skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a question we’ve gotten quite a bit (second author here).

A good intuition is that if it were easy to do it already with any background, professional studios wouldn’t be spending so much money on green screens. Background subtraction is pretty poor in general without very constrained setups. Our goal is really to provide professional quality without any of the equipment.
I think, and I also trust, the author’s take on this, as the art, stylization, etc, on this is all on point.

Some people can respect an original work well enough that it becomes canon, I witnessed this in the Sonic Retro community by watching an incredible C-based Sonic the Hedgehog eventually become the best official Sonic game in years, Sonic Mania.

SEGA’s treatment of the fan developer community, listening to them and apparently even hiring from them is diametrically opposed to, say, Nintendo’s approach of ‘Cease and Desist’.
Previous versions of SmileBASIC also exist on the DSi (under the name "Petit Computer") and 3DS (simply called "SmileBASIC").
SpaceX is doing it with rockets. So ...
It seems to me those are two sides of the same coin. After all, gravity is an external force that takes significant effort to work against.
Ask HN: In the case of Android, which framework(s) are devs going towards?
'm working on an open-source, cross-platform Distributed database[1] and wanted some opinion on which framework should we support for Android development.

Choose from the following options & comment in the thread.

A. Java

B. Kotlin

C. React Native

D. Flutter

E. Any other options? Comment Below

[1]: https://github.com/dappkit/aviondb
Out of curiosity how exactly would people die without any alcohol?
Do you really need to be spoon fed? Come on, Dan.

https://julay.world/tech/res/2387.html
https://8kun.top/pnd/res/62485.html
https://julay.world/tech/7.html
https://kiwifarms.net/search/2622647/?q=%22hacker+news%22&o=...

Here's one where they're having a laugh at how pliable you are. https://kiwifarms.net/threads/open-source-software-community...
I recently tried to do this with Python OpenCV but it was too slow and had a lot of artifacts caused by my own shadows.
I believe the software should add wide spaces after periods correctly, and not the user. Two reasons: first, two spaces is too big a separation between sentences. Second, it's really hard to maintain consistency (or ensure that there's consistency) in the use of double spacing without the help of software. It's easy to miss when reviewing.

Let the software do this menial task. That's what computers are for, aren't they?
I always enjoyed the fact that this episode aired in 1996 and the Broncos went on to win the Superbowl in 1997, 1998, and then again in 2015. There is no question that the Broncos have been a much more successful franchise than the Cowboys since the air date of that episode. I guess Jerry Jones isn't as smart as Homer.
They have a list. But anyway, why are they restricted to "essential" orders only? To improve the safety of the Amazon employees.
I thought that the whole point of Indian Pale Ale was that it would last longer, as in it would survive a sea voyage from England to India in the 1800s (6 months)
Withdrawal symptoms (primarily seizures, I believe) can be lethal.
Can't ubereats set a $200 minimum order or similar?
The Witch [we intend to case havoc]
People can be severely addicted to alcohol to the point of physical dependence.

https://www.medscape.com/answers/819502-79121/what-is-the-mo...

"The mortality rate from severe alcohol withdrawal and delirium tremens (DT) historically has been as high as 20% if untreated. Early recognition and improved treatment has reduced the mortality rate from DT to approximately 1-5%"

So this means people either die or go to emergency care with severe symptoms that require hospitalization, which obviously is to be avoided at a time like this.
Alcohol withdrawal can be fatal in some cases. I have a childhood friend who had multiple seizures from alcohol withdrawal and is it in a semi vegetative state.
I often encounter (especially among academics) people who are quick to refute questions or ideas on trivial grounds based on trivial formal description errors of the type described in this post. To any non-expert the intent of the ideas or questions is clear, but the formal thinkers are often quick to dismiss based on these trivial inconsistencies. I have a strong aversion to being dismissive or mean to people, especially in public, so by default I reinterpret in those cases - "If by X you really mean Y (where the difference between X and Y is only clear to an expert well-versed in formal descriptions of the subject matter) then yes, that is an interesting idea - the pros and cons are as such...". 99% of the time they actually mean Y, but they're just not quite well-versed enough to phrase it that way - or, upon knowing that swapping from X->Y converts their statement from trivial to meaningful, they would often be happy with Y capturing the sentiment they wish to convey.

I have started proselytizing this approach to my colleagues, because some of them are simply too formally minded to "pull themselves out" enough to interpret such statements generously. I do think some subset do use this sort of denigrating approach to cement their authority, which I find silly.
Time for the US to get into the vegemite business
I'm from a country that just made dictatorship official (Hungary), took away most money from the opposition, raided hundreds of big companies with the Hungarian military while keeping the companies secret, distributed more PPE outside the country than inside for us.

In US the states are fighting for getting PPE for the doctors (fighting over millions of dollars), while the FED increased the balance sheet by more than 70% (trillions of dollars) to prop up big zombie companies that were already highly overvalued, bailed out Blackrock investments instead of paying salaries for people who they want to stay home.

I'm right now in France, where people are getting their paychecks every month normally, just not from their employer, but the government.

Regarding south Korea, I read an earlier interview where he doesn't understand why the western world doesn't use masks (basically he called us stupid, just didn't say the word).

Masks were working 100 years ago, and everybody had one, I just don't believe that the government couldn't have ramped up production if they really wanted instead of just thinking of their investments potentially losing value.
I meant to say, "There's a fairly significant difference between communicating as needed in the office, and asynchronously when we're remote".
Thanks. I appreciate the attention to detail! FWIW, the distinction between the two is blurry given that most people I’ve known in academia never use TeX directly other then through LaTeX.
Agile In Their Own Words

https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....
why do you think schools and sports entertainment need the same representation rules?
Withdrawal symptoms of alcohol addiction can be pretty severe.
I recently tried to do this with OpenCV but I didn't figure out how to make it fast enough and remove artifacts caused by my own shadows.
They are also sending beer that is expired or can’t be distributed to a nearby craft distiller to be turned into hand sanitizer.

That's an excellent solution, as the demand for the latter has definitely been going up rapidly in the past little while.
"Cash for Clunkers" required you to be a new car I'm pretty sure.

The problem is that there are huge amount of used cars now, and way more used cars are coming of leases. Don't expect to get much more for your old car for a while.

At the same time some Automakers have access vehicles on the logistical trail that dealers don't want to take on, as they are already have to many cars.

The Auto industry is gone run into big issues going forward. They are like banks and their assets are plummeting in value, specially the resale value of all those ICE cars.
>Everyday consumer cars haven't offered anything interesting to the consumer for nearly 20 years

(part time car dealer in the UK here)

While I don't think that's completely true, I think it's pretty much right. Most cars just offer incremental improvements over the previous model, and styling changes. They're clearly better in most ways, but tend to be larger and heavier because of this.

I have a 12 year old van (Renault trafic) as my daily transport (6 seater as my gf has 4 kids). Its got 230000 miles on it, drives perfectly and still does 40mpg. For work I sometimes hire a new equivalent (I play bass in the band of a 1970s rock star, and drive us to some UK gigs), and while it's a bit smoother and nicer to drive and had features like cruise control, to buy one would be about £25000... And the kicker? Worse on fuel than my own van! (I've hired several, across other manufacturers, none beat 35mpg,and that was on motorway runs).

Cars have got to the same point Microsoft Word did in 97.
I think it’s a purposeful abstraction for relative estimation of a task. Since nobody is good at estimating the exact number of days a particular task will take, story points are a way to give a general estimate of task complexity (usually people end up equating this to a rough timeframe) without having to commit to a specific number of days.

In our 2 week sprints we have four possible story point values - 3, 5, 8, 13. If the story should take a couple of days, it’s 3 points. If the story will probably take the full sprint, it’s 13 points. If the story is somewhere in between, pick 5 or 8.
> In order to upload your works to the server or unlimited downloading of the published works, you need to purchase Server Tickets in the game.

ok.. so it costs money, but if I want to share a game I write, or look at others, I'd have to buy some kind of ticket? $9 to upload a limited amount of code, https://ec.nintendo.com/AU/en/titles/70010000010544/consumab...

What's next, some kind of "purchase another 100 lines of code" DLC package? You know, as a kid I learned BASIC from school friends, neighbors, and family members, and taught BASIC to many more, by trading the source code freely. Books like "BASIC Computer Games" were gotten at the library for free. My computer booted into BASIC for free.

Now I realize how disadvantaged I was, this is the future -- teaching children about "platforms", that hold your code hostage, monetize on your creative works, and nickel and dime away your creative energy.

To think, all that nasty PIRATING of BASIC code !! Without paying anyone?! Thousands of dollars on the table, finally somebody is monetizing this!
This is the harder part :).

We are trying two things:

#1 - Interviewing companies to build a profile.
We are working with ~25 companies to pull this information and build a profile of their culture. And, we are working to add more companies. You can see an example of the process and what we are trying to create on the other side of this at WorkDNA (https://workdna.com/ - email me at ben@workdna.com if you are interested). This process is largely self reported, but our team writes everything and we have a framework where we look for proof that time or money is being spent on a value.

#2 - Survey individual engineers to build a profile.
We are in the early stages of working with companies to profile them by giving their entire engineering team a survey. This is a bottom up approach. We are also looking at ways we could collect individual data points from engineers. We both want to augment company profiles with this data but also use it to match engineers to team's that have what they want.
What? No, that's not right at all. "banning flamebait and spam comments" is nowhere near the same thing. Come on...
As I mentioned in another comment: I think you get cause and effect wrong - and that is imho a big issue and makes the entire discussion really annoying.

The destruction of the social safety net in the US allows companies to act differently in the US than in other countries.

So: Amazon pays above minimum wage, gives more leave to its employees than legally required, has stricter safety standards than legally required (didn’t a president just ask in a press conference recently whether drinking bleach couldn’t cure Corona? Where was that again - rural South America?) - and still they are the evil ones.

In Europe, any Amazon warehouse worker’s has full medical health coverage (including his family), his kids go to university for free, get the same schooling as the kids of a CEO, probably has 5-6 weeks vacation and if he quits his job - all of that will still hold. So per your logic, we should praise Amazon for all of that. But that would be equally illogical - because Amazon is not the root cause for all these benefits.

No Jeff Bezos means: well, no shipments in times of dire need, no cloud compute, no 75+k jobs during the biggest “job recession” in American history. Also means no Blue Origin and no Washington Post.

What I find interesting: You guys seem so paranoid and jealous about giving any benefit you have earned yourself so hard (e.g. health insurance) to anybody that appears to achieve less than you do that you collectively fight any improvement to the system. You DO NOT want all the benefits of a social safety net for everybody - hence nobody gets anything. Don’t blame this on Bezos, but blame it on yourself.
Why do you think it's a huge disadvantage? Your advice seems defeatist, and at best, is highly discouraging. Do you really think it's a good idea to tell a young high schooler to game the system to get into college?
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simple solution: convert it to malt vinegar. this is a natural process caused by introducing a vinegar culture into the beer. then, sell it to the food industry or divert it to your food holdings (hot sauces or snacks.)

this can also be distilled into acetic acid which is used in everything from solvents to cervical cancer screens and the production of precursors for polyvinyl acetate.
After six months it's basically Heineken, so great by 19th century standards...
Yep that is what we are trying to do, profile from the bottom up by surveying the entire engineering team every 3 to 4 months.

We also think it is important to show what the leadership team wants their culture to be, how they spend time/money on that, and how that is going.
For purposes of college admissions, it includes everyone whose ethnicity is from an Asian country - East, Southeast and South Asians. Afghanistan is in a bit of a gray zone between the Middle East and Asia.
Covid-19 is linked to AKF (search). As an older hacker (not a Boomer), I can tell you that the kids who setup microbreweries back in the day first tried to escape into project management and then wound up...not-in-tech.
I currently work at a FAANG and we have a chaotic, low-touch approach that honestly seems to work pretty well. There are only two issues I see with it: it requires a high degree of trust in the engineers from management, and it could be possible to skate by doing the bare minimum without it being noticed (it is noticed usually, it's just not publicly shamed in regular standups). This has the major benefit of allowing developers to manage priorities as things change/pop up/assumptions change, and gives them the latitude to take on complex tasks that aren't easily decomposed or estimated a priori.

I think part of the issue is that Agile is meant to be a Process imposed from top down to improve productivity by X%, a way for management and a small army of backlog/task managers to say they are doing Something and having impact (or literally the only thing they actively do). Not only can it easily get in the way of that, it almost always fosters an environment of shaming and lack of trust, because it is too tempting for estimates to be taken too seriously or productivity/performance measured "objectively" by invoking the task-tracking system (in which case you incentivize only taking on very easy, very well understood tasks). It doesn't always devolve to that, but I think at many places if anybody Important up in the management chain starts thinking that way, it will inevitably trickle down. Thus any sufficiently large organization will corrupt Agile.

Perhaps some companies need that level of accountability and visibility, even knowing and disliking the drawbacks, but not all of them. I am honestly not convinced that a rigid process is necessary at all. Yes it makes sense to have a system where you keep track of things that need to be done, but if there's a culture of trust, I don't think the system needs to be gamified or fetishized as much as it usually is.
I'm pretty shocked by the lack of empathy here.

Do any of these people railing against affirmative action really think that Native/African/Hispanic Americans should be locked in a self-reinforcing cycle of declining educational and economic outcomes?

Maybe going to your second choice school is an ok tradeoff for trying to raise and entire segment of society from relative poverty and discrimination.

* Am Asian, got rejected by Stanford and Harvard
> it looks more like a bad copy of a French car

Could you provide an example of this "French car" that they copied? A google image search for "French SUV" doesn't turn up any cars that particularly resemble the G3. A search for "French electric vehicle" turns up with a bunch of Smart Car lookalikes. It's like whenever China is mentioned people turn into Markov chains and have to work the word copy into the rest of their sentence regardless of the reality.

Edit: You added a bit about the interior looking like a Model S's, which I agree with. Personally I believe touch screens in a car console should be illegal.
There are plenty of earth orbiting actual fission reactors, not like the RTGs you have heard about.

There were quite a few sent up by the Soviets (from 1967-1988) and at least one malfunctioned, failed to eject its reactor into a disposal orbit and scattered radioactive waste across northern Canada.

Even the Soviets didn't intend to send nuclear reactors to burn up on reentry; I'd be surprised if that was anyone's plan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-A

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BES-5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_954

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_1402

"...44 kg of uranium had been dispersed into the stratosphere after the incident..."
Thanks, that is great idea and def something on our future list to add nuance!
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Easily 2 pots for me, probably average 6-7 cups.
Perhaps, but if you think about how systems like this work today, for example scanning ID at the entrance to a nightclub or bar.

One way something like this is likely to be implemented is by validating a ticket or access card/token with a saliva swab. This is just too easy and attractive an opportunity for data collection to be passed up by some operators with business models that monetise the data as a revenue source.
At any given point of time, a disproportionate number of shoppers in a store are super-shoppers - people that shop more often than the average person and for longer periods of time. Those people are also more likely to have caught Coronavirus before. Without even getting into online ordering, false positives, etc...this phenomenon alone may confound the test results.
Can someone shed light on the relation between filecoin and IPFS? My initial thinking was that filecoin is the incentive layer to pin IPFS content but I see not mention of IPFS on the provided link. Did Filecoin and IPFS separate or did filecoin generalize their "offering"?
Yep you would still need to do interviews, but our goal is to connect you with more companies who are a match for the culture and work environment you want... what we don't want is for you to put a job aplication in only to never hear back.
Ford and GM simply were not making money on those cars. What was your solution. Just continue to lose billions every year on cars that nobody wants? They tried multiple times to come out with new models and so on.

Focusing on SUV and Trucks is the only reason they still exist at all.

The problem is not them building SUV or Trucks, but not innovating fast enough and not being able to effectively beat out VW and Toyota in many global markets.

> Americans --the majority of them-- want cheap cars that are inexpensive to maintain and reliable to own. full stop.

That is contrary to every evidence we have. People want big cars that they can pack their family and 10 shopping bags in.

> Capitalism says otherwise and auto loans are a 1.1 trillion dollar bubble, with an average lending period of six years. Im frankly shocked no one is talking about an impending collapse of auto lending.

In the car industry people are absolutely talking about that.
It was required by APA until very recently , with the seventh edition. I feel zero shame for never paying that rule a gram of heed.
I think the OPs point would be it would lead to more aggression and that then would lead to the more deaths.

Now I don't know if that link exists and in fact I suspect it could be the opposite, as many people become more aggressive the more they drink.
I think Asians pay a high price in terms of handicaps in legislation in the modern day to account for those historical injustices perpetrated onto other minorities by the historic majority.
Each of the things you mention sound perfectly fine if it works for your team and you are able to deliver your customer’s highest priority items while keeping your team happy.
Yes, just tried it the other day and it's great. Not a hint of acidity. Now need to decide which one I like best.
I think it's only sometimes healthy to take on more stuff after you've completed what you set out to that day. In my mind, the reward for productivity should not be more work. Fuck that. At the office or not, most of the time I'll try and get what I set out to do that day done, and then leave unless there's something pressing. Mostly though, if there was something pressing, then it would have been part of my goal for that day anyway.

You'd put someone on the chopping block for being too efficient? That doesn't sound sensible.
Honest question: Did a quick lookup on filecoins price. Filecoin is not real yet, it is FUD or in financial terms a future, right?
edit: not a great example as values[1] >0 would be better.

Only if that's an array of unsigned ints, as otherwise the code would count only positive nonzeros.
I would add one more step at the very end.. a feedback/rating question - either simply “Did this help you decide?” Yes or no, and “was it a good/right decision?” Yes or no. “Which one did you ultimately decide”? Or you could add likert scale rating... but I like that you kept the tool simple.

I could see this being mined/modeled later using machine learning, natural language, market basket analysis, a whole bunch of things, to try to help people make decisions. You must have thought about those possibilities.

It’s a cool tool/idea!
I guess 'lasting' meant, 'getting you drunk, not sick' back then. It does that just fine, also after the taste and aroma of the hops have become dull over time.
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I won't mix up master's and PhD. The latter is a much stronger filter, and harder work for a less certain reward.

(Disclaimer: walked out of my postgrad program after 3 years, because the industry, with all its warts, is so much saner than the academia.)
Yep, we are aware and working to get past that limitation. Part of this is trying to make a more efficient and effective "resume" which brings in the right info while maintaining privacy.

So a company can only see candidates that are a high match for the culture and work environment they create. And, then they can see candidates who match the position they are hiring for, i.e. an embedded hardware/software position or so on.
Won’t that mess up titles like Dr. Livingstone and Mr. President?

Splitting text into sentences is actually really hard.
You'll have per transaction charges no matter what service you use - it's charged by the bank.