skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have designed lenticular prints in the past and also I'm the person that wrote the vray plugin for rendering CGI to lenticular.

The main thing that everyone wants is a lot of depth, a wow effect. Lenticular technology can only deliver that while your head is static. As soon as you move, you either see stripes move across the image or you need to introduce an unnatural amount of bokeh blur.

The reason for the stripes is that from your eye / camera, different parts of the image have slightly different angles, so slightly different subpixels are visible.

So if they follow your suggestion, they need to ensure that the final video is low quality enough so that you don't see the striping artifacts.

Here's a lenticular print that I had made at 4800dpi, so at a much higher resolution than what a display can hope to achieve

https://www.dropbox.com/s/10nquohksew1fhe/fertig.mts?dl=0

Note the strong blur to hide artifacts, yet you can still see some striping on the background and in the top right corner.

Here's a simulation of the best possible result that one could hope to achieve with 70lpi sheets and 1200dpi effective resolution, which should be close to what this display uses:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1s69k5gmt1n4i5l/simulation_L.jpg?d...

For anything better than that, they need much more subpixels. 2x the pixels for half the banding width.
Some time ago I learned about the Hashlife algorithm, which computes the time-evolution of a pattern in Conway's game of life in time logarithmic in the dimensions and number of iterations, given enough structure. This seems pretty amazing to me - you can simulate a ridiculous amount of cells without much computational power at all.

The standard Game of life viewer is called Golly, and it also uses this algorithm. However, I was curious as to whether I could implement it effectively in the browser - and this is the result (the answer is yes!).

Recommended: Select some large patterns (such as "Turing machine" or "Breeder 1") in the website, increase the speed and step size, and watch the magic happen.

This experiment has a custom Hashlife implementation in JavaScript, with an interface made using Vue and a browser canvas. The code is available at https://github.com/ekzhang/game-of-life.
Your advantage as a small team is in your ability to move quickly. The bigger a team or a company is, the more inefficiencies there are in making decisions and sharing ideas. While you're small, do every thing you can to take advantage of how nimble you are.

One concrete things you might want to consider is setting up a good code integration workflow and an automated release pipeline. This is, without doubt, the single best thing you can do to reduce friction and help you get faster - and speed is your secret weapon. It will also help you stay disciplined since everyone will have to follow the same process to integrate and deliver their changes. But before you dive in to set up the latest and greatest CI/CD setup, remember that you have different needs and requirements to a big company. Keep it simple and only add what you need and what clearly adds value (ask yourself is it worth the time[0]).

Another way that your small size is an advantage is in being able to communicate clearly with each other and make decisions quickly. In larger companies, decisions can get complicated. A small team has the potential to make coherent and strategic decisions without nearly as much fuss. Use that to your advantage.

Don't be too quick to adopt all of the practices of bigger companies and work to your strengths.

[0] - https://xkcd.com/1205/
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That mostly turns up media results, not anything you can extrapolate generally. There is likely money behind this media push somewhere—I’m curious if this extends to real people.

Among other things, this could indicate a market opportunity for a video site that either promises quality or some mechanism to work around DMCA claims—the combination google chose seems to piss everyone off.

Or, it could mean nothing and people just want normal features for the site like the ability to disable comments on the client side.
You may be unfamiliar with the history of terminals, in which case this explanation is for you.

What you might think of as the terminal is really a terminal emulator. A terminal was a device with a screen and keyboard (early terminals like the Teletype were printers with keyboards, or typewriters). Most could only display text. Up until the late 1970s or so, computers were invariably large and most did not come with their own built-in, memory-mapped display hardware. To access them, you had to use one of these terminals which connected usually via a serial cable.

Because Unix was designed to work with these terminals as the user's means of interaction, terminal emulators which spoke the same protocol as the actual terminals became common. When Unix got graphical displays, terminal emulators were based on them so that old, text-based Unix programs could continue to be used in the graphical environment.

Some graphical protocols for terminals emerged. xterm supports three such protocols: Tektronix 4014, DEC Sixel, and DEC ReGIS. Sixel can be used on xterm to transmit color images. However, Sixel support is usually not compiled in by default.

Perhaps the most sophisticated graphical protocol for terminals to emerge into common use was X itself. Yes, vendors used to sell X terminals that were basically bare-bones computers without any local storage, just a network connection that allowed it to present a windowed display from a remote machine.
it just shows how brainwashed people are, even here on HN. Bogeyman corona is coming to eat you all!! Disregard facts, turn on the tv and continue to spit out fear.
Yeah, there’s lots of bad on both sides.

Here in the US we have crimes like Driving While Black. There was just a high profile execution the other day that made headlines, but most fly under the radar.

We also just killed 100,000 people, minimum, through deliberate incompetence, so there’s that. Technically it’s the past, but in practical terms it’s the present. I’ll remind you that Tiananmen Square was quite a while ago.

Rights are relative, people in China don’t have them, people in the US kind of have them sometimes, assuming they’re the right color or have enough money. In broad strokes it’s better in the US, for now.

I personally like to count the foreign deaths and foreign intervention when evaluating countries-the US really likes interfering with our neighbors, and kills lots of people in the Middle East - 200,000+ innocent civilians. But they’re foreign, so they’re not really people, right? https://theintercept.com/2018/11/19/civilian-casualties-us-w... I won’t even begin with the non-lethal interventions, or more subtle interventions like giving arms to authoritarian regimes and/or terrorists.

But I guess China spies, so that’s really bad. It would be terrible if they stole the NSA’s idea and interfered with network equipment. They do like stealing IP. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...

The US does a disservice to the world by not being better in the present. We can’t hold China accountable when we don’t hold ourselves accountable.
I strongly prefer google's speedtest[0] as it's run through M-Labs (Measurement Labs). This group originally gained prominence doing distributed testing of ISP's to determine if they were blocking specific types of traffic (torrents, etc) I think 15 years ago or so.

M-Labs for me has the highest real-world accuracy, because it's designed to obfuscate the testing servers so that your ISP can't cheat or make itself look better by prioritizing M-Labs servers.

0: https://www.google.com/search?q=speedtest
Why does Facebook need a VP of Integrity?

Isn’t that the CEO’s job?
What conservative podcasters came out as pro-Bernie?
Netlify is awesome but isn’t self hosted. I don’t control the deployment and I don’t have access to the logs.
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"And they don't buy companies just to immediately write them down."

Yahoo would like a word.
I don't really want a video site. What I want is a world where people can be held accountable for the things they post publicly on the internet, whether that's YouTube, Facebook, Twitter or any other medium.
> I have set up a landing page and I'm collecting emails to have the first set of users IF I decide to go forward with this.

I don't think you should equate giving you an email address with the willingness to become a user of your product, once it exists. If you end up building this product, it would be interesting to hear about your "conversion rate" for these early emails.

And on the flip side, I personally am very reluctant to give out my email address to an entity that is essentially a company that doesn't exist yet, with a product that doesn't exist yet. Even if I'm very interested in the product in theory. (In this particular case I'm not in your target group.)

Finally, here you write that you are essentially only collecting emails at the moment, while the submission button on the website says "Get Early Access". That is very vague, but to me it suggests that you are at least actively working on development and will have a beta or at least an alpha sometime soon. So I find this very dishonest. Dishonesty is not a great look for an entity that harvests emails, or one that hopes to provide financial services.

All in all, I don't think this is the "right" way to launch this product at all.
The problem is they aren't giving benefit of the doubt in channels that are in good standing for a long time with high subscriber/viewership/video counts. The guy has 100k subscribers and fairly active videos that don't get reported, you'd think that would count for something. Someone doesn't go from uploading regular content to "revenge porn" overnight.

If it doesnt work on large channels then there's no blackmailing possible. If it works on smaller channels then you can't be a "bad actor" as easily.
Thank you for this. Working on a new project using postgres and we were planning on doing single tenant. You've given me lots to think about!
It's 2020 and we're for some reason discussing DRM.

It was repeatedly shown for the last 20+ years that DRM can not work, is detrimental for sales, author popularity and income.

Late Jim Baen of baen.com realized that in 1999 and since then sold DRM-free multiformat books with usually first 1/3 to 1/2 of the text available free. And it works just fine since then.
> Some people seem to think that Delphi ended with version 7 back in the 90s

For me it is the case.
Before Delphi was a really the greatest, smartest and easiest RAD IDE.
I even think that today dev tools are in a bad state and nothing match what we once had back then!
Especialy for creating 'responsive' Gui apps easily.

Then, as shitty companies always do, they changed completely the tool and the language with the new bad .net like one. Despite it to be wrong, they claimed that this was better than what we had before and forced it on users.
But it was not anymore the Pascal Object that we liked!
>why should we trust you to conduct or fund it properly?

You are welcome to conduct research or fund it. You can even help current research by criticizing their research in its substance, or engage yourself politically (at least by voting) so we can have more and better research about the topic.
I work in the public sector of Europe. One of the primary reasons that we prefer Azure and AWS to google cloud is support.

When things go really wrong on our office365 platform or any part of Azure, Seattle will call us on the the hour with updates until it’s fixed. We have programs within Microsoft support where our developers and sysops can suggest changes, and if the suggestions gather enough popularity and fit within whatever criteria Microsoft have internally they’ll happen.

AWS didn’t always have the great support they do now, but as far as cloud operations (the nerdy bits) go, I think they’re actually better at it than even Microsoft. It build up gradually along with GDPR, but they were the first of the major three to offer things like support for AWS services that’s actually located within the European Union. I’m not updated on Microsoft, but AWS may still be the only company to do that.

Compare that to Google, where we get to talk with an automated system, the same as though we weren’t a 3,3 billion a year budget organisation. I’ve had better personal support for my free google account than I have for our company google cloud account.

Don’t get me wrong, we would probably have a lot of GDPR related reasons to prefer Azure or AWS even if google had better support, but the lack of support means we’ve never gotten beyond that step in our risk assessments.
Lol. American movies also tend to romanticize the wars they wage.
The launch is scheduled for 16:33 EDT (20:33 UTC)
The Zettelkasten approach doesn't require memorization at all, it is assumed that you will keep working with your notes forever and they are the memory.

But it also emphasises putting each idea on its own note, paraphrasing into your own words rather than merely copying, and thinking deeply about other notes and topics you already have that the new note might relate to. And that has to help with remembering them.
Personal supporting anecdote:

I have a grandfathered free GSuite plan on a domain I hardly use.

The few issues I have had have been promptly solved by a real person.
I'll bite.

That percentage represents a million people in the US. It also doesn't represent the number of people who may experience shortened lifespans due to damage to their lungs or other organs.

Also, the comment suggests that we do nothing for the flu, which is patently false. We organize massive vaccination efforts every year to combat the flu, we have readily available tests, and we have a well understood model for how it spreads and how to treat it (including antivirals if caught early.)

Comparing it to the flu seems to be arguing in bad faith along political lines rather than deeply examining the issue.
I've always been hesitant to write book reviews or synopses because I believe I have nothing new to add, but this is a novel idea that also benefits the reader by increasing retention. I believe I will start doing this; thank you for the inspiration!
Ah you mean (p×(p–1))÷12=(p²–p)÷12.

In that case it’s just the old p=6n±1.
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sometimes channeling a bit of anger as an engineer can be a pretty good motivator to do things The Right Way(TM). that is to say, I have some sympathy with engineers being angry at technology - obviously it's not ideal as a communication tool like here...
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Aren't YouTube's customers the advertisers paying to have their ads displayed? YouTubers are not customers. At best, I believe they are "partners" (like with Twitch)
China pissed off the US so much they blacklisted Huawei, and threatens anyone working with it.
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> A young person is building their life, lockdown is preventing them from doing that.

I find this comment utterly mind boggling. The US's stay at home orders were issued when? Mid to end of March? That makes it what? About 1 month? Are we supposed to believe that "young people" suddenly get into a tail spin because they have to endure a whole month of not finding a partner, get to know each other, make life plans, and get pregnant?
> I agree in that perhaps entities with a public platform (in this case, literally the internet domain) should be compelled to provide reasonably equal access/equal speech rights to everybody.

Agree with who? I said that I'm tired of seeing the defense, especially when it's in response to a concrete question that it doesn't answer. You apparently disagree with that entirely. I'm not tired of the defense because I don't understand it, I'm tired of it because I do understand it and don't need constant reminders of it to derail legitimate discussions of how ICANN deals with possibly trademark infringing uses of their services.

I don't know what makes you believe that I don't understand that and keep posting links irrelevant to how ICANN deals with these cases, which again is the question being asked. I'm frankly not sure how I didn't make that clear in my last reply.
For Theranos I guess it was roughly:

1) list of big names advising or on board of directors acquired through connections

2) total adressable market of blood tests

3) current cost and complexity - need full vial for each single test

4) promise of lower cost and complexity - just one drop of blood

5) at some point down the time line they likely have added DoD contract and Walgreens partnership
Back in those days, one could take a full two-week summer vacation, and come back to the company still using the exact same stack!
Which only makes it more impressive.
(2011) is important context here.
It seems pretty clear that the systemic effects of COVID-19 are much worse than those of seasonal flu. You don't see news of hospitals struggling to cope with seasonal flu the way we've seen now. You don't have Italian doctors triaging patients with the flu.
Western Europe will do it as means to incentivize auto sales after the pandemic. Car sales fell 80% in Europe. President Macron has already announced such a plan yesterday. This includes infrastructure:

"The number of battery charge-points will be tripled to 100,000 by the end of next year."

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52814074
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Knowde could make billions building the marketplace for $5T chemicals industry
Moxie gave a nice talk about American action movies [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOMiAeRwpPA
I was slightly interested in Jimmy Chin's Adventure Photography class and so googled around. One of the Reddit comments described the ingest/review procedure as basically having an assistant do the cull. Obviously you can easily adapt to a single-operator environment, but it does kill the charm a little when part of the lesson is "This bit is so mundane I get someone else to do it for me."
“We come to these decisions through rigorous debate where we look at all angles of how our decisions will affect people in different parts of the world”

If you had any integrity, you would delegate this governance back to the captured provinces.
I feel it was only a matter of time. Amazon is competing on every front. And any transportation initiative would be core to their business. I won't be surprised if they bought an airplane company.
In my long experience, website doesn't do much.

Most of the business I've got in consulting field is through word of mouth and you spend sometime on call with the customer to understand what exactly they want and what you can offer to them at what price point and if you've previous successful projects to show off to them.

Getting project from a customer who approaches you is really easy provided you've experienced and I start by understanding their requirements then offering them deep domain expertise overview of how we are going to slice and dice the problem at hand.

Now ofc, if you don't have much experience with the domain - the person in front of you'll easily detect your BS.

Websites doesn't really help much other than opening a line of communication and probably displaying some previous customers, success and maybe your company address / size.
Thanks for your answer, that's exactly the vision I have for jql: keep it simple and easy to use. jq is super powerful but most of its features are way beyond what should be - IMHO - a small CLI tool to query JSON when what you need is just making a selection / filtering the data. Both tools also have slightly different selection grammars.
also applies to android developers as well. they have been struggling for a very long time due to app takedowns without human intervention.
Very. I read the article and was very confused for quite a while until I realized this.
They're also a recruitment tool. It's much easier to convince people to join Google with the promise of working on cool new tech, instead of just micro-hyper-optimizing endless facets of ad placement.
Whenever you see someone who you believe to be an idiot succeeding, it usually means they're really good at the game and you don't even understand what the game is.
I live in San Francisco in a particular neighborhood where there is a large amount of self driving cars being tested. I assure you, none are ready for prime time. I had one almost drive directly into me last week but I saw the operator take control of the wheel urgently.
Risk aversion and capital?
Twitter labels Trump’s tweets with a fact check for the first time
Should be:
> If idiots call everyone else idiots, how come their are not rich?
Was computing dumbed down by the arrival of computer science in academia?
That’s frankly dystopian. It’s much worse than deregulation; it’s the dissolution of a uniform state. A return to the Middle Ages, its warlords and its robber barons.
Hollywood used to have is own moral code and that is not all that different:
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=933011...
* 30+ years ago, but ok. I’ll raise you slaughtering college kids protesting Vietnam. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

* China releases their own report. http://download.xinhuanet.com/english/Human%20Rights%20Recor... (Note: I don’t actually think China is better than the US overall, they are far worse, I just don’t like the implication that they differences are of kind, rather than degree)

* organ harvesting is clearly bad, but it’s hard to argue it’s worse than plain murder given lives are saved in the process.

The Chinese report on US human rights helps answer your last question.
How does that even work? I think just the payment system on that media platform is crypto based. I've never heard of content-hosting on the block chain?
Shutdown happened mid March, it's been over 2 months.
Yes, maybe the title can include the date.
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> I’m sorry that the pm position didn’t work out. I wanted to take the time to tell you how much we appreciated your input and insights.

They didn't get back to him, but MS recruitment folks (who work at some sourcing firm and generally don't care about their role) have been known to do that.

Why didn't he chase them though?
I am not sure that we are at that tech level yet to resurrect creatures from DNA. Even if we had DNA, do we need multiple for each species (diversity, male/female and how many, drone, worker, queen (if I remember correctly queen is made just by feeding it with special food))?
It is not that easy to recreate living beings, last year we succeeded with simple microorganism.
There is an issue of epigenetics and how information transfer beyond what is written in DNA letters. It would be nice if someone with degree could elaborate.
And what to do with knowledge transfer? What is minimum for a creature to survive?

I guess, for now best way we have is just a simple preservation, within nature reserves.
To answer the question posed in the title (and yes, I read the fluffy article) - luck decides who gets rich.
You can do that with .NET conditional compilation, no need for the C style macros.
It used to be that everyone on the internet were a Dog, nowadays it seems like the internet became a cesspool of stagnant hyper centralized services catering to the lowest common denominator (twitter, youtube, linkedin, facebook) with morally bankrupt somali-pirate types circling around them like vultures.

In the old days griefing was done for the lulz. Today it's done out of malice, or worse, out of greed.