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Ask HN: Alternative to Avatars.io?
I noticed avatars.io seems to have disappeared. The creator deleted github information even, domain doesn't resolve. I was using this for projects and noticed a lot of empty images now which I would like to fix.

Does anyone know of any alternatives that work as well? Or open source versions I could host?
I’ve been trying to find a “tableau to d3” product that just spits out html+css+JavaScript that can run anywhere.

Altair isn’t quite that, but it’s the closest I’ve seen. I wish python had ggplot2 with its html widgets, but this will do.

I’ve been really impressed with the browser compatibility in that I’ve yet to find a bug despite lots of weird mobile users. That and the team adds functionality quickly so almost as soon as I’m annoyed at not ability to add captions, it’s made available.
>> Look at German, French and netherland numbers and their evolution since the reopening and before the reopening.

If I look at those, I see that the curve remains flattened after reopening, despite the fact that people are going out more often again.
Doesn't this strengthen OP's case against a total economical lockdown?
This process doesn't capture carbon, it captures CO2. Splitting CO2 back to Carbon and Oxygen does indeed take a great deal of energy, but if you can efficiently and cheaply store CO2 permanently (underground, in concrete, in greenhouse-grown plants, or wherever) then this can still be a net win.
Here's the paper for anyone interested https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30552-3#.Xt...

I'm one of the middle-authors on this. Happy to try and answer questions.
The android user would prefer Apple just didn’t communicate the reaction.
UK investors’ $2bn backing for meat giants linked to Amazon deforestation
The tiobe headline itself is about rust.

Java will decline because (1) so many hate on it, (2) there's always the new shiny, (3) Microsoft will never give up. No single language will replace it, though. At least not for a long time.
It's like running a copy of entire complex web browser just to draw pretty chat GUI. Oh wait... :)
So I've read through the README and I still have no idea how it works or what it even is. Is this a concept I should've heard of before or is it related to some other project/concept?
Vietnam also has everything to lose. Lots of companies are moving their factories to Vietnam and China's faltering has been to Vietnam's gains.
> Switzerland seems odd on the face of it to me - what explains low turnout

They have a large number of single issue referendums multiple times a year.

There were 10 in 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Swiss_referendums
The extra deaths thing also seems sketchy to me, this early after the outbreak. If someone was within ±12 months of dying and the coronavirus got them, then the death rates of the past month would be higher while the death rates of the next year would still be the same. We are too early to make any statements of fact about it.
I can tell you the reason I don't vote is because of voter suppression and manipulation.
Impressive examples. Thanks for posting them!

So the ridiculous „Enhance!“ one sees in TV show crime dramas could one day actually become true.
Hey, Tom Clancy was right! He had them do this with "F-19" stealth aircraft in Red Storm Rising.
That doesn't work too much here for two reasons:

1. German consumers are notoriously averse to debt ("Schwäbische Hausfrau"). Most transactions pre-covid were in hard cash or using debit cards, credit cards are rare and American-style revolving credit cards even rarer (the debt incurred on a standard German CC will be fully deducted on the third workday of the month, no partial payments or payment targets). Consumer debt is mostly real estate, cars and financing for big-ticket purchases such as furniture or expensive computers).

1a. Additionally, German consumers and companies are even more averse to risk. Going bankrupt with a company (or personally) is seen as deeply shameful and something that is only reserved for the lower classes of society (which also explains, next to a lack of venture capital, the lack of successful global scale start-ups from Europe), and many shy away from stock markets and capital investment... it wasn't widespread even before the dot-com burst, but that essentially killed everything involving stocks as an investment methods to this day, so rather than to invest in ETFs people prefer to "safely lose money" in zero-interest "saving plans". And as 2/3rds of Germans don't have anything left over to save after making rent and food and Germany being a "renter market" instead of an "owner market" in real estate, they also cannot build up equity over the decades and generations.

2. Credit requirements: the European "Basel 2" requirements on credit are enormously restrictive. It's extremely hard to get approved for loans and to make it worse, it doesn't make any difference if you have done business with the bank as a known customer even for decades, the decision to grant a loan or not must be purely statistic/math based. This royally screwed e.g. farmers who suddenly had to put up their farm / equipment as collateral for loans for seeds, but also prevents lower classes from using (consumer) credit to invest in either outright consumption or into furthering their position in society (e.g. by starting their own company).
Since you have only provided one meaningful example, I will focus on it.

>> that being you said, “Foucault, for example, was successful not because he said true things, but because he said new and previously unimaginable things, and expressed them lyrically.”

>> Wikipedia: “Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions.”

Your reasoning in sum appears to be that you don’t understand something, so it must be without merit.

Sure, one might argue that Foucault's theories lack mathematical proofs, but to argue against them without as much is no better.

What proof do you have Foucault's theories depart from reality?
What about an Uber Eats scooter? Also, a drone can be a last mile delivery method, where the very heavy truck ends up doing relatively long runs for single small packages.
Yes lives are irreplaceable but realistic risk assessment and actuarial modeling is required for the world to function.
One of my favorite games from the 90s. The fact that the missions were set at night was probably a huge help for the visuals given the graphics capabilities of the time :)
There's primaries and state and local elections and in many states there are referendum. Thinking of voting as something that is only done every four years for president is one of the problem with voting in the US.
HOA Karens are not my idea of a better police force. The response to insufficient oversight shouldn't be tossing out the baby with the bathwater, but better policies. We might start for example, with the top of the funnel.

Police in the US are professionally credentialed faster than a master plumber. After less training, less testing, and less oversight, they're handed lethal discretion and informal qualified immunity latitude, in less time than it takes for someone to hang a shingle out as a one-man plumbing business.
Spotify Understands Your Music Diversity
confirming certain molecular structures? We can nail down exact composition down to number of atoms in complex molecules, but the actual geometry is a (VERY well educated) "guesswork". edit1: well, its not actual guessing, there are other techniques that can also give hints for certain structural patterns (rings, chains, etc.) but still, its a very complex puzzle to piece the exact structure together.
More sun in India, Bangladesh. Less in UK. Might be simple answer is that the darker skin = less vitamin D. So higher the latitude, dark skinned people might be in more trouble.
I'm in a smaller town in TN. Lockdown was respected, but people have all but forgotten about it now. 9/10 people on the street are no longer wearing masks.

I would be surprised if we don't see an uptick soon.
Kaczynski really did everyone a massive disservice by turning to violence. He was a nut, but his criticism of industrialization is more coherent than you'd think. In an alternate universe he is a public "thought leader" giving TED talks on the subject.
I'm fine using pinky because I'm a guitar player who struggled with that and fixed it by training for more than a year.
Interesting. But perhaps similar to re-inventing spats to use plastic instead of celluloid - too little, too late. Perhaps more useful to work out making thumb-typing on a phone better.
>They dragged their feet for some reason and people paid for it.

They did spend a lot of money on a propaganda campaign encouraging workers to keep working and not take time off because they were "heroes" on the front lines saving lives. Gotta remember what Amazon's actual priorities are.
Great ideas all around here, definitely stealing some!

Personally, there was a time where I grew a little fond of numeric-based naming. It allowed for quickly tabbing between directories, easy separation and predictable ordering (eg. 1xx is for clientA, 2xx for clientB, 9xx is for miscellaneous files etc).

Fun story of how that came up; at some large project they were using Sharepoint for everything. From specification documents, to invoices, to code backups and JAR files.

I never figured out whether it was Sharepoint translating for different locales or people using Windows machines different languages, you'd get things like "My Documents", "Mes documents" "Τά Έγγραφα Μου" and "Eigene Dokumente" all mangled up together, which was a nightmare to navigate in, both in speed and understanding, so the this numeric-based naming was an attempt to put some order to that chaos.
Not sure it's what your seeking, but Longform.org and Longreads.com are aggregators of in-depth journalism pieces.
> Apart from contact tracing, testing the right people helped the state keep a check on the spread.

I see this sentence a little problematic
It's hilarious how deeply ingrained the insanity is. Registering to vote is just not a thing outside the US. The percentage of people who come to vote, then vote is all of them.
As I said during disco they would be able to inspect the warehouse and if they can find any trace of it (which they will) then that is all the evidence they need to go to a “decider of fact” (the jury).

And despite your calculation of time, more time spent outside amazon warehouses does not mean employees are more likely to get the virus outside the warehouse, only that there was more time to get the virus somewhere else. there are “hotspots” after all. But let’s assume what you said was true, to even make that argument in court For a jury to consider you are at trial and need an expert witness to introduce the argument...that’s a lot of cost for a big risk, it settles.
It is useful for signalling. It is meaningless on the actual election outcome. If everyone disenfranchised voted for people they thought were good but unlikely to win, you'd maybe get enough of a signal to change the party line in future elections. But that's incredibly hard and similarly meaningless at small scale. Getting people to vote for first order effects is difficult. Try getting them to vote for second order effects. There's no political machine to get out the vote for virtuous ideas that have no chance of winning in the right now.
In Belgium _every_ citizen is automatically registered.

I feel you are comparing apples to oranges. If every citizen in the US was registered, then how do the numbers compare then?

The other registration, ie. not the automatic one, in Belgium applies to foreigner who live in Belgium and want to have some say in local elections. I can't even see how this kind of registration even compares to the voter registration in the US. Well, they both have the word "registration" but it isn't even remotely the same.

If you need help interpreting the numbers of registration vs voting, let me know. I can search the real numbers and break them down to citizen (auto-registration) and non-citizens (who could register but didn't) and non-voters (both categories combined but didn't show up at the election)
> even though it gets the job done

How is this an addendum, rather than the main point? I will always take a flexible library that allows me to "get the job done" over a declarative framework that will do something similar to—but not exactly—what I need.
What does D offer over OCaml or any other ML-family language? I never really got what its selling point was at the time - "compile-time reflection" sounds like the worst of both worlds (but I guess it means something akin to typeclass derivation?), and the idea that it could kinda-sorta work without GC was never really explained clearly enough.
The issue with local search is that you anyways end up doing search on the server when on mobile or when you are not on your home computer. But yes, definitely useful. I personally do 0 inbox so I hardly have anything to search, heh.

Regarding the submit to HN button: if the article has already been posted, HN will itself just link you to it rather than make a new submission. So it is a bit of an intelligent hack where it piggybacks on HN's own code, hope that assuages you :)
« A year and a half ago, I heeded the growing warning signs that indicated the looming demise of macOS, née OS X, as a platform for developer and true computer enthusiasts, and set about trying to find a new ecosystem.»
The power of synthesis
I'm of the opinion that more people voting is not a good thing.
I'm curious could you use AFM/STM to image molecules? I'm curious how that would compare with this approach.
It's much easier to study and understand something you can actually see.
It'll be pretty big news if the methane they use to refuel Starship on Mars originates from a fossil source :D
There have been made some studies in Switzerland [1][2] why turnout is usually somewhere between 40 and 45%. Main reasons:

* Not interested.

* Not competent enough to make a decision.

* Social isolation.

* Frustration.

* Some participate in other ways than voting.

Some other interesting facts from 2015 [3]:

* 30% turnout of young people between 18 and 30 years.

* 67% turnout of old people between 65 and 74 years.

* 53% of men participate, 46% of women participate.

* Old women do participate less than young women, possibly because Switzerland introduced votes for women very late in 1971.

* The concordance system [4] leads to less fluctuations in the composition of the government. It's not like in the US, where you have only 2 completely different parties fighting each other. So, less changes, less reasons to go to vote.

* Many people are happy with the status quo. Another reason to skip voting.

[1] https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/schweiz/warum-die-mehrheit-sc...

[2] https://www.beobachter.ch/politik/wahlen-2019/wahlen-2019-wi...

[3] https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/eidgenoessische-wahlen-2019/wahle...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordance_system
I don't disagree. This article is about the presidential elections, however.
Reporting and testing across different countries is not equal by any means. I'm always amazed by these headlines that mean literally nothing. Statistics 101? The conclusions you can actually derive by the deviation in deaths YoY https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps#z-scores-by-country
are that the least densely populated countries are the ones faring better. Germany being the outlier. Taiwan did great because @n95s for every citizen.
Yes, individual reports. Nothing frequent enough to care about.
Are you looking for any Front End / JavaScript developers? Your product sounds lovely
You still have to register in Australia, too, even if it is compulsory to vote.
I'm curious if this means our sky survey of EMF radiation in space is also missing this band? I don't know our space telescope history and capabilities, but can anyone who knows more comment on whether or not we are missing this?
Its interesting to see you use Classrooms for the interview process :)
Despite what they try to convey publicly, Swedes still live with a 19th century mindset.
It doesn't even cross their minds that a southern European, yet alone Asian country could outperform them in any way possible because of a subconscious mindset of "Swedes are superior to others".

Haven't seen any Swede question the fact that they gave the absolute power of handling the crisis to some unelected old white male boomer btw.
>> This is what Netherland has been doing, and it seems to be very effective. Schools have been partially open for 2.5 weeks now, and the numbers keep going down.

As a Dutch person living abroad, I find it amazing how my fellow Dutch citizens keep finding ways of justifying their government's handling of the Covid crisis.

Dutch schools were closed pretty quickly in the beginning of March, despite the advice of virus experts to keep them open: there were strong signs that children were not affected much by the virus.
Now that the schools are reopening, as you are saying, it turns out that having the schools open does not increase spreading of the virus. I would say that this proves that the experts were right and the Dutch government wrong, and that the closing of the schools was a mistake. A costly mistake, both for the sake of the education of the children, and for their parents, many of which had big problems with combining their work and the daycare of their children.
> If you think async/await is the holy grail of networking,

They wrote that it's better, not perfect.
UX/UI Designers on a contract basis? Do you know anyone? Thank you so much. :)
His ideas are not original at all and he's no "thought leader"; the anarcho-primitivists had raised the same points a lot better and more coherently than he did. Just read the original sources, no reason to pay attention to a violent nutcase.
Or, run special carts up and down main drags for drones to hitch rides (and perhaps charge while riding?). Instead of combining them with human transport, to the detriment of both humans and drones.
From the article: “That is a gold mine for structure-based drug design,” says Aricescu, because it shows how a drug could displace the water molecules, potentially resulting in medications with fewer side effects.
I don’t think Belgium enforces showing up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_voting#Modern_era: “in practice fines are no longer issued for non-voters”

Switzerland is a confederation and has lots of referendums, where the entire population decides on a policy, not on who should decide on policies. Both limit the power of the national government.

However, reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_Switzerland, voter turnout is low in their referendums, too.
Exactly. Each compressed input can only decompress to one output.

But the number of input values possible is far smaller than the possible output space. Therefore many outputs cannot be reproduced.

Real compression algorithms compressing structured data preserve the above properties. All outputs are representable, but they devote shorter codes (and thus most of the coding symbol space) to the most common patterns. Since coding symbol space is finite, random or less compressible data are left with longer symbols/ bitstrings than if conveyed uncompressed. For a reasonably structured file, the overall outcome is compression. However random files experience a small increase in size due to coding overhead.
And then that’s another thing they have to sign into as opposed to just looking in their contacts and choosing the FaceTime icon.

And as far as Duo - only if you have a Samsung phone or Pixel? If you have to buy a new phone anyway - since the entire Android ecosystem is a clusterf* when it comes to upgrades - you might as well get one that is going to be supported for years.
I recently came across a talk on YouTube from Chrome Dev Summit a couple of years ago that covered a very similar pattern to the one shown here that I would recommend checking out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg60lf92EkM and I am honestly kind of surprised it isn't more popular.
Memory for chatbot is usually in the form of an external memory; aka not compressed into the weights of a neural network; but presented simultaneously as input and selected with some form of attention like transformers do.

In your specific chatbot use case the obvious external memory to present to the bot is the full chat history. Alternatively you can manually extract features from the full chat history and present those instead.

Language models are just always trying to predict the next character.

Language models are kind of the jack of all trades. They are generic and given enough parameters, enough data, enough compute they will learn to solve all tasks simultaneously. But they are not enticed to solve the task you are interested in, they are just trying to learn how to best predict the next character with the finite capacity they have, and will only learn memory insofar it helps them achieve their task.

If you are interested in a specific task you can inject your specific desires either into the structure of the model, or in the structure of the dataset.

There are various line of thoughts when you want to achieve a specific task.

-The GPT approach is to make the model bigger and bigger and solve task as one or zero shot learning. By not touching at the structure of the model anymore but by training it on tasks encoded as structured text.

-You can find some literature about question answering tasks.
You can have a transformer "encode" a big document and answer the question by extracting just the relevant information.

-This mean for example if you want for your chatbot to remember your name or any information you gave him before, one quick way is to give it your whole chat history (it's probably not so big). It's akin making the context window big. You can use tricks like LSH tranformers, or some form of hierarchical memory to not be too much memory constrained by the attention.

-You can also encode "manually" : Train a separate neural network to answer the question you are interested about from the chat history. Like "what is his name ?", "how old is he ?",... And save it as a context information that will be presented as input knowledge for your specific chatbot training task.

-You can also update the weights continuously like it is done in reinforcement learning. Fixed-sized neural networks need to be presented the information multiple times before being able to ingest it. So you'll need to use some kind of replay memory. It's also not a great idea to update all billions of parameters every time you want to retain an information so you will probably need to use sparse operations such that only a few parameters are updated at a time. If you look hard enough you'll probably notice that most traditional database operations can be encoded as sparse neural network operations. If you look even harder you'll probably notice that a lot of information retrieval algorithms are just gradient descent on some form of sparsely encoded neural network operations.

-You can also use GAN for text so that the loss function optimized is closer to the task at hand.
Yes you can set deadlines for assignments.
Most if not all Senators are in Index funds or use products built by wealth management firms.

I struggle to see the value here other than imply that if a senator beats benchmark....that means that they are trading on private information.
We have to register to vote in the UK: https://www.gov.uk/electoral-register

The same sort of dogwhistles about 'voter fraud' have been getting airtime in the media as well so I'm sure it won't be long before we have widespread disenfranchisement, just like in the US.
>"For a population of approximately 1.2 crores, Bengaluru city has had just 385 reported cases of COVID-19(...)"

TIL! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crore