skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the sentiment but please don't make this a thing. You probably already understand that superresolution can only invent a plausible upscaling, no extra information is gained from the pixels - but the general public don't know this. I really think we should be cautious about normalising the use of such tools for conducting forensics on photos.
Regain what freedoms, exactly?

The freedom to be undercut in the labour market and priced out of the housing market by uncontrolled immigration from other EU countries?
I'm definitely bad at most forms of relationships and most of my friends don't really care about me.
I have a similar issue, with Type-C->Displayport.

Monitors turn on, but either in the wrong resolution or wrong frame rate. I can force the resolution or force the frame rate.

I'm glad I took a 3 week vacation right when I upgraded, because I can't get any work done with only a single working 16" monitor.

(However, I can't even remotely get the same setup working in Linux on the same machine so I can't really blame the walled-garden for this frustration)
From the readme:

> that uses the BIOS to load data from the boot disk

That's not a bootsector demo (it's larger than 512 bytes). From reading the source: It's a hybrid bootloader + demo, in a pragmatic manner.

Here's an eclectic selection of other nice, not widely known christmas themed demos I found earlier (merry christmas!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X74bhXltFo (BBC Micro)

> Bitshifters - Xmas 19 Demo

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t02TvLbQec (PC, CGA)

> Una simpatica demo natalizia datata 1986 per l'amato PC. Quante volte l'ho guardata quand'ero più giovincello:o)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDitgPGh_MQ (Atari 8-bit)

> christmas collection demo for Atari 8-bit
I'd think it specifically of doctors who specialize in human bodies, not computer stuff. SolarWinds on the other hand could not possibly be excused for ignorance.
Figma FTW
And Office 97 works great. All the features added after 97 are cruft that are not central to actually getting work done in the composite apps.
It’s relatively new, I started low at 36 but I’m up to 40 now!
The bad news is that living forever doesn't necessarily mean living an enjoyable life. Religions have the idea of living forever in hell. Any system that has the possibility of living forever, includes the possibility of hell.
I remember when I was a kid, I had a book called "The Amateur Magician's Handbook", by Henry Hay, which described how lots of magic tricks and sleight of hand with cards, etc. were done, with detailed explanations and pictures. There was a section called "Heartbreakers", which contained tricks and techniques that were especially difficult to master. One of them involved predicting the outcome of a coin toss. The secret to it was that you just practice flipping and catching a coin to an extreme degree, aiming for consistency until you could replicate the action so precisely that the coin flipped the same number of times whenever you performed it. I practiced and practiced, but evidently not enough, because I could never do it. I found a bit of it online:

"18. Heads-or-tails. This I take on the good and sufficient word of Eddie Joseph. He explains how it is possible to flip a borrowed coin, and call heads or tails correctly every time.

"No trick to it -- just mechanical uniformity of action. It is obvious (when pointed out) that which face of the coin comes up depends simply on the number of revolutions the coin makes; and this depends on the weight of the coin, the height of the flip, and the force of the spin.

"By always using one denomination of coin, you fix the weight. The uniform flip of your right thumb comes with practice. To get a uniform height, pick some marked point on the wall, and practice until you can toss the coin just that high every time.

"You must also catch the coin on your left palm at exactly the same height each time -- your waist, naturally, is the easiest.

"Once you attain true uniformity, you will discover that the coin always comes down showing the same face that went up, or else always the opposite face. Experiment with different heights of toss, keeping track of the way the coin comes down. Never vary the force of your thumb flip because that is the hardest to judge.

"In performance, pick a mark such as a molding or picture frame on the wall of the room where you happen to be, make one trial toss to that height, and see whether the coin comes down the same as it went up, or opposite. Every time you toss to this mark afterward, the result should be identical.
I think events have shown that the debate was not simply within the Conservative party.
Damn it. I just lost the game.
Merry Christmas, and have a happy Ruby 3.0.0.
It might be easier to patch AMFI to allow the "alternate trusted keys" mechanism to work.
"A bunch of old white guys"

Really???

If you wrote "a bunch of young black girls have wrecked xyz" do you think that would be acceptable?
Where are you from? I'm from the "deep south", and I find it to be a perfectly reasonable name.
I run $1,000's if not $10,000's a day in FB ads. I can confirm we've all known this for quite a long time.

Our general rule is if the product doesn't have broad appeal, you don't run it on FB.

My running theory on all ad networks is pretty simple. There are a very small subset of users, 25%-30%, of people who are regular purchasers and these companies know that based on conversion data. They generally just throw your ad in front of these people and let it ride.
That is a really cool xclock mod. Thanks!
"it's difficult to find time to replace something that works"
This is true. My process is hard and time consuming. The only added value is that is independent and can be fully migrated at any time. I use software for 20 euro - Fast Raw Viewer and then add Image Editing of your choice. Check out their suggested workflow: https://updates.fastrawviewer.com/data/pdf/FastRawViewer-Sug...

https://www.fastrawviewer.com/
The EU is a protectionist trade bloc like any other and imposes tariffs and quotas on trade with countries outside the bloc accordingly.
What safety in numbers? France helped both Britain and Argentina during the Falklands War [0].

The Dutch did give GCHQ strong hints about how to break Argentine encryption though [1].

The EU did nothing during the war in Yugoslavia, and nothing when Russia annexed Crimea.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17256975

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/18/maximator_euro_spy_al...
I've never seen MicroStrategy software in the wild
Forgive me for sounding like I'm spreading innuendo. But this issue genuinely irks me.

I find something peculiar about MicroStrategy.

- I've heard about this company since the late nineties.

However:

- I've never seen their software in the wild. I've been around lots of enterprise environments.

- they have an official YouTube channel where they provide tutorials for using their software. The average view count for their videos seems to be about 60 (sixty) per tutorial video. (Just one of many heuristics I use to gauge the popularity of software).

- they seem to have no trial-ware software that any person who might be curious can download and take for a spin.

Apparently, they're similar to Tableau, except they've been around since before Tableau. (Interesting because I was involved in a Data Visualization implementation project, and in discussions Tableau came up, and so did various FOSS alternatives, but MicroStrategy never came up. We went with Tableau and Orange Data Mining, FWIW)

Apparently they're doing pretty well because they have a market cap of 3 billion (well below what Tableau sold for, but still), and had a half a billion in cash before the CEO Saylor bought bitcoin with it (I do admire Saylor, he sounds brilliant in podcasts).

Two questions:

1) Have you seen their software in the wild? Who uses it?

2) Any reason you can think of why an over 20 year old, successful, software company with half a billion cash in the bank has two-digit view counts on official tutorial videos on its YouTube channel? (Pure, irresponsible speculation and innuendo on my part: I've heard of companies that are fronts for 3-letter government departments. That they have ghost customers who don't actually exist. That the reason these companies exist is to help the 3-letter govt dept achieve something it can't otherwise achieve within the govt. operating framework.)
I think the inhibitor to scale is actually model compression. You’re right that scaling up 1Mx won’t cut it. That’s because fidelity is still too high. We already know the brain is a very efficient machine for storing heuristics and compressed models. Also related to why it’s prone to err. Information theory is the right framework here imo. Other related concerns: hierarchal organization of information and model comparison.
There are two things an employee will learn from this test:

- I’m never going to get bonus - regardless of what they promised me

- don’t trust security team: they are cruel and they will probably hurt me and my family in order to get promoted

Sure security team did a great phishing job. Did they improved security? Nope.
Are you saying that every big you report against a commercial software gets fixed? I think you can find all kinds of people equally in both open-source software and commercial software makers.
I think it's helpful to be more specific about the role, since "data science" is a vague term these days.

If you are using existing methods to analyze data relevant to your employer (so like trying to optimize the conversion funnel at a startup or something), PhD is unnecessary.

If you are trying to invent new statistical techniques (say deep learning researcher at DeepMind), PhD is helpful.

Also, different groups have different cultures. Some groups want to function like academia, with reading groups and paper talks and stuff. Some want to function like software companies with standups and Trello boards. A PhD will fit in better with the former type of group.

Edit: I dropped out of a PhD to go work, and that was optimal for me. I got a couple extra years to independently build my skillset, I was very hot on the recruiting market being a step above the new grads, but I didn't waste ages learning skills that would ultimately be irrelevant (published no papers.)
Xbox One controllers also work flawlessly in Linux. I find it interesting I've not had any luck getting my xb1 controller to work in Windows 8.1 though.
Good to see they are still using GOTO. Straight-forward and performant.
Politics aside, laws and mandates only work if people actually abide by them. As soon as a populous stops caring what their "leaders" say or what police will do neither police or politicians really have any power. It also doesn't help when your mayor / governor are hilariously hypocritical.
I so wish Affinity worked on Linux. Too bad, that's the reason why I still haven't bought it.
With you on that. I think I only made it about 20 minutes in. Maybe it's better live.
Yes, insurance, malpractice. I talked to a friend who is CTO in a private hospital that has a clinic for plastic surgeries (but mostly for non-vanity purposes aka burns, acid attacks, etc.). One main reason for the pre-during-post photos is for medical studies, progress monitoring, training, etc.
They keep these photos on a server on a separate network (and photos are not accesible to the typical workstation, but on locked-down ipads).

For the famous people, it's a 'nice' extortion, for some 'glossy magazine babe' who claims she is all natural, to come up with evidence of implants, etc. would be devastating to her number of followers, and thus sponsors/payments.
The EU may be a bureaucracy, but it isn’t a huge one. Its budget is too small for that.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/eu-budget/transparency/fa...:

“At some €148 billion (2019 figure), the EU budget is in fact smaller than the budgets of Austria or Belgium.

This was a tiny fraction (2%) of the combined national budgets of all EU countries (€7,524 billion) in 2019.”
Tim Cook might sell a charger for less than what the Fitbit or Pebble cost, but he won't have any wearables at that price point. I emphasized low cost for a reason: that doesn't include Apple. Yet the Apple watch sells well. So either Pebble & Fitbit missed the mark by selling cheap or they need more features even at that price point.
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I don't know any Mavises
Becoming a Millionaire Before 35
A popular path is to ditch Lightroom for the trio of Rapid Photo Downloader, digikam and finally RawTherapee.

This was entirely unusable for me. RawTherepee is only for RAW treatment/export. Digikam can only do photo organization. Now here's the kicker: the two won't talk. Metadata known and written by one is invisible to the other. Using Manjaro, Rapid Photo Downloader eventually started segfaulting on me.

I also tried Darktable which looked much better and much more like a Lightroom replacement, but didn't like it.

So back to Lightroom, and even Windows as a whole, it is for me.
There is ECJ jurisdiction for trading standards in Northern Ireland to permit frictionless trading with Ireland. The details I cannot remember, but it is not a well understood point as to how this can indirectly affect affairs in UK through some kind of jurisdictional leakage.
First, nobody is claiming that people were living in caves before ML. I understand you're exaggerating for effect -- but that's the same thing the parent comment is doing when they say something "wasn't possible" 5 years ago. They don't mean that it was literally impossible, they mean that it was sufficiently bad that a typical consumer would be unlikely to use it back then -- whereas now the quality has improved to the point where these things are ubiquitous.

Similarly, both Amazon [1] and online pizza ordering [2] existed before 1995. They were just not commonly used.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)

[2] https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/index.html
I was making a point that "Boris" is part of an act to make a deeply cynical and ruthless politician seem fun and approachable. I don't think anyone reasonable would think that using someone's birth forename that he personally uses and prefers when not in his 'act' as inappropriate in any way at all.
To the point about data scientists - there isn't really a way you could solely hire the software engineers, right? So there is value in Python allowing the data scientists to iterate much quicker than they could if they were writing in a "production-ready" language.

I agree there's work to be done in closing that gap so you don't need an extra software engineer for productionalizing mostly-working Python (and I'm excited about tools for managing large-scale Python - e.g., several of my coworkers are trying out MyPy, which I haven't personally felt too much of a need for but seems like it could help), but the gap exists precisely because you can write something working in Python quickly, and it's not so much of an investment that you'd feel bad throwing it away if it doesn't work.

The company that started with Python and spent years on a full rewrite made enough money with Python to survive those years. If they had started in a more "production-ready" language they might not have shipped at all, and if they did they might not have shipped the right thing.

And at least for me personally, as an infra person, the question I'm evaluated on at the end of the day (or year) is "Did the infrastructure work," not "Did you write production-quality software to support the infrastructure." Some of the most critical software I've written (across multiple companies) has been 50 lines of Python shared via a Slack snippet or a shared homedir and only retreated into version control months later. There are a lot of problems that genuinely require only 50 lines of complexity, and the ceremony of a language like Java makes it much harder to understand what's going on. For those problems that do require umnanageable Django monoliths, by all means, write it in something else.
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It's not relevant, as it in no way simulates what would happen even with no deal.
This comment is repulsively bigoted.
The moment this happens I will install Debian on all office macs without thinking:))
Or they could sign with a hardware wallet. A lot more people have those now than in the past.
I could do this by playing a lot of chess, the trick is the coin makes a certain sound if you do it right, if you do it wrong its not the same sound
Cam-girls (not nesc live streamed) on IRC, so yes
Agree that's the situation in the short term, but there's no avoiding that. We can go on to negotiate and agree our own deals with those countries ourselves in the long term.

They will be different agreements, obviously - while they may be lesser overall they can at least be more targeted to our specific interests rather than a whole bloc, which may yield some advantages for the UK.

Again, not trying to say this is necessarily better than staying in, but it does have its own advantages as well as compromises.
I got them for my 1 month old lease too. I guess it’s literally not worth it for them to target better.
Reproducibility would be a problem in scientific circles regardless of language. Researchers are negatively incentivized on reproducibility to avoid scoping and the like.
Profit isn't directly correlated to share price.
I'm a deep learning researcher. I have no idea what you're talking about. When I crank out some Pytorch code of questionable quality it's not because of Python. It's because I either don't know better, or don't care. Switching to another language won't change this.
That is an interesting way of looking at the question. The pattern works if and only if your radix is even.
The paragraph containing it; the described repr behaviour is Python 2 behaviour.
I've wanted that tarot deck for a long time but can't cough up the $300-$600 they now command.
What were the other languages you were rewriting the Python in for production?
Yep, preceiely what I was getting at. Our deals with other countries now can, at least, be specialized deals in our own trading interest.
UK has won!
I have to agree with your sentiments after looking through the shop. Hopefully they'll come up with some new designs later.
Have you tried shadow? (I haven't, but have heard generally positive things)
What makes Subversion easier for single developer projects?

I only remember having to manage a server being annoying. If you're not pushing anywhere, isn't the Git workflow essentially identical, minus the server management chores?
It's not the sleep that frustrates me, but knowing that I will never wake up. I don't mind "not existing" for some periods of time. But I hate that what I have experienced so far (plus a few more years, depending on how lucky I get) is all I will ever experience.

So many possibilities, so little time, and most of the time is spent doing some kind of maintenance (most of that is making money to pay your bills).
I think you are looking for https://webwormhole.io/
Here's an article you may enjoy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_champions

It's not an answer to your question but there are a lot of "sleeper comapnies" out there.
In a fairer world people would end up in jail for this catastrophe. It’s been a gigantic scam start to finish.
>No one knows but there are hints that severity is related to exposure.

Dose-reponse severity is well established for many other viruses, including MERS and SARS, so it would be surprising if it were not the case.
I guess that there is one instance of the clock changing that is acceptable for out of support software to break : a Y2k/2038 time rollover bug.
I think it's possible but unlikely first and foremost bc FB has financial incentive to create a fair advertising ecosystem. Since FB sells inventory by auction, they make more money when there's more competition. There's a very long tail of small advertisers on Facebook, and handicapping them would ultimately lead to lower revenue for FB. On top of that, if such favoritism were real and ever were revealed, FB would suffer huge reputational damage which just isn't worth the risk when they're sitting on a cash cow.

I started out with low budgets too, and I can see how it would be easy to blame the platform when the real problem is poor campaign design and creative. Don't get me wrong, big advertisers have a huge advantage bc they can iterate on creative and campaign design faster. And, this advantage often explains why most small advertisers fail. But, at the actual auction level, I've never seen any evidence of favoritism nor do I think it would make sense from Facebook's perspective.
Now try that with Apple's locked down bootloader.
Came here to post the same. I’m no expert, but when I’ve played with AI frameworks it just seems like curve fitting.

The few corporate deployments that make it to production barely outperform a simple regression model and are therefore over engineered.
>they mean that it was uncommon for a typical consumer to experience it back then.

Siri from Apple was launched in 2011, as some other commenter noted below. Also, "On June 14, 2011, Google announced at its Inside Google Search event that it would start to roll out Voice Search on Google.com during the coming days".

If it does not count as 'typical consumer to experience it', well, I do not know what counts then.

9 years ago, I mind you, not 5. And I think that 5 years ago voice recognition was more-or-less good already. In 4 years both Apple and Google acquired large enough datasets to learn from, afer initial launch of their products in 2011.

What we are still struggling with is proccesing of fuzzy queries, something among the lines of 'Siri tell me which restaurant in my area serves the most delicious sushi according to yelp reviews and also allows takeout', but this is not a voice recognition problem (though typical consumer can think it is).
Yeah, plenty of UK businesses whose only customers are UK residents may see benefit.

Only time will tell, depends hugely on how the UK decides to differ in it's regulations.
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Wouldn't want to die in a bog
That doesn't make any sense. An independent Scotland would likely join the EU and thus become more integrated with it.
I didn't say it was. The referendum was as a result though of Cameron's wish to have his party 'stop banging on about Europe' and his desire to make the party secure against UKIP.
The third example doesn't seem to be about Uncle Sam, but about the messages appearing by Uncle Sam on the billboard.
Leaving the EU in case it became this or that makes no sense. As a member of the EU we have never once, ever been “forced” into anything. It’s always been about negotiation, and if we ever wanted to opt out of anything we did.

We opted out of the working time directive, the Schengen agreement, the Euro, the charter of fundamental rights, the social chapter. We even had an explicit opt out from the treaty goal of an “ever closer union”. This narrative that were were being coerced into things against our will is simply not true. Yes we sometimes gave up painful concessions, but we also gained valuable benefits. It was always a negotiated outcome.
And that referendum was only called to try to shore divisions over europe within one political party.

And the leader of the leave vote clearly didn't expect or want to win the referendum. He was just intending to use it as a political springboard.

And many of the people voting leave clearly had no real idea what they were voting for.

And it is very likely to lead to Scotland leaving the UK. What a mess that is going to be.

What a tragedy.
> Some UK sectors will probably carry on with the EU business as usual, others will abandon the EU and search for better arrangements with other parties

Those sectors could always have chosen to abandon trading with the EU to find better arrangements.