skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it make sense to add random backgrounds to already transparent pngs and then use it to train the models?

P.S. Really useful link btw. Thank you.

P.P.S. One more question if you don't mind. After I've trained the model what kind of hardware does it require to use that model to convert a png image to transparent? I'm guessing that requirements are different when you already have a trained model?

Sorry for all the n00b questions. I'm not trying to create a background removal site btw, just trying to grasp what kind of costs it takes to create and run something like it.
And it would make you just as content as a smokable, because like tobacco smoke, sawdust smoke contains MAO inhibitors.
Super interesting. How did you make money when you were testing 25 ideas? How did you and your family survive and how did you finance the iterations?

25 ideas and 3 months equals 6 years? So did you try that long to find a sticking idea?
You sound like my Dad (who was right).

Get a better paying job is very easy in this business. The lowest of the low would be better paying.
Sadly, neither of them are a match to even middle-class phones regarding hardware quality and performance.
No way to donate any money? I am using it a lot but do not have the time to contribute otherwise.
isn't a placeholder a certain case of an example?
Facebook to Act Rigorously on Groups That Repetitively Violate Its Rules
I've not been happy with Slack search.

Slack in general is a black hole, which is its main redeeming feature.

Things just dissappear, and people understand it's a lossy channel. Several times I look at my phone, see some notifications, I glance at them and try to make a mental note to reply, then when I get to work those messages are gone, buried in the chat stream since they have been seen on my phone. There isn't even a way to view all your past notifications in slack, or all the notifications you got in the last 24 hours. At least I don't know of a way to do that -- perhaps some of the slackers here can point it out.

Once you get used to it and set expectations that this isn't email but shouting into a crowd, then you can regain some productivity. "Sorry, didn't see that, I must have scrolled past it." :)
Fossils aren't plants, they're rocks. Why would anyone assume you mean rocks when you say plants?
An Update on VMAF: Toward a Better Quality Metric for the Video Community
Now I woke back up and actually checked. You're correct, this display (I would call these "Lollipops" not stems but I get what you mean) is no longer misleading, so that's great.
> I've also heard that LaTeX editors are development disasters with a bus factor of one.

In case anyone else is wondering about this:

> The bus factor is a measurement of the risk resulting from information and capabilities not being shared among team members, derived from the phrase "in case they get hit by a bus."

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor)
NYT Reporter Tells the Tale of the Hackers Behind the Rise of Deep Learning
Last time I used it was to test that my companies app could be downloaded from it. Well it wouldn't let me sign in using my existing outlook account apparently because we use our company domain name. So I had to create a completely separate microsoft domain account. Pretty annoying.
I would just like to know why there is a need for a distributor in Indie Spotify artists? Its an agent. This agent doesn’t do anything.

I make music, I own all rights, I upload to streaming service, I should get all cut from streaming service. What does said agent do?
This critique is clearly singling out a few of the 5000 images for lack of adherence to the current standard of PC. The headline is in line with this- who does seriously think that art should be "pretty"? What "is not so pretty" is supposed to mean, other than that there's some stuff in it we should disapprove?

Asking art- good or bad- to be politically correct is ridiculous; and anyway the "artwork" is a composition, not the sum of the individual images.
Guess it all boils down to management vs leadership. I just wish we could go back to not calling every second employee a manager of something.

„manager of technical people“ is great example. You would expect a technical person who the team respects with equally great management skills, farsight and vision.
Go-jailsbsd: Library to create and remove FreeBSD jails in Go
Audacity uses wxWidgets right now. We've been talking about migration to Qt 6 (and possibly QML for some things) but that would be a big re-platforming effort, still debating. Not sure if we can continue with wxWidgets and do a major UI/UX upgrade though
HCE Announced 10 Gigabit European Dedicated Servers with NMVE Storage
But Revelation 12 says (the) Satan is one and the same as the devil and “that old serpent” (presumably the serpent in the garden). It’s possible of course that various beings had taken on the role, and the devil was just one of them
But above you were talking about the artwork, when you wrote "The owner only needs to keep a copy for their own collection, and can put it online themselves if they like."

It's not clear at all that the owner of the NFT can put the artwork online.
They still run an armhf userland for Chrome OS, yes. See the User ABI column.
Silicon Valley is a blind search algorithm for novel scaling advantages from digitisation.

These advantages exist for mass retail. The medium-sized businesses who tried to compete with Walmart and Amazon had to adapt fast or fail. These advantages do not (EDIT: have not been shown to) exist for commercial real estate; WeWork was a dud. Most American commerce is, and should be, in the hands of these medium-sized businesses, if for nothing else than resilience and local optimisation.

My worry is the advantage of centralising customer data is too general. That lets a single entity exert broad scaling advantage, which is scary and inefficient. I increasingly think this should be a measure for antitrust enforcement: does a company possess an edge that gives it a competitive advantage in almost any market it tries to compete in. If so, it’s an economic nerve bundle and at the very least needs to be regulated.
Have you stopped to consider why those team members had a bias towards Go? Maybe it’s for a reason.

Maybe the people behind Istio, InfluxDB, Docker, Traefik, Terraform, etc also chose the “archaic” Go for “political reasons”.
To be frank, that sounds friggin’ disgusting. However, if people don’t have to see it it’ll be good for business.
Ulugh Beg and Nasiruddin Tusi (sponsored by Hulagu) must be fitting somewhere in your charnel house. (And I too have had Mongolian coworkers, for transparency's sake)
What makes it better than latexmk?

I use the latter extensively and am quite happy with it. The listed advantages of Tectonic are somewhat debatable:

> Tectonic automatically downloads support files

I use a full TeXLive distribution in a Docker image. But this is a clear advantage on regular desktop setups, although I'd argue most people don't notice that texlive is 4GB+. MiKTeX does downloading on-the-fly, too.

> Tectonic has sophisticated logic and automatically loops TeX and BibTeX as needed

Latexmk does this too. BibTeX is outdated (use biblatex+biber), I hope Tectonic is not hardwired to it.

> doesn’t write TeX’s intermediate files

Sounds terrible! For a long document I maintain, a cold run takes 8 minutes. A "cached" run (all auxiliary files present and somewhat up to date), it's below 3 minutes. It only says this is the default setting, but it would be a devastating default in my case.

> The tectonic command-line program is quiet and never stops to ask for input.

Okay that sounds nice, but I've used the interactive "can't write to file X.pdf" many times before, when the PDF to write to was locked for writing (open in PDF viewer). It saves aborting the entire run and starting fresh.

> Thanks to the power of XeTeX, Tectonic can use modern OpenType fonts and is fully Unicode-enabled.

Nice, but is this Tectonic-specific? I use latexmk with lualatex. The latter is better than xelatex (microtype, contour, memeory management, lua integration, ...). If Tectonic is hard-wired to xetex and doesn't allow lualatex, this is a big downside.

The remaining points are nice, especially the GitHub actions stuff. Though I just use the same Docker image there that I use for local development.
> Veni, Vidi Vici sounding more like Weni, Widi, Wiki.

That's Liturgical vs. Classical dialects of Latin.
That keyboard was fantastic. I hope the PinePhone Keyboard will be able to reach this level.
> Tesla has what, 1000 charging stations across America, and Electrify America has 500?

Considering all CCS networks, including Electrify America, there are currently 4,238 CCS charging sites in the US and Canada. Set the charger type to "DC Fast" and the connector to CCS to see an overview:

https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html#/fi...
I think it's normal. Even highly productive people go through slumps where they can barely muster the strength to stare at the screen, let alone get any actual work done. My secrets for regaining some of that strength at the end of a work day:

- Work on things that interest you. Sounds simple, but a lot of people screw this one up. They'll work on things they think they're supposed to be working on, or they'll brainstorm the most lucrative ideas they can think of and work on those. For most people, this kills motivation. Give yourself a treat and work on that thing you're curious about but that other people think is a waste of time.

- Drink a sugary beverage. This one runs counter to all modern dietary advice, but was my secret technique for a good number of years. Next time you have an idea you want to work on but it feels impossible to focus, try downing a can of soda. Thank me later.

- Create a productivity playlist. This was my other secret technique. This can be as simple as a single album that you leave on repeat while you work. Doesn't matter if it has lyrics or whatever. Just needs to be something that your brain is extremely familiar with. If you do this often enough, listening to that music can help you get back in the zone when you're out of it.

- Finally, go easy on yourself. Peaks and troughs are common. If you're in a trough, give yourself space to relax and do nothing, and have faith that the motivation will return one day soon.
I gave up on reporting bugs to Apple a while ago. The experience, repeated several times over, of spending all the time to file a radar, gather all the logs and files that Apple insists on (probably reasonably), then submitting the thing and getting exactly zero feedback for the next year when you are then told to repeat all the same work on a new macos version or the radar will be automatically closed, is demoralizing. Mind you, the issues I reported were fixed/went away a few years after that (so clearly not as a result of the then-long-closed ticket), but the process just feels like a waste of time to interact with the black box of apple.
They're a peculiar ART bubble. This is exactly how art galleries and fine art sales work. If this notebook was physical instead, nobody would be tremendously surprised -- if you were, you just don't get art.
This is a great example showing what a coherent, relevant corpus of pop culture art is. Not Beeple’s.
It's toxic. Just try asking a question.
With the internet its easy to extrapolate value from most tasks. Cheaper, faster, easier, always available, available at a distance etc.

Why do I need a fully trustless system that is worse in every other category? Slow, more expensive, less consumer protection, etc.

At the very least its not obvious and the market has not spoken. Even people speculating use off chain exchanges, not the chain itself.
Bitcoin is incredibly wasteful and has no genuine use case that isn't better served by ethereum2 or monero.
Heh. The N900 was an amazing device and I cherish the time I had with it.

However, it's also a painful memory, because I managed to brick the device after spending possibly hundreds of hours customizing it.

The first thing I did was let the micro USB port come loose--a common problem with the device, which seemed to happen to many over time. I remember still being able to charge it somehow (maybe I bought an external charger?). However, the nail in the coffin was when I was cleaning up some "unnecessary" cruft in the init directory, ostensibly to make the thing boot faster.

What I discovered instead was that there was a watchdog that monitored for the existence of crucial files, and, failing to find them, the phone would reboot itself. So my glorious N900 was caught in a bootloop, and moreover without a functioning USB port to re-flash the operating system.

Behind the battery, there are CPU pins that are directly exposed through a grid of copper pads. I made an attempt at wiring up a makeshift soldering job directly to the pins corresponding to a USB port, but failed to confidently pull off the dexterity to work with the small surface, as well as the care to do so without heating things up too much.

Of course I believe there existed a development device with pins that directly clamped onto the pads, but if such a thing was publicly available it was probably hard to come by at affordable prices.

I later tried to realize a similar experience to the N900 on Android using stuff like tmux and F-Droid. However, I have no good memories of any phone after my Nokia, and pretty much don't like phones at all at this point, and now just use my iPhone SE as a glorified flip phone with maps and a web browser.
> Are you engaging in an ideological fight with someone who's not present here?

Quit with the red herrings. It's fairly easy to comprehend what is being said here.

"The velocity of temperature change has increased after humans started to burn fossil fuels and deforestate. We are increasing the rate of change."
Both Minis and Airs start at under $1000, and they're all the same speed.
In 1967 Gopi Krishna wrote about the side effects of his meditation practice and how he ended up with mental health issues and suffering for decades - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071RB1FQB. This book became very popular around the world in the 70s and 80s.

Unlike modern international meditation training institutions like Art of Living and SRF, traditional eastern systems always limited what level of practice was safe for 'lay' practitioners. The hardcode stuff was always reserved for renounced practitioners who would leave everything and go live with the teachers.
Tough luck. Using 0-indexing would have lost Matlab users to the Julia community. So they consciously decided to rather lose you. :-)

I got used to switching between 0/1-indexing. The only place it actually hurts is when using modulo to remain within some range. And this is needed much much less in Julia than in C and C-like.
Amazing amount of work from one person. I admire the dedication and effort.
Quantum Effects in the Brain and Mind

https://jonlieffmd.com/blog/human-brain/could-the-brain-and-...

Gravitational and Quantum Effects in Neuron Function (pdf)

http://www.davidpublisher.com/Public/uploads/Contribute/585c...
> if transactions were done in btc, each transaction would amass the typical fees […]

No. A transaction can be denominated in BTC without touching the blockchain. And settled at the end of the month through the blockchain.
Using "unset zle_bracketed_paste" should do what you want, but I've only tried it in rxvt-unicode and the vte-based term I have. It stops zsh reacting to the escape sequences used by multi-line paste, see the docs for a full explanation¹.

If you were to use I'd recommend sticking it behind a "if $TERM" guard so that it you don't end up surprised if you switch to a term that doesn't warn at some point ;)

¹ http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Parameters.html#index...
Quantum Effects in the Brain and Mind
Yes, that long.
Don't apologise. I didn't get a humblebrag tone from your posts at all.
In the US you usually had a choice between channel 3 or 4. Both channels were in use across the country but no market had both in use so you could always switch to the other if there was a broadcast on one.
Most creative types only have 3-5 hours (max) of deep focus time possible each day. The rest is spent on less deep work: documentation, meetings, communication, overhead, personal chores, errands, et c. Some, like me, are lucky to get 3h per day even with the help of large doses of caffeine, which has its own set of side-effects.

It is possible and even likely that you are using up all of your focus time each day on your day job.

Also, for a lot of people, this quantity reduced a lot over the last few months or half year: it’s been a long and stressful and uncertain year, full of unexpected sacrifices for everyone in society, to varying degrees. It’s okay to feel exhausted and drained given the circumstances of the pandemic.

PS: duolingo isn’t a good way to learn a language even if you somehow manage to be super-diligent about using it.
Hi. Thanks for letting me know! Fixed it. Was a A/B test that went wrong.
But why? Using it is orthogonal to being part of the tech crowd. It's a widely known geometric term
Gravitational and Quantum Effects in Neuron Function

http://www.davidpublisher.com/Public/uploads/Contribute/585c...
“Simply because cancer occurs naturally doesn't mean we shouldn't treat it. In the same vain, sometimes the “free market” just screws up, requiring intervention.” —https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/cryptocultscience.html

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general are pyramid schemes. They deserve no place in the economy.
Show HN: LDAP DN – PHP library for parsing and manipulating Distinguished Names
Economics is mostly LaTeX.
I'd be interested in hearing more about this.

How did you start out? What was the hardest challenge?
The Charmed Life of Frank Wilczek
Hello, fellow hackers! Author of LDAP DN here.

Recently, I was working on a legacy PHP project that synchronises LDAP teams and users. I found several bugs relating to poor DN “parsing” using regexes and string replacement.

There has to be a better way of doing it, I thought. Alas, there’s not much choice in the PHP ecosystem when it comes to parsing DNs. While there are a few libraries and even PHP’s own `ldap_explode_dn()`, I think they don’t have clean APIs.

So I wrote LDAP DN. It breaks down DNs into RDNs and attributes, supports escaping, allows basic manipulation and has 100% test coverage.

Let me know what you think!
Big fan and active user of OpenProject here, I recommend it.
You wouldn’t replace mail trucks individually, you would fully transition each location as a unit.

Also, you overestimate the complexity of installing charging points. In many cases the parking will be directly against the post office building. In many cases you would only have to dig a small trench. In some cases you would string up a new overhead wire. When you’re doing 10 at a time, this isn’t complicated or expensive on a per vehicle basis.
Thanks for this view! Added to the reading list.

Probably as a cautionary note: Reading a decade old book on fast evolving topics may be a bad idea.
Step 1:

- Go to bed early and get enough sleep [For me this is the most important point]

- Drink enough water

- Eat a balanced diet

- Cut back on processed sugar

- Cut back on caffeine (or completely stop)

- Exercise, but don't overdo it if you want to save some energy for projects

- Block yourself from wasting time on social media

- Limit your consumption of "news"

- Cut out TV

- Lastly, if you haven't taken time off work in a while, take a week or so off

Step 2:

- Reevaluate
I came to the same conclusion. The certificates for stars are still sold by the way.

Someone created an NFT of the periodic table of elements where you can "collect" and "own" the elements.

I wouldn't be surprised if the people selling stars would move their business to NFTs.
Maybe having all the "avoid these outcomes" posts at the top is a useful way to checklist the actions?

A lot of readers with decent attention spans, or a vested interest will make it to the bottom of the page, probably.
How Intelligent Could Life Be Without Natural Selection?
That's not close to the same complexity, is it?

With the HTML + CSS solution, all my program has to produce is a HTML table. Very easy.

With SVG my program has to create not just a data table, but the custom SVG code to paint the chart, down to each bar. I'm actually doing that on pc-kombo, https://www.pc-kombo.com/us/benchmark/games/cpu/compare?ids%... shows it, the image is SVG. But it's created with https://github.com/DannyBen/victor/, so my ruby code has to describe all the details of that image, including manually saying how each bar chart should look and where on the coordinate system the text goes. Even with the awesome victor library that wasn't all that easy.

Alternative is a JS library that produces the SVG code, but then it's exactly as complicated as with regular JS libraries, it just changes the output.
JEP 401: Primitive Objects (Preview)
"AVX512 instructions cannot be sustained on a high clock speed for very long -- the processor downclocks right away if you send too many of them within a short time frame, probably for thermal reasons. This will probably be much more true for laptop processors."
https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/4825#issuecomment-...

How much does this apply to the Xeon CPUs found in servers?
What I'm saying is this specific article seemed to be trying to point at the pieces which could be seen as racist or sexist or whatever. I'm saying this is art and saying it sucks is one thing, but this is another kind of takedown, to me. I have no dog in the show, so I don't care personally, but it's interesting that this guy was so revered at first and now he's getting pummeled.

I think maybe you just zoomed in on the word cancel, but I didn't even say anything negative about cancel culture, which you seem to want to defend, so don't bother here, I was commenting on the meteoric rise and fall of beeple, not on the act of cancelling or anything. Chill.
All of this can be done quite efficiently on a native widget. The problem with Notion is that it uses Electron.
It’s quite heavy and slow.
Hey, can you elaborate on this? Sincere request.

Cheers!