skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's probably true but feels like somewhat of a trivial example...I think there would be some very interesting things to test here. When you get down to something like a 16 frame interpolation of 2 stills, the model is essentially guessing based on context what the interpolated frames should look like. Starting to verge into computational photography territory where the model is supplying it's own interpretation of the action based on human-like semantic understanding of the scene. As someone with an interest but not a career in bleeding edge machine learning, I would be curious to get an intuitive sense of how much this is going on.

Interesting boundary cases might be visuals of physical processes with inherently "chaotic" small-scale behavior. For example:

* What would happen if you fed the model two stills of a drop of food coloring expanding in water? Would it wholesale invent chaotic action that is obviously only one of many solutions but plausibly interpolates between the two states? Maybe not in it's

* Fireworks can completely visually change in 2-3 frame timescales. The underlying process is immediately recognized and could easily be imagined by most people, does the model understand the context here?

Maybe it wouldn't do well right now, but how much better could performance get on the above if there were more exmaples in the training set?

* In the opposite direction of chaos, it might be interesting to look at something like two photos of a starry night taken 30 minutes apart. Based on the two photos, can the model understand the geometry of the scene and rotate the points correctly?

I would also be know what would happen if instead of using frame next to each other, you took them further and further apart. Of 1 second of a 30 FPS video, could you give it frames 1, 15, and 30, and ask it to find the other 27? How about with 5 seconds of a 30FPS video and giving it frames 1, 30, 60, 90, 120, and 150? Etc etc

It looks like they have a collab notebook, so perhaps I should quit writing and start playing around!
It is not about level of income, but about long term sustainability, which I believe should be main goal.

Small business is fragile endeavor, comparing to both regular employment and scaling small business to larger one with higher resistance to risks.
Sustainable?

https://www.zillow.com/travis-county-tx/home-values/

Enjoy that gold rush.
At least the official position of the Catholic Church isn't biblical literalism, so you won't get the A-Beka crap. The Presbyterians down here in my village in Alabama inflict the stuff on the poor kids.

I grew up Catholic in a tradition where the social responsibility was taken seriously (also see here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolpingwerk). We didn't have the abstinence-only nonsense either, that must be particular to certain regions in the US. BTW, the Catholic position is that marriage is a sacrament that the couple administers to each other (the only sacrament where a priest is not needed), and, well, sex is complicated, and all sorts of Reddit drama happens when FWBs catch feelings & so on. This was actually how the subject was treated in school.

The recent child abuse revelations are disappointing. I always said that child abuse isn't confined to catholics, but the hierarchy at least provides some oversight that you don't have in megachurches, but it's clear that that did not happen, it was a total failure up to the Pope.
I agree about the negligence, but additionally it's dishonest to talk about libertarian free market policies (for or against) without acknowledging the central bank and its current mission of grossly inflating the currency supply to force most everybody to work continuously. If the middle and lower classes could benefit from increasing productivity with reduced consumer prices, and were allowed to build wealth by saving currency instead of having it eroded away and existing hand to mouth, then they'd have a fighting chance to wield some market power. As it is, they're stuck on the rent treadmill that extracts wealth upwards.
Steam prevents you from playing games you own when your account is suspended
So you're saying you believe Parler to be moderating in better faith than Twitter/Facebook/etc? 'cause I think for your statement to be relevant that would have to be the assertion...
re: linux laptops, I'm writing this from one of the new Lenovo Carbon X1 models that comes pre-installed with Ubuntu. I prefer pop!_os (except for the name) so I installed that when I first got the machine, and it's worked with no issues. I've had it for a few weeks and zero complaints. The fingerprint reader even works with linux, which wasn't the case on my previous gen CX1 laptops.

Let me also just say that I am basically at the point where I may soon recommend a pop!_os machine to my parents (who are in their late 60's and have limited abilities on computers). Given that I'll personally be on the hook for any and all tech support, take that as a strong vote of confidence!
> Isn't that what all the republicans are saying now that their presidential candidate has lost?

FYI, the Koch network did not actively support Trump in either 2016 or 2020. So calling Trump as “their presidential candidate” could be misleading.

Charles Koch talked about Trump vs Hillary in 2016 as cancer vs heart attack and said publicly hillary might be a better president.
The article says ARHGAP11B promotes the growth of upper-layer neurons.

Jeff Hawkins has this intriguing idea that the transition is all about the runaway growth of, in particular, grid cells which is slightly confusing in that the major place grid cells have been found is in the entorhinal cortex. If they're responsible for a vast amplification of the neocortex I'd expect them to be all over the neocortex.

Whatever the case, I wonder if the two relate and, in particular, just what upper-layer neurons do that lends them to such a vast array of applications?

Clearly though there was runaway brain growth at a particular point in time and I wonder how that worked in terms of Darwinian development? It's a striking change for what one assumes is a relatively brief period of time. Punctuated equilibrium, right?
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The claim isn't that the Koch brothers deny climate change, but that they funded climate "skeptic" think tanks. They knew full well what they were doing.
I am not sure I understand your point.

The atmosphere does a reasonably good job protecting us from the ravages of open space. One of the positive (for us) results of the particular make-up of that atmosphere is to foster life. Absent that protection (or if we were to act to circumvent it) life struggles to find a foothold. Can't think of anywhere life flourishes other than here.

Places that lack this protection tend to get burnt to a crisp or freeze. Lack of energy is a problem. Too much energy is a problem. The wrong KIND of energy is a problem.

What we call "radioactive material" that is the effluent by-product of nuclear fission is all the wrong kind of energy. I won't recount all the reasons why, but the fact that it is the least likely source of scrambling heritable traits in DNA is actually kind of low on the list (especially given the speed with which it scrambles DNA in living entities).

I am suggesting we shouldn't act to circumvent the protection we have been graciously afforded by the atmosphere. Fucking about with fissile material inside the atmosphere and on the surface is stupid and short sighted.

There is nothing mystical about any of this, it is pure science.
My biggest frustration with the Ocaml is with third-party libraries documentation. The majority of the docs are just function signatures without explanation, let alone usage examples.

The language however is quite nice and the stdlib is fairly complete.

Edit: Another problem I see is the (over?) reliance on PPX preprocessors. It does make a lot of tasks simpler, but it is too much magic for me personally.
Western Europeans also like to pretend those things only happen elsewhere in Europe.

In Denmark they're committing a mass crime against humanity in a cultural cleansing against their Muslim minority, a vicious fascist action, and nobody cares to stop it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/01/world/europe/denmark-immi... (https://archive.is/Um7tE)

https://www.vox.com/world/2018/7/3/17525960/denmark-children...

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/01/15/denmarks-ghett...
Yes, it does. However a lot of it is driven by long-time ecosystem contributors and they generally work somewhat behind the scenes, presenting on the progress ~annually at conferences like ICFP. Here's the latest progress report, in case you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8T_4zqWmq8

Now this is not the same language/community improvement system that many popular projects nowadays use, but OCaml has been stewarded in its way for a few years now, and it's something the contributors feel is sustainable given the size of the project and the resources available.

About Unicode specifically, there is of course support at the library level as you mentioned (the most well-known library is Camomile), but to try to justify not including it in the language distribution itself, to a certain extent many applications just don't need it. Those that do can of course use libraries, but many (say, backend servers) don't really need to process Unicode strings, they just need to shovel bytes from point A to point B and not actually touch the contents.
Indeed the fact that China's econ is shifting away from manufacturing is not well known [1]

[1] https://www.worldfinance.com/markets/chinas-transitioning-ec...
There's only 1 rule: Shipping code that delivers value to users.
What do you think about the IP parts of RCEP?
Get a robot to monitor your sky defense network.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1#Cancellatio...

> In late 2003, General Motors, then led by CEO Rick Wagoner, officially canceled the EV1 program.[11][46] GM stated that it could not sell enough of the cars to make the EV1 profitable.[47] In addition, the cost of maintaining a parts supply and service infrastructure for the 15-year minimum required by the state of California meant that existing leases would not be renewed, and all the cars would have to be returned to GM's possession.

Obviously, market conditions 20 years later are very, very different and with increasing government mandates for zero emissions car sales, maintaining and improving on sales of their EVs is a key component of GM’s future in a way that it couldn’t have been in 2001.

Edit: also, to point out this article is about 69,000 Bolt EVs - only about 1000 EV1s were ever produced. The difference in scale and investment is massive.
Yup. Had water damage (known, understood, expected a charge to repair) to an MBP. It worked still, just fine. Battery health was 99% though charge was at zero. So a charging circuit. Okay, I think. Maybe $300ish with parts, labor, etc.

No.

"That's going to be $899+tax. Maybe we should look at some new MBPs instead - this one is two years old."
Japan and German ... the two axis countries like pure race and better race. I am not sure it is better cf with those experiments in communist china. May be a bit as they will give birth there.

Interesting engineering is nothing interesting and it is not about engineering.

Good luck human.
Now if they would just address the more serious issue that allows them to evade network restrictions and VPNs.
As a sign of how rushed this was, it really does say "over the the next year".
neat! can't wait for those words to be slightly loosened and one day omitted.
No doubt the consultant companies are taking a healthy cut of that $100.
One doesn't need to think of classes that way, though. A class could hold immutable references to immutable objects/functions/whatever (these are often the easiest classes of all to reason about).

Call me a weirdo, but I enjoy using Spring DI with Scala. It's quite easy to inject into a constructor like "class Foo(f: Int => String)" even if a little bit of "manual currying" is sometimes needed.
Its for the people doing trades between exchanges (eg: New York to London) that this will benefit as they can act on the movement of another exchange before anyone else can. There is at least one microwave link between Chicago and New York to do this as the speed of light in air is faster than in glass.
Sure, but this is about great engineers.
Exactly. Perhaps you and your adult family can tolerate it, but think about being a child raised in such an environment. Being made to think that you are somehow a second class citizen, less than a whole person, or otherwise do not belong. That can create subconscious and ingrained trauma and self-esteem issues.
HFT is arbitrage. The ask in Chicago falls below the bid in New York, so you buy for $12.25 in Chicago and sell for $12.27 in New York until there is either nobody willing to sell for $12.25 in Chicago or nobody willing to pay $12.27 in New York anymore. Which happens almost immediately, so whoever is fastest gets the money.

That means you want to be sitting right on both of the exchanges, but also that you want the fastest possible link between New York and Chicago.
Did they tell what gonna happen with geofencing after the beta?

I know a few people who would probably want that thing installed on their boats. For marine applications, it needs to work globally without any fences. Geofencing-wise, international waters == nowhere. In territorial or internal water you normally have some 4G from the land, not much need for satellites there.
Subtitled, It is unambitious in scope

So, not so big. It rubber stamps the status quo without concern for humanitarian or environmental issues. It marks a "win" for business owners, not workers.
Indeed. I'm not a big fan of militant vegetarianism/veganism. I think it creates a barrier to entry. It's one of the reasons that a lot of products now describe themselves as 'plant-based' rather than vegan.

As someone who grew up vegetarian, things have changed drastically in the last 30 years. I grew up eating some truly niche meat-replacement products[1][2].

Things like 'Impossible Burgers' and 'Beyond Meat' have changed the experience significantly. There is still a long way to go, and it's not just about taste, but also nutrition. However it has made it much more appealing to use those alternatives, and reduce the use of meat.

My own vegetarian/vegan mix is also occasionally broken when people don't know that I'm vegetarian, and serve meat. I have long decided not to make a scene. One of my of ex-colleagues never found out I'm vegetarian, because of an incident where they invited everyone out to dinner and it turned out to be at a fancy sushi restaurant (share-plates, yay).

[1]: https://www.vegiedelights.com.au/products/nutmeat/
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textured_vegetable_protein
I hope I can move to linux right now, but I just bought Ableton Live, and have to occasionally use stuff like Affinity Designer, or Adobe. Open source GUI software that runs on Linux generally does not have good UI/UX (for good ones I can only think of Blender), and big commercial softwares generally does not support Linux, being trapped between sucks..

But still, I'm looking for a decent distro that has minimal setup, very customizable, in active dev, and have decent graphics / audio driver for game dev, for a possible future shift. I haven't done much research yet but am currently looking at KISS and Arch, if you know more please let me know thanks!
> The governments of India, Vietnam, and Indonesia vehemently disagree with you

Which part they are disagree with?

For the Foxconn statement..
I'll wait and see, they are prone to overpromise

>"Such announcements are far from unusual for Gou, and often, nothing comes of them. In Vietnam in 2007, in Brazil in 2011, in Pennsylvania in 2013, and in Indonesia in 2014, Foxconn announced enormous factories that either fell far short of promises or never appeared."

https://www.theverge.com/21507966/foxconn-empty-factories-wi...

Btw Foxconn just pivot back to China

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphjennings/2020/05/07/iphone...
On the contrary, it makes the most sense to place some point of the equator on top, so that you can rotate to look at any part of the globe you want, surely?
Unlikely. Russia's SS-18, a.k.a. Voevoda, a.k.a. Satan, a.k.a. R-36 - a big liquid fuel ICBM - are also known as Dnepr, a launcher which worked in Kosmotras. USA didn't have a problem with that.
Tai Ko needed.
Too late for me, and this... debacle is one of the all too many reasons I will move my development onto a machine running a BSD or a Linux in future.
Sure, but if stability is your goal, you're much more likely to find stability by attempting to create a small business than by attempting to create billion dollar business.

My suspicion is that a person who is constantly chasing a billion dollar business is going to have to make a lot more hops than someone chasing a more modest goal.

This is not a recommendation to avoid those billion dollar goals, just an observation on relative probabilities, and what is an appropriate target if your goal is stability.
Yes. 'Non self-describing pescatarian' :)
South Korea never had current account surplus with Japan, more than 50 years and counting. Yes, South Korea wants to run current account surplus, but that does not mean running current account surplus with RCEP. In fact there is nothing contradictory about everyone in RCEP running current account surplus and within RCEP trade balancing out.
NOTHING! I LOVE public education.

But...

1. See the part of that comment where Okalahoma can't even keep many of their public schools open 5 days a week. And then guess at the quality of the ones that do stay open...

2. Screw the emotional/psycho-sexual abuse of Catholic schools.

I love the lower midwest, but god... even the "good" school districts in the "wealthy" suburbs are... not great.
Sure. But what was the main idea of your comment? You mention something about a cold war with Venezuela, but I don't see how voting machines fit into that idea.
A better lightsaber fight than George Lucas had in 1977.
Turn off javascript is like turn off the web browser.
such a rule would be very difficult to make. let's say that there is a NGO that advocates for the rights of illegal immigrants. can a fundraiser donate more than $5,000 to that NGO? if not, I doubt that many NGOs would survive, so let's assume so. if that NGO wants to endorse Biden, are they allowed? if not, can they hint that people should vote against the candidate who wants to build a wall? If they are allowed to endorse Biden and they want to place an ad on TV, the production and placement could cost itself over $5,000
> without concern for humanitarian or environmental issues

Probably following Deng Xiaoping advice
"Let Some People Get Rich First"
> Finally, Cargo to my knowledge actually lets multiple dependencies exist (even within the same project!!!)

That's not pip's fault, that's Python's fault. Python's module system has no concept of versioning, so there can only ever be one copy of a module that has a given name.

And this is an interpreter detail that is exposed through the language itself, so it can't be fixed without causing severe pain.
> Japan had a trade DEFICIT with china in 2019

This is completely wrong. Japan has an overall trade deficit, but not with China. It runs a 30B trade surplus trading with China, according to Chinese foreign ministry[1].

https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/web/gjhdq_676201/gj_676203/yz_67620...
not only do I see fewer macbooks every year among the affluent crowd…

That's odd. Last quarter (July–September) the Mac grossed more than it ever has in one quarter: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/10/apple-reports-fourth-...

Think about it.

During a global pandemic, countries shutting down and the global economy not doing so well to say the least, the Mac at 36-years old grossed a little over $9 billion. That's more than either the iPad or the Apple Watch.

It seems that people working from home for the foreseeable future bought a lot of Macs.

Should be interesting now that M1 Mac laptops are reported to have blow away performance and last as long as 20 hours on a single charge.

And these Macs come with a BSD-derived development environment and will likely run Linux in a VM faster than comparable Intel machines can run it natively.
A good twitter thread on how U.S. should response

https://twitter.com/EvanFeigenbaum/status/132806358305853030...
For people wondering what is this for.
BMW has just announced a new electric SUV (iNEXT) and started production on another one (iX3) so they are hyping their electric technology.
In my opinion, they could do much better by just allowing their plugin hybrids to charge at the full rate of a lv2 charger.

A PHEV X5 could be the killer product with the X5 already being one of the best selling cars in its segment except it takes 6 hours to charge on a lv2 for the full 30 miles range due to the current limitation. The battery itself seems to be able to handle much higher current when it charges off the engine so it seems like an artificial limitations to prevent the PHEVs from competing with the few BEVs they struggle to move.
Found this interesting:

> A paper from the Peterson Institute for International Economics by Peter Petri and Michael Plummer cites modelling showing that it will raise global GDP in 2030 by an annual $186bn (compared with a gain of $147bn from the CPTPP).
The EU has an explicit process for members to leave nonviolently. The United States has, well, one example of an extreme opposite of that.
It just depends. Plenty of great fintech in Chicago because of CME. Also plenty of great biotech in Chicago.

The SFBA B2C thing is not great in Chicago. IMO that's a retired man's game, but I thought bitcoin was dumb in 2010 so wtf do I know.
I think you might be stumbling on to something...
I didn't say I knew exactly how they suppressed the virus, but I did say that we /do/ know that they have suppressed the virus.

People want to raise doubts about the effectiveness of their suppression by implying that they have not achieved suppression but rather their younger population means they are not suffering deaths as a result. This we can say with a lot of confidence is not the case because their demographic advantages are not that great and other nations with similar demographics have not been as successful.

We do in fact need to understand their success, that is why it is so important to avoid dismissing their success with demographic excuses!
Airbnb Could Change After the Pandemic–For the Better
> The same racist swill has been slung at nearly every minority and immigrant group.

Here comes the generalisation. As many have said, you can only speak with authority if you had first hand experience.

I think Bulgarians and other European nations have a much more nuanced and grounded view on the Roma, based on direct experience, not reading news online. They know that not all Roma are the same, they all know exceptions, they realise how hard it is for them to break out of this situation, but at the same time how much of it is self inflicted.