skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you like projects check these out:

1. You can drain the mediterranean.

It’s simple, really. Plug the straight of Gibraltar up, put a lock system for continued shipping, and, slowly, the sea will evaporate away.

That’s insane!

2. You can drain/flood the attic sea by damning the Bearing strait.

While the sea wouldn’t be sealed up, the Giuk gap isn’t big enough to stop significant changes in water levels!

It’s actually kinda fun to look at a map and find what massive bodies of water are within our ability to drain
You can prevent people from making a profit on it... in the legal marketplace*, in the US/EU†.

You don't think people would pay serious crypto for access to this? Or that states with different "ethics" wouldn't pay for it?
Physics: Quantum Gravity - Quantum Field Theory does not combine well with General Relativity

Physics/Astrophysics/Cosmology: Dark Matter and Dark Energy - are clearly observed, no satisfactory explanation exists.

Astrophysics (and Science in general?): very knowledgable specialized domain experts have issues learning from each other: too many different concepts, relations, methods. Even if universe is shared, representations are not easy to map on it at once. Astrophysics is especially bad in this.
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I think NASA is usually a politically safe place to be. Airplane crashes are unpopular and media-friendly. Rocket explosions or shuttle crashes (esp. with people on them) often result in an Oval Office address. Nobody wants to be on the short end of that stick. Funding is spread out across the U.S. esp. Texas and Florida to ensure broad political support (or at least apathy), and scientists and engineers don't make too much fuss. It's like the military's baby brother.

For a long time, I was cynical about even the principle of going to space before we solved problems down here, but now I'm more stoic and appreciative. It's a tangible, tractable hope that gets people out of bed in the morning, and consciously keeping that candle lit is the very best of being human.
Snap Camera, CamTwist, and OBS are all options for that. Zoom recently had issues with using these virtual webcams on macOS, don't know if it's been fixed.
It does not matter whether you trust the government or not. The only thing that matters is whether you can resist the government or not.
I realize that, but it skips over the last question in my previous post. Why didn't we see a similar situation in any California nursing homes if this mild strain was spreading unchecked for months in a population with zero immunity?
And there are good reasons to believe reinfection shouldn't be possible, to be clear - it's not just being dismissed out of hand.
"The group, Amazon Employees for Climate Justice"

That's hardly "Amazon employees", it's just a couple of people who are bonkers and happen to be Amazon employees. Fake news headline.
I wonder, how much can it improve over this: https://youtu.be/c_0s06ORTkY

X27 is also using some kind of neural algorithm to denoise and get maximum out of the CIS
neither inventions nor discoveries have to be interesting.

>squirgle florb snozbar

yes, you invented something (i think you can even claim copyright on that). I agree that it is not very interesting. mathematicians usually/sometimes produce more interesing inventions.
There are new, very large public English speech datasets: Mozilla Common Voice, National Speech Corpus, which can be combined with LibriSpeech to train large models.
This is exactly the kind of thing the lunatic militias in the 90s were terrified about. Those people are still around, and if you try to give them 'the mark of the beast', for better or worse, there will be blood.
Of course it is. These people are sociopaths.
I'd be more concerned about the radiation coming out of your cell phone or microwave or laptop wifi before losing an ounce of sleep over hidden shipping container radiation.

You'll get cancer from off-gassing plastic products before shipping container radiation gives you leukemia.
Yes, they look really great and responsive, too. I'd actually like to know how they were done... Are they just basically coded by hand or is there a visual tool you can use to design interactive graphical stuff like this in what I guess is HTML5/CSS/maybe JavaScript, similar to (dare I mention the word) Flash in the olden days? (Sorry, haven't done any web development in decades, obviously :-)).
Somehow, the number of deaths has become a partisan political issue -- with one party wanting to suppress the numbers and another party wanting to "run up the score" -- because the lockdowns are a partisan issue now.

Democrats want to keep the lockdowns through at least June 1st, with major restrictions on movement at least through 2022, and some restrictions forever (see the "new normal" propaganda push)

Republicans see an opportunity to compare these lockdowns with authoritarian policies from history, and are pushing to end restrictions quickly, and make it harder for states and counties to impose lockdowns in the future.

As a result, virtually nobody has an interest in just reporting how the virus is going. Everyone has a narrative in mind, and chooses facts based more or less solely on how they promote that narrative.

New York wants high numbers. Many Midwest states want low numbers. So they produce them.
My experience over the last couple of days is: not here on HN.

The amount of misinformation and/or blatant disregard for human lives I've seen on this site is staggering. Maybe it comes from most people here not being at-risk, but I am still very disappointed.
I saw 19/6563 and only 6 of them are software engineers.

I wouldn't say that is a bunch in this time, more like regular process.
I agree that the crust is good. It needs to have that chewy glutenous quality.
> <changes name to AAAAAISL>

Welcome to the world of being first author of a publication in particle physics.

A colleague of mine took the name of is wife to gain the A as first letter.
Almost every business in the developed world relies on warehouse workers and pickers. Any manufacturer that sells parts or replacement parts relies on pickers. Every grocery store chain or department store chain relies on warehouse workers and pickers.

Small outlets rely on distributors that rely on warehouse workers and pickers.

Just about everything people use, eat, ride, drive, or wear relies on warehouse workers.

Most non-Amazon warehouse workers are treated worse and paid less than Amazon employees.

If you hate Amazon so be it, but hating them for the way they treat their warehouse workers and pickers is not rational unless you hate just about every modern business equally.
A professor at my University mentioned that when he was a student, the professors at that time claimed that the security of BGP is a solved problem and nobody is going to talk about it in ~2 years. This was +20 years ago. He has spent a lot of his research on an alternative for BGP called SCION[1], as the adaption of BGPSec is not very straight forward and rather an ugly fix.
I think it is pretty interesting that the problems of BGP are not discussed more widely and often.

[1] https://www.scion-architecture.net/
Oh, that's downright tiny. I can see how that could fit easily on a regular package.
It sounds neat in theory, but there are no screenshots and I can't view any kind of demo without creating an account which is a non-starter so I have no idea what the actual quality is.
But, with RPKI getting the cert infra in place, would that not then make it relatively easier to take that 2nd step, than when not even RPKI was in place?
I sympathize, because Linkedin's ui is SHIT, and I've worked on both sides of it - recruiter and engineer. It sucks to search, it sucks to present yourself, it rewards bad practice.

That being said, that's the game. If you can't get it done, someone else will get hired through linkedin, and you won't. Linkedin is in my experience the most popular way to find candidates when your application pipeline isn't yielding the candidates you need.
>As a photographer, the comparison to "raw" results without color balance or noise removal seems somewhat deceptive.

Huh? At 1:40 in the video that's exactly what they do.
Yup. Right now we're seeing LEO technology move from "only well funded nation states can do this" to "BigCo will sell this to you as a service".

A similar transition happened in the 1500s when we went from only nation states (though they weren't called that back then) being able to justify the cost of transportation to the Americas to any old bunch of Christian extremists being able to afford to make the trip.

I really hope I live long enough to see state sponsored and then commodity travel to places other than our planet.
> But due to a missing vswitch in this vlan it was for me at least kinda impossible to create a HA Cluster.

I coudn't understand this part as total noob, but k3s was most fast and light resoure usage than microk8s, kind, minikube.
Should probably drop the dis- , thanks. Too many conditions in a row too fast is how I get bugs in my code just like in my written sentences :P
The about claims this list is for covid19 layoffs?

I work for Amazon, and (afaik) we’re not doing covid-related layoffs right now, so it seems a bit disingenuous to use this list if you were laid off for PIP/dev plan or other reasons.

That said, the market is in a rough place right now, so I can’t blame anyone for doing what they can, but yeah.
I don't know where you're getting your news, but yea they are. Amazon FCs around the world have been implementing mandatory distancing protocols, mandatory usage of hand sanitizer and masks (which Amazon provides where there aren't shortages), mandatory temperature checks before entering the warehouse, increased PTO, unlimited unpaid time off if you're having symptoms, and more.

This is exactly what I'm talking about when I say it's getting exhausting. There is an incredible amount of misinformation/hyperbole going around about how these employees are treated. Again, warehouse work isn't glamorous and they're definitely not in as good of a situation as your average SWE sitting at home sipping beer while Zooming, but if you read past the clickbait headlines, Amazon is doing all of the things you just accused them of not doing.
Airbnb lays off contractors and postpones summer internships
How courteous of you to assign gender definitions to people based on their chromosomes! Binary gender theory is the tail wagging the dog; it's backwards reasoning used to prop up outdated cultural beliefs.
> Is Handshake based on a cryptocurrency coin? Does that coin trade on coin markets? Are there early backers and investors?

Handshake is based on the ideal that the internet belongs to the people.

> If so: it's a dead project. I don't know why anyone would take it seriously. I'm skeptical of the entire model for any application. But for Internet infrastructure? Never going to happen.

People will always strive for better. I believe it will be Handshake, but if not, something else will come. People find a way, that's how we all got here today. This very thread itself is proof that the current system doesn't fulfill the wishes of humanity and there is a need for change.

If you believe Handshake has faults, let's all work together and improve it!
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17064079
Interestingly, this is effectively an extreme version of solving the colorization of black & white photos problem. I wonder what the results would be if you just threw some black and white photos into the model.
Isn't it the stupidest thing to do in current situation ? Endangering lives of crews, operations and families.
Looks like it was just published today! https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.04.14.20062463v1

Here’s the HN submission for discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22900730
Yes, I think this is what they'd argue too. But something to think about: Recently Google was asked (in France[1]) to start paying publishers for including news snippets in search results. That data is also "public" in the sense that it is available for crawling, but it is still owned by creators who can (and did) exercise rights to limit use. Presence of a third platform like Facebook further complicates this (I don't know if you sign off your rights to your photos when you upload them to FB for example).

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/french-regulator...
I couldn't find a single radioactivity sensor in europe urad's network.

https://snipboard.io/FkpN0c.jpg

regarding the first website, I couldn't find a way to have a range bigger than 24h.

https://snipboard.io/fOmbWe.jpg

Maybe I'm missing something...
Sorry about that, getting a video up ASAP. For now, here is a screenshot of the editor: https://twitter.com/r_lindskog/status/1251202889583865856/ph...
I like the first 2/3, the last can be interpreted as padding by some eyes. I’ve had that for most of my career and never had it called that. I do have a short and dense resume tho, so I think the total package must be considered with each option.

I always do intro/cover letters tho, and have something like “Professional Contributions,” and Education listing F/LOSS with my mid-career CS degree, like extra-curriculars from coding.
Please don't do this. What would be a fun crack in person becomes a plastic garbage patch here.
That is the duopoly in China. Alibaba and Wechat - the 2 apps that allow you to do everything. Including paying utilities, phone bills, even taxes.
Surely you mean Aadien Alexander Andrew Anthony Artur? ;)
In Pursuit of PPE
"Sure, the bread I'm handing out is moldy.. but these people who have been starving to death are still lining up to eat it!"
> yes, you invented something

OK, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then. I would not call that an invention (and I think most people would agree).
The data from that time period seems to coincide with positive influenza test results:

https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/fluportaldashboard.html
No location at all? Isnt that fairly important?
That would not be a bug in the software, that would be a bug in the CPU. Still, I haven't ever heard of this actually happening, do you have a link?
And they collect and process this data even if you're a member of the EU - surely this is against the GDPR? I realise the photos they have are publicly available, but that only means I've consented for them to be displayed on Github, Facebook or wherever - it doesn't mean I've consented for some scummy startup to hoover up all my data, process it and index it.

And you have to send them a clear photo of yourself to opt-out... there is something very wrong with that. I don't believe for one second that they don't have, for example, my email address.
Early birds may be happier than night owls (2019)
Well if you legally have to be able to opt out, and they can't opt you out without completely reworking their business, then legally it seems like they should have to rework their business if you opt out. I'd call that a functioning opt out, even though I expect I'm being unrealistically optimistic :(
I also wonder this. Further, what if you built a bot that simply scraped photos of people and submitted all of them to Clearview? Are they legally able to refuse ANY of the submissions?
Why you're having vivid, unusual dreams during quarantine
Can't split tunnel that VPN, because "security." Am I right?
Ask HN: What do you not like about Yelp?
Show HN: Virtual Networking Chat + Socially-distant birthday parties app!
0.2% of nyc has already died from Covid-19. That will probably get to around 0.4% or so. This is a lower bound for lethality of the disease.

We also know from contact tracing and mass testing instances that only something like half of cases stay asymptomatic forever. It is likely that the people in this study are either asymptomatic because they no longer have the disease or because they haven’t developed symptoms yet. Also, they might just not be recognizing their symptoms. Even without covid-19, way more than 7.5% of homeless people are typically coughing.
Not at all, pure math is in part about exploring axiomatic systems that may or may not have a physical counterpart. The latter is immaterial.
A "Two Minute Papers" on this project from 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcZFQ3f26pA
Maybe we can randomize the ordering?
use the webapp then, or use the jitsi sdk for ios or android and build your own app. They even don't enable some tracking when you are not using their servers and use your own.

Anyone who has published an app to any of the app stores, recognizes the valuable information than services like crashlytics provide and the hundreds of ways an app can crash on the user devices.

You may be don't like how it is, but as the parent said, that's not an app issue neither github issues is the place to discuss it.
Also there's a projects section!
Well noted! I will update the docs to reflect this.
Interactive Analytics at Twitter: Querying Terabytes of Data in Seconds
I'm not sure if you're joking, but I've seen some companies actually asking you to send a passport or driving licence copy.
If you could show a basic level of consistency. Take the correctly rendered title on the book vs the incorrect colors; the odds that it got lucky with the text instead of a different title or a book with random letters on the cover are negligible. But if your evidence revolved around the color of the book the villain stole from the library, not so much.

So if you're planning to do crime, make choices where the evidence relies on spectra rather than geometry. Steal Rothkos rather than Mondrians; baggy coveralls are in, form-fitting ninja wear is out.
What are some of the place you buy from that treats their workers better?
A question comes to mind: What would be preserved if converting the visuals back into audio?

This may help answer another question: What type of visual would allow feeling the music without hearing?
Reading a license plate seems like precisely the kind of circumstances where spurious 'plausible interpretation' of limited data can cause trouble.

You show in a courtroom a CNN-enhanced low light image of a car and it's there, literally 'clear as day' - the jury will find it pretty compelling. But maybe the data really wasn't there in the original image, and the CNN just filled in some blanks based on previous images of license plates, letters, and just random noise it had seen in the past.

The worry is when these kinds of algorithms get built in to basic image capture processes, so you never even see the raw data, only data that has already been filtered through the inbuilt prejudices of the CNN enhancement suite.

The camera never lies, but now it doesn't have to, because it can convince itself it saw something that wasn't really there...
To opt-out you need to upload a clear photo, this is more rishy..
You fell into a classic trap: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

It makes no sense to seg out [superior and more agile] software functionality to a one-and-done ASIC or fancy FPGA that has a magnitude order or more of overhead/management that you must immediately invest in.

When I can't feed Nx10GbE or 100GbE with ZFS, I'll consider this an issue. Until then, it is merely an exercise in logical masturbation.
U.S. Builds Ground-Based Arsenal to Jam Russia, China Satellites
Weird that they didn't cite Ken Birman's RNFS paper from 1987 on a highly available, fine grained replicated state machine storage cluster.

Poor Birman seems to be habitually lost to the sands of time.
It literally asks that as a question, posing it as the hypothesis under question.
Take pictures at night with a tripod mounted camera with different exposure brackets?
Typescript (the compiler), documentation, etc. as a language is pretty darn good. It could have more production ready examples, tutorials, and paths (I'd recommend a look at Microsoft's ASP.net Core tutorials which cover production-level material).

But as I said the problem is Typescript inherits the whole mess of bundlers like Webpack and Gulp because they are REQUIRED to make any of it work in production. Ideally Typescript would own the entire bundler step - the closest example would be .NET owning the LINQ and Identity tools/libraries to make the .NET experience so much better.
The A7g image is used for comparison rather than input data, as that camera is widely regard as the state of the art for low-light photography on a non-scientific/military budget.
Sure it's a correlation, in much the same way SAD syndrome more prevalent the further North you go. But some things may well have better papers or links, I was just pointing out what seems to be logical - however - watch this please:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCSXNGc7pfs

A Doctor who has been doing a fair and most excellent overview with a critical mind upon this whole COVID-19 from early on and focused upon evidence. He covers things in a way that may hold more gravitas to that aspect.

One of the many useful reference links from that video that I think covers all this fair and square.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32252338
https://fsw01.bcc.cuny.edu/luis.fernandez01/web/texts/dgcs.p...

Ctrl-F for "2D" (2-dimensional creatures), although I can't find the "discovery", maybe I remember it wrong.

Btw, this was one of the mindfucks I learned studying physics. Other ones are:

- dimensional analysis: checking if formulas can be wrong, and more importantly, finding formulas (eg, period of a pendulum) just by analyzing units that can be involved (no constants obv)
- similarly, rate of growths in dimensions: why giants can't exist (bone resistance is proportional to section area and load (weight) is proportional to volume
- Conservation laws derive easily from symmetries (energy from invariance in time, momentum from invariance in direction etc)
Thank you, thank you!
I was thinking Maybe Aaron Aable.
There are three drawbacks to the setup you describe:

- If a drive fails, the system is offline until you restore from backup. Fine for personal use, but not okay if customers are paying you for a service.

- If a drive fails, any changes since the last backup are lost. Fine for long-term archival, not so great for a bank ledger.

- No capability to detect data corruption. RAID with parity can run a scrub to find and repair bit rot. If data is corrupted on your RAID 0, you probably won't notice, and you'll back up the corrupted. If your filesystem has checksums you will be able to detect the corruption but not repair it. Your filesystem probably doesn't have checksums.

If you frequently run I/O intensive workloads, the extra performance might be worth the tradeoffs. If you're looking for your PC to feel slightly faster it seems foolish.
We've added the year above. Submitted title was "CNN converts night images to perfect daylight in – 1s".
I have a more theoretical followup then :)

So you spend a lot of time in the talk massaging your sequential CPU task into an appropriately GPU task. It's clearly tricky and involves reworking your algorithms to leverage the parallelism and the memory "features" of the GPU. But through rewriting, have you actually substantively hurt the performance of the sequential program?

The big picture question is : is the reverse problem of going from a GPU program to a CPU problem ever problematic? I mean in a algorithmic sense - without looking at micro optimizations for leveraging CPU SIMD instructions or whatever. Or are you always going to be pretty okay with running your shaders sequentially one after another on your big luxurious CPU memory pool?

and ultimately is there anything stopping you from compiling SPIR-V for a CPU? Could you not autgenerate in the kernel dispatcher just a switch that'll branch and run a precompiled on-CPU kernel if no driver is found? Then you'd finally really get compile-once-run-everywhere GPU code

I guess since it's not being done then I'm missing something haha :) Maybe you are going to often hit scenarios where you'd say "No, if I'm going to run this on the CPU I need to fundamentally rewrite the algorithm"