skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems like this could /also/ be used for video by using this technique along with residual coding.

Not trivially-- in the pixel or DCT domain the residual would almost certainly be extremely non-sparse, and would take a lot of bits-- potentially similar to just sending an image (for a given target MSE level). Consider, edges (other than the keypoint controlled ones) aren't even in exactly the same place-- so the residual doesn't just need to code the edge, it needs to code it twice. This has been one of the big impediments in using 'synthesis' techniques in video coding generally.

It might be possible to code a residual in some latent NN space and get more useful results, however.
And (more pessimistic future) you'll go to prison if you install such an app, or visit a website that tells you those apps exist.

Already happened in some countries.

B.t.w. someone wrote long ago here at HN that the 2nd amendment about weapons, nowadays should be about cryptography instead. Maybe:

> A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to [use end-to-end encryption], shall not be infringed.
”It works” is relative and the statement that "St Mark's Square is pretty much dry" is a lie. It is flooded as every year, a friend is just there for a visit and sent a foto. Not knee deep, but more than 15cm. Could have been worse, I guess, but it's still flooded.
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Well tabs are to a window what a full-size windows are to a screen.

Which is to say, yes, we do seem to have difficulties with overlapping multiple surfaces slightly differing on the (virtual) depth axis.

Curiously, DOOM was more of 2D game with 3D graphics. The altitude was irrelevant in gameplay except for the falls and the elevators. I mean two objects weren't allowed at (x,y,z1) and (x,y,z2). Just about that time I remember "Descent" and it was much less playable chiefly because it was full 3D and on higher levels often didn't give any "ground" reference (i.e. axis z was not special at all).
> It's no coincidence that people with African genetics always win sprints and marathons in the Olympics.

This is a lie, and you know it. Many people of non-African origin do win such sprint and marathon contests. I suspect what you are really trying to get at, in as few words as possible, is a typical the racist trope: that Africans excel in mindless physical sports, while being inferior in the intellect. However, for example, the physical sport of swimming (and many other sports) is dominated by caucasian people. Given this, it would be wrong to ascribe any over-arching superiority of Africans in sports, or even of any sport category.

That there are physiological differences between groups of people is not in doubt. However, that does not necessarily translate to any culturally meaningful broad characterizations. Fitness in any endeavour requires a complex mix of talents and skills. I'm surprised to see such simplistic, pseudo-rational arguments from HN members.

Edit: Fixed typos
Are there any non censored, ..., versions of GPT-2 online somewhere?
What I'm saying is, it's really easy for me to boil a dozen eggs, grill some chicken bits, and boil half a pack of brown rice or quinoa. A week's worth of food, the caloric density is astounding. I then only need to make salads or play with frozen veggies.

All of this is really cheap and quick to make. Almond/coconut/soy milk costs nearly three times as much as cow's milk in my country, and the substitute 'meats' are hard to find outside supermarkets. Veganism here might as well be money laundering. To my knowledge, beyond burgers and such food is still pricey in the USA as well, for instance.

I'm just pointing out what makes me consider vegetarianism or veganism is eating more food, better food, for less money, and less pretentious heat treatment. I'm not finding it right now. Hopeful for the future, though.
That's a pretty cool collection of responses for an AI system, tbh.
I think if you set up custom scenarios in AI Dungeon you can basically feed it whatever you like

https://play.aidungeon.io/
I just meant that you need the "[:]-operator" less often because of the new methods removeprefix, not that the thing is completely removed.
That https was established as defacto-standard was a huge success and I don't think it will go away again.

Freedom only works with some responsibility, but it seems to me that state level actors just try to keep up with the ad and tech industry in collecting data.

The EFF tries to blame it on Barr, but I think the wish for control is bipartisan, especially since a generation is in charge that doesn't really understand the problems of this data collection. Not that their younger compatriots seem more promising in assessing actual problems.

There might be a point where using a Asian or African social network would be preferable, but that is something not on the mind of common social media users. Sure, they do it if the product has appeal like TikTok. On bad days I wish users of social media (the self presenting kind) would be banned from all other sites.
Serious inquiry: does anyone use the word "temblor" outside of journalism?
Well, if a mastodon instance admin decides to ban you, that's their personal decision. You can go to another instance.

If another user blocks you, that's on them but you have no right to push your messages into another user's home system.

If all else fails, you can host your own. It's ultimate free speech as intended and as someone who hosts a mastodon instance, it's a system that works pretty good, there is no noticeable hatespeech in my federated timeline.

edit: I might have misunderstood the GP, but I'll let the comment exist. Banning mastodon in the US is a non-concern since it's a french open source development.
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Been away from web development area for around 4 years, now I am picking up for my own company and projects

would like to ask HN what's the current status of the web development ?

Specifically, what are the backend API framework, what are the frontend Framework, what are the CSS frameworks

(ps: before I left, I was working on React + python flask + bootstrap )
here was my chat convo with it on itemsy

> hi

> An error occurred. Please try again.

but the demos look super neat
I tried their Itemsy example, and it's not very good advertising for their service:

Hey I'm here to answer your questions about Itemsy

Me: What is this?

Itemsy is a tool for managing the content that you read online. You can think of it as Pinterest for the things you read. You can save it for yourself, share within a closed group or publish to your followers.

Me: Followers on what sites?

I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. Shall we chat about Itemsy a bit more?

Me: Sure. How many followers can I share with?

You can share with up to 100 followers.

Me: Where do these followers come from?

You can add followers manually or automatically.

Me: If I do it automatically, how do I do that?

You can connect any Medium blog or RSS feed to your Itemsy account. If you do so, all new posts will be automatically posted on your public Itemsy profile.

Me: How do I automatically add followers?

I'm not sure what you mean. Shall we chat about Itemsy a bit more?

Me: Sure. Let's change subject. Can you tell me if I can post links to what I have read directly on your web site?

Sure. You can post links to what you have read directly on your web site.

Me: But do you have any funcitonality on your website to let me do that? I don't have a web site.

I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. Could you say that again?

Me: I want to know what features your web site has.

Sure. You can post links to what you have read directly on your web site.

Me: It's starting to sound as though you're just sharing some canned answers to me?

What do you mean exactly? Could you please try saying it some other way?
> Do you know the meaning of 'static website'? In some ways your question is an oxymoron. You're misunderstanding the term and have asked a bit of a silly question by accident.

By that definition, any static website that uses Google Analytics is no longer a static website, as it's interacting with a database.

As you point out, a static website (one that is deployed as plain HTML and some css / js / image assets) can be part of a larger ecosystem.

So maybe tone down the noob bashing...
But if the app is in the gray area (e.g. in addition to bad actors, it's also used by a niche set of privacy enthusiasts) it enables plauisble deniability.
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One of the most well-plotted time travel novels ever. The breadth of Powers’ creativity is a thing of wonder. There were ideas in that book which were just bits of throwaway color, which I still think about years after having read the book.

That being said, his other books were a slight let down after Anubis Gates.
It wont catch everything but looking at confidence (seems to be something here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24480518 on that) would help make it more usable for a company.
An alternative and IMO better fix would be to have patent cases decided by juries.
Really need to see failure modes before judging this. What happens if you actually move your head?
Nothing seems as easy as another engineer’s problem.

This also amazes me, especially the whining about other people's code from developers. Truely believing that they would do it better. I've even seen inherited code posted to be ridiculed/shamed/bashed in some slacks and subreddits.
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For those curious on the topic of Predictive Coding, I'd highly recommend reading two of they key source papers on it:

1. James CR Whittington and Rafal Bogacz. An approximation of the error backpropagation algorithmin a predictive coding network with local hebbian synaptic plasticity.Neural computation, 29(5):1229–1262, 2017.

2. Rafal Bogacz. A tutorial on the free-energy framework for modelling perception and learning.Journalof mathematical psychology, 76:198–211, 2017.

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Wow, you're not wrong. I couldn't help but look up the journalist's name as it's the type of name that you might give a fictional parody character.

I was surprised to see that the website of the BBC's first cyber reporter has so much horrible third party stuff on it - https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=joetidy.co.uk
Putting the code to a separate .so is very unlikely to break, unless C++ compilers start doing code generation at dynamic link time.

LTO is a thing though, putting it in a separate translation unit doesn't help when static linking.
> "murder of crows" is definitely correct English

It's not. The article explained this!
We don’t because it isn’t a problem. It really is that simple.

The cops can do their jobs in meatspace.
i got that too. so odd, why's it say that?
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>> Btw the reason I haven't tried kakoune yet is that the command is `kak`, which means 'shit' in my native language, Dutch.

> I've actually heard this either on a forum, mailing list or a github issue at least once, lol. It's unfortunate.

I think if someone really wants to use Kakoune they could do the same thing that I do with neovim, which is to make vim be an alias for the editor you actually want to use.
I wonder if there are old manuscripts where you can see ink smeared across the paper because the earth moved as the author was writing it...
> By which you mean C# gets new features every year, and F# gets thrown enough tidbits to keep it looking alive?

Every new C# version makes interoperability more of a pain. The C# team have no interest in compatibility with F# and will NIH stuff that could've been taken from F# libraries. One of the biggest pain points for interop is tasks, for which there are half a dozen libraries for F# and everyone uses a different one. There's been an open issue for F# to have native task support for years, but progress is slow.
Ah, the old penal colony mindset where the citizens are secretly prisoners.
The lack of a "Pricing" link on the homepage put me off from exploring further. Please at least add a link and a page for it even if it's free for now with the terms and conditions.
As far I understand, you want a better biological mechanism than the current B-cell?

There are three problems:

1. Making a nano machine like a B cell, possibly by re-engineering a B cell with genetic therapy. It is a challenge in the realm of synthetic biology.

2. Making a smart detector for viruses, something that is done already in the innate immune system, but obviously it should be better and be equipped with a "stop" system.

3. Producing an antigen/antibody.

A difficulty is that not all humans react in the same manner to antibodies. This is why designing vaccines is so hard. You should look at MHC I and II complexes. There are hundreds or more MHC subtypes and each subtype roughly means a different antigen. There are prediction servers that help to design antigens [0].

[0] http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/NetMHCpan/
So, uhm. What _is_ new? There's a bunch of removals and updated pre-reqs, but somehow the page doesn't tell what's actually new in Celery 5.0?
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Instead of having just one position to work from, I found it is better to be able to alternate between an ergonomic sitting position and a lay-down position. The easier it is to alternate between these positions, the more you will do it because there is less friction.

Picture of my setup: https://imgur.com/a/OLhkrPV

Bought a used Aeron chair about 10 years ago and is still working fine. Love the Kinesis Keyboard, also about 8 years old.

The Lounge chair needs to be replaced once a year ($50) because by that time the fabric on the back becomes saggy and will start to cause discomfort on the back.

I don't like to use multiple monitors. Somehow I couldn't get used to it.

When I'm on the Lounge chair, keyboard is on my lap and I use the arm rest to make sure my wrist is not pressed against anything.

When I'm sitting, the armrest is adjusted to keep my wrist from touching anything.
Currently I do not own one but IMHO the coffee from nespresso is pretty good.

I guess it depends on how much one can care about coffee – probably a lot!– but I am not so sure about the overlap.
Apparently it is good enough for michelin star restaurants to use.
https://www.nespresso.com/kr/en/michelin-dining-week
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I think that same logic applies to companies though so it's just shifting the problem over.

But I think GP might have meant banned at a government level?
Sane defaults reduce complexity

And new systems resulting out of old understood ones, like SI-Units vs imperial units
I also now agree. There's a lot wrong with a system which allows plaintiffs to choose their judge, and a lot wrong with US patent law, but in principle it's not a bad thing to have a judge who is expert in one area of law and a judicial system that prioritizes speedy trials - and there are no claims that Albright in particular is being unjustly enriched.

The judge who originally made East Texas a haven for patent trolls, T. John Ward, on the other hand, certainly did act improperly. In particular, his son owned a law firm which specialises in representing plaintiffs in his father's court. That firm now employs Ward senior.

https://thepriorart.typepad.com/the_prior_art/2008/03/judge-...
I'm not sure I follow your point. Of course technologies mature and opportunities dry up. The people that do technology (e.g. us here?) need to move on for greener pastures. Audio had a lot of problems to solve as digital signal processing rolled out... 20 years ago. Now, it seems very hard to come up with a product that can make good margins. An alternative would be a field like computer security, where people throw money at you do to stuff you learned as an undergrad in college.

Seems like this is the same calculation everyone needs to make when planning or evaluating startup ideas. I'm always curious to hear about the current unsolved technology areas are (other than poorly-defined concepts "data science" and "A.I", that is).
I won't challenge the bill directly, but I'll point out that putting "crimes against children" front and center smells of misdirection, so it begs the question of what's really the bill's goal (though that could be just bad campaigning). Also, Edward Snowden spoke out against this bill. That's hearsay, but personally I've a fair amount of trust in his assessments.
I don't think I've been paying enough attention but how does this work? The FBI, Police, and some congress members afaik have been talking about the going dark problem for years and now suddenly they pass a bill that explicitly protects companies from liability if they implement end to end encryption etc? Huh?! And why is EFF so wrong about this if that is correct?

Maybe it has something to do with "Notwithstanding paragraph (6)"
Maybe a very small group of people: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=quake%2Cearthq...
Also in theory allows them to ensure that only people over the legal smoking age can use the machine
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Would eye tracking be fast enough to follow saccades and generate the high resolution parts on the fly? I assumed it would and we'll eventually have VR at resolution of human perception done that way. I hope so!
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Exactly. I see this defeatism all the time regarding climate change too. It's OK to feel defeated. But why the hell would you spend energy to spread that defeatism?!
Thanks for this! I enjoyed all of it. It’s these sorts of things I would likely have never found that I can thank HN for bringing to me.
I think (not sure) that the McAfee signs on this building[1] were removed in the last week or so. I wonder if that's related to this Indictment. Would McAfee the company have gotten an early warning to give them time to remove their sign?

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/McAfee/@37.3898838,-121.97...
Korean people are genetically shorter than other races. Do you dispute that this would give them a profound disadvantage in basketball, all else equal? The narrative of all races being functionally the same phenotypically is prima facie absurd as even the most simplistic armchair observation reveals. Anyone who denies that Korean people have a genetic distadvantage in basketball must be acting in bad faith, and if they agree that they are disadvantaged in basketball then they agree with the premise that genetics of racial groups do play an important role in determining over- or under-performance in particular domains.

I never ascribed African dominance to sports in general, only running. Presumably the genetics required for elite swimming performance differ to those required for elite running performance, since they are completely different sports.

> This is a lie, and you know it

Absolutely not. It is an exaggeration, but very much is broadly true. All 100m men's champions at the Olympics going back to 1984 have been of African descent. If my hypothesis is correct, we would expect their dominance
to only continue and increase especially as they are given more economic opportunity, but time will tell.

Notably, there are 0 Asian champions going back to the 1800s. Is this just a total coincidence in your worldview? Or is it purely a cultural phenomenon, and if so, do you have any evidence whatsoever for this, or merely a bare assertion?

> However, that does not necessarily translates to any culturally meaningful broads characterizations.

The extent to which this is true is an open question, the only thing I'm sure of is that it's not going to be addressed honestly because of how politically charged it is.
Just got it installed and I'm pleased with what I see. I will use it in the next few days and will give you my feedback if I see something.

Quick silly question: why the name gobudget (it is even not written in golang) ?
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Eventually, maybe? But I was hoping there would be a way to cheat and somehow force saccades to happen on a pattern that can be predicted beforehand, so that we could render only the parts of the image that the eyes are just about to jump to.
The definition of "the new IE" is not not supporting the latest features (IE had plenty of "new" features—see e.g. filters, VML, XMLHttpRequest). The issue with IE was that it supported it's own proprietary features without consultation nor coordination with competitors. Something it was only able to do due to its market monopoly.

Yes, Chrome does this too.

It's slightly better in that it tends to submit them to standards bodies after implementing them, but most of the time that's WHATWG which is a much less democratic body than others, and mostly Google-led. Either way Chrome's market monopoly leave competitors with little choice in the standards process.
It’s both impressive and also weirdly like a Johnny Cab.

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I find the writer‘s glowing admiration for Spengler disturbing. He was an antidemocratic thinker, whose books
are pure speculative fiction. What the author calls „unorthodox“ methods, used to get a „holistic“ picture of historical developments, are (scientifically speaking) plain rubbish. Spengler wanted a dictator. He did not like Hitler, but was a Mussolini fanboy.
> fibers provide overwhelmingly more bandwidth capacity than (almost) anyone needs

Until everyone wants to use the SpaceX Mars Landing Live Immersion app on their Apple Shades that streams the entire 360° 3D 16k Ultra HDR helmet camera with fully directional sound. Or a protracted pandemic forces people to actually iterate on remote work tech, and instead of god-awful laptop webcams, eventually setups with 4k 3D video become the norm, and then you may have two working adults and kids taking remote lessons at the same time... not saying that current-gen fiber will become too slow anytime soon, and I'm sure there's still a lot of headroom left, but such statements have a tendency to age badly.

Not that I'm against treating this as a utility (I think that's absolutely the way to go), but it should be one that has frequent upgrades planned into it (unlike e.g. sewers)
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