skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your criteria for appreciating art is merely looking at the image, the market is already "crashed". Google images has reproductions of nearly all paintings and art pieces ready to go. That hasn't happened.

There is more information in an artwork than what is presented as the final result. The techniques that go into constructing a painting are not reverse-engineer-able in every instance. You may produce the same brush strokes and end picture, but how you got there will be a different method, you won't be using the construction lines or dynamic symmetry of the masters that's passed down usually via oral tradition. Preserving those techniques enhances appreciation of the art and is a perspective worth preserving for it's own practical benefits.

Hatsheput's (female ancient egypt pharoah) funerary tomb was the first building to have outward facing columns that you could walk through. That style of outward facing columns became the standard style of ancient greek buildings, with steps leading up to outward facing columns. Columns you could walk through used to be confined to courtyards due to inferior architectural ability. None of that could be inferred simply by looking at the picture without prior education. The provenance of who built that or ordered it to be built in that manner is completely unknown to me, and does not change the fact that it is obviously a valuable building and an intriguing place to learn about what made the leap in architectural technology possible, how that culture was ahead of the game, how those people lived to make such a thing possible and to study the value of having outward facing colonnades among other ideas. All without knowing the author.
Until Java 9, openjdk was requiring Qt 5 for OpenJFX because of the WebView, I clearly remember that.
Still, shipping WebKit is pretty consuming
I am not in lockdown. But a lot of public services and schools are closed. Also, no friends get together and parties, and significantly reduced hangout. I am making use of my local university library to study and research Text Mining.

With the prevalence of discussions around Coronavirus online, we will have large corpus for text analysis, for example, hysteria, treatment, symptoms, timeline of public reaction etc.
The Life of a Non-Profit Data Professional – Episode 126
This is cool. For those who are not super familiar with language processing, I think it's good to point out the limitations of what's been done here though. They mention that professional speech transcription has word error rate around 5%, and that their method gets a WER of 3%. Sure, but the big distinction is that speech transcription must operate on an infinite number of sentences, even sentences that have never been said before. This method only has to distinguish between 30-50 sentences, and the same sentences must exist at least twice in the training set and once in the test set. Decoding word-by-word is really a roundabout way of doing a 50-way classification here.

It's an invasive technique, so they need electrodes on a human cortex. This means data collection is costly, so their operating in very low data regime compared to most other seq2seq applications. It seems theoretically possible that this could operate on Google translate level accuracy if the sentence dataset was terrabyte sized rather than kilobyte sized. That dataset size seems very unlikely to be collected any time soon, so we'll need massive leaps in data efficiency in machine learning for something like this to reach that level. They explore transfer learning for this, which is nice to see. Subject-independent modelling is almost certainly a requirement to achieve significant leaps in accuracy for methods like this.
> seems like JavaFX has its own browser-like “scene graph” and embeds WebKit...

Since Java 9 modules were introduced, the webview (and webkit) are only included in the app if the `javafx.web` module is used. Otherwise, it will not be included in your distribution if you pack it with jpackage.
Not sure to keep the wearer from catching the disease. As opposed to merely improving the wearer's chances.
There's a factor with OpenBSD that isn't mentioned here at all: it has very few developers.

A single developer can hold much or all of the state and important security considerations in their head. A small team can communicate well and can hold to a single style, and members of a small team can ask each other things easily. Single developers or small teams can write secure code in unsafe languages.

The problem is that this doesn't scale. Add a large number of developers and it becomes increasingly difficult to police security in an unsafe language. Safe languages, unit tests, and fuzzing help a lot more here by making large classes of errors difficult or impossible to manifest or catching them automatically.

Linux is a bit special here: it has a lot of developers but a small number who are responsible for approving things, and it's so massively important and popular that it has a lot of eyeballs on it and gets a lot of automated testing. Security issues still creep in though.
Yeah, that's what you get when you let computer scientists do math :-D

I hope it's just a typo, otherwise you should throw the article straight into the garbage.
Really cool to see progress made here but this won't be available for public use any time soon (likely decades).

One of the biggest challenges with decoding brain signals is getting a large number sensors that detect voltages from a very localized region of the brain. This study was done with ECoG (Eletro-Cortico-Gram) which involves implanting small electrodes directly on the surface of the brain. Nearly all consumer devices use EEG (Electro Encephelo Gram) which involves putting sensors on the surface of the skin.

Commercially available ECoG is highly unlikely as it requires an extremely invasive brain surgery. For ethical reasons the implants from the study we're likely implanted to help diagnose existing life threatening medical issues.

Decoding speech from EEG won't work as well as ECoG a number of reasons. First the physical distance between the sensors and the brain Means the signals you pick up aren’t localized. Second the skin and skull are great low pass filters and filter out really interesting signals at higher frequencies, 100-2KHZ. Additionally these signals have a really low signal power because they're correlated with neuronal spiking.

ECoG does a really good job picking on these signals because the sensor is literally on the surface of the brain. Its really hard to pick up these signals reliably with EEG.
NYU Langone Tells ER Doctors to Think More Critically About Who Gets Ventilators
I dearly hope this is the case. Even if it were expensive to rig up, being able to not use my hands for computer work would really help( I have RSI).
Is this actually a real study? Why don't they link to the paper? Mindlab International calls itself a "neuromarketing" group...this reads more like an advertisement than a report on a real scientific study.
Depending on what kind of meet-up it is I would also be concerned about the "inverse" problem: People who would have turned up before due to guilt / moral issues / bad karma might now not show up because they believe the $10 is their "donation" for not showing up.

Similar to late pickup fees at daycares that sometimes increasing the amount of late pickups, as rich(er) parents view that monetary penalty as a price worth paying to avoid moral blame.

I think a community-wide karma/reputation system would be more powerful as suggested by someone in the comments here.
Accessibility.

If common UI elements are denoted the same, it means things like screen readers, alternative navigation options, custom styling (high-contrast) can work more reliably.

Everyone implementing their own UI means such things are often secondary.
Well I guess it's time to find a different website to check Bitcoin prices.
Since we are speaking about desktop apps here, Rust and Go still have to offer something that is half as good as Swing, including graphical design tooling.
> my point is that it's all super arbitrary

Granted. Yet it is wrong of you to imply that makes all measurement systems equally bad.

> There was no reason to switch because there are no benefits in switching.

SI has two advantages designed into it, namely easy conversion between unit orders of magnitude (e.g. 1 ℓ = 10 dℓ = 100 cℓ = 1000 mℓ), and easy conversion between units (e.g. 1 t water = 1 ㎥ water, 1 ℓ water = 1 ㍹ water).
Airbnb extends refund window to May 31st and sets aside $250M for hosts
Play rimworld or factoria ..

Only half joking. I think the basic principles of efficient managing can be taught very good through such a game.

It is really fun and challenging, to build up a beautiful flowing process.
And then have it all a mess, because a accident happened and a key structure broke down and half your production ran out of storage and the other can't produce. So you adjust and assign and rebuild processes and then a key ressource runs out. So you need to find a new source of supply...
So it is all about basic managing and supply chain. How to use the limit resources in the most efficient way and focus grow in a fine tuned manner. And how to keep track of all that in your head.

A different thing is then of course to apply this knowledge in the real world.

And this means mostly choosing, learning and understanding the right software. SAP is (sadly) used a lot. And millions of custom made software ..

I actually believe there is a very big market for someone to come with a better software of managing this. All the solutions I have seen so far, I did not really like. But you have to use what is there and works now.
You are mistaken. They use ECoG which is intracranial electroencephalography. These are electrodes placed on exposed surface of the brain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocorticography
Investing in education, and women's education in particular, is one of the most effective ways of bringing down birth rates over time. It obviously has all sorts of other advantages too, which I don't need to go into here.

You just need to glance at China's current demographics to see that hard limits on number of children is not a good idea, both societally (in terms of treatment of women and prospects, for want of a better word, for large numbers of single men) and economically (such as the burden of numbers of children and pensioners per working age adult).

The Economist did a brief piece on Africa's demographics recently. It's an interesting read.

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2020/03/26/africas-...
An interesting idea.

It might work in a world where the population has enough capability to coordinate something like a variolation village.

But then again, there are plenty of people out there who throw coronavirus parties, churches that hold service in direct defiance of social distancing orders, and individuals that spit on doorknobs:
https://www.ibtimes.sg/are-these-people-trying-spread-deadly...

I think the author does not adequately understand the challenges associated with e.g. how the variolation village would be perceived and understood by others--its main flaw being that it would not contain the whole population. People don't like the idea of a ghetto.
Branching is easy. Merging is not.
It works.

1. It's actually cross-platform:

- Still can't use Webex across Linux, Windows and Mac in 2020.

- Same goes for Skype, plus half the users who have Skype don't realise it's Linc and the two are completely different.

2. It's far more bandwidth efficient than things like Slack.

The codecs are much more resilient, this applies (from what I can tell) to all the embedded options that are just using the browser.

3. It's going to be around.

- Google Hangouts has previously been renamed and deprioritised. They also dropped their low-bandwidth codecs and cpu usage went through the roof in my personal experience.

I'm unclear on some of the items against Zoom. But there's a lot of hate and emotion around it in the last 10 days - my sense is that some people have an axe to grind - I'm always cautious of a crowd with pitchforks.
How the layouts, or textures, of cities influence extreme weather events
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Ironically, if cryptocurrency succeeds, it will only help to put another nail in the marxist coffin.
And the ultimate one ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J639xIdgzQU

(still remember zapping through the channels on our kitchen TV stumbling on it - about 20 years ago - it's so weird, you just don't forget that)
Elements of Clojure – Framework for making better design choices
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Mesoamerican copper smelting technology aided colonial weaponry
Read 'The Goal' by Eli Goldratt - one of the best supply chain books ever written.
Unit tests could prevent reintroducing old bugs.
Cleaning Up Form UI
Study Finds Coronavirus Inhibitors
Not more powerful. More standarized. Wss for example.
So how does one update it? Don't say "ssh into the host".
https://archive.is/8tu81
If you who want copies of classics in "math and science" you should be looking for reprints by Dover Publications, rather than Penguin Classics.
> LD video

TIL: there is a quality below SD.
Mask mystery: Why are U.S. officials dismissive of protective covering?
You're wrong. They are in their own directory in the source tree (https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/regress/).

ld.so for example is pretty well exercised (https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/regress/libexe...)
The whole torrent of grey area, just over the line and outright shady behavior at Zoom is a problem in itself even if all the separate instances in isolation aren't grounds to stop using them. Their responses to security issues and today's revelation of misleading marketing on E2E encryption make it clear they're not just making isolated mistakes. Shady is at the core of how they operate, this is an indication that Zoom has a company culture of accepting borderline behavior. Otherwise it wouldn't be so widespread.

As a customer this is a reason for me to stop using Zoom. Not in the last place because I'm quite sure we're only seeing the public tip of the iceberg of all the unacceptable things happening within Zoom.
World Backup Day: March 31st
Fully agree: 100% infection for everyone is very unlikely, everything considered.
Would you build your startup, while following prompts from a dungeon master, and perhaps interact with other players, as part of an actual D&D game?

If so, please drop me a message on this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsQVowUDsIOYM4OaqR...

I have been brainstorming this for a while and the design of this inspired me to post.
Yeah, one of the important lessons here is: Buyers just aren't rational. Even multi-billion companies are driven by manager egos and biases and they will make dumb decisions based on prejudices.

Unfortunately, the Oracle/IBM marketing of "Opensource is trash" has proven to be very sticky so selling OSS to Enterprises companies can be a hugely uphill battle when managers think that OSS products are inherently low quality in comparison to highlghy priced "brand name" stuff. Giving them away for free with paid support is very contraproductive when your purchaser has this line of thinking - they just percieve this as "this product is so bad they need to give it away for free".
I used to think that allowing encrypted ham radio would be a good idea, but the more I think about it, it isn't. It's supposed to be a place for radio hobbyist experimentation. To permit encryption there would see it used for commercial applications pretending to be hobbyists, and other exploitation outside its purpose.

I feel that other solutions would be better, for example having bands for community mesh networking or similar that has different restrictions to the ISM bands. No idea really how the mechanics would work, but I feel that allowing encryption on ham bands would just see it abused to the detriment of its actual goal.
And don't forget about World Restore Day: April 1.
Wire[0][1] does it according to their blog post[2]. This has an impact on FPS and CPU usage+power consumption, but it is secure.

[0]: https://wire.com/en/
[1]: https://github.com/wireapp
[2]: https://medium.com/@wireapp/video-conferencing-end-to-end-en...
Anything that flowers produces pollen right - so hmm.

However, I always like to have a patch of wild flowers (localy sourced previous year for seed) in along with chives and lavander. Look nice and just before the lockdown I went out and sowed some in a few spots along with some sunflowers.

Logic being that they will bloom around the time everybody really down from the lockdown and help chirp up people, also good for nature and birds love sunflower seed. Which is one thing I feed them regularly with my window feeder and been a joy over the past few weeks and months ahead.

You can make a window bird feeder with some perspex or even cut and glue up some milk containers - few suction cups and tada, simple and effective little bird feeder and they do use them and who needs 4k/8k.. when you have real life out a window comming to you. Highly recommended.
Same here. Have been trying to build something similar with GitHub Actions and this is a nice reference.
An online management course based on Rimworld would be awesome! :D
Wow! I'm super happy I gave this a try. I've been trying to put together an elegant solution to this problem for my personal infrastructure for over a year now and the furthest I ever got was an OpenVPN server on DigitalOcean and an EasyRSA folder full of certificates. I was living in UK university halls at the time, so my main use-case was being able to access my computers located in my UK uni dorm while visiting home in the US and accessing my US machines while at university in the UK.

It is extremely refreshing to not have to deal with key/certificate management, and to have all my VPN traffic be directly client to client instead of via a slow (or expensive) and likely remote VPN server.

Great product and I can't wait for some time to play around with it further!
Italian State Media in 2015 Reported on Chinese Experiments with Coronavirus
I think this also shows how macOS has been training users to enter their password in random dialogs that have absolutely nothing that identifies them as being legit OS dialogs. The dialog that Zoom uses could very well be sending the credentials to a remote server, and the user would be none the wiser.
A startup is building computer chips using real neurons
OK thx for the link as it is a factual proof of life for the project. But unfortunatly, this link to the mixed bugtrack/RFC shows the patent pbroblem with this project : after reading the RFC it shows that it is up to the community to provide the most basic goals for this fork, long after the project was initiated, which underscores the original sin of Glimpse. The only reason to fork was the name and the dev team had no other structured strategy to provide other enhancement at the beginning of the project.
I do not think this the spirit of the Open Source philosophy and morover I feel sad about the whole story. The numerous people behind GIMP have been giving their time and skills for more than on decade to provide the only decent free alternative to Photoshop to millions of young artists, students and professionals who were not wealthy enough to pay for Adobe products. And then come a bunch of wankers who shame these great people for an obscure US-centered issue about the name of the app...
How long is a German foot? It depends where you are
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Wow, that looks amazing! Thanks for the info.
Does anyone see where to find the latest data?

Even this website posted is running off of the old data.

The CSV dump from the NYT repo is out of date, although the heavy website and very fluffy news article from the data source has much fresher numbers.

I was hoping be able to quickly look up localized data with a quick bash command every time my threshold of morbid curiosity is breached, but the data is a couple days old.

P.S.,

Thank you OP for bringing awareness to this data source.

Refreshing the Wikipedia page for the pandemic with numbers by country was starting to lose its relief/reward factor to my feedback loop.
Coronavirus outbreak won't peak in every state at once
Does anyone know how Bitbucket's offering compares to these?
Cuprite: Headless Chrome Ruby Driver for Capybara
The Dutch Coronavirus count excludes even infected people with mild symptoms, because only people with symptoms so severe that they need to be admitted to the hospital get tested at all.

My ex-brother-in-law has pretty serious symptoms and was certain he had Corona. He went to the hospital, they measured his blood and discovered he has diabetes, and declared he didn't need to get tested for Corona.

I'm sure that not a single country except those that test absolutely everybody, has any idea how many people carry the virus.
Likelihood of survival of coronavirus disease 2019
Well, they became the popular go to solution because the other popular solutions suck. Now they are also in the focus of privacy interested media and therefore end up becoming stories.

The Intercept didn't care about Zoom a few months ago and wouldn't have without Corona.
As Volvo goes electric, here’s how it’s making its batteries top-notch
I also predict some utter idiots will indeed take out low interest loans and stake them in the heavily manipulated, volatile casino that is the cryptocurrency market.

Then they will find themselves with a pile of debt and no way to pay it off, just as many have before when 'investing' in hokey schemes and outright scams.
Note that I explicitly pointed out that you don't have to give it away for free - you can charge people for the source code and use a free/open source software license at the same time. It does prevent you from charging a subscription fee (or at least makes it ineffective), but you can also deny them access to updates unless they pay up. Sure, someone could stick the code online somewhere else, but now customers would have to trust some random third party to forward the legitimate code to them, and this third party has to compete with your established marketing funnel.
In my experiment, the Crystal version (https://github.com/nukata/little-scheme-in-crystal) was 38x faster than the Ruby version (https://github.com/nukata/little-scheme-in-ruby) and comparable to the Java version (https://github.com/nukata/little-scheme-in-java).
Indeed, it is in the fastest group. See https://github.com/nukata/little-scheme#performance
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Synchronized editing: the future of collaborative writing
I used to think all of that. Then getting rid of my books improved my life more than almost any other act. It took time and a few rounds of culling, but transformed how I looked at possessions and led to reducing much of my other stuff. I wrote it up, hoping it might help someone like I was: https://joshuaspodek.com/less_please.