skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [...] and allow them to buy back their stock to manipulate the price, that's a LOT easier to manage than a research lab.

You know that economically buying back shares and paying dividends is exactly the same thing?
> beyond that lost me

Too bad, because this is more than 6 years old I believe? Since then C# has been getting closer and closer to the C# shown in the slides and in another couple years I bet the real C# will be indistinguishable from the C# Light in the slides. So if you don't like it then you won't enjoy the C# of the future ;)
We composted 'biodegradable' balloons. Here's what we found after 16 weeks
Apache Airflow returns most if not all results
Another thing is consensus. If you can get buy-ins from a group of colleagues, preferably higher ranks, it'll be easier, as not a single person is to blame.
Breathing space can also be taken up by stock market expectations. Did that old guard of research lab owners ever reach a similar level of valuation? My spontaneous guess explanation is that back then, stock markets were far more reluctant to price in immaterial advantages like market dominance or tech leadership if it wasn't backed by tangible assets like mining rights or factories.
You can still get 20% time at Google. But you have to take it. They don't shove it in your face.
Hi, I like this, and found your project at Github. Could you add licence to your project, please! https://github.com/sjvasquez/handwriting-synthesis
Ask HN: How to Become a Music Buff?
Music has always been the least appealing art form for me out of the music-film-literature trio. Now I am looking to get more familiar with its history, evolution and simply discover good music.

Is there a music buff's roadmap, some sort of a chronologically-ordered list of the best and most influential albums that gives a coherent picture of how music evolved over the 20th century? And is that a right approach to becoming a music buff? If not, what is?
I have been working on a "modern" language based on APL.

It implements features such as macro-like custom syntax, first-class functions and closures.

It's developed in Kotlin and can be compiled to the JVM as well as natively using the new Kotlin multiplatform feature. Javascript will also be possible once Kotlin multiplatform supports reflection. The project is still nowhere near finished, but it can at least run Conway's Game of Life:

https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/4a19ca9e-7ca6-41...

I haven't worked on it for the last several months due to other projects having higher priority, but I will probably get back to it later.

https://github.com/lokedhs/array
> It's like masks.

It is in fact exactly like masks. You’re not forced to wear one unless you want to be around other people.
> Your tax dollars as a wealthy individual also pay for the police forces to keep the less wealthy people from coming and just taking your property

No disagreement with that, I am willing to pay for police protection of my property and myself, after all that's a valid purpose of a government. Yet this topic is not about paying for your protection, is it? This topic is about ever-growing attempts to extort money for an unknown cause under a pretense of virtue.
I think what most people don't see coming is that
Wilker Lúcio was hired by Roam Research he is the author of Pathom and gave this talk recently:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS3i3DTUnAI

It's about connecting many graphs together, the killer app in this space is to figure out how to connect these graphs together such that teams and communities can grow connections on a massive scale

There will be many challenges in doing that particularly around selection, per edge permissions likely leveraging Clojure's namespaced keywords to get global attributes

This will mean a major re architecture of Roam Research, I predict most Roam clones are going to get absolutely blindsided by this

Roam today is ~just~ a datascript database on the client being kept up to date with firebase

For now if you want open source Roam keep an eye on https://github.com/athensresearch/athens
Yeah ads. If you're on iOS check out Apollo, made by a solo developer and does not display ads. I'm not sure what the equivalent on Android would be (someone chime in if you know).
What does one have to do to get to such crazy numbers for a task so simple?
Feel free to checkout our super-realistic type to handwriting generation in greetings cards here: https://wuzci.com/product/we-make-a-great-pear-3/
The Chinese government is not "extremely good" at propagandizing their own citizen. Many Chinese know that there's censorship, and they take their media with a grain of salt. Chinese propaganda is also extremely crude, simple and straightforward. If you watch Chinese propaganda for a while, you will notice this. Especially many of those who have been overseas know that western propaganda is much, much more sophisticated and harder to detect compared to Chinese propaganda.
...but I think the author is being honest about it being speculation. If you read the article to the end, his conclusion is that outlandish speculative claims should be incentivized to be proven through a betting market that can reward proof proportionately.

ie. Having the mainstream put their money where their mouth is.

I don't see an issue with that. He isn't actually claiming that prior civilizations exist - simply that it's plausible that they did (depending upon what you interpret as "advanced").
In The Netherlands the only expensive thing about it is opportunity cost, which is as amazing as it gets. Now, it's a bit worse though. 8 years ago, I received about 3000 euro's. My education was 1900, my travel was free (also sponsored) so the rest was for books and living on my own. I decided to stay at home and take a longer commute. 1100 euro's for books is more than enough in most cases. I know that this is in stark contrast to the US. And from my point of view (which is biased), I find the US to be in an unfortunate situation.

I agree with everything you said. Perhaps it might be interesting to remark that I feel this picture changes in the startup landscape were things aren't always that complicated, but where the people that hire you do seem to hold you to the same standards. This is why I'm always wary about the title of "senior" at a startup.
Yes, there are some peaks with 10-20000 per sec.

Clickhouse seems very suitable as database. Does anybody know open source analytics tools that use it? Two parts would be needed: the client javascript tracker which injects into the database, and a GUI for reports.
What bannhammer? Home brew is completely legal in the US and they can’t just come and take your hardware or devtools away (provided you use the open source ones.)
How about simplifying tax systems instead of adding more loopholes?
Illegal in many other parts of the world (e.g. in Europe).
That doesn’t seem very rational. The goal of all managers should be to maximize productivity per dollar spent. Motivated contractors who are well integrated in teams, don’t need to be replaced often, and generally kept happy are far more productive, hence the bottom line of the company benefits by it.
This didn’t at all answer the question. You’ve basically said since it’s a static amount and because someone just died and also because it affects only large amounts it’s ok. None of this has anything to do with burden.
Where have you seen mine claiming that there's no role for the government as a protector of property rights? In fact, it's one of a few only valid purpouse of any state. Not welfare, not free stuff, but the protection of unalienable rights of individuals.
Galileo's Proposed Authentication Algorithm: Part 1
The other poster was talking about error bounds not error bars. That means they want to have a number that tells them how often a system fails and ideally a model of how and when it fails. So they want to have a system that comes with some guarantees. It works X% of the time, fails 100-X% of the time.

Note that X doesn't need to be high, or higher than a human, for example a self-driving car with a 60% failure rate is fine as long as we know when and how it fails. It's this "when and how" that's completely missing from self driving cars.

And in machine learning in general we just don't have any guarantees that a model trained on some dataset will perform the same way in the real world.
https://github.com/kach/tower-of-power/blob/master/tower-of-...

That's a nice instance of literate programming. I don't come across those very often.
So it is punishment?
Constructivism, empiricism and realism are not in a zero sum game
I think this is more typical in public administration. Employees just follow the existing rules/laws because it’s not their job challenging them, and decision makers are mostly concerned on shifting away blame from them. Nobody wants to be that guy that ordered to stop searching for a bomb, the day that a new bomb will be placed. The only reason why one should stop doing it is to gain efficiency (= be more productive but doing less useless things), but the efficiency metric is non existent in public administrations.
> the tea needs to go into water as close to boiling as possible

Many teas go bad when put in too hot water, green tea comes to mind, but I'm sure there are others as well. These kinds of teas should never be in water that is anywhere near boiling.
When a country say another country/company is a threat. Does it need a framework? It is all politics.
These bases briefly appeared in the limelight at some point during Brexit discussions/negotiations, since they constitute yet another land border between UK and EU... They were eclipsed by Gibraltar afterwards (northern Ireland was always well-known).
What stops your employees doing the same thing?
My wife is Japanese and our kids had a lot of puzzle with very weird shapes, like this.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f5XdPqMJVQM

I don't know if this is a specific Japanese style, but I never saw puzzle like this "in the west".

This one has a frame, but they also make some without (pieces that interlock like our puzzle), still with those weird shapes.

I really love them:)
right, pushing github passwords leads to GDPR breach in end - anything preventing GDPR breach in the end is probably a great ROI.
I don't see a philosophical debate answered here to be honest.

> The ramifications of this are larger than tilted coins

They always are. The coins you are currently seeing are just weighted experience. Weighted more because of recency or other factors but in conflict with accumulated experience. Why should they just be ignored? I would expect more mental load.

Do we ever escape the perspective from which we view the world?

Well, we can perceive the oval shape as a circle, which would suggest that we do it literally to some degree.

Either I don't get it, or I have another "perspective" as the author as it seems.

> We do not see the world completely separate from our point of view

Well... but we also don't see it completely separate from objectivity if you want to call it that.

Perhaps no philosophical debate and more a neurological one?
On a similar point, this video goes through the costs of buying an abandoned house in Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwRjO3kHxU4 To be fair, although there are a lot of "extras", the sums involved still seemed relatively small.
I love his books. Gorgeous.

I think this was more his graphic design style for his books. As you say, the justification shows there's nothing impromptu about it. Here's how he wrote his letters, notes, drafts and so on: https://www.grough.co.uk/lib/img/editorial/wainwrightmanuscr...

I'm not splitting hairs on what 'handwriting' means. I'm fascinated by that era when books with complex text/visual interactions were far cheaper to create by hand. An example of an old magic book I have: https://imgur.com/a/8Bu9ML1 It's hard to beat Wainwright though.
… or “How to make your software unusable with questionable legalese”.

Not a lawyer, but I can easily imagine how “An organization of people that seeks shared profit for all its members and does not exploit the labor of non-members” could be interpreted in dozens of different ways, making the use of any such licensed software a very dicey proposition.
I read this in Murakami's books. Was surprised at Japan doing this to her citizens!
Apps don't have access to everything you do on your phone.
Also give the authors background, that's more an artistic take - than a real, well thought, license.

For a "real", pro-freedom AND anti-capitalist software license, please consider GPL 3.

And for a "real", pro-freedom AND capitalism-agnostic software license, consider MIT.
> An organization of people that seeks shared profit for all its members and does not exploit the labor of non-members

Sounds basically impossible to me. How do you ensure that you don’t exploit the labor of non-members? If you buy as much as even an office chair, or a pencil sharpener, or a carpet, or whatever, there were probably very many people involved and some of them were being exploited in that they were paid a very low amount for their work.
> because that's not how societies work

Can you prove that? So far I just see a bunch of people claiming other people's wealth their own to dispose of. That's definitely not how a healthy society is able to function in a long run. USSR tried that, Cambodia tried that, Venezuela is trying it now.
I actually think this whole one person doing one stupid thing per year argument is grossly underestimating the amount of stupid available.

Stupidity is one of humanity's greatest renewable resources.
The psychological aspect of this reminded me of when my depression hit and I responded so differently emotionally to everything and felt like (and was) a completely different person. Habits and rituals that used to be nothing pleasure for my past self, things that I did to reward yourself for a good job done were painful and tedious to my present self.

The depression was one thing, but suddenly being a different person when you thought you knew yourself, and wondering if you should learn to live as this new, damaged person with its different emotional attitudes to everything (that I didn't trust were sustainable) or act like your old self working toward your old self's goals trusting in the wisdom of the person you once were---that was a different dilemma I didn't know I had to make, that nobody understood.
Aren't the countries banning TikTok becoming more like China by doing this? Plus Trump comments about US gov needs to get money from this sale sounds like plain bribe.

I have not seen a convincing proof that TikTok is more of a national security threat versus FB or Twitter. What am I missing? I am also more suspicious because along with TikTok, Wechat was banned while other investments in US by Tencent where not touched supposedly because it would impact American companies. Wechat is definitely insignificant to be a security threat.
I’m looking into getting this one: https://www.numworks.com/
Very interesting concept. A couple of initial observations:

* Creating models from a file borks on anything non-UTF8 (i.e. most legacy system outputs)

* `synth model inspect` output does not match the docs - how do I see the JSON?
So as a society we are saying it’s ok to tax the wealthy, but we also give people the opportunity to become wealthy and encourage it but then once you make it bad, time for punishment via taxes? What exactly did Bezos do that requires him to pay more taxes? He didn’t “get a small loan”, he earned his and now your saying people who have no desire in life to be anything more than a store clerk deserve some of his money. Can they afford it? Sure. Is it fair, absolutely not.
Been getting less crowded for years.
Looks like both Bytedance and Musical.ly are Cayman islands, so I'm not sure how the US has any say in what they do, though I understand the spirit is "do what we want or lose the US (and possibly the world) market".

I don't know how anything the US does can affect what two companies in a different country decide to do between them, legally speaking. The executive order sounds weird to me.

Also, I don't understand how they can block a sale three years later. What's the time frame on that? Why not ten years later? A hundred?
The licence prohibits Law Enforcement use. What does that have to do with Capitalism? I'm fairly sure every socialist/communist/facist country has some form of law enforcement.
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It doesn’t make sense, feels like a teenager approach to the world.
The paper that presents this algorithm has the best known accuracy on the widerface dataset, which is why it is called state of the art. The authors of the paper published an implementation of this algorithm based on mxnet, but a lot people and companies use tensorflow instead of mxnet in their work, so just using the mxnet implemenation is not an option. Thats why I converted it to TF, with a slight decrease in accuracy on widerface. Then what is "acceptable" depends on your judgement, but the widerface dataset is extremely challenging, with many pictures having hundreds of small faces. In some of these pictures my implementation will miss a few faces, or find them but with lower probability. Overall for the vast majority of face detection applications, the two implementations will yield extremely similar results. I havent yet found a picture with a few dozen faces where the TF implementation performed not as well as the original one !
> Because when we say "4th of July" it's not being said in the context of a date, it's an event.

Eh, that's not very compelling. You have a specific event for which you break your date ordering just because? "It's an event" doesn't explain why the ordering is suddenly not the standard.

It looks like a holdover from a prior point in history before there was the current trend of spoken date endianness. Look at "Seventh of March speech" as another example.

> Cool. In the US we say August 18th, 2020. So that's why we do MM/DD/YYYY.

This isn't actually the case from what I can tell by looking online, both England and the english speaking north Americans used a mixture of MM/DD/YYYY (but only with written out months) and DD/MM/YYYY. Once there was a move toward number-only dates around 1900 England disposed of middle endian dates and the US preserved them.

> I really don't understand why people are so hell bent on changing our culture. We do it this way and like it. It's not a big deal.

Global communication, US is the only place using this date format, can be mis-parsed for the first 12 days of every month, not even consistent within itself etc.

You're defending it with as much gusto as people in other places care. It's a minor annoyance to convert ambiguous dates, that's pretty much it.
Story colleagues told me once: requirements for a car's rear wind shield was that is had to withstand air pressures of 120km/h. But the car could not go in reverse that fast, so the requirement did not make sense and was loosened.

On delivery of the produced cars, many rear wind shields were broken. Turns out they were transported from the factory on a train, faced backwards so they could fit more cars on the train.

(no idea if this really happened, but it's a nice little story)
Well, you could … not have proceeded with the interviews? I'm sorry to state this to you without knowing your personal situation, but in general such shitty employer behavior is only possible because we employees bend to company pressure. Every clause in your work contract you just accept because it is a "standard clause we write in every contract" is a loss for our combined bargaining power.
Rocketlab photon, and satellite bus's in general, provide a physical, electrical and mechanical skeleton that spacecraft get built around.

https://www.rocketlabusa.com/satellites/
Cheaper than a lawsuit.
> For a "real", pro-freedom AND anti-capitalist software license, please consider GPL 3.

I wouldn't say that GPL3 is "anti-capitalist". Rather, it's extremely pro-freedom and forces certain behavior on part of the capitalists that they aren't inclined to partake in on their own volition.
It's interesting that in tech there is this expectation that every available thing should be done to make the employee as happy and relaxed as possible. If an employer refuses to do these things it's met with "does not compute", as in this example.

Granted, it does seem to make sense that your employees are as happy and relaxed as possible, but this attitude doesn't seem to exist in other industries to the same degree.

For example, I have a friend who works in finance. He was allowed to work from home for the bare minimum amount of time during the pandemic, his company requested him to return to the office almost as soon as the government permitted it (despite his job being possible to do 100% remotely). He also wears formal clothes every day (another thing that is frequently viewed as ridiculous in tech). But, he makes probably 3-4 times what I do per year!

It seems that in tech people expect to be "looked after" by their employer more than in other industries, yet simultaneously undervalue themselves.

Caveat: this is a perspective from the UK where finance salaries are high, and tech salaries are (as far as I can tell) much lower than the USA.
Introduction to Whiteboxes and Collision-Based Attacks with QBDI
I couldn’t find any license text in the repo.

Would you consider using an open source license like for example the ISC license?

https://choosealicense.com/licenses/isc/
This is only worth reading if you take it as a commentary/artwork. If you read it as a real licence it all feels a little bit childish.
Parallax methods are widely used, I think it's how Tesla's driving assist features work.

The problem with it is that humans don't just use binocular vision - we have a whole model of the world. So for instance, if I see an object, I usually know roughly how big it is supposed to be because I have a conception of "object". I also know that the straight line on both sides of an object is a wall, and that the wall continues behind the object and therefore the object is in front of the wall and the object is closer than the wall.

That means I'm not just working with my binocular vision and it can be deceptive to think that because it works for human vision it will also work well for computer vision.
Porting a Golang and Rust CLI tool to D
You would have to be very unlucky to take 34 minutes[1]. After mere 75 tries (seconds) the chances are >50%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
What I notice from this thread (and many similar ones) is that actually AI may replace sooner or later lawyers, some programmers, system administrators, engineers of various ilks; but the sweeper, the toilet cleaner, the janitor, the restaurant maid and the dishwasher, the delivery guy and the auto repair man, all of the relatively "low skilled" jobs are absolutely safe.
(no offense intended) idk why but i everytime i read about wearing shoes indoors my mind goes into a loop thinking "but why". i can't help it, it happens every time even though i've read about it a dozen times and should feel just indifferent to this. such a strange cultural difference
I still wonder what inspired Plato's Atlantis.
I actually use it for real work. It fixed a lot of problems for Comic Sans and is surprisingly comfortable to read.
Would be significant, if locks were important.
Witness the Lock Picking Lawyer: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ

Most locks can be picked (by an expert) in under 60 seconds anyway. Without having to make a key.