skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry if the language wasn’t clear but that is the point I was trying to make: when we use economic growth as a measure of improving quality of life for people, it ceases to be a good measure.
I can't help to think that we will -one day, probably soon- have enough 3D face models to just replace those in these movies with some that will fit the original version.

The resulting faces won't be an exact match due to the low quality of the original, but unless you knew these people, no-one will be able to tell.

Same with pretty much every other aspect of the scene: have good models that fit the original scene and re-create a full 3D version of the whole movie, at any level of definition.

Once this process can be automated, we'll be able to recreate all the classics, shot for shot.
> Why do you think it's not a good practice?

I didn't say it wasn't. Docker makes sense because everyone uses it.

However, I would prefer a Docker alternative that is purely local and doesn't require so many permissions.
An Old Asp.net MVC Developer’s Transition to Angular
Constraint programming is the new way, with Minizinc as the language. OR-tools from google is the best current solver.

https://www.minizinc.org/
Could a habitable planet orbit a black hole?
Sure, but on another hand we should encourage the rich asshole to spend his money so it could be useful to the rest of the economy.
> but it's generally better than most full GC solutions

I doubt that. It implies huge costs without giving any benefits of GC.

A typical GC have compaction, nearly stack-like fast allocation [1], ability to allocate a bunch of objects at once (just bump the heap pointer once for a whole bunch).

And both Perl and Swift do indeed perform abysmally, usually worse than both GC and manual languages [2].

> ARC is more of less GC

Well, no. A typical contemporary GC is generational, often concurrent, allowing fast allocation. ARC is just a primitive allocator with ref/deref attached.

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.49....

[2] https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages
What is a good web framework or library for Prolog?
I'm not sure comparing walled gardens is that benefitial here. Most larger firms will either have consultancies on retainer or in-house personnel that can generate these reports anyway.

> They are being frustrated by consultants who want to keep their billable hours up, and extraneously restricting access under guises such as "this person doesn't have enough training to touch the system," because it keeps them in paid work.

I'm not sure why there's quite a few people pointing these aspects out in here. As opposed to the person using that data to keep their own billables up? "this person doesn't have enough training to touch the system," seems like a perfectly valid thing to say given what these systems do and is certainly not unique to SAP. The learning curve might be steep, the documentation looks ancient, the ecosystem might seem unapproachable, but at the end of the day this isn't that different to similarly scaled products from players like AWS or MS for example. They might have more approachable lower tiers and are nicer in quite a few technical aspects but other than that? It's often consultants and "certification or gtfo" as well. It's not like the consultant costs come as a surprise to anybody in these industries. Sure, it's their own little sub industry but you could say the same about these other ecosystems as well, that's not special - it is just how a few of these sub sectors are structured.
THIS !!! this is so underrated
I tried introducing Elm at my workplace and failed because:

1. Development of compiler and core libraries strictly BDFL driven (at least used to be)

2. Fixing some important compiler/library bugs takes years

3. No way to host private package repositories

I still use Elm personally, although these are very valid concerns.
Or .com.sg or .co.uk
> There is no actual evidence of an infinite universe.

The drake equation and fermi account for that, using something like "The universe has 10 million, million, million suns".

Most of these ideas are probabilistic based on sizes that are just immense beyond comprehension. But I still find them more grounded than the pre-Copernican hubris that we are somehow central to all this.

> And also: low probability in finite domain doesn't magically imply high probability in an infinite domain. That's not how math works

How do you figure that?
What even is this? An essay competition? A vague pitch for a nonexistent product? The author clearly lacks the foundation to be making such authoritative claims.
Why did you crop it? 25% of the picture is gone.
> It raises questions about Docker's billion dollar valuation when someone can come along and reproduce a bunch of it with a short shell script.

You know the comment from a guy who thought Dropbox could be easily replaced with a few Unix tools? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

There's a difference between fulfilling a use-case well and having a technically minimal solution.
>If he'd actually release some tax returns then we wouldn't have to speculate.

It's pretty clear, to me, the reason that Trump might want to hide his tax returns: because there is shady stuff in them.

Regardless, tax returns are not in indication of wealth; they measure income.

>For all we know, he's just keeping the lie running long enough that it hasn't caught up to him yet.

For 40+ years of continuing to amass global assets? DJT took over Trump Org in the 1970s.

>because I have lines of credit worth thousands of dollars doesn't mean I have thousands of dollars.

What banks are handing out massive lines of credits with no assets support them? He isn't buying hundred-million dollar real-estate with an unsecured credit card...
>3. free speech vs not so free speech. i guess we're choosing "not so free"?

Well, to be fair, it's all free speech.

The guy who uploaded the deep fake exercised his right to free expression to do so, and the private company that labeled it a deep fake also exercised their right to free expression. Technically speaking, this is an example of the radically open and unregulated nature of free speech in the private sector. Other people labeling your content as "lies" or whatever is a natural consequence of that radically open environment.

It would be "not so free" if the government sent people around to question you whenever you upload a deep fake. Like they do when people mouth off while in, say, a CounterStrike session, about what they're going to do to the other kids at school.
That is NK in a nutshell. To me it will always be surprising even if it’s been known to be like that. The artist is talking about how the restrictions are a boon to his crrativity
I think Lewis had in more in mind something like what happens to Winston in George Orwell's 1984, where it wasn't enough for the Party for him to obey them but not agree with them; it wasn't enough for the Party to discover that he didn't agree with them and kill him; they were only satisfied once they'd tortured him into agreeing with them as well.

I'd much rather be under killed for disagreeing than tortured until my captors are satisfied that I really agree with them.
Current emissions have the US at 2x India and current emissions are obviously irrelevant since it’s total cumulative emissions that matter, where the US runs away with it.
But does it?

Just because it got a battery, it doesn't mean it actually solves the issue "getting around without taking forever and wasting resources" well. In the long run, it would be better to reduce commutes. And that's something we can do with some policies, on paper. No need to invent human slingshots or anything.
Containerization makes sense for a tiny, tiny fraction of all products. It's just been overblown and overused, creating another point of potential failure for no great benefit at all.

Just chroot the damn thing if you need to and keep it simple.
Philips Hue light bulbs can still be hacked – but there’s a patch for the worst
A vanishingly small probability on a finite sample still implies nothing beyond a vanishingly small probability over an infinite population.

To analogize: the vanishingly unlikely probability of landing a dart precisely in the center of the bullseye on a finitely sized dartboard implies nothing more than the same for an infinitely large dartboard.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_surely (in particular the mathematical concept of "almost never")
Disney to Launch Disney+ Service in Western Europe, and India
> Instead the machine ID should be hashed with a cryptographic, keyed hash function, using a fixed, application-specific key.

Reading https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/chrome/browser/policy/b..., I do not not see it being hashed with a key, just unkeyed sha1.
>Environmental impact from current ICE cars is fairly small compared to the pollution caused by mass manufacturing with no recycling, heavy industry, coal burning, shipping, etc.

That's only true in countries that did absolutely nothing. The reality is that when you stop burning coal then unchanged emission sources like cars grow in relative terms and become more important.
That is not correct. Here's a more complete quote:

> uBlock Origin is NOT an "ad blocker": it is a wide-spectrum blocker -- which happens to be able to function as a mere "ad blocker". The default behavior of uBlock Origin when newly installed is to block ads, trackers and malware sites

There is nothing here indicating that uBO "mainly" blocks trackers. It blocks malicious content which includes ads. The quote even suggests that it does primarily block ads as that's what people care about and install uBO for.
> We're toast - this must be clear to everyone at this stage.

Yeah, unfortunately you are more right than you know. Like, right all the way to the bottom of the human soul. Climate change is both too fast and too slow for us to deal with effectively. In the past, humankind was never united in a global economy powered by fossil fuels and fed by financial markets driven by AI. It could never grow at a very large exponent. Now, fueled by massive population growth and even more massive economic growth, we've entered into a very steep exponent indeed. Running on theories generated by thousands of economic PhDs and underwritten by national monetary policies, the machine is finally eating the world. Literally. Capital is flowing everywhere for economic development, from vast palm oil plantations across southeast Asia, to Lithium mines in South America, to cattle farms in Brazil, to vacation homes in every picturesque spot on the planet, we're chopping it all down. And that's just the sheer physical digestion of nature. We're pumping out our waste products at record rates, and thirsty for more, we equate energy consumption with quality of life.

And worst of all, we will not stop nor even let our foot off the gas. We're locked in the patterns of international struggle for dominance even as we are locked in interpersonal struggles for sexual competition. He who makes the most money, touts the biggest consumer markets, the greatest exports or GDP or most powerful weapons...that person is crowned king of a smouldering planet.

We cannot right this ship. We are just apes, ffs. We can't evolve past our basal instincts and our antibiotics and satellites are no witness to the betterment of the human soul. We reached the apex of better angels of our nature and greed and corruption and the brutal mathematics of a game theoretic dilemma where every last human stands more to gain from defecting than cooperating.

We're gonna smash this motherfucker against the wall as hard as she will go. And the greatest irony of it all is there written in the bibles that evangelicals clutch to their chests as they gnash their teeth for more prosperity as god promised. And that was the simple wise truth, that cuts to the core of all that is today's sin: the love of money is the root of all evil.
On prem software is notoriously hard to keep modern. Every customization makes upgrades that much harder. SAP’s approach is “We know best.” Oracle is even worse. At least with SAP if they say the App does something, they aren’t lying.
I'll probably lose track of this thread now but you can find me with on reddit as /u/ryanmercer too if you have any other questions.

>"okay, yeah, that sounds scary, but also super interesting, and something I would maybe want to experience".

It was definitely the strangest experience I've ever had. I felt like I was going up a roller coaster ramp but everything was like when an NES cartridge would glitch and kept looping... I would get the impression that time would go forward 3-4 seconds then would just pop back 2-3 seconds. So I was slowly working my way up this thing that felt like a roller coaster.

The angle of the climb of 'roller coaster' (it was just like a million kaleidoscopes threw up with vague notions of movement) months later made me think it was the exit ramp to get to my friend's apartment. We were driving up the exit ramp and I closed my eyes because the sun was just blasting them and I was like wait, this feels like that horrible trip.

Upon review of most of my trips, I can link them to real memories/objects I'd recently seen. Like the spider, the dragon I'm pretty sure was a mix of books in the Pern series, I was Santa because it was the day before Christmas Eve, the morgue/crematorium were always when I was in bed in the dark and wearing a sleep mask to block out light, the octopus tentacle face guy reminded me of the guy in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, a few times I felt a consciousness and tried to reach out to it only to have a buzzing and painful clap happen in my ears that would snap me completely out of the trip... per Biblical lore man can't hear the voice of God so that's probably where that came from.

The only time I had positive experiences from psychotropics was when I was in relaxed social settings with friends. We used to take acid at the mall in high school and we'd rove around together so we all had good experiences. Various things at outdoor concerts, floating down a river or creek on innertubes, hiking or camping. Even then though you'd eventually get tired of it long before the effects wore off but it wasn't so bad because you could just talk and keep busy, alone I'd often also get bored relatively quick on mushrooms/mdma/lsd and there's nothing you can do but just continue on with disjointed thoughts and a tight jaw (it took me forever to figure out to chew gum) and that's when you'd get antsy or paranoid or dark thoughts would start to creep in. Once you get antsy/paranoid/dark the trip is soured and almost certainly will stay there or get worse.

It was an interesting part of my life but it's nowhere near as glamorous as the internet, or even movies, make it out to be. DMT specifically can just be a generally unpleasant experience and appears to be pretty universal in that, while some people have good experiences pretty much everyone has some bad ones once they've done it a handful of times.
> users are not against ads.

Citation needed.
All big ERP Software is like this.
SAP is not unique in this regard, it is just everywhere in this market segment.
Studies show that ERP user dissatisfaction grows exponentially with project / company size for all systems / implementation partners.
Payroll software is an example which is easy to outsource.
What I mean is that I think that Tesla is more of a software company, than a car company.
You don't need advanced AI to create hyper realistic deep fake news. You just need to take a picture of X candidate, stick a made up quote beneath them, and put it on Facebook. There's enough people on social media who will share that without verifying it.
> I always found it fishy they were called electromagnetic, photons alone have no charge

Being the particles that mediate the electromagnetic force, they don't have charge themselves, but they only interact with particles that have charges. Think of it this way: When you have a charged particle, it will produce an electric field. And when you have a moving charged particle, it produces a magnetic field. Photons are how energy gets deposited into these fields. And by interacting with those photons, other particles can draw energy from this field.
IBM is no longer interested in Kitura and Swift.

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/01/ibm-stop-work-swift-serve...
Lets see.

(Someone else already mentioned SSD.)

* Intel GPU. Work quite well on Linux for the past 10 years (albeit not ace 3D performance due to hardware limitations)

* Intel WLAN. Work great on Linux. They even worked in a time where almost no other FOSS drivers for WLAN were around.

* Intel LAN. Work great on Linux. Great performance.

I'm not at all a fan of Intel. Their x86-64 CPUs are overpriced compared to AMD's Ryzen and Threadripper. But the above three? I would not run away from these; on the contrary.
A side question, anyone knows how the illustrations on Retool homepage are made? The animated ones
There’s a lot of very low brow discussion going on here so I understand why you’re frustrated. HN does tone police, though, so if you want to participate probably best to play along.
So... does this guy know anything about education systems? What's his perspective? Was he a teacher for 25 years?

Why did I read this?!
Greece is part of the West. Some even say they invented it.
Universal basic income and massive carbon taxes to pay for it!

It’s about time we tax actual destruction, not a minimum wage earner’s Netflix subscription.
Yeah. Alarm systems are all on cellular and trigger on loss of power.
Even for non vegetarians, MSG (monosodium glutamate) is a pretty cool addition to the kitchen toolbox, just order some and start experimenting!

Do some controlled ones, for example split a portion into two, ask a 2nd person to sprinkle some onto one of them and try both of them and guess which one has MSG on it.
it's not exactly order independence, it's associativity:

(a • b) • c == a • (b • c)

i.e. "no matter where you put the parentheses, it'll give the same result". this DOESN'T mean that

a • b == b • a

though it may be true for some monoids like addition/multiplication over numbers¹.

you'll notice that associativity indeed holds for strings (or arrays of some T), where concatenation is the monoidal operation:

("he" ++ "ll") ++ "o!" ==
"he ++ ("ll" ++ "o!") ==
"hello!"

though at first blush associativity may not seem very useful, it is! it means folding/"summing" a sequence of monoidal values is trivially parallelizable. i.e. if you've got a sequence

as = [a0, a1, a2, ..., an-1, an]

and you want to "sum"/fold it using a's monoidal operation "•":

r = (a0 • a1 • a2 • ... • an)

you can split it into chunks across multiple workers and then "sum" the results of summing each chunk:

r0 = (a0•a1•a2) // worker 0
r1 = (a3•a4•a5) // worker 1
...
rm = (an-2,an-1,an) // worker m

r = r0•r1•...•rm // sum up what the workers produced

the nice thing is, as long as we don't reorder the elements, we'll always get the same result no matter how we chunk up `as`! and this will hold for any monoid `(a, •)`.

btw, an example of a less trivial monoid is `sorted lists of T `:

- `•`, the monoidal operation, is `merge(a, b)`, which combines two sorted lists into a new sorted list: `merge([1,2,3,5], [2,4]) == [1,2,2,3,4,5]`

- `e`, the "neutral element", is just the empty list `[]`

this is a (commutative) monoid, and you could say that mergesort relies on its monoidal properties to work!

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¹ if you can swap values around and still get the same result, you've got a "commutative monoid".
Play Serious Sam. It has all of what you described in 3D. Multiplayer coop is a lot of fun.
>You've unfortunately been continuing to post unsubstantive comments, flamebait

I'm replying to someone calling Donald Trump's wealth "shaky ground". How is the original comment not the "flamebait" here?

This is the second time you've used the word "unsubstantive" to refer to a comment I make, yet I don't see it in the guidelines. I can't for the life of me understand how calling Donald Trump "poor" (obviously wrong) is substantive, but calling him "not poor" is unsubstantive and flamebait?

>personal swipes to HN

I don't believe this is true upon perusal of my comment history, which is pretty benign.

>have to ban you again

It's become clear that some opinions are not tolerated by the userbase, so this is not surprising.
Is the mortality rate of 2019-nCoV 41%?
Is Apple's foldable phone getting closer?
So Google Sheets would work?
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If we are going to mark news and tweets as "out of context" or "altered video" I would like a link to be included to the original full source so I can see it for myself.
> There is “VS for Mac”, but it’s not really VS. It’s Xamarin Studio rebranded.

This was only true for the first releases, they have been integrating common code from VS and this is one of the reasons why VS moved away from COM plugins into a .NET ones.

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/event/