skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
India's literacy rate is around 70%. So the majority is not uneducated.

The voter turnout for 2019 Indian election was 67% compared to 66.7% of 2020 US election. So your rural areas and uneducated theory leads to less votes doesn't hold much essence :)
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Brit here, that's probably good advice, except when it comes to the fry-up and curry.
"examples of BBC censorship"

That's not a big list, more people are censored on youtube daily than BBC did in it's lifetime. This does not support your point.

"Politicians like to exercise government's power to censor."

And CEO's don't? Abusing political office for sensorship is a crime, abusing CEO position is ordinary business. Who is going to hold them accountable ?

Are you free to show the world your company's dirty business? In contrast, I can submit a freedom of information request and get access to lots of information from mutiple government departments.
> Transfer arbitrary files over usb without iTunes?

This is one of my biggest gripes with the iPhone. Why do consumers put up with this?
Stop relying on corporate ad delivery networks to host your videos for free. YouTube, like all big businesses, cares only about money, they would slap ads onto everything on the website if advertisers would permit it. When advertisers pay for your hosting they are the ones that determine whether or not it stays online.
The Register is a informal British news website. So you see these colloquialisms a lot, it's just a slightly ironic term for non-diet fizzy drinks.
Crypto has evolved far beyond buying and holding digital gold. Decentralized Finance is here and it's about replacing the slow, opaque existing financial system with open, transparent, internet-native protocols. Not to mention DAO's, NFT's etc. This is what a16z is so excited about.
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I'm taking your question without context, so sorry if it doesn't make sense: Warping images to match based on structure / features is common in much of image processing and requires no NN since we know how to do it. (But may be enhanced by NN).

The basic idea is:

1. Find features in images A and B (SURF / SIFT are common). However, maybe a NN could find interesting features here?

2. Match features so you know what feature from A is where in B. Again, a NN could potentially do this "better".

3. Compute a homography (translation between planes of features) or procrustes transform (or other types of transformations)

4. For each pixel (p) in the target frame (B), take the inverse of the transformation to find the pixel of the original frame (A) (which is usually a fractional pixel because it won't line up)

5. interpolate between nearby pixels in (A) to get the "true" pixel value at (p) in (B). Perhaps a NN could improve this interpolation? We've seen this in super resolution, for example.

You can easily reproduce these steps with just a few function calls in OpenCV. Try it out. https://opencv.org/

Up to step 3 is very helpful to answer questions like: "How much did the camera move between captures of image A and B. So now you can solve structure from motion, visual odometry, etc. This is typically how quadrotors navigate with cameras.
Avoid those freelance sites like the plague. It's a race to the bottom.

Other places to look:

* Ask former colleagues if they need any off-hours help.
* Ask people you meet at meetups if they are looking for help. (If you attend meetups.)
* Look at the 'whose looking for a freelancer' posts here.
* Look at fast growing companies in your area or network and ping folks there. They may want only FTEs, but they may also be open to contractors.
* Look for part time opportunities. For example, there's a big need for training in certain technologies (AWS, k8s, terraform), and that can be a nice base for a consultant.

Another thing I've done is leave a job and offer to contract back for a time. This hasn't been a long term option for me, but is nice to bridge income.

If you are doing any moonlighting while employed, check your employment contract and ensure it is allowed.
A plea for lean software by Niklaus Wirth [pdf]
Recommended reading by John Armstrong from his Code BEAM SF 2018 Keynote.
It's the rank-and-file employees demanding these moderation policies too.
The optimal university contains only an admissions office.
I come from the Netherlands, so we're in no place to tell others how to breakfast, but do most countries utterly fail at breakfast? I find a lot do pretty OK. I guess my experience is pretty European though. English breakfast is certainly not on my list of appealing breakfasts; way too heavy for my tastes. I also don't often have hangovers to combat.
What do you think the Google custom search api is supposed to be used for if not serving searches that originated with some user?
Thank you for that. I've been clicking and thought it was broken.
My wife swears by chocolate milk with ice cubes in it.

As for me, you can pry my leftover pizza slices from my cold, dead hand.
I do for my linux systems, but I now have to use a Mac for work and can't stand the default. Happy to use this tool to spitball something new.
Apple requires enrollment in the small business program too, and it was much more involved in the Google one. For Google you basically just created a group and asserted which developer accounts were part of it, then approved it.
In the UK this would not be so surprising. the college wage premium is probably a lot lower there than in the US and wages lower overall . fewer of those good tech , legal, consulting , finance, or ngo jobs or they don't pay as much compared to the US.
The fact that you believe paying the ransom is even an option shows that you really aren't even qualified to be discussing this topic. People with your mindset are a big part of the reason that ransomware is still going strong. The other big part is people who don't run their systems correctly in the first place.
You already have to register your drone after purchase.
Isn't HN a place where the public evaluates research projects when you think about it?
> In what way does that help prevent China from disappearing these people?

Because the disappearance would be more visible to foreigners, and therefore more embarrassing to China. It's bad PR.

IIRC, some Soviet dissidents were merely harassed for an extended period time and/or offered the option of exile, because they were so well known in the West.
Given the people paying for it don't even get a degree out of the deal, it probably depends how the question is framed.
It is important to note that "debt" is perhaps a misleading term when considering student loans in the UK. The money must be repaid as a percentage of earnings (9% of everything earned above £27,295, so if you don't earn above £27,295 you don't pay anything), and after 30 years any remaining debt is wiped. In this way the "debt" is much more equivalent to a tax than a loan.

Money Saving Expert have a very good guide that details this further [1].

[1] https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/students/student-loans-tui...
Signal can pull a Durov and start hopping popular cloud hostings and CDNs, pushing latest server IPs via FCM. This worked for a year in Russia - they banned several large subnets of AWS and DigitalOcean, millions of IPs and smaller subnets, temporarily banned Google, but in the end still gave up after a year.
Sorry forgot to mention I'm thinking specifically of the 28byj-48 motors. I had an (unfinished) project making a motorized water sprinkler for watering lawns in non circular shapes, and these motors were up to the task. If you can achieve your goal with them, you'll probably shave a nice chunk of the cost (not only on the motors but also on the drivers).
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"It's like an outliner, but in more than one dimension."

That's what makes mind maps so good (along with the hierarchy).
I’ve noticed this too. It’s a lot easier to talk about someone behind their back if you’re behind a locked, sound-proof door (which is what Zoom meetings are).

It feels a lot to me like the “Old Boys’ Clubs” are stronger remote, not weaker, because of this. They don’t have to hide biases when remote, it’s hidden by default.
Ever since I was a kid in the early 90s, I always wonder how it was possible that the logistics of recycling sorting could possibly work. How could recycling even happen if all this plastic needs to be sorted into 10 categories and then paper (but not greased paper) and metal and etc. Not only would the system have to account for people who made errors in sorting the recycling, but the system would have to account for the people who do not care to sort it.

So was the world was asking individuals to recycle, and was employing legions of people at the waste facility to double check all the recycling. But then why ask people to bother sorting in the first place? And how would it even be possible to double check and sort all that plastic? It just did not pass the smell test.

And then of course it finally came out that we were just packing it up and shipping it back to China where they did who knows what with it. Gave everyone in the US political points and plausible deniability.

Anyway, I consider recycling to be worth near zero. At this point, the only mitigation is reduce, then a far way down is reuse, and that is it.
No, they are actively transphobic.

Even the Economist agrees, having withdrawn a piece calling for the compulsory sterilisation of transpeople previously.
There's still a time investment.
My sister is going to university in Australia. Despite a successful covid eradication and effectively no cases in her state, her uni tried to make them go virtual all of this year (as well as last year). And what can she do about it? If the professors don’t feel like coming to work she’s shit out of luck. No wonder she and her friends feel like it’s a bad deal.
Conscription often follows liberal reigns of terror. I wonder if anyone has ever thought about drafting the thieves and murderers and bums, but just don't send them to war. I'm not giving you a rifle. Yell at them for two months, and death march them, and then tell them to get out and dump them back in the dumpster behind Home Depot.
Yeah. Vox made a very good video about it during the last elections.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RWldvqO4AIY
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8

There’s too many IDs to iterate through. Searching for $defatltvideoname for some camera is far more effective for that. Scarily so.
Well written article. Does this get used at all bioinformatics, for maybe de novo sequence construction from short reads or something? Seems like it would have many applications in that field.

Edit: I see now that user inciampati already addressed this.
And to experts since the 1940s.

Also, before I studied material science (and therefore became an “expert”), I had heard that plastics are difficult to recycle in the mass media - as a teenager in the 90s. The information was there in a digestible form, but most ppl ignored it because it was easier to pretend that we were doing something with our blue bins.

I have clear recollections in undergrad (not mtls science) of throwing plastic into the garbage and getting lectured about it. And lecturing back that recycled plastic isn't really a thing.
> This is exactly it; this whole near-mystical thinking about "hallway conversations" isn't encouraging serendipitous innovation, it's encouraging the political gamesmanship that businesses have been accustomed to.

I would have to push back in that, in my experience, those just turn into private off-the-record chat groups among the in-group - and that this is something of an innate part of the human tribalism that cannot and will not be suppressed.
Ask HN: '20s programmers, what do you expect the future of tech to look like?
The other thread about predictions in the 90s made me wonder - what predictions would you make today about the future of tech?
Face masks, public policies and slowing the spread of Covid-19
Looking at newspapers from 1900, I'd say that an objective old guard, to the extent it really existed, was a temporary affair.
"Youtube make pennies per video, if you can provide "discernment" at that price"

Thats their problem. Alternatively,maybe they don't give a fuck because they have a monopoly and they have nonreason to spend more money
So "can't be evil" then "whoops, that bit of evil was an honest mistake".
The opaqueness of hiring drives me insane. I’ll sign up for the beta to help.
*Disclaimer: working on a news startup to combat some of these issues*

I find it interesting first of all that local news -- and weather, especially -- are the most trusted in the US. It reminds me of that old half-joke that everyone hates Congress but loves their congressperson -- but more likely it's that the issues that hit close to home are less likely to be polarized across traditional political lines.

We've long passed the inflection point where people seem to judge trustworthiness based on alignment to their own predetermined biases. If I tell you that what you think is wrong -- even if I have a factual basis for that; or more mildly, just frame something in a way that you might disagree with, you can label me as biased.

How did we get here? I think a lot of the blame comes from social media. Local news really cannot trend -- by definition it appeals to a narrow audience, and no one is sharing city council minutes. People do share outrage -- forcing the most polarizing content to the top. And, not for nothing, newsfeeds often put propaganda and disinformation -- or just lowest-common-denominator ("7 child stars: where are they now?") -- to compete at the same level as traditional journalism.

I (previously) wrote some thoughts here: https://blog.nillium.com/news-was-never-meant-for-social-pla...
Would changing state laws make these cases go away? So if you forced the patent or copyright holder to file suit in the defendant’s home state, you’d also require them to be in unfavorable courts, adhere to local and state laws of the business or person defendant, and allows the defendant to be familiar with local and state requirements.

The way I see it now, the system is setup to favor the patent and copyright troll because the system assumes the holder being genuine. A lot of trolls are in Texas. Texas local and state laws heavily favor these trolls.
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This is my experience too. The best EE I know dropped out of university but knows more about it than anyone I have met. He builds radios, phones and antennas from parts as has since he was a kid in the 1950s. I think the same applies to CS. The best ones have been writing games and code since they were kids. It's something that they love to do.
On the other hand, the media has truly earned this distrust and isn’t the result of “foreign agitation”.

Both mainline ideologies constantly and pathologically deceive and withhold information to make things one sided increasing polarization.

MSNBC argues that its audience knows that its news isn’t actually news...(!)
Honestly, I don't know the distinction, please explain how you see it.

In both censorship and moderation, there is an authority within some platform with some autonomy (like a country or a social network or house owners meeting etc) which decides which information is acceptable and which is not.

About degrees of separation: I agree, I just did a bit overdramatic illustration of outcomes.
So what do companies do that serve wider areas spanning multiple area codes?

I'm based in Northeast Ohio, so a the majority of my clients are in the Cleveland/Akron/Canton metro area. Those who do on-site services, say a septic system maintenance company or a garage door repair company, will commonly have phone numbers that are local to each of the major suburbs they target. Some of this is a legacy from the old days where people cared about "long distance" calling versus local but I still have these kinds of companies ordering new local numbers in various suburbs to this day just for marketing purposes because a local number makes some people feel better about a company.

Is that just not a thing in Germany? So companies can only have a local phone number in areas where they have an actual physical address?
Effective immediately: You need a license before you can throw an American football in the US because it might break a window.

How many decades were R/C planes and helicopters operating without a problem? Instead of police work, it's collective punishment with privacy invasion and barriers as the answer to salve MIC-generated paranoia. Firearms aren't even tracked this absurdly.
That really depends on the company culture. When "innovation" only flows top-down (execs->PMs->BAs->devs) with no way up then yeah. But as a PhD student I can have many more ideas, and of higher quality, during a half-hour lunch break with colleagues compared to a whole day thinking by myself - and I have the freedom to pursue any of those ideas on my own terms.
> Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials

Not sure this is the study you wanted to link to.
I recall, in 1989, being earnestly told that the Greenhouse Effect was going to kill half of humanity before 2000. We didn't care because we knew we were going to die in a nuclear war, just as our parents and grandparents believed.

Judgement Day has been imminent for thousands of years in one form or another.
I love Sir Patrick, but - that sort of thing was exemplary of how the anti-Brexit campaign did not understand who they had to talk to, and how. Political campaigns like this one need to use the propaganda equivalent of heavy hammers, so that they can squash simple opinions like ripe melons. Instead they showed up with fancy decorative swords that could barely cut through butter. The decorative-sword community loved it, but nobody else took it seriously.

Possibly it was because a referendum campaign is fought in very different terms from a first-past-the-post campaign, which UK operatives are used to. In FPTP, you want to fire up your base, preach to the choir, strenghten your core support, so they'll actually show up on polling day and maybe bring a friend. You can do that by leveraging precise characteristics of this or that group, you can rely on a bedrock of shared beliefs to build your messages, and you can even plan on multi-election strategies.

In a one-off referendum you just need a massive amount of votes. There is no precision, there is little space for subtlety. You need to build bridges with very simple messages that can resonate with the largest possible demographics in the fastest possible way. Preaching to the choir is pointless - anyone who feels strongly about the specific issue, will show up no matter what. You need to persuade the dubious to show up for you. A Monty-Pythonesque sketch will not do that; a lot of people won't even get it, or will get it wrong. A funny guy going around promising unicorns and rainbows will do nicely, though.
Because it's not a one dimensional issue. Instead of "distribution model" axis when making a purchase, you have to decide on: interoperability, cost, support, familiarity, exclusive apps availability, hardware features, previous purchases, etc. Whatever you choose you will compromise somewhere. Sometimes people compromise on the distribution model they don't like.
'Like a pension' means a whole lot of things, not just one cherry-picked feature. Pensions are enough to live on for instance.

Might as well call a dividend a pension - you get that 'unearned' as well.
1. More and more people are getting degrees, making them less of a differentiator.

2. Knowledge is more and more readily available and is not limited to degree holders.

3. Politics is infecting universities with propaganda.

4. Universities are coming up with useless degrees in order to attract students.

5. Universities focus too much on degrees and grades and not enough on knowledge.
My wife and I created a Gmail account for our daughter the day she was born
US university can easily surpass $100k in tuition alone.

My alma mater, UVA, currently estimates the total cost of attendance for in-state (subsidized by state government) at $34k/year (tuition, room-board, other expenses). For out-of-state students, that number is $68k/year. And this is a state university, not a private institution.
Policing has to be one of the hardest jobs in our modern society, I honestly couldn't event imagine the stress.

Imagine picking up a JIRA ticket at work and not knowing if that ticket is going to a run of the mill bug fix or something that can kill you. That's just out of the realm of possibility for an SWE but for a cop it can be any one of the calls they take on a daily basis.

I've always had respect for cops because it's one of those jobs that I just know I could never ever do, props to those in our society that do that work.
I thought UK university education was extremely cheap or free.

I shudder to imagine what they would think about paying hundreds of thousands for a US education...
I was thinking Chinese ones. Didn't realise YouTube was banned. But nevertheless, as a principle, they have made it clear that they don't want misinformation on their platform and the local government will be pretty clear that this is misinformation.

That wouldn't be a radical departure from policy for YouTube. This is well trod ground.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210624104256/https://www.nytim...
In this respect the U.S. is ahead of the rest of the world by a few years. It isn't as though media is siloed geographically. Wherever there's the internet, there's media that is locked in a ratlike struggle for survival, cannibalizing its reputation and standards to stay alive. That pressure is already evenly distributed, even if the dawning realization that it exists is not.
Starting to invest in crypto projects and companies during the onset of a bear market (below 200D MA, after death cross) is a smart move. This seems like a good time to embark on crypto projects, even if we have an upcoming winter.

The coolest thing would be if a16z crypto believed in open access as well, and allowed all accredited investors (due to legislation, unfortunately) to contribute a modest amount.
I’m not sure how you can compare trying to bring awareness to the world of people suffering, vs someone carrying out criminal activity via live stream.
> Finally, officers said they were asked to handle too much; they were constantly thrown at tangled societal problems like mental health breakdowns or drug overdoses, they said, for which they were ill-equipped — then blamed when things went wrong.

Sounds like they've got some common ground with the "defund the police" folks, if they'd listen a bit.
Plastic is recyclable though. 3D printing guys do it all the time when they spin their own fiber out of left over junk.

And “made out of recyclable plastic” is a thing, and it works.

What isnt recyclable are mixed plastics, ie consumer plastic. But industrial users (ie folks who have large quantities of the same thing so sorting is cheap) can and do recycle plastic.
When one of the two major political parties and their friends in the mainstream media decide to team up and demonize an entire profession...
"because they would have lost" -> we don't know if this would indeed happen because words "app" and "store" are so generic... writing them capitalized does not change this much, because everything you write in a title is capitalized in English language...
There is no way Russia will join other countries in such a UN recognition of Taiwan, as it will open a very nasty door for them regarding the Crimea...

So 2 of the 5 permanent members of the UN is already not going to do this.

And it is not only limited to non-western countries, the same argument holds for Spain with Catalonia for instance.

Real-politik is complicated.