skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I support the upscale for the exact same reason as the criticism. Old photos and film almost seem fake or fictional to me. Seeing a more realistic portrayal humanizes the pictures for me. I guess the other question I have is why is this mutually exclusive? We can’t both preserve and digitize as it was and also enhance?
I think every developer should read this
> especially so in a site that doesn't strictly tie with your real self.

In the bigger view, that isn't really something to fix. In fact it might be a good thing - let people make mistakes, be downvoted, see what enlightened people commented and maybe learn.
It's definitely bad move but IMO "No more Academic freedom" is too much.

In different view, The Science Council of Japan denies research that relates military. I don't know whether it's good or bad but it seems that the org not aiming completely freedom.

http://www.scj.go.jp/ja/info/kohyo/pdf/kohyo-23-s243-en.pdf
Medlife crisis, a cardiologist youtuber has recently made a video [0] about a similar study, that also looked at MRI images of patients [1]. That same story is referenced in the article as well. According to medlife crisis, MRI images aren't really helpful as a sole tool to diagnose miocarditis, instead one uses them together with other data like symptom reports or ECG. Alone, they would be too flaky. Also, we don't even know how healthy people look like as we don't put them into scanners.

Now this [2] study, the one the blog post is about, didn't just study MRI images but also collected other data, like ECG. But quoting the study:

> There were no diagnostic ST/T wave changes on electrocardiogram, and ventricular volumes and function were within the normal range in all athletes by transthoracic echocardiogram and CMR imaging. No athlete had elevated serum levels of troponin I.

Some individuals reported mild symptoms typical to COVID, but most were asymptomatic. So the study confirmed that there are no abnormal changes beyond the MRI scans, which, as written above, can be flaky.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaiQGJqZ6Y8

[1]: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2020.3557

[2]: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2020.4916
> I have mostly found it to be a footgun and inspiration to write spaghetti. While it may have good intentions, it doesn't matter if it lets less experienced developers do absurd things that I now have to refactor.

I admit the only team I've used it on consisted of three people, and there are certainly really gnarly things you can do with it if you go out of the way to, so I don't know how it scales to larger teams. Though I would argue that it encourages best practices by making those the paths of least resistance. I would also say that - unlike, say, RxJS - its mental model is very simple and straightforward, and should be quite accessible to inexperienced developers. But yes, it doesn't do a lot to stop you from shooting yourself in the foot.

> I don't think it really fits well into the React model

I disagree with this part completely. It doesn't fit well with the Redux/hooks model, but that's because it replaces it. In my opinion it lets React focus on what it does best: updating the DOM to match a new virtual DOM, and takes everything else out of React's hands, which to me is a huge win. I am not a believer in the "every state change replaces the entire root state structure using a composition of pure functions" model; I think it's contrived, clunky, and hard to follow. I believe that state should be minimal, but should be treated as what it is. MobX gives you all the tools you need to enshrine state as state, without introducing any duplication/synchronization complications.
Reddit agrees with my first instinct that it probably draws water into your gut via osmosis.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2347u0/til_t...
> It's just a way of bullying people into adopting the political views that you want them to, and it shouldn't be tolerated in a society that values democratic freedoms.

> You have no right to demand that somebody make the same decisions in this respect as you do. It is absurd, it is hostile to the notion of free democracy, and it is a standard that no living person could ever meet.

Well said. It's sad that activists are anti-liberty in this way. It undermines their campaigns.

I had a professor in college tell an entire class the first day - "nobody really cares about you except your family and maybe some friends". You could see the shock to a lot of the students who had been coddled and told how awesome they were their whole life. Once you accept that concept, you can learn to be more effective in communication and not expect things from others.

Most of these activists have no tact.

Neil deGrasse Tyson says in his MasterClass that his father taught him that it's not enough to be right. You must be effective.

The world would be a much better place if everyone followed that.
You will have to take my decorators from my cold dead hands. I'm not upgrading.
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It appears to me that law and medical licensing bodies are advocates for the public against the professions. It may be incidentally beneficial to the professions in some ways (trust, etc) but the same can be said of environmental and safety regulators (accidents cost time, etc).

In what sense are they unions?

"Software engineers need to be protected from the employers" and "the public needs to be protected from software engineers" seem like very different positions, in fact I can imagine both organizations existing in a sometimes-adversarial relationship.
I'm not arguing against it.

I'm saying morals are a macro feature arising from a series of accidental mutations as opposed to a macro feature arising as a side effect similar to your snoring example.

The complexity of the moral module is too complex to be a single accidental mutation... it must be naturally selected out of a multitude of mutations building on each other to produce such a feature. This is very unlike snoring which is caused by mechanisms that are far more simplistic.
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So the deltas are narrower creating a breakdown in the SNR for say edge detection?

Please excuse me if this is totally wrong and I sound ignorant, I assure you I am...
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I would love someone like gwern [0] to write an analysis of how Mathematics articles on Wikipedia start off being understandable by most and then get lapped into a submicron finish that only reflects an insular subset of folks. These mathematical nuggets sit like hard grains in mud (sorry wikipedia) that only mathematicians can understand.

And in so doing, they slowly bootstrap themselves so far away from any grounding context that it is incredibly difficult for anyone to _learn_ mathematics from reading wikipedia articles.

There are groups doing great things like Setosa [1], nLab [2] and for concepts, Simplicable [3]

[0] https://www.gwern.net/

[1] https://setosa.io/ev/

[2] https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/HomePage

[3] https://simplicable.com/new/communication
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I’ve seen one place offer a lower price for no points: Apa Hotel in Japan, IIRC. Since I don’t go to Iapan often enough to worry about points, it was a no brainer.
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It seems other fields have already been doing this sort of alteration for some time. For example, space-related research that often relies upon computer-assisted rendering to help the average consumer better understand context and "what things would look like."

Alternatively, many statues from the classical era were actually painted, not bare marble. Is it frowned upon to create an image that renders those statues in color based on trace pigments still remaining on those statues?
Well, the sys behavior is easy to implement.

I also am not a fan of the complexity and overhead of gen_server so instead I use metal (http://github.com/lpgauth/metal). It's a simple receive loop with an optional init and terminate callback. It implement sys and can be supervised.
Googling the term will confirm that I didn't just invent the notion of bijective compression.

That "the domain and range are the same set" is a given for compression programs which operate on strings or files. It's the bijective property which is added to that here.

So it's not that we're dealing with alternative meanings of "bijective", rather that it's understood in the work on bijective compression that compression/decompression are fundamentally functions from strings to strings.

(So compression is not conceptualized as a function from arbitrary strings to some more restricted set of "well-formed" or syntactically valid compressed strings.)

See for example:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.3077

"[T]he transform we present is bijective, in that the inverse transformation exists for all strings."
No, it's marketing.
For most users, the fingerprint sensor on Pixels works reliably - and when it does, it's also very convenient, because your finger pretty much lands in the exact right spot when pulling it out of the pocket.
The ironic thing is that your "original" has completely fabricated sound added to it, which involves much more subjectivity than interpolating frames.
This is cool. It does address (partly) some of the issues with Swift threading.

That said, I’m not a systems programmer, and basic threads, like those provided by the standard “blunt instrument” approach of standard Swift, will pretty much always give me what I need.

Using threads -especially low-level threads- can lead to a real education in debugging. I only use them when necessary.
Yup, I thought this was a new reactor design.
I'm confused, your argument for saying this isn't a bad thing is and that developers are not drowning in spam is telling them to... Get more people involved, so that they can take some of the load off of the maintainer. You suggest that they aren't capable of running the projects they created entirely out of love for the craft, and were handling well enough, without help only because DO's marketing stunt might probably cause burnout.

Did I get it right or did I misintepret something?

> Stop whining of how hard the life of an OSS maintainer is and invite others to help you out.

Are you a maintainer? How many of them have you offered to help with the spam? And don't you think there are better contributions you could make if it weren't for the deluge?
"Forget artificial sweeteners. Researchers are now developing new forms of real sugar, to deliver sweetness with fewer calories. But tricking our biology is no easy feat."

Sugar is already tricking our biology. It brought us a diabetes pandemic. It is weird to say that it is difficult to get worse, but looks inevitable if we are using scientists to create more sugar in place of fixing the issues the overconsumption of it already created.
The sugar is not digested so it remains in the gut. Then the sugar, because of osmosis, draws water in from the surrounding tissue.

This extra water then causes the laxative effect.
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Nit: We have some very good fossils of dinosaurs that have preserved skin, coloration, feathers, and even gut contents. It's not just bones anymore. PBS Eons had a good one on a recent-ish find:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-UZXBF63z4

They also have a good one on the history of dinosaur illustration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDnQmBFxIfE
Don't forget all of the infrastructure needed on the fab side -- safety engineers, industrial engineers, operators, etc.
> plus high voltages that can fry devices

Any examples of this other than the Switch?
In the context of this thread, it seems very much to be the case of "the public needs to be protected from software engineers." The N'th ancestor post very explicitly says that "we" are causing this problem.

The idea being, if professional strictures were imposed upon us, that would give us a stronger ability to push back against those who set tasks in conflict with those strictures.
Even predicate ones? (I kid)
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> Not a consumer friendly portable thing, however

but otoh it does talk to a spaceship :)
Unfortunately exponentially rising health care costs and excessive litigation may be the two to the largest problems with society in the US at the moment. Whether those guilds help mitigate these problems or amplify them is hard to determine.
It is weird to imagine that the evolution is to eat a laxative cake in place of taking care of sugar addiction.

"Hey! This version of cocaine makes you still feel hungry!"
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Braves sync has yet to sync a single item from my browser to my phone and its been linked for almost 2 weeks now.

Though I am very drawn to ad model it.
Oh please, save your sanctimony. We have laws for good reason. If I really wanted to get even, he’d be dead (capital punishment). He deserves it. He fought hard against the well-being of his employees just save some money and boost his own compensation.

Now I’m against capital punishment, so I don’t want him dead, nor do I want treatment withheld for the disease he’s suffering, even if he did the same for many others. But I’ll be damned if I see him get a penny of that money before he spends his own first. That’s justice enough, and I think that’s downright generous, far more generous than he deserves. And that, my friend, is what makes me the better man.
Not to be forgotten is the wonderful HP Journal.

For example, here is an issue from 1972, lots of wonderful technical details about the newly introduced HP-35 calculator: http://hparchive.com/Journals/HPJ-1972-06.pdf

I'd sarcastically say "thanks, Carly" for destroying HP. But I don't think it was a one-man or one-woman effort. I think she had plenty of help.
My suggestion:

1. Go to a big city where software folks are paid a lot

2. Apply for roles at startups or small companies who find it hard to compete with big companies paying a lot.

3. Profit
Slightly tangential, but my anecdata suggests that black cats are nicest tempered of all breeds. I wonder if this related to selection pressure. That is, people tended to select other cats that were not black due to superstition until a pleasant demeanour overrode superstitious beliefs.
Thanks for the encouragement; I'll keep going along and see where things take me. I have zero personal relationships (I hardly talk to my family) and have zero friends so I could start working on those and see if I can get some more networking.
We are getting a bit off topic, but it’s pretty clear Trump only has one agenda: say anything, do anything to get re-elected. He has no real ideology. No real policies. One might suspect that he is motivated more by fear than by anything else.
Would be great if liberal tech companies could give similar benefits to whoever wants to leave because their political views don’t align with the company’s views. I don’t talk about politics at my workspace because I know only one side is welcome there.
Yeah I've been doing that a bit; I could try posting them on GitHub and see what other people think of them. Thanks for the idea!
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So far, there is no good evidence that sars-cov2 causes long term lung damage at higher rates than other respiratory infections.

Several of your links are specifically about pulmonary fibrosis. Its a scary condition that has a zillion potential causes, including viral and bacterial infections of many different kinds, pneumonia of all kinds, environmental pollutants, medications, etc. And of course there is the dreaded idiopathic fibrosis -- that for which there is no identifiable cause. It won't be the least bit surprising if scientists discover that most cases of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis are actually viral in origin.

And again, there is currently no evidence that sars-cov2 causes pulmonary fibrosis any more often than other viral infections. That might change, and the condition is truly scary, but right now the evidence doesn't justify the scary headlines.
It should be agreed that no violence should be tolerated.

Unfortunately, this years protests/riots have set sort of a bad precedent. In an ideal world, I'd hope they would be roundly condemned from all sides immediately.
They way they held back on the transition from black and white to color until a good 20-30 minutes into the movie made it all the more breathtaking when it happened. At that point you were already absorbed in the black and white footage, it was magical.
> Sugar is already tricking our biology.

There's no trick involved. Sugar appears to be exactly what it is. You want to eat it because it's sugar; that's your biology functioning as intended.
Reading these stories always stirs emotions. It's great that she landed a job. At the same time, it's hard to not think about how many other folks won't have the same happy chance of circumstances.

When I was 19 I went to federal prison for computer-related crimes. After I was released I tried getting "normal" jobs - Dominos, McDonalds, etc, but had less than stellar luck on that front. I started my own thing doing affiliate marketing and made enough to pay bill. Thankfully this was before I had a family.

Now I've been in the consulting and contracting space for years, worked with/at Fortune 10 companies, HIPAA and PCI regulated shops too. Recently, after a failed start up, I needed to get a "real" job. After the first two offers were pulled back, I changed my interview tactics.

Now, on the very first phone call with a human, I bring up my nearly 20 year old conviction. It's never come up on a background check due to how the vast majority of commercial background checks work. My name, however, is quite unique and news articles are still some top ranking sites about me.

One of my pie-in-the-sky goals is to try my hand at another start up, and in the process build out a program to train other felons with how to program. With all the folks I've been around throughout my career, some of the smartest of them were people I met in prison. There's so much wasted talent there.
There's also enormous risk embodied in the sky-high real estate prices in CA and NY, namely that they might not continue appreciating, or could even flatten and drop somewhat. The prices in CA are driven by the extraordinary scarcity of housing relative to the demand created by the booming tech industry. Real estate is priced at the margins, and if the tech outflow accelerates it could tip to a new lower baseline relatively quickly (see places like Miami and Las Vegas in 2008). If that happens you risk being underwater by substantial amounts.
When the DOJ started the anti-trust case against Microsoft, they had been giving about $10K a year to politicians. By the end of the trial, and the resultant slap on the hand, Microsoft was giving $1M to BOTH sides. Nothing since then would lead me to believe that the environment is any different now, or that the outcomes will be any different, this time around.

To me, the REALLY depressing thing about our representative republic isn't that it can be bought -- when it was designed to be above such things -- it's that it can be bought so revoltingly cheaply, relatively speaking.
Are you suggesting this blog post might be misleading by not disclosing the limitations of the referenced work? Why would anybody do such a thing? /s
No recipes have been passed down in my family but a single recipe for a weird mac-n-cheese. Share your babas recipe! :-)
It still supports decorators:
https://mobx.js.org/enabling-decorators.html
Do you have any evidence for that?
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Left-side Antifa, Right-side counter-clowns.

Both need to be stopped. Heavy sentences need to be handed down, leads followed up, root sourced identified. It's not a coincidence all this happens in the election year.
Just one incentivizing assassinations and terrorist attacks scandal away from being pulled.
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They are unions in the sense that they draw their funding from membership fees, set high entry standards that keep competition in check for existing members (obviously there are altruistic reasons for this too, but one impact of requiring a long, expensive degree is low competition). The union structures in medicine and law and piloting tends to favor established members over new ones.

IMO setting high standards is a quality shared by any healthy industry, because permitting shoddy work means every consumer needs to learn the details of the task in order to judge their provider.
I hope Apple keep using Lighting on its iPhone.
Definitely have to agree with you here, as well as other posters saying it's more relatable seeing enhanced and colorized footage. To me, history becomes much more engaging and thought-provoking when presented that way. Not strictly related, but it brings to mind the 3D mapping of Pharaoh Ramesses VI Tomb [1]. Walking around the tomb in VR was very eye-opening and really made me appreciate the magnitude of people having built that so long ago.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23467292
Wonder if NPE has ran an experiment where they deleted Facebook.
> I hope the athletes whose pro careers are now in jeopardy are able to hold the college administration and other officials pushing for the return of football accountable for the damage they've caused.

On the flipside, a year out of competition may be enough to kill someone's career, or at least seriously derail it. Most people only get a few years at high levels of sport, so losing one is a big hit.
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