you're debugging one thing, and you find this other thing that has been in the shipped code for a year, intermittently causing crashes, but no one was the wiser. The "how could this possibly be working?" moment.

So, I fully embrace the idea of of incremental ground-up development, but running the code just to see if it crashes is too low a bar. Beginner versus craftsperson. I would suggest a high-value compromise is to single-step through any function that you just wrote. This has revealed a huge number of logic errors to me, even without writing additional tests. It's super low-hanging fruit that a lot of people don't even pick. I think that suggestion came from Code Complete, which although old, is still a great resource for beginning programmers. I also recommend The Pragmatic Programmer.

EDIT> Liked the article. Am also interested in standup. Also just recently had a very productive couple of evenings kit-bashing together some wood scraps where the tactile nature of holding a battery here, there, trying to orient it etc. seems to have been vastly more productive than sitting down with Solidworks or overthinking the early design.
> to spot the bad guys

> large-scale detection

> terrorists

sigh...
There's huge variation, though. London to Oxford? A delight. London to Norwich? Survival horror. And I hear that up North it's positively Lovecraftian.
Demolition Man had Taco Bell but Pizza Hut internationally.
We made the first guitar tuner on a mobile phone in 2006 using the algorithm. It ran like a champ on the Motorola Razr and other ‘dumb phones’ of that time. We charged $25 for it and people loved it as it performed way better than the $25 stand alone tuners. My testing showed it was equivalent to a ~$75 model at the time.

I had a background in signals and controls and was familiar with the DFT. Goertzel was a new variant to me but ran much better on the limited resources.

Good memories.
> I wish you the best in trying to convince China of this abstraction called 'free markets'.

Nobody can, that's why US imposing sanctions.
Just got around to reading it.

Good stuff. Welcome to my world, although I seldom work on any kind of firmware, anymore. I'm mostly about driver-level stuff, and I try to leverage platform transport, as much as possible.

I have blown up $40,000 (in 1987 dollars) devices with software errors.

FUN!
I still have that half-distorted digital German voice screaming at me to halt, and then screaming because I shot them, imprinted in my brain.
It’s called localization. Most feature animation projects do localizations of varying degrees so that their movies make cultural sense to the regions they’re played in, allowing the audience to better relate to the film.
[Nikita Prokopov](https://twitter.com/nikitonsky), [Rakhim Davletkaliyev](https://twitter.com/freetonik), [Ivan Grishaev](https://grishaev.me/), [Dmitrii Dimandt](https://twitter.com/dmitriid), [Andrei Voronin](https://twitter.com/UlyanovskUI). 2019\. All fights retarded.
It was a legitimate question about the use of language. You are correct it was an interesting article; someone clearly spent a lot of time and effort writing it. Which is why I thought it was strange that it started put so awkwardly and was curious if there was more to the phrase than I realized.
This is a neat trick if you need to detect only a few tones out of the possible range offered by an FFT, it essentially allows you to compute only a single bucket with minimal overhead. As the article states as long as you run it < log2(n) times where 'n' would be the size of the FFT required you should come out ahead.

Unfortunately for my application it did not give an improvement but I thought it was interesting anyway, and on embedded platforms something like this may be your only option.
> Go is, idiomatically, a very anti-framework and pro-library language.

Can you elaborate on this? I'm not super-familiar with Go but I haven't yet seen anything that suggests it's a poor language choice for frameworks.

This also makes me curious about your definitions of "framework" and "library". Frameworks are just curated collection of libraries that work well in harmony, plus conventions for handling common patterns. No?
Explanation for the downvotes would be nice. The parent comment to mine really doesn't make sense to me.
Assembling peacefully is OK in the USA, unless the authorities don't like it, then it's not OK.

Like Occupy wall street when loads of people were arrested just for assembling.[1]

Of course, there's always the classic "arrested for resisting arrest" [2] too.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/19/naomi-wolf-arr...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeDsO5R8Xr0

Even when you know the law, and follow it very closely, you can still be arrested.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Moe1-8rguk
randomsearch says> "Merry Christmas HN! Let us come together for the day, regardless of our intellectual stances and tribal identities."(1)

The impeachment is over,

The results are well known.

The will of the people

has clearly been shown.

Let’s forget all our quarrels

and show all our deeds,

we'll give the President

all the help that he needs.

Let’s all get together

let bitterness pass;

I’ll hug your elephant,

and you'll kiss my ass!

(1)I'm pretty conservative really but I can laugh at myself. As a boy I first read this poem, or an approximation thereof, posted on my Democrat uncle's (physical) bulletin board only for my Republican father to stumble upon. It always has made me laugh heartily upon rereading.

So to my Uncle, my Father, all Democrats, Republicans and all Others, a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Happy New Year, Kwanzaa, or whatever holiday bless you and may a good New Year lie ahead for you all!
I've been playing around with single tone detection using the Minsky circle algorithm. Without roundoff, they are equivalent, but Minsky tolerates roundoff better, especially at low frequencies — you can think of Goertzel as representing the phase or quadrature information as the difference s[n] - s[n-1], which obviously gets less bits allocated to it than the s[i] themselves, particularly near the peaks and at low frequencies.

Precisely, you can derive Minsky’s algorithm (modified for frequency detection by adding the input samples into the register you produce the output from) from applying Goertzel’s algorithm to the first backward differences of the input signal.

The derivation is in Dercuano in notes/goertzel-minsky-prefix-sums.html. The latest, and probably the penultimate, version of Dercuano is at http://canonical.org/~kragen/dercuano-20191215.tar.gz.

There are some tricks in there for windowing the computation over different timescales, too.
"Why are you making quotes up now?"

This quote is present in the first comment you've replied to. There is no need to attribute malice to me.

"Many Ukrainians would disagree"

This is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Russia wasn't a threat, NATO expanded nonetheless, Russia reacted to this threat, you claim that this reaction is the proof that Russia was a threat. Ridiculous, isn't it?

"events that took place far from Russian territory"

These events happened even farther from American territory. And Serbia is a Russian ally, sort of.

"that a first strike on Russia would be utterly ruinous to the West"

Firstly, I'd recommend you to read "To win the nuclear war" by Kaku and Axelrod about Pentagon plans for first strike. It is a horrifying reading for a Russian, hopefully, it will be such for you too.

Secondly, the US is working hard on increasing effectiveness of the first strike -- high-precision warheads[2] (no need for them in MAD concept - you cannot miss a city), ABM, etc.

Thirdly, please google "salami tactics" and "escalation dominance" -- there is no need to use nuclear weapons even in conflict with nuclear-armed country.

"The entire EU? No. The EU countries that border Russia? Yes, they did."

But NATO is ruled by consensus and it was the choice of the Western European members.

"In retrospect, probably not"

Not in retrospect. Many people warned about that [1], including former American presidents and George Kennan [0] -- the man behind the "containment policy".
This NY Times article from 1992 [3] might explain you why the expansion was the American goal.

"you're also omitting a long list of things done by Russia that also squandered Western (particularly European) good will"

That was remarkably unspecific.

EDIT: added links

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/02/opinion/foreign-affairs-n...

[1] https://www.cato.org/blog/nato-expansion-unwise-saying-so-is...

[2] https://thebulletin.org/2017/03/how-us-nuclear-force-moderni...

[3]
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/08/world/excerpts-from-penta...
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Investigative journalism is not the norm, less so over time.

Taibbi talked about this (again) on Rogan's podcast. Explained (paraphrasing here) that he probably wouldn't have been able to break those stories today. It's just that much harder to get someone to pay for the effort.

--

On the flipside, I'm very encouraged by podcasters experimenting with long form.

99% Invisible had a brief recap (of the how) of their reporting on homelessness in Oakland. A reporter wanted to really dive into the story. Build relationships with people and follow them around. For months and maybe years. That takes money.

She had to write a proposal, have a plan. Then her editor (publisher?) had to secure funding. Hit up a bunch of relevant philanthropies, pitch the story, just like a startup pitch. 99% is also listener funded.

Pretty much the opposite of ad funded outrage amplifiers, aka corporate media.

--

I really thought Cringely's core notion for NerdTV was going to become a thing.

Truism: The story is made in the edit.

He'd publish ALL of the source material on a topic. He'd edit and publish his own story. But any one else could also make their own edit and publish their own story.
Exactly, what was he supposed to do?
This site makes me happy because it reminds me that other people are just as frustrated with stupid UI decisions everywhere. And that most apps are actually terrible by default. Including ones I've built. UX is hard.
Never give in to progressive Twitter blowhards and the mainstream media activist cabal - they cannot be pleased they just want to destroy you.

Not. One. Inch.
> I am using firefox and I dismiss Brave because Chrome already is a monopoly. Firefox only has a tiny minority in total traffic

The only solution is to create a new web standards organization, since Google controls W3C. For example, WebAssembly has a lot of privacy issues.
I've seen that happening, but there is always a risk of the old “gorilla
holding the banana”[1] problem. That is, the library that you use
depends on a library you don't really need, which in turn depends on
another one, etc. Once you had reached gopkg.in/yaml.v2, you've already
lost.

[1] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/07/19/you-wanted-banana/
I'm curious as to what circumstances caused you to have no access to healthcare? If your job doesn't provide it you can get it through an exchange (possibly with subsidies).
They're all similar to English. Languages have their syntactic ambiguities in different places, but they're all fundamentally similar. In every case the hard part is in understanding the semantics expressed, and the characters used to express it are a side-issue.
What do you mean “supposed” to?

That’s the convention but it’s far from ideal. While it helps to have the bargaining power and administration of a plan handled by a company such as one you work for, the actual costs of healthcare to you are completely up to that company and you are placed in unreasonable burdens when you switch from one employer to another (90 days waiting period plus crazy COBRA costs are onerous).

Your health care needs supersede the timeframes of your employment. There would be many improvements if we separated healthcare coverage from employment.
Washington Post and NYT as well:

https://web.archive.org/web/20011124022514/https://www.washi...

https://web.archive.org/web/20091229000739/https://www.nytim...

Merry Christmas, obsessive Fortran dude!
Interesting, thank you, I will look into that.

The problem I'm working on requires something that will work well in the presence of chords and even though I've made really good progress I'm still about 4% away from SOTA, but 100's of times faster. Not quite ready to give up.

edit: found a HN discussion on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15266331
The biggest problem with tech is that the "smartphone app" is basically immediately on a (usually steep) decay curve of support.

Usually with no basic protocol backup, such as a basic web api, cli, or filesystem interface.

Of course that's a feature for hardware manufacturers. No one wants a device used for decades, even though that's exactly the level of support necessary to make IoT successful in consumerland.

That apple intentionally breaks things that aren't broken / forces upgrades within its walled garden is even more despicable
Welcome to Balkanization of internet.

As much as internet Jedi like a free/secure internet, the force of Empires (governments of ru, UAE, cn, US, UK, EU, etc) are striking back.

It is not "some" countries. It is "all" countries - they all feel the power/needs to monitor, control the internet.
What you said is 100% true, but of course you're getting down voted because China=bad and America=good.

People don't seem to realize the USA has poured billions of dollars into Boeing, Hewlett-Packard Company, Honeywell, GE, IBM, etc. etc

Those companies wouldn't have nearly the global presence they do if the government contracts hadn't paid for billions in R&D over the decades.

Full list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_100_Contractors_of_the_U.S...
Stupid Z3Py Tricks: Verifying Sorting Networks
The term "monte carlo methods" in statistics/probability bothers me, since it literally just means trying out, or simulating. I can't help but think someone started using it to just sound smart. Such shenanigans seem make science harder to grasp especially for newcomers, so I think it would be better to keep naming simple and obvious where possible. There are enough topics that are too abstract, so it can't be done there.
Are there any good articles on how they were making the SOE's compete against each other. It seems like every province seems to prop it's own competing SOE in certain industries, but I always wondered if they act together or if they compete against each other.
Tried it.

Without keyboard-shortcuts for common flows like moving windows between workspaces, i found it too slow/cumbersome to use.

Hence wondering whether there's some Windows tweak to enable keyboard-shortcuts (especially moving windows between workspaces), or some 3rd-party utility that works on Windows 10.
It would be better if your healthcare was not tied to your employment. If that is you pay instead then there would need to be changes to transparency on medical pricing.

I would love to be able to change jobs and not have to think about healthcare as part of the choice.
Any developers out there, using it day to day?
Do you recall how you handled low/high tuning? Multiple filters?
UX is hard, but adding fashionable trends to UX just to arbitrarily kill off perfectly functioning and well-established interface paradigms really makes things hard.

The UX crowd embraces this for the same reason hardware people don't support their software long-term.... it keeps people buying their services at a higher premium.
Go agile for yourself. Push little changes and then increment, making stuff better. Try to get a feature done on the first day, no matter how small it is. It feels very rewarding and motivates to continue. Little steps first, no matter the stack
Preop NT-proBNP levels correlate with risk of cardiac complications post surgery
This is assuming the problems are similar between languages. But are they? An NLP system tested only on English might be useless on CJK languages, because they do not use spaces, so the system cannot rely on the almost-free segmentation you get from English. Another example is that if you try a heavily-inflected language, you suddenly have vastly more forms of the same word than in English, and your system needs to be robust to that in a way that's unnecessary for English.
That change wasn’t even because they didn’t think American kids would understand it. It was because they had a low opinion of the readership and thought nobody would read a book with “philosopher” in the title.
But should America for example support Nokia and Ericsson which are not American. Most of the major American telecom equipment companies were sold off to European companies after the telecom bubble burst.
The largest negative ROI over time I've ever seen was when someone accidentally dropped a dime into a prototype image processing rig in the 80's. Months of work and very exotic hardware gone in a fraction of a second.
would love to have a discussion on that! I'm thinking that each of us can be an influencer in one way or another, and word of mouth is in its own way an influencer marketing too.
True. It's not like when NW Europe cared about pollution when it was gunning for the top of the world. And of course we in Europe and US are making loud noises about pollution after the fact we have made it, so to speak, 'big'. Like another poster pointed out, it's a rather sad attempt to 'pull away the ladder' from still rising nation(s) to use same means to climb the ladder as we in Europe/US did.

I would believe much more into pollution talk by my dear leaders if
1. We were springing up nuclear reactors
2. Stopping third world immigration into Europe
3. Had concrete trade moratoriums against India and China. This would probably cause issues with US defense and military industries though, the situation is rather fragile [1]

> [1] https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/americas-mo...
I agree. If Facebook had a closed source lib in RN it would be DOA.

I would be very curious to know why and if there are plans to replace with open source.
My first two suggestions were "Car racing" and "Trying free samples at Costco". Ok, lol.
It's important to remember that even fundamental rights are subject to things like time, place, and manner restrictions. The right to free speech does not generally include doing so at 150Db at 2am in a residential neighborhood. It also sometimes includes restrictions like not blocking public right-of-ways while assembling in public. Freedom of religion does not extend to freedom to engage in the practice of human sacrifice.

I understand that not everyone shares this understanding. I also understand that not everyone agrees that such restrictions are reasonable.