skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine writing and directing a trans allegory in 1999— when the studio thinks a character portrayed as male in the real world and female in the Matrix is crossing the line— and then rapidly:

• having your whole franchise met with critical acclaim and commercial success

• sparking philosophical conversations among people who might've never had them otherwise

• having a bunch of MRAs led covertly by a Republican politician co-opt your shit anonymously on the Internet, misdirecting frustrated people for decades toward misogyny and damaging countless lives*

• building up an enormously anticipated film trilogy and video game franchise with tons of media attention

• inspiring a devoted fan base to look deeper and deeper for different varieties of symbolism throughout the canon

...all the while carrying this underlying message, unbeknownst to almost every trend-surfing professor, every armchair philosopher, every idiot misogynist, every news reporter, film critic and fan. It's flown over so many inflated heads, because it was subtle out of necessity, and we were too blind to see.

Shameless cranial plug: try and maybe fork my Matrix code! https://github.com/Rezmason/matrix

* not blaming the Matrix for this, that's a whole other conversation
Since we're actively in the midst of a national reckoning with police overreach (at a minimum), while people are getting arrested for constitutionally protected speech largely based on their political alignment, I think the slippery slope argument is honestly quite valid here. It's scary to me that a relative's choice to dig into their family tree will law enforcement to significantly narrow the search space for someone they don't like and happen to have a strand of hair from.
Oh, totally understood, that clearly ought to change!

My only point was, the article was framing this as an issue of scientist comfort, ie human researchers don't want to work in hot labs. I don't see why they should have to, at least in most cases.
What Would Happen If Trump Used Facebook to Dispute Election Results
I can’t believe people still perpetuate this distortion of the truth. It has to be malicious by this point.
Exactly what the school doesn't want, all the political consequence falling on them even though health experts coordinating over data should be the ones making the call at higher levels of government.
Our schools are going virtual when they reopen but there are plenty of parents who object. Several reasons come up

- Virtual learning did not work at the end of last year, and most parents think it's unlikely to work this year. I'll wait and see, but I'm also pessimistic about virtual learning for kids 5-18. It's just not engaging in that age range.

- Related, families with two working parents are going to be very limited in their ability to work with their kid, e.g., make sure they are attending/paying attention in their zoom meetings, keep track of their assignments and make sure they are getting worked on, really sit and help with challenging projects and assignments.

- Along the same lines, families with two parents who are or will be working outside the home are really in a bind.

- Finally, there is continuing uncertainty about kids getting/transmitting Covid to the point where some people feel it's worth the risk. There is also a persistent group of parents who think this is all overwrought - they believe otherwise healthy kids and adults under the age of 60 are so are just unlikely to get very sick from Covid, certainly not more than any other virus.

There's a wide range of feelings. I don't think the schools should open, but I'm also quietly prepared for this to be a lost educational year for my kids.
This is remotely tangentially related but when I learned that the milk in one milk carton was composed of many hundreds of cows and not just one cow it blew my mind as a child.
It's a missed opportunity that we can't just one 1 frame AV1 files as images. Had this been anticipated we wouldn't have to push two standards and two implementations everywhere.
The Department of Transportation recommends allowing people to drive on the roads, but you don't get to sue them just because there's a car accident. We know, statistically, that some people will die going to school even without COVID. The CDC and other regulators are taking a broad view that includes 2nd and 3rd order effects from their recommendations. They're trying to make decisions for the long term while recognizing that any decision they make in either direction is going to result in deaths.
First they moved to strip FCC of its ability to preempt state regulations, and now they want to sit on two chairs and regulate states? Too bad, they should have thought about it when their corrupt monopolistic overlords paid them to repeal federal net neutrality.

States should fight back against this foolery.
I really don't understand the hate that Safari gets for this. What's even the point of having different browsers if people get mad at any differences between them? Chrome, but made by four different companies is kinda the illusion of choice and competition.
That's a problem we should aim to solve.
> A look at other regulatory law, such as California's CARB

Let’s hope this is not followed. CARB is terribly implemented. The agency is corrupt and considered rogue.

One of many resources online:
https://www.ocregister.com/2015/05/29/california-air-resourc...
Or opus outside of CAF
Eyenuk: AI System Obtains FDA Clearance for Diabetic Retinopathy Screening
CheerpX is actually fully dynamic. You don't even need to "compile" things manually before. You can just feed binaries to the JS API and the program will run.
Would it possible to integrate video into the model?
I'm not sure how you could read my comment and the one above it and misinterpret it that way.

I was talking about astrophotography.
conference is a different game but that doesnt change what happens in the lab, if you look at the overall picture you can see the potential for duplication of alphanumeric strings. this is why in conference lables must be developed as you have a wider context in conference than in your own lab. You can be scooped for research regardless of what lable is given to a gene, and for that matter even if you make publication first as not everybody has the same ethical framework of honesty or due accreditation.
the time before computers were used reflexively was when we would record data, in cursive written in hardcover bound note books. a putative gene has a name that allows it to be found. later if things work nicely that putative is confirmed to be a gene and if things work ideally the locus can be established

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_(genetics)

around the late nineties the obsession with videogames and netspeak took hold, and the popular names began to crop up.
I write 'one off' programs all the time. Most of what I write I throw away, and I program for a living. Those are usually fairly linear. Which is fine. If I am writing something that will be re-used in 6 different ways and on a 5 person team. That is when you get out the programming methodologies. It is usually fairly obvious to me when you need to do it. For someone who does not do it all the time. They may not know 'hey stop you have a code mess'.

It one of the reasons why people end up with spreadsheets. Most of their data is giant tables of data. Excel does very well at that. It has a built in programming language that is not great but not totally terrible either. Sometimes all you need is a graph of a particular type. Paste the data in, highlight what you want, use the built in graph tools. No real coding needed. It is also a tool that is easy to mismanage if you do not know the quirks of its math.
Can someone please explain this in a bit more detail?
To be fair 1 to 30 is 30x growth. It really depend on the original size.
The Tenth Amendment doesn't mean what most of these arguments would have it mean. The disputes center on the limits of federal power, and here the Tenth Amendment merely tautologically says that the federal government doesn't have any power it doesn't have. Because of the Supremacy Clause, the states don't have any power to overrule the federal government, so the rest of it doesn't really apply.

It should be noted that the original version of the text said "The powers not expressly delegated", but this version of text failed to pass Congress. It was only after deleting that word that the amendment passed. That one word change is key, since including that word would mean what people in these arguments want it to mean, so its intentional omission destroys those arguments.
I wouldn't be surprised if they have started. They have only been in the phone game for ~4 years which I imagine is quite quick to get a custom CPU into a shipping product.
> To the larger point, scientists are not programmers.

I mean, sort of. Some research is essentially just programming; other research can get by with nothing but excel. Regardless, it's unreasonable to ask most scientists to be expert programmers -- most aren't building libraries that need to be maintained for years. If they do code, they're usually just writing one-shot programs to solve a single problem, and nobody else is likely to look at that code anyway.
I had this vision that one day we'll be able to reconstruct memories from our past by taking old photos and having a ML model collate everything together to form a 3D rendering of that point in time. It seems like you have gotten most of the way there.

The next step would be to have the user grab a VR headset and immerse themselves in their favorite childhood moment. One could even add avatars for loved ones using again ML-generated audio based on recordings of their voices.

Your project made me think that it wouldn't be that interesting for me to view your memories, so perhaps the best initial step for a proof-of-concept that would allow the technology to mature would be to recreate historical moments so everyone people could relive them – and they could do so entirely virtually, from the comfort of their own couch. Side note: it feels like this technology can disrupt traditional museums with the added bonus of being pandemic-proof.

Anyway, I don't really have a question... Just wanted to compliment you on this amazing work and throw this idea out there in case others want to think about it, as I'm in an entirely different field and don't have the skills and resources to make it real, and I do strongly feel this will inevitably come to life.
E2EE is really annoying, in lots of ways: if the users in the room want encryption, I’d rather they just create a new room.
Can this technique reconstruct good geometry for the visible parts if only part of the structure is ever imaged?

That's a precursor to: could this technique be used to enhance Street View? There are times when I would really like to be able to "walk around" outdoor scenes in finer steps. Current Street View smears between photos taken some distance apart. (I don't know if that is a limitation of the public interface or if the original data capture is really that coarse.) It would be nice to have a real 3D space to explore, but I certainly don't expect the un-imaged parts to be defined correctly.

Finally, does this also work for reconstructing interior spaces seen from the inside? Like the geometry of a cave, from pictures of the cave interior?
Land and taxes are cheap in Kentucky. Not many jobs there unless you have a remote option. I would enjoy moving to HCOL to make more money (assuming it goes to a mortgage) and then selling that house to retire early to a rural area.
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FIFA 21: 'Toxic behaviour' cut from goal celebrations
I have a fallow field, and in perhaps two hours of dedicated observation I've got about 10 species of insect I need to identify, and for a couple of them I'm not even sure what kind of bug they are (I'm probably going to have to scan a field guide).

The lot is between the river and our local garden district. I suspect I'm part of a migration route between them (I figured I was too far from the river for dragonflies, but I see at least 2 a day) It's changing my plans for the space a bit.
Do you mean the kitchen skirting codes or the tenants?

I don't know that much about health codes, but my guess is that they are not expensive to follow beyond the cost of having suitable equipment, which is something they probably won't be able to avoid.
Streamlit Components tutorial – build a custom slider
Thanks! We are going to add an example to our website and perhaps publish it as a Github App.

The flow is:
For every whitelisted (say, SQL) file changed by a pull request, our bot compares the production data (produced by the master branch) vs. the data output of the new branch and pastes the diff as a comment to the PR.
Some YAML configuration is needed to, for example, adjust it to your repo file structure.
I'm still looking for a program that takes a video and turns it into an animated 3D scene. All the stuff I've seen is on static scenery, besides some neural nets that can tweak camera angles.
How do you remove tourists? Is the network trained to segment and ignore humans?
Ask HN: How do you perform market research for your ideas?
In early stages of ideation, I like to do some basic market research to answer questions like:

1) what is the current size of this market?

2) what is the size of the total addressable market?

3) who are the main competitors in this market?

4) what are the product/service gaps in this market?

5) what are the known user metrics in this market?

I usually start by searching Google. This typically leads me to SEO optimized blog posts, where companies have cherry-picked specific market data to justify their own products. The data is usually from industry research reports (e.g Gartner, Forester) that cost thousands of dollars to access the full versions. In early stages of ideation, it doesn't always make sense to spend so much.

How do you perform market research for your ideas?
The real question is why is this not the headline news
Gambling lootboxes good.

OK hand gesture bad.
We started with the UI because we want to make it simple for anyone to get started. Our task is to make it so that you don't need any knowledge of Postgres to get started.

One of the things I'm excited about is our table view - it's just as you would expect from a database client, but functions more like Airtable. You will be able to create tables/rows/columns like you would in a spreadsheet.

We still have a lot of work to do to simplify Postgres, but in a few more months we think we will have something that even non-techies can use
How I made my first millions
It's gotten better but the video quality is definitely lacking.
Let me know how it went :)
The government shouldn't have the power to either "dissolve" or "replace leadership" in the NRA. If they committed fraud, fine them like any other organization, or remove their 501c3 designation.

The internet would be apoplectic if some AG somewhere was talking about "dissolving" the SPLC over a perceived financial issue.
Aren't they supposed to implement the same standard? Not much of a standard if people don't implement it.
I switched away from a hackintosh tower to a real Mac recently because things lined up for that to make sense, but previously I hackintoshed because nothing came as close to checking all of my boxes for a desktop environment as even just out of the box macOS.

No amount of effort spent on customizing Windows does the trick because of things about it that are unchangeable (like its terrible text rendering), and while a Linux setup can get close (especially if eschewing a monolithic DE), it requires pouring countless hours into it to get it there, and even then many details are wrong and random things are flaky.
The use and access of those logs is strictly regulated, and yes, it is enforced.

Given that Germany has a much healthier employee representation than the US, it's much more difficult for management to slide in surveillance under the radar. (It's also rather painful if they get caught)
Why doesn't the black bar link to the related submission?
I didn't take the insect apocalypse seriously until I realized how much less time I'm spending washing bugs off my car. It was sort of my Silent Spring moment.
Your point is maybe a little obtuse to me, because it sounds like you are arguing for "computers are tools that should be learned, but really no one does and who can blame them, they just want to science" and simultaneously arguing, "tools aren't science, and science can be done without them".

I feel like the later is obvious: of course the tools aren't science, but if you want to do real work and real science, your tools are going to be crucial for establishing measurements, repeatability, and sharing how one models their hypothesis onto real world mechanics.

Likewise, the former is just the same commonly repeated thing I just argued against and my reply is the same: so what? You building a kayak is not science and is irrelevant.

Scientists can't reach a meaningful conclusion without proper use of tools. All they can do is hypthesize, which is certainly a portion of science (and many fields are in fact stuck in this exact stage, unable to get further and come to grounded conclusions), but it is not the end-all of science, and getting to the end in the modern day science means knowing to program.

Of course there are exceptions and limitations and "good enough". No one is arguing that. The argument I am refuting is those who think "tools are just tools, who cares, I just want my science". That is the poor attitude that makes no sense to me.
Thats a fantastic idea, and yes my goal is to be as descriptive as possible with every item, including country of origin, it just amounts to me putting in the work to do research on every item, Im willing to do it and I hope it can be useful to more users soon!
OP here:
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I agree. I would not secure user data with row-level security inside the DB itself. That’s an application concern and it should live in your application layer.

It also limits you from replacing the underlying storage engine later on, if you decide PostgreSQL is not the answer.

I find this to be an unwise architectural decision.
ASP.Net Core 3.1 is perfectly usable on OS X and by the end of the year .Net 5 promises to be truly cross-platform.
Some state-affiliated media which Twitter has elected not to label:

https://twitter.com/VOANews
https://twitter.com/RFERL
Leave someone else's dna at a crime you've framed someone, how did you get that dna, well you bought it from some unscrupulous lab. Or how about insurance companies start purchasing this data, oh but thats illegal so lets just say we don't but actually really do and totally pervert the idea of insurance. Golden state killer might stick out in your mind as a horrible evil but its nothing against the trillions of cuts by making this data widely available for purchase.
I don't use any chemicals in my yard mainly because I don't want to expose my dogs to that stuff. The result is a yard similar to your boss's. When the clover flowers we get plenty of bees, and there are other tiny flying insects, which attracts birds. Never really gave much mind to birds, but it's really nice going out and seeing cardinals on a daily basis. We've even had multiple robin nests around the house, which is fun to see their hatching cycle.
Nah, but that could have been build on traditional methods and properties just as well, without having to re-implement those first. It's not like every component doesn't resolve to an instance of an object anyway.

[EDIT] what they couldn't have done, probably, would have been cleanly implementing that on top of class-based components without then having to tell their large and influential functions-are-the-only-way constituency that they'd need to write a lot more classes in the future. I suspect aversion to having to deliver that message is part of why we ended up with hooks as the solution, and classes left behind instead.
I’m sure you love the modern web and its 2MB average page load, but most people don’t.

This is code, so after it’s downloaded it needs to be parsed and executed… needlessly.

What are you complaining about exactly?
There's also my situation - I want to move but my wife refuses.
Appearances? Just because everyone else does it? Some people are just stuck in certain ways?

I've never got a straight answer on this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Dark triad traits may predict PC-authoritarianism and alt-right attitudes [pdf]
Bloomberg is at least conventional media, though, and even right-leaning media, at that. It's a bit different from a comedian making bombastic, click-baity videos for the internet.
I got 15,000 requests on my app in less than 24 hours
Yeah, there definitely needs to be some sort of enforcement that keeps bad actors from misbehaving.

Google seems like the natural point for that. Maybe a law is needed? Too bad most law makers are completely tech illiterate.

But I agree, it won't change without some central force to kibosh it.
I think they would do a test for arterial blood gas.
> When you say Google guarantees support up front (like a benefit), what you'll really find is that's a guarantee support ends on that timeline.

No, they say at least and have extended support dates before, eg: https://chromeunboxed.com/chromebook-end-of-life-extended-13... (That's Chromebooks; I'm not sure about Nexus/Pixel phones in particular.)
I wonder if any of the politicians who were part of the decision to re-open schools, from the governor down to the school board members, would be willing to sit in that hallway unmasked for a day. Nope, I bet they made the decisions over Zoom calls, safely tucked away in their homes.
I don't mean to be dismissive, but engineers tend to simplify these problems, as if the legal system is a perfect justice-dispensing black box. But that's not how it works. This is a question of ethics and moral weights. This is why we have things like habeas corpus, chain of custody, rules about juries and evidence, and all kinds of things.

DNA acquisition is rife with privacy concerns. The chance that some criminals might elude capture is one of the implications of why, for example, we don't implant everyone with a tracking chip, or require people to report their whereabouts to the government. If everyone had a tracking chip, no one could commit crimes any more, right?

This is a reductio argument, but it shows why what might seem like "sure-shot" strategies (versions of which, in some cases, have been implemented in authoritarian governments) were definitely not "net wins" for society.