skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that's incredibly interesting!

My first reaction is how actor's faces look surprisingly like traditional caricatures that illustrators do -- e.g. shrinking foreheads and chins which are detail-light but keeping eyes and ears which are detail-heavy.

But my second thought is that the extreme jumpiness in frames occurs because each frame is processed separately. But if you considered each seam not to be a "jagged line" from point A on one edge to point B on the opposite edge of a single frame, but rather a "jagged plane" cutting through a series of frames -- all frames in a single shot -- you could eliminate the jumpiness entirely.

You might need to build a bit more flexibility into it to allow for discontinuities generated from object movement and camera panning, but I wonder if anyone's tried to do something like that?

Though I imagine it might be quite a lot of programming for a tool that might only ever be used as a kind of video filter for entertainment purposes -- I have a hard time imagining a cinematographer ever using it for serious purposes.
Julia Evans makes games about debugging
Pretty awesome experiment by jevans. This blog post details what she's trying to achieve and links to the two current games she's made so far about debugging problems.
Also good: older AKGs, you can sometimes pick these up relatively cheap on ebay.
> Generally, FIDO standards push too much logic into hardware, when it could be handled in software instead.

This is a feature, not a bug. It's one of the core points: Everything is in hardware, so software can't attack it. In theory, a bug in Android/iOS could expose my authenticator app secrets, but even a full root compromise of the host operating system can't extract the secrets or trigger a signing from a U2F key without me physically touching it.
the social function of money far predates states: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/
Been using firefox for years and haven't encountered a single usecase-breaking issue. Can you explain why you feel that way?
So you could conveniently drive around in a bubble of ‘right to self defense’

This guy you’re referencing here had a violent past and it’s possible that he was looking for confrontation. Believe what you may but a young man is no longer with us. I don’t buy this self defense blanket
>The same reason you can’t put software you want on a Xbox/PlayStation/Switch.

What reason is this? As far as I'm concerned you should be allowed to install whatever you want on game consoles as well.
> I don't mean to be snarky, but what's the purpose of apps like this?

1. Note organization via tags with a searchable database
2. Secure off-site backup
3. Device-to-device syncing

I'm sure there are more. I wish it wasn't written in Electron, but it wouldn't exist otherwise.

As a web application: https://app.standardnotes.org/

> Meanwhile, if this program's servers go down tomorrow, tough luck.

It is open source, you can run the server yourself: https://github.com/standardnotes/syncing-server
To be more fair, the PHP forums tend to be much older codebases, before standout frameworks and index.php front controllers.

Much like Wordpress and phpMyAdmin, these projects are basically victims of their own success.
This is also a good way for NASA to tell Congress that, if they want business as usual, it’ll have to be budget as usual.

It’s not nice the military get all the funding for their stupid toys.
Pseudoscience schooling science.
Is it a good thing that supermarkets have their own brands, typically cloning other packaging/branding and being at a price advantage due to not paying supermarket fees? Is this something we should try to protect?

All of these "What about x" points just make me think that we need to go further and stop those as well rather than using them as a justification to not bother.
Have you considered going to a coworking space? I have a feeling that if you need the human interaction, getting it from a coworking space may fill the void. My guess is that you'll find you don't really need to be that socially in tune with your coworkers, as long as you're getting some human interaction elsewhere.
And here's a bit of why: https://www.ksat.com/sa-live/2021/03/12/tips-from-the-pit-pi...
You'll either pay the government or you'll pay a collection of security and infrastructure services that after sufficient consolidation... will become the government.
>I wish the rules got stricter over time (stay strictly within the hacker/startup/tech mindset)

That was never a rule to begin with.
Quite frankly, their proposal was horrendous.
I also have extensive experience of every language you mention and I have coded a fair bit of Rust too. I have over 20 years of experience in Python, C, C++, ELisp, Java, JavaScript, etc. Rust forces you to spend time and effort thinking about something that is automatic in high-level languages, namely collection of garbage. It's silly to claim that forcing developers to spend more time on bookkeeping causes fewer bugs.

Testing is orthogonal to typing, and I believe that those who claim that the latter can make up for the former simply do not understand how to test software. Correct typing is the foundation for a correct program, but the lack of type errors absolutely do not indicate a lack of bugs. Logic errors that are not caused by type errors are far more common, far more dangerous, and are not caught by type checkers.

> It's also a big boost to the value proposition that, with no garbage collector of its own, it's easy to integrate Rust modules into my PyQt GUIs or Django+Celery web apps using rust-cpython or PyO3. Trying to hand off objects between multiple garbage collectors in the same address space without something like "serialize the whole thing, hand over ownership of the bag of bytes, then deserialize it" is a recipe for pain.

I've written a binding for CPython in Factor. There is some plumbing work for sure, but no, it is not that complicated. You manage objects created by the foreign memory manager using special tokens. The difficult part is callbacks; host language calling CPython which calls back to the host language. rust-cpython's documentation doesn't mention callbacks at all so I guess it doesn't support it.
That's lovely for you. I too have an ideal work from home scenario. But I'm not everybody, and my experience is not representative of all scenarios. There are a lot of people who feel less productive at home for a variety of reasons that don't fall into your artificial bucket of pathological disruptors.
I have a love/hate relationship with Standard Notes (and with most encrypted editors in general).

Standard Notes is one of the few apps that has end-to-end encrytion AND password protection on the desktop (or Face ID on mobile devices). Joplin is E2E but refuses to encrypt locally, meaning someone who browses your computer can view your notes unless you use Joplin Portable in an encrypted container (with the added performance overhead).

However, compared to Joplin, uploading images to notes is a pain. Standard Notes has multiple text editor options and they all suck. Only the "bold" editor allows you to upload images, and using FileSafe is extremely fiddly. Personally I would rather have one really good text editor than a bunch of half-baked ones.

But Joplin is sluggish compared to both Standard Notes and Obsidian.md. Obsidian.md has the benefit of having everything as plain text files, for easy editing in other apps (there's also no need to export anything if they go out of business compared to Standard Notes/Joplin). But Obsidian's mobile app is still in development, and I'm a bit iffy about buying another subscription just for encrypted sync.

...And, if open source doesn't matter to you, there's always Microsoft OneNote.
Very cool for simple images like the demo ones provided. But images with detailed content don't resize well and are much worse than a naive resize.

Try: https://unsplash.com/photos/ZtRuoAKr9vM

Resize: 50% width, 70% height

The basketball hoop is heavily distorted, as is the court, the squares on the building and the 3 point line.
I don't understand what you are trying to say. Could you kindly opine for people unaware of any recent events that lead you to assert these statements?
I was confused too without a screenshot in the readme, but realized I could just run it: https://app.standardnotes.org/
And not only Apollo flights, but a couple unmanned probes that did landings.
Her money quote (in more ways than one):

I think most people tend to be supportive of specific political issues in theory, but only as long as it doesn't affect their day-to-day.
At least that's how I rationalize why the Bay Area is very left-leaning but reluctant to have e.g. homeless shelters nearby. Compare with how many Americans near the southern border voted for Trump but vehemently opposed having the wall built on their land.
Sounds like nmigen might be a good open source successor to the project that you describe: https://github.com/nmigen/nmigen
There are lots of open-source (n)migen components available through the litex framework: https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex
Nice idea, but I suspect that Brave and possibly other Chrome-based browsers will spoof a FLoC response to reduce fingerprinting.
It's always strange to me how certain studies seem to gain so many upvotes on hackernews....a few thoughts:

1. This is a single study published in 2015, what does the wider literature say? Any dieticians or clinicians recommending anything from this?

2. The journal is EBioMedicine, which is not nothing but not exactly pre-eminent either.

3. This seems like just a common sense conclusion: "In Cox proportional hazard models, inflammation predicted all-cause mortality". So...people who die have inflammation? Wouldn't that be expected that people who are dieing are likely experiencing significant inflammation of at least one organ of their body?

4. In short, the conclusion of this paper seems like essentially "people who are dying are likely to die". Am I missing something here?
Type erasure is rather like Go interfaces.
the fact that some people treat them like a sports team is a little jarring to me.

You don't think sports teams are "just companies"??
If you like taxes why don’t you move to the country with the highest tax rate? What a stupid argument.
That's the transitive closure of their dependencies, yes.

This file contains their list of direct dependencies (which is a lot smaller, but that just tells you how much of a dependency explosion you get when you use `npm` packages):
https://github.com/standardnotes/desktop/blob/develop/packag...

One thing to note is the yarn.lock is probably the transitive closure of the compile-time dependencies (`devDependencies`) and run-time dependencies (`dependencies`), so it's possible that the dependencies that actually ship with the application are quite a bit smaller.

For example, `webpack` is in the devDependencies, which is the build tool. So the `yarn.lock` is listing all of the dependencies both for the runtime libraries that get used, but also the dependencies for all the build tooling as well.
...you're right. I was figuring a marginal tax rate of about 40% and dividing by 15%, then rounding up. In practice the number is closer to 2x, as you said.

Why does that change the analysis?
There's a rule about not making jokes, which already distinguishes HN from almost all other forums in the world.

Also there are some topic based bans, which is really hard to do well, as there are new things happening in Bitcoin (i.e. a new soft fork, or ETF being approved or not approved) that should be able to go through the filter.
“If at some point say 2025, NASA says to the President "we can get the first human on Mars in 4 years for $15 billion" I have to imagine any American president being eager to sign their name on that accomplishment“

Howard Stern had a great line in the 90’s about marijuana - “Every time you speak to these guys who dedicate their lives to legalizing marijuana, they go, “Hey dude, you can make rope out of marijuana.” I go, “Dude, don’t we have enough rope in this country?”

——

Every time I hear talk of spending billions on Mars, I ask “Dude, don’t we have enough red dirt in this country?”
> Rust' memory safety feature includes "fearless concurrency".

Can you give me an example?
Ray Charles is dead, ergo...
I have been both Paintbrush and Gimp installed. Paintbrush usually suffices for quick edits.
There’s no difference these days. Just search up youtube kids lawsuits for an eye opener.
Lmgrep – Lucene Based grep-like Utility
Apple Music, in Contrast with Spotify, Says It Pays a Penny-per-Stream Average
I'm in the process of the same switch.

I've liked Standard Notes. It's really nice that it's open source and encrypted. However I ran into some instances of cross-device conflicting edits which were a bit annoying, and Obsidian's UI and Second Brain features swayed me to try it. The graph view is really cool and I realized I didn't need syncing as much as I thought.

Obsidian does seem to also have a paid sync feature (no mobile app yet). For now I've been emailing myself from my phone and taking small audio memos, then typing them into Obsidian when back at my laptop. Not an ideal workflow but it's not bad and has some advantages.
david cay johnston on the moral basis of progressive taxation (3 min)

https://youtu.be/8Qsl6QUlWVc
Yes, I think today the languages worth focusing on are Kotlin, Swift and C#. They are similar in many ways and come with built-in nullability. They are also platform languages offering excellent tooling and a productive development environment.
>I don’t think the demise of 3rd party cookies is going to be the boon for privacy some think it will be. [...] This could lead to leakage of data as it gives anyone let into the fist party domain access to all the other tracking identifiers.

Not really. They can still track users across visits, but they can't track users between websites. That's the privacy improvement.
Searching for Interstellar Quantum Communications
That is explained in the section with the van Gogh painting. It is not like they are advertising the algorithm as a jack of all trades.
I see no flaw in your conclusion.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26836367
why is going to mars even remotely high on the list of humanities priorities? it seems like people think its cool and then try to have their cake and eat it to by claiming its somehow important. im pretty sure for at least a very long time its just cool.
Right.

Mens rea ("guilty mind") itself is not a uniformly applied principle. But it's the name of the concept you were attempting to address above.

See also actus reus ("guilty act").

And note that in tort liability (as opposed to criminal liability) other standards may apply. "Strict liabilty" is more typically applied in civil law, though there are (I learned responding here) some applications in criminal law as well. In the latter case it seems to be similar to my understanding of prima facie violation. That is, the fact of a thing is a violation of law, regardless of intent.
Autotune used as an artistic style is something I used to dislike out of... snobbery, I suppose. It's a perfectly valid choice for an artist.

Now, I really hate hearing it in kids' songs. Sung by kids, for kids, and sounding so flat and blah. Much like laments against modern "beauty" productions, I think excessive autotune presents kids with an unrealistic expectation for their own voices.
EasyDNS is now accepting Dogecoin for payments
Yes, even moreso than the rest of us. The wealthy need things like corporate and financial regulation, the tort system, and other economic infrastructure that the poor aren't even aware of.

If the hypothetical wealthy citizen moves to a country without functioning government infrastructure, it's a safe bet that their first priority upon landing will be to figure out a way to move their assets into instruments that are valued in dollars or euro's.
Being a non-native speaker (native Polish speaker from modern day Ukraine) was his superpower in English prose.
That's interesting. Do you mind elaborating how did you achieve that. You idea sounds good in theory but I can't think of effective ways to implement that. Trust is easy to break when they are fighting against the addictive strategies applied by the zuckerbergs of the world
You are forgetting that a huge category of people need all their notes in one place, organized and separate from everything else. Sure you can do this with Notepad and manage everything in folders etc. but that takes significant effort. Effort that many people don't want to put in. That is why most note apps, even something like Notion, exist. To simplify the organising process. You aren't paying for the editing experience but everything else.

Of course, for very simple note taking you don't need this but it again comes back to my original point that by using a dedicated app, everything, including the rough 1 minute notes, are in one easy-to-find place.

I myself take a lot of txt notes but easily lose them as well. Fortunately for me, they aren't important and I rarely need to access them again but it's always nice if I have them all in once place so I can go over them and see what I wrote/did.

Disclaimer: I am a developer of a note-taking application called Notesnook[1]. Some might say it is a (hopefully better) alternative to Standard Notes.

[1] https://notesnook.com/
Helen McCrory: Peaky Blinders actress dies aged 52, husband Damian Lewis says
Definitely. There has been a consistent increase in non-Android Kotlin jobs in the last 12 months according to Indeed.com.
> Conversely, it is highly probable that the people who support tax hikes:

There is no evidence supporting this assertion. A massive swath of people currently support raising taxes on the wealthy solely to take their money away (“reducing income equality”) without having a particularly sound way to spend it or one that even makes mathematical sense.

https://twitter.com/iamscottenglish/status/12358062448179159...
> (what 18 year is well paid?)

Plenty in our industry if they have the right set of skills (including soft skills). It might be unreasonable for OP to expect more but lets not pretend that there are no very highly paid young people in the software industry.
Bitcoin is already storing over $1.1 trillion of the world's wealth which would currently put it in the top 10 global assets [1], as well as the top 10 global currencies based on M1 money supply [2]. It is also the best performing asset over the past 10 years [3]. It appears to already be a store of value.

[1] https://companiesmarketcap.com/assets-by-market-cap

[2] https://www.lopp.net/m1/rank.html

[3] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-becomes-best-performi...
GP seems to be misunderstanding how floc is implemented. If your site doesn't call document.interestCohort(), the site isn't factored into floc calculations.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26834624
> Unfortunately, we don’t have the freedom to expand other standard protocols the same way.

There's nothing standing in your way. However, SSH has the advantage that it's commonly used interactively, so FIDO is a good fit. Any protocol that is most often used silently with the user maybe not attentive or not even present won't work well - it's easy for your phone's mail client to just present the same password it remembers each time it re-connects, but it would be annoying if you need to touch the fingerprint reader each time. I can imagine (if anybody wanted to) retro-fitting SMTP submission to do FIDO, although I don't know if there's a practical way to hack it into the existing SASL AUTH layer.
I’m shocked (and amused) how little of this is comprehensible to me without more context.
With the big difference that you can evaluate transactions on current cards and halt future ones preventing damage. If you lose a wallet key, you lose all of it. The insurance solution for that would be extremely high compared to the current network.
It’s true and yet you may not realize how much privacy you gave up for the lessons.

Perhaps a lesson in how to use a firewall first. :-D
Amazing! I tried it with a schematic (practically all right angles), and it did an impressive job (until it ran out of room and decided to mess with the text). Of course, images work great too :)

I do have one question: I see this is based on RGB, but how good is a "seam carving" implementation using RGB compared to one based on a color space more like human vision (such as CIELAB)?
The current Netflix algorithm is useless. Cinematch is what they used to have and they had a prize, which they awarded, for $1M to anyone who could improve it by 10%. They've apparently abandoned it.

See: https://www.netflixprize.com/
With the top player in the world being a hunk, chess became a lot more palatable hobby. :)
For your logic to be true there must be no billionaires in low tax countries. HK has billionaires and a very low tax rate - ergo, the amount of taxes needed to pay for “the system” to become rich are actually quite low.
The Streisand effect does not apply if Streisand controls a town square.
>of a country contribute proportionally more of the fruits of their success back to the maintenance of those systems?

They already contribute more than proportionally. Proportionally is a flat tax rate and the rich already contribute far in excess of that.
Unfortunately HN is not immune from lowest common denominator content.
$8k seems high.. why so expensive? Even without insurance that sounds unrealistic.
Such an organism probably wouldn’t be compatible with life. Inflammation is necessary for healing wounds and immune response, among other things.
I do sessions-based authentication via my API server. You can implement this in quite a few ways, but I think Redis is pretty common for the speed. I think there are libraries in most languages that should implement this in some way or another, but it isn't too hard to do by yourself either.

JWT also works very well if you don't need the ability to immediately revoke access, since in an efficient JWT implementation, you'd only be refreshing the token at specific intervals.

I also have a couple of flows set up to authenticate users via the Facebook and Google OAuth APIs, tying them to my own users' accounts.
Show HN: 1M NFTs minted with total gas fee of $0.000182
Meteor impacts, caldera collapses, nuclear war. Every single one of these things could happen tomorrow, and we'd never see it coming. If we want any chance if humanity to survive, we need to get people onto other planets.
This is the dilemma of living in a complex modern economy. We cooperate with a system that makes great wealth possible, not because that wealth is a right, but because of a social theory that the same system lets the rest of us live in relative security and decency.

We could pull the plug on that system, but only by driving ourselves into utter poverty, so in some sense we are hostages of the system that we created. On the other hand, if that system fails to serve an agreeable social purpose, it's our prerogative to moderate it.