skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Making a good picture involves realising how somebody looks and how they want to be seen and get them closer to that goal, it is not something where one size fits all.

Incidentally the same is true for audio: You can get what easily passes as "studio level" audio quality out of a 20$ microphone and free processing plugins these days – as long as someone or something is making the right operational choices during recording and processing.

Making good choices in absence of right answers is the hard thing about creative work.
Simple -- people who cannot afford films will stop watching or streaming sports.

Companies will lose free marketing and word of mouth.

Companies will have to work harder to persuade the populace to acquire commercial flicks/sports. Youtube and cheap magnate streaming services win. Small studios or independent film makers, lose their free marketing distribution channels (personal opinion)
Why game engines will win factory simulation
Yes? Bugs make it to prod all the time.
Family owned businesses like Disney doing their best to provide content for younger viewers and make the world a better place as well as nonprofits like the nfl and ncaa.
> far-right Sweden Democrats

Yeah, what a shit website politico is. If they were to exist in american politics, people would call them leftist extremists. But just because they want to be tougher on immigration they are far right, nazis etc.

I honestly hate modern media with a passion and I assume everything else in the article is as false as that very first statement.
It ain’t “organization.” I studied so hard in high school, college, and my first year of graduate school that I laughed sometimes at the problems on final exams— because I had seen very similar ones in my preparation. That’s why this scandal, in freshman calculus, is so serious. This is how you get later-dissimulating individuals, like Westmoreland, Petraus, Flynn, Pompeo. You want more headlines like these?
Oh so cool! Didn't even see that myself on github!
In the context of concurrent programming they are well known. We are not discussing how to program a PDP-8 but how to efficiently design multithreaded algorithms. This article recommends Nir Shavit’s book, who has written many well known papers including flat combining.
That's never stopped the police and prosecutors before.

Remember all those pictures of drug busts we used to see? Police take the weight seized (including packaging) then multiply it by the the highest price they could justify as an estimate of the "street value". That's how a table full of weed gets valued at $100,000,000.
Being neighbors with Russia, this is long overdue.
> Creating a for-profit platform with intent to do illegal streaming will be.

Hasn't this been the case since... forever?
So I can just claim that none of the things that cause monopolies are regulation, then regulations don't cause monopolies?
What's one such phone?

I've never seen a <$300 Moto phone match a $100 Logitech webcam.
Tactics to Solve the Chicken and Egg Problem
I heard though there were in some tension with the US, for sometime over the Vietnam war, and even had a diplomatic freeze between US and Sweden at that time.
1) Where does one check the pulse of an elephant to determine the need for CPR?
2) CPR for traumatic arrest? Nah.
3) Miraculous survival without blood transfusions or surgery? Nah.
Same, I tried it and was disappointed in the results. Nobody is better-positioned to wirelessly integrate the iPhone camera and a Mac better than Apple is, and it would encourage folks to stay in the Apple ecosystem.
A lot of NATO members are also engaging in all kinds of activities that don't seem to match the goals of values of NATO. Starting with the US.

It seems odd that you've singled out Turkey. But I guess bashing Turkey is nowawadays a common Western sport.
Unpublished book manuscripts being stolen in elaborate phishing scheme
Looks somewhat like the old Samurai. Pretty cool.

Someday I hope to have a samurai for a while. There's a fair amount of them out there in my rural area.
Why not use ether/smart contracts? Seems way better than ripple for this use case.
I've toured a few wastewater treatment plants (it's a hobby) on separate coasts of the US and it seems pretty standard to have some kind of fertilizer system in place, alongside on-site methane energy generation. And that end product water is drinkable, though it skeeves people out to do so.
It exists with dummy variables. Ive seen it with C++ bind and many fp libraries in JavaScript as well.
Defence has to match the threat, no more.

Russia is the only threat. EU countries together outpace Russian military spending with large marging. Russia has no capability to act outside it's borders in high intensity warfare. Even limited involvement in Syria is wearing down their aircraft.

European defence has structural problem: scattering military resources all over the Europe. Spain, France and Belgium should keep most of their main battle tanks in Poland and send troops to train there. Russian amphibious attack from the North Atlantic is not a threat.
That's a candidate for sure, my efforts slightly predate the 3d printed microscope revolution slightly, and I had to MacGyver my way to prove I can image cell cultures long-term without spending 2-300k (since I was doing wild goose chase hypotheses) and hence this solution.

Are you playing with it in a garage or in an academic / industrial setting?

I'm not yet ready to start but my goal is to try and set up an actually productive garage lab - maybe use some neighbouring univ core facility on occasion but not to set up a lab there. Not a fan of academia in general and hope to not contribute money/ideology towards perpetuating that ponzi scheme!
Matti Makkonen: Finnish pioneer of texting tech (2015)
AMP is here to stay. Google shows a special lightning bolt Mark on amp pages and prioritizes those results. As long as google favors Amp, it makes business sense to use it.

Google needs an anti-trust slap for Amp. Until it gets it, it’s here to stay.
- Everyone discussing this law should really read the text

The difficulty in doing so is a big part of the problem. As per AOC's comments on twitter yesterday, at 2PM Members of Congress got 5000 pages of bill dropped on their desk with a vote call at 4PM.

The whole thing needs to be much more transparent.
Vimeo is becoming a standalone company after booming during the pandemic
Feeling glad I consolidated my alt index portfolio to Ethereum two days ago.

XRP is currently down 9.55% for the day and will surely tank further.
Shameless plug: I’ve built https://board.new to help with ad-hoc collaborative whiteboarding. One thing I’ve found using more sophisticated tools was that folks spent too much time making it look nice vs discussing the content. Hence this tool that doesn’t distract with that.

That said, mermaid looks pretty nice —- going to try that out for my design documents once settled on an approach.
What I’m trying to say is that your opinion is not a universal truth.
Matching images – boost your Data Augmentation pipeline
The methods are based on the alignment of global image statistics and were originally aimed at unsupervised Domain Adaptation for object detection (more details in the paper on the link). They also can be considered as data augmentation techniques.
Coinbase: This week in Bitcoin 12/21
The obvious example of cheating resulting in higher grades independent of effort or learning is kind of besides the point.

Picking different professors will also result in better grades independent of effort or knowledge. One of my math teachers literally gave everyone that showed up to an upper level class an A, and said he wanted to cover more material rather than have a final.

The most clear cut example of grades independent of learning is someone that knows the subject and is unable to test out of the class. In such cases they can get top scores without learning anything.

If you’re arguing that they reflect having learned the material at some time. I knew people with significant time pressure like a full time job that knew the material very well, but simply aimed for a lower grade on assignments as a means of managing their time. Grading on a curve means you need to find something that separates A’s from B’s when everyone learns the material and that’s often just effort.
A twitch alternative would most certainly like to make money from the US audience.
You can walk into any major bank in the US with tens of thousands in USD cash, deposit it via deposit ticket with no ID, and have anonymous bitcoin/ether/monero in your account within minutes.
$30B was just pissed away 20x over in the misallocation of capital in the $900B covid bill.
The Netherlands – Europe's (or even the world's) powerhouse for development?
"but I sure wish it were easier to identify engineering organizations by their type ahead of hire."

You can make it easier before joining. During the interview process, ask one of the interviewers if they can share an example of how the organization makes decisions in a quantitative and/or qualitative way. If they don't mention a Mode/Amplitude/whatever report with user data and/or talk about some user interviews (and the concomitant report) then it's probably not a data-driven process. Or the data isn't shared beyond Leadership. And if they roll their eyes or say, "We just build what the CEO or Sales wants" then you have even more evidence that this might the kind of place where you'll just take direction and not get a clear reason.
> I think 50% workers around do not negotiate.

That's probably correct. And lest anyone reading this makes the rash decision to "negotiate" for a higher salary next time they have a meeting with their boss: negotiation without alternatives is just begging. If you tell your boss give me more money because I'm such a great guy and I work so hard, he'll just say he'd love to, but it's not up to him, etc. If you tell him that you have another job offer, and you are seriously inclined to leave, then you're actually talking serious negotiation.

Morale of the story: best way to prepare for negotiation is to prepare for interviews.
Add a table of contents to your blog posts
> That is not a reason or an answer to that question. [...] The question was why couldn't the material be packaged up in any other ways?

Re-read the original question by jcerelier, who explicitly asked why consumers don't have the right to view all the uncut footage: "What are good reasons for not having this right by default ?" [1]

> No one denies that whoever creates something has the right to dispose of it however they wish.

That's not correct. From another comment: "I'd rather have no notion of private ownership of ideas, knowledge and cultural goods at all." [2]

> What's the "good reason" it can't be? Does it kill any babies?

That's a really stupid argument to make. What's the "good reason" you don't send me 100 Euros? Would it kill any babies?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25505865

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25507455
There is also this comment by Eric Feigl-Ding:

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1340913688992165888

> "14) “In the lab, Gupta’s group found that virus carrying the two mutations was less susceptible to convalescent plasma from several donors than the wildtype (common strain) virus. That suggests it can evade antibodies targeting the wildtype virus”!!"

Could that mean that the "herd immunity strategy" by letting relatively healthy people being infected by the virus might fail utterly because the immunity they acquire does not help very much against the new variant?
For me, there is a difference between working "hard" and working "deep". Working "hard" means being busy, typically more than 8 hours a day. Example: answering mails, writing some sort of report, dealing with customers, driving a truck, sitting at a cash register all day. Working "deep" means being extremely focused on a challenging thing until it is done. This can be writing code, but also theoretical writing or building something with your hands, even repairing something. After a "hard" day, I am completely exhausted and my mind is blank. After a "deep" day, I am satisfied and euphoric.
Wazza
You are wasting your time
Logitech Streamcam is pretty good.
Kicking Turkey out of NATO would only give Edrogan an excuse for restarting the war with Greece over Cyprus. They have already been cut off from the F35 program after they bought the S400 missile system from Russia. I really doubt the US will further supply them with weapons, at least not while Edrogan is in power.
No, you don’t. And the alternative implementation is that you either go through all code where car is used and add conditionals for all the cases where kind of fuel matters. Or is very common for this kind of programming, just copy the whole car.roadTrip() where fuel is called and to the method electricCar.roadTrip and just change a few lines. Then of course all requirement changes or bug fixes must be done in several places thereafter.

My feelings about people that can’t handle abstractions is that they just don’t have had to create or maintain anything complex. Very few real world systems can be kept in ones mind in full.
I think a more useful NATO against China would be something like a NATO for free-speech. Norway gets punished economically for awarding a Nobel prize to a Chinese dissident. It really can't fight back unless all free-speech loving countries retaliate together.
They will sell you a RHEL support contract. I assumed they drafted off of CentOS for those contracts as well.
Yeah - it's a location of US nukes.
> Russia has no capability to act outside it's borders in high intensity warfare

They are creating plenty of pain with low intensity tactics.
No, you completely misunderstood and went off on a tangent. My comment means the exact opposite to what you understood.
I envy your gift of statutory clarity. It isn't clear to me. And I can't imagine I'm the only lawyer who can spot the squishy bits of this legislation ripe for manipulation.

The three paragraphs you've quoted are "or" elements. A person need only violate one of the three to be criminally liable. Paragraph 2 is broad enough to include just about anything.
A bit. It also reminds me of what MS is doing with Blazor.

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor
Even Facebook Portal TV sucks. Slow, low res, awe full tracking, even worse UX. And it sees the reflections from the TV in my art on the wall and tries to track it. So maybe start there.
> “West Point Ain’t Cal Tech.”

It would be funnier as "Westpoint Ain't Cal Tech".
Webcams have been a race to the bottom product for many years now, just like optical drives. All of the quality manufacturers were driven out the market ages ago and all that's left now is the absolute cheapest garbage sold to people who just need to check a box.

You would think there would be a secondary market for all of the fancy phone cameras now being made, but sticking one in a box with a USB connector hanging out the bottom (or Bluetooth) seems like too much of an ask when you can just put an absolute garbage 720p sensor in the same box and save a few bucks.
At least in my Canadian experience, they’ll have one way or another of validating against an existing account that you have there or elsewhere. Basically outsourcing the physical KYC to someone else. Maybe things have changed though.
Signal: Firm claims to have cracked chat app's encryption
I can't find it right now, but I swear there was a study that showed that people who pirated content also on average spent _more_ on digital entertainment.

I remember pirating video games about 10-15 years ago to see if they were worthwhile, since the demo scene had pretty much died down. I'd end up buying the games I played through to completion as well.
I think it's the "free games" part. I think they mean free as in freedom, but is it also free as in beer too?

"Free" is such an unfortunate word, because in other languages it only means "gratis". "Libre", as in LibreOffice, is better.
Mathematics and the Mystery of the Incarnation
Providing DRM-free downloads would probably kill the studio's long-tail revenue streams. Once people have a copy of the content in a format that's going to be indefinitely forward-portable, they will never buy another copy again.

Not even for "higher" quality versions. I have an AVI of my LotR movies ripped from DVDs from whenever people bought DVDs and ripped AVIs. The quality is still very good, even played on a 4K TV. I've never sat thinking, "I wish I had the 4k Bluray remaster" while watching it.
I've been through the Canadian equivalent of West Point and have done a week exchange at West Point. You're totally right about the experiment in human nature.

Depending on which degree you were working on, there was often just way too much to do with the time given. The "academic wing" wouldn't coordinate with the "military wing" and we'd end up having a slew of inspections alongside midterms. I remember getting caught skipping out on military training on a Saturday (which was just a day of lectures, easy to slip out after attendance) to catch up on homework. At the same time, an officer went through the dorms to ensure nobody was skipping. I was caught in my room and spent the next two weeks having to wear an uncomfortable uniform all day and reporting to do drill every morning.

Obviously, choosing to cheat academically is way worse than skipping a Saturday of lectures, but if the system is designed to break you, it shouldn't be impossible to recover from.
> When I started at Google, I quickly became aware of all the racist shit put in place to keep black and brown students out of their pipeline. I routinely called out shady recruitment practices such as “screening out” resumes of students with “unfamiliar” school/university names.

This seems to be the crux of the thread.

In my opinion that is not strictly a race problem, but a class one. I think it's disingenuous that the poster is assuming to speak about another group's marginalization and present their issues as being strictly race related.
Yep, I do much better in startups where I basically have autonomy to "get it done".
Identity politics, for the most part. Talk about how you're going to "own the libs" or "every trump support is a racist" and you can loot the country. The political divisions are advantageous for getting citizens to vote against their own interests. The "us vs them" mentality is by design, something that is fomented to achieve political goals.

People complain about do nothing congress and stagnation, then vote in hardcore right wing conspiracy theorist QAnon candidates who are unlikely to pass real legislation.
The second problem comes when the regex fails because of the edge cases you didn't think of shows up. :-)
Shouldn’t the collective default be to simply vote “no” if it’s given like this

I don’t know why the behavior would exist otherwise..
Test and answer banks are not unique, and don't directly permit cheating unless the professors are ignorant of it (would be startling if true) or lazy. When I was in college, the professors knew that student organizations maintained these so they changed up their tests to account for it. The banks, then, only helped the students by guiding their studying ("concepts x, y, and z will be in one of the first two tests, so know a, b, and c").

Despite these test banks, the only widespread cheating when I was in school was on homework, which usually screwed the students when it came time for the exams because they had no practice. They weeded themselves out this way.
I've traveled around the world (while consulting and needing Internet access every day) and the maximum speed just isn't that good of a baseline.

In Hong Kong, for instance, it was tough to find reliable Internet, let alone at those speeds.

In the US, there is reliable Internet pretty much everywhere and I definitely felt the difference when I came back home.

I feel like these lists are created to shit on the US and to point out that it's 'not that great' than anything else.
It's part of the salary and job description? I haven't been paid for on-call for 15 years.
iCam. :)
There has been a lot of talk about the ethics side of it. But another side that is also disturbing is that they would need to cheat to pass the class. West point is supposed to be an elite institution. Maybe the admissions processes is also compromised?
You are the naive one. I don't live in US but almost everyone cheats where I am from. I thought integrity mattered but it doesn't for people. It doesn't even register to students that cheating is wrong.

I never cheated and it got me really nowhere. I was a top student throughout school but I only lost time I could have used for better if I had cheated. People don't even put little effort into cheating.

I complained about students who cheated blatantly and got punished by the teacher because he was chewed by the management. At graduation, the cheaters get the same certificate. There is almost no difference and most schools don't care about cheating but enrolling more students.

I was a fool for doing busy work for school while everyone copied or ignored it.

I don't see the world outside school as more honest. You can't change the world without political power and money and to have both, you need to be as bad as the person sitting on the throne. People care about party names, political slogans, etc more than actual work. They care about media shout outs, endorsed by celebrity, institution name etc more.
Wow! Impressive... what are the advantages over EKS? Just cost benefits or others as well?
I feel like we have the scientific framework that was laid out a long time ago working. That is, we have people that have a hypothesis, carry out scientific studies, and write down the results. Repeatable. And in the case of Vitamin D, the studies performed have been repeated and the results match. It stops Covid-19.

The other carryover we have from yesteryear are those idiots that are in charge of things that don't read the science. So instead of moving forward with something super cheap and effective, we're moving forward with the multi-billion dollar funded vaccines. Sure, those will also help, but not fast enough. Vitamin D is literally on the shelf at CVS, Walgreens and people could be buying them TODAY if they knew they should.
I'm just a country-bumkin managing to build and secure software, but uh...someone wants to push me around without having the money to do so? Let 'em, my kind are stubborn anyway.

Then again, maybe I just enjoy fire a bit much.
I figured "Belt" is enough of a descriptor/visual, but apparently "swim-floaty" is the better choice of words. Go figure.
Sounds interesting. Is this kind of like MS Blazor but with React instead of Razor? And JSON instead of WebAssembly?

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor
Step-by-step guide to overcome No-Code tech limits and build Chrome Extensions
I’m the founder of Heyhi.io, (and https://replayhero.io, https://pain.land) which I fully built in Bubble (+ ~400 VanillaJS LOC)!

I’m writing an e-book/guide called "Complete Guide on How to Build Chrome Extensions and Website Widgets in Bubble"

I will explain (step-by-step) how I implemented Heyhi overcoming all the tech limitations that a No-Code platform like Bubble has when it comes to:

- Loading a Bubble app in an iFrame embedded in a website with a script added in the HTML Header of the website;

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- Performing cross-origin REST Api calls from the Bubble app loaded within the iFrame;

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Reddit bag holders are dumping their XRP into BTC/ETH/Tether atm. Interesting to see what the #3 in market cap bleeding into #1 and #2 do.
It's a $1300 entry level device with $1000 worth of maxing ram and SSD space.