skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that academics are just humans, and can lose their temper like the rest of us.

However what I find very troubling is that the main point that Hickel raised in the blog post[1] – GDP data has the particular potentially crucial problems Allen has raised when used to assess historical poverty – Roser chooses to not actually address it, but instead throws blanket statements of there being continued discussion between academics of different datasets and their merits.

However this particular graph of historical extreme poverty is used by the most powerful people in the world to advocate for continuing with the status quo. That is why it caught Hickel's attention. It is therefore very important that the heading of the graph is very well justified.

As a layperson reading Allen's research, and knowing there is a discontinuation point in the graph 1981 when the dataset changes, I think the graph ought to be labelled very differently. Roser continuing to label it as "extreme poverty" knowing there is an ongoing debate about what data if any is a good proxy historical poverty, and not answering head on Allen's criticism, really makes me not trust Roser.

1: https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2021/3/28/extreme-poverty-i...
The word’s origins are more dubious unfortunately: https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/08/23/the-myth-of-pop-cul...
>It only require one person to come up with something that transforms society completely

Progress takes many people working together to shape ideas and build things.

And an aging society would be less inclined to change and adopt it, run by more older people resistant to some new idea, and have less young people with the dynamism to put such idea in action even if it was adopted.
>> If you are like me, entering into the field of deep learning with experience in traditional machine learning, you may often ponder over this question: Since a typical deep neural network has so many parameters and training error can easily be perfect, it should surely suffer from substantial overfitting. How could it be ever generalized to out-of-sample data points?

Shouldn't this article start with presenting the evidence that deep neural nets _can_ generlaise to out-of-sample data? It is a bit frustrating having to read a discusion of the why without a discussion of the what.

A small introductory paragraph would suffice. For example, quote so-and-so on studies showing that deep neural nets can generalise to out-of-sample data. Ideally, quote studies that show how well deep neural nets generalise to out-of-sample data.

As the article is now, it seems to be giving many explanations for a phenomenon a reader won't even know exists in the first place.
That conveniently ignores the fact that public attitudes are not in any way shaped, whether by corporations or politicians. If a leader believes that public transit is in the long term best interest for America, then they can work to change public attitudes. In the same vein, automobile manufacturers will do their best through advertising and lobbying to ensure America's love interest in their private vehicles continues indefinitely without competition from the public sector.
The WHO? Like I am supposed to trust an organization that doesn't even know taiwan exists
WebOS on LG is the reason I bought a Sony Bravia instead. I gave WebOS a try but Android TV is way better and easier to use. Also none of the apps I use for watching anime are available on WebOS (ADN, Crunchyroll, Wakanim). I can't trust that the apps that the apps for services that will exist in the future will be available on WebOS, unlike Android TV.
My iPhone 4S had broken WiFi chip which I revived with hair dryer as well. Should I draw conclusions about Apple? Every device has a possibility of defects.
I don't believe that's been leaked. Ubiquiti is still claiming that they have no evidence that any data was stolen. While that seems improbable, and it seems that's just because they didn't have proper logging, it would be harder to maintain if the data was available.
The Turing scheme will probably be more attractive to UK students because it will likely include more countries that UK students are actually interested in experiencing.
I use an iPhone, but in my opinion the stock Android looks and feels much better than the launchers that manufacturers put on. Especially the latest versions of Android look great.
You definitely can repair your phone. There are repair masters who can replace chips on the board. This is common in Kazakhstan and Russia at least.
One thing that Netflix is absolutely terrible at is dubbing. As a German, I grew up with the luxury of all movies shown on TV (Hollywood or European) being dubbed (this is not true for many of our neighboring countries). In Germany this means that there are actually really good voice over artists that dub so well (sync with the actor's lips so well) you can barely tell the audio is not original. And certain great voice over artists being as recognizable as great actors across movies, and sometimes even commonly used for specific actors.

But Netflix's dubs are absolutely TERRIBLE. The voice is out of sync with the lip movement, there is barely any emotion in the tone like in the original audio, the translations are sloppy and don't work for the dialog.

I also grew up with the luxury of having learnt English well enough from young age to a proficiency that I can watch movies in English just as well as in my mother's tongue. This is definitely not true for my family members or even some friends. So when I have a movie on Netflix that is English I chose to watch it in original audio, when it is German (like Dark) I can watch it in original audio, but any other show they produced in Europe I usually give it a try and have to stop watching it because the terrible dub just ruins the experience.

I know there are a lot of people that are fine with subs, but Germans are used to enjoying their movies dubbed. And similarly I heard some American friends who really wanted to watch Dark but were just turned off by the terrible English dub.

So, as far as I can tell, they're very far from creating "common European culture".
Show HN: Datature – A NoCode platform for training deep neural nets
Murder rate per capita is around 4x-5x higher in US compared to France.

That doesn’t mean US is bad overall, you take the good with the bad.

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Murder...
“I think ordinary people can choose to be extraordinary”
>I disagree, most of the countries with booming populations are rather poor and don’t do much innovation or research.

That's for different historical reasons than their booming populations. They are still very dynamic economic wise, but have to start from a very low bar.

But any country that was ever important had tons of people. Franch and UK and Germany were hugely important globally when they were among the top-5 most populous countries in the world (that was the case back in 19th century). Then the US took that role, and had a good run.
I think it's a pity it's gone. I've developed https://typenineapp.com for iPhone, since I couldn't get used to the small buttons on the qwerty keyboard. I would dare to say I type almost twice as fast as regular qwerty phone users, and even without the tactile feedback I can do so without looking.

I've had about 60.000 downloads, and I almost never see a bad review, so I'd say T9 on a touchscreen has a place.
Network cables (copper and fibre) have a limited bend radius. Most people don't think about this and will bend a cable beyond tolerance, which will eventually result in the cable not working correctly, and/or manifest as intermittent issues.

I suspect that's the most common cause of network cables 'going bad' in the home.
> When I grew up in the 80s/90s, American shows were better than local ones because European actors were very bad at acting. I think this was mainly because they were being trained at schools that still trained for stage plays, with exaggerated pronounciation and gesturing.

Tbh, it's still like that in some countries. Norwegian actors (where I'm from) have felt quite stiff/wooden since forever, and they all have the same backgrounds - i.e classical theater schools, play actors before working on TV, etc.

I'd say that it's just in the past 10-15 years that we've gotten a somewhat fresh breath of air, from actors that seem to embrace method acting.

But you see it in other countries here as well. It's easy to spot a script and dialogue that's been written by "academics", with little to zero exposure to the real world they're trying to depict.
I mean, the 9 starts at £629 which is actually really cheap for the specs. The only way to get the Snapdragon 888 any cheaper is to go for something like Oppo or Xiaomi, which are not available everywhere.

And yes, their prices have been increasing over the years, but 3 years ago I paid £550 for the 5T, so now paying £629 for the 9 doesn't seem like such a huge leap.
Indeed - I used this site the other day. My reaction at the time was "This is the nicest web application I've used in decades." Web design that good is so rare now, it really stands out.
> BQ – Spanish

BQ is liquidating [0].

[0]: https://www.lainformacion.com/empresas/fabricante-moviles-bq...
I’m surprised there’s no mention of sparse formats to store the weights of the model.
That's where I got the impression from.
No way. I leave 110km from my office now, in a beautiful village with rain forest and waterfalls. No way I'm getting back to the city unless I have to.
> When I grew up in the 80s/90s, American shows were better than local ones because European actors were very bad at acting. I think this was mainly because they were being trained at schools that still trained for stage plays, with exaggerated pronounciation and gesturing.

So that would include Patrick Stewart, Lawrence Olivier, Helen Mirren, John Gielgud, Ian McKellen, Ian Holm, John Hurt (all European theatre trained actors) ?
Canada has a law requiring promotion of Canadian culture in tv and film, of which Netflix accommodates.

It is an interesting responsibility of government stewardship/preservation of culture, I think.
My usual reference, now a little old: https://crookedtimber.org/2012/07/20/america-is-a-violent-co... : http://kieranhealy.org/files/misc/assault-deaths-oecd-ts-all...

> If you remove that single factor

"If you remove the murders, the US has a low murder rate" isn't helpful.

> It's obvious that the murder problem in the US is a handgun problem and the stats always bear that out year after year

Well, yes, but this runs into the "this is constitutionally guaranteed and we refuse to even contemplate doing anything about it" problem.

But the difference is huge. In the 1980s, Detroit was more lethal than Belfast, with regular bombs going off and troops shooting civilians in the streets.
Everybody thinks we are in a golden age of television series, don't they?

I don't claim that these examples have the same history as music.
My comment here wasnt aimed at the problem of understanding and improving DNNs; rather, of generalisation and 'comprehension' proper.

3d image reconstruction is trivially possible, with the right data and with the right assumptions encoded into the right algorithm.

My target of attack here is the equivocation that 'compression is comprehension'.

In my view comprehension isnt about 'generalization via compressed archetypes' as in ordinary NNs.

And it isnt about 3d reconstruction given the relevant modification to data and approach.

Rather generalization is abduction. It is the ability to, via a single instance, form
law-like provisional universalising models which explain your environment. This process will lead to a 'compressed', 'representation', but nothing like the sense in which compression is here used.

It is this that intuitively is naively assumed of these systems. They do not, and cannot, abduct. Abduction isnt a statistical process; involving at the very least, counterfactual reasoning and hypothetical action.

This is the problem that such equivocations miss (ie. that c = c).

And in my view this is an engineering challenge; not something to be specified for a universal computer.

The relevant capacities missing arent better means of compression.
You will randomly lose access to your DigitalOcean account
A proper and well-deserved honor.

For some perspective, this was an app developed by 5 core devs that grew to ~125M+ users who by necessity were split across implementations concurrently released for Windows 3/95, NT, OS/2, Mac, Motif, OpenLook, because we were an early enterprise product and needed GTM help offered by each of those platform vendors.

Our tiny dev team chose to prioritize platform breadth thru a "portability layer" developed in a pre-internet pre-browser era, with the constraint that its ~3M+ LoC (in C) had to run in a 250KB working set that grew to a couple MB by the time I left.

Yes, I wish the UI could have been better on each platform. But as a pragmatist I remain proud of the paradigm and its usability given the constraints.
this is PR
This is slightly unrelated but I looked up Quasar and their homepage (https://quasar.dev/) is the first website that literally makes me nauseous just by looking at it.

That's a kind of UX problem I didn't even consider to exist a few minutes ago.
>Generally nobody will START with a lawsuit, [...]

That is an incomplete picture that leaves out how some lawyers working on contingency abuse ADA laws for profit. The industry calls it "surf-by" lawsuits: https://www.google.com/search?q=ada+%22surf-by%22+lawsuits+w...

Example explanation: https://www.palisadeshudson.com/2019/03/this-is-why-we-cant-...

>Why? Lawsuits are expensive, a bug-report is 100% easier :)

Your statement assumes a world where only a well-intentioned 1st-party disabled person retains a lawyer and pays them by-the-hour to file lawsuits but the above examples of twisted financial motives flips that assumption around. The speculative-lawsuit type of lawyers are not motivated by filing bug reports.

Yes, there are real disabled people that are genuinely blocked by non-compliant websites which can be fixed. But simultaneously, there are also bad actors out there.
Ah thanks. Haven't ever seen a typewriter and ingorantly assumed you'd get double quotes from pressing a single quote twice.
Off topic, but: would you mind telling which software you are using for the photogrammetry?
Recommend another keyboard that will let me switch quickly between the five languages that I have installed, supports swipe in all those languages, has cursor navigation, and does not promote the use of emojis in conversation, has rich set of characters including diacritic marks for Hebrew and Arabic. If it pops up my selected text as an autocomplete selection that would be nice too.

I would be willing to pay for such a keyboard. Alas the free Google keyboard does all that. For me, the only feature missing is language selection when attaching a hardware bluetooth keyboard. I have to switch to the default Samsung keyboard to be able to switch languages from the hardware keyboard.
First C compiler ported to GCC
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Looks very cool and I appreciate the refs to previous work, very interesting.

On my Mabook Pro 2019 the github page immediately takes a lot of cpu time. In whatever browser I am using the cpu cooling kicks in strongly. Also, on Safari the looks are not as good as in Firefox or Chrome.
> The standard model doesn't account for dynamically changing pressures and temperatures, for example.

Forza definitely accounts for these, there are three thermal bands exposed in the telemtry UI: outer, middle, and inner. Pressure is a tunable, and it varies with heat.

There is also axial and radial deformation. Like, on small rim/big wall tires accelerating produces a tire twist along its rotating axis, as the wall itself is elastic, which creates a lag in tire reaction, followed by a tightening (and even a bounce) when it reaches elasticity limit. Same on turns when the tires deform laterally and depress, which creates some additional lag/bounce back effects that tally up to create interesting situations at the limit. This all matches up with my (completely anecdotal and limited) real life experience.

Most people play the cars tuned up to a given perf class slot, which often includes rim/tire upgrades by default (there's an auto-tune feature) when handed by the game for the cars to be sort of competitive in that perf class, so they probably don't get to feel that to the full extent. I myself don't care about the perf, I like to restore the car parts and settings to stock condition and enjoy the "original" feel of cars I will probably never drive or ever come near, and lap the car by myself or with a couple of like-minded friends.

> Empirical models are generally considered "better" feeling for sim racing

Yeah, theory has this way of matching reality, save for the corner cases that are the ones being interesting. I god honest don't know what Forza is using, and certainly don't claim it's a super accurate sim, but they did a fantastic job to make it feel realistic to great detail, and gracefully degrading from a full-fledged sim race setup to a gamepad (where it still manages to convey a ludicrous amount of info given the device limitations)
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Agree with the point about quality of Netflix flicks. Most of them are cheap, cater to the lowest common denominator, optimized to maximize profit. IMO it also negatively affects society, because that's what most people consume. It's bad.

With all the content moving to streaming subscription services, the only way forward for me to not get ripped off is to buy physical copies of film/music I like (if available, pirated downloads if not) and digitally archive them.
In my Kia (2020 model) it works most of the time but it also tried to crash me a couple of times. Of course it is disabled now.
West Germany remained occupied for about 4 years and then quickly transitioned to a high degree of independence (because of Cold War strategy reasons).

Additionally it had been fully developed for hundreds of years so there can be no comparison.
Once vim came along in 1991, everybody just switched to that
"The former selects the most unique and important elements from a set of data, while the latter attempts, in the case of lossy compression, to find a smaller approximation of the original data set."

The compressor finds a smaller approximation of the data by finding the most redundant data, and as a byproduct it also finds the most unique. At least from the description you gave there is no difference between the two.

"For example imagine a data set of paintings. Feature extraction might simply identify what color paints were used in each painting. That alone might allow classification of paintings with respect to the painter, style or period. But this would not be an approximation of the original picture, unless you consider resizing a Jackson Pollock into an 8x1 pixel image to be compression."

You can and we do use compressors to do exactly that. Take a painting (or a set) as reference and use it to compress other paintings and the greater the compression the more similar the styles are.

For an example see: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00313...

EDIT: In fact one step in a compressor is feature extraction (usually called modelling) and the other is coding.
1. McDonald's everywhere. These were non-existent in 1970.

2. I recently was in a shopping mall in Stuttgart. The design, parking garage, mall exterior, interior, looked exactly like an American mall. The displays and signs inside were nearly all in English. You could not tell you were in Germany.

3. Germans have by and large quit smoking.

4. English everywhere.

5. More American style clothing. Less Lederhosen (in fact, I can't recall seeing any Lederhosen after 1970).

6. American brand names everywhere.
With react dom and everything?
Thank you for mentioning this. It is also the reason why I avoid Sony phones and at the time, their e-ink devices. I'll buy their dumb headphones, but nothing with a microprocessor from that company.
Isn't the observer model explicitly built into NeRF architectures?
It triggers siri on iPhone 11. Single click locks, unlocks. Hold triggers siri. And this is identical to how the lock/Bixby button works in Samsung.

Read about it on apples website:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203017
MicroEmacs compiles to less than 100K, and it starts instantly.

Visual Studio clunks and grinds its way to opening, and I find I'm reluctant to exit it because it's slow to exit, too.
This. AOSP feels so annoying to use, while OneUI is incredibly comfortable, especially showing its advantages on large screens. I swear, I often wish more apps would follow OneUI in their design, that's how comfortable in use it is.

I'm using a mix of Samsung's navbar gestures and "One Hand Operation" GoodLock module gestures and my thumb barely ever needs to reach outside of my "comfortable grip" reach area on my 6.4" Galaxy A50, even when accessing notifications/quick settings drawer.

And I could go on and on about how good their hardware is in the midrange shelf, though it seems to me flagship pricetags usually don't seem to bother HN users.

Also: if you use a Samsung, try out GoodLock apps, they're great. I don't think any other manufacturer supports completely changing things like the recents tab or sound controls without rooting or installing custom ROMs.
Samsung lets you disable Bixby fully. Users complain more about Samsung because Android users are not used to being forced by the device they paid $1000 for, it's a new experience for them, unlike Apple users.
The point of hibp is this information is now public. Putting it behind some kind of identity check would be security by obscurity. The bad guys have the raw data and can look up any address at will.
Nah, that's missing the point. While FLOSS products have a survivability advantage it's not like we see a high level of usage of diverse FLOSS productivity apps across the user universe. The authors are more talking about why we don't see more varieties of software in the same category regularly emerging and seeing adoption.

Other commenters have it right I think- network effects drive up the cost of not being on the dominant software. I also think that the security and privacy aspect plays a huge part too- it's one thing to install software sold by a retailer you trust in a non-networked computer, it's another to do so directly from a random website on an always on networked computer.
While I've read a bunch of critical media of de Gaulle, much of the media I've read of Napoleon seems to be tinged with his glory - I'd actually love a more critical review of historical Napoleon given his influence on modern Europe and the West at large.
You are misinformed. It works exactly identically as it does on iPhone.