skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That art moves person who sees it is more important than how original it is.

Originality is how artists signal to their peers and scene their value. It's relatively modern concept. Art existed before originality was considered a value and it probably exists after the originality stops being an issue.
We’ll Be $1Trillion in the Red in 2020. No Big Deal
But if you sell a car to a new owner, you aren't ditching it in the woods.
Not to be pedantic but I believe the Airbus A340 is actually regarded as the safest airliner ever, with zero fatalities over the course of its nearly 30-year operational history.
> That 1% of applications is probably not performance critical and would work fine under emulation.

Each application having 1% of the users doesn't mean it's 1% when you add them all together. And they're all different applications. Why would you expect these to be less likely to be performance critical than any other?

Even for applications that aren't performance-critical, if the point is to save battery, emulation does the opposite.

> This isn’t Windows with thousands of line of business apps that have been running without upgrades for a couple of decades. Apple has already killed a lot of old apps when they dropped PPC compatibility and later 32 bit compatibility.

MacOS X 10.5 supported 64-bit Intel applications in 2007. That's more than a decade for old applications to accumulate. I doubt even most of the legacy Windows cruft is older than that anymore.

> There are two existence proofs that Apple knows how to do this. They’ve done this twice and took customers with them both times. What are the Mac users who don’t like the transition going to do? Buy PCs and lose all compatibility with their apps?

When they did it before, the new processors were a lot faster. There was a large benefit to offset the transition cost.

Existing Mac users don't immediately have to buy a PC, all they have to do is not buy a new Mac.

> The last thing that’s different this time is that Apple had a lot more to lose in 1994 when the Mac was all of their business and 2006 when the Mac was half of their business (the iPod was the other half). This time the Mac is only 10% of their business.

If the argument is can Apple stop making x86 Macs without going out of business, sure they can. If the argument is that Mac users should want to buy the first ARM model that comes out instead of holding onto their existing MacBook, not so much. It would have to be a real upgrade from what they already have, not just something equivalent but worse because it has to emulate some of their applications.

> As far as performance. The most popular Mac has been the MacBook Air. The people buying those aren’t doing performance critical tasks using niche applications that won’t be ported.

The MacBook Air has a Core i5. It's not exactly slow.

I'm also not sure what you mean by performance critical. Maybe they're not doing 3D rendering where you care quite a lot about the difference between three hours and five, but when people upgrade their hardware they still want it to go from responding in 500ms to 300ms instead of the other way around. And in that sense basically everything is performance critical.
Please use the actual title, you hype-mongering bullshit-scare-mongering assholes. Also here's the abstract for anyone so stupid as to comment before reading:

Inverse associations between soy and prostate cancer and the contribution of hormones to prostate cancer prompted the current study to determine whether soy protein could alter serum hormones in men. Thirty-five men consumed milk protein isolate (MPI), low-isoflavone soy protein isolate (SPI) (low-iso SPI; 1.64 +/- 0.19 mg isoflavones/d), and high-iso SPI (61.7 +/- 7.35 mg isoflavones/d) for 57 d each in a randomized crossover design. Twenty-four-hour urine samples indicated that urinary isoflavones were significantly increased by the high-iso SPI relative to the low-iso SPI and MPI. Serum collected on d 1, 29, and 57 of each treatment revealed that dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and DHT/testosterone were significantly decreased by the low-iso SPI [9.4% (P = 0.036) and 9.0% (P = 0.004), respectively] and the high-iso SPI [15% (P = 0.047) and 14% (P = 0.013), respectively], compared with the MPI at d 57. Other significant effects included a decrease in testosterone by the low-iso SPI relative to the MPI (P = 0.023) and high-iso SPI (P = 0.020) at d 29; an increase in dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate by the low-iso SPI relative to the MPI at d 29 (P = 0.001) and relative to the MPI (P = 0.0003) and high-iso SPI (P = 0.005) at d 57; and increases in estradiol and estrone by the low-iso SPI relative to the MPI at d 57 (P = 0.010 and P = 0.005, respectively). In conclusion, soy protein, regardless of isoflavone content, decreased DHT and DHT/testosterone with minor effects on other hormones, providing evidence for some effects of soy protein on hormones. The relevance of the magnitude of these effects to future prostate cancer risk requires further investigation.
Don't know about the Germans, but the British used modified aero engines quite extensively in tanks - https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Rolls-Royce_Meteor
I'm almost certain that's what op meant to get across.
As someone who lives in Japan I believe this is not a result of "Japanese people being more honest", but rather:

- Availability. There are police stations (kobans) and officers on the street everywhere, just a few steps away from wherever I may find something. Turning in a lost item has no friction. All it takes is a few extra steps. In the U.S. there is huge friction - I would need to go out of my way to go to a police station and turn in something.

- The general view of police and government as your "friendly helper" as opposed to enemies. Officers and public staff (at train stations, etc) are service workers there to help you. I can ask them literally anything - directions, store recommendations, etc - and it's totally normal. Turning in a lost item to some random officer on the street is just a normal. In the U.S., I try my best to avoid all people in police uniform. They tend to be unfriendly, not helpful, and their job is to see if I am doing something illegal - not to help me. While this may not be true, that is my perception. I wouldn't even trust them to actually take care of a lost item I give to them. And the fact that they're carrying guns doesn't make them look any more friendly/helpful.

The definition of what "police" means in Japan vs. most Western countries is completely different.
I don't get it - I have not introduced any new topics, nor went on any unrelated or generic tangents or controversies. I've made the claim that the clientele of a specific forum do not generally make posts which by the legal definition constitute threats, which does not seem all too flamebait-y nor unrelated to the topic at hand.
> So the french can't translate german and russians can't translate german?

You can but then it's a work to do for each language. That's how science got reinvented in multiple places before virtually all papers start to be written in English and shared in international journals.

> You make it sound like you can't change it. Like older languages are set in stone.

Do you suggest adding a layer of dependencies and complexity to the build systems to preprocess the source code to make it compilable by GCC/clang/Visual?

And it would make sharing open-source project limited to their language speakers, until you have someone translating the project. And what happens when that person can't keep up with the pace of the original project? Just look at all the material in Chinese on Github that is just inaccessible to non-chinese speakers.

All engineering schools in France require a minimum score on tests like TOEIC/TOEFL (in my school it was TOEIC 785 / 990, got raised to 800). High school graduation requires a CEFR level of B2 (even if not all students reach it) in English.

> I know if I had to learn french in order to code, I wouldn't be a programming. And I'm sure it's the truth for the vast majority of american programmers.

Except that a lot of the world is already exposed to English in movies, series, books, websites, memes, YouTube, work. American are not exposed to French, German, Japanese, Chinese.
> I am extremely rarely bored.

But when you are bored, why is it?
> If scientists find the origin of the virus we can finally say that it wasn't engineered, currently they have not.

No, they have.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/mining-coronavirus-g...

...sequencing, combined with sampling the market’s environment for the presence of the virus, is clarifying that it indeed had an important early role in amplifying the outbreak. The viral sequences, most researchers say, also knock down the idea the pathogen came from a virology institute in Wuhan.

Note that the article is dated more than two weeks ago.
You know how crucial software gains reliability through large user community. I don't want to fall into some random bs while using their 'usable' DB. condolence to programmers involved to government projects which will enforce them to use 'usable' piece of framework from domestic firm.
See also the JACK audio and LV2 plugin form of CV - https://llllllll.co/t/jack-lv2-cv-ports/29428
> In the USA all works of the government are considered public domain.

Only the federal government. State governments can and do (automatically, just like other creators) own copyright to their works under US law.

> The idea of a public copyright is a legal contradiction in terms.

No, its not.

> So it's perfectly legal to take PDFs of official government publications and republish them if you think there's a market for it.

It often is not, even with federal government publications, because:

(1) Official government publications may include non-federal works that are protected by copyright with a non-sub-licensed permission from the copyright owner (including works created by government contractors.)

(2) Even though copyright may not apply, rules regarding use of government-owned trademarks, government agency logos, etc. may restrict your commercial use and marketing of government works.

(3) If your use isn't strictly limited to use within the United States, it may still fall afoul of federal government copyrights, because the US federal government can and does assert international copyrights to its works, its works are only copyright-free within the US.

https://www.usa.gov/government-works
The sidebar suggests this "similar article" from 2010: "Clinical studies show no effects of soy protein or isoflavones on reproductive hormones in men: results of a meta-analysis." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19524224

That meta-analysis says: "Given that isoflavone-depleted isolated soy protein is not commercially available and the composition of the product is altered by the ethanol-washed processing used to extract isoflavones, the isoflavone-depleted isolated soy protein treatment groups used in three studies 39, 40, 62 were excluded from all analyses except the subgroup analysis of the effects of soy protein dose." Citation 40 is this article.
I don't know any language test that tests actual fluency. That's something you can't standardize.

Like most skills, language proficiency work in steps, and you are usually only able to see the next step, the rest goes above your head.

In the case of language, the first step is learning the words and grammar. This can be tested. But there is a whole world beyond that. I realized it when talking about the Japanese language with a girl she didn't even talk about things that come up in tests, like vocabulary. Instead she talked about how to talk to different kind of people, idiomatic expressions, how to convey emotions, even the quirks of writing text messages. She was on the next level, the part about describing things was already a given, not something worth talking about. There are certainly many things lying beyond that, maybe accent, body language, a point where the distinction between language and culture starts to blur...

An interesting thing is that AFAIK, there are no tests that evaluate the proper use of "bad" language. French (my native language) is famous for its colorful swearing. And you can't really call yourself fluent if you don't know how to do it. Proper use of casual and even offensive language, is, I think, an important skill that most foreigners lack, in any language, and yet, most test don't go below business level speech.
Anybody else come here expecting to read about the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Those computers don’t really think. Whatch what you wish for, future might just look like that.
Ok. What’s the point of that, original poster or canvas print? In a way training AI on existing art and generating some more amounts to vulgarizing abstract art or art in general and doesn’t add much to it, it is a gimmick. It certainly looks attractive but does it have any real value?
Once a law is clarified and precedence is set it's capricious and arbitrary to change it - tax laws don't have "loopholes" for corporations in the classical sense - they have been crafted (and reaffirmed) in a manner that benefits corporations.

A real loophole is something that gets closed once noticed, and there are accountants that thread the needle on these - a good, and rather widespread, example might be SUVs qualifying as farm equipment. This combined with loose agricultural qualifications in some states (like florida) led to widespread claims against luxury auto taxes for some pretty bizarre cases - then that loophole was closed.

The US has the absolute authority to solve the loophole, other countries can't do much about it but since the US is the ultimate destination for these goods the government can demand that manufacturing steps have paid proper minimums on VAT taxes and force tariffs on goods equivalent to the lost tax potential when goods enter the US - since the US is a huge consumer market that'll cover a whole lot of items... Additionally, as soon as the US starts collecting the taxes that the Bahamas voluntarily let go unpaid people won't ship goods there to dodge the VAT - then the Bahamas will have no continued reason to decline to charge VAT and likely institute a sane VAT just to acquire what income they can (since not doing so is essentially leaving money on the table).

Honestly, corporate tax laws are how they are because corporations hold a lot of political power - not because nobody notices what's going on or because no one can actually address the situation.
For every one person learning to program, ten people are "learning to program". I would say that we're going to have a huge problem where most applicants aren't qualified for a given job, but I don't have to - we're already there.

Still, BOTH numbers are trending up, so I guess at least that part is nice.
Between 65 and 80.
We need a catchy verb for when Google abandons yet another service... De-google?

"South Africa's free Wifi service 'de-googled' as Google abandons yet another product"
Until a year ago(?), yes.
That really means 6 months till you are completely ramped up, at full productivity. If you are actually not productive, not producing anything of value, for 6 months...
This user, 'vertig0h, has submitted three articles to HN since joining five days ago. One is an article from conservative site National Review against racial quotas. Their first comment on this site was arguing that the US should have Huawei-style backdoors into network equipment manufactured in the US because the US is good.

They are a radical conservative pushing an agenda and should not be trusted.
> the fact that there haven't been any cases involving leaked data is as good as it is going to get.

No. No proof of leaked data is a basic requirement for trust, but at the end of the day, PIA is now associated with known criminals. Unless they can continuously provide impartial audits of their server operations (they can't), then they have lower trustworthiness than any other VPN I know of.
This is the role of the government, there are occasional scandals, and occasional attempts to make scandals out of nothing - but all government departments have this power. And they would be held to account very quickly for uneven application of the law - whenever one company's competitor is getting a sweet deal they'll pursue that all the way to the courts - and the courts should (ideally) be neutral.
"In the summer of 2014 during my Computer Science degree I was lucky enough to intern at Apple as engineer on the Enterprise App Development team in Cupertino (long way from Eastern Canada), where I learned an absolute ton from some crazy smart people."

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/cfnfu8/my_names_chris...
If you present a weird distribution to begin with, it should not be surprising that every digit does not have the same chance of appearing. That's not the point. We are not talking about weird distributions here.

If we are going to argue like this, I might as well present a set of two numbers S = {1, 2} and claim that when we choose numbers from uniform distribution, the probability of 3 occurring as the first digit is 0. Other commenters are not assuming weird distributions like this because this kind of discussion does not provide any new insights and is just a waste of time.
I have yet to see 99.999% of artists "generate anything that's not a combination of existing images and techniques". As mere mortals are not in a position to hang the works of 0,0001% that can this AI art can be a reasonable alternative.
For what it's worth, I didn't notice the name until after I had replied. I replied because I thought it appropriate to reply to what was said, not because of who said it.

[Edit: I will agree that your post was not inflammatory.

I also note that I (on a different thread) replied to you on a programming topic, and for a change, I agreed with you and thought that you had a very interesting perspective.]
When I have the time I’ll try again, paying special attention to the codesigning output.

I’ll report my results here, unless replies are closed, in which case I’ll comment in the repo.
Have you tried a recent build? 1.4.0 is pretty outdated by now, and it's also worth noting that the snapshot currently in Debian/Ubuntu is significantly broken.
> 2. Run npm install

For a fucking bullet list. Our industry is broken.
What if I make the argument I think this art is more beautiful, because of the interesting way it was generated?

Relevant quote from Feynman about art:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/184384-i-have-a-friend-who-...

I like art too and make some myself (musical). But I happen to think art is just what each viewer thinks of it. I don't know enough about visual art to know whether this is a "pastiche image maker", though I suspect AI won't make that for long, if it is.
It absolutely is filed under "FP is inaccurate".

If you need increased precision beyond a few digits, you must approach the problem armed with numerical computation knowledge and not rely on libraries or generic implementations: even between versions.

It's not a surprise, its why the Numerical Recipes books are so famous. (Heck it's even discussed in Abrash's Graphics Programming Book!)

I guess this article is more valuable that I expected: it is exposing some really glaring flaws in what people expect from their underlying language. Kinda scary, but I guess it is better late then never to learn the basics.
http://developer.holochain.org

http://dat.foundation

http://scuttlebutt.nz
Thank you! :-)

We intend to support that use-case as well, yes, but otherwise it's more along the lines of "it's what you want it to be" through a flexible plugin architecture (which is still in the design phase as is most of the project itself).
If you have any (and I mean any) comments/suggestions on the design/use-cases or the whitepaper draft that's in the works, then please don't hold back: https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/blockchain-integration-f...

Side note:
If you are interested in Seth I'd also check out Besu, it looked pretty legit to me and they have been getting a lot of traction as far as I can tell.

Edit: We hang out on RocketChat as well in case you want to give some feedback there instead of directly on the Github PR: https://chat.hyperledger.org/channel/blockchain-integration-...
I don't believe there is a shortcut for "hacking" languages. I'm a diplomat, and currently learning my fourth language to the C1+ level.

When we learn languages, it's a full time job. It was 9 months to learn Mandarin to a B1, 6 months to a C1+ in Spanish, and I'm currently at a B1 in Estonian after 5 months.

There are several things I think are crucial after years of full time study (note: this assumes you're going for professional fluency, not just touring around the country where interactions are largely scripted and predictable):

* There is no substitute for production - you must speak the language with a native speaker (not an app) and talk about topics that are relevant to the kind of scenarios you anticipate. We spend the first several months discussing current events in target language - at first scripted, then later free form. This builds vocabulary and helps fluency. This is quickly expanded to discussing current events in depth and participating in mock debates.

* Give mini presentations - target 3-5 minutes of talking about a relevant topic with little prep time. The difference between intermediate and advanced is the ability to move from discussing only facts to making a coherent argument. Native speakers will often not be able to follow your train of thought without learning to connect cause and effect using structures appropriate for your language.

* Interview native speakers - prepare 2-3 questions about a particular topic and check your comprehension by translating their answers to English. This obviously helps build your comprehension, but also helps to learn to "automate" comprehension while you are thinking about something else. If you can take notes in English while a native speaker is talking at normal speed (and achieving 90%+ accuracy), it will make it easier for you to participate in normal speed conversations.

* Read target language news - this is critical for expanding vocabulary and learning colocations - knowing what verbs are used in particular contexts (e.g., do they say "I talked with X" or "I talked to X". Do they say country X shot, launched, or threw a rocket?)

Bottom line - language learning is not just about the number of hours you put in. The quality and type of practice you do matters a lot. You aren't going to be fluent via Duolingo alone. You need to put in the time using structured practice with native speakers to really learn anything.
Looking at the responses here … it's not about

“1:1s are basics, if you don't do them you are a failed manager.”

Nor do I believe the truth is best described as:

“a 1:1 is a creepy corporate checkbox to be checked and best avoided”.

Isn't the answer always …

it depends?

On the person, on the company and team? On you, as a manager?

I have had colleagues who probably would have sent me a resignation letter within days after doing a 1:1 with canned questions like that.

I've also had colleagues who thought that a regular 1:1, going through the motions, was a sign that I cared and did something formal for them. (Despite normal chats and checkins.)

Even if you have a 1:1, it doesn't mean that you need to go through an ever same set of stale questions. But structure can help you both to make sure the basics of the work relationship are covered.

With that in mind, I see sets of questions such as this as a toolbox. Sometimes it's a good thing you can just look at the toolbox, try a few tools out, see how they fit and choose the right one for the job at hand (situation, person). I think it's great those exist.

If you're doing a 1:1 to check a box, then it doesn't matter. If you care and want to use a 1:1 as a tool, then it doesn't hurt to try out different approaches.
Still a human hand is involved there, even for mere deception.