skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is a big advantage in having some engineering/hacking minded people being the users of medical devices like this arm prosthesis. I work in medical devices and I always think how good it would be to have test patients who have a deep understanding of our devices. I am sure progress could be accelerated a lot if you had patients who can give better feedback. I know it’s not FDA approved but if I had device myself I certainly would play with the programming. Obviously the level of experimentation depends on the device. If a malfunction can do serious harm you probably don’t want to experiment much. But there are a lot of devices that won’t kill you if something goes wrong.
Would love to have a manager-mentor like that. :)
Yeah and in 10 years both forums will still exist. Something Awful exists and is active, but it's not in the cultural driver's seat the way it was in 2004-2009. But then Reddit (some claim, Twitter) came along and ate their lunch and they've been in the back seat for many many years with slow to no user growth.
We train algos on creation and we think AI nailed it
I guess that didn’t happen here.
Fascinating stuff.

Who decides what gets shared? Are you posting everything, or do you curate the results of the algorithm?
I didn't mean a gas turbine engine, but a piston engine designed for aircraft. (Gas turbines don't run on avgas.)

With a quick look I can't find a cite for my claim, just that the British did use Merlin aviation engines in some of their tanks.
If you owned it for 3 months, I'd think you were nuts.
The law is not a strict list of all possible actions, activist judges are certainly an issue but they are uncommon and extremely rare at higher courts. Laws always contain grey areas and usually when a case actually gets before a circuit or higher court it's because a dispute has fallen into a grey area (or someone made an error and those are usually quick judgements). It's that grey area I'm talking about where decisions need to be made in accordance with legal intent.

Uneven application of the law is certainly an issue, and an overly wide application of the law usually falls under ex post facto laws which are seen as illegal by pretty much everyone. There are very sane people who can judge challenges to the law - we can lean on these people heavily.
bad analogy. There's no parent/child relationship between this service and google. As long as the service is continued, there's no issue as to who is owning and operating it.

Using children makes it seem like google is providing essential operational expertise to keep the child alive, and the child would die if stopped.
In all likelihood the “transfer” is just a way for Google to save face and avoid yet another “Google kills project” news cycle. Good on the editors for not falling for it.
Larger sample sizes increase the possibility of Type II errors. Too small versus too large is a common line researchers walk. n=35 is completely reasonable and common in this type of study.
Would be more intersting explaining the computer what art is, give it some hints and let it come up
With something. This is all but a gimmicky remix of previous work, whatever was trained on
"Commoditize your complements." Covered by Joel Spolsky in an oldy but goody: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/ (2002!)
I don't remember - I don't think I've experienced boredom in 20 years or more. It was never anything more than a distant, hazy & fleeting aspect of my emotional landscape.
The results are really impressive.

I have been studying art non-professionally for the past 5 odd years now and I would be hard pressed to tell you if any one of the pictures your software generated was created by a human artist or not.

Nice work!
Is This the End of the Road for Mercedes’s G-Wagens?
I'm guessing he means the upgrade call to action or release notes (lots of updates to the app so some might consider it an annoyance who knows). BTW, thanks for the app. After Alien Blue died a slow painful death I was lost for a decent client.

Please change the swipe sensitivity for collapsing comments or sending replies or maybe change single tap to collapse. I always trigger replies when I want to collapse.

Edit: found the setting and changed both to collapse (I'm pretty sure it wasn't there before. This app's constantly being polished up)
Just because you don't like the content I post doesn't invalidate it. If you have specific disagreements with the content you should post some comments and I'm sure we can have a respectful discussion.

I'm concerned about underappreciated effects of soy consumption, so I've posted a link to a legitimate study on the subject. I'm not sure why that's causing some people so much distress.
You just keep going round and round with handwaving that makes no sense. I read your link. I did not see Benford's law emerging anywhere in your link.

What does "max is uniformly distributed" even mean? If you think that the Benford's law holds good for a set of uniformly distributed numbers, why not simply provide that set? It would be so easy to prove your claim if you just provide an example set of numbers that obeys Benford's law.

All sets of numbers you have presented so far (0-300, 0-30000, 0-300000000000000000000000) do not follow Benford's law. It is very simple to show. In all these sets, the probability of first digit as 1 is equal to the probability of first digit as 2 which contradicts Benford's law.
This is definitely true. I usually describe it as "language knowledge" vs "fluency" in my classes.

You can learn fluidity on your own, but it takes the right kind of practice. It's easy to think of learning a language as "study". You go through books learning words, phrases, verb endings etc. Most exercises in textbooks only care about you getting the right answer, not how quickly you do it.

Compare this to learning a musical instrument. There is some study needed, but realtime practice is the bulk of what you do. If you need 30 seconds to work out the next chord in a song then you can't play the piano. The gold standard is practicing with a metronome. The areas where you can't keep up are the areas where you need to practice.

I'm quite surprised that this idea of realtime practice is still so uncommon even though everyone has a smartphone nowadays. In the past, Pimsleur language courses put an emphasis on being able to answer in the language you are studying more or less straightaway.
> If your boss is taking the time to give you a 1-on-1, then there is an opportunity for both sides to listen to each other.

Naw, there's an opportunity for your boss to divide & conquer, and for you to screw over your coworkers for short-term gain. You might not _think_ you're doing that — the way it's designed it's very easy for both sides to not think that — but that's the actual dynamic of the situation.

This is why the much-maligned "do not negotiate individually" rule many unions have exists. And 1-on-1s are pretty much just that, only wrapped up in some friendly-sounding woo.

> And then "at the next round of layoffs" that person will find themselves surprisingly replaceable.

> Guess what: Being invested in your work can make you more valuable.

Experience having survived lay-offs: lol, no. Nobody puts a rating on your rants.
I appreciate that Google tries new things, but I don't get why their success rate seems to fall far short of Amazon.
> Some people also “involuntarily gag” when they think about interracial marriage or a person eating pickled cabbage. This kind of paranoid disgust is a conditioned response, not a reasoned risk assessment.

What a peculiar defense. The next time you use a bathroom that has gone far too long between cleanings, just remember that your response to the odor is all mere conditioning and that you just need to make a risk assessment. Inhale deeply, my friend. Take it all in. Let the fresh shitsmelling air cleanse your thoughts. It's not dangerous after all.
Shutting turbine engines down and starting them up is when most of the routine wear happens, it may actually be cheaper and greener to use the fuel.
NE as in North East? I'm in the same region at a small academic center.

Saw 3 suspected cases recently, all started acyclovir within 1h in addition to the antibiotics, while awaiting lumbar puncture.
There's also this 6" ESP32-based e-paper platform from Crowd Supply for $99:
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Thanks. Good luck to you as well. You said in your post that listening comprehension was your weakest skill. Are you listening to more and different content? I've found some podcasts that include people with different French regional accents (not Québecois) and I've found that helps even if I struggle sometimes with them.
I wonder, based on your comment, what the output would look like if the training was inverted. Anything that looks like art would skew towards zero, for instance.
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Would love to hear what the big lessons were from that experience if they could be enumerated at all. I jumped directly into working for myself after college and have never held a corporate job. I wonder all the learning I’ve missed out on not being apart of a crazy smart team of people.
You can use a super-resolution tool like https://letsenhance.io/ to upscale the image which might make it better for printing.
If arbitrary code execution, according to Samsung, is of "moderate" severity, I'd hate to see what their idea of a real bug is!
I think hydrogen would be a candidate but then you have to deal with cooling.
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The biggest complaint about Spore was that it felt like a collection of minigames without an unifying vision. Maybe developing your game by aggregating a bunch of minigames is a risky idea.
I wasn't trying to move the goalposts, and I find your accusation rude. If using the Internet is considered a human right in Finland, it stands to reason you must use the Internet to participate in society. If Facebook equals the Internet, then you need to use Facebook to participate in society.

That you need use Facebook in order to participate in society also seems rather obvious - a great deal of events are only announced there, so you have to use it if you want to know what's going on.

If that claim is correct, then it seems like it would be a good idea to inform people about it, so that they do not make the same mistake I did and think that you can opt out of Facebook.

And if people do make this choice, knowing full well that they will be ostracized over it, then I believe that by definition makes them antisocial - the claim made in my initial post.
Nah, my analogy between a kid or a car is that if you get thing that is meant to be decently long term, car at least a year or a kid at least 18 years, you wouldn't give up in 3 months. There's not many things a person would own or have that giving up in 3 months wouldn't see like ditching it. Even giving up a cell phone in 3 months is pretty daft
That resignation is hilarious. GPL extremism is tolerable but a Taiwanese flag was "too much". Good riddance.
SA doesn't have the resources to offer the poor free Wi-Fi so they will miss out. And there is also the ongoing problem of cable theft so maybe google won't chance it here.
real user feedback? do you live in la-la land or something? We're going to need an outside agency, a giant game of telephone, and a bunch of contrived questionnaires to spend that kind of money.
Have you ever seen things like fractals on people's walls? They are curiosities. I guess you could call them gimmicks, but I would just call them interesting--gimmicks has kind of derogatory tone.

Value is just what people will pay for it. Which is apparently, in some cases, more than 430k:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/arts/design/ai-art-sold-c...

The notion of vulgarizing art is what people said about jazz when it pulled people away from the "fine art" of classical (the "swamp of jazz"). How wrong they were. I don't think people will see beautiful art, albeit generated by an AI, as "vulgar" in the future.
I think they believe that every thought that comes to them is the part of common consciousness of the cosmos.
This is how it works:

1. Googler wants a promo. They know they need to "launch" to get promo. They can't get a promo if they just improve or maintain something that already exists.

2. Googler gets together with other googlers and puts together something they could launch. Nobody cares if it makes any sense.

3. The thing launches. Googler gets their promo. It is now pointless to spend any effort on maintaining something that you can't "launch" again. Googler moves on.

4. Project dies and gets shut down after a while because no sane person would touch maintenance work with a 10 foot pole.

9 out of 10 projects at Google go through this lifecycle, pretty much verbatim. This is why you have three different Google-provided messsengers on Android, and why stuff launches with great fanfare and then quickly runs out of steam. You get the behavior you reward. This is what Google rewards.
The fun thing about math (and science and technology as well) is that it is you can't always tell what is going to useful down the road.

"Interestingness" is often as good a heuristic as any when looking for paths that lead to useful developments, although the path is often not a straight one or short one.

I also like the idea of secondary and tertiary effects. One simple example: By "playing" with cute yet fun ideas that are highly likely to not lead to anything immediately interesting, we can build up skillsets and capabilities that lead to very useful results for other problems. Perhaps this is somewhat akin to how the young of predator species "play" around in a way that prepares them to actually hunt when they are older.
Luckily the PS2's still hanging on at the edge of "pretty easy to play with real games and real hardware", outside a handful of very expensive games. And the discs aren't old enough that tons of them have been lost to damage and rot yet, though I've seen several of mine rot to death in the last 5 years or so, even always being stored indoors, so that's changing fast. By 2025 I expect this to have joined most of the consoles before it in being easier to get an OK experience through emulation than to play on real hardware.

Timing remains my main problem with emulation. Input and output lag have gotten really bad and so hard to predict until you start actually messing with the equipment you'll be using, and even then little config quirks or the way things are hooked up (adding a receiver to the mix, for instance) can throw it all over the place. Lots of games become unplayable or unreasonably hard with just a little extra lag, so it's a real problem.
> Part of it is the increased complexity of app development. Part of it is the walled gardens of our suppliers.

And our current culture contributes to both of these issues. We got the kind of computing that fits that culture, which is one that emphasizes profit making over other types of activity, and one soaked through with short term thinking. We need well funded basic research (to create computing media systems in the spirit of hypercard et al) and companies willing to push malleable computing systems out to their customers. Hypercard was extremely popular in its day, and Apple let it die on the vine. It's because they didn't know what to do with it -- the culture had become about shrinkwrapped solutions, and it no longer made sense.
"The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) has created a list to show the approximate time you need to learn a specific language as an English speaker." [0] French ranks in Category I: you wonder if the same method would apply for a Category V language.

[0] https://effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/languag...
I couldn't find mention of anything else aviation-related in the per-tank pages, and the Maybach WWII engines page [0] doesn't speak to it either.

Do you have any good references we can check out?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WWII_Maybach_engines
Really great project. I'm interested in how you've implemented the back-end? How did you productionize the GAN model? Or did you just pregenerate 1000 images? (ie. are the images generated on-demand?)
Nearly all of the banks in Korea have Android apps.
> Using children makes it seem like google is providing essential operational expertise to keep the child alive, and the child would die if stopped.

In the same way that when a child is adopted, it instantly dies?
Can you elaborate on hardware and such? Share sites that'll help me make the shift? Especially using Linux within Win 10 Pro. Thx
That's pretty smart, using de-tuned aviation engines.

But unlike what WalterBright is describing, these were appropriately reconfigured to not require high-octane fuel.
> creating a new green account and downvoting me isn’t going to change that.

It is impossible on Hacker News for a new green account with less than 500 points to downvote someone else.
What always stumped me is that there are virtually always lockers for umbrellas available (the exception being if they have appliances where you can wrap your umbrella into a plastic wrap before entering. That's mostly found in malls and department stores).

Given that the standard plastic issue umbrella is sold in any konbini [7/11 et al]) for 500yen combined with Japanese honesty that always surprised me.

Can anybody knowledgeable comment on this?
I really feel like the E-Ink invention has been mismanaged. These things should literally be everywhere by now and performing all kinds of functions. I want one as a second screen and to do most of my development on it. Maybe have a second one for pulling up documentation. Does anyone know why it has taken so long for these to go to market except, basically, for e-readers? Someone I know uses one of these as their main screen. They said it was like their computer was speaking in an inside voice as opposed to shouting at them.
> More and more non-CS people are learning to program every day.

We (the computing people) make this much harder for them than it needs to be. Instead of giving them malleable computing systems like Oberon, or Hypercard, Smalltalk, or related, we give them glistening time sharing systems and tell them that "programming" is, really, entering text into a teletype emulator and watching it do things. People are not stupid, but insofar as computing has been dominated by industry and limited by open source, we have given them stupefying options. We have better examples from the past and should know better.
The vanishing gradient problem makes this hard. ResNets and LSTMs use additional connections to help with this (and ironically that makes them more graph like).
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It’s worked well for franchises like Mario Party, Wario Ware, amongst others.
> They learnt to deal with the terrible UX in Windows, no reason they can’t on Linux. :-)

They could, but they won’t.

They want Outlook and Word and Excel, and they’ll exhibit a mule-like stubbornness to budge.
Thank you, you should have written a small piece of text about this video because it's brilliant.

In short: it's a great lecture about tight connections between energy consumption and the wealth of nations, with detailed explanation why this happens.
The highest level of severity is reserved for anything that allows users to uninstall the crapware they ship with their phones.
I have a few hundred books on WW2, it's possible I'm mis-remembering it. I am ashamed :-(
Say what? The Dreamcast used a GD-ROM which was 1 gig, hence it's name. The was an alleged specific model CD-Rom drive with modified firmware that could have read the GD-Roms directly from a PC.
Rippers used a DC with the Ethernet adapter to rip games however.

Now you can also mod the Dreamcast to use an IDE hard drive with Dreamshell and modified bios since the Dreamcast used and IDE bus for the GD-Rom.

There are 2 drive emulators for the Dreamcast where you replace the GD-ROM with a device that allows for either SD card storage or USB.

I have not seen this DVD rom hack you are talking about though
What does recomplex mean?
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Ouch, sorry that wageslavery has left you in such a sorry state that you have no choice but to abuse your children.
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Since Apple really loves to lean in on the “anyone can learn to code” message around iOS (see: Swift playgrounds), it would be cool if they could figure out how to do a family-and-friends version of enterprise distribution. Some official way to let small groups of people build things for each other without having to list them in the App Store for anyone to find.
Did you watch the video I posted? It specifically talks about converting a small aircraft and says you could get "about 20 minutes".

Building an actually useful commercial plane (i.e. something along the lines of 737 or A320) is an order of magnitude more difficult, in fact, basically impossible with current battery technology.
I've always wondered why we've learn a specific music instrument and I say this after learning flute (simple bamboo one I bought from India)

Even without music theory or knowledge of specific instrument we are able to hum or vocally replicate a piece of music - why is it not possible to directly transform it into some instrument?

Is it not possible to hum > grab the pattern > generate instrument music with that?

I mean i can articulate smth best with my voice which is with me since I've learned to generate voice on my own so why we don't exploit it with help of some software?
Those seem to be relatives of "Measure twice and cut once!"
Thanks. I'm planning on adding more data. Just a prototype right now. I'm realizing client side fetch doesn't work so well for 3rd party feeds.

I am building the backend in Koa/node/mongodb
I will assume the worst in a manager if they haven't gone out of their way to disprove the notion.

They have both the authority and hopefully the management / people skills to be the one to stick their neck out and say "Hey, let's make this team be one that's honest and tries to actually create value for the company, not just keep our heads down and try to look good".

Being the young optimist who insists that everyone in the company tries to do the right thing is not smart unless management is making it clear that this is what they want.
Totally awkward way to wedge a dig at Greta in there. I guess when all you’ve got is an axe, everything looks like a grinder.
that guy was the most annoying interview i have seen in a while.
What you are describing is not even the result of a uniform distribution. It's a two step process involving two uniform distributions. The end result is some weird non uniform downward sloping distribution.
Boeing is right but the FAA can’t afford to give them a waiver because reciprocity agreements might go up in flames.

Boeing will pay twice because their incompetence highlighted the incompetence of the FAA.

Not that I particularly care. I hope Boeing goes bankrupt.
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If a fact is the most boring[0], though, certainly that's something notable and therefore interesting about it.

Therefore, these are not the most boring facts about 1729.

;)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
Please don't devalue the term "abusive" by using it to refer to UI dark patterns.
> Just because you don't like the content I post doesn't invalidate it.

Correct, that's why I posted a link to a scientific study that actually does invalidate this one 2005 study that you clearly cherry-picked. Why don't you post that meta-analysis or one of the other studies it cited to demonstrate that you're actually interested in legitimate science and not demagoguery?
I use pillback. They kind of suck.

Free delivery but they only deliver once a month. My doctor presribed me an inhaler a month ago. SHould arrive on 2/19.

I donj't really need it anymore. CVS is better and they have free delivery in their app.
> I do know this is not PC

Why do you feel like your comment is not PC? Personally I see no reason why someone would claim that. In fact, I think you raise a very good point.